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  1. When it comes to the wrestling, I rarely step outside the DVDR bubble. That being said, I listen to the 6:05 podcast frequently because once you get past the first hour or so, they have some really great interviews with guest who aren't the norm on the podcast circuit, but recently, I joined one of their Facebook pages and am appalled and ashamed to be lumped into the "wrestling fan" category with those martians. The pile-on mentality that these folks have about particular personalities have because of a host that is dying to be famous, makes me wanna hurt someone. 

    DVDR....I appreciate you. 

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  2. 4 hours ago, MORELOCK said:

    I guess I just don't get what the big deal is about Naomi aside from being married into a powerful family and being one of the few women of color in WWE right now. Those kicks are annoying and anyone with ass-based offense is going to make me roll my eyes, but I think my main issue is that she's been around for like 7 years now and hasn't seemed to show much improvement. Women that came up through NXT several years after her are out there working circles around her.

    She has improved quite a bit and the only ass-based moves she uses are the Rear View, which actually looks good most of the time and whatever that thing is she does to opponents in the corner( I call it the Ass Eater) and I agree, I hate that. 

     

    My two highlights of SDL were:

    Jinder's electric red carpet. That's a pretty boss entrance. 

     

    ~BEARHUG!!! I popped for it because it was so dumb that it was funny.  

  3. I'm watching Kerry Von Erich vs Terry Gordy Lumberjack Match from 7/1/83 I think. And I'm thinking about how much coke was in the locker room that night after Terry Gordy comes walking to the ring looking stoned out of his gourd as they announce that Michael Hayes, who was originally scheduled to face Kerry, couldn't make due to "car trouble ". Which in my mind meant that he was probably more fucked up than Gordy. Then I look at who the lumberjacks are: Jake Roberts. Chris Adams, Buck Zumhoff, the Irwins, Skip Young. That's a fucking muderers row of sleazes and drug addicts. 

    Someone should really develop a HBO-style series about World Class. 

    *EDIT: forgot to post the match. 

     

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  4. 4 hours ago, Matt D said:

    There are a lot of wrestling fans like me, namely people who grew up in the Northeast in the 80s/90s, watched a lot of WWF, WCW, GWF (or AWA depending on timing), later got into the online community and ended up watching more NJPW juniors or 90s AJPW or UWF or older Crockett or what have you. Ron Starr is uniquely positioned to fall through so many of those cracks. I'd probably call him the best wrestler of that sort ever, the ultimate journeyman in all of the promotions that a casual or middling fan will never even see. I first came across him when I was devouring late 70s Portland. Then I just kept bumping into him again and again, in Georgia or St. Louis or Alabama or Japan or especially Grand Prix and Puerto Rico. He could do anything, could be a face, could be a heel, could wrestle, could brawl, could get the crowd behind him, could draw heat. 

    Guys like Chris Colt or Bobby Bass or Crusher Blackwell were more of one specific thing (though they were different things). Starr was the whole package, hugely adaptable, and I think that's why I'd call him, more than the others, the best wrestler that most people don't know.

    Not to really argue you point, but I would say Randy Colley should have that designation. 

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