![]() In similar fashion, WWE has worked smart marks into thinking well if Bobby Eaton did not get a run in New York how could you list him as an all-time great. Shawn Michaels is a very good wrestler, but I think it is in large part due to WWE's hype of Shawn that he gets ranked in that elite class. Apart of the incredible WWE Market Machine is how they can still work smart marks into believing into the hype of their own mythos. I don't have these territorial biases because both promotions were national and there was no home team. Now as a fan that grew up as a WCW fan during the Monday Night Wars. They don't say if you can make it in Memphis, you can make it anywhere (Sorry, Jerry.), they say that about New York and it holds true to this day. ![]() Even in this era of wrestling footage proliferation thanks to youtube and WWE video vault, we still live in a WWF-biased world where people will question the greatness of wrestlers if they never had a run up in New York. I think much like Flair's short run in the early 90s WWF helped extend the awareness of their greatness and shore up their legacy. Four Horsemen members Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard left the NWA in late 1988 to take a one year dalliance up north in the WWF.
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