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I was recently reminded of this segment as my brother has begun using a spray-on hair powder very similar to what the Nacho Man used to gain a psychological edge. You forgot to mention the "Will There Be Nightfall" hotline tease, which was the best part of this segment. IIRC by this point they were using a different Scheme Gene and Huckster than the ones who appeared in the original skits.

From the latest classic WON posted: See, I knew if you went back far enough he'd admit it!

He didn't say anything about the stigma of pro wrestling. That may have been what he was getting at, but he didn't say it. My impression was that he wouldn't have allowed it because they're competitors.

He's being disingenuous in pretending not to see the difference between a wrestling show and any other TV show. Whether it makes sense of not, there is a big difference in public perception between if Brock appeared on, say, CSI and if he appeared at Mania. Dana has stated that his goal is to make UFC the biggest sport in the world, bigger than the NFL, and though we know that's not going to happen, it's certainly not conducive to that goal to draw any more comparisons to the largely-reviled WWE organization. Dave knows that sportswriters were calling Mayweather a disgrace for wrestling and some were calling for LT not to be inducted into the football hall of fame for doing a match. To compare it to boxers wrestling isn't a fair comparison because boxing already has the respect of the public. UFC is still in the "trying to be taken seriously" stage, and the last thing Dana should want for his growing sport is to have his biggest star moonlighting on wrestling shows.

The match was taped four days before Beach Blast but it actually aired two days after the PPV. I don't know why exactly the Clash was taped (it was the only one not to air live to the best of my knowledge) but I would guess it had something to do with coordinating the schedules of the international wrestlers on the show.

After being assured by Mr. Coughlin's rant on his show that there's nothing in that thread that is "in violative" of any laws, I decided to check it out and it's just pictures of girls in bikinis. Some of them probably are 18 or over (but not over by much) and some of them may be 16 or 17, but it's not "kiddie porn." That said, Alvarez really should rein in that stuff because it is creepy, but I'm sure Dave is oblivious to anything on that board that isn't in the wrestling or MMA sections.

So Mike wanted to make a point that Snowden was just trolling and saying things he didn't really believe in order to cause controversy. OK, fair point. This is how he articulated it on his show: "I get that what he's doing is in large part done to drum up interest, to get the almighty CLICK, to get the COMMENT, and as a man that says all kinds of crazy shit I can appreciate that, although I will state for the record that I actually state absolutely nothing on this show to drive listeners towards this thing and that most of what I say and scream and rant and rave I later sit there and go, 'shit, I really hope I don't get in trouble for that.' I really hope that I don't get kicked off this website, 'cause that would be something. This is a website that has a thread entitled 'Prostitots and Mini-tramps.' This is a website that has hundreds, maybe thousands, of pictures of underage girls, not nude, and not in violative (sic) of any child pornography laws, but really fuckin' creepy Mr. Jeff. And I'm afraid that I'm gonna get kicked off of this website. That would be fuckin' something else. Like getting kicked off the the Stormfront website. That's the Nazis, right? I think so. So I get it, fine, you wanna write your shit, you wanna be controversial and drum up interest. I fuckin' hate that style of writing. I fuckin' hate it. I think it is bullshit. Write what you think and what you believe. Writing shit just to get a reaction out of people is pointless. It doesn't do any good. Any asshole can do it. If you want to be controversial, here's how you go controversial: controversy is coming in five seconds, everybody, so turn off. I'm gonna say a bad word and it'll be controversial. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. (BEEEEEEP) OOOOOH, Mike's controversial, he used the N-word. It's easy, I could just fuckin' take this show and just be N-word this and N-word that, N N N N N N N N N. I even said it just there and I probably should go bleep it out, I'm gonna bleep it out. So I did it, I bleeped it out, I caved because I really don't actually want to be controversial and I've now realized, I've learned the errors of my way everybody. I've learned what words you can and can not say and I appreciate that most of you listening understand what I'm actually getting at, but enough's happened that I don't want to get in trouble anymore so I bleeped out the N-word. Probably shouldn't have even said it. Maybe I didn't really say it and it's all part of a bit. Heh heh heh heh heh, DICK. Anyhoo, I'm going with the standard swears and I'm gonna try to stay away from the ethnic and religious shit, unless you're an Armenian. Fuck those guys. Seriously, fuck 'em. So I hate that style of writing and radio-ing and all that stuff. I mean, to me it's really great if you write something and it becomes controversial, but that's what you really believe, and you're actually challenging people, but it takes no skill just to say, 'gee, I wonder what's gonna be the contrary position. I'm gonna do that.' Meeeeeh, what a fuckin' dick. Just fuck that shit." That's the kind of expert analysis we shell out $10.99 a month for.

Snowden wrote this a few weeks ago: So Coughlin launched into a furious rant about Snowden on Five Star Radio, a rant which you can find a humorous excerpt from in the next post. Anyway, what followed was this flame war between the two of them on the Board: (Emphasis added) There's no other inference besides, "Penn threw the fight." Maybe he threw it by undertraining, or whatever, but the inference is clear: Penn threw the fight(s). Fuck off, you fucking hack. Go back to writing half assed 150 word "articles" designed to do nothing more than generate traffic. Leave critical thinking and intelligent analysis to people with half a brain (all I have these days). Go ahead and do that thing where you show up after high school basketball games and sniff the still warm seats. I've highlighted the portion that follows immediately after your rant. It makes it pretty clear that I was simply saying that Penn couldn't invest mentally in fights at lightweight. I didn't suggest that Penn threw any fights, just that he is mentally fragile and a much better fighter when he cares about the opponent. It's embarrassing that Dave Meltzer is associated, even tangentially, with this kind of attack. And it just kinda goes on like that.

I believe T&A were the Dudleys' first feud after their face turn. As for X-Pac and Road Dogg, I'll never forget them going over the Dudleys in a tables match, then humiliating them pushing them off the stage in a dumpster, which set up a dumpster match for the Dudleys to get their revenge...and then DX won again.

I thought Edge and Christian were getting really stale by mid-2001, but that was WWF's fault. Where is there to go when you've won the tag titles seven times in a one-year span? The feud between the two of them could have been carried out to Wrestlemania with a hair-vs-hair match; instead it was over in seven weeks so Edge could move on to a real star in Test while Christian scored title wins so unimportant that they didn't even air on television. I don't think E&C's squandered potential compares to that of the Hardys who were super-over and sold a lot of merchandise but were never used in a way where they could actually draw money on PPV. I don't know how exactly to make a tag team title match draw on PPV but I do think the Hardys as fighting babyface champs taking on all comers would have been more effective than having Edge and Christian lose and win back the titles every three weeks. Not that E&C as the focus of the tag division was a bad thing, but Matt and Jeff deserved a longer run. There was never a better time for them to win the titles than the TLC at Summerslam 2000, and when they won them in a cage match a month later, it was kind of an anticlimax. I also think during 2000 a scaffold match with the Hardys vs E&C could have been a big draw on PPV if promoted properly. Sure, scaffold matches blow and once you've seen one you don't want to see another, but a large portion of the fans watching WWF during that time period probably hadn't seen one. Promote it as the most dangerous match ever with the promise of the biggest bumps possible (and I'm sure the Hardys would have come through in that regard) and you could have attracted a lot of fan interest.

Because he claimed he acted in self-defense and none of the wrestlers there were willing to step up and say he didn't, so...

Kevin says "kill the ballyhoo" as the music is fading. I wonder if he's the one who introduced that term into the WWE backstage lexicon (hence the "PYRO AND BALLYHOO" in leaked Raw scripts) or if that's a Vince-ism that he picked up along the way. EDIT: Oh wait, that was the TNA script. Has "ballyhoo" taken over the entire wrestling world?

Sorry to double but Id read this on PWInsider: I would love to see this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQEgGpoIIw

You mean "he's jealous because Punk fucked Maria" but that's not really true.

Oh come on.

I don't know if it's on "similar standing" but TSM had one. The TSM thread, which was like six years ago, was just for certain people to discuss how hot they felt the then-under 18 Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan were. F4W's thread is called "JAILBAIT APPRECIATION THREAD~! Minitramps/Prostitots NSFW!" and while I suspect that there's probably no actual nudity inside, I'm not going to bother finding out.

Bischoff wasn't really in charge then, and even if he had the power to determine what did and didn't get on TV, I believe it was Sharon Sidello who was behind the boat explosion mini-movie and Dusty who was behind the amnesia angle, and did he really want to tell either of them that their brilliant idea wasn't going to make it to television? At least we can see from this week's classic WON that Eric was something of a leveling influence back then, as he was the one who nixed the Col. Parker's Posse gimmick right before their scheduled debut.

It just means that they have aired more episodes than Gunsmoke, Bonanza, M*A*S*H, Cheers or any other long running comedy/drama, with which Raw is ostensibly in the same category. At least it's better than that "Action/Adventure" crap from early '99.

Well, WWE currently has the Raw GM sending stuff over via E-Mail, maybe they could break out the Raw Ouija Board and let dead wrestlers host Raw. Oh man, if WWE has Michael Cole dress up in a robe and wizard hat and conduct a seance so that guest GM Chris Benoit can call Miz a "gay bitch," Raw will be getting 4.0s every week.

The official story was that Vince had received a number of complaints about her attitude, but the book Long Bomb makes the interesting suggestion that it was done as punishment for Lawler a comment Lawler made during an XFL game. Honda had just pulled their advertising from XFL programming, and after a missed field goal, King remarked that the kicker was "as dependable as a Honda automobile." The book implied that Lawler was forced out due to pressure from NBC, but I don't necessarily buy that. If Vince was really pissed at Lawler, he would have directly fired him.

The Ivory/Kat angle would have taken place down the line, but the angle that was scheduled on the day Stacy was fired was that she would have sex with Val Venis and the other RTC members would be mad at him for it. After she was fired, they made the curious decision to not remove this segment from the TV taping, but rather just have Richards cut an angry promo about how Venis had been weak and fallen victim to lust but they forgave him, or something. But whatever offscreen transgression Val had committed was never seen or referred to before or after, making the whole thing seem like a non sequitur.

Mitchell made a great point in that audio on the Torch site: Foley was really into the dichotomy of being a fearsome, dangerous madman who was also a wacky, fun-loving rollercoaster enthusiast. But he played up his goofy side so much that he wasn't fearsome or dangerous anymore, and when he tries to revert back to his old self, it doesn't have any bite. The "other" side of Mick may have endeared him to the fans, but it was the "hardcore" side which made him a great wrestler. Bruce also speculated that Mick may be suffering from concussion-related depression or mood swings.

That "total stranger" thing takes a lot of balls, though, or a lack of brains. I mean: WWE (Raw) @ Bossier City, LA - CenturyTel Center - May 23, 2003 Rodney Mack & Christopher Nowinski defeated Lance Cade & John Heidenreich when Cade submitted to Mack's Black Out And they were on the road together for two full months after that.

By "The only hope is that this prods Nowinski and he loses his cool and it becomes a personal issue instead of a debate of issues," he means the only hope for WWE because then they can write off everything he says as the rantings of someone with a personal agenda, they way they do with Phil Mushnick.

I noticed that directly after the Benoit incident they tried to avoid any death references, to the point of Cena talking about his "never say quit" attitude and Orton telling Dusty, "You're a legend, and I'm the legend...you know what."