Boondocks Kernoodle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpOtVXVIOQM but watch it quick, the last time it was up it got yanked pretty fast I can see how some of the dummies in charge at the time wouldn't realize that WCW was failing despite Goldberg, not because of him, but there was a line in the Observer around that time that sums it up perfectly:

Rock pinned HHH in that three-way, but Brock did beat HHH at a house show on 9/6/02.

Reasons behind WWE's post-2001 business decline might be an interesting topic for a thread. I'd rate the HHH push as a main factor, though certainly not the only one. I'm not really good at making first posts in threads, though, so someone else probably should.

Don't a lot of these death hoaxes come about when some guy works his wife into thinking he used to be so-and-so from the WWF? Though I can't imagine anything more pathetic than a Timothy Well impersonator.

I was surprised to read that Lex didn't leave his wife for Liz until after WCW folded. I thought it was common knowledge that they were together from '99 on.

HHH was removed as Raw GM but he's still COO. And Vince is still chairman.

I think the idea that HHH has a vested interest in the streak continuing that conflicts with his inner desire to end it is a good storyline. Now the promo where he basically said "none of these younger guys are as good as me, Shawn and Taker" was the bad part.

I think Loss read that wrong. The idea isn't paying him to be an underdog babyface, it's paying him to be that underdog's bodyguard. Didn't WCW sort of do that with Kronik and their APA ripoff gimmick near the end?

I called Observer Live a few years ago and asked about this rumor and Dave said that he had never heard that.

It was great when you'd hear WCW stock music on non-wrestling programs. I always laughed whenever a guest would come out to Malenko's theme on Ricki Lake.

I give most of the credit for Superbrawl IX's buyrate to Hogan and Flair, but I think it was helped by the Goldberg-Bigelow match they had been building for months, back when Goldberg still had drawing power.

His focus now is on earning as much respectability and as many mainstream accolades as possible for his company, moreso than creating the most profitable wrestling company he can (though if they were losing money that might change). Those "Be a STAR" promos probably mean a lot more to him that getting a 3.8 rating for Raw.

Well, when Dave said on Sunday's Observer Radio that they were considering an unpredictable finish that would play into the "anyone can enter" stip, I was expecting either Cole, Vickie or Laurinaitis. So it could have been worse.

It's actually Port Jervis, and it was just 20 minutes from my house, but my mom wouldn't let me go. Same with the Raws from the Fernwood Resort.

Forgive my ignorance of wrestling in the territorial era, but would it be fair to say, or at least arguable, that at his Mid-South peak, JYD was, up to that time, the biggest black wrestling star ever? I don't know of another black wrestler who was the clear #1 guy in any promotion of Mid-South's caliber or above.

TNA's deal with Spike does end this year.

One of the most awful WarGames, particularly because it pitted a veritable superteam against a crew of midcard has-beens. What should have happened is Giant should have been on the heel team. The stipulation would be that if Hogan's team wins, Hulk gets five minutes with Sullivan, but if the Dungeon of Doom wins, Giant gets a title shot at Halloween Havoc. (But no monster truck fight!) Giant would come in and completely dominate Hogan, getting him in an unbreakable chokehold. Remember in '88 when Andre choked out Hulk and all the faces tried to get him to stop but couldn't. It would have been like that, with Sting, Savage and Luger trying to break the hold but not being able to. Only they would have been held at bay by the other Dungeon members, so they wouldn't have looked totally ineffective for their inability to help. Finally, Jimmy Hart would throw in the towel on Hulk's behalf. This would accomplish several things: it would allow Hulk to lose without really jobbing, it would foreshadow Jimmy's heel turn the next month, and it would allow the Giant to compete in a match before Havoc, because I always thought it was ridiculous that someone would get a title shot in their debut match.

You didn't comment on the awful sound effects that accompanied DDP's assault on Dave. Even as a ten-year-old, I recognized how campy and ridiculous this segment was, and it has remained a favorite ever since.

Razor really was hurt in the ladder match where Jarrett regained the IC title.

OK now that's just creepy

Giant's debut was at Slamboree the month before.

No, he started using his famous theme at Buried Alive two weeks before the Pillman angle aired.

I knew the difference, but when listening to Raven just casually mention "Hak" in shoot interviews it took me a while to realize that he wasn't talking about Myers. I guess Hak is what "da boyz in da back" call Sandman.

Ahh, I see. Yeah, that's the kind of mistake that never would've happened in old-school WWF but was common in WCW during that time. On a somewhat related note: Was WCW syndicated TV always a week behind? I never noticed if it was back in the mid 90s because there was less of an emphasis on week-to-week TV but in '99 and 2000 I can recall watching Worldwide, which aired here on Sundays, and them discussing the Nitro that had aired 13 days earlier as if it was the most recent show.

The Hardliners' TV debut (not the debuts of the two wrestlers, of course, but that act's debut) was at the Clash, so they wouldn't have been hyping that match beforehand. I don't know why the team left before Scott came back and they were able to have the blowoff match, though.