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I really wish he had been the one to induct Rick Rude last year. Not just for the Dangerous Alliance connection but I think he could have done his career much better justice than Ricky Steamboat, who clearly was running off a script that sounded like he cut and paste career highlights from the internet.

During this time can anyone gauge, as far as percentage, how much of the MSG audience were NYC locals and how much were from out of town? I don't mean tourists necessarily but from other parts of NY state, Jersey and other spots in the northeast?

I agree with that too but I also get why the need to investigate it if there's some loose threads about. And it doesn't matter if one day they draw 200,000 people to a show, it won't be as historic as it was that day.

To consider it a little deeper, you also can't discount the fact that she was so motivated by greed and power that can only come from the kind of upbringing that lives from check to check like her family did.

My guess is that this will cover each episode of Nitro during the 83-week run it beat Raw in the ratings. It's a clever, if not entirely original concept, focusing on one particular point in time. It could even mean that each episode is just a watch-along, which would almost eliminate the need to refer much to the newsletters at all.

83 Weeks With Eric Bischoff Source

WWE.com reported that the drop will be closer to half of what was originally reported, 50 hours ranging from 4/04/92 to 1/02/93

I liked it as a way of knowing how Bruce came up in the industry before going to the WWF. I imagine this shoot will go much deeper given Cornette's meticulous approach to the research, and own knowledge of the material.

They made up for it in considerable spades by booing off that night's inductee into the celebrity wing

I'm not really offended by it, it gets a little annoying but I'm more kind of surprised by it. Then again (as has been pointed out) what was available to me as a fan 25 years ago was considerably less so I learned as much as I could by reading what I could find in the Apter mags or even lesser publications. I read about everything I could find in my school's microfiche at one point. I'm 34 and really feel like I'm of the last generation that can remember a time without all of the ease of information (or distractions if you like) that snowballed once the internet became a thing in the mid-90's. When I got into music sometimes I just bought CD's unheard and was pleasantly surprised either when I heard something I knew, or was taken by the music as a whole. That's just an example, but it's part of what I miss in today's world and despair a little for the younger folks who don't have such experiences.

Still don't have an example of Sherri saying something negative about her

It's official https://twitter.com/HeyHeyItsConrad/status/978769512681082881 I'm looking forward to this because I get the feeling Conrad can break through some of Bischoff's bullshit, and call him out on it like he does with Bruce.

Sherri had nothing but nice things to say about Moolah in her RF interview. Did she change her tune subsequent to that?

Yes! I'm fond of saying that on reddit it feels like the majority of users feel that anything before the Monday Night Wars was in the dark ages.

Just confirmed, 100 hours of SN from 1992 onwards to be available on April 2nd. Personally excited for this since this was the flagship show for WCW, during the time I was starting to watch wrestling. Lots of great matches and segments that I'll be able to relive.

I hope that is the case, because my first instinct was to think that this was much more about his WWE legacy than WCW. Especially since Heyman was so anti-WCW back then.

Brian Koppelman, one of the creators of Showtime's Billions (and director of the Jimmy Connors 30 For 30, which I liked quite a lot) was on Simmons' podcast last week and talked about the doc. He was shown the final cut and sang it's praises pretty high. It's clear going into this that this is almost as much about the death of the territories as is about Andre, which makes me doubly fascinated in this. Koppelman said he wants to create a show about that period of time, and went as far as actually having a meeting with Vince (he says in the doc this is the most human he has ever seen Vince, BTW) about it.

The Steve Austin/Bret Hart angle made both significant and subtle changes to their careers. From a character standpoint Bret was never more convincing then he was as the Hitman character got more agitated with the fact more and more of the audience was cheering the other guy, and how that spun off into the whole Hart Foundation/Canada vs. USA angle was great. Austin had the goodwill of smart marks and people in power like Heyman and Prichard before he even signed with the WWF, he'd gotten an unusual amount of buzz from the "Austin 3:16" promo, working with Bret made him into a star, and the match at WrestleMania 13 made him a legend. Even just on a company level, that angle and the chemistry they had together as characters and in-ring talent, this felt like the first time the WWF could really move on from the ghosts of their previous success and forge a new path.

For better or worse, the company has continued to embrace people with checkered pasts and embarrassing incidents. At least he has apologized for what he has said, even if the veracity of his apologies are questionable. In today's world, can you imagine what kind of shit Warrior would be spewing right now? Things he said, even months before he died, were just as offensive if not more so than what Hogan did given the circumstances of when he said it.

If he ever does return I can see the company using him in a more subdued role. Maybe not doing in-ring stuff, but for the Network. I'm still enough of a mark for the persona that I'd love to see him do a comprehensive career program where he watches old matches and comments on them.

I've been watching the WM 19 doc again on YouTube after hearing about it a little on the Prichard show on it this week. Using this as an example as I know they did it for more shows, but I wonder how much of the actual show was shot on film stock, and if they could put together a version of the show using just that footage.

Some of our English friends might refuse to call it that anyway

Diamond Dallas Page said on Steve Austin's podcast that he has filmed some stuff for the new Savage release

Charlie Ebersol, with help from his dad and Peter Thiel, are starting their own football organization set to rival the new XFL