BackToBionic

After this round of postings I know why you hear stories about Robert Fuller's junk and not Rush.

Kind of cool that my first guy to come up was my #100 (Mistico).

My teenage boyfriend wrestled in a backyard fed (it was the 90s ok) and Chris Masters was in it. I used to watch this dude wrestle in the woods on a tarp. I have a video of some of his matches and he takes a bump INTO a big ditch. He went by the name Shawn Michaels, which was weird because most guys had their own gimmick and name at least. I wanted to vote for him just because of the fact that I know how hard he worked to get to the WWE and I knew even when he was vanilla muscle guy #1,782 that he loved professional wrestling. Seeing him burn that image to the ground and rise from the ashes as a damn fine worker, I should have voted for him, but I didn't. Glad other people did. He's a good guy.

I'm a woman

I'm using a Roku Stick and haven't had so much as a stutter and been watching since 5pm. Roku is just on some other world shit when it comes to the network.

Yeah, it seems they are exactly one year behind on PWG, but CZW seems very current as well as some of the indies.

I just subscribed to the Highspots Roku channel (you can also watch on pc thru pivotshare) a few days ago and it's very nice. Well over a hundred shows (czw and pwg mostly though there are a few indies and ecw fancams) and over 100 shoot interviews. Haven't had a single instance of buffering or any other problems.

McMichael should stop leaving his jacket unattended.

Yeah, then she looks like an idiot wandering around while Foley does his spot.

I legit LOL'd when Funk fought the old lady for her Franchise banner...and she won!

The crowd were so hot you could barely hear Bret at points. Pretty impressive for WWF, for sure.

I was at this show and you couldn't hear a word of this. In the days before giant screens everywhere, these Nitros with their extended backstage (ringside in this case?) segments were pretty boring half the time for a live crowd.

I think he calls JR "Girth Brooks" in this

More baffling NOD member: Ahmed or Crush?

This is probably the first "MRS FOLEY'S BABY BOY!!!"

But wait, I thought JR brought in Fake Razor and Fake Diesel. Now Vince is saying HE brought in Fake Razor cos he's good at impressions?! *MIND BLOWN*

Hey, new tag belts. Those old ones were beat up.

I've always loved this match. So much fun.

This should have started the show because in the Austin-HBK faceoff earlier they were referencing the hell out of all this.

Gosh these are so good. I loved the cowboys and indians line. The difference between these and the Goldust ones is that in those he's saying "I'm not Goldust, I just made that character up to feed my family. In reality I'm totally different." In Foley's he's using his reality to show why he became the way he is...there's still a level of kayfabe.

I can't even imagine how cool that must have been for Waltman. You're wrestling Flair. In Carolina. You're heeling it up, doing his mannerisms and the crowd fucking hates you. That right there is most wrestler's dream.

Reggie and McMichael must have been really good friends for him to come in (wasn't he still active in football at this time?) and lose. I know they played together on the defensive line for a year and both did Wrestlemania XI, they probably got on really well so it's nice that he did the job for a buddy cos I know Greene goes over McMichael in their singles match.

This is the kind of thing that would have me tripping over myself for the remote during the MNW era. Shawn as a real-life shithead acting like a big babyface is the worst thing from the top-tier of American wrestling in 1997, no doubt. I lean towards Bret in the Bret vs Shawn feud (I'm not a big fan of either) but this segment shows Bret is the better talker at this time - much more focused and not as smarky. "Do you have the jam?!!" makes another appearance and I can't help but think Bret had a bet going about how many times he could work that phrase into a 2 hour show.

"I don't think you've got the jam!" will now be worked into my lingo.

Pretty cool that there was a "Pillman is God" sign being flashed during the whole religious spiel.