Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

yesterday was the 25th anniversary of over the edge 1999 which is known for the death of Owen hart. Today is the 25th anniversary of the tribute episode of raw which was a tribute to him.

a bit of a dick ? That’s complete rubbish or else all his peers said he was one of the nicest guys on the roster. So your “in fact” is just your opinion.

So THAT’s your reason for stating as fact that he “was a dick” ? Well that’s great logic. That was obviously an awful listed Owen hart made but given he didn’t hurt another wrestler as far as I know.

Don't know if it's been mentioned or relevant but Aer Lingus are flying direct to Vegas from Sept 2024. Picked up my flights for Wrestlemania. Hated the stop overs so glad they now have direct flights.

It would be interesting to see the reaction if Rebecca Quin walked through the Forbidden Door on June 30th.

Regards,

P.

Going to the Smashing Pumpkins Monday in the 3Arena

The new series about Billy Corgan and the NWA is a bit wacky. He means well but maybe the world of Pro Wrestling is not for him

At what point can Andrade expect bigger things down the road? He's not really caught on in either of the 2 main American promotions. There are some very good workers that are midcarders, it's just the way business goes.

My promotion crowned our first champion, Matthew Justice following a several month long tournament last week in Portland. Amazing show in which he defeated Lince Dorado who was being assisted by his hired gun Krule. Great start to the summer so looking forward to the next shows and some new faces showing up!

Random topic...

But does Mark Henry have a little bit of the ol' racism in him?

You keep hearing about the talent he found or helped but like 99% of the time they are all black.

Like, look, I get it on one hand. He's probably a proud black man who wants the industry to have more stars of African decent. Its just... you would think giving people the opportunity based on talent rather than race would be the correct thing.

I am only saying this because if it was someone else, known for just helping white people they would be totally cancelled lol.

I was thinking today. WWE/F at its lowest in 1995. I often wonder was this a run on from the peaks and troughs of things or could it have been good.

Let’s say instead of the occupation gimmicks we had an attitude era a few years early. Would it have worked or was it destined to suck either way.

WWF was good in 1994 and 1995 but you are right, 1995 is considered the worst year money-wise in WWF/E history. One thing that rarely gets mentioned is Nash was champion for most of that year - November 94 to November 95 but does not get slated for it. He himself has mocked Bret Hart for being the "400 grand champion" around that time period (That Bret could not draw) but Nash himself couldnt.

Overall, and to quote Abe Simpson "it was the style at the time" - After the steroid scandal people turned off wrestling and WWF went in a different direction trying to distance themselves from the previous era. Looking back, the whole name "new generation" was a way to distance themselves. If they adopted a more edgy'er style that happened a few years later that probably would have bombed.

I am a firm believer that WWF took what ECW was doing (and even WCW) with how their content was geared towards adults and copied it. Without them, a WWF pre-attitude era probably would have sucked.

There's a lot to be said for that. It truly was of it's time. That fact Hogan/Warrior and the larger than life muscle characters sit shoulder to shoulder with the mainstream 80s actions stars isn't a coincidence.

Paul E. stated ECW rose aside the grunge movement and peoples changing tastes. Likewise piggy backing on that the WWE Attitude era was riding with Nu-Metal and the MTV2 stuff.

FCW talent reviews from 2009 that someone posted on Reddit.