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Come on Ric... bring out the dickhead in Shawn like we know you can!

Did Murdoch just try a double axe-handle off the top when Michaels was still on the mat?

OK. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Dan Spivey should have been a much bigger star than he was in this business. Great look, and a great move set. Might not have been a super talker, but he often had a manager anyway. Actually, come to think of it, he was pretty good on the mic as Waylon Mercy. Too bad injuries derailed him. Now, what's this about this Wrestlemania thing? Agreed. I was a huge Spivey mark.

He wasn't as a big deal in '92 as he was in '89. During 1989, he was the #2 heel in the company (Behind Terry Funk), and he was still getting face-like reactions from the crowd every time he'd pull out the handspring elbow, moonsault, or mist.

Bret Hart told that story at his Hall of Fame induction as well... he finished it by saving Anvil convinced him to do the Hart Foundation finish on Vince as well.

I agree... I just wish they would have worked something out to extend his stay just a couple of weeks so he could have worked the main event of WrestleWar.

Going back to WrestleWar '90, the more I look at the situation regarding that PPV, the more I'm convinced WCW/NWA dropped the ball by not having The Great Muta stay a little bit longer. I know the original plan was Sting vs. Flair in the main event, and it would have been killer, especially considering the turn the Horsemen executed on Sting during the Clash of Champions where he injured his knee. Still, putting a freshly turned Lex Luger in that spot at that point wasn't the right thing to do. Go back and watch the 6 man match between The Horsemen and the remaining members of J-Tex from the same clash. Muta was getting insane reactions from the crowd, partially due to the Horsemen's turn and partially due to Muta just being awesome and the crowd recognizing that even though he was supposed to be a heel. I also know Muta had given his notice before all this had happened, but who's to say his mind couldn't be changed? I wish the story would have gone like this: Sting gets injured, and the Horsemen brag about how Flair is going to win the match by default. Sting says he gets to name his replacement, and who does he pick but the one man who has recently taken him to the limit - The Great Muta. Muta proceeds to hit the ring, destroy The Horsemen, and then he mists Flair to recapture the killer heat he lost during his job-out session at Starrcade '89. They then go to the PPV... Muta and Flair put on an easy 4 star+ match... Sting still plays the role of the adviser, much like he did for Luger in the match (And to be the mouthpiece due to the fact Muta remains silent). The match ends with Flair retaining due to the Horsemen (They could have used the angle where they were threatening Sting), and Muta is free to go back to Japan. At the same time, Lex Luger is beginning a subtle face turn that culminates at Capitol Combat in the cage. That match remains the same, and things begin to get set in motion for Sting/Flair at GAB '90. The overall problem I had with Luger being in both main events is that everyone knew it was just a place-holder until Sting got better. If they had two different main events against Flair, the reactions might have been different.

Will this be a fixture in the TV Classics section? I'm really looking forward to this. Since it's hosted by Ross but called "The Film Room with Gordon Solie, I wonder if this is something CWF put together back in the day. It also makes me wonder if this is a subtle nod that Gordon might be going into the Hall of Fame this year.

Wrestlewar '90 holds a special place for me because I got interested in wrestling between that PPV and Starrcade '89 two months before. April looks to be a pretty good month... wasn't Mind Games the PPV that ECW initially "crashed"?

Let's not forget that you can really close the whole "Monday Night Wars" chapter in wrestling with Wrestlemania 17.

Report by Ben Nisbet and PWinsider.com Smackdown: # Big Show defeated two opponents. Show cuts a promo after, mentioning Mayweather's $20 million payday. # Jimmy Yang & Shannon Moore defeated Deuce & Domino. # Chuck Palumbo defeated Jamie Noble after the Full Throttle. # They do a vignette setting up that Batista wants to face Umaga at Wrestlemania XXIV. # Batista and Kane defeated Great Khali and MVP, Batista pinned Khali after a spear in a long match. # Jesse & Festus defeated WWE Tag Team champions John Morrison & The Miz in a non-title bout. # Balls Mahoney vs. Big Daddy V ends in a no contest when Undertaker comes out, chokeslams Mahoney and demands that Edge send his minions to the ring. Edge comes out with the Edgeheads. # The Undertaker defeated Zakk Ryder with the chokeslam. After Smackdown went off the air, they did a deal where Batista, Undertaker and Kane all laid out Edge before he ran off. Edge cut a promo on the mic saying it would be over at Wrestlemania and left. Taker and Kane left together, leaving Batista to send the crowd home happy.

My guilty pleasure of WM17 came during the gimmick battle royal. Seeing Michael Hayes come out to "Badstreet USA" in front of a Texas crowd was awesome.

The Hardy shoot covers it, but basically... if there was a person in this world that Bradshaw hated the most, I believe it would be Don Callis. Hardy told a story about how they caught Callis changing in his car because he didn't want to be in the locker room so Bradshaw and company broke toothpicks off in his door locks.

He was... according to the Matt Hardy shoot, Don Callis apparently owns the record for most heat ever in the locker room.

I wonder how long it will be before someone changes their mind about this new section.

Yeah, at least Khali has bulk and mass to go along with his size. Gonzalez was just a lanky ex-basketball player.

Wow... someone's going to get fired for that one.

It'd be a nice nod to history if The Undertaker inducted Roberts.

From both Beyond the Mat and the Roberts dvd, it seems that relationship is cold at best. Ricky Steamboat would be an adequate choice, as both a WWE employee and well known rival. In a perfect world, Steamboat himself would be going in this year.

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Lance Storm has some pretty interesting comments about the new finisher as it puts Taker on his back, which is the one position any wrestler should avoid like the plague.

Agreed. The Matt Hardy one is a must-listen.

Doing all those gimmick matches in one night seems quite wasteful, but then again this is the company that markets a PPV of nothing but cage matches.

My head hurts after reading those results.

Because a lot of those people who want to be a wrestler at one point tend to get burned out eventually. For The Rock, he had an avenue to go down when he was ready to get out of wrestling. For some, though, they don't have that and are basically stuck.