Mad Dog

Well that was about 3 years too late. That seems to be a running theme with some of the title runs this year.

I think the RoH fans have come more under fire lately because the product has declined somewhat due to talent loss and they've started trying to overcompensate for it. Thus they've started becoming more ECW mutant like.

It's more of a don't dare criticize RoH at all because everything they do is perfect.

Probably. He mentioned Kendrick's work in Zero-One.

I watched Smackdown for the first time in awhile. JBL might possibly be the best announcer they've had in a long time. He actually ::gasps:: puts everyone over and talks about accomplishments in Japan and such.

Are people actually trying to bash him for doing that?

WCW from 98-99 for about six months lost about every upper card guy on the roster.

How can you say that? These guys are all the future of the company and they just got demolished in a match where 5 of them could barely touch DX. They might save Doane and maybe another guy but some of them are completely ruined from this. Your career in the WWF doesn't go upward after you lose to HHH or Michaels.

8/8/06 for New Japan: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jushin Liger Giant Bernard vs. Satoshi Kojima Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan The G-1 always brings out the best in everyone from New Japan and they have a really strong field which will probably see Kojima, Tenzan, Tanahashi and Bernard in the semis-finals.

PWInsider had about a mile long list of what this could be ranging from too many vitamins to diabetes.

If anyone's interested. NWA Anarchy posts their tv show online for free every Friday: http://colepromedia.com/nwaanarchy.html

I don't think people make that connection though. A lot of ECW's fanbase were teenagers and college students. Not a great group to understand the concept of money. I remember back when it came out that ECW wasn't paying the workers that I had a huge argument with a bunch of mutants on 411 about it. They were swearing up and down that it was just propaganda against ECW or something like that. I'm a big fan of TNA and I buy their DVDs whenever possible. I'm a fan of them and they need the money to continue going.

It also makes me sad and a lot angry that revisionist history has tried to write ECW as a bigger deal than WCW. ECW had ONE year where the inring product was worth a damn. Guys like Chris Jericho were in the company for 4 months. All of those guys that the mutants try to take credit for were WCW products. Hell, most of the mutants don't even know that Benoit was teaming with Bobby Eaton in WCW in 1993. It doesn't surprise me though. Vince will never forgive WCW for almost putting him out of business in 97. ECW was kind of that stray dog he snuck food to and remembers fondly.

I didn't even like ECW that much and I still managed to find my way to a house show when they came to Columbus.

The worst part of this wave of ECW marks is that most of them never even watched ECW when it was on. It's the cool thing to be an ECW mutant right now.

So I've seen a few of Cody Runnels OVW matches. He's still really green but he's showing a massive amount of charisma. They're being really smart with his push so far. Short matches where he sells a lot.

As I've said before. We'll be talking about this summer in an infamous manner 4-5 years from now. These are just the first 5 victims in what will be a long line of burials done by DX.

So how many of them survive and how many will be fired by the end of the year?

So they were totally buried by DX on Saturday shortly after getting totally buried at the last PPV. So can they be saved and how can they do it?

He was a few days short of turning 77.

I've got that one. The most heat the Ding Dongs got was the crowd cheering that their bell broke.

It makes me sad when I look back at what wrestling used to be. Everything just seemed to be so much more important in those days. It seems like even some of the jobbers on shows had more of a connection with the crowd than a lot of current WWE mid-carders do. It's always funny seeing Scott Hall back in the 80s too.