Marty

Due to being sick and my sleep patterns being all out of whack, I woke up at 3:00 am today and realized by 3:30 that I wasn't going to fall asleep. Wound up watching Benoit-Vicious from Souled Out 2000 and Benoit-Angle from Royal Rumble 2003 before getting ready for work. Watched HHH-Cactus Royal Rumble 2000 when I got home today while sipping steaming hot lemon tea in a futile effort to get rid of this gout that I've had all week. Watching Smackdown right now.

It's always the Smackdowns I miss that seem to have the most interesting/good matches. *sigh*

That would lead me to conclude that it's not her. Really think she'd hand out spoilers etc to strangers? She didn't give away any results to me. She just said she wouldn't be wrestling, and again, it was about a month and a half ahead of time, IIRC, long before it was released in public. And she didn't wrestle, as it turned out. She did the run-in in the Jericho-Christian match.

Got a link handy where people are saying this? I've read a couple threads where Taker/JBL is in the discussion (it slaughtered all other matches in the Best Free TV Match Of The Week poll) plus another thread where tomk of DVDVR thinks it was excellent, but not as good as Angle/Jannetty. Don't think I've seen the thread where people are calling it MOTY though.

I'm not going to conclude that it's her or anything like that, but there are a few instances I've had that at least may seem like it's her, such as the following: - AIM Trish once told me which people on the web (that have the same name as her AIM sn) are her and who aren't really her. Long story, but I've seen the infamous sn pop up on various message boards, mentioned to her as if to say, "Ah, you post there" and she'd say, "No, I don't". While, again, I'm not concluding that it's her everyone sees on AIM, it seems kinda far-fetched that a hoax would deny other hoaxes being the same as her. If it's a hoax, than that's a hoax dedicated to their craft. Hell, if it's not Trish, than who is that person to deny that people that aren't her aren't Trish as well? Yeah, that last part seems crazy, but I don't see a hoax doing that. - AIM Trish has mentioned to me several neat tidbits that I heard well before guys like Meltzer would report it (physiotherapy time, rest time, whether surgery was needed, etc.). I've also had cases of her accurately telling me plans of the WWE, whether it relates to her or others. For instance, she brought up to me a good month and a half in advance that "I know I won't be wrestling" with regards to WrestleMania XX. Again, these two cases aren't conclusive evidence or anything like that, but I wanted to pass that along to you guys. Hopefully it came across as clear. It's 4:30 in the morning and I'm still sick.

CanadianChick, it was just randomly stated. I thought it was funny and fit in here okay. Loss, I don't want to turn the Quotable Wrestling thread into a "OMEG!!1111!!! IZ IT REEELY TRISH????" discussion, but later on, when I'm not sick and am up for typing something long, I'll send you a PM stating my experiences with this person, stuff that happened that makes me lean towards it really being her, and other things that may seem so otherwise. I will say, though, that whether or not the person really is Trish, he/she is actually one of the more fun people to chat with these days, which is why I still do.

"i can draw more than 3 people" - A drunken AIM Trish Stratus, during a chat Saturday night with four other people. One of them being me.

I think the double-package is just a special offer for people who haven't already bought the Rise and Fall DVD. The PPV DVD will still be sold on its own as well.

Could be, but this is also the first time I've heard of this really happening frequently for one batch. I thought the problems of the WM21 DVD were limited to Canada, but Sek's posts have told me otherwise. I also rarely have problems with DVDs, unless they're blatantly scratched. I once bought a copy of Taxi Driver that was like that. The WM21 DVDs, OTOH, don't look like anything's done to them, so it's a mystery to me what they were doing in producing them.

Nope, it wasn't just you. When it came early to Canada, I picked up a copy for a pretty good price at HMV and ended up exchanging it a couple of times before finally winding up with a good copy. I'm also not the only one who's had to do that. Still shit quality compared to their other DVDs, as I've mentioned. Depends if you like being a completist or not, and if you've got a store nearby where you can get it for cheap. That's why I picked it up, generally speaking. It isn't a great show by any means, but the DVD as a whole (the show, HOF stuff, WM trailers, etc.) was enough of a reason for me to pick it up. Plus, the ability to keep going into a store to tell someone, "Nope, this copy's shit too" didn't cause any sweat on my back.

Another thing I'm worried about is that, quality-wise, the DVD ain't gonna be that good. They also rushed out WrestleMania 21 on DVD too and I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the DVD looks and seems like it was cheaply made (ala single-layered). The DVD in general is awfully more pixelated than WWE DVDs usually are (which was confirmed when I watched the Road Warriors DVD, which had the usual good quality that the WWE's DVD have). I'm afraid the ECW one will turn out to be like that, but I hope I'm wrong.

I think that went out the window when Jericho carried his ass to a great match at WrestleMania XIX. I wonder if this is why Edge is cool with any reference being done on-screen to himself, Lita, and Matt, most notably at One Night Stand. Or maybe Edge is just generally easy-going with this type of thing. I hope like fuck she isn't being drafted to Smackdown. RAW's coming to town in August and while I haven't been interested in a house show in a while, I'd fork down money to see her live for the first time in 3 years. Matter of fact, they should scrap the rest of the roster for the show and make it a 2 hour Trish Stratus show or something. I'd pay double of what they normally charge for that! They might as well do it that way. As nice as the show sounded on Sunday, a complete revival of the company will eventually get stale, as the real company did back in the day. Sadly, there's almost too many domestic markets that have doomed from bad shows so much that they almost need to take a 5-year break from them, but that in itself isn't feasible.

In.

The comics are hit-or-miss for me at the moment. Maybe I need to get into them more. I guess I just miss Dean's written reports that much.

I was at a house show in the summer of 2002 when some little kid who sat in the front row brought a sign (which he just held over the railing, so it wasn't bad). Christian and Lance Storm (who were doing the UnAmerican angle and thus were babyfaces) were cool enough to sign it after their match with Hardcore Holly and Val Venis. It was nice.

My least favourite moment is probably from a show I was at. I was at the Smackdown a couple days after WrestleMania X8, where the main event was Rock vs. Nash. It was the match where, yep, X-Pac does a run-in to a silent reaction. Other least favourite moments. HHH going over Jericho and Booker two straight WMs, Hogan prevailing at WM9, Survivor Series 97, "Molly is a fatass", Trish barking like a dog, and Benoit losing the World title to Orton last year. There's more, but those are the ones that jump to my head right now.

I'm pretty much on Loss' side with this topic. Some signs are especially bad when they say "Hi Mike" or something else that basically states that wrestling is fake or something else kayfabe-breaking. Wrestling is the only sport where a huge number of signs is prominent, and people have taken advantage of that to go, in my opinion, beyond the extremes. It's the same level as going up to a wrestler and calling them by their real name, if they aren't using it on TV already. Fans like those are more a fan of themselves than they are of the product they're going to see. Signs blocking my view bug me, like they would anyone. That's why I always carrying a lighter with me whenever I attend a show.

Off the top of my head, I'll read Tom and Phil's Workrate Reports from DVDVR, Dean Rasmussen if he feels like doing a Workrate Report rather than a Comic like he does these days for Smackdown, Chris Coey's reviews, and reviews here, specifically goodhelmet's, Loss' and Tim Cooke's. I'll also read Tim's stuff at DVDVR as well. That pretty much covers everything these days.

Whoops, forgot the Fantastics. Okay, replace the Hollywood Blonds with them, because I flipped a coin between the Blonds and Owen/Bulldog for the last spot, not knowing the Fantastics were right there. That's how I'd do it, at least.

My picks for the byes, if we're going with this: Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes Brainbusters (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard) British Bulldogs (Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith) Demolition (Ax & Smash) Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray & D-Von) Edge & Christian Fabulous Freebirds (Hayes/Gordy/Roberts) Hardy Boyz (Matt & Jeff) Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart) Hollywood Blondes (Steve Austin & Brian Pillman) Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane) Miracle Violence Connection (Steve Williams & Terry Gordy) Rick & Scott Steiner Road Warriors/Legion of Doom (Animal & Hawk) Rock & Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty) I'm sure some of these will be disputed, but I'm trying to help out.

I wonder if her current character can work...as a face, that is.

I thought the staredown with Helmsley was the only thing that got anything along the lines of "noticeable heat". I mean, it wasn't along the lines of Jericho/Cena, but it's nice to see the fans remembering history and all. It'd almost be a nice way to headline another WrestleMania were it not for the fact that we'd know who'd go over. The crowd did suck last night, albeit between two big man squashes, an average tag match that led to a much-needed heel turn, an overly long main event promo, among other things, they were fed too much. Still, they did contend quite nicely with the WrestleMania 21 Los Angeles crowd.

That would make three of us who came on that route.

I agree about the convenience factor, and I think it's wearing off. The more sites SK jumps to for whatever reason, the less convenient any archives of his is, where people can access, yep, more U.S. show reviews than elsewhere. The last place he had this was 411, and even those archives weren't nearly as good as the old Rantsylvania ones. He's quickly becoming an afterthought, for that reason alone. A better reviewer who could cover everything (as you said) is the nail in the coffin.