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"NaylorGate" should somehow involve Summer Rae and Fandango.

He reminds you of Johnny Sorrow?

Well, of course, Kris. It's not like Edge made it in.

Speaking of "We only have x amount of this? really?" 5:46 of Buddy/Lord Littlebrook/Tokyo Joe vs Boyd/Lone Eagle/Cowboy Lang - Dec 6, 1980 This is some time in and there is only six minutes left minutes in and there is no justice in the world. Lone Eagle is in the ring and it starts with him being somehow magically propelled into Buddy's knee (Rose is on the apron). Presumably he was tossed in by Lord Littlebrook but who knows. LLB and Joe do a double kick after the tag and then Joe does a big back body drop to Lone Eagle and goes for the pin. Lang does this awesome spot where he breaks up the pin by just stepping on it and keeps on going to hit Littlebrook on the apron. Joe gets to the corner and Buddy kind of directs traffic so he tags LLB, who runs in and prevents the hot tag. Even Portland midget wrestling had great tag team fundamentals. Littlebrook puts Lone Eagle into the bearhug and slams him into the heel corner. Buddy distracts Barr to allow for despicable heel choking. Boyd gets pissed off and chases Buddy through the ropes and in and out of the ring. They do this great little this way, that way thing. Man Buddy + Midgets vs Face Lawler + midgets would have been the best suvivor series match ever. Anyway, Barr tries to get Boyd out of the ring and Buddy does a cheapshot kick, before doing this awesome whooping taunt and dance on the apron. This has only gone on for a minute and I already wrote a paragraph. That's just how great Buddy + midgets is. Joe's in and thanks to Buddy's coaching he does a suplex bodyslam and a nasty knee to the throat. Joe tosses him off the ropes and Buddy's in to do a kneeling back body drop on poor Lone Eagle. then he does the whooping "Woo Hoo!" again. Lone Eagle had been working in hope moments pretty well and finally chops out and rolls to the corner but doesn't QUITE make it. Thankfully, he's just enough time to go the extra distance and make the last second tag to a red hot Cowboy Lang who then whips Joe into Littlebrook (who Bonnema randomly calls "Billy the Kid"). Back body drop and then Lang pulls Joe back away from the tag to Rose and puts him in the world's #1 and best possible atomic drop ever. This thing should be an animated gif. It really should. I feel like Lang did it on the AWA set too. Bonnema really wants a wrestler named Billy the Kid to be in this match. Anyway this all leads to a horribly demeaning but mindnumbingly awesome fight where Joe is Buddy's shoulders and Lone Eagle (I think) is on Boyd's and they got at it until Buddy and Joe tumble over. HA! And then Cowboy Lang puts BOYD up on his shoulders. Oh man, then Tokyo Joe tries to get Buddy up on his shoulders and you know how this is going to end. Hilarious. Once they get up Boyd is all over Buddy and the crowd is enjoying this more than you can imagine. Body slams and knee drops Buddy and then tags in Lang to legdrop him for a one count. Boyd puts his head down and gets kicked but makes a tag to Lone Eagle, who starts darting around the ring to avoid Buddy. Buddy keeps kicking Boyd and gets bitten from behind for his trouble. He starts chasing Lone Eagle around the ringside area. Buddy charges after him into the ring, runs right into a fist from Boyd in the corner. Boyd picks up Lone Eagle and uses him as a melee weapon against (let's go with) Tokyo Joe, and that's the three count. Post match Buddy gets his heat back by giving Lang the Robinson backbreaker after Boyd had left the ring. What a jerk. This was exceptional fun but man do I ever wish there was another 6 minute of it.

Is fame just a flat measure of recognition factor or something else? I know! We need star ratings. At his height, Hogan was 4 1/8 stars.

It's a clusterfuck, yes, and it's more about the historiography of wrestling than the history of wrestling.

I know, personally, I'm more interested in talking about work, which is one reason (of a few) I don't get so deep into these exchanges except for in asking questions I'm curious about or occasionally bringing up something that I think was missed (like whether or not Jimmy Hart's role in Summerslam 90 should matter).

I love how Axel can't even get a win when there's distraction. It's hilarious. I think he's the worst pushed guy in the last ten years. Who would be close?

If it's a WON HOF, then should the guy who Meltzer spent years calling the Junk Food Dog get in? Can he without making Dave look like a freaking putz?

I just realized I typed Greenwald because of Molly. Molly Holly = Nora Greenwald. Fascinating how the brain works. Julia Roberts is a huge freaking star. And Demi Moore used to be quite a big name too. Not even in the same boat. It was funnier before you explained yourself. I thought you were running a Chris Jericho gimmick.

I got such flack that month for saying I wanted to see what they'd do in a three way with Kane in it.

the 00s Hogan is what, Dog the Bounty Hunter?

Graham's site says: WWF @ London, England - Arena - October 10, 1989 (sell out) Debut in the UK Mark Rocco, Dave Finlay, & Skull Murphy defeated Dale Wolfe, Al Perez, & Tim Horner

I feel like I keep telling people to watch that Bulldog vs Nord sprint that's on youtube and no one ever does. Freaking everyone.

I definitely think he was the weaker part of that Harper match, though, especially towards the end of the match in his final comeback, so if they had to have one guy or the other I'm glad they have Brodie (and it's an interesting comparison since they were born a week apart apparently).

I feel like I went on and on last year about how many good matches we had. It might have been the year before though.

Man, i can't wait til they try to have my kid read the Scarlet Letter in school so I can tear them a new one.

This week had the 20 minute one.

How about Luke Harper in that Ohno match though? Huh? Huh? No one?

Yeah, Harley is action-packed. Parv didn't even mention his bumping.

This note hurts my head.

This would have bothered me immensely in 2001.

Story says that Hogan wanted nothing to do with him in WWF since he worked too stiff the first time they worked. Let me see if I can find anything.

You have to remember back then that there were less titles and they changed much less frequently. I think the big coronations were more than a European champion ever got. That said, it's probably less than being TV champ since that was defended so frequently. Getting the King mantle was almost like winning a gimmick. It still meant more than the Million Dollar Belt since that basically only changed hands once.