Kris & David are joined by Marty DeRosa (@MartyDeRosa) for part 1 of our discussion of the week that was July 22-28, 1999. We talk about a wild week in WCW featuring some weird television as Rick Steiner mauls folks, the No Limit Soldiers are basically killed off, Hulk Hogan injures his knee, plus all kinds of other WCW insanity at the time. We also talk about Mitsuharu Misawa regaining the Triple Crown and how it was the wrong decision at the time, plus PCO finishing off his lone AJPW tour on the undercard, as well as the NJPW power players visiting WCW's Power Plant to scout talent, wrestling from Australia & Peru including HIGH RISK WARRIOR (who we realized after recording might not actually be John Zandig), Joel Gertner getting in hot water for comments made about JFK Jr’s death on TV and Paul Heyman’s resulting spin, Kurt Angle becoming the Power Pro Champion in Memphis, and much more. This is just Part One as the WWF is Part Two so please listen to both.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WCW

1:56:06 Eastern Hemisphere: AJPW, NJPW, BattlARTS, BJPW, DDT, FMW, Michinoku Pro, VAMOS, ARSION, & High Risk Championship Wrestling

2:35:06 Classic Commercial Break

2:38:53 Housekeeping/The Amazon Game

3:01:08 Other Americas: Maritimes, AAA, CMLL, IWRG, Tijuana, & FOW in Peru

3:15:57 Other USA: ECW, Angelo Mosca, CZW, ISPW, MPPW, & XPW

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