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Since our fearless leader neglected to make a musical pun I'll do the honors

AND THE JUDY BAGWELL ERA IS ALMOST UPON US!

"boy has his aim been off tonight!" Bobby Heenan on the Giant. Still remember that line. My thoughts pretty much line up with yours really disappointing match from Bret and Sting and boy did that steiners explode stuff SUCK

Saw an interesting bit of fantasy booking Drew costs Seth the tag team match, but then comes out to even the score the next night cause he has issues with roman as well

According to Doc in his book and interviews he was going to be managed by JR, turn on JR and that was going to lead to the Austin program. Pretty much the HHH breaks JRs arm angle in 99. Now looking at main even scene in 98/99 they run a lot of repeat PPV main events, so if Doc doesn't get KTFO and hurt them trying to run a one month program between him and Austin similar to what happened to when the brought in Paul Wright (mainly house show loop). Ditto for Pillman if he doesn't die. I also think its a possibility that either of those two could have gotten a similar spot to Bossman and gotten used in the Deadly games tournement. And its possible that he never gets over with attitude era fans to young to have seen his earlier work and kinda ends up as another steve blackman

memes aside he has a very strong voice

He also did Brian Solomon for as much as it is a wrestling institution it would make so much sense

Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling by Jon Langmead 239pgs A telling of the early days of prowrestling from the late 1800's through the 1930's. Basically a history of pre National Wrestling Alliance American Wrestling set against the life of promoter Jack Curley as a framing device. I mentioned in another review that I enjoyed An Idiot's Guide To Pro Wrestling back in the day cause it gave me incite into the carnival days through Gotch/Hackensmidt. This book covers the same material, even seems to use some of the same source material but in much more scholarly depth. This is probably the definitive work on the subject. Interesting to see how much things stay the same no matter how much they change, from doing inclusive finishes to get the audience back to some promoters preferring Body Guys such as Munn and Londos over athletes who seemed "legit" to Jack Pfefer using a collection of oddities and freaks as almost a precursor to the cartoon wrestling of the 80's and early 90's. Now we are living in an era where kayfabe is pretty much dead with AEW All Access, and WWE's Rivals and Legends programs showing the inner working of the business, but its interesting to read how as early as 1905 newspaper men new something was up and where writing exposes on the business and athletic commissions where forcing wrestling matches to be promoted as "exhibitions". Make's me chuckle at certain wrestling grandpas getting upset at how open the business is now. Now I think wrestling has become much more socially acceptable seeing as we are in on the fact that its a show, but it brings to mind which ever Hart brother said "people always say 'wrestling fake...isn't it?' and that's where we make our money" people might have known they where being had but they didn't quite know where the line was exactly. And I think there's something thing to be said for the magician not revealing all his secrets as opposed to some of the stuff I've seen on indy shows like Joey Ryan flipping people with his dick or George South wrestling a Michael Jackson impersonator who transforms into a werewolf. At least take it seriously and act as if its real, like they did back in the day. I also think that presentation gets family's bringing kids, and women, not just your wrestling neck beards. Food for thought. Overall this is kinda like the Ken Burns Baseball series are you interested in hear about 1930's baseball for two hours/ reading about 1930 wrestlling? then this if for you.

Dustin training the next generation, two more bulls of the woods!

I've been following this Cody / Rock stuff on youtube. Most interested I've been in a WWE storyline in years

presenting Big Dick Hoss!!!

Video | Facebook The future Gorilla Monsoon, as Gino Marella here vs. early JWA standout Toyonobori 3/28/1963. The early years of pro wrestling in Japan discussions coming soon to Dan Ginnetty's Puro Wrestling Academ

And Piper is one of those guys who always seemed to be in character working even if he was being interviewed by Bill Maher or on HBO Real Sports

I think he was just more of the old school say/do anything to get heat on an angle taste be damned.

Well they did run South Africa I believe around 96 when they where running Kuwait ect cause they couldn’t draw domestically

What are the references? also the watching these makes me realize that the Austin v Owen summerslam match is pretty historically significant because Austin’s injury lead to an over use of skits and overalls long promo segments and the creation of main event brawl style

Lotta ex-flock guys on that one. If late period wcw had any interest in tag wrestling they could have spun sick boy and Riggs off into a team like having Kidman go after cw gold Just wait till you get the Vincent Stevie Ray street fight for the soul of the black and white

Halloween Havoc has a pretty good Raven v Jericho match

Steve Williams or Tenta would fit the timeline more

I saw Sunn 0)))), in Vegas with just an insane amount of amps. Apparently they could be heard on the casino floor

I remember The Comandant cutting a pretty racist promo on an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night

So much of the last 20 years runs together, honestly the last real “important” match I can think of is Cena winning the title for the 1st as it’s the start of his era

Does that leave the royale rumble match with slaughter?

They would have been a great addition to a larger tag tournament, I did like what I saw of Shelly title run. You know what bring them in with the walking weapon as a trio