fishbaugh
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I spent 1994-2010 living in Montana, so there was no local wrestling! When I moved to LA I figured there would be a ton of great local options, but I have been pretty unimpressed with the local shows I've been to. I've been to a lot of tapings for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, but outside of Willie Mac nobody there is really any good and they moved the tapings up to Ventura or something and I'm not driving 1.5 hours each way to watch so-so wrestling. Tried going to a couple of PWG shows, but that crowd is just not for me, and their building is horrible. Some of the local lucha shows look interesting, but I just don't trust that anyone advertised will actually be there. The best indy show I've been to here was the Wrestle Reunion show a couple of years back at a hotel ballroom next to LAX. NAO vs. Steiners with Foley as ref was fun, seeing Mascarita Dorada in person was a blast, and Great Sasuke flipping onto his head two feet in front of me was pretty awesome. Best part was getting to meet the Destroyer, who even in a wheelchair had a presence. -
Not to be nitpicky (love all of these shows -- easily my favorite wrestling podcast), but both this show and the Portland show don't have the audio tracks mixed "correctly" for playback. The host comes out of the left channel and all audio from the callers comes in from the right channel, so it makes it impossible to listen to with one headphone in. I like to listen to these shows when I'm commuting or at work, and I always put one headphone in so I can still hear other noises. Not sure what program is being used to edit the show, but you should be able to mix the caller audio so that is coming in through both channels (it is nice to record the host in one channel and caller in the other so you can edit out when someone is talking over the other for example, but you could post-mix the audio before uploading the final show). Only reason I'm even bringing it up is because I love these shows and get bummed when I have to wait until I can listen!
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Pretty good week for podcasts -- got a new Hardcore History and a new Titans! This was the best episode yet -- the whole crew really gels and Parv does a great job of keeping things moving along as a host. A couple of weeks back I was doing some traveling and was listening to you guys on the plane and the Super 8 and Denucci stuff had me rolling and probably annoying everyone around me! Kind of missed the mailbag this time around tbh
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The amount of enjoyment I get from watching wrestling, as well as the overall volume I watch, has gone up dramatically since I quit following WWE week-to-week, let my Observer and Torch subs lapse, and stopped participating in message board threads on current topics. I remember emailing Wade a fiery response to some article he put up where he did a fantasy draft to create a new brand and he chose Shelton Benjamin as like his #2 guy. The motivation was that he didn't have Rey Rey high enough on his list -- that email was orders of magnitude more stupid than his original article, and a true low point in my life! Once I stopped getting so damn wrapped up in how something stupid like the Spirit Squad being made to look weak was, I was able to just sit back and enjoy the show for what it is. Instead of spending hours reading message board threads about how HHH was holding down whoever, I spend that time diving into things that I actually like.
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Great job on the podcast -- too bad Khawk couldn't make it as that would have been a nice addition. This was the first 80s set I actually completed a ballot for, and I have to agree with Dylan that it was the first one I watched where my opinion of everyone went up (I choose to ignore Mr. Electricity's existence). Larry Z had a few matches from WCW I enjoyed, but if you told me before this set that I'd rank 5 Larry Z matches in the top half of the ballot I probably wouldn't have bothered watching! But I have to say that more than the High Flyers, the find of this set to me was Blackwell. I remember watching the 2/3 falls match of him in St. Louis vs. Reed and thinking that he looked great, but never bothered to track anything else down and kind of figured it was an outlier. Dude had 10 matches in the top half of my ballot, 6 of which were in my top 25 (Larry Z eat your heart out!). Bock had more matches in my top half, but I expected him to have a great showing as prior to watching he was kind of the AWA guy and I typically enjoy his stuff. Blackwell was kind of a revelation, and someone I would buy an epic comp of. No way was I the highest voter on this match (#56), but after seeing it pop up on the bottom of so many lists, I went back and re-watched it to see if I was drunk or something on the first 2 viewings. Nope -- I just really thought it was a fun match and do not understand why people are so down on it!
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That is my personal favorite match ever, so I tried to get my wife to watch it in the hopes she would get hooked, or at least slightly interested. She just got grossed out by the blood and machismo and was even more confused about wrestling than before! The only match she has watched that she actually enjoyed was the first HBK vs. Taker Wrestlemania match -- I had like 20 people over at our house because it was on my birthday and everybody was hooked, even though half of the people there didn't give a shit about wrestling. Maybe that meets the criteria for this thread?
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When I started a new career in public accounting I tried to keep it quiet (pretty conservative group of people who i figured wouldn't look kindly on "weird" behavior) but I asked to get off early one Friday so I could get down to Staples Center and got found out. People laugh at me but whatever. I have managed to convince a couple co-workers to join me for a Championship Wrestling from Hollywood show in an hour, so we'll see how that goes!
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Just want to echo others and say how great this thread is. Puerto Rico is a huge gap in my viewing history, and this thread has been a revelation. Though it did make for an awkward moment when my wife came downstairs and found me, in the dark, watching two dudes in bondage gear beating some other dudes to a bloody pulp!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the gimmick, and I'm also a sucker for Wahoo, so it would be hard for me not to enjoy that match. It ended up at #56 for me, and I think that it only finished that low because of the way I rate matches. Going into a match I have a certain expectation that I cannot distance myself from -- call it my expected rating. If I see Manny vs. Wahoo (Strap Match), I'm already thinking this is going to be a 7 with no other info to go on (a 7 is good enough for Top 30-40 on the 80s sets I've watched so far). That is my minimum expected rating. So how far the match varies from that expected value will weigh heavily on my final rating. In this case, I still really liked the match, but it didn't quite meet my expectations and the rating suffered a bit. Compare that to the Bock vs. Wahoo match, where I was expecting maybe a 5-5.5, and it ended up being incredible. That ended up as my number 2 match because it exceeded my expectations by so much. This can also hurt matches, as a couple of Bock's matches I had higher expectatIons for, and when they failed to meet them, the final rating took a big hit. But I also had the Manny vs. Wahoo from 10/15/88 as my #20 match so I may just love that matchup more than most.
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I agree with Kronos -- the occasional traditional wrestling action seemed to kill all the cool shoot style stuff this match had going on. At the beginning I was wondering if the guy on each team who wasn't wearing black trunks was like the team captain, but I guess they just didn't get the memo!
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Damn, a lot of great stuff packed into such a short segment. You barely have time to admire the mullet on Wolfe before Finlay shows up with an all-timer! Few mullets have more business in the front that that one! Dusty has a great line on commentary about how he once used open fist palm strikes to beat back a kodiak bear, and his reaction to Finlay's tirade is wonderful.
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Kevin Greene?!? I think it is a mistake to bring in a football player who was never known as being superhumanly big and then have him be about the size of Hogan. When they had the Shaq / Big Show altercation, at least Shaq is known for his crazy size, so him being taller than Show didn't cause so much cognitive dissonance.
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As much as I love him, I just can't buy Macho Man as a ladies man. Sure, we all know that hot babes love bad boys, but Savage isn't a bad boy -- he's a complete maniac! Love his post-match snapping on Hogan, and even though this is hardly the first time we've seen them go at it, it still feels like a big deal.
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A Rumble match where there are only 2 guys who can feasibly win definitely led to a tepid crowd. The pop for the finish was nuts though. This is my first time watching any WWF from this period, as I quit watching wrestling for a few years. I get why Michaels the performer is over, but the male stripper gimmick being so over doesn't really make any sense.
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When I first got into watching anything from Japan, Ohtani was an instant favorite. The first comp I bought was an Ohtani comp. Even though I'm a guy who prefers a more brawling style, Ohtani's theatrics work for me, and they certainly do here. I've always imagined the old guy in the crowd to be Ohtani's junior high gym coach who told him he would never be big enough to be an athlete and now comes to his matches to watch him fail.