Brickhouse Brown is an honorable man how dare you sully his name.......

 

Zbyszko has always carried a grudge on how his WWF run ended so he is definitely bitter towards Backlund & Vince and running opposition wasn't the best idea since he was blackballed for over 2 years

So tonight I plan on watching Disc 8 of the AWA set on my iPad at the gym. This is a real busy gym, with a lot of hot soccer moms and college chics. I've never watched wrestling at the gym before. I'm hoping nobody calls security.....

So is anybody following the whole "Kobashi retirement/bunch of big names might be leaving NOAH/NOAH might be folding or basically ending up as AJPW again" story, or is that being discussed elsewhere around here that I didn't notice?

Sadly there's not much to say, Kobashi should have retired years ago and NOAH has been running on E since they lost TV.

I did a post about the situation for Cageside Seats. I think the fact that all the wrestlers who are supposed to be leaving lost on the Sumo Hall show and Kobashi is going to promote his Budokan Hall retirement show by himself suggest that all the rumours were true and they're just playing nice together for the good of the company.

An update on it from one of the puroresufan boards states that the plan seems to be for Mutoh and AJPW to produce the Kobashi retirement show and then have Kobashi move into the PWF Chairman role.

Watching the KC Timeline interview with Jim Duggan (the 88 one). Really nice guy and some stories I haven't heard before.

The amount of crazed lying in that clip alone, rivals the totality of Brickhouse Brown's shoot.

Don't get the facts in the way of a good story I guess. I'm not an expert at all on WWF 1980, but, man, hearing that Backkund couldn't draw a dime and nobody cared about Bob... Hum, what ? Zbyszko is a great storyteller though.

 

Off the charts fantasy work by Larry. On the other hand, he's probably been telling these lies for so long that he actually believes them and doesn't remember reality.

 

John

Barry Windham delivers his share of bullshit in his 1991 Timeline too (which is pretty boring, Windham looks and sounds old, kinda sad). Biggest one is Flair was supposed to drop the belt to him before he left. Maybe his memory is just shot...

Flair was supposed to drop the belt to him before he left.

Yeah, Flair corroborated that in his first DVD set. Herd went from having Flair drop the belt to Luger at the Bash to Flair dropping the belt to Windham at a house show (or TV taping, I forget) to just firing him outright.

Finally watching this 1980 Timeline with Larry. The bullshit is astounding. "I inspired Angle to be come a wrestler!"

Yeah, Flair corroborated that in his first DVD set. Herd went from having Flair drop the belt to Luger at the Bash to Flair dropping the belt to Windham at a house show (or TV taping, I forget) to just firing him outright.

Really ? Well, you learn everyday. Mea culpa. The Timeline was still way boring.

Flair was supposed to finally drop the title to Luger at the Great American Bash. His contract was up in 1992, so he tried to play hardball and refuse to job without a contract extension and more money. They ended up deciding to part ways, and Flair agreed to drop the title to Barry Windham on a house show two weeks before the Bash. Then, they decided instead to negotiate a new contract, and Herd ended up getting mad and firing him in the middle of negotiations. Windham was only going to drop the title to Luger in two weeks anyway. But Herd was using him as a pawn, thinking Flair wouldn't dare try to get out of doing a job for Windham. But Windham was sort of manipulated for years into thinking that Flair quit the company so he wouldn't have to job for him. Not that Flair is innocent in all of this, either.

 

I don't know that Luger would have sat the world on fire as champ anyway at this point, considering how many times he had been turned or failed to win the big one, but getting it without beating Flair was the kiss of death.

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Windham was only going to drop the title to Luger in two weeks anyway. But Herd was using him as a pawn, thinking Flair wouldn't dare try to get out of doing a job for Windham. But Windham was sort of manipulated for years into thinking that Flair quit the company so he wouldn't have to job for him. Not that Flair is innocent in all of this, either.

It would have been four years too late, but I think Barry finally getting the big win over Flair would have been a great moment.

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That'd actually be a cool concept if it was better organized & not on facebook

Flair was supposed to finally drop the title to Luger at the Great American Bash. His contract was up in 1992, so he tried to play hardball and refuse to job without a contract extension and more money. They ended up deciding to part ways, and Flair agreed to drop the title to Barry Windham on a house show two weeks before the Bash. Then, they decided instead to negotiate a new contract, and Herd ended up getting mad and firing him in the middle of negotiations. Windham was only going to drop the title to Luger in two weeks anyway. But Herd was using him as a pawn, thinking Flair wouldn't dare try to get out of doing a job for Windham. But Windham was sort of manipulated for years into thinking that Flair quit the company so he wouldn't have to job for him. Not that Flair is innocent in all of this, either.

 

I don't know that Luger would have sat the world on fire as champ anyway at this point, considering how many times he had been turned or failed to win the big one, but getting it without beating Flair was the kiss of death.

Now that you're giving me the details, yeah, I remember reading about it. But *my* memory is shot apparently, and Windham's pretty good after all since he mentionned how Flair didn't had an issue with doing the job.

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That'd actually be a cool concept if it was better organized & not on facebook

 

Yeah, it's not perfect. Maybe we could adapt the idea for a thread here or something.

Rock just posted this pic after a workout.....frightening

 

I think he's going to EAT CM Punk!

Is he still shooting that bodybuilding movie or is this wrestling shape for him now? Well, it took him like 3 weeks after WrestleMania to get into scary Incredible Hulk only much bigger than Lou Ferrigno shape, hopefully he get back to resembling a normal human being by the Rumble in 6 weeks.

 

Still, Jesus.

He's your hook up. Holla if you hear him.

Jump on this my North American friends in case of it being taken down

 

When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies (BBC - 2012):

Sign of the night on Raw: "I Mizzed in my pants".