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If there’s one redeeming qualities to these shows it’s Bill Goldberg, Jewish mega-baby face in Saudi Arabia.

You can't push everyone to the world championship and eventually someone from AEW will have a better opportunity with WWE. And that's not a bad thing. Wrestlers routinely switching companies makes everything more interesting.

You sure you weren’t watching a Sylvester Terkay match?

I’m not adept enough to know when guys are working well, and I think these later strikes are just worked well. But Bryan at this stage in his career doesn’t need to prove himself taking real shots. You can entertain crowds and protect yourself at the same time. Will say when they go to the mat it’s absolutely superb. These kind of nuances working holds is sorely missed and Taz is great explaining it to the audience.

In studio wrestling and at the Hamburg/AG Hall tapings, wrestlers and their managers are going out and cutting promos in front of a live audience. In AWA and syndicated WWE you've got guys doing promos in studios where you can take multiple takes and Mean Gene Okerlund directing traffic as well. A better environment for promos.

I've known about Luna being adopted but that's always a huge WOAH because she really had the Vachon voice down.

Netflix's GLOW was the corniest, most embarrassing take on wrestling you could find and its incredibly popular. I'm a fan of Penn & Teller's Fool Us, it's a great show. Magicians come up with weird acts all the time. I honestly dug this, and I HATE mentalism acts.

Slamovich did sign. Met her at the Reel Rumble, super happy for her.

The floor is Dick Hutton. Or perhaps in this era, Jason Jordan? There’s a ton of wrestlers who couldn’t quite grasp the professional game. It requires different skills. The biggest advantage amateur wrestlers have is they’ve shown the training discipline already. If Steveson turned into Kurt Angle I’d be thrilled honestly. He could be better than that but you probably can’t project anyone to be a bigger star.

Fit in some lucha matches. The junkyard match as well as Santo/Park. My wife's comment, "you don't like action movies but you watch this shit?" She is NOT a fan of blood in wrestling matches. Some weeks ago I watched Santo/Espanto. Santo recovering outside the ring while kids literally run up to him and urge him on. THAT'S a babyface. The Headhunters match I encountered through ICP's "Stranglemania" video, which I hesitate to say I enjoyed. No way the commentary holds up today. Twenty five years of growth is probably a good thing.

I thought this was a fun show. Almost not even a Dark Side type show, just a promotion that had its moment in the sun. It was nice to see Hayabusa and Arai's daughters on the show, that people can emerge from tragedy. Mick Foley has told the story of (I assume) Megumi Kudo's burn. Is there a source for the story apart from Foley?

Here I am assuming this means some WWE game is going to have either Repoman or Khrusher Khruschev as DLC.

I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say most territories of that era didn’t have trainers, period. I could see black wrestlers getting other black wrestlers into the sport though.

No mention of the neck tattoo? I feel like that completely killed his vibe.

Wrestling Maple Leaf Gardens 1964 Brower Siki Whipper Valentine Bruno Sheik etc. - YouTube Ten minutes in and this is certainly appealing to fans of the Scufflin' Hillbillies.

Geohagen was an NWA title challenger in his prime. Kevin Sullivan mentioned him as someone who helped him enter the wrestling business.

Lawler didn't want people to know he was old enough to have an adult girlfriend. (I've said it before but screw it, it's a good line.)

There have been some wrestlers who didn’t take their family name initially. Greg Valentine comes to mind. I could see that being a consideration where they don’t want to put that expectation on just yet. Of course being WWE, probably not.

I came across the Chene/Cholak match the same way your guest did, via ESPN Classic. Really a great match that introduced me to two forgotten workers of that era. I suspect if we had more footage Chene might rate highly, but there would also be a few dozen workers of his caliber alongside him. If I have one preference in my wrestling viewage it’s footage of wrestlers who would push 90-100 today.

I just finished Ken Burns’ Muhammad Ali doc. No mention whatsoever of Antonio Inoki or the fight. 1976 was glossed over in general, they only mentioned Ali’s opponents and did not talk about the eventful Ken Norton fight either. Good documentary, not great.

Bryan's book has a bunch of stuff about Vince teaching him how to cut promos. I think Vince probably did make Bryan better, tbh.

I DEAL WITH GODDAMN SHAWN MICHAELS SO THAT VINCE McMAHON DOESN'T HAVE TO!

According to Thread Killer's recap the Vince/Angle stuff happened on the way TO Europe. Same tour, different plane ride.

The plane ride is one thing in a vacuum. The culture underneath it was/is the real problem. That Flair felt safe enough to do this on a flight where all his peers and his boss was on. Flair’s behavior was and continues to be condoned and/or dismissed to this day.

The Bruno/Brower snippet posted was interesting. I'm really curious to see more Sweet Daddy Siki footage. He's a guy whose fame today doesn't nearly match his contemporary appeal.