Flair always put his opponents over. In promos and in ring. It's a lost art

I could listen to Cornette and his stories all day long and not get bored. Great insight from the old days of pro wrestling.

That proves absolutely nothing, not a damned thing.

That match is first on the VHS of the show, but the actual opener was Flyin' Brian against Buddy Landell

It was the 5th match on the show.

You don't put the Midnight Express on the first match.

@@ricstormwolf Because it was the Southen Boys and the US Tag titles it makes sense to me. Its good to have a fast pace opener to get the crowd into the show.

probably spot on with his opinion too.

When i look back at 1990 in pro wrestling, it was a great decision for Mark to go north to the WWF (as WWE was known at that time) and make his career there.

"The Wendy's Quadruple: Life is short. Make it shorter."

Double meat double cheese

Wish in one hand and shit in the other see which fills up first.

Lolol sucks

Buddy Landel is the bizarro Nature Boy. He’s from an alternate universe where Nature is a glorified jobber😂 never understood why he wouldn’t just come with his own gimmick. He was actually pretty entertaining all the way round.

now you know there was one.....so

Funny i never knew that ether and i was born in Boston Massachusetts

Ha, I once dated a girl from Saint John NB

I have relatives in NB, beautiful province.

Beautiful place, but boring as hell unless you love the outdoors

Now that's what I call heel heat!

He spent some time as a job guy on WWF TV before quitting wrestling and fading into obscurity. I hear he's in Dallas working a day job as a hardware store clerk.

Him and his brother who lost his orthodontist license for malpractice. I feel bad for those guys.

We have found Captain Obvious

No shit, you don’t say

@@nicholasfarrell8403 Come say it to my face and I'll stomp your ass smartass

Shaun Smith is that supposed to be intimidating

@@nicholasfarrell8403 It don't matter to me if it intimadates you or not

@@shaunsmith7928 When you can't spell a word that was already spelled for you.

That's not the style that brought in fans or people who would be watching those advertisements.

Both of y'all are correct in your own way. The problem, ultimately, was a difference in corporate vision. Turner, being a broadcasting and media company, simply didn't visualize turning a profit through revenue gate fees; it was something their business plans never took account for, by sheer fact that they were a broadcasting company, not venue promoters. So their emphasis was picking up advertisers through ratings and gaining buy-rate. It also probably plays a part (among other things) that Bill Watts didn't work out when he ran WCW. While previously known as a brilliant promoter in his territory, he didn't fit the Turner company's vision of providing television content. It was probably the (one) thing Bischoff really did understand (though what made for great television content he was still just spit-balling most of the time--a couple of times he got lucky, the rest of the time, not really).

Give the people what they want. The people weren't paying over a million dollars a year in every city for a tv show. They apparently wanted vaudeville. Turner bought a successful company that got in a little trouble and promptly killed it. Got a big hit for a few years, and then killed it for good.

They bought a wrestling company that produced television and turned it into a television show that produced wrestling. WWE just produces garbage for the lowest common denominator. House shows are dead, as are ratings, buy rates and everything else concerning that hole of a company.

He bought a pro-wrestling company that he wanted to become a tv property. If you want people to watch, it still needs to be fucking good. They still had studio audiences for variety shows. Pro-wrestling without a crowd looks like shit, and no one will fucking watching it. Oh, and there's also the simple fact that when people aren't buying tickets, they aren't watching it on fucking tv either. Having a reason doesn't make it the right thing to do. Wrestlers aren't actors. Guaranteed money, past a certain point, is a mistake in pro-wrestling. Always has been, always will be. What WWE does now is irrelevant. Herd didn't have any idea what he was doing. Cornette still has all his old data sheets. Flair's booking got the ratings up, Herd's constant interference fucked them up.