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Cappetta's book wasn't from the type of publisher I think that Ross is trying to refer to when he says "major publishing houses." Nothing against ECW Press and whatever the heck "Little Bro Ltd." is but they're not exactly Simon & Schuster.

Where can I find this? http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?show...p;#entry5438353

By the way, how many matches did Sting end up working for AJPW, anyway? I just know about the match with Spivey that aired on TV.

"Brutus Magnus will sue me if I say he had a bad match!" Riiiiight...

I get paid to write about wrestling now. The F4W site isn't worth my time. Also, have had stuff posted there, including a really transparent parody that I once sent to all the news sites under a pseudonym, but doesn't appear to be up on the F4W or Torch sites anymore and survives where someone quoted it in a forum post. Most of the time, I don't seek out Martin's recaps. If I suspect he'll write something really stupid, I will. Otherwise, I'll wait for kjh or Cox or whoever to post something here. So yeah, the whole "bile fascination" thing. Plus, as TomK has so eloquently put it in the past, Dave's a guy who openly makes fun of Scott Keith (which is something that he generally doesn't do to writers other than the misplaced Josh Gross criticism and the infamous "Wade Keller and I do completely different jobs" stuff) and has filled his site with an army of Scott Keiths. I don't wanna speak for everyone, but as someone who regularly talks to the people who post the most stuff in these threads, we hate that Dave devalues his brand so much by putting this stuff up on his site and posts anything sent to him that's more than a certain length as a "column." People have talked about sending Dave long-ish emails that Dave posted as "columns" instead of mailbag entries. Hell, in the post-RF bust fallout, Dave accidentally outed an indy promoter once by posting a private email where he talked about how his family didn't know he was gay and went on tangents about how he generally pushed the twink types that he's attracted to. He pulled it several hours later, but this is the level of obliviousness we're dealing with. Dave is a nice guy, but he could have severely fucked up this promoter's family life by making such a stupid error. He did the same thing recently with that Lance Storm email about Ken Anderson, but at least it didn't have the implications of the previous incident. Also, a lot of us generally get annoyed by Dave handing out HOF ballots based on this crap when we can all name more qualified posters on this forum and others. I feel like I have to reiterate this with Martin: He's an HOF voter who, until recently, had no idea what The A-Team was, even though it was largely responsible for the success of the WWF in the '80s. Oh, and don't make me write about Joe Babinsack again.

John Laurinaitis has wrestled as the lowest level babyface in WCW and got a top spot in All Japan by having sex with Motoko Baba before jumping to WCW as an agent so he could be around when the WWF bought the company, as well as advancing up WWE's corporate ladder by charming Stephanie McMahon. When the rest of you do that, then perhaps you can be WWE head of talent relations. Also, it's pretty hilarious to see Bryan acting like writing for the WO/F4W site is prestigious when the "columns" (Dave's weird blind spot) are stuff he never reads and wouldn't post with full control of the site.

They've actually answered "Why the fuck do you let that idiot Todd Martin write for your site?" questions on the podcasts?

Oh who gives a shit. With the snobbish parts of the latest stuff, I'd love to see how he'd react to indie film and cult favorite music references. Im just riffing on the defence/preface most of his colleagues give when the why the fuck is his a reporter for the site questions arise. Oh? C&P plz.

Oh who gives a shit. With the snobbish parts of the latest stuff, I'd love to see how he'd react to indie film and cult favorite music references.

I was just about to post the commercial spoof rant. I've never heard anyone use anything like that bit of ridiculousness as a talking point in my life, and he comes off as some sort of pop culture snob in the process. Date Movie (just like the other Aaron Seltzer parodies other than the first Scary Movie, which, at the time, was perfectly fine and benefited from the source material that it was parodying a lot more than the recent parody movies) wasn't bad because it was a parody, it was bad because it it was a genre-destroyingly bad movie. Plus, for all of SNL's inconsistency over the years, their commercial spoofs have been the most consistent part of the show at times, as well as being compiled into prime time specials many times, so...whatever, it's Todd Martin and he's a fucking moron. Oh, and he added this: SO WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM YOU FUCKING IDIOT? Fuck. Also, it was a series of Mastercard commercials that got parodied, not Visa. It was a really really ubiquitous slogan that contained the brand name in some of the most well-known commercials of recent years. Of course, we're talking about a WON HOF voter who's never heard of the the TV show that drove the success of the first Wrestlemania and acts like it's ridiculous that anyone would expect him to understand any pop culture references of note. He's like Anya from Buffy The Vampire Slayer if she had a penis and was a terribly untalented smarky wrestling columnist turned MMA reporter.

SAPW was in the Carolinas.

"Most amusing promotion Lou Thesz whored himself out to" is a potentially fun topic. If we're going just by ones he did the belt shtick with then it's either Southwest for blood (and manure) reasons or SAPW for "Giving his belt to a recent TBS jobber" reasons.

Sapolsky isn't really any good, though.

I don't recall seeing any Angle-Abyss matches aside from Angle's TNA debut and don't recall that one being especially good. Styles always seemed like Abyss's best opponent by far.

Well, at least he's getting along with Jarrett. I imagine he'd be a much bigger mess if they didn't come to an understanding a few months ago after Jarrett spoke favorably about him during the custody hearings. Oh, and in fairness, Dave may have been referring to the gold medal marks aspect of my posts in that thread, and I can honestly see him thinking that nobody voted for him for that reason (or at least not an overwhelming amount of voters). Since I'm not a subscriber anymore and I don't really remember: About how much was I arguing that it was the gold medal and how much that being voted in when he was (and then changing the rules for the next year to where he wouldn't have been voted in) was ridiculous when you consider all of the elite level workers who had as much or more going for them than he did at the time? And did I make any Lex Luger or Terry Taylor references?

I'm not sure what his point is even supposed to be there, especially in terms of how it relates to Angle. Is now a good time to break out the "Lex Luger: Darling of the WON" quotes?

Define "reported." Oliver Copp posted it on the F4W board and Dave Meltzer confirmed it.

Can you imagine how this would go today? They'd have some diva claiming on Raw for weeks that she'd be disrobing at the PPV, and then on the night it would end up being Mae Young in a thong. This reminds me of a forgotten piece of trivia: The Mae Young thing at Royal Rumble 2000 seemed to be designed as a subtle bait and switch of people who ordered the PPV to see boobs. It was a month after Kat stripping, and they adjusted the content rating for the Rumble to have a nudity warning. The Mae Young stuff hadn't been done much yet, so nobody saw it coming.

He did a live round by round for one of the recent fights.

Correct. Before that, he might occasionally mention the PPV buys of the biggest events for comparison purposes, but that was about it.

I feel like there should be a roller derby joke right about here, but I'm not sure what it is, especially with shoot roller derby becoming a thing (and apparently an incredibly pointless and boring thing that inexplicably draws well).

It started to go overboard when K-1 and Pride fighters and matches won awards in Japanese wrestling magazines.

I got the impression that it was more public denial than internal denial.

Hey, that's what I said! She probably read something about the Live+3 numbers online, possibly as part of a fan-run "save our show" campaign website, and it either contained the falsehood or she misinterpreted it. Bischoff seems like the type of personality who would be "oh, this is how TV works blah blah," but it's a case where I'd expect him to know better. It absolutely wasn't Spike.

That's an excellent question.