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It has to be some kind of budget/staffing issue. Major magazines don't seem to have any problem with being more than a couple days behind.

IIRC they didn't mind the Apter/Weston mags pre-expansion.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

You're right, plus, it's not like there was anything close to a national consensus casual fan best match of the year until the late '80s, which is when the awards starting reflecting that (either because they really won or because the writers needed to make their choices based on how the business had changed).

Right, there's not knowing stuff and acting like you know stuff even though you don't. It's one thing for him to not know that the LA (and SF) battle royals were all-star workrate matches. There's nothing wrong with that, but he shouldn't be all BATTLE ROYALS ALL SUCK NEGATIVE ELEVENTY STARS. That said, even he should have realized that it was an all star event, being a non-WWWF/Toronto/AJPW Bruno match during that period.

Dixie is strangely endearing.

"Hot moves"?

Wow, two in a row. I wonder if wife #3 wrote in her diary as a teenager about marrying him like wife #2 did.

I don't really disagree, but I think some of the heat should go on the interviewer for going through and asking the question. Well, I was including Sean Oliver in "wrestling fans."

I hate wrestling fans:

It's possible. Settlement & Releases are often written in away that in return for the walkaway check, you're walking away from everything you could possibly asking the company for. Given how much was paid out... it's likely that it's written in such a way that someone in the WWE thought they were done with paying the Hart Estate. Can't be certain until one reads the settlement. It's likely that the settlement will be part of the WWE's filings since Martha has opened it up. If she didn't mention the dollar figure (I think that was the only confidential part of the settlement in the new complaint; remember that the number never came directly from WWE or Martha before as far as I know) and open the door, would WWE be able to invoke the settlement?

Good point about Tagged Classics. What John mentioned about WWE the royalties being eliminated as part of the settlement crossed my mind earlier. Does the confidentiality clause prevent both parties from mentioning it if that's the case? What would it take for the terms to be revealed as part of this suit?

I know, but there would also be royalties for the pre-murder/suicide releases still be sold after (or sold before with royalties not paid yet). Plus, all of the wrestlers in the video games get huge checks for them. Would royalties for SvR '07 have come in yet at that point in the year? Did Owen's estate get paid royalties for WWF Attitude, which was released after his death, but featured him and even opened with a memorial screen for him?

As we find out more, I think the royalties are the most interesting part of this, and tie into the other claim. Since there's nothing to suggest otherwise (and McDevitt only refuted the likeness issue), if we take the lawsuit at face value about the lack of royalty payments, why wasn't WWE paying royalties to Owen Hart's estate? Was there something about that in the wrongful death settlement? Did they just figure that since Martha cut herself off from wrestling and the Harts, she wouldn't know about the various DVD releases (which she would be pissed off by) and thus they could hold the money back (which, while stupid, is not be an entirely unfounded belief going by her not finding out about them until the "Hart and Soul" DVD came out with Owen on the cover)? Did they have a feeling she'd file a suit like this if she knew they released footage of him? Has Chris Benoit's estate been getting royalties for the DVDs with him that were sold after the murder-suicide? I wonder if we'll get any WWE royalty accounting records out of this. Even though it's a totally different market for videos than it was in 1996 (or even 1999), it would be interesting to see what he was paid for tapes of certain shows released on VHS while he was under this contract, since theoretically the estate should be getting the same percentage for any re-releases (WMs, Summerslams, and Rumbles at least via the Anthology sets).

I believe so.

It has the amusing bluntness of something like ImOscar.com (or ImNoScar.com).

Decided to not to say so at Cageside for now, but merit or no merit, she "Mary Sue"s herself to a ridiculous degree in the complaint.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/6/22/153...6-22-10-w-frank Cageside Radio (finally) returns with a great guest in the form of MMA legend Frank Shamrock. This is a great show with lots of topics covered in 37 minutes including his medical marijuana advocacy, predictions for the top matches at the next Strike Force card, lots of Pancrase stories including how the first generation fighters didn't let the less experienced fighters in on how some fights were worked and some involved carrying lesser opponents to longer matches, his one and only pro wrestling match for U-Style, his split from Ken Shamrock and the Lion's Den, building a fight among other topics about MMA as entertainment, UFC erasing him from history, the Batista rumors, and much more. This is well worth listening to.

When did Frank work for PWFG?

This fell into my lap today. Got any ?s for Dave Meltzer's best friend?

I'm scared, yet intrigued: Randy Orton's "Voices" theme mashed up with Depeche Mode's "The Sinner In Me."

Well, this is different in that it's his original accent and Eddy was born and raised in the US, but yeah, that surprised me.

I've never heard of him having a financial stake in the XWF or the Hulkamania Tour.