Mad Dog

I'm not defending Keith but he is a WWE fan that dabbled in some WCW on the side. The Bruno stance would make sense for his worldview. Plus, a lot of people think that however incorrect it might be.

Didn't JR throw out a lot of stupid nicknames around that time. Wasn't he trying to get the Bionic Redneck nickname to stick to Austin at the same time?

I'm pretty sure they're students.

Has the WWF ever been good at building up stars to take the place of established ones? It seems to me that they get a core group of main eventers, ride those guys into the ground and then have to scramble for 2-3 years after those guys all start leaving and they realize they don't have guys ready to take their spots. Early to mid 90s. Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Diesel and Yokozuna step in for Hogan, Warrior and Savage. None of them were really built up to be main eventers except for Yokozuna who beat Hogan on the way out after looking stupid at Wrestlemania. He also eliminated Savage from the Royal Rumble last and got some rub for that. Hart and Michaels never got any kind of a big win over the established guard before heading out. Late 90s. Austin beats Michaels. Rock, Mankind and HHH climb to the top without any real wins over the old guard as they headed out of the company. Early 00s. Cena and Batista got wins over HHH. It was meaningless for Cena since he was past HHH when it happened. Orton lost to HHH in meaningful situations for a long time. None of them really got a win over one of the guys from the previous generation. Edge pushed his way into the main event despite not really beating anyone of importance other than Foley after it was meaningless. Now. Too early to tell but Batista and Edge exited without putting a next gen guy over. Cena and Orton are still there and I imagine Cena will be the one to put some guys over on the way out. So there you have it. The post Hulkamania WWE and how it's transitioned between main eventers. As annoying as today is, the WWE has never really used the old main eventers to usher in the next group of main eventers. The WWE approach is to just wait for someone to get hot and ride them until they don't draw anymore, suffer through some lean years and then find the next hot guy to carry them for 3-5 years.

I don't think so. I think people trying to excuse what he did or the crazy theories to make him look better are worse. Being able to disconnect the performer from the real life person isn't a bad thing. You almost have to do it for wrestling. I mean we watch old stuff knowing half the guys were dead by 45 due to the lifestyle. I personally haven't watched a Benoit match since it happened. And honestly, I really stopped watching wrestling until earlier this year. It had a large impact on my love for wrestling for a long time. I'm still not the fan I was but I'm starting to grab some of that passion again.

There were rumors floating at Mania that his injuries were to the point that he was probably going to have to retire after the match. I tend to agree though, I think the Taker character would be better off disappearing into the night rather than having an official retirement announcement.

I did some digging. It looks a lot like a Pied Crow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Crow

Just because you have brain damage doesn't mean you're going to kill your family. The same reason that not every depressed person doesn't kill themselves and why every person with a mental breakdown isn't smearing feces on the wall. Other guys with similar conditions to Benoit have done violent things. In fact, brains that closely matched his condition all had violent instances or ends to their lives. But just because he suffered brain damage and did what he did doesn't mean someone else suffering the same conditions would do the same thing. There are a lot of variables that come into play with insanity.

I thought it was a raven but the white body has totally thrown me off and the call is unfamiliar to me as well.

Why? He had the brain of an 85 year old with advanced dementia due to repeated concussions. He was fucking insane by the time he killed his family. Doesn't matter what he was like before, that person had been destroyed one flying head butt at a time over the course of 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traum..._encephalopathy This is what Benoit is suspected to have been suffering from.

The concussions gave him dementia. There's a Bill Simmonks podcast from the spring where Chris Nowitski talks extensively about repeated concussions and the effects on future behavior. There are several NFL players that have done similar things to what Benoit did.

It's not based in logic though. You can be as tough as you want and have all the shoot fight cred you want. Doesn't mean you can do shit when my 5 foot helpless wife puts a bullet in you. Being tough doesn't make you bullet or knife proof.

So? I'm not Chris Benoit and I own lots of guns. I'd say that more than makes up for my lack of Chris Benoit qualities.

HHH would be a much better on screen character if he just accepted his limitations. My two biggest issues with him are that he's not as funny as he thinks he is and he isn't a good talker like he thinks he is. Actually, make that three issues. He's also not as good in long matches as he likes to think he is.

I think burglary would be home invasion and robbery would be outside the home. It wasn't broken down beyond that.

No, since Sting used a vulture in the infamous Clash of the Champions show from 1997. He should know better.

Murder-suicide is not tracked by the FBI or by other sources like that. There are some studies with estimates but those can be dubious due to bias inherent in the researchers. I did look up a few years to see murders caused by robbery/burglary. In 2009 for instance 849 people were murdered in robberies and 105 people were murdered in burglaries.

I kind of thought Abbott was underrated. I mean he was absolute shit in the ring but that's because he had minimal training. But he was believable and he had a weird kind of charisma. I think if WCW had tried to train him more and developed him into a more wildman kind of brawler, I think long term he could've been a solid upper mid-card kind of guy. I bring up the Three Count thing because it was funny and Abbott "got it" as far as his role.

The Kevin Sullivan one was really the worst of those theories. I don't remember what I thought at first. I think I was on the carbon monoxide train as well. But I think I found out about it at work and really didn't put much thought into it until I got home that night. Then I tuned into Raw and the murmurs started online. Once I saw that police suspected Benoit did it, I knew he did. It was the only thing that made sense. I tend to find the Tribute show as kind of a karma payback for making people work in the dent Owen's corpse left in the ring and for their self-indulgent 9/11 show personally.

I thought it was hilarious when Abbott became a Three Count fan in 2000.

Bret showed up at the end of the Cole angle and put him in the Sharpshooter. That was in May I think.

The fact that he had on-air character Eric Bischoff apologize for choosing Alex Wright over him 7-8 years before show how petty he is. Also, the fact that internally they see the Punk angle as a chance to get HHH over really shows me that my fears are correct.

If I had the money, I would get the paper newsletter again. I loved getting that thing on Thursday and it would last me most of the weekend. I tried Figure4 on my Kindle and my god, what a piece of crap that thing was. I don't know what anyone sees in Bryan. He seems to hate everything and on top of that he's a fairly mediocre writer.

It's a smaller gap than you would think when it comes to the groupie/stalker line. This guy was massively creepy though.