WingedEagle Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yeah apparently the number of tweets regarding that was in double or low triple digits, not exactly a massive groundswell. Don't quote me on the number as I didn't double check, but it wasn't significant. Apparently something can trend by simply having a few tweets happen very rapidly, without much volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 I am sure a super nerd like Kris Zellner would have known that but I had no idea. Yes that was the name of the move. In other news, Tommy Rich was at my job today posting a flyer for an upcoming show he is on with Thunderbolt Patterson & The Rock n Roll Express and of course I was in a totally different area of the building and didn't get to see him. You are going to that show . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 Samoa Joe's left TNA. https://twitter.com/SamoaJoe/status/567807616547700736 He's a guy who could do the AJ Styles thing and work indies,ROH, help freshen up NJPW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 He would be a great get for NJPW. He won't go to WWE unless he's willing to take the pay cut. It's weird to think of him, Hero and AJ as freelancers right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 This is old news from 2012, but I don't think it's been brought up here and it completely shocked me: http://www.wrestlingwithpopculture.com/2012/georgia-wrestling-now-welcomes-remembrances-of-jason-speed-and-mr-donnie/ Mr. Donnie not only alive, but involved in a Toys For Tots benefit. What. The. Fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Flair vs. Race from '85ish: Role reversal of their JCP feud w/ Flair as heel and Harley as the super babyface. Awesome, heated match. Link goes to part 1, follow the recommendations on the side for the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Been reading Gary Hart's book. Didn't know where to drop this bit where he breaks down why the Amarillo territory died but I thought it was interesting: To give you an idea of what it would cost to effectively run a booking office in thosedays, let me outline the cost for just the talent alone: You would need at least twelve wrestlersand two referees to run a proper show - so that’s $75 a head guaranteed. Maybe the referees get$50 and some of the wrestlers get $100 - but it averages out to $75 a head. So to run a show, itwould cost $900 per night just for the talent. If you run every night, it would be $6,300 per week.In three months that comes out to $75,600. Again, that’s just the cost of the talent. And keep inmind - I’m going minimum, not top shelf. Even more sobering is the fact that those costs don’tinclude the ring truck, the ring, renting an office, telephone bills, television costs, or anythinglike that. Take the television costs as another for-instance: You would spend $500 a week for thefacility that you taped your show in, and then you would have to bicycle that show to yourtowns. If you had nine towns – you would need nine tapes. The tapes used back then cost $500each, and it used to cost $20 to send a tape from town to town on a weekly basis. You wouldhave to mail that tape 52 times a year, to nine towns a week. And what do you do if that tape getslost? Needless to say, running a wrestling promotion in the 70’s was not cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Flair vs. Race from '85ish: Role reversal of their JCP feud w/ Flair as heel and Harley as the super babyface. Awesome, heated match. Link goes to part 1, follow the recommendations on the side for the rest. That's from early 1984 around spring time but yeah it's very good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Flair vs. Race from '85ish: Role reversal of their JCP feud w/ Flair as heel and Harley as the super babyface. Awesome, heated match. Link goes to part 1, follow the recommendations on the side for the rest. So how much Harley Race as a babyface exists? Is Central States pretty much the only place he worked face? It dawned on me watching this match that Race is way more entertaining to me as a face with a ton of spots and tough punches than he is as a bumping, stooging champion. I think kicking ass would have fit his gravely voice and persona better thus if he was a face he would have gotten to show that side of him. It is a fun exhibition of what could have been if Harley Race was a kick ass babyface. Cool watch. Also love the bounty angle come around to fuck with Harley on this go around. They need to bring back the bounty angle. Imagine if Daniel Bryan had a bounty placed on his head by the Authority this past Rumble...missed opportunities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I think he was a face when he beat Dory, Jr. in '73. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conker8 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I think he was a face when he beat Dory, Jr. in '73. The match was in Kansas City, so he was a face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I just got a free burrito from Chiptole because I can WOOOOOOOOOOOOO really well! Man, I love Ric Flair and I love pro wrestling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmo Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I think he was a face when he beat Dory, Jr. in '73. The match was in Kansas City, so he was a face. There's a match with him and Bundy in World Class where he is the face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp8c-DVvpPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmare007 Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 MetsFan4Ever (the alleged former WWE employee that posts scoops on reddit from time to time) is doing an AMA and this came out. What is the best storyline you ever heard from a writer that never got used? [–]MetsFan4Ever[S] 210 points 16 hours ago The Vince McMahon funeral show. The day Benoit did his thing. Vince's brother was suppose to be there. He was there actually. First time hearing about this, was this ever reported at the time? No idea Vince had a brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Technically, half brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I can't wait for Ric Flair's podcast to come on. The only thing I worry about is it having either a current WWE focus or it taking an interview format where Flair has to talk to different guests. I'd MUCH prefer it if Flair had like a sidekick who would just ask him questions. I reckon Flair could record 100+ hours of audio and not run out of new stuff to talk about. He had the most amazing career of anyone in US history when you consider all of the greats he faced through all of the different eras. This podcast has such amazing potential, but I feel like Flair needs to be channeled in the right way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I really sort of hate Flair on podcasts/shoots. Listening to them always hurt my perception of him as a wrestler. He'll be interviewing other people and I bet a good chunk of them won't be wrestling related at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I can't wait for Ric Flair's podcast to come on. The only thing I worry about is it having either a current WWE focus or it taking an interview format where Flair has to talk to different guests. I'd MUCH prefer it if Flair had like a sidekick who would just ask him questions. I reckon Flair could record 100+ hours of audio and not run out of new stuff to talk about. He had the most amazing career of anyone in US history when you consider all of the greats he faced through all of the different eras. This podcast has such amazing potential, but I feel like Flair needs to be channeled in the right way. Shoe should've kidnapped him and taped hours of interview (at gunpoint, if necessary) until found by police..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cross Face Chicken Wing Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Flair is doing a podcast? Opening odds on this are as follows: Complete disaster and unlistenable (+850) Greatest podcast ever (-550) Better than Jim Ross (+100) Flair is too drunk to speak on at least 25 percent of the episodes (pick 'em) Jerry is right. If Flair was simply a "guest" on his own podcast every week and had a knowledgeable co-host who would just ask him questions for an hour every week, it'd be very good. Flair spouting off on random topics and interviewing guests......oye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I really sort of hate Flair on podcasts/shoots. Listening to them always hurt my perception of him as a wrestler. He'll be interviewing other people and I bet a good chunk of them won't be wrestling related at all. He can be terrible (see Legends of Wrestling appearances) or he can be engaging. I liked him on Austin. I enjoyed the 13-hour High Spots one, which I need to sit through again now. But then, I'm a true Flair mark. Like a proper one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Does that mean you have a monocle or something? With Flair, sometimes looking behind the curtain and seeing Oz is a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Mostly when I hear Flair talk, it's just him putting himself over & burying a lot of other people, especially if they're not his friends. He's the best ever, he's wrestled everyone hundreds of times, all for over an hour everyday. He never slept, drank all the booze, banged all the broads, sold all the tickets & guys like Bret Hart couldn't lace his boots where as Triple H is the next Jesus Christ. It's to the point where I just don't believe anything he says anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 ABout 2 decades ago they did a special on TV called Hulk Hogan a Real American Story now from memory when they did a musical tribute at the end I remember as Hogan comes through the curtain there is a disabled kid in a wheelchair which Hogan shakes his hand and wondered which show this was from as didnt recognise the clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Amazing sentence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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