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That's one that annoyed me, especially since I professionally considered Buffer to be a pretty fucking terrible ring announcer. Never looked like he wanted to be there, had zero emotion or sincerity in his little monologues, expressionless stoneface, and he made more verbal errors than Lillian Garcia ever did. The only thing Buffer had was that God-given voice. He's the announcing equivalent of a wrestler with a great muscular body but absolutely no idea how to work.

Also not leaning towards the coverup angle is his estimated recovery time of eight months. The longest suspension you can have is only sixty days. So unless they plan on faking a Cena-style mutant healing factor for his injury rehab, this is probably legit.

One thing that doesn't get mentioned enough about Jericho were the freaking miracles that he dragged out of Chyna. There were only maybe a half-dozen guys who were ever capable of having watchable matches with her, but Jericho carried her to easily the best work of her career. How much have you actually watched since his heel turn? Jericho's playing a almost totally different character than he ever did before, certainly not similar to any of his previous heel acts.

Oh God yes. Five hundred bucks per appearance, usually one appearance a week, paid her own road expenses, and classified as a self-employed independent contractor for tax purposes? Congratulations, Vickie took home less money per week than the guy handing you your Big Mac at the drivethru.

Supposedly, his favorite thing to do is ramble at length about how awesome a time he had in All Japan. Not about the quality of the matches or the culture of Japan or anything interesting, mind you. Johnny just goes on and on about how much he was paid and how much Mrs. Baba loved him and how big a star he was. Interestingly, this also illustrates one of the beginner's traps for young talent in WWE. If you don't know anything about Johnny's tenure in Japan, you're pidgeonholed as a clueless ignoramous who doesn't know shit about the business. However if you do know about it, don't make the mistake of actually bringing it up (as in, "I liked the matches you had teaming with Kobashi, Mr. Laurinitis") or else you're put down as a mark for the biz, i.e. someone who'll be relentlessly mocked and bullied for actually giving a shit about the art of wrestling.

Before losing decisively again and tapping out in the middle of the ring, of course.

So far you've proved that you can make unwarranted assumptions about total strangers based on nothing but your ignorance about the specifics of a situation. And that you can rehash all the ancient old snaps that 16-year-olds threw back and forth at each other in the Prodigy days. I'm shaking in my fucking boots from the thought of your next e-beatdown, big man.

Dude, that's so 1997.

I'll also accept you learning how to type a simple fucking sentence without a horde of errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and general fact checking. At this point that seems about as likely as my apology. Bix was obviously making a joke. I pity your inability to discern what someone means by reading their unsubtle words. What is your purpose here, exactly? You log onto a board and instantly start hurling around insults at total strangers in your very first posts? Those are the actions of a troll, and trolls are not welcome on this board. It was a piece of gratuitous thoroughly gratuitous throwaway snark, sure. Our dear friend Jonny Mudd (spelled wrong cuz illiteracy is kewl!) just punched enough buttons that I not only fired phasers and photon torpedos, but was hurling random pieces of furniture out the airlock at him as well.

Oh, I'm sorry doctor, I didn't mean to second-guess your judgement. ...You are a doctor, right? Because otherwise, you'd be totally talking out of your ass with such a specific psychological diagnosis. And you must be the best damn shrink in the entire world, to be able to clearly define my particular affliction from a single post on a message board. Tell me doctor, is it Type I or Type II Bipolar Disorder? It's a good thing that you're such a world-class physician, or else you'd look like a moron throwing around childish insults right now. Do you have any reading comprehension skills whatsoever? Please refer back to the actual post you are inaccurately repeating: The word "annoy" is never once used in that statement. The meaning is so clear as to be transparent. "I like Alvarez, and I like Bix, and it's not fun when two people you like get in a fight." How can you possibly miss that? Hey kids, it's time to play Quote The Words So He Can't Backtrack From Them! I tend to think Dave knows who you are and who I am. The Ring of Hell comment would support that. He probably would toss something else at me. John What your really not getting is that Dave Meltzer doesn't have internet enemies. He's a grown adult male with a life. Something I hope you grow to undersand. Jonny Mudd - because sometimes it's better just to walk away Right there, you are explicitly telling someone who knows Dave better than you... that he doesn't know Dave better than you. He never once mentioned "internet enemies". Dave and JDW knew each other before the Internet even friggin' existed. Bix isn't just Some Guy On The Internet either, he's also been around forever and Meltzer knows exactly who he is too. These aren't "internet enemies" when you've actually met them in person, know their full real names, so forth and so on. You're making up talking points which simply aren't present here. And clearly Dave does care about Bix since he, y'know, took the time to actually talk about him on a public forum. You don't acknowledge the existence and views of people you're apathetic towards. Firstly, my tested IQ score comes out to 150 the last time it was checked, so you're factually incorrect. Secondly, as an example of hyperbole acting as perjorative, your attack was very poor. Do you hang around the Gamefaqs forums and Youtube comments sections a lot? Because your insults have the same amateurish ring of someone who's new to calling someone else names over the internet. Crack open a book sometime and learn some insults which originate above a fourth-grade reading level, you pathetic priapric pud-pulling pissant. I was just gonna say "Bix can defend himself here", but I noticed that one part. You're trying to defend The Board? A wretched hive of scum and villainy which is so legendarily awful that Alvarez himself consistently goes out of his way to bash it and the vast majority of the people on it? You first, son.

If you're using "manly" as a synonym for "violent", sure.

I dunno what wrestling you're talking about, but in pro rassling there are indeed a lot of guys who look at it in a pervy way when they wrestle a woman. There was that incident where the one dude had a hard-on during that match in ROH, and if you ask just about any female worker they'll tell you some story about how some dude popped wood while in the ring with them.

I question your classification of yourself as "even semi-intelligent", considering you missed this part in the exact same fucking post that you just quoted. Hey, what a coincedence, there's something I hope you understand! That being, JDW knows Meltzer in real life. Has known him for years. Went on at least one trip to Japan with him to see the rassling over there. Knows way more about Dave than you ever will. Don't just show up on a new board and start lecturing the regulars on how they're all wrong when you don't know a damn thing about any of them, kid.

It was racist if Dusty actually went around telling promoters that they didn't need to book any black wrestlers if he was on the card, of course it was. Actually, this very discussion is why I gave up on the Wrestling Classics board. There was an argument about racism, and I pointed out the fact that wrestling seems to always be a decade or two behind the times when it comes to race relations. Aside from not having a black WWF/E champion until the year 1998/2006 (depending on if you count Rock or not), there's a whole shitload of various racist gimmicks and characters which perpetuated the basest and most offensive of wheezy old stereotypes. The response I got? "Those are just gimmicks, they don't count, there's no racism in wrestling!" Nobody agreed with me. Never went back there again.

Alvarez also totally took a shot at our man Bix on the latest free Bryan & Vinny show. Which is aggravating, cuz I like Alvarez, so for him to call out one of my e-brethren fills my soul with ambiguity.

One thing to keep in mind with the Dibiase quote is that Ted's always been one of those guys who complained loud and long about the more hardcorish modern style. He's the type who tends to bring that up even in discussions about other subjects. Which gets all the more ironic when you consider the number of bloody brawls he made his name with in Midsouth and All Japan.

3. Bobby Heenan says Greg sucked. Heenan is one of those guys who does a ton of interviews, is loved by most smarks, and isn't seen as a Sheiky-style joke. Lots of his opinions tend to osmote into the general IWC conciousness. See also Cornette, James E.

I'm coming to love these awesome examples of wrestlers working the hell out of ignorant reporters like this. Did anybody besides young, young children actually like PN News? He wasn't exactly over like rover. Seems like that "I'm just waiting for the phone to ring!" type of quote is an inevitable prerequisite in every one of these has-been veteran interviews. At least the more politely realistic ones say something like "never say never, but...". All that being said, yeah, I'd totally pay money to see PN News vs Homicide.

Was there that much of a difference? I always just saw a generic skinny chick who couldn't work to save her life. I mean, Candice was downright incompetent, with dangerously improper form on her bumps of the injury-causing kind. Not to mention the worst offense on the entire roster, with "kicks" that sometimes literally missed her opponent by a foot. It was a legitimate argument between her and Ashley as to who the worst pushed Diva of this era was. Even someone like a Christy Hemme or a Maria was measurably better than Candice. I know the WWE doesn't expect their women to be any good, but even the chicks must have some standards.

Oh. Well. Nevermind.

I don't know the little porch monkey either (I'm taking it back!), but it does seem like every single post he ever makes gets a reaction of FUCK YOU RAYCIST from the older guys here. He's not the only one, Flair frequently did the same thing and never seemed the worse for wear. Of course, Flair is a cardiovascular freak of nature, while Hogan... is not.

It became so much of a cliche that it's even extended to the kayfabe mindset of Russo and other backstage types. How many times has some badass babyface "refused medical attention" in storyline, and it was presented as them just being tough sonsobitches who didn't need none of that thar modern medicine?

Sure, it's possible that Austin really did suffer complications from legal supplements, there have been actual deaths linked to that sort of thing. I just thought it seemed odd, and it had a little bit of that "David Von Erich died from a drug overdose liver ailment" feel to it. The company covered it up for a while, I only heard vague rumors about it until months later, which did seem a little strange.

A panic attack or freakout or something equally vague and undefined. He talked about it in his book, and iirc blamed it on all the fat burners he was taking to get in shape for Mania. Which does sound, how we say, suspicious. Let's just say I've heard stories about Austin pounding down substances which were somewhat harder than a Steveweiser, and to claim a practical breakdown from Stacker 2 seems fishy.

Hogan's vastly superior matches, as you mentioned, did tend to involve vastly superior opponents. You'd expect more from Stan Hansen or Great Muta than many of the Hulkster's lackluster American opponents. Anyway, if you watch these matches back to back, it becomes clear that Hogan only really knew a few tricks and tended to break out all of them in every one of these matches. Like, the drop toe hold and floatover to the headlock, he does that every time. Plus, as every Wrestlemania can testify, Big Match Hogan was an entirely different guy from Regular Show Hogan. But if you check out Hulk's earlier New Japan work from 1983-ish, you can see it's really not all that different from the stuff he was doing in America at the same time. His "I don't have to do that to get over in America" excuse is exactly that, just excusing why he only tried to work that hard on very rare occasions. Hogan was often just a kind of lazy guy who wasn't willing (or, some might say, able) to work high-intensity matches. Certainly his early years as champion in the WWF didn't help this, with him working hundreds of house shows per year at a blistering pace; it's hard to fault anyone for taking it easy under such circumstances. Once he got to WCW, he clearly wanted to work the easiest schedule humanly possible. Can't be a coincedence that Hogan got promo time on every single Nitro but usually only wrestled maybe once a month.