Bix

Boris Malenko ran Sunbelt Wrestling as an outlaw/opposition group against Graham's CWF.

Was it Benoit who Graham pulled the knife on or a different Radical?

I know somebody who fell for that! Man, was he pissed. Awesome! Details please. Slip & Fall: According to Buddy Wayne on today's Figure Four Daily, Roddy Piper & Buddy Rose once made a trip to a grocery store where one of them "accidentally" knocked a jar of mayonnaise on the floor and the other would "accidentally" slip on it, falling face-first into the broken glass while gigging various parts of his body.

Pat Tanaka, helper: A few years ago, Pat Tanaka was ripping off various indy guys by telling them that he was a booker for Michinoku Pro and could get them work there as long as they paid him $500 to procure a "license."

For what it's worth, I emailed Dave Meltzer and he said that the summary meshed with what he heard about it.

Dusty conned Jim Crockett into doing these? I thought Crockett did these on his own. You're right about the corporate jet (since guys were flying in that territory back in the 70's that was most likely the next logical step) but I believe I read in Sex, Lies and Headlocks that Dusty convinced Crockett Jr. (tho it may not have taken much) to move the operation from N.C. to the building in Dallas since he owned a home there. Am I remembering this wrong? I gotta dig up that book. I'm pretty sure that the Dallas move was a result of buying the UWF, which was headquartered in Dallas after it expanded.

Dusty conned Jim Crockett into doing these? I thought Crockett did these on his own. Also, it was the Nassau Coliseum, not the Meadowlands.

Ooh, I missed that...

This line.... ...which is verifiably false, and only believed by those on the internet with a fear of a black, fat, sweaty planet, makes me think it isn't, though maybe it's just WWE subtly burying Henry to the media. I'm guessing not, though. It's possible he blamed Henry when nobody else was. I recall the WON items saying that it wasn't Henry's fault and the company wasn't blaming him, not that Batista himself wasn't blaming him.

Seems somewhat legit... Whaaaaaa?

Hmm, is Badstreet USA intact in the WM Anthology during Hayes's entrance at WM17?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2003560...7340225,00.html

September '06 and June '07 respectively.

This included the awesome blog post where he contradicted himself by saying he was sent to be a WWE rep and then later stating he wasn't there to do PR.

Speaking of Beyond The Mat, there's the scene where he basically tells Tony Jones to get on the gas.

CMLL was also not promoting those shows, just lending their name. CMLL Japan was promoted by Macho Pump.

The plan always involved losing money and shit's really expensive in Japan. I had no idea the tours lined up like that, I just had it in my head from the original idea that they'd be losing money.

Kinda like Andy Dick... except Nash never had Jay Sherman kick his ass.So Nash is to the NWO as Dick is to Newsradio? That works.

That is closer to a natural reaction. I think Vince McMahon knew at some point on an intellectual level that Ted Turner wasn't out to get him, but I don't think he knew in the same way about the mainstream media.

Does this even make Jerry Jarret’s top ten cons? Top five cons? I always loved the story of the point where Jarrett got workers to pay him for opportunity to get TV exposure as jobbers. Didn’t pay the actual talent for doing TV + got paid by the jobbers= amazing wrestling con. Also I think he purchased World Class for less money then World Class was contractually guaranteed for I think TV advertisements. After he made his profit, he closed shop. Which again is pretty awesome. When TNA first started up, Keller kept repeating his talking point of how Jarrettt is one of the few promoters who actually understands how to make a profit in wrestling. The toa folks mocked this by pointing to the collapse of USWA, and World Class. At time I pointed out that the point everyone was missing is that Jerry Jarrett knows how to make a profit in the wrestling biz, he may not know how to make a promotion make a profit….but he personally will walk away in the black. And really that’s what makes him a REAL wrestling promoter and not a money mark promoter. But don’t think TNA is anywhere near his top schemes. He was going to go personally bankrupt if Panda didn't step in. If they didn't, he would no longer be Jerry Jarrett. I’m completely unsold on this being the con that you think it was. Original plan was supposedly for Joe v Sasaki and Joe v Tenryu, when Joe was no longer available you still go through with show. Once logistics and groundwork are laid out, probably worse move to back out then it is to go forward with lesser show. Apparently, the Joe dream matches were kaput before he even had to leave, as Sasaki and Tenryu were too expensive to book. If they tried to do this and were successful, then it's a better idea. I'm not sure if this was going through their heads. The original idea with the dream matches involved them losing a hell of a lot of money and making it back on increased DVD sales from the dream matches. Ok this interests me a lot. Because I didn’t realize Vince actually believed this? Does he? It makes sense to call out Ted Turner as rival as it elevates Vince’s stature to be at war with Turner. “Turner is out to get me” makes for a nice rallying the troops talking point for Vince’s fans and workers to get behind. While rallying them to “I’m being beaten by Verne’s old errand boy” kind of does nothing. I mean there is a reason Shane Douglas and Tazz didn’t do shoots calling out Mike Rapada. “Ted Turner is out to get me” is a good rhetorical device but I always assumed that Vince knew it was nothing but rhetoric… this is the first I’ve heard of it being an actual Vince delusion. I want to hear more. The Hogan/payola stuff is in today's WON. Dave seems sure that this is what Vince actually believes.

Bix created a video package of this that I fucking LOVE, which included footage of RF running away while "I Know What Boys Like" played over the video. Helpfully YouTubed by Bob Barnett.

Referee/office worker David Manning signed the pictures. Also, Indikator's post is awesome.

Well, yeah. The ROH Japan shows are basically the small-scale equivalent of WWE running 2 nights in Antarctica for $100 million because it sounds cool. Only not awesome. I forgot that part.

Well, yeah. The ROH Japan shows are basically the small-scale equivalent of WWE running 2 nights in Antarctica for $100 million because it sounds cool.