Older than Twitter. Not quite as profitable. A pro wrestling counterfactual: What if the World Wrestling Federation was organized around workrate, around the idea that the pivotal word in the phrase "sports entertainment" is the first? Can one Ricky Steamboat pinfall put right what once went wrong? Go to the earliest archived post; scroll to December 19, 2005 "it begins" and you're ready to roll.
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Triple H, October 2011:
“When I grew up, I hated Hogan. I thought he was terrible and didn’t like to watch him. I was like Punk in a way. I liked the Steamboats and Flairs and the ones that could go. Would I be right in saying that Hogan was the wrong guy to go with, and they should’ve changed directions and gone with Steamboat because he was the better wrestler? Ludicrous.” - Triple H. October, 2011.
The 100th Post - History of the US Title
Saturday, April 14, 2007
POST 100 – HISTORY OF THE U.S. TITLE
(Part 9 of the Counterfactual Title Histories; there’s more to go, NWA tag team titles, all 3 ECW belts, the counterfactual 5 year history of TNA, and then a list of the 100 greatest wrestlers in Counterfactual history…all coming up as we make our slow walk to Summer Slam ’06.)
RIC FLAIR d. Jimmy Snuka (4/80 Greensboro)
RODDY PIPER (1/81 Raleigh)
WAHOO MCDANIEL (8/81 Greensboro)
(stripped)
SGT. SLAUGHTER d. Ricky Steamboat (10/81 Charlotte)
WAHOO MCDANIEL (2) (5/82 Richmond)
(injured, belt vacated)
SGT SLAUGHTER (2)
WAHOO MCDANIEL (8/82 Charlotte)
GREG VALENTINE (11/82 Greensboro)
RODDY PIPER (2) (4/83 Greensboro)
GREG VALENTINE (2) (4/83 Greensboro)
RICKY STEAMBOAT (Starrcade ’83 Greensboro)
TULLY BLANCHARD (Starrcade ’84 Greensboro)
BARRY WINDHAM (Starrcade ’87 Chicago)
STING (Starrcade ’88 Norfolk)
ARN ANDERSON (Wrestlewar ’90 Greensboro)
STAN HANSEN (Starrcade ’90 StL)
BRIAN PILLMAN (Wrestlewar ’91 Phoenix)
ARN ANDERSON (2) (Superbrawl ’91 St. Petersberg)
RICKY STEAMBOAT (2) (Starrcade ’91 Norfolk)
RICK RUDE (Wrestlewar ’92 Jacksonville)
JUSHIN THUNDER LIGER (Great American Bash ’92 Albany, GA)
GREAT MUTA (Starrcade ’92 Atlanta)
2 COLD SCORPIO (Superbrawl ’93 Asheville, NC)
RICKY STEAMBOAT (3) (Slamboree ’93 Atlanta)
25. 2 COLD SCORPIO (2) (Fall Brawl ’93 Houston)
STEVE AUSTIN (Starrcade ’93 Charlotte)
ARN ANDERSON (3) (Fall Brawl ’94 Roanoke)
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE (Fall Brawl ’94 Asheville)
RIC FLAIR (2) (Slamboree ’96 Baton Rouge)
REY MYSTERIO (Fall Brawl ’96 Winston Salem)
EDDY GUERRERO (Slamboree ’97 Charlotte)
PERRY SATURN (Starrcade ’97 DC)
DEAN MALENKO (Superbrawl ’98 San Francisco)
PERRY SATURN (2) (Fall Brawl ’98 Winston Salem)
REY MYSTERIO (2) (Starrcade ’98 DC)
DEAN MALENKO (2) (Fall Brawl ’99 Winston Salem)
VAMPYRO (Starrcade ’99 DC)
BILLY KIDMAN (Superbrawl ’00 San Francisco)
LANCE STORM (Fall Brawl ’00 Buffalo)
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