October 24, 20213 yr comment_5966602 12 hours ago, sek69 said: Pre 1985 WONs were an interesting process in Dave finding what style and frequency of publishing worked for him. Also apparently he's kind of sensitive about those years since that was one of the reasons Todd Martin fell out with the crew over there. Him and Alvarez were doing a bit where Todd would revisit 80s Observers and (allegedly) Dave put the kibosh on that. Yeah I am not sure if he was publishing monthly or fortnightly back then. Can't imagine he was doing weekly issues. Also, yeah, while he is an obstinate dude and will publicly defend constantly calling JYD Junkfood Dog on Twitter, he is also smart. He knows that while a lot of his snark and jokes in the 80s were funny, he probably thinks a lot of them also don't age well, and they were certainly not becoming of the professional publication the WON would eventually become. He is more chilled about his 90s snark, he often comments on his 90s quotes on Twitter.
October 24, 20213 yr comment_5966611 16 hours ago, conker8 said: @khawk20 there are 7 observers from 1983 and 15 observers from 1984 in this link https://archive.org/details/WON1984 Thanks for those, I had no idea they existed online.
December 20, 20213 yr comment_5970604 In some good news for the Network, they have added 1983 MSG shows, including one that had never aired on television before:
December 21, 20213 yr comment_5970627 1 hour ago, Ricky Jackson said: Any early reviews of Backlund vs Koloff from 4/83? I’ve got dibs on that and the Muraco match for Friday.
December 21, 20213 yr comment_5970664 18 hours ago, Ricky Jackson said: Any early reviews of Backlund vs Koloff from 4/83? Short answer: I liked it. Well-layered feats of strength counters. Koloff playing savvy. Good last third with an exciting nearfall and good finish. If you like Backlund, and you do, you'll like this one.
December 21, 20213 yr comment_5970666 Is there any sort of resource that lets you cross reference the way the episodes were numbered prior to Peacock with how they are now with just dates? For instance If I’m trying to find WCCW episodes 25, 26, 28, etc?
December 21, 20213 yr comment_5970667 54 minutes ago, Matt D said: Short answer: I liked it. Well-layered feats of strength counters. Koloff playing savvy. Good last third with an exciting nearfall and good finish. If you like Backlund, and you do, you'll like this one. Cool. Yeah, they had the finish/last minute or so on WWE.com (I think?) at one point years ago and it seemed like the end of a hot match
December 22, 20213 yr comment_5970727 22 hours ago, Matt D said: Short answer: I liked it. Well-layered feats of strength counters. Koloff playing savvy. Good last third with an exciting nearfall and good finish. If you like Backlund, and you do, you'll like this one. About where I landed too, and Ivan's selling on the finish made Backlund look like a killer.
December 24, 20213 yr comment_5970815 On 12/21/2021 at 5:50 PM, Zoo Enthusiast said: Is there any sort of resource that lets you cross reference the way the episodes were numbered prior to Peacock with how they are now with just dates? For instance If I’m trying to find WCCW episodes 25, 26, 28, etc? not that i know of, the world cast thread has the dates of the shows and episode numbers, so episode 24 should be june 4, 1982.
December 24, 20213 yr comment_5970865 So I never noticed until recently that watching Peacock on my laptop that has Adblock gives me the ad-free version apparently. I get a message saying to disable it when I first load the page but after that I can watch whatever without ad breaks.
December 24, 20213 yr comment_5970866 Yeah that works on a number of streaming services, including Spotify until recently.
December 25, 20213 yr comment_5970869 As I am using ad-blockers forever, it took me very long to realize that youtube is supposed to have ads at the beginning of professional videos.
January 9, 20223 yr comment_5972268 Just watched Backlund/Koloff. I’m not a repository of star ratings but I’d consider it in the **** range. It’s a good match in a way that’s quite different from most modern wrestling and that’s great.
January 22, 20223 yr comment_5973334 I thought with WarGames, NXT was just dropping the tag "Takeover" from their Specials, but I wanted to look up when their next one was, and couldn't find anything. Did NXT cancel having specials completely?
January 24, 20223 yr comment_5973484 On 1/22/2022 at 8:36 AM, TheDuke said: I thought with WarGames, NXT was just dropping the tag "Takeover" from their Specials, but I wanted to look up when their next one was, and couldn't find anything. Did NXT cancel having specials completely? they just announced the next one today, "Stand and Deliver", will be part of Mania week.
May 7, 20223 yr comment_5980746 The Broken Skull Sessions with Cody Rhodes hit the Peacock Network today. AEW gets surprisingly more airtime than I ever would have expected - at least a good 20 minutes or so - but of course don't expect anything controversial, but Cody does provide some interesting insights into the balancing act between being a wrestler and being an EVP.
June 20, 20223 yr comment_5984043 A bunch of WCW Saturday Night episodes from late 93/early 94 were uploaded today. Nice to see old WCW TV getting updated finally!
July 27, 20223 yr comment_5986693 So do you think we'll see any changes with the Network/Peacock, or will they keep it as is?
July 27, 20223 yr comment_5986695 1 hour ago, JRH said: So do you think we'll see any changes with the Network/Peacock, or will they keep it as is? I think Triple H has slightly more personal interest in historical (especially non-WWE) content than Vince, but I don't see it being at the top of the priority list.
July 27, 20223 yr comment_5986699 I've said it elsewhere, WWE needs a historian position. They used to have Finkel in that position IIRC, but he's since passed on. There are plenty of veterans who are either in the company or are on good terms who could fit that role like Hayes, Lawler, Slaughter, Wippleman, even Heyman. All of them have tons of experience and probably enough knowledge to help juggle the history of WWF/E. But this is getting off-topic so I'll stop. OTOH, I hope we do end up seeing the Vladimir documentary eventually (the Luger one was likely reformatted into the upcoming A&E biography episode).
July 27, 20223 yr comment_5986728 I'd say whoever runs the warehouse archive probably works in that role
July 28, 20223 yr comment_5986752 I do hope that the new regime has a less obsessive drive to rewrite history to make WWE both inevitable and transcendent. Let some real wrestling historians get at that footage and tell some stories, a Tim Hornbaker or Brian Solomon.
August 6, 20223 yr comment_5987565 On 7/27/2022 at 7:50 PM, Embrodak said: I do hope that the new regime has a less obsessive drive to rewrite history to make WWE both inevitable and transcendent. Let some real wrestling historians get at that footage and tell some stories, a Tim Hornbaker or Brian Solomon. I read that as Tim Horner at first LOL (though to be fair, someone like Horner does have history in most of the major promotions).
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