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Did you somehow get two Dawnbreakers? Apparently that was a glitch when I was playing. I did that quest and got two Dawnbreakers. Have no clue how but two of them were in my inventory.

I loved the visual of a bloodied Bret in all pink gear vs. Piper at WM8. I think it's cool that when guys know when they or their opponent is going to get color, they wear gear to accentuate it. Like when Batista busted out predominantly white gear against HHH in their Hell in a Cell match. I can't remember him ever wearing that particular outfit again so that had to be a conscious choice.

Perez was also kinda nuts and hard to deal with. Gary Hart went into it in his book. Hart liked him and would always push for creative to do more with him. Apparently Perez was going to get a shot at Flair's title in Tampa which was Al's hometown. Al went to Gary and said that he was gonna shoot on Flair and legit pin him as Al was pissed that Flair was going to go over clean and he'd been unhappy about other things too. He reasoned that if he did that in front of his hometown fans, the NWA would have no choice but to acknowledge what happened and at the very least, put him in a top program with Flair. Hart figured that Perez actually could've done it as he (Al) was a legit accomplished shooter and he told the office about it. They made a last second change and substituted Eddie Gilbert for the match. What's crazy is that wasn't even the end of Perez in the NWA as they brought him back to be one of the Black Scorpions. You'd think something like that would've gotten a guy blackballed for life but they brought him back a couple of times for that angle.

It's like the Flair/Arn/Tully/Windham Horsemen that I and many others consider to be the best workrate wise and they all had titles. As a kid, it seemed like that run lasted for at least a year or two but they were only together for like 7 months before Arn and Tully left to go to the WWF.

IIRC, Bret said he almost lost it when Owen did the double hair tousle to him and Davy. The dagger stare was probably his way of not breaking down laughing.

That was the best part about younger Andre IMO. You could match him up with mobile, big guys like Hansen and Ladd who were used to just beating the crap out of everyone and see the dynamic of them fighting from underneath without a lot of shenanigans to make it believable.

Early 80s Andre is still pretty good too. Andre vs. Stan Hansen is one of my favorite hoss fights ever just because you never see Hansen playing an underdog face like that and Andre took a great bump to the floor off of the lariat.

That's my only beef with the gameplay so far. I hate when I get put in tag-team matches during the MyRise stuff because of this, especially tornado tags. Your partner will stand there with his thumb up his ass while the CPU partner makes a save.

Reckless Youth was the Al Perez/Wendell Cooley of the 90s in that respect.

PWI would always go to bat for the WWF having Intercontinental Tag-Team titles. As a kid I was into that idea and thought it was so logical. I mean, the NWA had a bunch of tag-teams and had a secondary title for the other guys to fight over. Why wouldn't the WWF do the same?

I remember PWI did run a story creating a backstory for how Dibiase became the Million Dollar Man. He used an inheritance from one of his family members dying. I can't remember if they explicitly said it was from his dad dying in the ring but I think they shied away from that and just said it was his uncle or something like that. They tied that into his heel run in the UWF too.

PWI still has me convinced that Al Perez and Wildcat Wendall Cooley are going to be among the stars of the 90s.

I loved that magazine. The highlights were Terry Funk winning one of the swimming competitions by punching someone while underwater, The Road Warriors destroying everyone in the weightlifting competition, Macho Man leading the WWF to victory in softball and the final obstacle course race between Flair and Hogan with Flair winning. And don't forget about when PWI broke down the original fake Sting plot where the Horsemen had Barry Windham impersonate Sting so that Sid could win the title. They talked about how they bribed Sting's tailor who was broke into making Windham copies of Sting's tights, Windham being upset at JJ for telling him to lose some flab in order to better look like Sting and I quote, "one of Flair's numerous girlfriends in the Atlanta area was enlisted to apply Sting's face paint to Windham."

Vince's disgusted, "This Sunday, Lex Luger vs.....The Gigalo" is great.

Yeah it was unreal. How do you not overdose right then and there? I know the long-term damage has to be off the charts but I feel like if I took 90 pills in one day, my liver and kidneys would explode.

I remember listening to The Patriot Del Wilkes on Steve Austin's podcast and he detailed all of the pills he was taking then. I was floored. Anytime he had a day off, he'd basically spend the entire day driving from pharmacy to pharmacy getting scripts filled and popping painkillers like they were candy. It was staggering.

You don't have to book him completely like Andre, it's more just don't book him to look like a big doofus. Having to lay around in the ring for like 20 minutes after a belt shot while Hogan, Hall and Nash fuck around in the ring is an example of this. They could've done the whole "turn on Beefcake" thing the next night on Nitro. Just have the nWo spraypaint the belt right after the pin and then get out of there.

And apparently Sabu was willing to take the rap for the whole thing but RVD wouldn't let him (IIRC, Sabu said that in a shoot interview). You'd think that would've scored some points with Vince for him.

First ever Elite 8 for my Miami Hurricanes! If you watched the game on Friday and saw the guy in the 67 football jersey, that's actually a buddy of mine from college. His name is Cory Fishman and he was a walkon offensive lineman from 94-98. We lived on the same floor my freshman year of college and we're pretty good friends.

I do remember that they said that Hogan promised him parts in movies and that's how he got into the movie Santa With Muscles. His first nWo turn was actually pretty logical.

My buddy who's a huge Scott Hall fan found a link where someone transcribed the WWF Magazine Razor origin story I referenced. I misremembered parts of it. https://droptoehold-blog.tumblr.com/post/49522530268/razor-ramon-taking-his-piece-of-america-by Entire article spoilered for size

There's a really good Malakai Black that I downloaded where the announcers call him "Malenko Black". That would actually be a cool name if someone wanted to use it.

I haven't played the showcase mode so I thought they were only using really memorable matches. If those matches were included, the Liger one should definitely be in over either of those then. It wasn't anything special but it was a good match and had another iconic performer in it.