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Warlord teamed with one of the Power Twins (renamed "Power Warrior") as the New Powers of Pain at Blackjack Brawl but that's it AFAIK.

Lance left Memphis in early '89 to sort of replace Tony Schiavone as lead syndication announcer but eventually stopped doing most of his TV work to run the hotline.

Besides PG-13 and Doug Gilbert, Brian Christopher's WWF TV debut was on Raw against Chris Candido in a USWA vs ECW match (the one where Heyman screams "THIS GUY IS JERRY LAWLER'S SON!" on commentary). On that note. Christopher working an MSG show in late '93, issuing an open challenge accepted by Jimmy Snuka returning for one shot to beat him, and then not coming back for years was really weird. Hmm, what else? - Todd Morton & Joey Maggs as a recurring jobber team in WCW that randomly wore Lane & Eaton's (or Lane & Eaton style) Midnight Express gear in a match or two. - Pat Tanaka getting his first name back in the WWF when Tatanka debuted. I remember thinking that was funny. - Getting a tape with footage of an episode of WWF Superstars of Wrestling (the C-show that became WWF Wrestling Spotlight) from the fall of '84 where Roger Kent and Blackjack Mulligan as the hosts was pretty surprising. Before that, I had never heard of Kent leaving the AWA for the WWF in '84, just his '88 run. - Hillbilly Jim somehow transitioning from a wrestler to a Coliseum Video and then WWF Home Video representative for reasons that I've never seen explained. - Jimmy Garvin successfully arranging for WCW to buy him out, doing a tryout at a WWF TV taping as some sort of heel announcer/interviewer/analyst, not getting the job, and then retiring to become a pilot before un-retiring to wrestle in WCW & Global for a few months. - Mr. JL. - The ESPN USWA Legends of Wrestling show almost catching up to real time near the end and being renamed Super Card. If Pedicino didn't buy the Dallas promotion & its TV deals from Jarrett, I wonder what would have happened.

I think Dave said the alternative option was a freelance role so I suppose he could be sticking around and not have gotten any assignments yet.

We need a karma feature on this board.

HD plz.

On the other hand, why wouldn't WWE be carefully avoiding clear shots of Rock's wrist if he had a fucking crib sheet of all things on it?

Had a newsletter called Three Count. Sports reporter/syndicated wrestling columnist.

I think he still shows up in Japan and NY indies from time to time. He grew into a hell of a worker but isn't someone who's really been on the radar of most people.

Dave wasn't at the FMW/WWA show live. I'm not sure if he later reviewed a tape of the match but if he didn't then the rating is from Dan Farren and others there live.

I forgot just how weird that first ROH show (and similarly the other early shows) were. - RF being the only promoter to use the Christopher Street Connection as heels - Homicide teaming with Boogalou (who he wasn't teaming with in "workrate" indies) against the soon to be split (due to Drake's injury) Boogie Knights. - The Whipwreck trainees being unable to capture the magic from their CZW trios matches. - Eric Tuttle - Oz & Ikaika Loa making their only appearances. - Super Crazy in for one shot via Victor Quinones. - Multiple wrestlers suddenly, suspiciously switching to smaller & tighter outfits, which at less one of them (Danielson) only wore in ROH for months. The SAT went from having a unique look in their sleeveless work suits to being really generic looking. That's not even getting into the awful early booking and skits.

Not WCW/ECW guys, but it's probably worth mentioning that WWE developmental had a huge turnover when the WCW deal happened. Among that groups, Joey Abs (fired) and Steve Bradley (kept on but lost his spot due to RVD coming in among other things) probably got screwed the worst.

It's more that they're going out of their way to mention it when they don't really need to.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/28/s...stlemania-plans Jerry McDevitt taught us all that when a wrestling promotion says something won't happen, they really mean it will.

There was some skepticism that he completely wrote out the log himself because it seemed to over the top to be real.

Since WM has been announced for MetLife/New Meadowlands Stadium... Hale? A hurricane? A blizzard? Lightning storm? Rodents of Unusual Size?

Did Traylor get injured around the time he switched from original recipe Big Bubba Rogers to Dungeon of Doom biker Big Bubba? That was when his work nosedived and he never got his groove back.

Anyone who thought I overplayed that Dixie Carter thing a while back should apologize: http://www.avclub.com/articles/oprah-winfr...-watch-o,69290/

Are you going by the local promos? Verne had a stake in the St. Louis office. When Vince paid to get the NWA promotion's TV deal, the NWA promotion ran off a block of WCCW, AWA, and Central States TV with local St. Louis promos.

One year, the football team included Tito Santana, Tully Blanchard, and Ted DiBiase. Yup. Dick Murdoch didn't go there but he was so beloved by alumni that everyone pretended that he did.

Not that this should surprise anyone, but someone who works for Smart Mark Video posted this in a Joe Babinsack thread at THE BOARD: I shouldn't post this but whatever. Want to ask for a review copy of something? Cool. It's rare when anyone gets a review copy, but it doesn't hurt to ask if you do that kind of stuff. But to imply that, if you HAVE to pay for it, that it won't have the same "dynamic" and that your review for the DVD will center around an angle that has nothing to do with it? Go fuck yourself.

Did that come out before or after the Slaughter figure that Hasbro made in scale with the WWF LJN line (which was also a mail-away exclusive)?

It IS something from a Sergio Leone spaghetti western: Ennio Morricone's "Man With a Harmonica" from "Once Upon a Time In The West."

Unfortunately, according to Ross Hart, Stampede was shot live to tape with the cameraman being told when to start rolling. Except for the TSN era, if something is cut on the regular TV show, there was never a longer version.

That Hansen promo is from a comm. tape that has various JCP squashes without commentary and a tag match from El Toreo. I THINK it's that one.