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🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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John Pollock is joined by Dave Meltzer, editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter to discuss the release of the Wrestling Observer Yearbook covering 1997.
The two discuss the major stories of 1997 including the lead-up and fallout from the Survivor Series, Dave’s reporting on the story including speaking with Bret Hart, hearing audio of the conversation with Vince McMahon, the reaction from talent, alternate outcomes that could have impacted the company & more.
Plus, UFC’s issues with cable providers, ECW’s jump to pay-per-view, the death of Brian Pillman, and the role Zane Bresloff played with WCW.
The Wrestling Observer Yearbook ‘97 is available on Amazon.
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0:57.2 | still give him one, the esteemed editor of the wrestling observer newsletter and has just put out |
1:02.1 | the wrestling observer yearbook covering a very intriguing and tumultuous year that was |
1:08.4 | 1997 Dave how are you doing today? |
1:11.3 | I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. This is it was such an interesting year for you to choose to do that this yearbook release on and I guess right off the bat, |
1:24.4 | when you were presented with this project, |
1:27.5 | was 1997 the automatic go-to year |
1:30.0 | that you felt would be the best one to introduce |
1:32.2 | for this series absolutely |
1:34.0 | without question it was like the first one it was like between the Survivor series |
1:38.3 | and Brian Tillman and just the whole you know the heat of the wrestling war and you know also what happened |
1:45.1 | with m m m m m m a that year where m m m m a went from from doing really well though you know |
1:49.0 | it's it's like the you know you can look week by week month by month at the dominoes falling from |
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