kjh Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 How do the voters in the Observer HOF get picked to be a voter? What is the criteria to be made a voter? Can someone that doesnt know Dave show up with a TON of knowledge and become one? Not saying I am (I am NOT!) but just curious how they get picked... From what I understand you send Dave e-mails, have a podcast/article and get recommended by other voters are the key ingredients. Interesting….I thought maybe there was an approval process with certain people and interviews / applications... I think Dave has to consider you in a rather loose sense a historian or a reporter, given that he only gives ballots out to non-wrestlers who fit in those buckets, and respects you enough to send you one. Being recommended by other voters helps, but I don't think anyone recommended me. I'd emailed Dave once or twice when I had written a post on Cageside Seats that was newsworthy, also the occasional correction to things he had said or published. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 So far I've managed to get autographs from Bob Orton, Nikolai Volkoff, Terry Funk, Ted Dibiase and the Iron Sheik via the mail. Funk even drew a little state of Texas on an index card for me. Also got my Ivan Koloff 8x10 from the Kickstarter. Little bummed with that as the pen was dying it looks like. How does that work? Ive wanted a Sheik autograph for years but no idea how to contact the guy. Does he have a official site as wiki just lists a fan store. On a side note Ive got Marc Mero's autograph. In fact I wasent expecting him to send me two. I just mentioned my mum being a wrestling fan and a big fan of Mero and he just asked her name and he sent a Marc Mero one to her and a Johnny B Badd one to me. It was very kind of him, me being in the UK and him mailing it to me free of charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 There are sites you can use that have addresses. I sent him what I wanted signed, a letter and a self addressed stamped envelope and just waited. Let me look and I'll PM you the address I used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 How much footage is out there for the 1995 Hall of Fame? Reason I ask is I know WWF did a piece of a highlight package on Raw but when I saw the odd HOF off 24/7 some had inductions. I know a fan filmed the event but wondered what kind of official stuff WWE has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerpride Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 What are some good Dustin Rhodes matches from 1995-1999? Arguing with someone about his work as Goldust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Not much. I don't think his work as Goldust was particularly strong the first couple of years. I sort of attribute this to being so good at being a babyface that he assumed everyone he'd be working with would be just as good. The Johnson match from KOTR is worth watching as a pure character performance. My favorites are probably the Michaels matches from 96, mainly house show fancams. There's a tag with Mankind that's a lot of fun, for instance. There are the Bigelow and Vader matches, Vader being stronger than Bigelow. There's not a hell of a lot to the Vega series. Frankly, as much as people are frustrated by the Dustin turn in the last year, it's given him a lot of strong heel performances that his career was previously missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 The RAW match with Lawler was top of the line. The feud and PPV match with Val Venis was great. The Rumble 98 match with Vader got big pops from me and shoe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Liska Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 God I hope the Negro Casas-Fuerza Guerrera match from Arena Mexico tonight shows up somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 God I hope the Negro Casas-Fuerza Guerrera match from Arena Mexico tonight shows up somewhere. It's out there. I'd need to watch it again as i went through it quickly and with a lot of interruptions but my main feeling was that they really went at it, especially in the tercera, but the dynamic was a little weird with the crowd so behind Fuerza. I'm not sure if they planned for that. They didn't seem to commit on what route they'd go. There are moments where they had a lot of fun in a house-show sort of way that were great. There were moments where they did some really high end matwork and counters that were great. there were a few spirited exchanges which were great, but I don't think it all came together tonally. I'll be curious what other people think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Liska Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 I see the top 3 matches are up - I'll definitely be watching after work tonight. Great to see Arena Mexico pretty full with what looks like a hot crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_Fair Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 I know I had better ideas than watching every Uncensored show to find out if it's the worst PPV series in history. Yet I'm still doing it. But I might have reached a breaking watching Perry Saturn as some sort of gothic monster on the 1999 version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I know I had better ideas than watching every Uncensored show to find out if it's the worst PPV series in history. Yet I'm still doing it. But I might have reached a breaking watching Perry Saturn as some sort of gothic monster on the 1999 version. It still had some magic moments like Sting returning and laying out the NWO after a absence as well as the Nasty's/Harlem Heat Falls count Anywhere street fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Flair beating Hogan for the WCW Title in 1999 was one a very few great moments for them that year, same with Benoit/Malenko winning the tag titles that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 My nephew, Future Champion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I'm not even a huge Seth Rollins fan but I feel like he has enough talent to be more than "Edge 2.0" But then the WWE always loved Edge way more than I did, I suppose in part because he was an easy guy to book shitty finishes around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I'm not even a huge Seth Rollins fan but I feel like he has enough talent to be more than "Edge 2.0" But then the WWE always loved Edge way more than I did, I suppose in part because he was an easy guy to book shitty finishes around. Edge always seemed like a guy who could have great feuds with anyone except the Matt Hardy angle when that spat happened. I loved all the matches these two had but after he whole Lita/Edge thing when they battled on Raw something just wasent there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Sometimes I wonder if Kevin Dunn goes around tearing down NXT posters so Vince never sees them and realize how nearly the entire roster there is better than the almost everyone in WWE. There's going to be a point where he slips up and Vince ends up watching a Finn Balor match, and ends up launching ol' Kev into the sun when he suggests giving him a leprechaun gimmick on Raw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricR Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Vince would fucking love a flippy flying leprechaun character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 I'm not sure Vince would really get Finn Balor's character. I think in Vince's hands the gimmick could get too cartoonish. He'd might become a better working Boogeyman. But out of all the people in NXT, he's the most ready for the main roster. But really, let's not kid ourselves here, Vince would watch NXT Takeover: Rival and immediately want to fast track Baron Corbin to the main roster, whilst writing off Zayn as bland, Owens as short and fat, Neville as colourless, Kalisto as a second-rate Rey Mysterio imposter, Bayley as frumpy, Itami as needing a more stereotypical gimmick, etc, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Batista has signed on to play the Kurgan in a remake of Highlander. The remake seemed like bad news, but this has me excited. Hopefully we'll get a Michael PS Hayes cameo too. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 I'm not even a huge Seth Rollins fan but I feel like he has enough talent to be more than "Edge 2.0" But then the WWE always loved Edge way more than I did, I suppose in part because he was an easy guy to book shitty finishes around. Edge always seemed like a guy who could have great feuds with anyone except the Matt Hardy angle when that spat happened. I loved all the matches these two had but after he whole Lita/Edge thing when they battled on Raw something just wasent there. Yeah, that Kane feud was freaking great, eh? I can't even think of one great Edge feud, let alone all of his feuds being great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerpride Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 His stuff with Cena in 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 How times change. 31 years ago Bill Watts tries to discredit Ken Hoffman by having Jake Roberts go over Dick Slater. Now the WWE uses a Ken Hoffman quote at the beginning of NXT to put over NXT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 am I the only one that thinks Rollins could use a better finish than the Double Stomp? heck, have him start using the GTS since that finish is open for use at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheapshot Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think if anyone should be claiming the GTS it's Hideo Itami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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