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Wonder who the Alaskans were. I have them down for a few cards in Feb 88.

That would be 7/13/85. Already had it up but thanks anyway.

I bet Jake was a sub for JYD in the match with Piper.

I'm guessing the Richfield show is from Jan / Feb 88.

Okay, everything thus far has been added. I'll post it later tonight. Thanks a lot.

I bet it is the same show, those were just the dark matches.

I have this one down as October 17, 1986.

I have it as a Jim win via DQ Thanks for the thread, I appreciate it. IIRC, Honky attacked Hillbilly before the match began, thus the no contest.

I'm betting that was a few weeks before Summer Slam 90.

So I got to see the WWF debuts of Billy and Bart along with a kick ass IC title match. HBK / Perfect wasn't as good as their previous meeting. From what I was watching at the time, Shawn wasn't picking up a lot of wins with the superkick so to see Perfect pinned with it shocked me. My next wrestling show was Nitro from Phoenix, October 99, the day after Halloween Havoc. Benoit vs. Malenko in a last man standing match, the first round of the world title tournament, and Bret Hart over Goldberg. That was just a few days before the name change. A memorable show if only to see Flair and Hogan on the same card. RVD / Eddie was advertised as a ladder match but it was made a singles match with no explanation given. MSG the next night got the ladder match instead. My birthday was the 4th and I had the option of going to either this or to the SD taping the night before in Richmond (Brock / Hogan). I'm guessing I made a bad choice. Although, we did get a lengthy post-show brawl between Flair and HHH which was very cool - especially since Flair won. Shawn's first house show in 5+ years and Nash's return match from the embarrassing trip on Raw the previous year. Read that main event description. A tune up for the Ironman 2 days later. Nuff said. An utterly craptastic show. The tag title match and the main event were the only strong points. Half of Booker / RVD was a chin lock.

Oddly enough they were both originally supposed to be Owen Hart. So the Blue Blazer, who went from a legendary feud with Steve Blackman to another memorable feud with the Godfather, was going to be the #1 heel in the company. Owen Hart was someone from Austin's past, afterall, and Austin "looked like he had seen a ghost" when he saw the face of the higher power... By the time Austin saw the Higher Power (a week before everyone else did), Owen was already a ghost.

Well, only if you buy the 80,000+ figure as legit. Meltzer has it down as a 75,000 sell out.

I would say that the promoter would be the most credible source as to how many were there.

*Me reading this thread* "Oooooh, Jarrett vs. HBK. That's a good match. ... Papa Shango vs. Jim Duggan???? MUST HAVE!"

I wouldn't be surprised if the Silverdome itself inflated the Pope's crowd to be bigger than the recorded number for WrestleMania.

From my understanding, Vince wanted to outdraw the Pope and set the indoor atendance record, legitimately or otherwise.

Remember that one time when Perfect came back to the WWF in 1997 to referee? Me neither.

maybe you could be a little more consistant yourself. What does that even mean?

He was from time to time referred to as Henning in his early days in the WWF but aside from that it was always Hennig, IIRC. "Henning" was so rare that when Gene Okerlund or someone said it, I thought it was a goof on their part.

That was by design. The whole point was to piss off Hennig fans.

A 10-year old could show better spelling and grammar. It's "Hennig" in the photo. Then "Henning" in the article. Way to be consistant. There's nothing interesting about that.

Oddly enough they were both originally supposed to be Owen Hart. So the Blue Blazer, who went from a legendary feud with Steve Blackman to another memorable feud with the Godfather, was going to be the #1 heel in the company. I was about to say that it doesn't make any sense at all ... but then again we are talking about Russo.

Speaking of the Classic figures, the next two series look to be pretty good with Monsoon, Heenan, Harley Race, Don Muraco, Superstar Billy Graham, Davey Boy Smith, Jimmy Hart, the Road Warriors, OMG, and Earthquake.

Wonderful. Fire 75% of the female wrestlers. Hire the eye candy. Make Smackdown revolve around the eye candy, even though you're doing so at the expense of actual wrestlers. And have the eye candy leave after 6 weeks of TV. Everyone remember Amy Weber's name. You'll see it again in a few years in some wrestling trivia publication.

Geez man, Maven doesn't deserve to die. Maybe not but I'm sure it would start a "He's Hard-core, he's hard-core" chant from the crowd