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Darn right! A champion is a champion. Does Josh Filler play better than prime Mike Sigel? The only real answer is that it doesn’t...

My guess is no. The poor turnout of the game’s most elite is, I believe, mostly due to the schedule clash with Qatar. To Matchroom’s...

Guessing you mean a rowdy crowd. Fedor won a gold and a silver in the last two US Open 9ball events, each with a very big crowd.

I saw him play in the 1970s, so I know.

Well said. That's one of many advantages that today's players enjoy over their counterparts of yesteryear.

Not sure there's even one post in this thread suggesting that the greatest champions of any era could not adapt and be champions in any...

Woke up at last. Looks like I missed a whole lot of matches. Nice to see that Manas beat Carlo, who was playing his first match after...

Far from the truth. In fact, the pocketing was much, much, much less accurate back then and because there were so few of them, the...

To the delight of all old timers like me, Bustamante played without a jump stick.

They traded missed hangers, Bustamante on the eight and Fedor on the nine. Both shots were probably 95% or better. Really hard to...

Now you're not giving him enough credit. I think he would have played to 845 or better. As I noted, a true champion can adjust to the...

I'm probably going to get this wrong, but hopefully a poster with a better memory than me will chime in and, if necessary, correct me...

Except during weather emergencies or natural disasters, I've never heard of 20% no-shows in a major in all of my years around the game...

In the straight pool era, there were many that were still killers in their 60s, with Crane and Balsis the ones that first come to mind...

Nice post. I think the biggest difference between Matchroom and Predator is that Matchroom is chiefly an event producer looking to...