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If somebody doesn't respect Punk for what he did in wrestling, that person is a fool in my opinion. Even if you don't like his work (I loved it) you have to take your hat off for how far he went in the WWE.

Here's the trailer: basically it's a story about a Grandfather winning his Grandson over with wrestling stories.

I hadn't even heard of this until today when Mike Tyson of all people posted the trailer on Facebook. Just got through with watching it and I was really impressed: a lot of hard work must have gone into it. The Dynamite Kid interview is brilliant. Absolutely night and day to that abysmal Highspots effort both in terms of production and content. God knows how they were able to pull a coherent interview out of Dyno where he isn't giving one word answers, but you have to take your hat off as they clearly knew what they were doing. Really recommend this, you can see it at www.ninelegendsfilm.com Has anybody else seen it? Did anybody know it was getting made because a quick scan of their Twitter account shows zero mention until the release announcement.

Remember when Kathie Lee wrote about how sleezy Rick Rude was a couple of years back? Talk about being worked by a master.

I'm calling a #31 entry.

Jerry, people are entitled to their opinions and because you don't agree with their opinions, it doesn't make them as you literally said: "wrong". That's such an asinine way of thinking. I'm not talking about Garvin at all btw, I'm talking in the most general sense possible.

Pimp accusations I take it?

I've never followed multiple promotions in real time outside of WWF, ECW and WCW from 97 - 01. Even when I used to get tapes off Rob Butcher, Bob Barnett and Glen Radford of SMW, WOS / Reslo, Japan, Mexico etc, it was always either shows out of sync based on match interest or comps. EDIT: tell a lie, WWE and TNA from 06 - 2010, but I haven't watched TNA (outside of maybe 5 shows at best) since that Aces and Eights storyline was literally unbearable for me to watch.

Sorry Jerry, but just because you thought contrary to their opinion, doesn't make them wrong my friend.

No joke: in my loft I have a porno with Bubba Ray and Tommy Dreamer randomly on set. One of those tape trading choices which seemed charming to have at the time for a collection.

Come now, there has been plenty. A few off the top of my head: Kurt Angle entering TNA and the face to faces with Samoa Joe over the weeks was the best work TNA has put out, they really got that right initially. Mark Henry's fake retirement speech. Nexus initial debut tearing apart the ring and taking out the stars. The mini OTT heel run of Shawn Michaels in 2005.

It was Maurice Ravel's The Great Gate of Kiev (same as what Lawler has used for the last twenty odd years). Interesting side note: a sample appeared on Michael Jackson's 1995 HIStory album (track by the same name) but has always been removed from reissues, including even today on Spotify.

Jesse claims Ross was jealous over the pay Jesse got, and later admitted he was in the wrong. Shame we didn't get a chance to see what those two could properly do together.

That's going to be hard work for me, I hate 99 more than 2000 because it doesn't have at least the train wreck value of it all.

Having lost loved ones to cancer, my heart goes out to anybody who suffered through this awful disease, it breaks my heart.

Good work C.S.

I'd argue it was after this, coming out of the win. He rode an amazing wave from the months leading into WM3 to Feb 5th 1988's SNME against Andre ending in what I believe was wrestling's greatest ever angle with the Dibaise title purchase and referee scandal.

The peak was 1988. Even though he was still very strong over the next couple of years (tremendous house show business in 1989 for example), by 1990 the WWF brand was becoming bigger than Hogan the star, the roster was far more padded out in the complete sense, from top to bottom.

Off topic, but if anybody wanted an insight to Street's life this is a good shout: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/21353-the-jim-cornette-experience/page-9&do=findComment&comment=5628679

I wrote a post about this a few weeks ago. It might be what he wanted, but it would probably have gone very very poorly for him.

Not putting him in a top 100 seems like it would take more effort and concentration to nit-pick, rather than accept the obvious talents.

Bret in WCW 92 is such an interesting one. You had Rude having an AMAZING streak there which I rate really highly, I think there would have been gold there. Vader in 1992 monster mode vs babyface Bret just seems perfect on paper, Sting at a very different time and place to their 98/99 efforts (which I thought were quite good for the record), Steamboat, Cactus Jack which I've mentioned elsewhere on the board... Really interesting.

I don't know hwy you think this OJ, in his book he often expressed frustration with being in there with rubbish wrestlers (Mongo comes to mind in WCW as receiving a thrashing), whereas he gets giddy speaking about his bouts with Waltman, Piper, Perfect, etc. Also, you sense a genuine frustration that he couldn't wrestle certain wrestlers at certain times (Steamboat at WM2) and a televised match with Savage being stripped down from their ideals. I guess on the flip side you could make the argument he really wanted to help Goldberg be more rounded, early zombie Undertaker, Yokozuna in 93 etc. I get the feeling Bret cared if there was potential to "be the one" who could have a great match with a limited opponent, if that opponent was either a star, or poised to be one, but couldn't care too much if it were a throw away match with, say Mongo, who was going nowhere.

I totally agree with this. Even the last match he had against CM Punk was great fun to watch, I vividly remember watching that on my phone on a work break and enjoying it so much. My favourite match of his is probably the one against Hogan at Mania 19. To this day I can't believe how Bret / Pat / Vince screwed up that Wrestlemania match so badly, with the basic psychology being so completely ass backwards. Regardless, he wouldn't crack my top 200, there simply isn't enough matches to gauge it properly, and as said above, I don't think he has ever been in a straight wrestling match.