MikeCampbell

Never heard it speculated that Ricky Morton was the guy who was supposed to take the World Title from Flair but refused and that's how Ronnie Garvin wound up with it instead. Does that timeline match up? Did Garvin win the title around the time that Morton had his thing with Flair? Timeline isn't even close. Garvin won the strap from Flair in September of '87. The Flair/Morton stuff was mid 1986, and it led to several Flair/Morton matches for the title during the 1986 Great American Bash tour. In fact, Garvin beat Flair for the title a few days before the Rock and Rolls lost the tag titles to Arn and Tully.

I think it's funny that they've let F-bombs stay intact. But, they muted Bockwinkel's comment about Larry having a 'goddamn roll of dimes.'

Can anyone confirm if it's the complete show? It seems awfully short, at 139 minutes.

This was fun, at times, but not always that interesting. The only real story to the match was Hart's refusal to tag in, which led to the end of the second fall, and then the match when he finally did get in there. It was ironic to see Spoiler use the claw hold on David, and David fight back with a sleeper. I guess Fritz hadn't yet taught his boys the Iron Claw.

I really enjoyed this, Lewin's worth was very methodical, but never boring. David's comebacks were well-timed, and the veteran, Lewin, always had a quick counter or escape to put David back in trouble. It wasn't until the last minute or so, with Lewin's missed dropkick that led David get the sleeper that it seemed like Lewin was in danger of losing.

Holy crow, this was all kinds of fun! There are only a couple of actual wrestling moves, but, between their intensity, and selling, specifically Curry putting over that headlock and Johnny looking like he was in a trance when he got busted open, they more than make this an enjoyable experience.

Thanks for posting, I was looking for the date!

According to Wikipedia, they're called the Authors of Pain.

I was hoping that the rubber match between Revival and Alpha would be a 2/3 Falls, but with the sneak attack afterwards, and the fact that the Revival just put over Gargano and Ciampa, it looks like they're going in another direction for both teams.

Until this morning when he decided to break off and accuse Kerry Von Erich of being drunk when he crashed his motorcyle (True or not? First I've heard of that) and then call him out for "taking the coward's way out" by committing suicide. Still a shallow idiot at heart, it seems. Funny (not really). He accused Magnum of being drunk when he crashed too.

Check out Jim's podcast with Jerry Jarrett from November or December of last year. They both talked, at great length, about how much they hated living there.

I'll never forget the first time I saw Jumbo and Tenryu against Brody and Hansen, and Tenryu actually got some distance on that back elbow off the top rope.

I always remember Gorilla Monsoon commenting that Skinner would make a good tag team partner for the Brawler.

The 12/19/11 RAW, following the TLC PPV. One of the better RAW openings in recent years, with a promo from CM Punk to celebrate his win, and then bringing out Zack Ryder and Daniel Bryan, who had also won titles the night before, and setting up a main event of the three champions against The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, and Alberto Del Rio. It happens to take place in Philly, so the crowd was already hot just for Bryan, Punk, and Ryder all being champions, and they keep it up for that main event.

Marc's comment about Bill Dundee being the tallest midget wrestler got a good laugh out of me.

BROCK LESNAR vs. ROMAN REIGNS (vs. SETH ROLLINS) Another Goc recommendation, but, I liked this one a hell of a lot more. Reigns still isn't doing the heavy lifting as far as offense goes, but, it makes a lot more sense against Brock. The little bit of offense that Roman shows feels more natural (for lack of a better adjective) this time around. When Brock takes the header into the post, it makes perfect sense for Roman to start teeing off on Brock with his best strike. Roman dodging Brock's shoulder tackle on the apron and pelting him with kicks is another smart moment like that. It's a great example to show that it doesn't necessarily matter *what* one is able to do, as long as they're smart about how they do it, like Roman is here.

Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns (RAW 12/14/15) Goc pointed this out as an example of Roman pulling his weight, after I remarked in the Payback thread that Roman didn't seem to be able to do so when he was working in main events. I'll admit that this match did a lot more for me than Roman's matches with HHH and Styles, but, it didn't feel like Roman was performing marginally better, or different. The few things that he was given to do were well done, like putting over the midsection after Sheamus did rolling senton, and he was good about milking the near falls at the end. But, that's part of the problem I've had with him, he doesn't seem to have much at all to do other than his four main moves (drive by, jumping lariat, Superman punch, and spear). Now granted, the angle here is that Vince is trying to stack the deck against him, so, it makes sense to have him behind the 8 ball for most of the match. But, the finish run kicked off with a Superman punch near fall with Vince pulling out the ref, and it's not like the Superman punch has ever been made out to be a potential finisher.

Except he's already pulled his weight in main event matches numerous times. But I realize a lot of people are married to the "hurr Roman sucks!" narrative despite all evidence to the contrary. Care to provide a few recommendations? Last night with Styles, although I still plan on re-watching it, and Mania with HHH both struck me as uninspired efforts from him.

I may have to watch Reigns/Styles again, because I seem to be the only person here who didn't really care for it. It had a few great moments, like the Superman punch while AJ was airborne, and the near fall from the 450. But, it seemed to be booked and structured to try to hide the fact that Roman isn't good enough to pull his weight in a main event match. I'm assuming that tonight will be a trios between Bullet Club and Reigns/Usos with AJ getting the pin on him, to heat up Extreme Rules.

It's up now! 5/31/01.

With the network presently on a big Smackdown! dump, two episodes seem to be noticeably absent. SD #25, featuring the in-ring debuts of the Radicalz, and also the 5/24/01 featuring TCL III. I assume the main reason for their exclusion is Benoit being featured so prominently. Edit: And what do you know? 5/24/01 is uploaded now!

Dare I say that his rant was Cornette-esque!

I won't see it until tomorrow at the earliest. How did the crowd react to Gallows and Anderson attacking Roman?

I think Cornette would have been a good mouthpiece to put with Dash and Dawson.