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Interesting that they did not mention Nancy when discussing the Army of Darkness. And too bad they didn't show the Mike Davis part of the angle. 

And didn't think that they could also have had Garvin or Barry, not that I fault any of the choices. You def needed Keirn and Roop if they were going to discuss that angle. 

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6 hours ago, HumanChessgame said:

The most recent episode made me wonder...did Hogan and Dusty ever wrestle eachother?

2 singles matches in Japan in 1980/1981. Dusty won by DQ and countout. 

A low quality version of the December 1980 match can be found here in the middle of this Dusty in Japan comp:

 

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Matches with Hogan and Dusty against each other, all New Japan:

  1. 12/9/1980
  2. 5/22/1981 (Hogan/Stan Hansen vs Bobby Duncum/Dusty)
  3. 5/25/1981
  4. 5/26/1981 (Dusty/Inoki vs Hogan/Hansen)
  5. 5/29/1981 (Dusty/Bob Backlund vs Hogan/Hansen)
  6. 6/1/1981 (Inoki/Backlund/Dusty vs Hogan/Hansen/Bobby Duncum)

There's also two matches with Dusty and Hogan on the same team

  1. 5/17/1980 (Sakaguchi/Kobayashi/Fujinami vs Dusty/Hogan/Tito Santana, best 2 of 3)
  2. 6/1/1980 (Inoki/Sakaguchi/Kobayashi vs Andre/Dusty/Hogan, best 2 of 3)

There probably weren't a lot of opportunities for Hogan/Dusty tag team matches on WWF house shows. Although I did find a Hogan/Bossman vs Andre/Haku tag match from March 1990 with Dusty/Savage on the same card that was the last match with Hogan and Andre, and one of two matches with Hogan/Andre after Summerslam 1988 (the other being Hogan/Andre at the Omni in October 1988)

So the world didn't get too many Hogan/Dusty vs Dino Bravo/Earthquake matches, or Hogan/Dusty vs Earthquake/Dibiase matches in late 1990.

Man, is Andre/Dusty/Hogan a monsters of American Wrestling trio or what. Even if this was a few years before Hogan became big in Japan, that's a loaded trio

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Dr. D worked at least 8 tag matches with Bad News Allen, but they were in July 1984 (and one in March 1985), so maybe Dr. D's timeline of "I worked with Bad News in Japan and then we came back to Calgary and he wanted my spot" was a little off?

There was an 11 minute six man tag from March 1985 putting Inoki/Sakaguchi/Fujinami vs Bad News/Schultz/Steve Wright. When there's a group of 6 and the least bad man of the six is Fujinami or Wright, that's a group of dudes.

Next week is Polynesian Pro?

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Yep, Poly Pro. 

Abby almost breaking down was unexpected; Bret's closing words were pretty powerful. Overall though this was a weird one. It felt like you had to know about Calgary beforehand. Bobby Bass was a bump on a log and there wasn't a fifth person. Things were just... off. 

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Stampede having 4 panelists instead of 5 really tells you how many plausible panelists are people who died way young, or how Bret wouldn't want to be on a Stampede panel with Bruce and anybody with a brain picks Bret in that situation.

They kinda ended the story once Bret was in the WWF. Not sure if there was much else to tell after that.

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The retelling of the Bad News Allen & Archie Stomper angle by Bret kind of paints a different story of Ed Whalen.  The argument is that Ed ruins the angle because he was upset about the piledriver on Archie's son and quit.  But now it sounds like what really pissed Whalen was Bad News beating the shit out of a really old fan who punched him in the back of the leg.  

Now whether that was the reason the territory was killed because of the angle not working out is seriously debatable.

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