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I presume he meant his second wife.

Mario Galento!

Plus, it started with a really good idea (Teddy shapes Joey Maggs into a guy who breaks out of jobberdom) that got dropped and turned into him managing jobbers for no apparent reason.

Winner.

Hell, I don't just want an Ace Crusher, I want Kobashi and The Patriot doing surprise run ins to support their former GET stablemate.

At one of the Arezzi fan conventions I went to as a kid he was in his vest and trunks signing autographs for the fans waiting in line to get into the ballroom. It was horrifying.

Oh, duh: Randy Rose. Especially when he teamed with Doug Somers in All-South. Hangman Bobby Jaggers was kind of horrifying. Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce. Ronnie P. Gossett. Dr. Ken Ramey was sort of a classy type of scummy looking. The dude who worked Carolina indies as fake Ken Ramey a decade ago, too. George South, especially heeling for Jesus. Norvell Austin, especially in the PYTs. Tony Rumble looked like a sex offender even if he was probably a decent guy. Buck Zumhoffe looked like and WAS a sex offender.

I forgot that he said Strange Kentucky People is real. Well, that's something, even if it wasn't traded around.

4B looked scummy but his dad Bill White looked even scummier in the early 80's. Also I submit Colonel Buckley Christopher George Robley III for the list. If you think Robley looked scummy in the "DON'T CALL ME YELLOW" shirt, you should check out should late period Southwest from when there were like 10 guys on the roster and he wore an Assassins style black bodysuit for no apparent reason. Also: Bonus points for Gary Young when he botched dying his hair and it turned magenta. Doug Gilbert. Who also randomly wore an Assassins type bodysuit during his '88 Memphis run. How am I the first person to mention Chris Hamrick? Especially early ECW gold pants and bowtie Chris Hamrick.

Dylan if you want to point to the match where they really beat the Rolling Germans into the ground it was during the build-up to the Jericho/Benoit/Austin Triple Threat where Benoit wrestled Austin on Smackdown and I think hit him with 8 or even 9 in a row. And obviously did not win with it. It was TEN.

Jericho also took credit for the Cornette Dairy Queen video that Ron Hed shot and may have completely made up the Strange Kentucky People tape (at the very least his claim that it became a hot item among tape traders is BS).

He was injured between shows and replaced by Pillman.

Amazing story and photo from a thread talking about the Low-Ki interview:

Ok, I have to listen to this, especially since he pretty much cemented his rep recently with the Ahtu match.

That was the point though. Fake Undertaker was there to draw out the real Undertaker and then to lose to the real Undertaker. If you read the Observer, though, the plan at one point was for Fake Undertaker to stick around for a while, but they wound up changing course at some point. Either that, or somebody was giving Dave bad info. Really, WWE's track record with fake anything (Fake Undertaker, Fake Kane, Fake Razor Ramon, Fake Diesel, etc) is incredibly poor. There are also stories about a bunch of special effects being planned for the match (lighting striking when they first touched, the two Undertakers merging into one, etc.) that were abandoned for whatever reason.

The latest from "really, they actually registered PWSpyware.com":

Gilbert was better as a heel, but I thought he was also a great babyface under the right circumstances. While he was completely buried after he got kicked off the booking committee, he was great in his feuds with the Horsemen/Yamazaki Corp. & Great Muta in the ring, on promos, and in general as the catalyst for Steamboat and Sting then taking his place.

To recap: Dave Meltzer said WWE told Bright House Sports Network they're cancelling FCW's TV show, folding the school/promotion, and sending all developmental talent to Stamford to dick around until they figure out what the hell is happening next. Mike Johnson refuted that, saying that while the BHSN show is done, FCW isn't going anywhere. Maybe some things are being overhauled, Steve Keirn denied anything is happening to FCW. WWE and Triple H issued a weirdly vague statement that could be interpreted a number of ways but was essentially a denial tooling on Dave. The link was posted and rah rahed on Facebook and Twitter by a bunch of guys in FCW. Dave is sticking to his guns, at least that someone that handles programming for WWE said what he reported to someone at BHSN. That's where we are now. (And not that it's necessarily apropos of anything significant, but has there ever been another story where close to this many people in the business publicly came out against Dave?)

Gong by what I've seen pasted in the F4W board thread, sort of a fleshed out version of the Triple H claim, with some people extrapolating from everything that what's really happening is FCW surviving with some changes that include a new TV outlet and new TV show shot at Sunlife University's gym, plus a new territory opening elsewhere to make the roster size manageable. WWE does some weird shit but I don't see the point in lying to the talent about this.

That was incredibly bizarre. She came in as a favor to Albano, who she had become friendly with doing the video and then MS charity work. I have no idea what type of payoffs she got, but on top of the a few TV tapings, those big MSG shows, WM, and SNMEs, she also randomly worked the infamous San Juan rainstorm show after being off TV for months. She's always come off as a fan, she served as a boom catalyst, etc etc. I wonder who shaped Ross's opinion and when. I doubt Vince, even on one of his crazier days, would be so negative on her. Maybe something via Watts since Richter went straight from a run in Mid-South to the WWF Lauper stuff?

I saw the video. I don't know how it was perceived in the arena (let us consider for a moment, that a good chunk of WWE's audience wasn't even born when the company folded) but on TV it looked very awkward and fleeting, especially given the timing. He should've done it during a promo segment. At least he would've had a shot at avoiding the camera changes then.

That Shawn Michaels versus Triple H finish was possibly the stupidest finish I have ever seen in WWE. I was actually angry about it because it really made zero sense. I've always hoped it was a blown spot. Maybe they were supposed to get tangled up as they fell down?

BURNED.

Way back when I put together a custom DVD I called "Hateful Lucha" to try to get a friend into the style with the idea being he'd get into the style more easily if he started with some wild brawls. Unfortunately, I didn't burn myself a copy or save the matchlist (there has to be at least one person here who has it, right?) and just deleted it from my hard drive after a while, but IIRC at least the following were on it: - Trio Fantasia (Super Muneco, Super Raton, & Pinochio) vs The Thundercats [Mask match from Monterrey in 1991, bloody mask-ripping insanity that probably scared many children] - Universo 2000 vs Perro Aguayo Jr. [No blood, but great brawl w/ Perro Sr. at ringside in 12/04. A bit weird since it was on a card honoring Universo and his brothers, but otherwise a great match] - Jerry Estrads vs Stuka [Hair match from Halloween '94. Brawling, blood, bumps, and dives. Exactly what you'd expect from these guys on paper and a great match. Yes Loss, I will be sending out the copy for the yearbook. ]