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If, for example, Hulk Hogan or Triple H: - Revealed himself to be an uninformed dullard who cannot sum up his political views any more articulately than repeating "I just hate the word 'liberal'" and "Man, the shape that this country is in..." for several minutes. - Stopped making payments on his house. - Constantly drank heavily to the point that local waitresses offering him a ride is standard behavior that's become part of their job. - Sank an absurd amount of money into a financing business that never got off the ground. - Defrauded multiple independent promoters and merchandise companies out of large sums of money, resulting in lawsuits. - Publicly bragged about getting wrestlers who didn't drink (both guys who just didn't like to like John Cena and recovering addicts like Shawn Michaels) to become heavy drinkers/Was sad when he failed with recovering addict William Regal. - Attacked a co-worker (they had a history and the co-worker had been a total dick in the past, but they had been working together without incident for months) without provocation while his flunky watched the door. - Constantly looked up the skirts of waitresses and then proclaimed that he had to check because everyone knows he only has sex with women who have enough pubic hair for his liking. - Was arrested for choking a stranger in a fit of road rage. - Was accused by one of his wives of blading when he beat her so he could claim self defense to the police. - Made a habit out of exposing himself to strangers over the course of a few decades to the point that the top wrestling reporter referenced to one story told by another wrestler in a "stop me if you've heard this one before fashion" and got sued over at least one of those incidents, in which he also was alleged to force a woman to touch his genitals. How do you think it would be covered?

Are there any missing obits besides Ladd, Umaga, and Doc? Dave also promised an AWA history piece when the DVD came out and I think the "History of the WWE title/WWF vs WCW/whatever" thing wasn't finished.

He might have been referring to Keith's comment. Details on the Mitchell stuff please.

I don't get it. Meltzer's story of Ric hitting his on the nightstand is a bit hmmm isnt it? It's plausible, and that version of the story still has Jackie punching and kicking him, but it still reads like an excuse.

I don't get it.

Dave also said that Flair was indeed offered a ride home by a bar employee and that it's a regular occurrence. Gee, I wonder why?

You're underestimating them. Watts' firing and how it happened is one of those things that was very widespread knowledge. That said, my point was more about Madden than Ryder & Scherer.

I don't see them spotlighting Blue Blazer footage on a compilation DVD any time soon. That's something they go out of their way to avoid.

I didn't mean that literally.

TMZ posts 911 call where Beems' daughter says that both her mother and Flair were drunk. I think that Keith deserves an apology, but I doubt that he'll get one since Dave is harping on the daughter saying that they weren't slurring their words or stumbling. It's not like Flair has had a blatant drinking problem for decades or anything...

Though I'm sure the doc will be loaded with it, I was expecting a lot more Stampede footage in the match selection. In terms of a "Hart family in WWE" narrative it's pretty good, though, and almost looks like a stealth Owen DVD at times.

Yeah, the Ken Anderson thing. See also Dave posting the email from a certain indy promoter commenting on RFgate by talking about being a gay man not out to his family and liking young looking guys (if he's still not out to them, I figure I shouldn't name him here on a Google-able forum), plus the same Missy Hyatt email about the HOF being posted once as a one of her columns and later posted again as an anonymous deal from a famous wrestling personality.

Dave posted a private email from Lance Storm as a column. Whoops. This type of thing has happened way too many times.

I wonder what sort of database software WWE uses for its internal video library database (which has notes about key spots in each match).

Yeah, Cornette isn't bitter, he just doesn't like WWE or TNA for a variety of generally legitimate reasons (though his not watching kept him away during Smackdown's long stretches of awesomeness and I'm curious as to how much he'd like some of that stuff if he decided to watch it). He still loves wrestling and right now the company that he's currently in probably won't make him angry.

I don't think it's possible to undertand the depths of Lynch's collection since there's a ton of stuff he has that he never listed, like lots of '90s American TV.

Wait...did they use the song for the package? The Placebo version? Yeah, they used the Placebo cover. If they used the Kate Bush original, it would definitely be the best ever.

Oh c'mon, this isn't new at all, and we've talked about it before on this forum.

Keith can defend himself but I'm pretty sure his point was more that the original version Dave gave on WO Radio certainly implied he did SOMETHING bad, even if he didn't do anything to deserve being assaulted. Plus, with Flair's history of domestic violence (namely Beth's allegations that he would hit her and then blade so it would look like she hit first and did more damage) and all of the stories of how he acts when he's drunk, it's reasonable to believe that more happened than his wife hitting him for no reason or because a waitress offered to be his designated driver.

The truth without contradictions/conspicuous omissions. There's a big difference between "Ric was drunk, a waitress offered to drive him home, Jackie was jealous of the waitress for some reason, and it spiraled from there" and "nobody knows what caused the fight."

As someone who reads a lot of Alan Sepinwall's writing, I'm pretty sure he meant that NBCU should cover the big events live on whatever network(s) in the family in addition to the prime time airings. Also, I absolutely found the Karelin hype video entertaining, but NBC seems to pride themselves on how classy their Olympic coverage is, so doing a pro wrestling-style (I think this is a case where we can agree that it actually WAS inspired by pro wrestling as opposed to Meltzerian fixation) hype video about an evil Russian where a professional voice actor has his voice digitally manipulated to sound menacing and vaguely Russian was pretty out there.

CTV's TV and internet coverage has generally been praised.

I know that the Miracle On Ice was tape-delayed, but there's a difference between doing it in 1980 and doing it in 2010. They have enough networks to do a live feed on NBC or an NBCU cable channel and then the tape delayed version on NBC in prime time. As far as Karelin-Gardner, it was the most egregiously bad handling of a pre-taped Olympic event I've ever seen. The video packages were more typical emotional manipulation, but Blatnick and the other guy's commentary was just awful, with the screaming, what sounded like scripted lines, and making it incredibly obvious that it was done in post.