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Are you sober tomk? And yes, Andre did have a match I liked with Kamala. The one where I beleive Andre does the big butt splash off the top rope. It might've been in Ontario iirc.

Benoit had gone through the dungeon and started working some Stampede. Than he went over to NJPW but this was very, very shortly after becoming a pro in Stampede. He did time there, than came home briefly for Christmas before going back again. I believe his first match was agaisnt Pancrase's legendary Fuanki. I know Funaki's first was against Benoit, a time limit draw. After he finished with NJPW, from than on he was mostly in Stampede (he may have done a few NJPW dates inbetween here) before going back to Japan under the mask in 90 as Pegasus Kid.

I doubt HHH has the time to watch any football. Eh, a signifigant amount of people in Canada don't know too much about football either. Hockey's the better man's man sport anyway. And I have no idea how many points a field goal is just like you wife. This is even after watching football movies and listending to JR commentary since forever.

So Benoit apparantly had his ear(s) punched until they started bleeding when training in the NJPW dojo. Where did this piece of info come from? Scott Norton I thought someone might have said one time? I don't know. Was this a common occurance, a one time deal or myth? I lean towards it being real but I want to know where the info comes from since I like to know as much as possible about the Japanese dojos as I can. Sound like being a Navy Seal would be easier.

People who always strive to be their very best wether they're enemy or foe always end up respecting each other so it makes sense from that perspective. I was expecting the respect deal to come up soon. Some fans don't like it when it happens but I always did. It's very Japanese and now ROH like.

Overall a great match though not perfect. People have compared it to other matches in the past but I feel it stands out on its own. If HHH's promo is true to his word at the beginning of Raw, HHH wants another shot at Taker.

I really think this is up in the air. There are a bunch of people who could say they have the best. The Steiners, Dynamite, Benoit, Hansen, Windham reminds me that I love PIllman's jump/flyhing clothesline from the ring canvas, Kobashi and others. I know I'm not mentioning a lot.

K, I got a question about Super Strong Machine, Tenyru and Choshu. In the 90s, how many matches did each of these guys lose? I don't want to know against who as even though I watched a lot of 90s puroresu I haven't seen everything. I am just curious how many matches they lost. I have an approximate idea but want to get an accurate one. I'm guessing JDW knows.

WWE likes to avoid their own history when convienent though I must say they are a LOT better at remembering than they were in the past. I am guessing they don't want to hurt some of Lawler's face heat so I don't think Cole would be allowed to do something like that. In any other angle Lawler could be in, yeah I see your point. But this works for me on a level of duality, because Michael is basically doing the same things Lawler did, and Heenan before Jerry. One way it could have worked is if Cole used that opportunity to say how he admired those things in Jerry and was severely let down when he "softened up", but didn't let it come to the surface until recently. And yeah, their amnesia to certain things really bother me like they do anything else, but I'll also agree they are better at it now than before. That's why I like the Punk/Orton angle because it is Randy's heel antics coming home to roost. Yeah, if Cole were to do that, than that is the way he should bring it up.

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Godwinn has had some enjoyable matches. Seconded. Pearce and Shanghai had a lot of fun matches in WCW Miller had the Norton matches which were some of the best WCW moments, a Benoit match from the 9/27/99 Nitro and I remember strong matches against Glacier and Mortis. Jones has the 11/20/03 match against Benoit which is very good. I know he's been in other good stuff too. He was also awesome in "The Protector" against Tony Jaa:) Yeah, it's not wrestling but in some ways it's the same deal and any wrestling fan should love that fight. Credible had matches in ECW that were strong. As Aldo Montoya, I know he had good stuff but because I had lost interest in ECW around 98/99 I can't point the ECW ones out. Cobra/NWO Sting definitely had matches worth checking out. I remember a really strong tag in NJPW he had.

WWE likes to avoid their own history when convienent though I must say they are a LOT better at remembering than they were in the past. I am guessing they don't want to hurt some of Lawler's face heat so I don't think Cole would be allowed to do something like that.

You don't know that 100 percent as it's impossible to tell if Kaufman's neck ever got hurt unless you were Kaufman himself. Even if Kaufman was asked, you still wouldn't know 100 percent. That's like me telling you -- Bix never got hurt playing his favourite activity. I can't know that. Only you do. The bottom line here is that Lawler himself in a nonkayfabe way warned someone that he couldn't guarantee the safety of his pildervier every time before they got in the ring with him. I am usually down on Lawler because I am scared he might go after too young people sexually but I have to give him credit here for warning a usually non wrestler before they got in the ring with him. Now Lawler is older, so there is even added risk on something going wrong. Plus Lalwer has been known to stiff people.

His body was broken down though. Pillman's injury list was a lot bigger than most people can imagine. He was already hurt in Stampede and as insanely athletic as he was in early WCW I think you could tell the injuries were already effecting him if you had seen him work in Stampede.

He definitely can. I have read Lawler's words in a magazine interview years ago that he can not 100 percent guarantee that he is able to do the piledriver safely to someone. Someone had come up to him, I think someone that wasn't a tradtional wrestler (Maybe Kaufman) and Lawler told them this.

He definitely can. I have read Lawler's words in a magazine interview years ago that he can not 100 percent guarantee that he is able to do the piledriver safely to someone. Someone had come up to him, I think someone that wasn't a tradtional wrestler (Maybe Kaufman) and Lawler told them this.

So it was the 1991 Puroresu Match of the Year in your mind? John Well, I can't go that far but it was a lot of fun:)

Piledrivers have been too dangerous for the longest time in the WWF. I remember once Lawler saying perhaps in an interview that when approached by someone over the safety of the piledriver he was going to take that he said he couldn't guarantee the safety of it though his oppononet probably wouldn't be injured. We wouldn't want Lawler injuring Cole's neck at Wrestlemania so this is a good decision. He should take notes from Angle in the WWF/WWE and modernize the strap pull down spot. Angle revolutionised this spot by adding a fake tease with it and than doing the real pull down the strap spot later on in the match. He made it cool and the way he incorporated it into his matches with perfect timing, intelligence and brillinat creativity should be studied by all wrestlers in how to engage a crowd.

I just watched Tenryu vs Hogan for the 2nd time ever the other day. I absolutely loved it and I think I may like it even more than Hogan vs Hansen which would make it my fav 1990s Hogan Japanese match. This match helped sell me on Tenryu big time. Hogan is so fun to watch in Japan too.

Yeah, I'm one of the ones who loved this angle. I thought it was very compelling and entertaining.

That wasn't even as good as this: [Talking about WWE writers] BRYAN: "Well you're on call 24/7 but you're not also being yelled at all the time...and told your ideas suck." DAVE: "My ideas suck...I don't think anyone ever tells me that...even when they do no one tells me that...well sometimes on the message board but most of the time they don't know what they're talking about anyway." Yes, I thought the "everyone else I've seen talk about it) saw it as Hunter asking Shawn to tell Taker he thinks HHH will beat him, but Shawn now isn't sure he can" talking point was wrong too. Watching it, I wasn't sure what was up (though I had a coup;le of ideas) but that's partly the reason why I loved that whole talking segment. That talking point doesn't make any sense whatsoever given what was said unless there was a mistake in teh way they coveyed their message but I doubt it.

The formula in life on what makes a man great does not change from person to person. From Will Smith to Stallone to Michael Jordan to Sayama to Bruce Lee to anyone on this board to whoever. The key is the same for all. Have a good night.

He had a good run in 97. He had two matches with the Giant I loved. Bumping crazy for him. Once he lost the U.S Belt I think he started phoning it in. Except for the team with Windham. He had two really strong matches with Benoit too with the Nitro one being awesome. Did he wrestle a match against Bret Hart as well?

First quote is simple. There are wrestlers out there that you just can't buy losing to other wrestlers and when you do you kind of think to yourself, "That's phony, they're too good for that to happen". Perhaps I shouldn't have said "never buy someone" as I was puttina a little extra emphasis on that to make a point that some wrestlers are truly way above the rest. You can and do actually want to buy into someone beating an obvious top of the line wrestler. But still, if you're watching a match from a kayfabe sense, if that guy loses too much it just makes the fan go to himself "That's stupid, that doesn't make sense" Second quote is about building up a persona in order for it to be able to hit a higer climax down the road at a future date. I remember -- was it you? --- had a little debate about the tag team formula. The classic North American tag team formula. Does it work? Oh yeah, certainly but the person I was disagreeing with it thought it should happen all the time. I am of the belief that you can't have it all the time and you gotta do other stuff in your prevous matches so when you finally do the classic tag team formula it works waaaay better than it would've been otherwise. Everything is worth more. I think when you do the same thing over and over and over again as is the most evevident in classic North American tags that it means less and less and becomes way less believable. So like with TM I think yo gotta have him be strong overall to keep and build his persona so when you finally have someone that can take it to him it means a million times as much. To me, it can't be anotother way.

You should watch the Protector especially if you're an elephant lover. Even if you're not you will be by teh time the movie's over. Nope. What makes them great is the same thing. While I might not agree with some of the things they have done in their lives as nobody's perfect, what I like about them all and what makes them great is all the same thing. For the record, gorgeous women with healthy looking pussy is what makes me happy. Be careful about calling females girls. Some take offense to it. Ladies is a better word. Nothing about men turns me on romantically/sexually. I know exactly why you are confused. Interesting.