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Joe Dombrowski !

Three-man booths are usually a train wreck, but they can work if the trio sticks together long enough to build chemistry, and if they have clearly defined roles. That worked for us in IWC with me on play-by-play, Joe Dombrowski as the Tenay/babyface color guy, and Kingdom James as the intelligent heel color guy.

I was there for Survivor Series 88 (and 87 and 92). I had floor seats in the 10th row on the side where the Demolition-Fiji breakup took place. Mind-blowing stuff!

When it comes to vocabulary, you can't doubt his telligence.

When the other nine guys were on the floor: "Slim J says ... This ring would be empty without me!"

Me too. It would be funny for a former ECW champion to watch ECW for the first time.

Bringing in talent from 2002 ROH is a trend I can really get behind. ? And he was in the Scramble Madness match! (I made an Enimem joke on commentary for him)

Welcome!

Thanks Pedro! I'm glad to see how that era of IWC holds up over time. Lots of great matches and memories. I really liked calling Chris Hero's first shot at the ROH title against Samoa Joe in IWC, and a 30-minute Hero-Punk match with my 1-year-old on my lap.

I would also count Sterling James Keenan (Corey Graves) as one of our homegrown success stories from IWC.

Researching for my WCW book ... the birthday cake survived at Hog Wild!

"They're gonna rename it! It'll be the Double-J-E !!"

Yes. If someone messes up a top-rope move, I like to say, "that's why they're high-risk maneuvers," to show that even hitting a top-rope move at all is very impressive.

Outstanding insight here. Announcers need to work together just like a tag team. When they do, it makes the wrestling in the ring seem a lot better and more important.

Oops, I guess it was five matches. From Page 29: "Now, let’s cut down some of these matches to make WrestleMania V a better show. These five matches are out: Hercules vs. King Haku Bushwhackers vs. Rougeau Brothers Ronnie Garvin vs. Dino Bravo Hart Foundation vs. (Future) Rhythm & Blues Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Bad News Brown"

In my "King of New York" book, I did an experiment where I cut six matches out of this show. It helped a lot!

Interesting that Hogan could have been selected to go up against the Outsiders and their mystery partner. I guess Hall and Nash would have wrestled by themselves until Hogan revealed himself as the third man.

Poor Jackie Gayda got released twice.

If you run a play that gains 10 yards, run it again.

Right. I might need to turn the sound off and play "Man in the Box," "Natural Born Killers," etc. I might as well do commentary, too, because the fans in Pittsburgh used to razz me for looking like Joey Styles.

Don't give away the ending of the book, PAL!

All of the big shows and PPVs - basically everything I can find on the WWE Network that's not a regular TV show.

King of Extreme: Who was the MVP of ECW?

Thoughts on Greed Jason Jett showed high-flying skills and ring smarts in his win over Kwee Wee. He looked like the future of WCW, but there was no such thing. Rey Misterio Jr. and Kidman looked like a lock to be the first WCW Cruiserweight tag team champs, but Elix Skipper & Kid Romeo scored the upset. The 26-year-old Romeo did not look like a kid. WCW tried to pump up Shawn Stasiak with Stacey Keiber in his corner as well as two nicknames (The Star, The Mecca of Manhood). He beat Bam Bam Bigelow with the help of Stacy's HAIRSPRAY OF DOOM. Shane Helms (with his own dance team, the Sugar Babies) cashed in on his second opportunity and won the Cruiserweight title from Chavo Jr. Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire destroyed Lex Luger & Buff Bagwell to earn the MVP award. They looked like they would dominate the WCW tag team scene, but, you know ... Booker T won the US title from Rick Steiner and knocked off Scott Steiner for the World title on the final Nitro. Steiner won the final WCW PPV main event by beating DDP. Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair wrestled each other for the first time on PPV on WCW's last PPV. Their Starrcade title matches took place before the company's pay-per-view era. Flair lost the fall to Dustin Rhodes in a tag team match. This meant Flair was supposed to get a Stinkface from Dusty, but Jarrett took the bullet instead. Dusty's behind was Jarrett's Kryptonite. Now that I've watched every WCW pay-per-view, it's time to write my WCW history book, "King of Atlanta." Thanks for all your feedback and to DVDVR for providing this forum. Hope you are enjoying the WWF book, "King of New York!"

They broke through a wall into the locker room because a weed whacker match needed something more extreme. This was in 2000, of course.