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If we're pie in the sky, Vince could say "Well, we've got more eyes than ever. It's time to turn Cena," but I don't know how desperate they are. It's probably not worth the risk.

I'm pretty certain that Vince feels that Cena HAS to be the centerpoint since this will have more eyes than usual.

It is the most legit pro wrestling HOF there is, yes, and that's a shame. There's been a lot of talk about Sting. I know Dylan and Dave did a whole wrestling culture podcast on whether or not Sting should be in the HOF: You can find the link to it somewhere in here.

The thing to remember, always, about the WON HOF is that it's Dave's HOF. The WON is a very particular publication with certain norms and preferences. For instance, it makes a lot of sense that Gorilla Monsoon wouldn't be in considering how negative the publication was to him throughout the 80s and early 90s. It makes sense that Lesnar might be more weighted due to the fact it is a MMA publication as well and has been for years, even if he doesn't have the wrestling credentials to be more than a laughable candidate at best. It makes sense on some level that Tanahashi is in at such a young age, before we can really have a good understanding of historical perspective because he's so lauded by Meltzer and the WON audience. It makes sense that a guy like Angle would make it in due to amateur credentials and because he worked a style that Meltzer personally loved. This isn't some objective body. It's a Meltzer guiding the argument and then a bunch of hugely carny former wrestlers and fairly dubious reporters/historians whose actual knowledge really runs the gamut. Never get too up in arms over the WON HOF is basically the moral of the story.

Jerry Jarrett's book on the launching of TNA is actually most interesting for the negotiations with Savage.

They have Tim Roth being awesome?

Yeah, what the hell? They don't call him William the Conquerer for nothing. And you guys got Cnut'ed before that.

Mark had a good point. This was all Dixie's master plan to draw in JR

He drew in wrestling better than Brock at least

You are a doofus

On the plus side, they have key cross-promotional potential for Destination X. On the minus side, everything else.

I bet When Turkeys Attack gets better ad rates though.

Once a week I feel like saying this but today I feel pretty certain: NOW you're just making things up!

God damn, Hell on Wheels

How do you feel about Virus' year?

It was freezing pretty bad for me tonight but I was watching a Mike Graham match so my cpu might have been granting me mercy.

Wow, New Years is sure coming extra quick this year.

I on the other hand wake up every night to shouts at 3 am on the monitor of "Where's Daddy? Daddy? Where are you daddy?" which then leads to me waking up with a crink in my back at 5:48 as my alarm goes off on the floor upstairs. there are a hell of a lot of worse fates though.

Back to Hogan in 94-95 WCW: 1.) He wouldn't let Flair win the second match in their series, which was such a no brainer from a booking perspective. Split the matches, make a rubber match, put the career stip on the line there. 2.) He wouldn't let Vader beat him down to build up their match but insisted Vader beat down Bockwinkel instead. 3.) The Brutus thing is amazing. A masked man attacks him for a while, he finally gets his hands on him and legdrops him, in the middle of the ring, after a match. Once he has the guy completely at his mercy, he unmasks him and it's Bruti. But by this point he already legdropped him. The heat was already blown off, basically. It was insane. It's probably the worst build for a match I can imagine. 4.) He puts over the giant by losing by DQ and the Jimmy Hart turn due to a shady contract. This is after knocking him off a building during the Monster Truck thing. It'd be one thing if you were putting over Diamond Dallas Page or Honky Tonk Man or hell, even 95 Flair that way, but the Giant in his big debut? Look at the BS way he lost the title to Andre in 88 or Undertaker in 91 and then compare it to the Giant in 95. It's night and day even though both are bullshit. You could go on and on (like the match where he and Savage beat everyone in the cage or later on him bringing Warrior in just to get his win back). He'd let guys (from Perfect destroying the belt, to Slaughter throwing the fireball, to Earthquake taking him out) get heat on him in WWF in a way he never would in WCW.

There's a level of paranoia in post 93 Hogan that didn't exist previously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpghisMA0M This match is amazing because Brody and Mil are probably the two most terribly selfish wrestlers in history and it's hilarious when they pair off and refuse to give each other anything.

Flair has to survive a gauntlet of some of his worst enemies in the 92 Rumble.

"None of the kids at school like Capaldi." said the 12 year old today. A lot of the kids in his GT English class watch Who apparently. He doesn't like him either and thinks it's very bad that they went from someone as fun as Matt Smith to him and hopes he moves on very quickly.

There's a surprising amount of Klondyke Kate (sic) on youtube.