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I've also heard that Wade would regularly prank call the RF Video "Pro Wrestling Store" cart at the Mall of America (pre-pedogate). Given that it appears he's been slowly losing his mind for years, I'm inclined to believe it's true.

He looked the smallest he's been since he turned on DX in spring '99.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/fay...enoit_0829.html

I think Rey pretty obviously upped his HGH intake, and thus the gut.

He went on to say that Wade was really good at his job but needed to grow up. http://www.pwtorch.com/artman/publish/article_21481.shtml Does Wade understand that people outside of his readership know that wrestling is a work?

In the Matwatch 1991 Annual/farewell issue (released in March '92; which may deserve its own thread), Steve Beverly mentioned that Wade Keller, after selecting someone as "Torch Turkey" for the week, would call the "winner's" house to say "gobble gobble."

I'm going through the USWA compilation DVDs I just got, and my head exploded when I got up to a match from 1991: Rob Zakowski (Rob Van Dam)/Danny Davis vs Dong Cha Mang (Osamu Nishimura)/Chris Candino (Candido).

Also, Orton's chinlocks are awesome.

I think that was part of his point.

Billy White Wolf = Adnan Al Kaissey Billy Wolfe = The women's booker

Yikes, I got 3rd row for Kobashi for $25.

FYI, the minimums were changed to 15 years pro or 40 years old with 10 years pro post-Angle induction. The only legit argument for Moolah is her coup in taking over women's wrestling in the US. That's really not enough.

From Bryan Alvarez at the F4W board:

Good catch. Is it possible that the law changed?

It also states that they used Aegis Labs going back to 1991, which I was not aware of. I hope this leads to Congress subpoenaing J.J. Dillon, which I believe would supersede his non-disclosure agreement. Also, it seems just about everyone on the roster has had a heart exam at least once. The fact we don't know of any actual medical suspensions have only heard of 2 wrestlers being flagged (officially, MVP, who was born with his condition, and unofficially the nameless wrestler in 8/20 WON) when odds are a number of that wrestlers have heart problems is pretty telling.

Especially about his friend Jason at Kentucky State who was gay for pay for Barnett.

http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/new...7/08/23/01.html Excerpt:

Astin wasn't prescribing steroids to Rey, his outed doc was Dr. David Wilbirt in Phoenix.

What? No.

Kevin beat me to it. And if that's not your point, RE, I have absolutely no idea what you're saying.

Because the symptoms are much more obvious and blatant in the case of an Orton as compared to a Benoit. Randy's lawbreaking lapses just seem much worse than hearing that Benoit made his kids dress in suits, forced noobs to do squats, etcetera. The only serious sign we had with Benoit was Nancy's attempt at getting a divorce and restraining order back in '03, but 1.that was apparently really hushed up, I don't remember hearing about it back then and 2.she later changed her mind anyway, so to an outsider it would look more like a mental problem with her than him. Wow. SOME wrestlers are like that, sure. Maybe even LOTS of them. But to say that all of them are like that is a blatant lie. To say that Orton is no worse than average is demonstrably wrong, because the average worker hasn't been known to have done this much bad stuff. And finally, once again, if you think the business is entirely populated with raving nympho alky lunatics, why the hell do you watch it?Chris Benoit: - Had a DUI that we didn't know about. - Had a divorce filing that we didn't know about. - Had a protection order against him that we didn't know about. - Intimidated Matt Striker into doing brown pee-inducing amounts of Hindu squats because he "disrespected Shawn Michaels" in an incident that we didn't know about. - Beat his wife regularly enough that she took photos of her bruises and hid them in the house, which we didn't know about. - Was injecting his son with an unknown substance, which we didn't know about. - Invited William Regal over to his house to watch All Japan tapes out of the blue after they hadn't hung out in years, then refused to let him into the house in an incident that we didn't know about. Note how most of Orton's offenses were around tons of other wrestlers, required punishment, or were harassing non-wrestling women who quit the company and were willing to talk, thus they all got reported. What Benoit did around multiple other wrestlers wasn't reported because it was considered normal by the fucked up ways of the WWE locker room. Add that to the bad shit a bunch of wrestlers have done over the years that took forever to come out, and Orton's stuff seems small in comparison, just more visible.

His reasons for excluding the R&R fits the Steiners pretty well.

If WWE was willing to publish in one of their own books that the Hardys were punished for not drinking then throwing beer cans at road signs and that JBL molested Edge, imagine the shit that we will never, ever hear about.

Frank DeFord NPR editorial on wrestler deaths. And then Dave soiled himself.

No, I think he means that most wrestlers are awful people, and as far as awful behavior goes, Orton's is pretty mundane. That and small shit that could actually be warning signs (look at all of the interviews with hindsight about Benoit) would never make the WON.