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Speaking of that, this was what Dave Meltzer had to say about K-1s Grand Prix tournament on his latest radio show:

According to FEC records, the total cost of the failed campaign was $49.58 million!

This reminds me of a Verne Gagne story Dave Meltzer told on his message board recently:

Bravo to Chael Sonnen and wouldn't it be wonderful if we had another Montreal screwjob on Saturday!

Sorry tomk, there is no new clever weight adjustment, Dave is just lousy at explaining his system. All Dave has done differently here is: 1. Updated the list to include 2009 numbers (hence HHH (+8 pts), Undertaker(+7 pts), Cena (+10 pts), Orton (+9 pts), Show (+5 pts), etc rankings all improve). 2. Excluded all pre-1947 performers and pre-1947 numbers for those performers, like Lou Thesz, who straddled that cut off point. 3. Excluded all non U.S./Canada performers. Here's the original list from the August 5th 2009 Observer (note that Dave accidentally excluded Rocca from this list) for you to compare and contrast with the new list to see that Dave has only done the above three minor changes:

Their rant was inspired by Todd Martin's Raw Report: Yes, Cena did cost Barrett the title, but only after the whole of Nexus beat down Randy Orton crippling his knee. Clearly he deserves the title.

LOL at Bryan/Dave's intentionally misleading and inaccurate headline "Title change in TNA", to tease Jeff Hardy has lost the title due to his problems with "exhaustion", only to find out once I logged in that the Knockouts tag team titles are vacant and they've started a tournament at today's TV tapings. They really should be above such shit.

Coughlin wasn't obtuse, he was being willfully obtuse. Seeing things that weren't there, because like a lot of people over on the figure four board, he doesn't like Snowden for whatever reason. Really it would be odd to get kicked off a website for burying a competing journalist when Alvarez and Meltzer has made habits of late of doing the same thing. What could be worse than the jailbait thread, possibly hiring a homophobe who thinks that the Unabomber was a tool of Al Gore and that everyone who disagrees with him is a Marxist.

Wasn't letting the wrestlers Vince stole from other territories work a few dates for their old promoters as a favour, a con to lull them into believing he didn't have plans to expand nationally (or not in their markets, at least)?

Jeff Hardy almost pulled from TNA's Final Resolution PPV due to "exhaustion". Up late partying with Matt I presume...

I think Freddie Prinze Jr would be the exception that proves the rule.

It's not really that lunatic behaviour. He had a complaint about the editor of Bloody Elbow, so he complained to SBNation.

Has he said anything like that or are you just saying that based on the Sonnen cheerleading? This was the quote I was referring to:

Does anyone believe Billy Robinson's version of his infamous brawl with Peter Maivia that "Peter did not have the ability as a street fighter to get close to my eyes", "the reason I got bitten was because I didn't want to hurt him", and "When I saw the blood I got angry and knocked him out... he was unconscious for 25 minutes"?

Speaking of Copp, clearly the right way to lean on this issue is that Keith Kizer is the one who's lying.

"Listening to this, I kept thinking about what this show would sound like if Bischoff or Hogan said the things Chael did. And it's not like Chael has a better track record of telling the truth than them." - Todd Martin on Dave Meltzer's and Bryan Alvarez's Radio Show on the Chael Sonnen hearings.

Chael "I don't mimic pro wrestling promos, but speak to Roddy Piper for promo advice and steal The Grappler's catchphrase" Sonnen is supposed to be on Wrestling Observer Radio in a few days, which should be a ton of fun. I can't wait for him to unveil his "I never spoke about Keith Kizer at the CSAC hearings" promo.

Chael's hearing was a total farce with his doctor coming off like a stoned hobo that was a bigger quack than Dr Phil Astin III, yet Sonnen still got his sentence reduced by six months. So can we pencil in the rematch for May now?

Just to make Alan4L happy, a quote from him: Can't he come up with more original homophobic slurs that that? Unfortunately Joe Rogan already beat him to the punch by several days!

CSAC agenda for Thursday's meeting via Zach Arnold Hmm interesting: “Testosterone 1 shot 8/5/10″, “T/E ratio 16.9 +- 17%”. So Sonnen admitted to using a testosterone shot the day before he was tested (so he has to use the testosterone replacement therapy excuse) and his T/E ratio was over four times the legal amount. Nevada wouldn’t stand for that, so why should California?

Wade Keller opens www.WadeKeller.com

The latest from Dave in the Fitch thread:

I think Dave is slowly losing his mind in the Fitch thread: The soccer talking point is highly amusing given that the NASL has been dead for over 25 years and if he followed the world's most lucrative football league he'd realise how important winning is in that sport. A top English team fails to make the top four, they lose their Champions League revenue, slip further in the table, they miss out on the Europa cup, end up getting relegated, then there is a huge drop in their revenue next season. Just ask the once mighty Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest, etc how having a terrible win loss record and ending up relegated worked out for their businesses.

Yeah, that was the story Gary Michael Cappetta told in his book.

Well, he did call the cops on Triple H several months later!