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I always thought that should have been the finish of Steiners vs Road Warriors at Starrcade '89, with Rick catching Hawk doing the clothesline and turning it into a belly to belly and getting the pin.

Are there any good English language books on Lucha¿ The only half decent one I've ever read is Mondo Lucha a Go Go.

Has anyone tried to download these? Anyone managed to get Vol. 11 because that's the only one I can't get to work. If we're not allowed to talk about downloading from Youtube, please just delete this, I apologise.

Why on earth was the "GCW Superstars" ring so low? I've never seen a ring like that anywhere else. What was it? A Memphis spot show ring that was available in the area while the proper Georgia ring was taken up to Ohio for those shows?

One thing they never explained about WM X was why Yokozuna should have had to defend his title twice in the same night, it wasn't his fault Bret and Lex tied in the Rumble. You'd think Cornette and Fuji would have kicked up a stink about it, especially after Yoko had foolishly defended his title in a second match at 'Mania the year before and lost it only minutes after winning it.

Did anyone watch the third season of this?

Oh yeah, with Vince Jr in charge, Kaufman absolutely comes to the WWF. I don't know who he would wrestle up there though. If we're theorizing that Dusty would have been champion than maybe him. It wouldn't have worked nearly as well though as it did with New Yorker Kaufman making fun of the Memphis hayseed/hillbilly fans.

A "Disco n' Wrestling connection" would have been something to behold. Debbie Harry was a noted wrestling fan so maybe she gets the Cyndi Lauper spot. I don't know who you'd have as the equivalent of Mr T in the late 70s. I guess the obvious choice is Muhammad Ali. Dusty Rhodes and Muhammad Ali teaming against two top heels (off the top of my head, Pat Patterson and Ken Patera) would have drawn pretty well I think.

To make things easier, early '78, with Superstar Graham still champion. So you could either have Backlund still win the belt, have Dusty win it, or have Superstar turn babyface. Or do something else entirely.

What if Vince Sr. dies 5 years earlier and Vince Jr takes over in 1978 and tries to go national at that point? Who does he go with as champion? A babyface Superstar Graham? Dusty Rhodes? Would he have known about Hogan that early on? What other guys would he have brought in to be his top stars? Would the NWA and AWA would have been a better position to fight the expansion at that point? Since MTV hadn't started yet, what pop-culture trend could Vince latch onto instead of "Rock n' Wrestling"?

Do the two Jim Ross books cover different parts of his career or are they just two separate bios?

They should have done at least one face vs face and heel vs heel match in the tournament. I'd have done Savage vs Steamboat in the 2nd round with Savage getting his win back and have Bret go over a babyface in the first round, getting a bye in the second and falling to DiBiase in the semifinal in a hard fought match, getting the fans behind him for his face turn at the next set of tapings when he and Neidhart fire Jimmy Hart.

Mumbai Cats from Ring Ka King.

Is there any way of finding out what is on UFC Fight Pass without subscribing to it?

How come Hashimoto never worked WCW during the Nitro years? AFAIK he only ever worked one WCW match, in the NWA tag tournament at GAB'92 where he replaced Akira Nogami.

Vince McMahon reminds me very much of this guy right now.

Bring back the AWA Pink Room and hold WrestleMania in there.

British money wasn't decimalised until 1971. I think this poster is from 1978. Gay definitely had come to mean homosexual by that point even if some older people still used it in the happy sense. The text below "The Gay One" reads "Uncrowned Queen of the Ring" if there was any doubt.

For those that don't know, Franz Van Buyten's son is Daniel Van Buyten, a former famous soccer player for Bayern Munich (with whom he won the Champions League) and Belgium. I've see it argued that Daniel is the most famous non wrestling child of a wrestler and it's hard to argue otherwise. RIP.

What if: The Freebirds stay in the WWF in 1984 and Michael Hayes takes Roddy Piper's spot as lead heel, WrestleMania 1 becomes Hulk Hogan and Mr T. vs Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy.

Sting's late 80's/early 90s theme bizarrely can be heard in "Rita, Sue and Bob Too", a British film from 1987.

Doom were Tweeners for that feud with the Horsemen too, there was even a match where Sting teamed with (I think) Ron Simmons after Butch Reed no-showed. NWA @ Charlottesville, VA - October 7, 1990 (3,400) The Master Blasters defeated Mike Rotunda & Tim Horner Ricky Morton & Terry Taylor (sub. for Robert Gibson) (w/ Steve Travis) defeated Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane after Travis hit an interfering Jim Cornette, with Taylor then hitting Lane with Cornette's tennis racquet NWA World Champion Sting defeated the Black Scorpion NWA World Champion Sting (sub. for NWA Tag Team Champion Butch Reed, whose father was in the ICU) & NWA Tag Team Champion Ron Simmons defeated Ric Flair & Arn Anderson when Sting pinned Flair And a match I hadn't heard about where Simmons teamed with Luger NWA @ Roanoke, VA - Civic Center - October 11, 1990 (925) Norman defeated the Iron Sheik The Italian Stallion defeated Barry Horowitz Allen Iron Eagle defeated Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker The Junkyard Dog defeated Buddy Landell Ricky Morton & Steve Armstrong defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin NWA US Champion Lex Luger defeated Sid Vicious NWA Tag Team Champion Ron Simmons & NWA US Champion Lex Luger (sub. for NWA Tag Team Champion Butch Reed, who flew home to be with his ill father) defeated Ric Flair & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson

Wasn't Windham advertised for the match until the day of the show when he was take out by the Enforcers slamming his hand in Dustin's car door?

All Japan. I'm guessing Watts brokered the deal with Williams and Gordy directly rather than with Baba. AJPW guys like Hansen and Spivey had also been in WCW in the early 90s. Baba wasn't interested in dealing with American promotions at the time. They did do the match at Starrcade '92 with Williams and Sting vs Liger and Erik Watts (Dr Death and Sting went over). I remember Jim Ross mentioning that WCW was the only place you could see this match as Williams and Liger were in rival promotions in Japan. I don't think Williams pinned Liger though. I think the WCW/New Japan promotion became exclusive in later years as NJPW would only use Americans from WCW and WCW would only use NJPW Japanese guys. (Kaz Hayashi might be an exception but I think he signed directly with WCW).

Did they do another match? I'm sure I remember reading about a card where the three brothers teamed and on the same card, Hawk teamed with Sasaki for a Hellraisers reunion.