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That really isn't surprising given that Pillman was Dave's best friend in the business and he really wasn't all that close to Benoit. I get the sense that Dave feels he owes it to his best friend for his true story to be out there. Whereas with the Benoits he seems content in the knowledge that we will never know the true story, other than the fact that we do know it wasn't due to one single factor like steroids.

Cue another Bret meltdown whenever he hears about that flippant comment.

Has Harley never heard the story about Killer Kowalski ripping off part of Yukon Eric's ear while performing a knee drop in a match that happened when he would be 8 or 9 years old? Maybe he invented it in kindergarten?

Meh, if I had a dollar for every time Vince said I will never use that mother****er again in the heat of the moment and later changed his mind or burst a gasket about something stupid, I'd have made a nice sum of money by this point. I'm sure Hogan and Jimmy Hart will be back at some point. The others maybe not, but never rarely holds in the wrestling business.

Not if it saves him from a worse fate, Boondocks. Both Eddie and Benoit drove themselves mad with envy from playing by the rules and always seeing the con artists who didn't really care about being respected get ahead of them. If you're obsessed with wanting to play living legend, but that spot will always be out of your grasp because there can only be a handful of living legends and those spots are already taken, then you can either accept your lot in real life and make the most of it or go crazy trying to live up to impossible standards in a fake meaningless world.

I like how even the positive reviews from his fans point out how he lazily cribbed stuff from his old books.

Well, he wouldn't let Jericho play Stephanie's new love interest six and a half years ago, so I doubt he would let him play it now. Maybe Jericho could play Stephanie's pussywhipped business partner again?

Speaking of the most recent worked shoot angle, you suspect former WWE star Christian is returning to the opposition soon and you want to work this into your storylines, so what do you do with him in his last few appearances with the promotion? Do you turn him heel for contemplating a return to the Evil Empire and have him put over one of your young babyface stars on the way out? Why, of course not, you have him put over former WWE star Booker T on the PPV, have him beaten down by your former WCW and WWE stars heel group, one of whom, Kurt Angle, recently did a worked shoot angle where he put over Vince McMahon, and use that beat down to set up a feud between former WWE star Rhino and the aforementioned Angle.

Yes, and let's not forget the time Stephanie scripted John Cena to do a rap making it clear he fantasized about her in bed.

I think it's unfair to say that Vickie has brought nothing to the table. She may be awful at acting (and most in the company are), but she takes her role seriously, understands how to play a heel well and helped to keep Edge's act fresh. A year ago I would have agreed completely with Jingus, but she deserves some praise for making something that on paper sounded like a horrible idea and executing the role fairly well.

Not unlike a large percentage of the women hired by WWE over the last decade, yet she's become more over than almost all of them, despite her lack of good looks and other limitations. Really she's the last woman WWE should be getting rid of.

I'm not sure what the point is of publishing the actual video on his blog is. Surely a transcript would suffice?

Has WWE ever really cared about their announcers knowing the names of moves? From Gorilla Monsoon's penchant for making up body part names and ignoring matches for mindless banter, to Vince McMahon's trademark "What a maneuver" catchphrase to cover every move he didn't know the name of, and to today's revolving door of pretty faces with no wrestling background (Michael Cole, Jonathan Coachman, Mike Adamle, Todd Grisham, Steve Romero etc), history indicates that knowing the names of moves isn't high up the agenda of things they want their new prospective announcers to know.

Ross is probably jealous that all the young swimsuit models go to John Laurinaitis for help. But seriously, someone should ask Good Ol' JR how the most powerful members of the creative team took his creative input and advice, and why should the young talent listen to him when his ideas either fell on deaf ears or worse pissed off someone in management that it lead to another one of his burials?

I don't know why a worse TV deal than Wrestling Society X had is something to get all excited about.

Bruno Sammartino puts over Kurt Angle for new TNA DVD. I find it a bit funny that Bruno puts over Kurt so strongly, given all of Kurt's drug problems and Bruno's years of criticizing the drug abuse in the modern business, though it's too be expected as he obviously isn't paying attention to what's going on in the business anymore.

That's still a good line up. Cool to have his tryout match and first IC title win as part of the extras. Not sure about including the Hennig match. I know guys like to commemorate their fallen brethren, but if the match wasn't given any time and Hennig looked bad in the match it shouldn't have been included, as it does more to tarnish his legacy than help it. The lack of Benoit is expected and understandable.

That sort of mentality is one of the biggest problems with wrestling over the last couple of decades.

Well, that proved my previous posts wrong. Shouldn't the Wellness policy, which Cade went out of his way to praise in his aforementioned blog, be catching wrestlers with problems before they pass out on a plane from a seizure? Lesson to Cade's peers, whatever you do don't pass out in public, especially so soon after a top star was refused on a plane for being drunk!

He started a blog two months ago on the WWE fan site and the few posts he made could have won him the jackpot at WWE apologists bingo. Like: I think that angle was done to write his character out of the storylines before they fired him. What Bryan Alvarez said over at Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online:

I expect he got labelled with the "he doesn't know how to work" tag after being aligned with Chris Jericho for several months, rubbing shoulders with the headliners Jericho was working with and even pinning Shawn Michaels didn't get him over, so they decided to cut their losses, because they did everything in their power to get him over and it wasn't working. It almost couldn't happen to a nicer WWE apologist! If only he wasn't talking about his IPods, IPhones and Playstation 3s all the time, then maybe he would have realised the company wouldn't appreciate all the sacrifices he made and they would fire him on a whim, because as we all know broke and seemingly helpless wrestlers from any era can largely blame themselves for not having the common sense or discipline to prepare for their futures.

I don't doubt this is true, but really it's a stupid thing to say on the WWE website. If Olympic drug testing is a joke, then what does that make WWE's Wellness policy?

Someone please drop this quote on his head the next time he rails against evil agents getting in the ears of young talent causing them to make all sorts of unreasonable demands, like gasp getting more time off or more money like the older veterans in similar spots on the card. Someone please drop this quote on his head the next time he whines about being fired twice by Vince McMahon. Or better yet, someone send him JJ Dillon's autobiography that details how Vince McMahon encouraged JJ to stop renting a home in Conneticut, helped him get an expensive mortgage that he wouldn't have been able to obtain on his own and how a few years later Vince cut his pay by 40%, causing him to eventually have to declare bankruptcy.

That they still felt the need to put "CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE" made me laugh.

I would imagine part of the reason Pillman didn't have the whole show dedicated to him is that he wasn't as big a star as Eddie or Benoit and didn't die in such a newsworthy manner as Owen did.