Pete Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 10/8/2022 at 6:12 PM, Cobra Commander said: what would the hypothetical panel for a Georgia episode be? Ole has had MS for like 15 years and is probably not very well Tommy Rich, Eadie/Masked Superstar, and... yeah.. that's a hard table to fill up Tony Atlas? Austin Idol? Ted DiBiase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madl Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Kind of surprised Flair isn’t involved with at least one of these episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 After the Plane Ride episode during the last DSOTR season, it would have been surprising if Flair decided to work with those guys. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Rich, DiBiase, Eadie. Maybe Arn or Larry Z. You also have guys like Fuller and Watts and Jarrett who were then in the 70s and were part of the war with Ann Gunkel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 10/9/2022 at 1:53 AM, DreamBroken said: The panels for each are: (...) AWA: Diamond Dallas Page, Jim Brunzell, Ken Patera, Madusa, & Greg Gagne (...) Oh, boy. Switch on your bullshit-meter for that one, guys. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Dutch’s view of the Jarretts split and making up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SirSmUgly Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 14 hours ago, odessasteps said: Wow, Meltzer's comedy takes are as questionable as his wrestling takes. I guess all you really need to become a tastemaker is to be first out with a newsletter and not, you know, good taste. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, SirSmellingtonofCascadia said: Wow, Meltzer's comedy takes are as questionable as his wrestling takes. I guess all you really need to become a tastemaker is to be first out with a newsletter and not, you know, good taste. He was what? 23? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 14 minutes ago, Matt D said: He was what? 23? This post seems to imply that as a critic, he's grown significantly since then. As someone who has lurked here about twice as long as he has posted here, most DVDVR reviewers have tracked growth and self-reflection in their criticism that I'm not sure Meltz has really come near. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 1 minute ago, SirSmellingtonofCascadia said: This post seems to imply that as a critic, he's grown significantly since then. As someone who has lurked here about twice as long as he has posted here, most DVDVR reviewers have tracked growth and self-reflection in their criticism that I'm not sure Meltz has really come near. Can't argue here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 About the eyeball story... wrestling stories should be like fishing stories. I don't care if they're 100% as long as the lies are easily recognized and there to add color. I don't care if his eye actually feel out, but gouging an eye is a story, pulling a dude's eyeball out is a hell of a story. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 (edited) On 10/10/2022 at 3:30 PM, Robert s said: Oh, boy. Switch on your bullshit-meter for that one, guys. The whole series is old pro wrestlers telling stories. The bullshit meter would explode in less than five minutes. (For the record, I'm a big fan of bullshit stories.) Edited October 11, 2022 by Log 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 15 minutes ago, Log said: The whole series is old pro wrestlers telling stories. The bullshit meter would explode in less than five minutes. (For the record, I'm a big fan of bullshit stories.) Yeah, this reminds me of someone criticizing the president by saying, he's playing political games. I mean, he's s fucking politician, of course he's playing political games that's the game he chose. These dudes choose to be wrestlers, if they aren't full of shit, they aren't going their jobs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 If only they did these things when Dusty was alive. . . . 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 just realized that Jerry Jarrett sounds like the Old Man from Pawn Stars 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 laughing at the whole concept of Tony Danza coming down to Memphis to fight Jerry Lawler (Danza was a middleweight boxer who went 9-3 from 1976 to 1979) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 (edited) I mean the best part of the whole Kaufman story is Bill Watts and other promoters thinking that they shoot put Andy in the hospital . Jerry Jarrett talking about whether he should call Watts a mark for thinking this is real. Amazing that Andy didn't even tell his own parents that it was real. Talk about a great worker So next week is the beginning of the AWA talk. And unlike the Memphis it isn't really featuring guys famously known for the AWA except for Ken Patera. I don't really really consider Medusa and DDP as AWA legends Edited October 12, 2022 by hammerva 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 21 minutes ago, hammerva said: So next week is the beginning of the AWA talk. And unlike the Memphis it isn't really featuring guys famously known for the AWA except for Ken Patera. I don't really really consider Medusa and DDP as AWA legends Right? The Baron is still with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 11 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: laughing at the whole concept of Tony Danza coming down to Memphis to fight Jerry Lawler (Danza was a middleweight boxer who went 9-3 from 1976 to 1979) I don't get ViceTV so I didn't see the episode, did they want to bring Danza in to work with Lawler or did Danza think it was a shoot and wanted to beat up The King? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quackhell Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, Mister TV said: I don't get ViceTV so I didn't see the episode, did they want to bring Danza in to work with Lawler or did Danza think it was a shoot and wanted to beat up The King? Danza thought it was shoot. They didn't want to smarten him up and Lawler told Andy that if they brought him in he might have to hurt Danza to protect himself. So Andy quickly nixed the idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madl Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Is Lawler the only source for the “it was all a work. Kaufman didn’t break his neck” story? I tend to believe Jerry, but I’m trouble wrapping my head around the idea that Kaufman let friends and family believe it was a legit injury and that the hospital Kaufman was admitted to went along with it (they continued to claim Kaufman was treated for a legitimate neck injury even after Kaufman’s death). Normally, I’d assume Jerry got up one morning and decided he didn’t want to be known as the guy who nearly crippled a Hollywood actor and came up with a story to make himself more sympathetic. jerry ignoring Kaufman’s request for an ambulance because he didn’t want to spend the $300 is…. something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, quackhell said: Danza thought it was shoot. They didn't want to smarten him up and Lawler told Andy that if they brought him in he might have to hurt Danza to protect himself. So Andy quickly nixed the idea. I didn't think the cast of Taxi liked Kaufman that much to want to defend him. Danza went to college on a wrestling scholarship, made it to the New York Golden Gloves finals(not sure which class) and had a 9-3 pro boxing record, there's a very good chance he could have handled Lawler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quackhell Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mister TV said: I didn't think the cast of Taxi liked Kaufman that much to want to defend him. Danza went to college on a wrestling scholarship, made it to the New York Golden Gloves finals(not sure which class) and had a 9-3 pro boxing record, there's a very good chance he could have handled Lawler. You have to take it all with a big grain of salt of course. The whole thing would have a bad idea. Danza kicks Lawler's ass and it kills Memphis, Lawler pulls out Danza's eye it kills Memphis. Lose/lose situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Lawler having like 50lbs on Danza would be his one plus but I’m not exactly thinking Lawler was the best Memphis prospect in a real fight vs a middleweight boxer Bill Dundee, despite being shorter than Danza, seems like enough of a carny worker that he could have held off Danza. Of course Dundee was busy with other things during this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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