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Dave heard the rumor least a year or two before the sleaze thread, which was when it first showed up online, so n that sense you have to disregard the sleaze thread post. Then there was something I messed up in the post where we tried to figure out the timeline, but I fixed it later.

Says one of the people who started the argument.

People like list articles. Slideshows happen to be the best method for delivering list articles in the content management systems used by BR and many other sites. The big exceptions I can think of are Cracked and AV Club. Slideshows are encouraged because they do well, not because it's a big page view boosting scam. Even for non-list content, I think it can work fairly well with the right piece (like Snowden's weekly segment by segment "Raw Report Card"). And like I've said before: BR has by far the best slideshow interface of any site I've used. On most sites I have to wait for a new page to load, but on BR the next slide loads instantly and seamlessly. If anyone wants to criticize specific writers, specific articles that they felt were embarrassing to be featured, etc, then that's fine. I get why the site can be divisive and that there's not much middle ground as far as how people feel about it. The generalizations, exaggerations (ONE MILLION DOLLARS), slideshow format criticisms from people who seem like they haven't actually read any on BR, and weirdly mean spirited personal insults (again, ONE MILLION DOLLARS), etc. are what I don't really understand at all.

What I don't get is how the Chikara name specifically would be an issue. Chikara started before they were even together. I'm inclined to believe all this, though, because Quack's tenedency to cheat on significant others is well known and the increasingly large circle of Chikara satellite groups that all use the same wrestlers was one of the more weird/inexplicable things going on on wrestling lately.

Not a surprise. from what I understand, he had some legal troubles with underage girls in the past. In Gary Hart's book, he said Zumhoffe was fired from Dallas when he was found in a farmhouse with a 15 year old (I think) girl and blasted Ken Mantell for not checking up on him before hiring him. So...yeah.

Plus the merger was in 2008. Everything starting with the June 9, 2008 issue is on the website.

Besides how surprisingly rehashed it was the weirdest thing for me was how Dave didn't really acknowledge if UMG being ready to invest in ECW was a true story or something Paul spun together out of the truth of whatever the actual Farmclub deal was. He went straight from Heyman's claim about thay to Billy Corgan's story from Barbed Wire City about Paul asking for $1 million for 10% of the company.

Legitimately, it might be a hassle for the actual area hospital to deal with people who think the wrestler is actually there. That happened to the ambulance that took Bret Hart to the hospital when he got hit by the car on RAW ...because the ambulance company's phone number was on the ambulances back doors. They had to post a message on their website asking people to stop calling.

I can't believe you didn't mention Nash pretending the fans were chanting "asshole" at him in a failed attempt to incite said chants. That's my favorite part of that disaster. "What? Stop chanting that! I'm not one of those! You people are the ones who are those things!"

Dunno about LaFon but it sure sounds like Furnas was smart with his money.

From photos in the arena it's just a different version of the regular chain link cage. Three panels per side when the old one had two.

L-R: Vaguely familiar looking guy who I can't place especially in this context, High Voltage/Surge/Matt Hardy, Mike Maverick, Ice, Venom, & Shane "The Bomb" Helms.

A lot of this depends on the efficiency of the endocrine glands and your body's health. Also, what time you go to sleep at and the mental power/energy of the individual. Meltzer looks to have tonnes of that. Sleep is absolutely essential to living a happy life though it is true that once the body is healthy and truly working efficiently you need less of it. It's part luck if you were "given" strong genetics at birth but there's also a lot one can do health wise that would make the body run on less sleep. The general rule is to sleep when the sun goes down and rise when it gets up. The same amount of hours done at an earlier time is more productive than the same amount of hours done at a time that is too late in the evening/morning. Welcome back.

Ahem, it wasn't just an evening gown match. It was a New York Evening Gown Match. Get it? New York! In wrestling!

To be fair weren't they given the "boring" gimmick as soon as they turned heel?

As heels with a good manager, they could have done fine. If you don't think they had "personality" or "charisma" then you haven't seen much of their work in AJPW. They were dick heels who were very theatrical.

Relevos Suicidas. Losing team fights in a Lucha de apuestas. Shadow decided he was going to take Santo's mask right then and there, so he fouled Fuerza. Rewatch with that in mind, because it's a great match that makes me wish we had more of Shadow.

How was Trailer Park Trash in '99? I liked his work from a couple years later,

Now that Internet wrestling discussion is so frayed, I doubt it can change too much. As has already been said, when you put together the goofy out of place name, the stylistic issues, being used as a job guy so much, and add the Bret promo, you get...that. Plus you have what WCW presented "Lucha Libre" as. In that context, everyone else, from Silver King to Lizmark Jr, all gave off more of an air of "yeah, I can see how this guy is being misused." Maybe if he had teamed with Silver King a little more prominently he'd be taken more seriously since that's when he looked best in WCW, even if he didn't look like the GOAT candidate he is.

http://www.loserleavestown.net/post/498656...eras-former-wwf Former WWF referee Jimmy Korderas, author of ”The Three Count: My Life in Stripes as a WWE Referee” and co-host of “Aftermath” on The Score in Canada joins me this week. The majority of the show is basically everything you ever wanted to know about being a WWE referee. Getting time cues and other instructions in his earpiece, different styles of refereeing, calling matches “as a shoot,” what other referees did he like watching, what wrestlers were the best at hiding their cheating to make the referee’s life easier, working on the ring crew, etc. In addition to touching on his book and his new career as a broadcaster, we also debunk the rumors surrounding what exactly happened in the ring when Owen Hart died, since he was right there when it happened. This was recorded a few weeks before the book came out in case we happened to cover anything in there, but I read it since then (it’s quite good, BTW) and I think I managed to do a good job keeping our chat on a different path. Jimmy is basically the nicest guy on the face of this planet (although that may be a Canadian thing where he’s just tied with everyone else…) and I had a lot of fun learning about the ins and outs of pro wrestling refereeing from him.

I went to night 1 with Cox. Steen vs Maff was fun while it lasted but the finish came out of nowhere and was kind of an obvious hint that Steen was dropping the ROH title the next night. Burke vs Morrison was a solidly competent/professional match between former WWE guys but not worth going out of your way to see. R&R vs Briscoes is probably nor nearly as interesting on tape as it was live since it was basically designed to give Northeast & traveling fans a chance to see R&R hit their big spots live. Matthew vs Cabana was good but it was mostly Cabana. Matthews wasn't BAD but he totally comes off as a guy playing champion in his own promotion for no good reason.

I was going to compare Justin Credible to Piz, but I liked Piz....

Correct, they'd have less issues with startup if they had more cash, since maybe they could've bought an existing network. Was it ever reported how much Comcast wanted for Universal HD or did negotiations not even get that far?

ECW eventually made money, too. Just not for Heyman/HHG.

What later Young David matches are there? I think he went to Calgary in '82.