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While criticizing "slobs," yes. He would also use buzzwords, like calling someone like Adonis "a great big man" while Brody was "a great big athlete" or something like that. Dave is a complicated dude.

Kurt's blog: http://stantheembryo.com/

It's not. This Bryan Alvarez...shit, it's late and I've got nothing.

Thanks...but now I'm really confused. How are they usually diagnosed? The JAMA article emphasizing that "brain death is real death" really throws me for a loop if this can happen. Is it possible that since there will be no organ donation with the elderly patients, that the term "brain dead" is used without testing to make the family more comfortable or something? I honestly don't understand how someone could legitimately be brain dead and then live off life support, especially since not surviving off life support is criteria for brain death in the first place. They seem mutually exclusive if "brain death is real death."

So a few weeks ago, George Steele posted on his message board that Killer Kowalski was brain dead and had been taken off life support. A week or so later, he wasn't dead, so I noted that obviously this wasn't true on another board and somehow got into a ridiculous argument over it. So Kowalski dies about 2 weeks later...and now we get this in the new WON: This is Bruno, Steele, Kowalski's family, et al working Dave, right? Everything that I've ever heard about brain death and read about it after this news item came out indicates that brain death means that the person is dead. Brain death is determined in part by the patient being unable to breath when taken off of life support (the apnea test). From the Journal of the American Medical Association (PDF): As far as I can tell as a layman doing a bit of Google-assisted research, I would guess that Kowalski was in some sort of other vegetative state and his family along with the wrestling community downgraded it to brain death so he would seem like some sort of medical marvel who continued breathing while his heart beat AS HE WAS DEAD thanks to his vegetarian diet and incredible conditioning, and somehow Dave Meltzer, the top wrestling & MMA journalist who Frank DeFord thinks is the best reporter in all of sports got worked to think that Killer Kowalski was able to bring himself back from the dead. A great worker even as he was dying in a hospital bed. Am I off base here?

It never was before. I sent them a message to see if they do DVDs or tapes of it (and any other Portland films).

They quit after the match for reasons I forget.

Titanes en el Ring promoter/founder/star. Old Kurt Brown articles about Titanes: http://www.1wrestlinglegends.com/column/lucha-03.htm http://www.1wrestlinglegends.com/column/lucha-04.htm

Geez, did Kurt and Jose get carte blanche with the HOF this year? Good picks though.

Michaels' strip routine at the '96 Rumble is quite possible one of the weirdest WWF moments ever. Amazing that fans didn't revolt immediate after being bombarded with the image of his pubes.

Isn't this a bit much? This really reads so ridiculously that it seems to be either fake or the most uninentionally hilarious episode of WWE television since Vader fell down.

From the (awesome) WON obit for Sonny Fargo: Yikes.

Apparently in Wednesday's WON: If they do it realistically (charge the cable companies little to no money to get clearances), this could be pretty interesting. Plus, an actual channel would require them to unleash more content and that would be awesome. How much ad money could they get, though>

Since I just had to dig it up and I find the situation fascinating, here's a post I made at Kayfabe Memories 2 months ago explaining the "merger" of the USWA and CWA at the beginning of 1990: It was really something to learn that they considered dropping the live show. Also, Michael St. John is not nearly the level of announcer that you'd want to try selling as ridiculous an idea as the "live" cutaways to WMC and the Sportatorium. Granted, I'm not sure if Lance Russell could've handled it, but St. John made a bad situation worse.

I love McDevitt noting that the only time that this has ever been addressed in court, that they were ruled employees, but then asserts that it doesn't matter for some reason.

I think that bit was just to generate more intrigue and he eventually said that he's completely gay.