I can't get enough of the Starrcade Memorial. I've gone through it at least 5 times, probably 10 times. The bookends are the best ones 83, 84, 99, 2000. 87 is also great.

Have you not listened to the SMT yet?

I don't believe I have. At least this 1983 episode hasn't been familiar, and I doubt I would have just jumped into the middle.

It's interesting to hear Gene Kiniski get raked over the coals. Obviously he was before my day, but he was always of unique interest to me because he spent his retirement years in the small town that I grew up in. My mom always told me that he used to be the world champion, and I always assumed that she was getting something wrong because he definitely never got mentioned on any wrestling that I ever watched. But he was a perpetual presence around town because he kept up a pretty solid jogging regimen that would always take him past our house, always jogging around shirtless despite being a heavy old guy.

I've seen that Flair-Race match before, but I think I'll have to rewatch it at some point just to focus more on Kiniski apparently bugging the **** out of Race throughout it. I knew he had sort of botched the finish, but had never noticed any of the rest.

Excerpt from the Steve Austin show where Billy Gunn describes what great traveling buddies he and Steve became:

That's the funniest **** I've ever read in my life. I SCSA

With all the stories (hundreds) I've heard and read of wrestlers destroying hotel rooms, it's amazing any hotels let wrestlers stay there.

I'm not sure what my previous highlight of the original WrestleMania was, but thanks to TLF, it's "I AM a big leaguer!"

Agreed 100%. I’ve used this line on my wife when she was breaking my calls about something. She had no idea how to react.

calls

Following up on this, it has caused me to develop this ridiculous tic (thankfully confined solely to moments when I'm listening to TLF by myself) where, if either host says the word "leg," I repeat it back in Executioner-voice.

Next week on Bruce Prichard’s podcast, they are doing WM XIX. Since this was one of my favorites; I wanted to rewatch it so that it was fresh in my mind. It was then I realized that I had never listened the TLF’s podcast on it and decided to fire that one up from rat. I can say that it was easily one of my favorite podcasts that they have done. It had the right amp not of Lapsed Hogan which just cracks me up every tine. There is just something about a paranoid Hogan constantly fearing someone shooting on him or sneaking up for a roll up that just tickles me to no end

Souled Out 1997 (Part 2): 1:42:35-1:46:00. That is the best paranoid Hogan skit ever.

I was listening to the AWA Super Sunday (Part 2) episode a few days ago and JP did Hogan paranoid of a Richter push and I was dying.

Vince LOL Russo on Stone cold's podcast this week.

https://www.podcastone.com/Steve-Austin-Show

Have not listened yet so can't say how good.

Lot's of ads and bro's from Vince so far. I'm sorry for any pain you get listening to this guy.

Having continued to work my way through the Starrcade TLF stuff...seriously, Bob Caudle is a lot better than the treatment he gets on the podcast.

That said, I can forgive the assassination as a small price to pay for the way that they've destroyed Kevin Nash.

How many times can he have Vince Russo on his podcast? I honestly think I’d rather listen to him talk about hunting knives and maintenance at the Broken Skull Ranch before another Russo podcast.

“Here is what you don’t understand, Bro!”

The roasting of Dick Ebersol on the latest TLF (Main Event '88) is tremendously funny.

Wait until you get to Hulk L’orange. I had to pull the car over I was laughing so hard

Hulk changing the record books at the 8:30 mark of part two was one of the funniest things ever. "In the margin next to WM VI it says, 'see Halloween Havoc 98'" LOLOL.

“No, that was a count out, Dude!”

The Hulk/duck stuff wasn't as much my thing. All of the business about mainstream media coverage just slayed me though.

Every time JP starts singing a ****ing theme song on TLF, I cringe terribly until the pain ends. It always takes twice as long to end as I'm expecting it to.

I don't mind the iconic theme like Flair's so much but I find it irritating when he's singing some obscure song like Tito's that nobody knows.

Also, I think he's just pandering to the @lapsedjukebox account so they have fodder to do stuff with.

I really really dislike the "digging in the crates" series.

I haven't listened to the latest one, but based on the first two I agree (which is why I haven't bothered with the latest one). It does seem like they've run into a problem where they've already hit most of the most iconic stuff in wrestling history, so they're being forced to try to come up with new angles. I'm just glad they're not doing it consecutively like with other series.

I found this tweet interesting.



Amusing that there are no heels from WWE on this list. I'm also not sure where the votes are from as the WON awards are usually done in March.

WWE heels in 95? Mabel, Sid, Nash, Hakushi, Davey Boy, Owen. Perhaps the list is valid. Perhaps Tatanka should be on this list after that vicious turn on Luger! edit: come to think of it, that may have been 94. idk and don't care to look up.

Anyhow, was just thinking out loud.

I really hate how I put WWE instead of WWF. JP wearing off on me

edit: for an actual interesting tweet

Tatanka's turn was SummerSlam '94 and he surely would have been considered a bust as a heel by '96. Nash spent most of '95 as a face and really hadn't gone full heel by '96 despite his post-match attack on Bret at Survivor Series. He was playing tweener for a while, and it was a good character but not exactly a heel.

Backlund was a great heel, but he had already transitioned to the "running for President" gimmick by '96 and wasn't really wrestling at all. Yeah, the pickings were slim. Vader did go WWF the same month as that tweet though, and then Foley was only a few months later.

If that Piper rumor had legs, I'm glad that they shifted gears. That would have been instead of Savage-Warrior.

I was thinking Nash was a heel at WM 11 for some reason.

Funny you say that because if you remember, he came out on crutches with Virgil @WM7 because he had a bad leg. I wonder if that hip injury is what made them pivot to Warrior/Savage.

I wonder what Warrior would've done had that Piper/Savage thing gone through. vs. Perfect for the IC strap? The only thing that seems even reasonable for him is a rematch with Hulk.

Hot take: Bossman should've beaten Perfect for the IC belt at WM 7. This was the culmination of months of Heenan making fun of him and his mother and BBM had gone through the rest of the Heenan Family. I'm ok with it though as we got that great Hitman/Perfect match.