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  1. Conversely, wrestling and movies, being cheap escapist entertainment at the time, actually did very well during the Depression (and movies did very well during the Great Recession).
  2. Also, much is made of World Class' production values but their team's most underrated facet was their ability to make the dingy, rat-infested Sportatorium look like a classier arena than Madison Square Garden.
  3. I believe Watts was planning to move his base to Atlanta if he'd gotten the full TBS deal. Honestly, I think the only other major contender to go national successfully based on markets would be Verne, and he'd never have a national vision. But he had Chicago, he had the Bay Area, he had in-roads in Canada, he had two other good-sized markets in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver, and if he'd had the foresight to try to seize upon L.A. upon the closing of the Lebell territory, like had with San Francisco, then he'd really have something. But as much as the AWA is underrated as a wrestling product, it didn't have the consistency or compelling storytelling of Mid-South, Memphis, Crockett, or post-expansion WWF.
  4. Meltzer vigorously debunked that figure. It's a good figure but not near $4.5 mil/year. Tokyo Sports is about as reliable as your average Apter magazine.
  5. And it was the other way around--Puder did a number on him. This other guy got a few wins on Sunday Night Heat and was apparently someone that Stephanie McMahon was weirdly really high on, seeing him as a future star.
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    AEW TV 2/28 - 3/2

    Where is it being reported that Copeland was hurt? It seemed to me that injury angle was a way to get Garcia into the TNT title match without Copeland having to do a job. It seems like if he were hurt to the point of needing to be written out, he wouldn't have wrestled a full match first.
  7. Maybe Kris and Bix are oversimplifying, but the narrative on the Between the Sheets podcast is that the UWF and subsequent NJPW feud drew great in Tokyo but didn't draw so great in the non-Tokyo markets.
  8. I...don't think Hangman was selling at the end of that match.
  9. Regardless, Meltzer has an absolutely brutal week. In one issue of the Observer he had the CMLL-AEW policy mess, he named Tommy Dreamer as the head of creative for TNA which PWInsider and SRS both raced to debunk, and then somehow in his Smackdown recap he recapped a backstage segment between Rock and Triple H from like 10 years ago that was making the rounds on Twitter for some reason. Somehow Triple H looking 10 years younger (when many including Dave himself have pointed out how much he's aged recently) and Stephanie's presence didn't tip him off that this was old footage.
  10. "So...come crawling back, eh?" Evidently Cody "lost" QT's number at some point.
  11. Fightful reporting that Okada is AEW-bound.
  12. I could be horribly naive and gullible but that announcement sure sounded like he had something in mind for that show besides just Mone's debut. Hell of a show. Aside from the Undisputed Kingdom shit which took up like 30 seconds, it was a no-bullshit combination of good wrestling action, storyline advancement, and a hot angle at the end.
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    Rikidozan

    That match has been out for awhile. It's mostly significant for being one of the only full matches we have now with commentary by legendary L.A. announcer Dick Lane.
  14. It's not? He main-evented multiple PPVs and was part of one of the biggest merch-selling acts of the era in the Shield.
  15. Strobogo actually let Triple H off easy: HHH said straight-up that he hadn't read the lawsuit yet. Just an absolutely staggeringly bad answer that made him come off as flippant and indifferent. Of course I'm not expecting HHH to throw himself at the mercy of the Lord or say, "Yeah, my father-in-law's a real shitbag," but I'm just absolutely gobsmacked that we didn't get a, "I cannot comment on an ongoing legal matter and that will be my last word on the subject."
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