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No offense, but why would you have Henry sign a yearbook from 89? Only wrestling related item I had on me. It makes perfect sense to me.

Hey thanks for the kind words.

I see Mark Henry from time to time in Austin and this pic just cracks me up because one time at the airport I had Henry sign my Observer 89 yearbook. All Henry says is Meltzer huh.

Jack Brisco does a little. Feels Dory was playing injured when it was time to do business for him.

LOL. I get that. It's funny that because someone is doing it, their might be 4 more people doing it in the opposite direction. In the grand scheme of things are you going to remember sandbagging El Santo into 11th.

I honestly think they were strategic votes. It's possible someone blanked on someone as Yohe had a strict "once your vote is in that's it" policy and didn't allow for people to correct errors. Still I suspect these were people leaving people off of lists because they feared they would rate higher than they "deserved." I've heard people say the same thing when voting in the DVDVR 80's ballots. Who gives this person the right to manipulate data to get a more favorable outcome that they want to see.

We are going to talk about the majority of the card.

I just changed mine to some wacky time to show the real time.

Today's been the only issue for me.

Me too.

Spike played scrappy baby face misfit. Bob is a scrappy baby face who has amateur wrestling cred.

Bob does show weakness. He just doesn't sell as traditionally as your normal baby face. He sells in a more realistic manner. He does show weakness. He sells damage to his leg, he coughs or spits up when he eats a big move. You're overstating his lack of traditional baby face selling. It's more subtle . You're too busy looking for super 800 to pick up on it.Spike Dudley was about getting sympathy.

Thanks for mentioning another aspect of Bob. yes Bob is a scrappy baby face in the territory of the big man.

He's not Ricky Morton so he shouldn't have to sell like Ricky Morton. Parv I respect a lot of your opinions. I just don't feel this should be a major knock on Bob.

You say your a big fan of characterization. Yet their is only one way to sell. Part of Backlund's character is amateur wrestler , and an underdog. He is constantly fighting. He sells with his fire .

Matt sums up my point perfectly.

In essence Parv I feel you're putting Bob in a box and saying this is how you should work you're to work this way. I think you should be more open to different ideas on how to work.

I don't really agree. I agree that those matches are very good to great, but I don't agree that he's working a different style. He's working one style. He carries the match with Hogan but he does it by forcing Hogan into his match. He works Patera the same way he worked Patterson, Valentine, and Inoki. He can be pushed into a bomb throwing contest (see Great Arab Hussein match), but even then he's doing it a very particular way. Backlund works on top more than just about any guy I can think of. He's more dominant in his matches than Hansen or Vader (I truly believe that). He shows less vulnerability than basically any major babyface I've ever seen. I said this on an upcoming show, but I want to say it here too: Backlund has too much struggle in him. I don't like Inoki for the same reason. It may be 20+ years' worth of being programmed to expect a certain unwritten rule of selling: if a guy is kicking another guy's ass, I expect the other guy to sell it. Backlund doesn't sell it, ever, ever. He's always struggling. Always fighting. Always doing some shit to show he's ... not getting his ass kicked. This is why the the matches with Inoki fucking suck for me, because there's Inoki doing exactly the same thing. "But Jerry, in an actual fight, that's what happens" I don't see this as a limitation of Backlund. I feel this is a limitation of you as a fan . You're viewing wrestling as their is only this way to work. While if you opened your mind to it their are several ways on how to work. Parv and I argued this on Titans. We disagree a lot on Titans and we agree a lot. Here I think he's off base .

This is a cool point, and something to think about.

Parv are you going to share your list buddy?

Bob > Owen Bob Bob Bob >Angle,Harley, Hall Bob Bob> Hhh Bob Bob > Rude

Which Funk. Terry loved working with him.