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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,297 Views)
Mad Dog
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I take that back. I forget Pete Doherty would do commentary for some shows.
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Scrooge McSuck
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I'd put Alfred ahead of Graham, Tronguard, and Billy Graham. Probably Craig Degeorge, too. This might sound silly, but Sean Mooney wasn't as bad as I remember. He wasn't very good, but he was tolerable.
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Mad Dog
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I thought Mooney was okay in the control room type segments. Better than Pettingil by far.
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Worst announce team I ever heard was Dick Graham and Craig DeGeorge. Man were they atrocious.

I used to dislike Alfred back in the day but with the right person he's tolerable. He was best with Monsoon IMO.

Mooney was ok in the booth but he was better off in the control center and doing the backstage interviews. Who could forget Perfect screaming ''SHUT UP MOONEY!!''
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Mad Dog,Feb 2 2017
09:57 AM
And interesting that they used different approaches. Heyman got them to buy into the cult and Watts antagonized greatness out of his talent.

Never thought of it that way before. But I agree
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HeenanandMonsoon,Feb 2 2017
05:20 PM
What ever happened to Dick Graham? After the WWF stopped doing televised house shows at the Spectrum by 89 he just vanished.

I don't remember him.
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Mad Dog
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So if I had to rank the TV from the 80s by favorite to least favorite this is how I would go:

1. Mid-South/UWF
2. Jim Crockett Promotions
3. Memphis
4. All Japan Pro Wrestling
5. Georgia
6. Continental
7. WWF
8. WCCW
9. AWA
10. CWF
11. Stampede - absolutely god awful TV.
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I do find it interesting that if I did a year by year favorite TV show for 1984-2001 that WWF might only win for 2000.
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Mad Dog
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I came home, watched an episode of Mid-South, then I watched the UK Tournament and then I ended the night with some Stardom matches. God I love technology and how freely available wrestling is now.
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Mad Dog,Feb 3 2017
10:35 PM
I came home, watched an episode of Mid-South, then I watched the UK Tournament and then I ended the night with some Stardom matches. God I love technology and how freely available wrestling is now.

Last night I listened to JR, Jericho and Storm and Cyrus' new podcast episodes and watched a bunch of random indie matches from a lot of the so-called "indie darlings" out there right now. Caught a really great Sami Callihan/Tommy End match from before End left for NXT, a Uhaa Nation/Matt Sydal match, a Ricochet/Sami match, a Michael Elgin/Ricochet match, a Ricochet/PJ Black match, a PJ Black/"Machine" Brian Cage match, and a match with Chris Masters wrestling some indie scrub in a really solid match. Fun stuff all around.

Also, I decided to look up some old-school OVW stuff and caught some early days Cena, Orton, Batista, and Lesnar stuff. Saw a fun match where the would-be Danny Basham (as The Damaja) beat Orton clean in the middle. Caught a Miz/Renee Dupree match where Miz played a solid babyface for maybe the first and only time ever. Nova and John Cena (a Cena who looks like a deflated balloon compared to his current appearance) had a match for the OVW Title that went through four referees and like four fun false finishes. For a developmental league show, it was really quite good.

Also, by God, Rico Constantino actually looked like a legit mega-star in the making in OVW before they brought him in to be Billy and Chuck's hair dresser. Complete waste of a good talent.

So yeah, I couldn't agree more. Wrestling is sprawling out at our fingertips and its amazing.
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Mad Dog
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Okada defends the IWGP against Suzuki tomorrow. I'll be trying to watch the show probably over the course of the day. RPG Vice also defends the junior tags against Taichi and Taka Michinoku.
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Dug out some Superstar shows from 96. I still don't get the whole Stalker gimmick. How can that character be a face? If I recall the original plan was he was going to feud with Marc Mero after stalking Sable. The gimmick had potential if they went the heel route.
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Mad Dog
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96 is such a weird year for the WWF. The cartoony shit is still strong while you have the Attitude era roots starting.
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The Stalker was doomed the second he worked matches in a "WWF logo" shirt. Being a face didn't help, either. The plan indeed was to involve him in an angle with Mero/Sable, but I think they found it too uncomfortable.
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It's also interesting to note that WCW business had been getting better through the first 6 months of 1996 due to the Savage/Flair program. The nWo gets a lot of deserved credit but business was just starting to pick up as they landed.
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