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Nice. That's a perfect quote for the story that match was telling. In another life, Elmore Leonard would have been a hell of a booker. Makes you wonder what their run from 87 to 88 would have been. One tantalizing possibility is putting together a Shawn/Ricky Steamboat match. It's a shame it didn't happen in '91 during The Dragon run.

Billy Jack "Vince McMahon secretly killed the Benoit family" Haynes?

I take all of this back

I like the MSG match with Bret and Raymond from '86. I understand why he wanted to come in as a team with his brother but I think Raymond could have had a stronger singles run. His perspective is perhaps tainted, particularly when it comes to Randy Savage. He told a story in the shoot about Randy and Angelo Poffo insulting him because of his weight in Memphis, and in a rather cruel way too from how he put it.

This is perhaps the most underwhelming class, in terms of how potentially interesting each individual speaker may come off as. Jeff Jarrett might be the one with the highest potential considering his upbringing and his relationship with the company and how it ended, but as far as anyone else I'm not seeing it.

I believe Little Beaver was seriously injured by that spot. You can see Blackjack Lanza going nuts on his headset briefly afterwards. I watched it again recently and came to the quick decision that the opening match was probably my favorite of the whole show. All the tag team matches here are kind of my favorites for different reasons. I liked seeing the Rougeau's as faces, how Brutus became the barber in part of how it ended, and I liked the energy of the Bees/Sheik & Volkoff match mainly from Jim Duggan who at the time was poised to be a top guy. Also how odd it seemed that for such a big crowd they had three run-in spots.

I heard that the Detroit crowd booed the hell out of the video

I might be the only one here who feels this way but if all they had was just the 80's and 90's PPVs like they started with, I would be okay forking over 9.99 a month for it. That material takes up the bulk of my Network-watching time even 4 years after it started.

I really just want to see this for Hogan and Savage's body language towards each other, as I think this was just around the time they were about to have a real-life falling out with each other over the impending divorce from Elizabeth.

I increasingly think they should do something like that around a big UK show. They could probably charge a million bucks for the tickets and the UK fans would gobble that up. Bulldogs (or at least DBS), Johnny Saint, Lord Alfred Hayes, Regal, (I was going to say Haystacks Calhoun but he's already in). Maybe Big Daddy? Finlay? That's a great idea. One for Canada wouldn't be too bad either.

Of all the emotional items in that great read, the image of Dusty cursing out a video store clerk will stick out for awhile.

Maybe. I could almost see them doing it as something separate from WrestleMania weekend (while still having a ceremony at it at that year).

I'm of the opinion that when Undertaker gets in, there should be a whole night for it. This wouldn't be too unprecedented as Andre was the only official inductee in 1993, even though there wasn't a ceremony for it.

He was also involved in one of the most high-profile matches in WrestleMania history, and his appearance on SNL the night The Rock was on was a highlight of that show. Those things count as much if not more in WWE's eyes.

I have a little faith that Conrad could maybe push him into saying things he normally would avoid in interviews he's done before. One of his favorite phrases in shoot interviews is "I can't recall" or any derivations thereof, often said as if he's being told by his lawyers to say that. If he's somehow worn down by Conrad to the point that those go away, you'll have a hell of a show, in my opinion.

The one in '92 also had no superheavyweights like Andre or Earthquake, guys who were being pushed as certain to win because they were so huge. That evened things up to where you could potentially think anyone would win. I think 90, 91 and 92 are the best Rumbles ever with a few that came later that were as good. I really liked the 2002 one.

The way I heard it is that those two were actually nice to him backstage but that he suspected them of sabotage, because when he went out to do his bagpipe routine he found he couldn't play it and that when he went over it later someone had stuffed it with toilet paper.

Sam Nunberg on when Trump got his dad and him front-row seats at WrestleMania 5

I'm not sure how much of it is on this footage. The turn angle happened on Championship Wrestling, although they may have replayed it on All Star. Not sure how many of the awesome promos are here either. All the big matches happened at MSG, Spectrum and Shea of course So were Championship Wrestling and ASW different shows then?

This isn't shaping up to be the best HOF in terms of television.

I'm all in on making the each month's drops like this into it's own thread. So I'm assuming this has the whole Bruno/Larry feud?

At a MSG match between Nikolai Volkoff and Verne Gagne, he even has a line about how physicality isn't the most important aspect of wrestling.

Steve Keirn sounds and almost looks a lot like Scott Glenn