My God, what a depressing thing, watching the Chris Adams "Gentleman's Choice" video.

Mickey Grant, saying the syndicated show was #2, just behind "Soul Train"?!?

An incredible array of losers...

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Then watching the Mike Graham Guest Booker...

LOL, they asked him everything except the booking part.

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I've learned many things from watching these:

don't headbutt flight attendants
don't throw boulders thru windows at McD's
stay far away from Sunny
do NOT share a motel room with Jim Mitchell.
don't talk to Al Snow. Ever.

They key for most of these is to find ones without Feinstein and w/o too much Sean Oliver. That leaves multiple guest shoots or ones conducted by a guest (Cornette) or ones that are compilations, etc.

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I know we have many a Jerry Jarrett fan here. Might have been a great booker, but what an unimpressive human being. He might be the most passive aggressive male I've ever watched speak in my life. That "oh shucks" southern gentleman crap isn't going to fly with this Yankee.

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Sure, and Jarrett believes a lot of his own publicity, too.

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Don't shake his hands, certainly. You sorta know where they been.



The old ROH shooting series with the somnambulant interviewer was a hoot. You're basically relying on the interview subject to be the entertainer, anyhow. I have to admit, I prefer Corny. I wonder how Percy Pringle'd do in that role?

But seriously, regards Sean Oliver, can you think of a more minimal-investment money maker? Especially the "You Shoot"?

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Speaking my language Beebo. We were discussing this yesterday.

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Personally I can't get enough of the Cornette ones. The only one (and its not up yet) that isn't great is when he re-books the invasion. There's also one with Bruno that is hosted by Cornette that is really good, but the file is huge and isn't up yet.

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Watching the Memphis DVD... Good Christ, how long were they sitting on that, waiting for funding? Jarrett's a blonde in the interviews (And tubby, too)

Lots of the older guys I never got to see, so that's great. Little too much Lawler and Jimmy Hart, but that was expected.

What thoughts from the other denizens of the Peanut Gallery?

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The first line of the entire doc is, "They don't even know what Heat is today, man". ...and I think that is beyond perfect


I love the Memphis dvd. I think I've watched 4-5 times now. I think its worth it just to watch Lawler punch people, that dude still has to have the best punch in the business. Fargo can hold up his left hand, punch it was his right, and it still looks like a better punch than any current performer. Most of the stories are great and the crowd reactions give me goose bumps at times. You can have 80,000 people at Mania this year and they would still pale in comparison to some of the memphis crowd noise/reactions. You always used to hear the stories about promoters turning away thousands of fans wrapped around the building and SRO in blizzards, etc, but these guys really did it. There was definitely better wrestling out there at the time but I cant imagine any other territory were it would be that fun to be a fan.

also in the extras "title 2" is a pretty good story - the Mario Gallento incident. That's how I like to think of the glory days of the business.



Heat = "I had a baby actually thrown on me in a riot in Odessa, TX"
- Sputnik Monroe

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