Happ Hazzard

If Bret wasn't in the World Title scene for political reasons, a feud with Lawler was about the best thing he could be doing. Not that Bret really did much in that feud. It was almost entirely based on Lawler insulting Stu and Helen.

Who inducts Vader? Mick Foley might be the most likely. Sting is with AEW. Flair is out the outs with WWE, Who else is there? Cornette? Ken Shamrock?

Or Missing Link, or Ken Patera. Or Ric Flair for that matter, but I don't think he was ever part of the official Heenan Family.

If it was Joey Maggs in the 6 man, there's only 8 wrestlers on the card, I assumed it was Eddie, Doug and DWB as the Memphis Mafia. Was Memphis running a split crew in 1991? Lawler is conspicuous by his absence on this card but maybe he wasn't working all the small towns at this point.

2 notable wrestler/actors meet on World of Sport in 1988 as Pat "Bomber" Roach meets "The Mighty Yankee" Sky High Walker aka Tyler Mane aka Nitron/Big Sky from WCW, (who played Sabretooth in the X-Men, and Michael Myers in the 2000s Halloween films).

That's impressive, 7 big matches (including a 6 man and regular tag match) with only 9 wrestlers on the card.

28 year old Vince McMahon interviewing Professor Toru Tanaka Pedro Morales and Stan Stasiak in 1973. Not especially great promos but I think this is the earliest footage I've seen of Vince Jr. on camera, certainly the earliest in excellent VQ.

RIP Leo Fong. Star of many 80s and 90s B-movies such as Killpoint, Low Blow, Blood Street etc.

Jim Breaks vs Adrian Street, in both of their primes. Jim Breaks vs a young Dynamite Kid. I don't think I ever realised how short Breaks was, he's significantly shorter than Dynamite here. Maybe 5'3 or so.

I think Dynamite was announced as being from Wigan, Davey from Leigh (which is between Wigan and Manchester) which them somehow morphed into being from Leeds (which is a different place entirely) during his 90-92 singles run. Davey had been living in Canada for over a decade at that point and likely didn't care.

If they'd reversed things and had Hogan eliminate Sid and then Sid pitch a fit and pull Hogan out from outside the ring, that might've worked. But as it was done,Hogan just looked like a sore loser. Sid had been a total baby-face in the WWF, there was no tease of any dissention. Them editing the commentary and crowd noise on the TV recaps of the finish just made Hogan look even worse to the people who watched the PPV

I am still convinced that they booked Hogan's elimination of Sid knowing that the fans would side with Sid over Hogan. There's no way you can do that spot at that point in time and not expect Hulk to get booed.

How many PPVs did Vince commentate on in the 80s? Just the NYC portion of WM2? Who did Survivor Series '89? I know Gorilla Monsoon was ill around the time and Tony Schiavone did SummerSlam '89 and Royal Rumble '90 but not the Survivor Series in between.

Yes, Eadie is the only guy on there twice with different gimmicks. Don't think Dusty and Nikita ever teamed against the Road Warriors. Smash would have better placed on the left as I'm not sure Kruschev and Nikita ever teamed against the Warriors. Although I think the WWF always had Ax on the left and Smash on the right during promos, probably so the fans remembered who was who. They were always "Ax and Smash", never "Smash and Ax".

Some very clever placement of guys on this. IRS placed just above his Varsity Club teammates Williams and Sullivan and Rick Steiner just below. Fabulous One Stan Lane next to Beautiful Bobby Eaton.

It's weird that Dave says that but has never been to Arena Mexico.

Anybody know if the "Cover 2 Cover" podcast with Kris Zellner and Rob Naylor is coming back? They haven't done a new episode in several months.

I can't see there's a better case for them to go in as a trio since (in theory, anyway) voters can only take into account the brief run they had together in JCP from early 87 to September '88. You can't take the Brain Busters' WWF run into account since JJ wasn't managing them, and obviously you can't take any of Tully and Arn's singles careers, their tag teams with other partners, or any of JJ's decades long career as both a wrestler and a manager of other guys. They should all go back on the ballot as singles. Enough of their contemporaries have gone in now that it's freed up votes to get them in.

Arn and Tully with JJ being on the ballot makes no sense at all. They should all be on the ballot as singles.