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Is the Cornette 97 timeline worth checking out? Seems almost impossible that it could be bad.

He's got a massive filofax listing pretty much everything, and yeah, it is tremendous like any other shoot Corny's done.

That's the one i'll watch next.

Enjoyed the Jesse Ventura shoot although as mentioned earlier, Rob Feinstein was embarassingly uninformed.

The 24/7 roundtable on Raw is also enjoyable but it degenerates a bit into that old habit of 'lets bury WCW' after a while. No need for that nowadays.

I remember being shocked when I first saw this.

I know i'm one of those old farts 'back in my day'....

But after finishing 1997, i've just started working my way through 1998 episodes of Raw and what strikes me is how unpolished everything is, and much more off the cuff. It's also nice to not know what's bloody trending on Twitter too mind.

Also, was it just me who enjoyed the NWA storyline while it lasted?!

I'm off work tomorrow so a rare appearance in the chatroom tonight.

Just seen an article on lordsofpain where Kurt Angle says TNA 'dropped the ball' with Doug Williams and Magnus.

God I hate that phrase!

I hardly watch WWE and haven't done so regularly since HBK retired, but since when did 'Hell in a Cell' become 'Hell in THE Cell' as McMahon insisted on calling it all through Raw.

'Big Sexy' Dave Meltzer said a while ago that WWE were interested in bringing Angle back when his TNA contract was up a year or two ago, but then Angle started getting arrested every other month - culminating in him getting accused of stalking Raka Khan while sticking a needle in his arse. Vince then made it clear that he doesn't want to touch Angle.

Shame, we all miss the proper stars TNA have in front of real crowds.

That smacks to me of this attitude some have who want TNA to fail so their stars go back to WWE. Yeah, that'll be good for the Wrestling industry.

That sounds brilliant to be fair.

Obviously

It would be a laugh to watch some classic Heenan or something at least.

Watched a few of these over the last few days. Here's the new ones:

 

Guest Booker with Vince Russo:

Vince Russo seems to live in some bubble, where nobodies opinion matters but his own. He's a real obnoxious arsehole on this DVD. This DVD sums up his career as a booker to be honest. He justifies his ideas as "this would be an 8.0, bro ..." There's only so much of that you can take in 2 hours. Its supposed to be a re-booking of the Invasion, but he doesn't want to bring any WCW wrestlers in. Its quite interesting, considering the WWF had the same thought at the time. Russo says "bring in the nWo and have them feud over the fact they left to go to WCW originally". Vince Russo's Invasion isn't an Invasion at all. Its old WWF wrestlers turning up to bitch about the fact they no longer have a job anymore. Goldberg, Sting and Booker T eventually show up, but they are relegated to a six man tag and eventually join the nWo or something. Its good to see that there is someone with a worse idea of how to book the Invasion than the WWF did. Its interesting in a way to make you see that Russo is completely off his tits. Worth a watch if you have the free time, just for the novelty of it.

XWT on my screen and the Utorrent ready to go!

Not sure if this is possible, but it might be a laugh to watch old shows before Monday Night Raw, and talk about it in the chatroom?

Don't know how easy to set up it would be and stream, but we could have a poll or something to decide what old episode/ppv to watch as a prelude to Raw or something.

Fuck me, that's a hell of a mid life crisis old Jesse's having there. A skullet and awful looking necklace.

What a load of shite 'Vintage' Collection was this week. Booker T v John Cena for the whole show?

It's mid 90's WCW and Prime Time Wrestling for me or nothing.

I found it increasingly annoying as his bumming of 'Hunter and Shawn' escalated towards the end.

Feinstein's shite, he asks every Wrestler the same questions.

Sky Sports repeats of Raw on Thursday Night and Monday Afternoon are two hours including adverts, and thus have basically just had the shit and the filler cut out of them which has made Raw so un-watchable since Episode 1001

It's been mainly shit for years.

I wasn't so keen about the story about the Yoko/Diesel cage match though. One thing is getting one over Bill Watts, but short changing the fans is unnecessary.

(Would have been a load of shite match though)

Getting the Nash 95 Timeline shoot ofF XWT now. Really looking forward to it.

Just watched it, really good.

I'm a huge fan of the timeline series, but there are a few gaps at the moment. Any thoughts on who would be good picks?

Here are mine;

84 Roddy Piper (I would say Jimmy Snuka but doubt he remembers fuck all)

89 Tito Santana

90 Bill Eadie

91 Ted DiBiase

92 Bret Hart (longshot I suppose)

93 Tatanka

94 Lex Luger

96 Goldust

98 Billy Gunn

I'm glad I wasn't alone in all this.

Still not buying it 'till they sort out the covers though!

I was waiting for a train in Chester last week and was browsing through the magazines. I started reading through it quickly and seriously considered buying it, but then couldn't face the embarassment of walking up to the counter, paying for, and then walking round with a magazine featuring a topless bloke (Randy Orton) on the front.

We've never been the coolest of people to begin with, but do Wrestling magazines have to be so obviously Gay?

I'm an hour into the Nash one as well, and it's really good. Highlight so far is the stuff about his WrestleMania match and the finish.

Did you get that off XWT?

Blimey, how brilliant does this house show sound?!

- Northeast Wrestling's Wrestling Under the Stars show on September 22nd in Fishkill, New York at Duchess Stadium is shaping up. Names scheduled to appear include Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Jerry Lawler, Matt Hardy, Lita, Rosita, Goldust, Vader, Jim Duggan, Velvet Sky, Angelina Love, Sami Callihan and others.

Lita will special guest referee a match between Rosita and a mystery partner vs. The Beautiful People while Lawler will team with former New York Yankee Joe Ausanio to take on Luke Robinson and Romeo Roselli, managed by Jimmy Hart.