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Reviews dated and/or about shows that debuted after his "death." His "death" was in 2002: http://www.metalasylum.com/ragingbull/profiles.html This 411 post dates it as happening at the beginning of the year (and conflicts with the story I heard, which had him being in Asia at the time of the accident): http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/tv_reports/14039 Brian Cole wrote this about him, and the bolded portion helps illustrate why Vanes is such a fucking prick for this: On a lighter note, the next passage after that tribute starts with this: Here he reviews multiple shows as "V. 'X' Naldi," including one that started in 2003: http://koreanfilm.org/tvdramas/index.htm Here he's welcomed as a site's newest reviewer, again as "V. 'X' Naldi," on July 10, 2005: http://twitchfilm.net/news/2005/07/say-hel...-new-people.php Here's the archive of X's posts, which go from July 10, 2005 to December 21, 2009: http://twitchfilm.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search...,7&limit=10 It looks like he (or Twitter) deleted the Twitter account linked from TwitchFilm, but some of his tweets from December, before the account was yanked got archived here: http://www.ubervu.com/profile/hisgrumpiness/twitter/ So yes, he it looks like faked his death to escape the internet wrestling community and devote himself to Korean film reviews (and honestly, if there was one person who that type of bizarre move would ring true for, it's Vanes), and didn't even tell people who considered him a friend. Total dick move. So yeah, if you haven't talked to Mike L. et al about this yet, you should.

Well, keep in mind that Syfy's whole name change came about as part of making the network less about Sci-Fi content, so NXT sticking around wasn't the most ridiculous thing in the world. Thankfully for WWE, the format means it can end without looking like it was cancelled.

Strummer is right, I was at Summerslam '98 as the pop HHH got for winner was a big as or bigger than the one for Austin's entrance, which are the two loudest pops I've heard live.

Todd Martin needs to fake his death and disappear like Vanes Naldi.

Yup. Apparently HHH was pissed about getting lowballed on a payoff years earlier and Vince told him that it was Ross's doing.

He gets off steroids whenever he and Stephanie are trying to conceive.

Jesus that was a huge brainfart. Thanks for the heads-up, and it's fixed.

New feature since I've discovered WrestlingMedia.ws. We start with Roddy Piper's "I'm Your Man."

The story of Playkids/Chicken thanks to Google Books.

Yeah, in '86 they were crazy over in the matches on the MX DVD Cornette put out.

I know. I wasn't referring to your post.

Pretty sure that's not in the book.

He used "Easy Lover" at Battle of the Belts 2, as well.

No, but I will now.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/4/9/1412...6-2010-as-carny Because hey, why not?

I never understood how that worked. Bands don't get paid that much for other TV appearances. Would that include some licensing fee for the Kiss Demon gimmick? You would hope so, but I'm pretty sure they paid the other acts who appeared on Nitro, too.

For some reason I feel like I should point out that Lagana is bisexual, I guess for gaydar reasons.

One of my favorites was when they used GnR's cover of "Live and Let Die" for Halloween Havoc ads.

They did it for about a year starting around the Spring of '89. Always wondered why that was, as it definitely contributed to the much different atmosphere that 1989 had from all other years of WCW's existence, as well as the previous year or so of JCP (which had switched around Starrcade '87 to worse generic music than WCW ever used later on)

I *think* Dave's point was that it happens by osmosis when guys want to be accepted and thus play along with anti-gay talk started by guys with seniority over them.

Flair being someone Luger suspected as having a number of STDs also makes sense.

Okay, I wasn't hallucinating, just misremembering the context of it. I guess this happened after the PPV went off the air. Vince sure let him get away with a lot since this was the second time he stripped too much. Between those incidents, the lack of punishment for them, the way that Vince fawned over Shawn on commentary/fed lines to other announcers to act similarly to the point where they sounded like they wanted to fuck him, and Vince's uncharacteristically emotional reaction to the "lost my smile" speech, the weird vibe that Bret Hart and others got from Vince and Shawn aren't too far out of left field. Which isn't to say that Shawn and Vince had wild, passionate gay sex with each other, but I can certainly see why someone around them would think something out of the ordinary was going on. Oh, and speaking of the "knee injury": Has anyone other than Killer Kowalski said that Michaels went to rehab with the knee injury as the cover story as opposed to it being an excuse not to job? He said at the time in Wrestling Then & Now that he was backstage at the show (which makes sense, since they were in Lowell, MA), saw Shawn skipping around, clearly without a major knee problem at the moment, and was told that Shawn was going to rehab.

I never understood how that worked. Bands don't get paid that much for other TV appearances.

Nikita too.

Yeah, but he and UFC Employee Oliver Copp are the sources here via semi-public message board postings, and this story does garner them sympathy.