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Are you people who kept clamoring for Stephanie to get her "comeuppance" happy now?

Don't turn Heath Slater babyface. Just don't do it.

Seriously, watch WWECW. Start from whenever Colin Delaney showed up and then watch until the end.

Catering to the smarks is pretty much the only thing that makes sense to do when your business model is selling weekly PPVs with no prior history, no TV time and no real advertising. Of course, they didn't actually cater to smarks with the weekly PPVs because TNA.

The date on this show is 12/13/86. Gordon starts the show by thanking Joe Pedicino for filling in for him last week. He tells this week we'll see Kevin Sullivan defend the Continental Title against The Bullet and Rip Rogers is going to defend the Southeastern Title against a man from Canada with 51 straight wins. The first match is Kevin Sullivan & The Bullet. Sullivan runs out during his entrance and attacks Scott Armstrong! He kicks Scott's ass and backhands the referee. Bullet runs out and attacks Sullivan. Sullivan is wearing a hard plastic black mask and Gordon puts over how it's hurting The Bullet's hand when he punches. Steve Armstrong comes out to check on his brother and The New Guinea Headhunters attack him at ringside. Bullet mounts a comeback in the ring and then goes out to help his sons. Bullet fights off both Headhunters but the ref counts him out during that time. Sullivan & The Headhunters continue their beatdown on The Armstrong family but Steve & The Bullet make their comebacks at the same time. Sullivan gets sent into the ropes where he runs into Steve Armstrong and then The Bullet rolls him up for the pin and the Continental Title! Sullivan attacks him immediately and then takes the mask off of The Bullet! This time you can pretty clearly see, even with the crappy footage I have, that it's Bob Armstrong. So I'm sure we'll be told that there wasn't a good shot of his face. After Scott runs off Sullivan & Headhunters with a chair, Steve & Scott cover up the unmasked Bullet. Gordon then tells us exactly what I assumed, that we couldn't get a good shot of his face. After commercial Bullet is wearing his red sheet in the ring with Scott & Steve. Steve says this is going to end soon because he and Sullivan have a loser leaves town match and one of them is going to be gone. They go to the podium where Sullivan talks about how he is bringing in The Flame and Abdullah The Butcher. He says the Continental Title is going to be his again soon enough and The Armstrongs are all going to be gone. The next match is Mr. Dynamo vs. Rip Rogers. This fat masked jobber is the guy Gordon was putting over as the Canadian with 51 straight wins? Mr. Dynamo comes out strong and Rogers decides to take a breather outside the ring. Rogers takes over after Dynamo misses a charge into the corner. Rogers wins with a Boston Crab. So much for Mr. Dynamo's win streak. After the match Gordon talks to Adrian Street and says they have had a lot of calls and letters to see one of his music videos and then they replay the "There's Something Very Strange About a Cowboy" video that thoroughly amuses me. We come back from a commercial to Kevin Sullivan & The New Guinea Headhunters at the podium with Kevin Sullivan. Sullivan starts to talk about a Southern Street Fight coming up with The Headhunters when Gordon cuts him off to show a video of The Stud with his "ugly stick" and Robert Fuller talking about what they are going to do to The Headhunters in the Southern Street Fight. Sullivan freaks about The Stud having a club, Robert having a cast, and their cowboy boots. Burhead Jones & "making his start in professional wrestling" Gene Williams are in the ring waiting for Tony Anthony & The Dirty White Boy to come out and squash them. Memphis Mark if you have any info about Burhead Jones give it to me! He seems like more than just a run of the mill jobber. I did not notice but Gordon tells us that Gene Williams has been a referee for the past few months in Continental and is now making his debut after a long period of training. Gordon drops some wisdom about the difficulty in transitioning from being a referee to a wrestler. Anthony works a while with the new guy but as soon as Stubbs comes in he gives him this dismissive shove into the corner like "I don't feel like working with some green punk tonight, make a tag." Burrhead Jones comes in and does some dancing that confirms to me he must have been more than just a jobber at some point. These are clearly well practiced wrestling taunts. Jones tags Williams back in and Stubbs again decides against working with him and tags out to Anthony. DWB just about takes off his head wiith a clothesline and then it's "beat on the rookie time." Williams takes a real beating as DWB and Stubbs tag off taking turns kicking his ass until Stubbs finishes it with the Scorpion Deathlock. They attack Burrhead Jones after the match which sends The Nightmares down to the ring to make the save. Well not so much since by the time they get to the ring all the damage is done and the jobbers have been tossed outside. The Nightmares' color of the day is yellow with yellow tights, yellow facepaint and yellow painted hair. The Nightmares come out and have a wild brawl with Stubbs & White Boy which is ended by a commercial break. There's a local promo with Gordon standing at the podium with Adrian Street & The Nightmares. Adrian Street has a Christmas Card for Rip Rogers with another lame fleabag joke. Danny Davis talks about Stubbs & White Boy trying to stop the career of Gene Williams who is just trying to break into wrestling. There's no place for that in wrestling, and they are coming for the tag titles in Columbus. Back from commercial Tom Pritchard talks about underestimating Roy Lee Welch. He asks Gordon to show a tape of a match of theirs from Knoxville. Welch is shown hitting the referee and then going outside the get a rope that he had hidden inside his robe. Welch snap mares him around with the rope and then ties him up in the ropes and comes down with a knee across the throat. Pritchard says Welch couldn't get the job done, and he never will. Pritchard challenges Roy Lee Welch to a Bullrope Match and he wants the loser to leave town. The main event is Kris Von Colt facing Wendell Cooley for the Alabama Title. Not coming into this with very high expectations that's for sure, I sure wish Cooley still had his Wildcat jacket. Colt attacks Cooley before the bell with the Nazi helmet he wore to the ring. Colt pulls handcuffs out cuffs Cooley to the turnbuckle. Colt then pulls out a chain and starts whipping Wendell Cooley with it. The ref tries to stop him and gets tossed aside. Colt then pulls out ANOTHER object from his pants, this time a spike. He starts digging it into the eye of Cooley until Tom Pritchard runs out and Colt takes off. Colt grabs the Alabama Title and takes it with him. A helmet, handcuffs, a chain & a spike. Then a title theft. This felt like some serious overkill for a feud that hadn't even really started yet. The show ends with Sullivan in the ring saying that Colt is having some problems and needs his medication. He's been rushed to the hospital and the title is gone. Cooley is fired up at the podium with Gordon. He says he is going to get that title back and then his promo is cut off by commercial and then we come back to Gordon giving us a rundown of the day's events. I can only assume Cooley had to be censored again.

He wasn't a typical hoss, he did Swanton Bombs!

I think the Drew firing is a huge mistake. But they had been burying the guy for years so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise. Watching Brodus Clay's last little run in NXT had me thinking he was long overdue for a release so at least there is that.

Was watching some Portland wrestling this morning and during a Buddy Rose vs. Cocoa Samoa match I was completely stunned at the announcer saying "Light crowd on hand, to be truthful with you tonight." Just never heard a wrestling announcer be truthful about a subpar crowd before.

There's also that whole thing about how EVERYONE knew a lot of ECW guys weren't getting paid what they were supposed to. If the bigger stars in the company aren't getting their checks, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement to go be a brand new guy there, especially if you have reservations about the drug culture on top of it.

Hulk wanted to win the Lesnar rematch which is why it didn't happen.

Spike didn't want a Saturday Night WCW show because they were still trying to rebrand themselves as a mainstream channel and didn't want to be stigmatized as "the wrestling channel." I don't even think they were Spike TV at that point, they may have still been TNN - The National Network.

Didn't think of this one but yes, this was actually a very well done video. It managed to get me pumped to watch The Miz vs. John Cena as a WrestleMania main event. Didn't last long. It's unfortunate that Mania is about the only time that WWE does music videos with real songs.

He should go for this look:

This was such an unexpected moment for me at the very end of the UWF set. Terry Taylor was pretty much my least favorite guy on the Mid-South set as a babyface and then the heel turn against Chris Adams was so awesome that I completely changed my opinion on Terry Taylor. Missed opportunity although the window seems to have been very small.

Something that's sadly missing from wrestling today is a good music video to put over a new talent or encapsulate a feud. Sure, some of the videos you look back at from the 80s and 90s look absolutely ridiculous today but some of them still hold up. What do people think are some of the best & worst wrestling music videos? A personal favorite of mine is this video for Austin Idol vs. Jerry Lawler set to Bob Seger's Famous Final Scene.

I don't see even WWE being as stupid as having Lesnar lose the title due to a MITB cash in immediately after winning it. Especially when they could spend all that time building tension with Heyman having one client who has the World Title and another client who has the MITB briefcase.

I kind of think Bray Wyatt wouldn't be a bad choice. Would be a good person for Daniel Bryan to chase for the title at least.

So if Daniel Bryan can't come back in time for MITB, who do you think they put the title on in the MITB Ladder match? I would assume we'll see Cena, Orton, Wyatt & Cesaro all get added to the match since there's no way Alberto Del Rio is winning it.

Looking at awful pictures of TNA house show crowds, wouldn't it just make more sense for them to be running in high school gyms? I've seen pictures of Big Time Wrestling drawing completely packed high school gyms in The Carolinas and Virginia with The Hardys and Ric Flair autograph sessions.

Why are you feeling the need to instruct everyone how to post? There are a lot of posts I read that I might think could have been written better or didn't need to be written at all but it doesn't mean you need to call someone out every time.

I wouldn't say that I understand it, but I think there is a clear difference between the live audience and the TV audience. The live audience shit all over Batista coming back but his return drew a huge rating for Raw. I suppose you could call it the old "casual fan vs. hardcore fan" argument that the hardcores are the ones buying tickets to see the live events and the casual just watches it like any other TV show. As far back as like 96 Meltzer was writing about how Shawn Michaels as WWF champ had been a good boost for house show business but was tanking TV ratings and seemed to actively drive people to watch Nitro.

I think WWE should rip that off now that they are trying to push Network subs. "We're out of time but you can see all the action on the WWE Network's Raw Backstage Pass!"

Scott Steiner didn't WANT to be a singles wrestler in the early 90s. Bill Watts wanted to turn him heel and give him a big push but Scott said no because he didn't want Rick to get lost in the shuffle. I think WWE could have done WAY more with Vladimir Kozlov. He wasn't a great worker but he would have had a much better career if they had built him up to face John Cena instead of building him up for HHH. Cena could have had a great match with him while HHH seemed to go out of his way to have a stinker. Even now I'd like to see them bring him in for a short program to put over Rusev. They could work a short Ukraine vs. Russia deal ending with Rusev beating him on a PPV.

They have access to what gets the most views and what people aren't watching. The fact that they haven't been uploading more house shows doesn't seem to indicate that was something they felt was going to interest viewers. Unfortunately I suspect that the WCCW numbers aren't inspiring them to really open up the territory library either.