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    Sky reads old Wrestling Observers

    January 28 1991 - Saddam Ruins Everything This issue starts, strangely, with a humour piece about the success of bald men in wrestling. Vince loves bald men, and the push of Slaughter proves it's not muscles you need, it's a slaphead. Look at all the old champions. Thesz, Sammartino, Graham...
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    Sky reads old Wrestling Observers

    January 21 1991 - Sting of Defeat At the WCW show at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, Ric Flair beat Sting to win the World Heavyweight Title. This story dominates the issue, and begins with a lengthy bit of historical context starting from Sting's win back in July 1990. On-screen this was being...
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    Sky reads old Wrestling Observers

    January 14, 1991 - (Not) Going Global The deal for Joe Pedicino to buy the USWA has fallen through. As it turns out, Jerry Jarrett's insistence on keeping the rights to the ESPN TV slot was the deal breaker, as the deal was originally intended for Pedicino to get national TV exposure and not...
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    Sky reads old Wrestling Observers

    January 8, 1991 - New Year, New Thread Let's fucking go. My personal notes are in italics at the end of each story. Dusty Rhodes looks set to once again book for WCW soon. He's finishing up his WWF deal, and his last house show date on was December 30, though he is still planned to appear...
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    Sky reads old Wrestling Observers

    So, recently I bought a Wrestling Observer subscription just so I could read through all the archives. They're a really interesting look back at the good/bad old days of wrestling and sometimes MMA too, so I've not been disappointed. So, I'm going to read through all the archives (starting from...
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