On my trek through Mid-South (any of you watching it weekly on justin.tv too?)

Matt why do you constantly torture me by mentioning cool territory stuff that is apparently on justin.tv that I can never find when I look there?

 

Because I have weekly routines based around this crap!... and have for the last year + I think.

 

www.justin.tv/mistyskin/videos/

 

Friday Nights (and archived until Tues or Weds): 1980 memphis TV

Saturday Nights (and archived until Weds or Thurs): 1985 Mid South (2 eps), 1987 Pro Wrestling This Week 2 eps, and 1985 Crockett (WW, SN, WW).

 

There's also 1986 (I think) Prime Time Wrestling mid week, but... it's not quite the same.

 

There's also www.justin.tv/projectsunfire/ but that's way more scattershot.

www.justin.tv/mistyskin/videos/

This is incredible. I know what I'm doing the rest of the night! Thanks a lot, man. I didn't realize how stacked & jacked their roster was!

www.justin.tv/mistyskin/videos/

............dagnabbit, when I click a link that has the words "misty" "skin" & "videos" in the url and the first thing I see is a "must be 18 to view content" disclaimer on the webpage, this was not what I was exspecting at all.....so disapointed now, so so disapointed now.....

KC Timeline of the WWF 1997 with Jim Cornette is unsurprisingly pretty great. Cornette doesn't go off as much as you'd think, although Kevin Dunn and Vince Russo do take some funny verbal abuse. Very interesting inside view on the insanity that was WWF in 1997, and it only reminds me how great and interesting this year was. Cornette also makes it obvious that the WWF basically lucked up onto getting back to success, things happened that weren't planned or predictable.

I frigging love Cornette commenting on Lawler vs Sweetan on the wrestling gold set. I haven't seen it in maybe 7 years and I know a heck of a lot more about Lawler now. He just goes on about how brilliant and perfect everything Lawler does in the match is and how the crowd's responding and Dave sort of half grumbles in reluctant agreement and points out how bad Sweetan's being again.

Lucha Libre USA is coming back to MTV2 for another season on Oct. 1 at 10am, set your DVRs. Also I just now realized that Rebecca Reyes from here is Matt Hardy's girlfriend working under her SHOOT NAME~! Bet now she's wishing she stayed with Mini Halloween (referring to the last season of LLUSA which I'm sure no one here watched).

 

 

The promo photo on their website is fucking fantastic btw:

 

 

I agree it's silly to pack on the pounds for a retirement show and then have to diet to shed them all off again, but I suppose this isn't too unusual in Japan with the sumo culture.

A part of me died watching Flair/Sting on Impact

Did they get in any of their old spots?

Flair was thrown off the top, bumped for Sting's clotheslines and did the Flair flop. He was huffing and puffing a lot and had to take his time.

Flair vs Sting was sad at the last Nitro, 10 years ago. I can't even fathom how pathetic it is in 2011. Retire already.

I have felt sad to be a wrestling fan a handful of times. The Sting/Flair match on TNA was the worst that didn't involve anyone being raped or dying. That I had to add a caveat of 'not being raped or dying' also makes me sad.

I have felt sad to be a wrestling fan a handful of times. The Sting/Flair match on TNA was the worst that didn't involve anyone being raped or dying. That I had to add a caveat of 'not being raped or dying' also makes me sad.

Best line on this board in a long time. So very true.

Just watched this. Why did I?

 

On the one hand, Flair took a suplerplex. On the other, he looks like death warmed up and this ended up being all about Hogan anyway.

 

He should have retired in 2008. He had the perfect send off. I'm going to pretend his TNA run isn't happening and never happened.

The superplex spot was really the saddest moment of the match. No way should he be taking such a dangerous bump at age 62 on a bad shoulder. Given the reports of how bad the match was, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, though that's probably thanks to the magic of editing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XATUXEFx4YY

Flair looks like he's about to die.

I can't believe this shit is on TV and people are actually paid to put this crap together. This stuff was old and had overstayed its welcome 13 years ago, and Flair, Hogan and Sting are still on TV along with Bischoff, while Russo writes the show. TNA is the worst promotion ever.

Sting is still awesome. TNA be damned.

I think Sting looked mediocre in it, but having an old man as an opponent distracted me from spending the whole match paying attention to Sting.

 

John

I know his passion for wrestling gets questioned for time to time but Dave waxing lyrical about Memphis Heat and Memphis in general was great stuff on the breaking news Rock audio.

Just listened to it today but nothing that the people who worked on the Memphis set didn't already know. If I thought he would actually watch it, I wouldn't hesitate to send Dave a Memphis set. Then again, I know he wouldn't watch it.

I think Sting looked mediocre in it, but having an old man as an opponent distracted me from spending the whole match paying attention to Sting.

 

John

Sting's had some solid work this year. This is probably the worst thing he's been involved in this year. At least with the Jeff Hardy match you got to watch Sting just manhandle him.

Has anyone read that book about 1982 Memphis. I think about buying it on my Kindle all the time but always shy away.

For those who missed this link from Bryan's daily update. Some (bitter) ex-WWE employee has a bit too much free time on their hands.

 

Cranky Vince

All the bitter ex-WWE writers have too much time on their hands and spend most of it whining about WWE.