From: sean@freds.cojones.com (Sean P. Ryan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: This morning's TV
Date: 22 Aug 92 11:21:56 GMT
Organization: Bedlam Institute of Higher Learning

Well, I made the mistake of staying up until 5:00 this morning to hear 
something on the radio.  The station chose not to play it.  So, being 
that it was 5:00, WCW Power Hour was coming on in a few minutes.  I 
actually like the new format.

The old stuff was great to see.  The fact that they are actually 
acknowledging history is amazing.  Also, I can only recall seeing one 
squash the entire hour, which is great to see too.  Missy was, well, 
Missy.  To paraphrase Scooter Pie, "It's not that big a deal because it's 
something we've all seen before."

***WARNING - POLITICALLY INCORRECT COMMENT - WARNING***

Missy was physically at her best in 1985, and comparatively, there has 
been very little that has attracted my attention in recent years.  But 
then again, every time I see her, I think I'm seeing or watching 
something having to do with porno rather than something having to do with 
wrestling.  Maybe there is some truth to the rumors that she was a porno 
star before getting into wrestling.

ANYWAY, something has been on my mind, and it was solidified by watching 
this program, which admittedly was the first full hour of wrestling I've 
watched in more months than I care to count.  That being, that the young 
lions of the 1980's are no longer that young.  Every one of them that I 
can think of are now over 30.  Hell, even for that matter, Missy is 
getting awfully close to 30 herself.  Look at the program, folks.  There 
isn't that very much in the way of new talent, and what little there is 
consists of folks who are more muscle than anything else and virtually 
all of them have never been in an environment that allowed them the 
opportunity to learn how to work.  Hopefully, some of what has been going 
on with Bill Watts will give them that opportunity, but I am not too 
optimistic about that.  We've talked before about the obviousness of the 
lack of regional promotions remaining and how it's affected the talent 
inflow for the Whiff.  But the Whiff has traditionally been the stomping 
grounds for veterans.  At least the NWA and WCW has been known for 
younger wrestlers from time to time.  But you don't see too many around 
nowadays.  Virtually all of the boys at the younger end of the spectrum 
are either overly muscle-bound and not much else, or are the Lightning 
Kids and Chris Benoits of the world who can't get work in this country (I 
would honestly speculate due to jealous veterans who are afraid of being 
overshadowed).  I have to take out my tapes of a decade or more ago to 
see guys who could actually work a match.  A good example is Chris Colt, 
who I found a couple of matches of on my early 1980 Portland tape.  Here 
is a guy who could actually work, yet he's been ill for many years, but 
he could certainly teach a thing or two to a great many of today's stars. 
In today's wrestling world, though, he would be about three notches below 
Jake Milliman (because Jake has a cute gimmick and Chris doesn't).

I'll quit at this point, because if I don't, I'll still be rambling on 
about this topic a hundred lines later.

I also caught the GWF show, which was a rerun from late last year (Jerry 
Lynn won the lt. heavy title from Lightning Kid).  I always enjoy seeing 
matches between the two of them.  I have their first match ever on tape, 
and it was an easy 4 stars.  Most of their other matches have been of 
equal caliber.  The first part was Eddie Gilbert vs. Terry Garvin.  I was 
getting bored and actually found the David Wade cooking show (a rerun 
from 1986) to be more worthy of my attention at that time.  Maybe it's 
just me.  No mention of Compu$erve or Pr*d*gy during the show, although 
Bob "don't call me Joe" Hazelwood was listed in the credits.

Oh well.  Methinks it's time to get at least a little sleep.

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