Just watched the 2015 Rey Mysterio RF shoot... Man, Rey comes across quite bitter in parts. Although for balance, he does say he doesn't regret a day being with WWE.

Just watched the 2015 Rey Mysterio RF shoot... Man, Rey comes across quite bitter in parts. Although for balance, he does say he doesn't regret a day being with WWE.

Any examples?

http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/kayfabe-lies-and-alibis-ringside-with-demolition/#.VfPXQvlViko

Demolition covers their early days as a team, top rivalries, dealing with the crazy travel, adding Crush, breaking up and much more!

 

Just watched the 2015 Rey Mysterio RF shoot... Man, Rey comes across quite bitter in parts. Although for balance, he does say he doesn't regret a day being with WWE.

Any examples?

 

 

Sorry only just seen this. From memory there was a tone of him feeling as though he was held back at certain points in his career and that he could have been used better to garner a bigger Spanish audience.

The newest WCW Timeline edition: 1985 with Magnum TA is a solid interview, but it's pretty low-key compared to the Cornette and Bischoff editions. Of course, even though it happened in '86, they talk about the accident. Magnum even doubts that he was going to win the strap from Flair at Starrcade. He figures that he'd have worked Nikita, or continued the angle with Jimmy Garvin.

Yeah Magnum winning the title has been covered in many places. Having heard some of the recent interviews on the topic & fairly recently watching the TV from around when his career ended, it did appear he would be working Nikita at Starrcade. They were grooming him to win from Flair in early 87 it appears.

I watched Breaking Kayfabe with Sabu/Terry Brunk. It was interesting & somewhat fascinating to see Sabu in this environment. I hadn't bothered to get any of the other shoots he'd done so a lot of the appeal to me here was just hearing him do an interview like this. Nothing earth shattering or anything so entirely skippable most likely but it held my interest & clocked in at like 78 minutes. It was a bit funny to see how the majority of questions were an attempt to get at what kind of a person the massively private Sheik was moreso than Sabu himself.

Sabu is a guy who I can always listen to because he's so blunt about everything, it's refreshing. He truly doesn't give a fuck about being political.

The newest WCW Timeline edition: 1985 with Magnum TA is a solid interview, but it's pretty low-key compared to the Cornette and Bischoff editions. Of course, even though it happened in '86, they talk about the accident. Magnum even doubts that he was going to win the strap from Flair at Starrcade. He figures that he'd have worked Nikita, or continued the angle with Jimmy Garvin.

 

I really enjoyed this edition, Magnum was a solid and interesting interview (as opposed to Vader or Windham in the WCW serie). I kinda got a kick out of him saying that Flair was "very predictable" and that after just a few times, you could have a match with him with your eyes closed because of that… But yeah, this is a good one.

Yeah, really enjoyed the Magnum one too. He strikes me as an interesting man, with a considered take on the business. And he didn't deviate often or far from the subject at hand.

I watched the "Back to the Territories" with JJ Dillon recently and I'm about 1/2 way into the Jim Duggan one. To me they aren't essential viewing whatsoever but are more appealing for the production of the Cornette add-ins to the interview itself.

 

The Dillon one has a few stories I hadn't heard before but both Cornette & Dillon have been so prolific in podcasts, shoots, their books, etc. that those along with the Good Old Days documentary, a lot of this is stuff you'd already know. Like I said aside from a couple road stories, not a whole lot new here unless you want a sampling of the Cornette Mid-Atlantic films matches that are used here.

 

The Duggan one is decent as Duggan is a good story teller & doesn't need a lot of prodding to tell stories. He's not nearly as history & detail oriented as Cornette, he's more of a "fill in some colorful stories" guy in between Cornette giving facts about the territory. Also Duggan hasn't been overexposed in this world either so he has some fresh stuff to say.

 

As with 99% of these things anymore, I'd recommend a stream, download, or $1 disc kind of purchase if you are interested.

I thought the Mid-South one was the better of the two. I lost interest in the Dillon one because it was mostly stuff I've heard while at least the Mid-South one with Duggan has some funny stories that aren't all beaten to death.

 

The Hall YouShoot and Nash Breaking Kayfabe are both really entertaining

-Hall think's Bret Hart was selfish and a mark for himself but Montreal was a work

-Hall buries Russo, Shane Douglas
-both go to bat for Hogan
-Nash and Michaels took soma before matches, when they kicked in that was their "go home" sign.
-never heard this mentioned before, but Nash says they were gettin the somas in WCW from the Mexican wrestlers ("Jars of 500").

-Nash puts over Rollins, Sasha and Bayley
-Meltzer is "some guy who can't get laid"

 

 

I really hope they got to that conversation simply from someone asking "what was it like to work with Sting?"

That was amazing.

 

 

Just watched the 2015 Rey Mysterio RF shoot... Man, Rey comes across quite bitter in parts. Although for balance, he does say he doesn't regret a day being with WWE.

Any examples?

 

 

Sorry only just seen this. From memory there was a tone of him feeling as though he was held back at certain points in his career and that he could have been used better to garner a bigger Spanish audience.

 

That's not bitter, that is an accurate statement by him.

Yea Rey was pretty clearly the big draw for Smackdown house shows and ratings especially when you look at how badly things dropped off when they moved him to Raw and tried to make Randy Orton the anchor for SD.

Interesting tidbit on RF's Face Off 18 Pearce-Sapolsky -

 

Sapolsky disagreed with Pearce jobbing out Danielson extensively in summer into autumn 2009. Pearce replied that Danielson was very professional and never voiced any misgivings that he may have had to him. Sapolsky said Danielson wasn't happy about it.

 

Thought this was interesting. Never came across any other info about Danielson grumbling about politics in RoH.

It's bizarro world Jim Cornette as he defends Vince Russo and praises TNA. We also learn what angle enraged Corny so much he soiled himself, how little NWA Vince McMahon actually watched, how he learned to cut such great promos, what angle drove him to quit being a manager, and of course Jim Herd, Kevin Dunn, WCW and other topics earn scorn among other issues...

http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/jim-cornette-qa-convention/#.VnZnFRUrLIV

I just finished the Back to the Territories with Kevin Sullivan. I've seen the Duggan and Dillon ones, and this one blows them away. Listening to Sullivan and Cornette trading stories is tremendous. Highly recommended.

http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/calgary-stampede-wrestling/#.Vo_dvBUrLIU

Jim Cornette and Lance Storm look back at the glory days of Stampede wrestling and the Hart Family. The tale of how Stu Hart made and lost millions time and time again is covered, as well as road stories from the brutally long trips, twisted pranks, Bruce and Smith Hart insanity, the WWF buyout, and much more...