Wrestling Observer Flashback–12.28.87
By Scott Keith on 17th August 2016
Time to wrap up 1987 and move onto 88 again!
By Scott Keith on 17th August 2016
Time to wrap up 1987 and move onto 88 again!
By Scott Keith on 16th August 2016
When we last left off, Akira Maeda kicked Riki Choshu RIGHT IN THE FACE and broke it. Can we top that? Let’s find out.
By Scott Keith on 15th August 2016
Too much stuff to cover in one installment! Dave took a few days off and the business went TOPSY-TURVY when he was away, so let’s get to it.
By Scott Keith on 14th August 2016
The PPV showdown of 1987 is upon us! It’s Vince v. Crockett! Dusty v. Hogan! Starrcade ‘87 v. Survivor Series!
By Scott Keith on 13th August 2016
Woo! Back to two columns again! No Starrcade review in this issue, though, sorry.
By Scott Keith on 12th August 2016
Well, it’s the (even more) calm before the storm of Thanksgiving, so this should probably be another slow, meme-free week of news.
By Scott Keith on 11th August 2016
(Scott here! When this was written I was so tired that there was literally points where I was falling asleep while typing, so apologies in advance if there’s any weirdness in the grammar or sentence structure that I missed.)
Getting closer to Thanksgiving! While you’re waiting, check out Scott’s Podcast of Doom #2: http://placetobenation.com/scott-keiths-podcast-of-doom-2/ Don’t worry, I won’t start without you.
By Scott Keith on 9th August 2016
A new era begins in the Observer! TWO COLUMNS PER PAGE!
Also a couple of title changes, but TWO COLUMNS!
By Scott Keith on 8th August 2016
With all the stuff going on in the US, Dave hasn’t even really talked about the tag team tournaments in Japan! Well, time to fix that grievous error.
By Scott Keith on 7th August 2016
And it’s ANOTHER sad note to open an Observer this week. 87 was kind of a harsh year.
By Scott Keith on 5th August 2016
Dave had only HEARD about the Island Death Match last time. Now he’s seen it.
By Scott Keith on 4th August 2016
Bye bye, slow news cycle. It’s time for the Megapowers and the start of one of the biggest fights in the history of North American wrestling. The tricks were dirtier, and the memes were danker! Of course you know, this means war…
By Scott Keith on 3rd August 2016
There are moments when you can pinpoint exactly when a major promotion started to go completely off the rails. This week is one of them.
By Scott Keith on 2nd August 2016
The news remains slow until next issue, when a couple of major bombshells hit, but for now there’s tons of news ITEMS at least…
By Scott Keith on 1st August 2016
Dave Meltzer is PISSED OFF. He’s mad as hell, although chances are good that he’ll continue to take it.
By Scott Keith on 31st July 2016
And here we had gone for almost two months without a death.
By Scott Keith on 30th July 2016
It’s Paul Boesch’s farewell show in Houston this week, plus a whole lot of NWA v. WWF analysis from Dave. Must be yet another slow news week.
By Scott Keith on 29th July 2016
Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback on the debut episode of Scott’s Podcast of Doom over on the PTBN Network. I really enjoyed doing the show with Brian, and our goal is to pump them out bi-weekly, assuming Brian’s dryer and my cat are able to handle the workload. I was actually debating just letting my daughter jump in like she was threatening to do, since she wants to be a YouTube star anyway
http://placetobenation.com/scott-keiths-podcast-of-doom-1/
And we already kick things off with everyone’s favorite feature:
By Scott Keith on 28th July 2016
There continues to be not much going on in the wrestling world until pretty much everything explodes in about two weeks.
Quite the teaser, I know!
By Scott Keith on 27th July 2016
Still nothing I’d consider a “major story” this week, what with the Bash over and all.
You know what IS a major story? SCOTT’S PODCAST OF DOOM, which will be recorded TONIGHT.