Cobra Commander

Ultimo Dragon (before they got the letter from Jerry McDevitt about calling him "Ultimate Dragon") vs Psychosis from GAB 97: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EogXkZ9OFM that right hand counter to the leapfrog rulesss

and to be fair to Piper, he ran up an insane amount of physical mileage in the early 80s before going to the WWF also watching pre-Uncensored 97 and the stip if Team WCW won was a loud "WCW is not winning" siren.. the stips if you forgot If Team nWo won, they would get the ability to challenge for any WCW championship whenever they wanted. If Team WCW won, every member of the nWo would be suspended from wrestling for WCW for three years and all of their championships would be returned to WCW. If Team Piper won, he would receive another match against Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, to be contested at a time and a place of his choosing and taking place inside a steel cage. the stips almost make it where if the final two were WCW/Piper, the nWo would have incentive to help Piper win to get the lesser punishment and also sow discord between Piper and WCW

Piper vs Buzz Sawyer in a feud about which brand of cocaine is the best

1997 Piper really gives me the impression that a lot of his previous promo success relied on almost all of the promos being pretaped

to clarify, 3/10 was the Piper promo at Club La Vela where he ranted about Howard Stern and the WWF. The week before was the tryout at the Omni.

fortunately Benoit doesn't appear on the 3/10/97 Nitro so the WCW YouTube can upload the episode with Piper's amazingly atrocious promo before Ric/Arn/Mongo/Jarrett come out to get Piper to drop his Tryout team and team up with the Horsemen at Uncensored

since Duggan is basically doing a Billy Jack crossed with Walking Tall gimmick, just go deeper into that gimmick

having a multi-year Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs Jimmy Hart feud in WCW in the spirit of Boogie Woogie vs Paul Jones would have been one way to keep Duggan and the post-DOD Jimmy Hart family busy or have The Cat turn heel on Glacier only for Hacksaw Jim Duggan to join the Blood Runs Cold feud so we get the team of Glacier and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Extra points if Duggan does Manny Fernandez level karate moves

it feels like if we had just a bit more Mid-Atlantic footage of Paul Jones, it'd boost his stock and make it obvious why he was such a big deal to people who weren't living in Crockett Country in 1978

I can understand why JCP taped their big weekly show at Techwood, but the crowds always sounded wild in the footage from arenas for Worldwide/etc Also makes it more amazing that they managed to scorch themselves in the Carolinas Probably won't do a longer post on Bash 88 Greensboro but Heel Ron Garvin put on a show. I'm sure one of these two ring shows has had a hardcore match that just drifts from ring to ring, I know it's been done in some of the WCW WarGames shows but... although I guess trying to out-hardcore the WarGames match might be a tad unprofessional

outdoors/stadium shows sorta have a seating quandary where the stadium seats are better than the floor seats once you get far enough back, but it also means having open space on the ground that will be visible on film even if you really did sell a ton of tickets it may have taken big-ass sets becoming the norm to do stadium shows in a way that comes off really well on film, and even then, the acoustics can be a challenge

the live chats as WWE Vault streams some old school has some of that "wrestling chatroom during a show in 1998" energy with less profanities

Bret Hart vs Brad Armstrong feels like it would have been a good 6 minute match on Thunder.. in theory, could Bret's Russian Legsweep be countered by Brad into Brad's Russian Legsweep

Nationals making the move to fire their GM and Manager two days after Independence Day

Vince was probably more likely to remember the name Thurman from Thurman Munson.. no wrestlers in the WWF/WWE named Catfish though