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This is me, exactly. I haven't watched any current professional wrestling--excluding some TNA telecasts my friend DVRs--since Chris Benoit won the world title. I was losing interest rapidly and the angle where the Undertaker buried Paul Bearer in cement just turned me off. I have a large collection of DVDs, quite a few of them released in the last year. The only ones I've actually sat and watched start-to-finish were the "Best of 'Raw' Volume 1 & 2" and "Best of 'WCW Monday Nitro'".

Considering Chris Brown has a reputation for temper tantrums and a huge ego I don't know how you could book this angle without it resulting in another celebrity beating up on a WWE wrestler.

I got a real kick out of Hogan welcoming Muta and Chono to "Nitro" one night with "Konichiwa, brothers."

I can't remember where I read it but I do remember reading that Ross was very opposed to doing this for a long time. When he finally relented I recall him taking a few jabs at it on-air and in his WWF magazine columns.

Not really, Vince was clearly supposed to be the babyface in that feud. Except they ran that angle in Philadelphia and when Ross refers to Vince as "the egotistical owner of this company" the crowd goes wild.

Don't you go giving Hulk any ideas.

Reading this thread got me thinking of what sort of nightmare it would be if this card were delayed or postponed due to weather. Can you imagine the cost of rescheduling something like this? I probably know the answer but I'll ask anyway: Is Vince really taking the risk of scheduling an outdoor WrestleMania in NY/NJ during a season of unpredictable weather just to maybe steal a little bit of the NFL's thunder?

Wasn't it Jim Ross in 1996?

Confronting Andre the Giant with a gun might be one reason Vince was reluctant to treat Kamala to first-class seats.

I never understood pushing wrestlers as financial savants when you rarely ever heard about their supposed wealth beyond the confines of pro wrestling telecasts. The WWF at least got Ted DiBiase on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" to help sell the character.

I've never understood this statement. If I'm sleepy during whatever movie or TV show is on, no matter how incredibly action-packed it is, I'm falling asleep. Maybe because I know it's just TV?

"Wrestling Operations" Marty Lunde, Jody Hamilton, and Kevin Sullivan.

My parents used to think they were guys picked out of the crowd who didn't mind getting roughed up for a few bucks, probably because so many jobbers were terribly out of shape and had some of the worst ring gear.

Edge was a WCW jobber once or twice, also.

JTTS is a hardcore fan term as far as I know. Don't recall if it was in some of the newsletters before it hit the usenet (rec.sport.pro-wrestling). Jobber is of course a term wrestlers use and didn't come from the sheets or usenet. Folks came up with JTTS to describe the SD Jones type of jobber, though years after SD ran his course. John I've always liked the Apter mags referring to jobbers as preliminary wrestlers.

I remember wondering if my local TV station was just behind on airing the tapes, but then my parents got the dish and I saw that it was that way everywhere in the country.

At the time the Apter mags played a big role in influencing my impression of Hogan. They pointed out that Hogan made zero title defenses after winning the title from Yokozuna until losing it at King of the Ring and totally ignored the supposed 30-day defense rule. I noticed this when I watched the Best of "Raw" DVD set, how the 1993 season of the program felt like the Memphis studio shows in terms of booking. We've discussed a bit here in the thread how there was some Memphis influence in the WWF at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZo-29ba-fI...feature=related It was a Coliseum Video exclusive. Probably at the time Vince didn't want to run a bunch of title changes on free TV thinking it might diminish the appeal of PPV cards.

I seem to remember during the DDP-Raven feud there were more than a few mentions of "The Snake" being someone's mentor and then that was quietly dropped.

Didn't Flair drop the title to Bret due to an equilibrium problem that was thought at the time to be more serious than it was? I recall reading this after Flair collapsed on a 2000 "Thunder" telecast.

According to Jim Cornette that's what happened.

Pretty much what Loss said about the Flair-Sting feud. They had a routine match at World War 3 the following month. The only thing that really stood out to me was Flair slapping Sting around while he trapped him in the figure-four. I haven't watched the Badd-Page match in years. I remember it being very well-worked opening-card stuff with a white-hot crowd. WCW managed to kill it off by following up with a too-short match between Jerry Lynn and Sabu and the boredom of Meng vs. Lex Luger.

Yeah, Bulldog was a late scratch for 'Taker from what I remember. Similarly, wasn't X-Pac a late scratch for Ken Shamrock, who I think just quit the promotion a week before that match? I remember Wade's review of that match for some reason. He was upset that X-Pac audibly called a spot and Jim Ross brushed it off as "talking trash". He said in this day and age the announcers should just say that the wrestlers are calling spots.

Never saw that one. I'll have to look for it.

How soon can we get this kid on "Raw"?