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I may go to that. Sheffield is 10 miles up the road.

Anyone got this one yet: Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling. I'm tempted but it's a lot of money for a 230 page paperback book.

Ad rates aren't set on stereotypes but on actual demographics, and NASCAR clearly has a much more affluent fanbase than wrestling does.

Joe Duffy is out with concussion. They need to cancel this card. Or just hold it and give all ticket buyers a full refund as well as letting them in.

She was a massive TV ratings draw. And Vince and Kevin Dunn lusted over her.

That is a very particular fetish you have there. Pretty sure they all got left home. Remember that time when RVD was the only person with balls and told the WWE to fuck off when they wanted him for a tour of the middle east. That was for an Iraq show wasn't it? Bit of a difference between that and a tour of Saudi Arabia. I asked this on another forum but nobody knew. Did the WWF run shows in Apartheid South Africa in the mid-late 80s? I'm sure I remember reading that at some point, but I might be getting confused. American wrestlers certainly worked over there, there was a famous Terry Funk vs Hogan match at Sun City.

The wheel not being rigged is one of things Scott Keith made up that somehow became popular belief. Along with the Battlebowl draw being legit, and Austin being booked to go over at IYH Final Four with them changing the finish on the fly after he got injured.

When's that Batista photo from?

Quite a few old newsreel wrestling clips on that channel.

The Funk book would be my all-time #1 if I hadn't watched the Funk RF Video shoot because 80% of it is a re-hash. If you only ever watch one RF Video shoot that is the one you want to go out of your way to acquire. Funk takes Feinstein's lame ass questions and does about 8 hours of story-telling. The Oliver HOF books are great and will lead you down a youtube rabbit-hole you will never get out of. And much love for the Mildred Burke book. btw, how does one go about getting the Gary Hart book? I don't remember Funk's shoot that well but a large part of Jerry Lawler's book is literally word-for-word the same as the RF shoot he did in 2001. I've got Hart's book. I'm open to reasonable offers for it. Bear in mind I'm in the UK so postage to the US won't be cheap.

Why aren't there any books on American territories as good as the ones on Calgary and Montreal?

I bought "Violence is Golden". It's good but not very long. Adrian has a HUGE ego. Doesn't like Lucha, or Lawler, or Dusty Rhodes or JJ Dillon. The part of the book I've got to has loads of articles from wrestling magazines just in their entirety. Not that they aren't interesting to read but it seems like filler. I can't figure out how they possibly got 5 books out of his career before he even went to the US.

Eddie thought it was Crash Holly interfering IIRC. He got pissed off because he thought the office had booked a run-in without telling him, then realised it wasn't Crash and beat the guy up.

And the other 1% is Jerry Lawler.

In a similar vein:

If I was to buy one of Adrian Street's books, which one is the best? I'm looking at "Violence is Golden" as it seems to focus on his arrival in the US and early days in the territories. Anyone know what chronological order they fall into and what book covers what territories? Reading reviews on Amazon this would appear to be them in order: My Pink Gas Mask I Only Laugh When It Hurts So Many Ways To Hurt You Sadist in Sequins Imagine What I Could Do To You Violence is Golden But it would appear that Violence in Golden stops in the middle of his US career so presumably there is at least one more book to come.

GREAT Al Snow promo from SMW in 1995. The WWE really dropped the ball on Al. He could have been a major star for them.

All sports announcers in the US work for the station. I can't think of one instance where the league directly employs announcers. UFC?

Dunno about in the US but in the UK most, if not all, sports announcers work for the station, not the league. I guess it was to prevent bringing the station into disrepute by implying that their trusted announcers pretending wrestling was real. But I know some wrestling announcers in the US did work for the station and not the promotion. Ed Whalen for one. I think Lance Russell might be a borderline case as I think he was on the payroll both at WMC as a programming director and for the Jarretts as a wrestling announcer. I know here in Britain Kent Walton worked for LWT or whichever ITV station was responsible for World of Sport, not Joint Promotions, which is why he announced for All-Star when they got a share of the TV slot.

What is the MOTD on NBC like? How's it doing in the ratings?

Ian McShane to be on Game of Thrones 6th season.