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I don't think anyone does. I'm a subscriber strictly for the Observer. If Bryan is actually good on the air, that's just a bonus. I'd have to think if you took a poll on who actually reads Figure Four Weekly, it would be less than 20% of the subscribers. F4W has gotten better recently since Alvarez barely writes it nowadays. Bix seems to have taken over the bulk of it. Wait, Bix now writes bulk of the F4? When and how did this happen?

Willie Mae's Scotch House is fucking amazing. I don't think neighborhood is that dangerous. I would want to call and see their current hours, lots of places in N.O. have limited hours on limited days. I think they expanded their days before I left, but still check before going anywhere.

I think Edge is way less HOF worthy than Sting, less HOF worthy than Dan Spivey too. The goofball Meltzer quote is Edge was #4 guy in the biz for a while. Guys in the HOF who had featured roles in the WWE between 2000-2011: 1)Chris Benoit 2)Shawn Michaels 3)Kurt Angle 4)Undertaker 5)HHH 6)Eddie Guerrero 7)Rock 8 Chris Jericho 9)Rey Mysterio Jr I'm choosing not to include Foley and Austin. #4th guy in biz means he has to be ahead of five of those nine guys? That's just in his own promotion ( plenty of other guys in the biz internationaly in HOF also from that period-Kpbashi probably most prominent). I don't buy that there was ever a period where the WWE considered Edge one of their top 4 guys. From the WOn awards from period where Edge was in the main event mix: 2008 wrestler of the year: 2009 2010 So that's one year when Cena was both injured and making a movie where the Won voters treated Edge as a top 4 wrestler of the year candidate. For the rest of his "main event mix period" he doesn't even make their top 10 or honorable mentions. Being 9th-13th most important guy for the fed during a decade feels really like a really less than Sting status.

Man I just found my tape of the Scoops sponsored super indy. Expect a review when I get around to watching it.

Don't buy that. I know Valiant is often credited with brilliance for figuring out how to sell merch as heel (45 records that fans would break in front of him and dip in his blood, etc). But faces giving heels a cut, suggests way to much honor among thieves for me to accept.

In terms of naked ladies, it is a town where dancers are required to wear drawers. They will sit on your lap and comb your hair but it is a bottoms on town.

Traditionally heels couldn't work merch tables. Guys who understand that wrestling is about making money from merch sales like to work face.

Not sure if the modification did any good. Would the professional conmen who voted for Angle because it gave the credibility, be less likely to vote for him now? It didn't stop or slow the "we need to not be biased against contemporary guys like Edge and Tanahashi" campaigning.

In the end I let Enya decide my vote

Abdullah was a big international drawing star.. Why would he not be in a HOF?

My point is he's been pushed for so long that he is remembered as a bigger deal then he thought of at the time while Orndorf's been gone so long that he's remembered as less of a deal then he was thought of at the time. And that Orndorff was in real time a bigger deal. HHH becomes lead heel really at the tail end. We go through the period from september -november 99 where Chyna was feuding with Jarrett as a babyface but accompanying Helmsley as a heel to Armageddeon in December of 99 whith main of Rockn Sock v New Age Outlaws and attempt to use Mcmahon to elevate Helmsley in HHH v Mcmahon no holds barred match followed by Royal Rumble in January where HHH accompanied by Stephany worked Foley to Mania 2000 with main of Stephany v vince v linda v Shane and their charges to June 2000 King of the Ring with main of Vince, Shane and Shane's brother in law v Rock, Undertaker, Kane and it's really wild how little HHH is over for a guy who is remembered as the lead heel during the attitude era. Orndorff is legit the lead heel during expansion. He isn't a failed experiment that the fed has comitted to...he's a guy that was over as lead heel. One of the points with Sting HOF discussion is the difference between how history perceives someone and how someone was perceived at the time. My point was that Orndorff was perceived as a big deal at the time, but the more time passes without him, the less important he feels...HHH is only interesting as a contrast, I think the closest equivalent would be Edge.

Hogan vLuger is pretty good, and all the Hogan v DDP match ups are worth watching. Unfortunately DDP and Hogan never had a singles match on PPV, they matched up in singles several times on Nitro with I think the March of 99 match being the longest, but they had a bunch of neat smart sequences that they could work- and its frustrating watching the two try to carry baskteball players and talk show hosts instead of just working a singles match. But still think those are worth watching as well.

Meltzer's top 100 in 83 Top 100 in 84 85 Matt Farmer's biggest draws of the 80s

Miz, Kane, Hall? People are forgetting what a big deal Orndorf was once considered to be. He was a guy regularly discussed by Meltzer as being a top ten/tope 15 in ring worker in the world. In the 80's during the expansion period he is Hogan's second best drawing opponent after Savage, Using the Matt Farmer formula he is a top ten draw in the world for the 80s. And at the time he was given alot of credit for that draw (in a way that let's say Kimala or the Boss Man are not given as much credit for being responsible for how big their Hogan programs drew). Helmsley has been positioned as top guy in WWE for last 15 years and as result it fucks with people's memories and they retroactively assume that he was somehow the top heel during the attitude era. Then when you go back and watch that period you see that he really wasn't, you watch as the fed as late as 1999 continued to pair him with Chyna even when Chyna had turned face because they didn't trust HHH to draw heel heat without her. From 84-87 Orndorf was easily a more important part of the WWF then HHH was during attitude era. But the more time that passes the more his role diminishes in perceived importance (perhaps if HHH didn't marry and was released in 02 he'd be perceived the same way as Orndorff). On some level I think Orndorff skills and importance were overrated at time and the judgement of time is probably closer to the truth.

Not Kane, people forget how much Ordorf was pimped during his actual career. I think the closest equivalent would be Edge, also a guy who people really talked up during career but the more years pass, the less important he seems.

RVD's rolling senton works a lot better as a post match taunt than as an actual piece of offense. http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshha1XGyD6Bof35s87P

Scaffold matches drew well and work really well live. I think with better video equipment or editing both the MX scaffold matches from Mid South could work well on TV. But it's something that doesn't translate that well to taped audience ( blindfold matches which demand live participation as audience tells face which way the heel is are also something that gets over live but is worthless on tape), and with the equipment that they had really doesn't come across. The Don Greene v Jerry Jarrrett scaffold match I think still works on tape. As does the Dundee v Sweet Brown Sugar. The El Profe v Chicky Starr also translates to tape well.

For one thing, the limb work in his matches is actually paid off now. Also, he's stopped doing dumbfuckery like busting himself open hardway with shoot headbutts. I think you may have Regal confused with Harley Race. How many matches have you seen with Regal busting himself open with shoot headbutts? That's like not liking HBK because he falls off ladders.

Still super sad that they never did a Romeo and Juliet Moondogs/Dudleys angle during the ECW feud.

Shocker's run in NJ super juniors is one of my favorite luchadors in Japan runs. He was so amazing before he just decided to coast.

This maybe the most amazing wrestling angle ever starring Wavell Starr: http://youtu.be/LMaSxaodC28

First Nation Sensation Wavell Starr is an ex Stampede guy and I want to say one of Rippa's favorite recurring Heat/Velocity enhancement guys.

Yeah Dutch consistently worked for Colon long after Brody killed. The real question is does this mean that WWE is getting access to WWC tape library.

The majority of Tanahashi's work this year was in tag and multiperson matches where he didn't seem to be able to meet the physical or psychological demands of those matches.

I wouldn't compare Captain NJ/Tanahashi or Liger/Tanahashi to young lion/veteran tag team...it feels always far more like Colossal Connection Haku/Andre than that. "Cenahashi" is ridiculous comparison as Tanahashi has actually been booked pushed and protected rather well.