Blehschmidt

Gimme Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers, The Fantastics (1988)

I will be relocating my show from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Dallas, Texas... I choose Kerry Von Erich, 1988

Is changing our location allowed if no one else has it? Starting to realize what I have, and what I am planning probably wouldn't work with where I picked.

I know he is a polarizing figure on this board, but I will go ahead and take Bruiser Brody 1988 (Though I'll assume you guessed that)

*steps up to podium* My next pick is from the year 1991, and it is.. absolutely.... Perfect! *swats gum, leaves stage* (kookypunk and casebolt have holdover picks from last round, so Beast is up)

My next 3 ideas in order were: Barry Windham, The Midnight Express, and Dusty Rhodes.... This already feels like my yearly fanstasy football frustrations!

If Zeus Is still available in round 35, consider him mine.

Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard 1988

My apologies to everyone, I absolutely didn't realize this had started. I usually access the site on my cell phone and the PM notifications are kind of hidden. I am gonna head into the draft thread now and will have a pick in a couple minutes. I will also take Pittsburgh for my show location if it's available.

So we are going to have a bloodless War Games, that may or may not have a roof, that can be won via pinfall, and all of the people will have entered in 11 minutes. Well, it should still be fun, but I have to say that my excitement level is dampened a bit.

I have been rewatching Global and while the fond memories I have of watching it when I was like 12 are quickly diminishing, I do have to say... "Hollywood" John Tatum is a fantastic stooging, chickenshit heel. From his strutty walk and semi-effeminate posture to his "martial arts" offense to the tights with hot pink and neon green highlights to the tremendous pouty face he makes when he is flustered. He is the highlight of these shows for sure.

I love drafts. I'd like to be part of this if it's being done.

That's awesome man! I know the whole wrestling thing, even on a small level can be intimidating as hell when you are on the outside looking in. When I started doing the ring announcing for the local feds around me, I had the same fear that I would be viewed as "some mark trying to get in the business" and it always amazed me that the only people I ever got that from were some of the other nobody local/regional workers. The "name" wrestlers who came in like Shane Douglas, or the Barbarian were always the nicest, most respectful people. You mentioned Nigel McGuiness in your post, and man, what a fantastic guy he was to work with. But seriously, good on you for following your dream and not letting fear, your condition, or anything else stand in your way. That takes balls, and a lot of people would have just stayed at home in their comfort zone.

I did have to laugh at The Young Bucks tweeting Daniel Bryan saying he should take pictures with them.

For a guy who is supposedly in the doghouse, and a division that is supposedly dead.....they sure are giving the cruiserweights a lot of time on Raw the last couple weeks. Last ditch effort? or is the supposed heat on Enzo just internet hearsay?

Last time I spoke with Barb (probably a year ago) he was doing well. Every time I see the man his first question to me is "How are you brother, how is your family?" Just love Barb to death. One time I was working a show with him and Kevin Sullivan, and a buddy of mine was at the show with me. My buddy was like "Ask him about Meng" so I went up to Barb and said "My buddy wants to know what would happen if you and Meng got in a fig...." Sullivan starts laughing, and Barb cuts me off by going "Meng...ALL DAY LONG BROTHER!!" My other favorite ring announcing memory is Scott Steiner saying "Man this ring is a piece of shit" loud enough to echo across the microphone in my hand for the whole crowd to hear. Anyway, apologies if I am derailing the thread.

I never actually wrestled though I did take a bump or two (mostly Shane Douglas throwing me out of my chair) but I ring announced and color commentated for several small promotions in the West Virginia/Pennsylvania area. I got to chat with a lot of (over the hill) big name talent that passed through, and a lot of guys who have now made it to NXT that were on their way up. I found as the ring announcer, knowing the finishes, and sometimes hearing spots when things spilled my way, while also watching the reaction of the crowd did change the way I watched things, especially at live shows. Yeah, you are going to pop a crowd by busting out a 720 Moon Flip (or whatever the hell), but then the moment is over, and the pop is gone. It really is the little things, the stuff that you have seen a thousand times and you view as cliche now, that get people involved at a core level. Here is my example..... I was working a show with Bobby Fulton of The Fantastics, and he decided he wanted to work twice, and he pulls out pointy toed Iron Sheik boots, a pair of black trunks with a sword on them, and a black mask. He then produces a turban, a robe, and a prayer rug and decides to work the opening match as The Sheik of Syria. Mind you, we are in small town, backwoods West Virginia here. He then proceeds to give me my instructions..... We head to the ring, he comes out and takes a solid eight minutes to even get in the ring as he parades around the place drawing massive heat from the rednecks. He then gets in the ring, unrolls the prayer mat and drops to his knees. His opponent, All American Babyface #1 is of course trying to get at him while the referee holds him back. The place is booing like crazy. He stands up and comes over to me and starts whispering... I announce "The Sheik of Syria asks that you all be quiet so that he can pray before he competes tonight." He goes back to the mat, and they of course boo louder. He gets up and stomps around angry, then comes back to me.... I announce "The Sheik of Syria would like me to inform you that you MUST quiet down so that he may pray before destroying the pretty boy American infidel." The crowd loses their shit and keep getting louder..... Bobby gets up and whispers to me "Act like I said something so offensive, that even you, who is scared of me, won't say it, then get them to chant" So I go..... "NO WAY....I AM NOT SAYING THAT......ESPECIALLY NOT HERE IN THE...U....S....A!!!!! Of course the crowd immediately starts chanting USA, the Sheik goes ape shit, charges after me, the babyface cuts him off and saves my ass to a massive pop, and the whole affair starts. Bobby then goes on to play "Hide the Foreign Object" with the referee. Pulling it out of his tights, and then hiding it in his boot. Out of his boot, into his mask. Out of his mask, into his knee pad, and so on and so on. All the while, there was never a fucking object to begin with, but listening to the crowd you would have thought he was cutting this kid to shreds with a machete. The moral of the story is that the match was the drizzling shits, but it got more heat than 100 moonsaults and 30 broken tables ever could have in front of that crowd on that night. That is what I learned from my time doing indy wrestling, know your crowd. Because if your not the ex-WWE guy brought in to sell the show, it doesn't matter what you do or how impressive you think you are, if you aren't working to the crowd, they won't give a shit. and also that The Barbarian is the nicest fucking guy in the world. I learned that too!!

If LU does come back for Season 4, Dante and Killshot pretty much have to be treated as top of the card talent after that performance.

Wonder what was up with randomly adding 5 minutes to the pre-show?

El Rey ran a commercial showing that Killshot/Fox will be this week.

I just now hit Episode 5, and if Bianca Blair is really only a year in the business, this girl has a bright future ahead of her.

There is also the fact that Braun really isn't a heel at this point. He is getting wildly cheered every time he makes an appearance. A big guy who goes out, doesn't say much, kicks ass, and has good matches..... if only there was a guy they were trying to get over as the top babyface who this formula could work for.......

Which Clash of the Champions was it that got spoiled when WCW ran the wrong pre-taped weekend show the weekend before that gave away all of the results of the not yet aired live show?

That spot has been a running gag in the BOLA Night 3 multi-man clusterfuck tag team match for the last couple years. Unlike the Ryan spot, it isn't happening all the time, just once a year. I can totally see where people who don't like the dick spot wouldn't like it either, but at the very least it happens much less frequently...and they got Jushin Liger to play along and he looked like he was having a great time!

On RoH TV this week during Cody's intro they said that he and Dusty are the 2nd father/son duo to win internationally recognized Heavyweight Titles in wrestling. I am probably blanking on someone incredibly obvious, but who are the first?