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I almost posted this last week but Bix's 'duh duh durrghh' soundbyte is really starting to grate. It was overkill on the last episode the amount of times it was played and ten minutes in to this it has already been used twice. I just find myself groaning every time I hear it now.

Bix is spot on and The Tiger is definitely Bob Bradley. I've got copies of the Australian broadcast episodes of Championship Wrestling where he wrestles a handful of times.

DWG Kim

'The Game' by Motorhead is used as entrance music in both Snooker (for Martin Gould) and Darts (for 'The Game' Steve Douglas).

Bash 91 too.

Starrcade 90 was released over here in the UK because I had a copy. The UK releases were all edited or had matches cut from them which, as a completist, made me avoid getting them as I always wanted to see the card in full. That Starrcade for some reason wasn't and was the only WCW video I owned amongst a slew of WWE ones.

Add me as another who skips the Top 10 (and has done since Bix was part of the show). I imagine if I were to tune in this week it would still consist of Brian doing his Sue the Shooter voice, some unfunny tweets from Denim Fritz, a Black Scorpion impression, lots of sound bites of Mark Gullen, Larry Nelson and Lance Russell etc. I still listen (and will continue to do so) to the rest of the show but It was easily the worst part of the podcast for me.

Heath Herring and Frank Trigg also came out of the USWF along with Paul Buentello and Evan Tanner.

I listened to the Kevin Owens one (which I enjoyed), but when it comes Jericho's podcast it all depends on the guest (and I have zero interest when it's a non-wrestling one).

Much better idea and far more chance of getting some discussion going this way as opposed to spamming the board with dozens of immediate back to back posts like last time.

The The are indeed a fine band, though it's more about Mind Bomb for me.

Huge difference between Frank Mir and Mickey Gall too.

I don't know if many bother with Cornette's podcast anymore, but Dutch Mantel is great on this week's episode. They can't touch everything but they talk early Memphis, Puerto Rico, booking and how he got his job in WWE.

Was reading an old episode of the Observer from 12.2.99 yesterday and came across the following in the WCW section Oh Dave...

From what I remember I don't think the Stud Stable actually 'turned', it was as you surmised, in that the fans just started cheering them when they started to feud with the Bodies. Yup, it was the same Taz from ECW fame. He had a couple of TV appearances, but his main role was as a participant in the Rage in the Cage match.

Ah, fair enough then. It was just something I'd never heard of read before and I would've thought it would have been the kind of thing reported in the Observer or I would have heard Austin talk about it on his podcast at some point.

I agree with this. There are times when Kris or Bix will say something, the other will start laughing and I'm wanting you to explain but nothing. It happened again on this episode.

I generally enjoy this, but not sure on everything that Prichard comes out with. His claim that Austin and Bret went into business for themselves at Wrestlemania with the blade job is one glaring example for starters.

Wasn't this Beth Phoenix and Shelly Martinez? It was strange seeing Phoenix especially playing this role when you consider it was a million miles from her WWE character on the main roster. Heath Slater is another that goes back to the Deep South days. I used to get copies of their TV regularly and generally enjoyed it. Mike Knox was much better here than he ever was in the WWE and I also thought Derrick Neikirk deserved better. Shantelle Taylor and the tag team of Mike Taylor & Tony Santorelli are the standouts that I thought should've been bought up but never were. Shantelle Taylor very briefly played a masked male wrestler in dark matches and WWE house shows but the gimmick went no further than that.

I agree with what Mick said and won't be giving it another go. There's just too much choice when it comes to wrestling podcasts these days. I don't always have the time to catch and listen to the podcasts that I enjoy, so I'm not going to spend that time on something I thought was terrible.

I was reading some old Observers from 1986 last night and came across the following in the 02.24.86 issue, "Newcomers to the WWF at recent TV tapings are Jake Roberts, Dory Funk Jr, Trapper John (John Harris) and Alexis Smirnoff." Meltzer doesn't say what tapings he debuted at and he seemingly quit a month or so after this debut match despite being on the payroll for a while before. My guess, and this is only a guess, is that his try-out match/debut was in a dark match at the 01.28.86 Poughkeepsie tapings.