Boring as all shit.

Chas, where's the 2014 match-listing coming from in the discussion forum? Are you simply listing every match you can find?

Holy shit! Dusty back in the 70s commentating over his own Florida tag match with Murdoch against Race/Roop is maybe the greatest thing I've ever seen and heard in Rasslin!

 

(The clip is on the Texas episode of Legends of Wrestling.)

"They tried to keep me from rappin'!"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9wTfWg6ls&index=9&list=PLV6RCTo_Cd0Be2RHFk5kKQfMO_10J579E

Bob Roop All American Nothin! Dues are bein paid!

 

 

I love when he starts talking about "The Dream" in the third person. This whole clip gives me chills - and the action in the ring is white hot, too.

Yeah, that clip is awesome.

I just started reading It Came From Memphis and while it's not a wrestling book the passage about Sputnik Monroe is one of the best things ever written about wrestling.

I find myself less interest in long epics and instead preferring a well worked 20 min match. I've only just recently realized that fact. Maybe it's a case of not wanting to spend 40 to 60 minutes on one match when there's so much that I have yet to see - and only so many viewing hours in a day. Plus, in so many cases, the match did not really need to be 45 minutes long.

Nothing like that feeling when you're reading a comment on a thread, nodding along because it's stated in just such a way that you agree with all of it.

 

And then you realize you yourself wrote it -- 2 1/2 years ago. . .

https://twitter.com/HEELWrestling/status/445717821327421440

 

WOW.

Watching Starrcade 86 on the network last night, and I realized how much I miss the old JCP style cable ropes that made that snapping sound when someone was whipped into them. I have a feeling they probably sucked to work with, but it's one of the things that make me wax nostalgic since that's the wrestling I first started watching.

Watching Starrcade 86 on the network last night, and I realized how much I miss the old JCP style cable ropes that made that snapping sound when someone was whipped into them. I have a feeling they probably sucked to work with, but it's one of the things that make me wax nostalgic since that's the wrestling I first started watching.

 

 

The ropes on this MSG 1984 show I have been watching today are really floppy. It's crazy just how floppy they are.

Did the WCW/NWA ring have a tag rope that it's possible I never saw? It seems to be prevalent in just about every other promotion and style, so I was curious if I just never noticed it for whatever reason.

 

This looks like about a couple thousand people I've seen at a Dead show during a really great Dark Star as the acid kicked in.

I've been meaning to ask this -- I think he's a good worker and don't have anything against him, but is it fair to say Alberto Del Rio has never really had that much fan support? He strikes me as a guy who is always pushed well above the level fans see him, but am I missing some window of time when he was really over at the level of a Ziggler, Sheamus or even Miz?

I think if they had given him something substantial to do he probably would have gotten over more. He never had any significant angles. He was just "wealthy guy", "angry wealthy guy", or "another guy who wants the belt." He needed a Dibiase buying the belt angle to compliment his persona, or play him more like a shooter with his MMA background. There just wasn't much there for the crowd to get behind. He also seems to fall into the Orton category, where half the audience thinks he's good and the other half think his work's boring.

Del Rio was pretty over as a bad guy during his initial run.

Once they took away ADR's elaborate entrance it went downhill

I've been meaning to ask this -- I think he's a good worker and don't have anything against him, but is it fair to say Alberto Del Rio has never really had that much fan support? He strikes me as a guy who is always pushed well above the level fans see him, but am I missing some window of time when he was really over at the level of a Ziggler, Sheamus or even Miz?

 

Del Rio losing to Edge killed his career.

That made no sense. They knew Edge was a physical wreck, even if they didn't know how bad. Plus, if ADR has the World title he's not shoehorned into Summer of Punk, although it probably would have gotten screwed up anyway.

Plus, his losing to Edge was the curtain jerk of that Wrestlemania...AFTER Del Rio won the FORTY (40) man Royal Rumble to get that title shot. That's just mind-boggling on a stupid scale.. I think Edge even beat him up on his own car.

 

So ADR wins the 40-man Royal Rumble and loses in the curtain jerk of 'Mania. But Miz retains the WWE title in the main event.

 

All right then.

When people look back on eras of WWE, the period of time when The Miz and Alberto Del Rio were in world title matches at Wrestlemania will surely rank as a low point.

I can't think of a more intriguing match to me than young, in his prime Andre the Giant vs. 2004 Brock Lesnar,

When people look back on eras of WWE, the period of time when The Miz and Alberto Del Rio were in world title matches at Wrestlemania will surely rank as a low point.

 

At least Miz was an exciting talent. He definitely fizzled when he went to the top. But I loved watching him get there.

 

Del Rio has never remotely interested me. Yes, the Edge match may have buried his push. But damn, the guy is just a dull personality to me anyway. The only real complaint I have about his "failure" is that it may have reinforced the idea with management that new main eventers can't get over.

After watching Kobashi's title defense against Ogawa (absolutely badass match), it is actually a bit disappointing they did not switch the style up a little more often in All Japan and NOAH because Kobashi had one helluva working punch and he would have been so damn good at brawls.