On the AWA set we get to hear Manny Fernandez call Fujinami a zipperhead. It really was a different era in wrestling and society. I'm not advocating hate speech but things have really got too PC over time. People say dumb stuff that you don't have to agree with it but it is their right.

Is there enough Florida footage to make a set? Enough Southeastern/Continental? OR will these be tossed into the random Other 80s Territories? Those are the two that I think, just due to longevity and a few key players enough footage might exist for.

Problem is a lack of arena footage more than anything (if I'm not mistaken). We have yet to start really going through that stuff though.

Out of interest, would you care if someone burned the US flag? Would it rile you up etc?

It pisses me off, absolutely. It's a disgraceful act. Any American who doesn't get angry when they see images of the flag being burned by mobs in Pakistan, Iraq etc......I don't know, it pisses me off to my core, and I don't consider myself any more patriotic than the next guy

 

When people are protesting in America I say turn the flag upside down. You want to burn the flag? Fuck you, move along.

Bastien was a really awesome bumper. I always really loved the one where he hit all three ropes in succession while falling.

Has David Crockett ever done a shoot interview?

How the hell did Angle get heel heat then?

By being obnoxious. Angle wearing Red, White, and Blue was just a nod to him being an Olympian.

Has David Crockett ever done a shoot interview?

Crockett I would really like to hear talk wrestling. He was the only family member who did not want to sell out to Ted Turner in 88. He wanted instead to stick to the Carolinas and drop the big money players except for Flair.

I know both he and his brother took part in the WWE documentary, just a bit surprised that no one has managed to track them down or persuade them to do one.

 

David was and probably still is so passionate about that product that I'm sure it's not impossible.

PBS is airing a lucha documentary in September. Sounds like it could be interesting: http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1342829036

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Promoter-te...-165636266.html

 

How the hell did Angle get heel heat then?

By being obnoxious. Angle wearing Red, White, and Blue was just a nod to him being an Olympian.

 

Anyone else remember his 2005/2006 run where he said he wanted to have animal sex with Sharmell, hated Jesus and black people and still got cheered?

The Angle/Cena feud was when Cena really started getting booed out of the building every night. Despite the WWE's comically heavy-handed attempts to turn the crowd against Angle (having him insult the troops, giving him Daivari as a manager, censoring the "you suck" chants), he was still getting cheered over Cena. Eventually, they just gave up and turned Angle face. The poinf of the promo where Angle said he didn't like black people and wanted to make Jesus tap out was that people would still cheer him no matter what he said or did.

Promoter tells black wrestlers to stay away after KKK threat

 

Ironic: I wrote a longish response to Kevin's post on PC earlier in the thread, then decided not to post it after hitting Preview thinking it just wasn't worth arguing about. :/

Holy Shit, Roddy Piper seemed brain damaged on the Pit tonight. Jericho totally took over to save the segment.

Roddy Piper definitely seems like the kind of guy who it would be fun to get drunk with.

 

Man, the SummerSlam match with HHH and Lesnar is going to be full of melodramatic bullshit in the "Modern WWE Epic" style, isn't it?

Shawn Michaels was so terrible during that last segment that it was fucking funny as fuck. Just unbelievable horrible. HHH wasn't much better, but Shawn truly outdid himself tonight

Oh man I can't wait till Loss sees Shawn's acting in the final segment.

 

 

"oh my God stop touching it!"

 

That said I dug the closing angle

Damn, the bald spot and "stop touching it" have me rolling nearly a half hour later

I'm still watching RAW, and man...the crowd seems to have been wanting to cheer Jericho for some time given their reactions. And that triple threat was fucking good.

http://tobtr.com/s/3616243 Tonight I got to interview Crossfire Heavyweight Champion, King Shane Williams. I think it ended up being a good look at an up and coming not famous indy wrestler.

 

He had a really good match with Harry Smith in the Tourney finals.

The entire Punk/ Cena/ Show Bryan match and all the storyline stuff that goes with it was fucking great on RAW tonight. It's some really well done old school Pro Wrestling. So was the YRJ/ Ziggler/ Miz stuff, come to think of it. I loved Sandow vs Christian, and the feud between Sandow and Brodus is also a pretty classic old school mid-card gimmick guys program. I thought the contract signing was well done,

Ok, I just watched the HBK "over selling/ worst thing ever/ yada yada yada. thing and I'm not getting the outrage and scorn. I'm pretty sure that if a monster broke my arm I'd react even worse. He's supposed to be a retired and broken down guy. I'd say his reactions were more close to normal than "business exposing". If anything, HHH was the shitty actor in all this.

HHH is the worst Bill Watts ever.

Can't believe no one mentioning Heyman's "you broke his arm" over and over in a tone of voice half "I can't believe you did that" and half "oh shit, what's HHH going to try to do to us now".

Someone fill me in: What was the point of Shawn being in Dallas if he was scared shitless of Brock? Why would he go to the very arena Brock will be at for the contract signing?