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  1. Mauro is good in his niche, and his niche is not mainstream North American wrestling. He was good calling New Japan with Barnett, he was listenable calling MMA and boxing, and I enjoy him calling NXT. I think he'd be a good fit in ROH about two years ago, so I think he might be in the right spot, as he's not bad with Nigel right now, but he's no great shakes. I think people liked him so much because he was so totally different than anyone on WWE programming had been in eons.
  2. To expand on this, for most people, the WWF *was* professional wrestling, so they weren't going to tell Vince to shove Survivor Series and take this show from this b-level company out of the south. The WWF was a proven moneymaker, and Vince had the stroke to say this. I don't think it held up, though. I think that they just allowed everyone who wanted to sell WrestleMania IV to sell it.
  3. I was always kind of partial to them introducing Terry Taylor as "the Computerized Man of the 1990's" before he'd joined the York Foundation, then acting surprised when he did.
  4. At least once. 11/2/98 on Nitro. He also beat him a couple of other times, one was a four-way for the CW title that I can't find out who pinned who, and another was a tag match, same thing.
  5. GFW doesn't run Ohio. Now I'm trying to think of a GFW name for him. Duke Bernsen? Dutch Justice? I really feel like his name should be Dutch.
  6. And in a few years, Vince will find a new tall guy with middling ability and a smidgen of charisma to push and Corbin will be second from the top on some backwoods indy in rural Ohio somewhere, and we'll all still be following Meltzer on twitter.
  7. Is there a more WWE thing than pushing a guy who is clearly not ready, and blaming him for not succeeding instead of blaming themselves for putting him in a position to fail? They really must have wanted him to be a big thing for a long time, or thought he could learn on the job in the mid-card, because, honestly, how many guys are ready at that age? I know that Orton had the emotional maturity of a 13-year-old when he first showed up. Who else started that young and succeeded?
  8. I've not seen them, but cagematch has three matches airing: 7/1 El Samurai, Jushin Liger & Shinjiro Ohtani d. American Machine, Black Tiger & Black Cat 7/8 El Samurai, Ohtani, & Flying Scorpio d. American Machine, Black Tiger, & Black Cat 7/9 American Machine & Black Cat d. Ohtani & Yuji Nagata Looks like he was on the tour until 7/21, then back to Mexico, but none of the other NJPW stuff was televised.
  9. I didn't know about this. When did Rock call out Dogg? This is also interesting because I thought there was also heat between NAO and Hunter for the longest time. There was, after they got released...big time. They gave shoot interviews to pretty much anybody who would listen where they buried Hunter relentlessly. (Along with a lot of other people.) Since Brian James cleaned up his act and got hired back, he has become a WWE apologist of Prichardian proportions. Check out his episode of Legends with JBL if you don't believe me. Yeah, he's quite the follow on Twitter. Don't you dare criticize anything they do, because you've never been there, paying dues, in the business, man. Sigh.
  10. Totally agree with this. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I always felt this was the case with the NAO, even somewhat with guys who were great as singles like Arn and Tully. It's why I'm glad there was never really a break-up angle with Eaton and Lane in WCW. I know that Eaton stuck around for a while after Lane and Cornette left, but he was never as good with anyone else as he was with Lane.
  11. I thought it was cool that ROH made sure more of their regular stops got these co-NJPW shows. Columbus and Pitt (and to an extent Buffalo) are big stops for them. I really love the idea of them doing the Pittsburgh-Buffalo back-to-back days thing. Last time they did it, September of 2016, I went to both shows and it was a blast. I'm not going to either of them this time because I can't afford it, but I'd really like to. I'm glad they don't try to do it during the winter, because that's a fool's errand in this part of the country, but it's Erie to Buffalo to Erie to Pittsburgh to Erie, so it's no more than 2 hours in the car on any leg, and neither trip is bad when the weather's nice. I just wish that New Japan would commit to some higher level talent than they have so far, which is another reason that I'm not as hot to get tickets. KUSHIDA and Hiromu Takahashi are fine, but KES and YOSHI-HASHI aren't exactly blowing my skirt up. I'd like to have time in my schedule to get to Cleveland and Pittsburgh for indy shows more. Shit, I'd like to have time in my schedule to watch live wrestling on TV more.
  12. I cried when I found out that Roddy Piper died, but I found out online, not actually watching on TV, so I don't know it that counts.
  13. God damn the Mirror is such a fish wrapper. The lines where the article reads: "Donna was said to be a penniless alcoholic who suffered from asthma." and "...her love of partying overtook her and she ended up living in a cave and surviving on handouts from pals" are just total victim blaming and justification for what he might have done. They're framing the narrative so that he isn't portrayed in such a bad light. It's like "Well, he had this dog, and the dog was getting grumpy in it's old age, so he put the dog out of it's misery." He took her in, married her, and after she had her problems with addiction he decided that he'd had enough, didn't want her on the street, so, well, f*** it, I'll just kill her. I hate this world sometimes.
  14. I tend to go 82-87 with Flair, because 88 was so bad, but then he picked it up so awesomely in 89. Hard to say.
  15. Isn't it basically his whole career? He seriously started at the top of heap and just stayed there. If I had to choose, I'd say 93-98. Oh come on. He was precocious but he did not start at the top of the heap. No way he was comparable to any of the pillars until at least '96. My favorite period for Akiyama would be later, maybe 2000-2004. But it's true that his calling card is more that he's been really good for a really long time. My point with saying that he started at the top and picking an arbitrary timeframe was that he WAS so good for so long that no matter what years you pick, you really aren't wrong. (I guess a case can be made that he was a weaker link early on. I disagree, but the case is there). I really enjoy Burning, and I always felt that his work more than kept up with all the other Pillars. (I'm trying to think of a great example of someone who was decent, then AMAZING for five years, then just decent again as a counterpoint, but nobody is leaping into my head at the moment.)
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