Ryan Navigates '90 - #20 (3/31)
Hulk Hogan rides his Harley Davidson into the Pacific Ocean to meet God.
Good day!
After a couple weeks of fairly light Saturdays, we’re back with another article dedicated to a whole Saturday’s worth of action. On the eve of WrestleMania VI, we get some final build before the big event, including yet another round of Hogan/Warrior promos. Plus, some NWA, USWA Dallas, and the first Navigation appearance of Joel Goodhart’s Tri-State Wrestling Alliance promotion with two major matches.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31st
WWF Superstars of Wrestling
With WrestleMania VI the next day, we’ve got some last-minute hype before the Showcase of the Immortals. We open with Vince McMahon and Jesse “The Body” Ventura, who are coming to us from the tomato capital of the world, Sacramento, California! Jesse, who is now adorned with both Hogan and Warrior regalia, is asked to predict a winner for the big main event.
Jesse, as a broadcast journalist, wins either way, so he declares it a toss-up! Oh, that cad!
Demolition (Ax & Smash) are celebrating a squash win over Conquistador Uno and Joe Stedum, but the Hart Foundation (Bret “Hitman” Hart & Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart) come out. Anvil grabs the mic and issues a public challenge for whoever the tag champions will be after WrestleMania VI (either the Demos or the Colossal Connection).
Bret says that they want the winners, and they want THE TITLES! A quick little segment to set up a program further down the road. It also foreshadows who will be walking out of ‘Mania with the belts.
It's time for another Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior promo battle! We start with WARYAH, who says that we have only a few sunrises and sunsets before his epic clash with HO KOGAN. The two strongest forces will face each other in that one last breath of combat.
He essentially says that HO KOGAN will take him further than he's ever been. Now, HO KOGAN, you will see it in his eyes!
HO KOGAN will know that Warrior is the chosen one!
HO KOGAN, AS YOU SURRENDER YOUR STRENGTH, I, HO KOGAN, WILL WALK INTO THE CHALLENGES THAT LAY AHEAD WITH THE POWER OF THE TWO THAT WILL SOON BECOME ONE!
*SCROOOOOONNNNNK*
Holy crap, I…understood this and didn’t either hate it or find it ironically amusing? If he did more of this and less telling people to commit suicide and terrorism, the buyrate may not have been a disappointment.
We then throw it to probable future Trump cabinet member with the way things are going, Hulk Hogan, who agrees with Warrior about there only being a few sunsets and a few sunrises until the big clash. At WrestleMania VI, the Hulksters predict that this is the last sunset for the Ultimate Warrior, MAN!
The largest arms in the world can handle Warrior, and the emotional and moral support he’s received has been unrivaled. Spiritually, though, he wasn’t sure, so he relates a story of riding his Harley Davidson on Venice Beach.
He rode that thing onto the sand and into the goddamn Pacific Ocean until the motorcycle stopped. That sounds like a clear warranty violation. Hogan then looked up to HIS GOD IN HEAVEN and screamed, “WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF HULKAMANIA?!?”. Then God, the #1 Hulkamaniac himself, allegedly told Hogan that Hulkamania was destined to rule the world. Hulkamania will never die! That’s all Hogan needed, BROTHER!
Hogan says that the largest shadow will cover SkyDome, but it won’t be the crash landing of a 747. It will be Hulkamania! Hogan’s people will never follow Warrior, and when he wins at WrestleMania VI, the Warrior will bend and become the Ultimate Hulkamaniac! WHATCHA GONNA DO…yadda, yadda, yadda.
I love that when Warrior has a relatively sane-ish promo, Hogan takes the opportunity to absolutely fucking lap him in terms of hyperbolic delusion.
It’s time for The Brother Love Show! Boo! His guests this week are “Macho King” Randy Savage and Sensational Queen Sherri. Yay!
Brother Macho King reminds us that THIS SUNDAAAAYYYY, him and Sherri will face Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. Sister Queen tells Dusty that Savage is a former WWF Champion, and that she was a former WWF Women’s Champion. She will knock DUSTY ON HIS BUTT! Then she completely crashes out, like Netflix trying to stream the Tyson/Paul fight, but in a good way.
Love asks Savage about the possibilities should he end up in the ring with Sapphire, which goes against the rules of a mixed tag. Savage says to let your imagination run wild, YEAHHHHH.
Really, not much of a promo from Savage, but he could read the Apple terms and conditions and make it awesome just from the voice and inflection alone. Sherri was wonderfully crazy.
To put a big, red, heavily-roided bow on the PPV build, we have our WRESTLEMANIA VI REPORT!
“Mean” Gene Okerlund tells us to pick up that phone and call our cable providers! Gene reminds us about THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE! Also, the mixed tag match!
Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire plan to PUMP IT UP! PUMP IT UP!
We’re also getting Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Bad News Brown, the WWF tag title match with Demolition vs. Colossal Connection, Mr. Perfect vs. Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, Ted DiBiase vs. Jake Roberts for the Million Dollar Belt, and Big Boss Man vs. Akeem!
Slick tells Boss Man that if he can’t do the time, don’t do the crime, then Akeem promises Boss Man that HE’LL be the one to pass the sentence onto him! GUILTY AS CHARGED!
Boss Man tells Akeem that when he pushes the law at WrestleMania, the law pushes back REAL HARD!
Also slated for Sunday afternoon is The Barbarian vs. Tito Santana, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan vs. Dino Bravo, Hercules vs. Earthquake, Ravishing Rick Rude vs. “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka, “The Birdman” Koko B. Ware vs. “The Model” Rick Martel, The Hart Foundation vs. The Bolsheviks, and The Rockers vs. The Orient Express!
Also, Rhythm & Blues will debut their new single, “Hunka Hunka Honky Love”! Yay.
We also have celebrities!
Steve Allen, who serenades us with piano shtick!
Rona Barrett, who has ALL THE SCOOPS!
Robert Goulet, who reminds us that he’s singing O Canada!
The Andromeda galaxy just filed a complaint because the WWF is hogging ALL THE STARS.
It all comes to you LIVE, this Sunday afternoon at 4pm EDT! PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL YOUR LOCAL CABLE COMPANY! DEMAND, don’t request, DEMAND WRESTLEMANIA VI! Honestly, just ask politely for it. No need to be a dick to the customer service rep.
Leave it to Mean Gene to get you proper hyped for a huge pay-per-view. As for what I’m going to review of WrestleMania VI, the Goodhelmet Yearbook has a couple of matches and a few segments and promos.
However, for the very next article, I’m just going to review the whole damn event. Look for a full review of WrestleMania VI in the next issue of Ryan Navigates ‘90!
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NWA World Championship Wrestling
Jim Cornette explains that Sting’s knee is healing faster than expected, then introduces an interview where Jim Ross chats it up with the man himself at the gym. Sting’s going to town on a stationary bike.
Ross warns the Stinger that he may be coming back too soon, relating a story of footballer Jim Klecko, who returned four months after a ruptured patella tendon nearly a decade earlier, but was never the same. Sting reiterates that he won’t be the same, but better than ever after returning.
Sting’s focus will entirely be on Ric Flair when he gets back. This was pretty similar to the promo Sting cut last week, but on an exercise bike!
We now get an advert for Wrestling Wrap-Up magazine, which takes place in a hair salon. Several ladies are holding up a Woman centerfold, then we see businessmen on shoeshine stands pretending to read a newspaper, but *gasp*, they’re reading the magazine! Why advertise the magazine as something you don’t want people to see you reading?
You can read Letters to the Wrestlers, Quotes of the Month, and more!
The ad closes out with Jimmy Garvin and a shirtless Michael P.S. Hayes looking into the camera. Hayes in particular is serving serious smoulder.
Wrestling Wrap-Up would be the publication that would evolve into WCW Magazine. This iteration of the magazine apparently wasn’t easy to acquire, with it only being available on a subscription basis or sold in the arenas. Why this wasn’t on magazine stands along with the WWF and Apter mags, I don’t know.
USWA Championship Sports (Dallas)
Jerry “The King” Lawler graces us with a pre-tape, complaining about the recent slate of challengers for his Unified World Heavyweight Championship.
He addresses Mike Awesome, calling him a “big clown”. Awesome reminds Jerry of dinosaurs (completely with a hilariously condescending description for the Texans who “dropped out of first grade when they were 13-14 years old”). They were mighty, but not smart enough to keep themselves from going extinct.
Lawler says that Awesome is big and muscular, impressing the idiots in Dallas (“who for years idolized that jerk, Kerry Von Erich”), but that doesn’t make him a great wrestler. He’s an IDIOT! “Mindreaders only charge this guy half-price”.
Lawler says that brains will win out over brawn, promising to make a fool out of Awesome in the Sportatorium. Awesome will be added to the list of muscleheads, like Kerry and Al Perez, who fell to the King.
Kind of a repetitive promo here from Lawler. We get it, Mike Awesome is a dum-dum. No need to find 600 ways to say it. He did get a couple of good lines in, though.
We hear from Mr. Awesome himself via pre-tape. He talks about Jerry Lawler saying he has a pea-brain, like a dinosaur or an elephant. OK, I don’t know if that was something that Lawler actually said or something that Awesome pulled out of his ass, but who in the hell would use an ELEPHANT as a way to attack someone’s intellect? They’re one of the smartest mammals on the planet!
Awesome says he’s training hard, and he’ll pop Jerry Lawler like a pimple! The trash talk isn’t working on him, and Lawler doesn’t deserve his belt! Awesome will take the belt and put it around his waist! YEAAAAAHHHHH!!
Not terrible, but kind of silly. He didn’t exactly disprove Lawler’s assertions of his brainpower. Still, as someone who LOVED Awesome during his FMW and ECW days, it’s neat to see him as a 25-year-old rookie cutting his teeth.
Eric Embry and Percy Pringle head down to ringside for a chat with Marc Lowrance. Embry’s got a big, glittery robe, and Percy’s rocking a decent 70s-esque fit.
Purse explains that Eric signed a contract to face Gary Young next week. Embry was also presented a stack of 5-6 blank contracts that he hastily signed. Embry then claims that either Kerry Von Erich or Billy Joe Travis will have to defend the Texas title against him, then rambles about last night’s tag (Embry & Pringle vs. Young & Skandor Akbar).
Embry restates signing a bunch of blank contracts as he goes over his history with Devastation Inc. He then tells the cameraman, who was apparently signaling for him to wrap it up, that he “told him last week what he can do with that finger”, and that he’ll talk for as long as he wants. If the cameraman doesn’t like it, he can take his “sissy-looking headphones” and get outta here. Wow, what an asshole.
Embry goes back to Gary Young, telling him he’ll end it quick, then tells Akbar he’ll take on everyone.
While he wasn’t as shrill and annoying as last week, I’m still not on the Eric Embry bandwagon. The meat of the promo wasn’t awful, but it definitely got long-winded. He says some of the right things, and the crowds do seem to like him, but it just rings hollow for me. It doesn’t feel natural for him to be this super-kind babyface.
Also, the stuff with the cameraman makes him look like a prick. You can’t peddle this humble “salt of the earth” image, then in the same breath bitch out a production worker for doing his job.
On the positive side, Percy did fine here. I’ve seen some complain about him mugging for the camera, but I didn’t find it to be overly bothersome. Also, the stuff about the multiple contracts does carry some intrigue about what could be coming down the pike.
TWA Spring Spectacular
Welcome to the Navigation, Tri-State Wrestling Alliance! Founded in 1989 and owned by Joel Goodhart, the Philadelphia-based promotion was an early indie adopter of the ‘hardcore’ style, using blood, brawling, and violence to generate buzz and attract a lot of up-and-coming talent. Goodhart also managed to get some pretty big names for his shows, as we will see later.
Amid financial difficulties, the TWA ran its final show in December 1991. In 1992, Goodhart sold his share of the company to financial backer Tod Gordon. The Todster would use what was left of Goodhart’s promotion to create Eastern Championship Wrestling. That, of course, would evolve into Extreme Championship Wrestling, and they would use the ‘blood and guts’ template that was set by the TWA to establish a fervent cult following and underground success.
Hell, a lot of talent that would be seen in the halcyon days of ECW could be found on the TWA roster; several of which were on this show. Even ECW referee John Finnegan would act as the zebra for a few matches.
Mike Tartaglia, current head of the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA), resurrected the TWA in 2009. Based mostly in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, shows were run semi-regularly until 2011 and would feature some of the original 1989-91 roster.
In 2024, Joel Goodhart announced another reunion show, TWA One and Done, set for May 3rd, 2025. This one is set to place in the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia (otherwise known as the ECW Arena) and will feature some original TWA talent and special guests, such as Tony Atlas and Sabu.
This particular show emanated from McGonigle Hall in Philadelphia, PA. That sounds way too much like “McGarnagle”:
We have a multi-camera set-up, but it still looks like handheld footage, and there’s no commentary.
Jules Strongbow defeated “He-Man” Randy Lewis via DQ after Lewis hit Strongbow with his sword. Yes, his sword.
Lewis was very much like a Temu He-Man, with the chest plate and crappy sword.
Rockin’ Rebel (one of several early ECW guys featured on this show) pinned CN Redd after a flying clothesline off the top rope.
Rebel’s story had a tragic ending as he shot and killed his wife, then himself, in 2018.
In a Taped Fist match, Johnny Hot Body and Tony Stetson, two more early ECW “legends” battled to a no-contest.
It’s possible this was a First Blood match, and the match was called a draw as they both started to bleed at the same time.
Tom Prichard pinned Cheetah Kid (Ted Petty, the future “Flyboy” Rocco Rock) after phone-based interference from Paul E. Dangerously.
“I Quit” Match: “Mad Dog” D.C. Drake vs. Larry Winters - Most longtime fans will tell you that the Cactus Jack vs. Eddie Gilbert series was the most famous feud the TWA produced, but Drake vs. Winters was the first rivalry to really put the company on the radar.
Bill Apter, back in the day, predicted that their contemporary violent style would change wrestling. As the future Extreme Championship Wrestling would build their identity on this kind of hardcore wrestling, and larger promotions like the WWF and WCW would borrow liberally from ECW in turn, Apter wasn’t entirely wrong.
Longtime Ryan’s Reviews readers may remember Drake as a red-herring mystery opponent for Cactus Jack at ECW’s Return of the Funker show in 1995. The Mad Dog gets into it with ringside fans (including who I believe to be ECW mainstay Hat Guy, sans hat), while his manager (who I can’t identify at all) holds him back with his dog collar and chain. Because he’s a DOG, you see, and a MAD one at that!
Winters spent much of the 1980s working in smaller promotions, as well as the NWA and the AWA, where his most notable rivalry was with Larry Zbyszko. After TWA closed down, Winters worked for the burgeoning ECW until his retirement in December 1993. He came back nearly a decade later in 2002, working smaller US independents until 2010. During that time, he worked for Pro Wrestling Unplugged (which was co-owned by Backseat Boy Johnny Kashmere and the aforementioned Tod Gordon) and even some of the TWA reunion shows. He passed away from a heart attack in 2015.
We actually get clips of a prior Stretcher Match between the two, which ended after Larry “Kendrick” Winters sent Drake out on a gurney.
We brawl on the floor to start, with Drake going after Winters’ heavily bandaged arm, using the ring post, a chair, and the ringside tables to assist with his assault. Winters refuses to quit, so Drake resumes the arm-centric punishment, tearing the bandaging off along the way.
The Mad Dog drags Winters all the way up the stars and into the press box, then teases throwing him out of it! That’s a hell of a long drop, and it almost feels cinematic, but with a production budget of about $8.
Larry comes surprisingly close to splattering on the floor of McGonigle Hall, but he hangs on despite Drake’s attempts to send him out. D.C. relents and slams Winters on the concrete instead before making his way back to the ring. Winters slowly comes back, then starts assailing Drake with a chair. That comeback is short-lived, though, as Drake punches Winters in the beanbag and resumes working him over with a hammerlock slam on the floor! Jeez.
Winters fires back with punches and kicks, but Drake snuffs out that comeback and goes after the arm with a stick/bar that he bends over it. Back in, Drake damages the arm with a rope-assisted hammerlock before dumping Winters back out and hitting a piledriver on the floor!
The ref asks if Winters quits, but he declines, resulting in more castigation for the injured arm. Winters soon mounts another comeback bid, punching and kicking Drake before sending him into the ringpost. Now Winters goes after Drake’s arm with a chair before landing a DDT on the floor! Drake is busted wide open as Winters bops him with some truly soft chairshots. Back in, Winters lands some big boots and a piledriver of his own. Drake doesn’t quit, so Winters drops a series of knees to the noggin.
Winters tosses Drake to the floor and we again head back up the stairs as the camera loses the action. We’re back with Drake piledriving Winters on top of the entryway, and Winters teasing another significant drop.
They brawl around the arena a bit more before returning to ringside, where Drake hits a piledriver onto a chair. Winters doesn’t give in, so Drake blasts him with a chair. Larry gets lacerated as well, so Drake goes right after the wound with the bell hammer. He also gnaws at the cut because he’s a MAD DOG.
Back in, Drake drops a knee to the nuts before applying a figure four, switching up the focus from the arm to the leg. However, Winters grabs the microphone and beats Drake with it to break the hold! OK, that was cool. What’s less cool, though, is the finish. Drake distracts the ref after dumping Winters onto the ropes, so the manager grabs the mic, screams “I QUIT” into it, and puts the mic in Winters’ hand. The ref turns around, believes Winters to have quit, and awards the match to Drake.
After the match, the heels attack Winters arm again, and Drake even suplexes the referee! Everything turns into a big schmoz as Rebel, Hotbody, Stetson, and Redd come out to brawl with everyone. It’s a pretty wild skirmish.
*** - There are elements of a great match here. I dug some of the limb psychology, with Drake going after the obvious elbow injury (the hammerlock slam on the floor was NASTY), and Winters trying to attack Drake’s arm in retaliation. That’s solid strategy for an I Quit match, as is threatening to throw your opponent from a very high place. The teases of Winters being dropped from the press box and the top of the entryway were suitably tense.
The match definitely had issues, though, with the screwy finish and the fact that the match just went WAAAYYYY too long with a lot of dead space. Larry’s offense was also way too flimsy for this kind of setting. I’m not asking he turn Drake’s brain into tapioca or anything, but he could at least put a bit more mustard into his chairshots, even if he has to deliver them to a safer spot.
All told, while it didn’t exactly age gracefully, the proto-ECW nature of the match is still an interesting footnote in the evolution of our favorite pseudo-sport.
Misty Blue Simmes pins Kat LeRoux after an airplane spin, followed by a top rope splash.
Paul Orndorff (who recently made it into the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame!) defeated Austin Idol after botched interference from Idol’s manager, Paul E. Dangerously.
Post-match, Idol socked Heyman to the delight of the fans and locked in a figure four, but Jerry Lawler attacked Idol with a chair.
USWA United Heavyweight Championship: Jerry “The King” Lawler (c) vs. Kerry Von Erich - Jerry Lawler had actually regained the title from Jimmy Valiant in Memphis on 3/12, so he’s defending it here. Big Ker comes out to the ever-classic “Tom Sawyer” by Rush, and the fans love him. You know what? It’s time for a MUSIC BREAK!
Lawler comes out to Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”, which is certainly a choice. It’s a classic song, but doesn’t exactly scream “Jerry Lawler” to me AT ALL. He grabs the mic during the introductions and runs down Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, I think. The audio quality on the microphone is complete garbage at times.
The fans chant “Lawler sucks”, so he tells a San Francisco 49ers fan in the front row that he is the result of what happens “when cousins marry”, getting a pop from the crowd. That dude is pissed!
The King continues jawing with the fans before hopping in the ring. Kerry grabs the mic and threatens to kick Lawler’s butt, which the fans appreciate.
Lawler saying something to a Black fan that I won’t transcribe here, but it’s pretty nuts. Kerry again threatens The King with a butt-kicking. Lawler snags the mic and looks to address the people again, but Kerry rolls him up for a two-count! Holy shit, Kerry outsmarted someone!
The match proper starts with Kerry getting a big clothesline after winning a collar-and-elbow tie-up. They then duck each others’ clotheslines, with Kerry downing Jerry with another one. Lawler tries a biel, but Kerry counters into one of his own, leading to Lawler arguing about the pulling of hair and tights.
Lawler yanks some locks during a top wristlock sequence in an effort to ground the Modern Day Warrior, but Kerry fights out and goes for an Iron Claw, which the King evades. Lawler then becomes Jerry “The King” STALLER, rolling outside to threaten the ring announcer, Kerry, and some fans over the house mic. That eats up some time before Lawler re-enters and goes to the eyes to gain the upper hand.
Lawler goes for a top-rope fist, but gets ensnared by the IRON CLAW! That gets two as Lawler breaks it via the ropes. Kerry reapplies it, but Lawler again makes the ropes and bails to the floor.
Lawler sneaks a chain into the ring (take a drink), then we play “hide the chain” for a bit before the King decks KVE with it! He chokes Kerry with it while obscuring the view of the ref. Lawler denies any wrongdoing before attacking Kerry with it again. Kerry is pissed, trying to fight back against the King’s dirty tactics. Jerry loses the chain, though, and Kerry goes to town with right hands! Kerry hits the discus punch, but Lawler kicks out at two.
Kerry slams and elbows the King for another near-fall, then it’s another IRON CLAW! Things look bleak for Lawler, but he unleashes a GODDAMN FIREBALL to break the hold! Kerry wins by DQ, so Lawler keeps the title. A slow-motion replay shows the fire roasting Kerry’s chestnuts.
Kerry makes a pretty swift recovery from the attempted immolation, thank goodness.
**1/2 - A pretty entertaining little match with a lot of stalling and shtick, which the fans ate up with a spoon. Much of it was the typical Lawler antics we’ve seen over the years, but Kerry popped me huge with the initial roll-up spot and a hot comeback, and the finish was nifty. However, the SuperClash III match from 1988 was MUCH better (although this one did have a better finish).
Tully Blanchard defeated Bam Bam Bigelow in a Steel Cage match via escape.
Now it's time for THE TUGBOAT TRIBUNE!
As always, the news comes courtesy of Dave Meltzer and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
So, Lex Luger was apparently set to win the NWA title from Ric Flair on a live show in Chicago (or “Chicargo” if you ask any dad that I know), but that didn’t end up happening. Let’s unpack this whole situation:
The initial plan was for Luger to win the title in St. Louis on 3/24, but those in charge thought that too many people knew about the switch (those darn dirtsheets!), so they decided to swerve everyone BRO by having the title change hands in Chicago on 3/23 instead.
However, Ric Flair had a provision in his contract (that was added by Jim Herd, by the way) where he was able to approve who he would lose the title to, and he required three days’ notice before doing so.
Because the WCW branch of the NWA is run by giant morons, they forgot to tell Ric Flair about their plans, and Flair vehemently refused (possibly due to the promise he made to Sting). This ended up resulting in a huge fight between Flair and Herd, who were already not exactly on the best of terms at that point. Hell, it was theorized that the title change was booked as punishment for Flair’s beef with Herd.
These events widened the schism between Flair and Herd that would eventually result in Flair leaving WCW in 1991.
We’re under two weeks until the Wrestling Summit show in the Tokyo Dome, and the main event is still in the air. Hulk Hogan vs. Terry Gordy is the current plan, but Vince McMahon is pushing Hogan vs. Dusty Rhodes for some reason.
The show isn’t exactly setting the box office on fire, either, with 30,000 tickets sold of the 63,000 available. The declining Japanese economy is likely to blame.
Here’s an update on the Windham counterfeiting situation we discussed many issues ago: Blackjack Mulligan and Kendall Windham pleaded guilty to possession with intent to sell of counterfeit money. They’re due for sentencing on May 15th.
The maximum penalty is 15 years behind bars and a $250,000 fine.
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"Then we see businessmen on shoeshine stands pretending to read a newspaper, but *gasp*, they’re reading the magazine! Why advertise the magazine as something you don’t want people to see you reading?"
I thought that comment was hilarious and a good question at the same time about Wrap Up. I have a few copies of this "magazine". It's very light reading, not a lot of pages, mostly pictures and the format of it being a coffee table sized magazine does not work well. It was odd it wasn't at newsstands, but perhaps that had to do with the coffee table size. I got these because I contacted WCW and asked for a press pass for a magazine to shoot ringside photos at a house show and their response for some reason was to send me a copy of this "magazine" and put me on the mailing list to receive press releases, if I recall.
I was shocked to see Joel Goodhart is back period and doing a TWA show. They can always come back in the pro wrestling world, right? Where did you see the footage of the TWA show you reviewed here. Excellent write-up!
Dude, I love these! Hogan’s promo is so sublimely incoherent—These reviews are like reliving a week of my childhood.