Kris & David are joined by Alan Counihan (@Alan4L) to discuss the week that was March 13-19, 1996. We talk about the WWF doing great house show business surrounding the issues between Bret Hart, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, & Diesel, including Diesel’s big heel turn on Shawn at MSG. We also discuss Vince making the media rounds, a serious Billionaire Ted skit, New Japan banning Weekly Pro Wrestling Magazine from their shows, Sabu going to Big Japan, Atsushi Onita returning to FMW, Dave Meltzer going to Tijuana, Ze Gangsta and "The Final Solution" debuting on Nitro, and of course the greatness of Early 1996 Lex Luger. A humdinger of a show, so listen now!!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWF

1:47:25 Japan (NJPW, BJPW, FMW, IWA Japan, Michinoku Pro, WAR, Akira Hokuto, & JWP) & South Africa

3:14:48 Classic Commercial Break

3:19:45 Housekeeping/The Amazon Game

3:48:02 Mexico: AAA, CMLL, IWRG, & Tijuana

4:18:45 Note on this week’s Other USA section

4:20:27 WCW

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