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Dungeon of Doom getting into the swing of things in early 96 must have brought you back then.

I never said they did, and alluded to the fact he found the character in ECW. That said, WCW still utilised him better than WWE, thus making him a bigger star. Raven was on the cover of WCW video games back in 1998 with Hogan and Goldberg...

That's a massive stretch. He got over in ECW. He was in WCW as Johnny Flamingo before he went to WWF. So? He was still a bigger star in WCW (1997 / 1998) than he had been in WWE either previously or subsequently.

Jonny Polo (via ECW) to Raven in WCW.

Greg Valentine for me...

Shit, Rude vs Hart in 1994 would have been something great. never thought about that before. Esp considering the chick were major into Hart back then for real without Bret particularly looking for the reaction a la Rude / Michaels etc. I can imagine great matches also as the two had a tonne of respect for each other, as Rude proved in 1997.

Vic and Ed

As the story goes, Rude was aiming for a comeback before his death. I've always found this more interesting to see how he would have fit in with a new crowd of wrestlers.

Don't forget Houston dates taped for Mid South TV as well as non televised. Dibiase was one polished guy before he ever got to the WWF.

Lex Luger was doing nothing from mid 1994 to the end of his WWF run, so if it fits the criteria he was booked as a bigger star in WCW upon his return.

It isn't. Also has nothing to with haters either. A lot og the issue was the makers over promised and under delivered. Then acted like it was a historical event. Rovert I generally like your posts and you've always brought a fair share of interesting links my way, but I've watched you for years bad mouth this in various forums. Sounds like a hater to me bro...

I could of had a sandwich watching that trailer.

Oh TNA...

Not the biggest fan of Bloodstained Memoirs but it's far better than the creepy haters make it out to be and there's actually really good stuff with Muta, Piper and Rob Van Dam. It's currently under $4 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009IY4ESS

No need for the inverted commas, he looks bigger for sure, but he looks healthy. A good diet and strong gym regimine would see to that, plus he was tanned as fuck. He's had plenty of time to workout this past year.

TNA are teasing a former champion to return next TV. Odds on it being Goldberg: 1/1000000 Odds on it being somebody closer to the scale of Raven: 1/5

I still feel a Warior / Hogan rematch at Mania 7 in 1991, including a slow build story to such from late 1990 would have resulted in strong business. Not getting inside that 100,000 seater LA arena business, but good business regardless. The problem is the lack of top line heels Warrior had to work with as champ. Putting him with Rude was a re-run of years gone by, even though Rude was certainly a guy who could bring good matches out of Warrior. The key to me is giving Warrior the fresh Earthquake to work with in the Summer, instead of Hogan. Hogan could have done the tested, "working your way back up the card to prove yourself" gig.

Raymond Rougeau was an honest-to-goodness ass stomper? Wow! The guy looked like a youth pastor. See, I love finding out shit like that. Reminds me of the time I learned Dr. Ruth was a sniper for the Israeli army. Astonishing. Bret Hart told in a shoot interview that Dynamite Kid would mess around with Jacques but didn't go after Raymond even when he was injured because he knew Ray was not a guy to be fucking with. Not to mention he was a smart guy too, getting out of the ring at 35 with his health and plenty of money. I don't remember Bret telling the story like that. By all accounts (including Jacques) Dynamite said he was going to wait for Ray to heal, then slap him. It was an intimidation / bully thing. If Dynamite was that wary, he would have stopped messing with Jacques in fear of some form of reprisal from Ray. As much as that incident is spoken about, I'm still confident that had Jacques not sucker punched Tom and came at him in somewhat of a more fair manner, Jacques would have been handled again. The fact that Jacques hit him full pelt in the face (with or without brass knucks / coins, depending on who you believe) and he still couldn't floor Tom, I think that's a pretty strong indicator things wouldn't have gone so well.

That's great Bix.

If Nash comes back, he can have a theme that wasn't created on a Casio keyboard.

Well done Alan!

Did Trish Stratus never watch Raw to know Jericho had a bet on her?

The Bret Hart Raw match is one of my favourite ever Raw matches. Kid / Razor vs Shawn / Diesel was amazing. When he got released from the WWE in 02, he seemed to have somthing o pove on the indy circuit. I remember the fist match he had was with Sabu (the two not having met since their tape trader 93 classic) and it was a belter of a match!

Agreed. Would like to see this, somebody do i!