King Kamala

1. Who Should Win? Obviously, neither guy will want to job cleanly and a non-finish would upset the fans. But this kind of match is a "once in a lifetime" type opportunity therefore the finish will be overdramatic and overblown. If I had to pick a winner, I'd say Hogan. Hulk Hogan is the first name that comes to mind when you ask Joe Q. Nonwrestlingfan and even after his trials and tribulations is still tremendously popular. I think WWE has overused Austin just a little bit since his retirement and when he's shown up, it's almost always in dumb McMahon Vs Austin retreads. The specialness has worn off just a tad. I say Hogan wins, perhaps after interference from McMahon 2. Is this match still a money match? Absolutely, this is without a doubt, the biggest dream match in wrestling not involving The Rock and might be the biggest dream match overall. It'd be absolutely huge. 3. Is this a Main Event? I would hope WWE wouldn't use this match to headline a WrestleMania. It's best to use it as a special attraction for a 'Mania or perhaps a main event a slightly less prestigious show like SummerSlam. Say what you want about WWE, but with a few exceptions, the World title match has always been the main event at WrestleMania and if they didn't make an exception for Rock/Hogan, they won't for Austin/Hogan. 4. Does this intrigue you AT ALL? It intrigues me a little bit just to see how they'd pull it off but with both guys in the shape they're in, I don't see it being more than a mediocre, overbooked garbage match. I don't see it being more than a *1/2 match at this point. Honestly, wrestling wise, I don't think it would have been a good match ten years ago when Austin was at his peak popularity wise. Their styles just wouldn't seem to mesh IMHO. 5. Would you order the pay per view, JUST for this match? Absolutely not 6. Will they both get desperate enough? I could see Hogan doing it with his recent trials and tribulations but at this point, would WWE want him back? I think this recent scandal may put a damper on Hulk Hogan. Sure, he'll always have his mouthbreathing fanboys who'd mark out for him if he legdropped a puppy but I don't know if the casual fan is ready to root for Hulk right now. Oddly, I think Austin would be less willing to do the match than Hogan. Austin seems perfectly content in retirement, doing the occassional non-wrestling angle. That and I'm not sure if any amount of money is worth the potential paralysis he'd be facing if he screwed up his neck again.

alf- I love fish in almost all shapes and forms but did you really think this would be an evenly contested battle? Fish (and seafood in general) is probably the most widely reviled non-vegetable behind liver and onions and maybe tofu. Even here in Maine, there's a huge amount of people that don't eat any seafood. And everybody loves chicken. Rarely have I come across a person who hates chicken. It's almost as bad as hating pizza. I picked seafood and there have been several others in this thread but we're a rare breed.

Hey man, don't soil the good name of Weird Al Yankovic by comparing him to those assholes. Even at his worse, he's 10x the talent than those guys.

Hell with the exception of the Profiles In Pain one, they all sound like borderline PPV worthy cards. It's worth reiterating that WCW usually seemed to have terrible house shows. Every old house show report I've read, it seems like that at least three or four major guys are missing from the card. Heck they managed to bungle a potentially successful European tour by having The Mamalukes Vs The Harris Boys main event...

I was just wondering when Big John Studd was going to get picked last night after I made my pick. I'm surprised he lasted this long. Sure, he's not an elite big man like Andre, Vader, or Ernie Ladd but he was solid and heads and shoulders above a Giant Gonzalez. Not to mention that he was the #2 or #3 heel during the WWF's boom period in the mid 80s. I was thisclose to picking The Executioners (the version with Big John Studd) in the last round but figured I didn't need two monster heel tag teams. Ah well. Good pick, Cranda.

It really depends on what kind of fish but I'll go with fish. I'm a lifelong Mainer I kind of have to. I love 95% of seafood. Even cafeteria fish stick. I love me some chicken in all sorts of variety but I'd be letting my people down if I didn't pick fish.

I've picked a lot of heels in this draft so it's time for me to pick a babyface. Another guy I'm surprised is still around at this point. This guy is a natural ally/part time tag team partner for Kerry Von Erich and I almost considered picking them together. He's also the kind of babyface that will make the girls swoon which is good to have. He'd make a good foe to pretty much any heel on the roster but I'm thinking of pairing him up against either Don Muraco or The One Man Gang. He's a seven time WCWA World Champion, an eleven time WCWA Six Man Tag Team champion, a seven time WCWA Tag Team Champion, and a former AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champion. With my 17th pick in the All Time Wrestling Roster Draft, I'm proud to select... Kevin Von Erich!

Vern Gagne is alive and well. He made a comment on Bored's blog the other day. He's probably laying low after you exposed him as Razateca of the North.

...so can I be the alternate alternate or what?

I really don't know why it isn't more common place. It's basically the same concept as salt and vinegar chips.

Milky, let me be the alternate alternate behind luke-o. I can't believe I missed both of these drafts and I need to share my movie tastes with the TSM community!

It was Evil Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan that killed Benoit and his family! It's still unclear whether The Dungeon of Doom were involved but I wouldn't rule against it.

Cranda lives another day. We often talk about wrestlers and tag teams that are ahead of their time but next choice is a team that came ten years too late. I mean that as the highest of compliments. If this team had shown up in 1982 instead of 1992, I venture that they would have been one of the most highly regarded tag teams of that era (Which is one of the finest for tag team wrestling IMHO). But in The New Generation era, they seemed like relics from a bygone era. Nevertheless, they managed to achieve a fair level of success and win much respect from the IWC. This team would be a natural fit against Strike Force. A classic old school babyfaces Vs old school heel series. They could also play well against pretty much any team I've selected. These two are former USWA Tag Team Champions and three time SMW Tag Team Champions... With my 16th pick in the All Time Wrestling Roster draft, I'm proud to select... "Gigolo" Jimmy Del Ray and Dr. Tom Prichard...The Heavenly Bodies!

Damn you again King! I wanted Billy Jack to feud with Don Muraco. Ah well! I wasn't going to pick him for another two or so rounds anyways. If Cranda picks who I'm planning to pick next, I'll kill him in his sleep!

His 2001 book is definitely not worth a purchase. Heck, it's barely worth checking out from the library. He glosses over most of his wrestling career and spends the last third of the book talking about how he find Jesus without going into specifics about the problems that led him to hitting rock bottom. If you're going to make a confession, we need details dammit! The only interesting parts of the book is when he's talking about growing up as a wrestler's kid. One of the most disappointing wrestling autobiographies I've ever read. It's too bad his second one also apparently sucks.

Putting vinegar on fries is kind of popular in Maine. We call 'em pier fries.

I'm going to capitalize on Jim Herd's idea and make Ric Flair a gladiator

Really, Russo like storylines are just as outdated now as Rock N Wrestling type era storylines. They were great in their time but I'm not sure they'd work now and I'm positive they wouldn't work to the extent that they did ten years ago.

There's a thin line between over the top and elaborate and cartoonish and stupid and tonight's angle crossed it. I'm all for over the top and elaborate angles but tonight was just downright awful. And do I really need to remind you of Russo's track record with WCW and TNA?

Lou Thesz and Rikozidan would have killed if they had a worked shoot angle during the match where Thesz refused to cooperate and Rikozidan had to improvise a new finish.

Glad to see you're back on the board, Mr. Russo.

Hmm, that's an elaborate setup to end a failing angle.

Well, that was easily one of the most surreal things I'd ever seen. I was nodding off during the main event and I thought I was dreaming for a second. I was LOLing for the most part.

My completely uneducated guess is the revealing of Fink's toupee by the Hair Club for Men dude was supposed to be a big surprise so they kept Finkel off most of the show to not let the joke wear thin and had Bill Dunn do it.

Oh damn. I wanted Bob Orton Jr. I was briefly considering drafting him as a tag team with Don Muraco but I realized the ruling on that would be controversial and I didn't want to waste their indivdual talents by having them as a team. Though they were a damn nifty team.