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Win Lose Or Draw

I HAD BEEN recording every episode of WWF Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Nitro in what turned out to be a multi-year project. If I considered an episode to be above-average, I’d make sure not to record over it the following week. The result was several stacks of Polaroid-brand VHS tapes, with Raw and Nitro recorded in long-play (LP) mode, so I could fit at least two episodes on each videocassette.

The purpose of the project? I would rewatch every episode many years later, and, if I were lucky enough to still be working for , I would offer the full breadth of my hindsight analysis in my 25th-anniversary edition of “Win, Lose, Or

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