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Am I alone in thinking the "It's Tommy's" angle is up there with the worst of Russo? Dreamer and Beulah get together with no explanation as to why (after he has spent the past nine months beating her up at every turn), then she lies to him about being pregnant, cheats on him with a woman, and then he finds out that he's not going to be a father (something that theoretically would be devastating for your average guy) he's upset for like three minutes and then he's all FUCK YEAH LESBIAN TRIPLE KISS BWAAAAAAAAAAAA making him look like the dumbest meathead on the planet. I know it's just wrestling but if Russo had booked that people would still complain about it today and it certainly belies Heyman's "master booker" reputation. I guess throwing logic out the window is a small price to pay in the mad pursuit of the highly lucrative bisexual wrestling fan demographic.

I remember the lesbian kiss airing with a big red X covering the action. I don't know if it aired like that everywhere, but it did in my area. It always amused me how ECW handled language. The MSG show never censored crowd chants as long as I was watching (mid-'95 to early '97). I guess one person saying "shut the fuck up" is bad, but a thousand saying it is OK? It was also OK if it wasn't said over the crowd mic, because I distinctly remember a Scorpio-Sabu match where 2 Cold yelled out "SABU IS SHIT," and one gentlemen in the crowd retorted "FUCK YOU SCORPIO," totally uncensored. I also remember them leaving "nigga" intact in certain rap songs played during Hype Central. Yet they bleeped out Pillman saying that a mark spends his last $20 on crack cocaine, which I thought was a pretty tame line by ECW standards.

How much truth is there in Heyman's story that the Beulah/Kimona kiss got ECW kicked off every station it was on? In WWE's ECW book he says that MSG network didn't let them back on for six months, but I was watching ECW on MSG back then, and it was definitely on that entire time.

From Billboard, 5/21/95: From his 2002 book:

I don't remember the name "Mambo Giant" ever being used.

Eddie Ellner is now a yoga teacher in Santa Barbara.

Babinsack just published a review of that Maria shoot, hopefully to be later included in Pro Wrestling Intellectual II, and OK, I know Bruno and The Sack are BFFs but come on.

Those delusional shut-ins probably could run a wrestling company better than Dixie Carter.

"I had to tell creative, if there is a Fire Russo chant in this arena, I will fire someone else." There it is, TNA in a nutshell.

Well, first someone called in and mentioned that they typed "Wade Keller" into Youtube and found a clip of Bryan Alvarez sonning him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILC6ITm9jyI - though Wade wasn't aware of what Bryan said). He said that he doesn't have a problem with Alvarez, but they've disagreed with a few things over the years - in particular The Death of WCW book and one time when Wade overrated a Sabu-RVD match with a number of missed spots. I don't know anything about the latter, but I did read Wade's review of the book and he spent most of it taking the authors to task for overstating the potential of the invasion angle and for not offering a new perspective on why WCW died. And we know how well Bryan takes criticism, so I can imagine him being upset about it years later.

For those wondering about Grizzly Smith and his alleged sex crimes, here's what the new Observer says:

That question is less embarrassing than later in the shoot when Oliver pulls out a bag with a picture of a giant penis on it and asks Maria which wrestlers belong in the "dick-bag."

Dave:

Also, WWE is a Delaware corporation? I assume that has something to do with the flat corporate tax rate there, but I've never heard that before.

I'm on her side, but I'm sorry, I had to laugh at www.marthahartsueswwe.com

The always-accurate Wikipedia lists Kevin Nash's pro debut as September 14, 1988. I was always under the impression that the Master Blasters squash at Clash XII was his pro debut. Does anyone know if Nash worked anywhere before WCW?

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/article/em...-release-104583 I don't know how reputable this is, but

Well, JR is almost 60, so of course he doesn't get piercings, but No room for gimmicks in wrestling!

Everyone keeps saying all the stories are coming from Jake, but didn't Robin also tell stories about her father too? Besides which, when people say Grizzly "raped" Jake's mom, are we talking "rape-rape" (TM Whoopi Goldberg) or just statutory rape? This was the 1950s, and girls at 12/13 having kids and getting married wasn't that uncommon in certain parts of the south. Jerry Lee Lewis, anyone? I don't think it's that hard to believe, even from Jake, especially when, as noted, you've got a daughter saying Grizzly molested her. Now look at this: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/13704/105/ I could have sworn that when this was first posted, it had a line about Grizz's "propensity for young girls" but that's not there now. Did anyone else see that and was it edited, or am I nuts and imaging things?

From Dave's review of Bash at the Beach '94: "The Inoki deal is a favor to Hogan, since Inoki gave Hogan his first superstar break back in 1980, before Hogan reached that level in the United States." That was also why they pulled Sting from his match with Regal at BATB, because Regal needed to win cleanly to set up his match with Inoki and he wasn't about to go over Sting clean.

I don't know where that Undertaker story came from but it isn't on the Observer, Torch or PWInsider websites.

Keller says WWE has warned Danielson about saying "Jesus Christ" on the mic, which is so hilarious coming from the company that just four years ago did this.

Can this really be considered a lapse of judgment on Bryan's part? He wasn't just going to choke out the ring announcer unless it was scripted for him. Obviously this was a planned spot, but obviously someone outside of WWE saw it and got upset and within WWE's corporate environment the only acceptable response is to lie and say "Well we didn't know he was going to do it, he's fired." This isn't a case of a wrestler going into business for himself, it's more like when Heyman got Kimona to strip at the ECW Arena and then stopped booking her because "it got too much heat."

Did they take the vegetative Undertaker to a medical facility?