Trevor Dame

ThROH The Years fans: I know normally we put an episode out every 3 weeks, so you are likely expecting one tonight, but life stuff for Matt and I has delayed us. We should be back in one week's time, barring anything unforeseen!

ICYMI: I posted a massive sequel to my 1990 article the other day!

Somehow a situation arose where fucking NETFLIX was the lesser evil, and we couldn't even have that.

Mick kind of negging Wade about the quality of his questions and Wade immediately hits him with "Do you like David Letterman?"

Wade Keller interviewed Cactus Jack in 1990 and they don't do journalism like this anymore:

The Rubber Band: A Review of 1991's Wrestling Awards (And Other Insanity) | Trevor Dame's Wrestling Gaborium Get more from Trevor Dame's Wrestling Gaborium on Patreon

BY POPULAR DEMAND: People wanted more after my 1990 Awards article, so I did 1991. DOUBLE THE NEWSLETTERS, DOUBLE THE AWARDS. Some absolute insanity as an appetizer as well. www.patreon.com/posts/rubber...

Does anyone have scans of the 1992 and 1993 Pro Wrestling Torch Yearbooks? I don't think they're on the Torch's website. (I have sources for other years.)

If Goldberg really wanted WWE to celebrate his retirement he should've planted a rumor in the press that he was interested in an AEW run.

Can't wait for the ceremony when WWE pins him down and Jelly Roll tattoos "I promise I will never wrestle again" on AJ's face as a retirement present.

Sometimes I see a tweet, think "The replies are this are going to be a horror show" and then click on it anyway just so I can give myself a rare instance of being right about something.

FOLKS, IF YOU SEE ONE TV SHOW ALL YEAR, MAKE IT THE LINCOLN. LAWYER.

Chris Cruise's Ring Cycle

If you ever miss Larry King's "News and Views" columns, or SNL and Howard Stern mocking them, former WCW announcer/blood narc Chris Cruise has basically carried them on.

One thing I learned from reading old newsletters: back then if you had any ability to draw at all, you were gettting published. You could've drawn a stickman with a belly and a caption that said "Dusty Rhodes is Fat" and you were getting page four.

From a 1991 PW Torch: A cartoon imagining a hilarious and unbelievable future when the Rock and Roll Express would still be wrestling in 2000, when Morton and Gibson would've been 44 and 42, respectively. Today we call those ages "Just starting your WWE career".

If Danielson ever wrestles again, I hope that's the set up. Something so heinous happens feet away from Bryan and no one can stop it and the old gunslinger has to pick up his revolver.

A cool thing about Danielson as a commentator is that, from now until the end of time, when he's in segments like tonight, screaming "YOU PROVED YOUR POINT", begging Swerve to stop killing Kenny, fans will believe there's a 20% chance he attacks. And one day he might.

No, that's really nice!

I've gotten some nice feedback and had fun, so I might go back for more.

ICYMI Last night: I delved into the world of horny 1990 Observer Readers

Fire Bombs for Lanny Poffo: A Look at the 1990 Observer Awards | Trevor Dame's Wrestling Gaborium Get more from Trevor Dame's Wrestling Gaborium on Patreon

With all the people talking about the 2025 Observer Awards, I went back and looked at the 1990 ones and what we can learn from them. Some lessons, some laughs, and the most fun I've had writing in a while. www.patreon.com/posts/fire-b...

People who are mad at the modern Observer Awards having "Worst" categories would need a fainting chair for the early 80s ones, which had both "Most Obnoxious" and "Most Washed Up" awards.

We are on the 5th day of people complaining about the Observer Awards and saying they're not relevant, which, ironically, is the thing in 2026 that's most keeping them relevant.

Have a broken tooth dental emergency on a holiday, stuck up until tomorrow morning when I can book an emergency root canal, and I'm spending it checking social media, because when I hurt my knee I like to distract myself from the pain by hitting my hand with a hammer.

Tickled to check a book about R.E.M. out from the library only to find a prior reader wrote a post-it note cheat sheet for who was who in the band. "-eyebrows"

Booker T's most famous commentary moment was getting caught ordering chicken parm during an episode of NXT. That is his "As God is my witness, he is broken in half!". But his important work must be defended. The vibes. The vibes.

Maybe next week everyone will be fighting over "Who is the better promo, The Godfather or Roderick Strong?"

So glad we've moved on from "Was Billy Gunn one of the greats" to "Is Booker T a better announcer than Vic Joseph", if only because I take this as a sign that we have run out of things to argue about. These are the last two. We're scraping under the barrel.

Impressed with how major the show felt given that they didn't burn hardly anything in terms of "big" matches. Mox/Takeshita went to a draw. Yuta's hair. They had run Mark/Kyle six times before. Brody/MJF wasn't even on people's radar til recently and got boosted by...you know.