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In this analogy, Paul Heyman is also Dawn Ostroff. Seriously though, it's hard to find a close TV show analogy because if it TV show lasted, it was usually successful SOMEWHERE, even if it was international distribution underwriting its broadcasts in its country of origin. The exceptions would be something like 'Til Death where the studio gave the network a sweetheart deal so they could try to get to 100 episodes to sell in syndication. To extend the Veronica Mars analogy: Veronica Mars S3 (opening with a serial rapist arc!) being paired with Gilmore Girls when The CW launched because both shows featured quippy female leads is like TNN picking up ECW because...fuck, why did they do that? I can't remember. (As an aside, what the hell happened to the CW? The WB at least had a bunch of shows that were either good, interesting, memorable, or strangely watchable. The CW is an also ran that arguably never launched a decent show, only inheriting them, and now ABC Family has taken their entire audience while putting on much higher quality shows, to boot)

ECW/Paul Heyman = Veronica Mars/Rob Thomas? ECW reunion attendees = Veronica Mars Kickstarter contributors? It's not like that show was ever really any kind of ratings success.

http://www.middleeasy.com/index.php?option...is-past-weekend Clips of a production feed with audio from a (hidden?) mic backstage includes THE DEMON VOICE so I guess it was mixed into the PPV by mistake. Why UFC has that area mic'd up and where the video came from, I don't know.

Well, the results SHOULD say Buddy Hart. Brett Hart in JCP was Barry Horowitz.

http://www.loserleavestown.net/post/491937...ins-t-j-perkins T.J. Perkins, best known nowadays as TJP, sometimes referred to as “the youngest veteran in pro wrestling,” is one of the more unique talents around. Making his debut at 15 years-old in 2000, he ended up traveling the world less than 3 years later thanks in part to New Japan Pro Wrestling’s LA Dojo. He has a ton to talk about (we went 90 minutes without even touching on his many trips to Mexico in any substantial way), including: - A ton of stuff about the LA Dojo and Japan in general, including the politics of wrestlers switching promotions and how it affected Samoa Joe. - The inner-workings of New Japan Pro Wrestling and why the booking team of Gedo & Jado is so good. - Ignoring wrestling news that’s reported online and in newsetters. - Why he left Dragon Gate USA/Evolve. - The influence of Kevin Quinn, why he was a great trainer that influenced so many great wrestlers, and the bad timing that kept him from getting key spots in WWE & CMLL. - Moving to Florida so he could pay to go to FCW to try to get a WWE developmental contract and the tailspin the move soon sent his life/career into. And that’s just scratching the surface. Like I said, we didn’t even talk about Mexico, so I’ll have to get him back on soon. T.J. is a really interesting guy and a tremendous talent, but he doesn’t always get the credit he deserves, which is a shame. Anyway, this is well worth listening to, and hopefully it encourages some of you to check out his work if you haven’t before.

It was written when Severn retired on New Year's Day. He didn't have room for it until a few weeks ago. You're far from the only person ever to speculate about this, but...c'mon dude, "sperging out?" "Hyper Sperg Lord?"

The belief is that the UFC show tonight might have been CURSED. Let's review: - Ovince St. Preux "accidentally" poked Gian Villante in the eye, and Villante didn't realize you can't tell the ref you can't see if you want the fight to continue, so the fight was stopped and went to the scorecards, with OSP winning by TECHNICAL DECISION. - Rustam Khabilov beat Yancy Medeiros by TKO early in round 1 by suplexing him...onto his thumb, dislocating it. Medeiros decided to show it to the ref, so...yeah. - Pat Healy beat Jim Miller in what looked like a same character fight in Street Fighter. Then Bruce Buffer announced Miller as the winner. - As Kevin Mulahall inspected Alan Belcher before his fight with Michael Bisping, he found a problem with the tape wraps and support sleeves (which an inspector had signed off on) on his ankles. The sleeves were removed and the tape was cut off as Buffer introduced the fighters. - Between rounds 2 and 3 of Bisping-Belcher a DEMON VOICE infiltrated the PPV feed: - After dominating him for the whole fight, Bisping poked Belcher in the same eye he had surgery on (TWICE!) for a detached retina, leading to another win by TECHNICAL DECISION. - Jon Jones stopped Chael Sonnen late in the first round with ground and pound against the cage. Sonnen wasn't hurt, but he turtled up and had nowhere to go. Then suddenly during his interview with Joe Rogan, everyone realized Jones had suffered a COMPOUND FRACTURE OF HIS BIG TOE as he was finishing the fight, possibly by stepping into a pothole in the Octagon floor. As the adrenaline wore off, Jones started shaking, breathing heavily, looking like he was about to vomit, etc. When they found the right camera angle and showed a replay, it wasn't clear how he hurt the toe (didn't put any weight on it at all), so he's probably right that it snagged on something. - If Sonnen weathered the storm and lasted the additional ~30 seconds left in the round, Jones obviously wouldn't have been able to continue, so since there was no foul, Sonnen would've won the title by TKO. Clearly the DEMON VOICE cursed the show. Hail Satan!

That Kidman bump from the Devon Storm march is burned into my memory. For a guy who was becoming a big bumper that was the craziest bump I ever saw him take.

ECW's biggest crowd was "over 6,000" for Anarchy Rulz '99 in the Chicago area.

Older Bryan & Vinny shows (Orlando Jordan's Time Machine!) and the defunct Flying Mare section of F4W.

Yes, he has consistently been the head booker of the company for at least 31 years. Pat Patterson really should be on that list, though. Vince had final say, but Patterson was a hell of a lot more than an assistant booker, and you can make the argument that they should be considered as a pair like Jado & Gedo for the time they were working together closely.

Rude Dog once lost a match by count out because he chased a woman who had a cat with her up the aisle. Commissioner Vito Mussolini was amazing. His return as a humbled homeless man was probably the most inspired WTF Global angle.

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What is he referring to exactly? Burning down arenas? Is he being literal? And the rest. . . The Sportatorium in Dallas burned down in 1953 in the middle of a promotional war. Yup, the first time Ed McLemore tried to break away from Morris Sigel's Houston office. Jack Pfefer was McLemore's booker but left when Sigel sent a mob hitman to the Sportatorium to threaten him.

I haven't seen it yet, but I get what Dave's saying about the need for something, especially if it was possible. Maybe not the actual cutting or blood spurting but show something like the EMTs trying to apply pressure with bloody towels?

Didn't get my copy yet (thinking it'll get here today), listening to Meltzer & Alvarez discuss it on the latest WOR podcast... Why wasn't footage of the Mass Transit/Kulas incident included? RF Video shot it and he licensed footage to them...did he ask a lot for those specific clips? Or did John decide it was too messed up to show?

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Oh, I forgot to answer this: Much, much worse. Dundee at least provided some interesting stuff with his various "no, that's not it..." responses.

Didn't update the tumblr/feed yet. Will around midnight since I want to officially "release" them on Mondays.

The NJPW shows are apparently ridiculous successes, with each show either outdoing the last or showing their base audience increased substantially. The 1/4 Dome show did over 100,000 buys. The vast majority of buys have been from within Japan, with only a few hundred coming from outside the country. So it looks like the demand was there, just hampered by how few people in Japan have cable or satellite TV. ROH has topped out around 2,000 to 2,200 buys. UFC and WWE around 10,000 for the Internet versions of their biggest regular PPVs. I think more than anyone else, ROH at its peak was built for IPPV and had bad timing. ECW, during its creative peak, put the biggest house show matches on TV, and eventually had regular PPV. ECW would've benefitted more from the cost reduction (no satellite feed, better revenue split if a 3rd party is used, etc) IMO. ROH would've benefitted from the lack of delay in releases, which was a big deal for them.

There are times where I decide to just kick back and revel in my wrestling geekery. This is one of them:

http://www.loserleavestown.net/post/485904...t-2-here-is-the - Asking about how his rib injury was healing leads into a great discussion of wrestler safety, including "the magic" behind how he took the superplex into a guardrail bump before without incident and some interesting details about his blading habits. - What makes Tony DeVito and Kane great workers. - Working as a road agent/producer in ROH and trying out for a similar gig in WWE. - The first time he worked with Dusty Rhodes and the awesome story of how he found out about it. - Calling Da Crusher "a boy toucher" in Milwaukee. And much, much more. Corino is so awesome. Listen to him being awesome again.

Here's a MP3 of the relevant segment of the interview (about 3 minutes long, starting with "why did you change your style;" and one of his answers during the exchange includes the part about about not really remembering his ROH run): https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-NNkZSWAAY...dit?usp=sharing It's pretty early in the interview and thus not quite as bleak as I remember, as the bitterness and anger came out later. He does say that he thinks ROH/Gabe may have had plans for him anyway, but he felt changing his style was something he needed at the time to become a bonafide main eventer. The overall point that he felt he needed to change his style to move up is the same, but he was more fair to the possibility he didn't need to than I remembered.

Because they keep everything and put it in that warehouse. I don't know if it's for legal liability reasons or what, but it's literally everything. Find the photos Punk tweeted when he went there during the filming of his documentary. There was a a section in the warehouse for what he referred to as (and what looked like) "every ladder ever."

Foley also has most of his long term memory intact (aside from a few noticeable slips like saying he never told the HIAC "smile" story before the HOF speech when it's in his first and most popular book, though that may have just been part of how he wanted to tell the story). Nigel doesn't. All things considered, I'd say Foley is doing well for a guy who's had ~100 concussions. Nigel's an exception in the sense I've never seen another wrestler anything close to his memory issues, especially for a guy who's under 40.