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There was a great issue of the F4W a couple of years ago where Alvarez went backstage at WWE events when Buddy Wayne was doing jobs for them.When someone (Harvey Wippleman?) asked who he was, Buddy said he was his little brother Barry.

Do you know which issue this is? I'd quite like to give that a read but don't fancy trawling through the archives looking for it.

Isn't the caveat that NOAH themselves have booked that match?

It says that that pacman dude is going to be on iMPACT this thursday. If iMPACT was taped last week why was there rumours about whether he has actually signed or not?

His apperance will be a taped insert.

He didn't.

I think he meant a list of what the SuperStars are earning

Do you work for WWE?

I should be getting to see Danielson vs Morishima live, I can't wait..

Seen it

cross-posting:ROH's Japan debut.Richards/Romero vs. Evans/Suzuki - want to see more than clips of this, looks good but Jack Evans is still too contrived and stupid.Taniguchi vs. Ito - more clips, looked like a NOAH rookie match.Rave vs. Whitmer - if the clips were the best this had to offer, I'd rather not see it in full. Not really a fan of either guy anyway.Danielson vs. Shiozaki - pretty good, maybe ***1/2-***3/4, pretty long with a good build. Starts slow but gets real hot towards the end. You know the crack here.Strong vs. Delirious - back to the clips, need to see it in full really, here it was just a bunch of ladder bumps. Presumably with all the psychology and intensity and selling left intact this'll probably be pretty good.Briscoes/Marufuji vs. Sydal/Marvin/Aoki - great, loved it! Japan six-man's can be great when they don't run like five per show and the teams aren't seemingly drawn out of a hat and this pretty much fit that bill. Briscoes were great, Marufuji was great, Marvin was great, Aoki was great, this was great! Morishima vs. McGuinness - only match I've not seen thus far, needed to sleep!

Oui.

I've seen 36 and 38 both reported. Mid to late 30s is about all anyone can seem to be sure of.

Was Austin Aries' recent return to ROH on a normal show or a PPV taping?

I believe his contract signing is airing on the second pay-per-view.

On IVPVideos, there is a section named "Toryumon/Dragon Gate", but inside every show is under the Toryumon heading. Does anyone know if any of these are DG shows from the last few years, or are they all Toryumon shows? If they are, I assume the heading's just been named incorrectly.Thanks.

They're Dragon Gate.

Watching a 1988 WWF House show and they have The Blue Angel vs. Barry Horowitz. The Angel looks a lot like Owen Hart to me. Anyone confirm?

Certainly is. Hart went through a few tweaks on his lucha-based gimmick in '88, from the Blue Angel to the Blue Demon to the Blue Lazer before they finally settled on The Blue Blazer.

Ricky Marvin in ROH excites me

Were you there like?

Tried it, got billed $7.99. Robbing bastards.

So if I put my email address in that $6.95 section, basically nothing'll happen or I'll get asked to use the $7.99 form?

Does anybody know the difference between Figure Four Weekly Online's "$6.95 Quick Sign-up" and the regular "regular $7.99 sign-up" as they both say the same thing "Figure Four Weekly Online-Only One Month"? With no links to paypal or credit card details on the $6.95 service, have I stumbled on an obsolete link?

what was the last WWF show and how did it change from WWF to WWE, I don't mean the story behind it because everyone knows that. I mean did they just say welcome to WWE or was there a new heading etc.

WWF (Smackdown!) @ Worcester, MA - Centrum - May 5, 2002WWF Cruiserweight Champion Tajiri pinned Billy Kidman with a kick to the headRandy Orton pinned Hardcore Holly with a roll upLance Storm & Chavo Guerrero Jr. defeated Sho Funaki & the Hurricane when Storm pinned Funaki with a superkickTazz defeated D-Von Dudley via submission with the TazzmissionMark Henry & Hugh Morrus defeated Albert & the Godfather when Henry pinned Albert with a powerslamKurt Angle pinned Edge in a No DQ match with the Olympic Slam after hitting Edge with a steel chairTorrie Wilson defeated Stacy Keibler and Ivory in a swimsuit contestWWF Tag Team Champions Billy Gunn & Chuck Palumbo defeated Al Snow & Maven when Palumbo pinned Maven with the Jungle KickTest pinned Rikishi with a boot to the face after Christian interfered; after the bout, Rikishi gave Christian the StinkfaceWWF World Champion Hulk Hogan pinned Chris Jericho with the boot to the face and the legdrop thehistoryofwwe.com

What was the purpose of Shawn Michaels being accompanied by Jose Lothario in 1996? He obviously wasn't a mouthpeice or anything like that, so did he have any real reason (other than being the mentor) for being at ringside?

Jose Lothario - who was Shawn's trainer - came into it because Shawn was supposedly re-dedicating his career to winning the WWF Title, meaning he went back to his original trainer to prepare him for the biggest test of his life. Lothario was an on-screen reminder of that.Why he continued to accompany him after he won the belt is beyond me.

Sympathy. But when Sid smashed Jose up with the TV camera, it was in New York where all the tough guys though Shawn was a weenie and sided with Sid anyway. Good on them, I did too!

1) Why have they started showing a "From the Vault" match during Raw and Smackdown! on TV each week? Is it to cover censored bits, or are Raw and Smackdown! actually short programmes on their own now?

 

The show is short I think, I've only noticed it during SmackDown! (when I see Raw it's usually the live show if anything) but SmackDown! tends to run two hours including the From the Vault match (which from the shows I've seen is usually something pretty decent).

That's not him.

when the nWo returned/debuted in 2002, WWE was actually still the WWF.

Can anyone enlighten me on the circumstances surrounding the departure of 911 from ECW in early 1996?

Just a quickie.How long has Hulk Hogan played the political game? I've obviously heard all about his WCW antics, and his refusal to do jobs since his 2002 comeback, but does anyone know of any politicking in his original WWF run? Was he worse during this time? Or did he play by the book? Anybody heard any stories?

Difference is when your making money, no-one really cares. Jake has a story that he was fueding with Hogan on house-shows, but ended up getting bigger pops than Hogan so they had to forget it. A similar story featuring Bam Bam leaving WWF because Hogan thought he was getting too popular. The majority of guys in his run up to '92 don't slag off or complain about Hogan too much, he was a licence to print money and back in those days you can only really have one major face - also the house show money would eventually filter down to them.It's a struggle to think of any genuine main-eventers who don't involve themselves in politics to some degree.

The Jake thing was more about not fucking with the undisputed top guy's face dynamic than anything.But Hogan politicking in the 80's? The time Jesse Ventura tried to start a union and Hogan got wind of things and went right to Vince and got the whole deal canned because he didn't want to jeopordise the fact he was making a ton of money (mostly) by himself.

Which ROH show was outside in a big city?

Are you talking about the infamous match which was shown on TV? If it's the one involving Azrieal, it was in the city of Manhatten, New York and was used to promote an upcomming RoH show in the same city.

I just seen it in the background of a DVD menu. I think Aires was hitting a 450 in it if that helps??

It was an exhibition on a morning news program intended to promote ROH. The segments are featured on one of the ROH DVDs.

That dvd is "The Future Is Now", a wonderful show from the afternoon of June 12th 2005 held in New York City a few blocks away from the first ECW One Night Stand which happened later that evening.

You're right, and that leads me to a question of my own. Anyone have any idea why they've not run the venue since? It looked fantastic on DVD.