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More from the Feb 91 Center Stage Chronicles pod:
- Dusty booked a "Dusty Rhodes Appreciation night" at the Omni (Which might not have ended up happening?) On TV they had Dusty plug it but instead of an Omni match they showed Dusty vs Tully from Starrcade in Greensboro as an example of Dusty's Atlanta history....
- Doom broke up at the Omni a few days before they broke up again on PPV.... and WCW aired both after the fact, which seemed to make Simmons look like a goof for trusting Reed and Long days after being beaten up by them.
- The infamous minus title reign came at this point as the Freebirds lose the World tag belts from the Steiners before DOOM dropped them to the Birds. Apparently even the Apters covered this. I'm sure I read it at the time but I don't recall off hand.
- Jim Herd wanted to make WCW Sat Night "Saturday Night at the Matches" and go live weekly, It would cost an extra 40K a month to do so and the sports preempting WCW would cause bigger issues so it was scrapped.
- When asked about Dusty bringing back the 6 man titles and soon to bring back the Light Hwy title, Herd told the dirt sheets he didn't see too many titles as an issue. "People want to see meaningful conflict, and a title match is the "only" way I know how to do that with."
- Mike Graham is grooming Pillman to be moved up the card.
- Pillman is also slated to team with Owen Hart next month in a new team called "Wings". As we've discussed in the past, that opens up an interesting alternative timeline where maybe Bret comes in to WCW and ultimately Owen's death doesn't happen.
- Luger was scheduled to lose to Riki Choshu on an upcoming Dome show. Luger was removed from the show.
- Dusty booked a "Dusty Rhodes Appreciation night" at the Omni (Which might not have ended up happening?) On TV they had Dusty plug it but instead of an Omni match they showed Dusty vs Tully from Starrcade in Greensboro as an example of Dusty's Atlanta history....
- Doom broke up at the Omni a few days before they broke up again on PPV.... and WCW aired both after the fact, which seemed to make Simmons look like a goof for trusting Reed and Long days after being beaten up by them.
- The infamous minus title reign came at this point as the Freebirds lose the World tag belts from the Steiners before DOOM dropped them to the Birds. Apparently even the Apters covered this. I'm sure I read it at the time but I don't recall off hand.
- Jim Herd wanted to make WCW Sat Night "Saturday Night at the Matches" and go live weekly, It would cost an extra 40K a month to do so and the sports preempting WCW would cause bigger issues so it was scrapped.
- When asked about Dusty bringing back the 6 man titles and soon to bring back the Light Hwy title, Herd told the dirt sheets he didn't see too many titles as an issue. "People want to see meaningful conflict, and a title match is the "only" way I know how to do that with."
- Mike Graham is grooming Pillman to be moved up the card.
- Pillman is also slated to team with Owen Hart next month in a new team called "Wings". As we've discussed in the past, that opens up an interesting alternative timeline where maybe Bret comes in to WCW and ultimately Owen's death doesn't happen.
- Luger was scheduled to lose to Riki Choshu on an upcoming Dome show. Luger was removed from the show.
