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I always heard that guys were booking their own stuff in ROH, and yet everyone lost that ability for some reason when Pearce took over. Maybe because Pearce wanted to book like ROH was a 70s NWA territory?

I thought it was pretty much exposed when guys who were booking their own stuff left ROH that Gabe really wasn't capable of coming up with very many compelling storylines. Individual 5-star matches, definitely. Angles/storylines that make people want to buy tickets and DVDs, not so much. I'll admit I didn't read all of the Facebook slappyfight, but it appears Gabe got butthurt over Mitchell pointing out what you would think would be the obvious.

I would think the Hardys' biggest obstacle to a return to WWE would be their inability to enjoy whatever substances they chose to partake in without YouTube somehow ending up involved.

I think it's partly that and also maybe partly due to WWE editing out that line at least a few times when it was aired on a couple of DVD releases. When you watch it now the line sort of stands out since your brain is subconsciously used to it being gone. Personally, I thought it was one of the great announcer performances in WCW ever. Loss already covered Tony being disgusted enough to use mild profanity (which from him had the effect of an f-bomb), and Heenan finally being vindicated but not being able to enjoy it due to the enormity of the situation. Even Mean Gene looked like he wanted to fight someone in the post match interview (which may have been legit since he had to stand in the ring while it was getting bombarded with trash).

I thought that was pretty much the worst kept secret of the era considering Shawn didn't even try to convince anyone the knee injury wasn't bullshit, and that his drug usage was well on its way to becoming legendary. In fact wasn't that one of the things that drove Bret crazy, how everyone just seemed to accept the official story as true?

So does WWE have some sort of criteria on which to base if second generation wrestlers get to use their family names? Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr get to keep their famous names (minus the Jr, but that's another Vince quirk) but Joe Hennig and the Rotunda brothers don't. Then you have the Harts: Harry gets to keep his last name and while Natalya doesn't have a last name like most of the women, they mention her father all the time. You could go back further to guys like Carlito and Primo, who didn't have a last name until they started teaming together. Considering half the roster in FCW is second generation, it should be interesting to see who keeps their name and who doesn't.

I think that the TNA/Concussion stuff would fit the criteria of the award just because they put being the company doing stuff WWE doesn't do (like chair shots to the head) ahead of stuff like not doing sick blows to the head when even the NFL is changing the rules due to all the data on concussions. Considering how much Dixie wants to be seen as a down-home family kind of person, it's almost Fritz-esque the level she doesn't give a shit about the people in her company.

To be fair, guys with bodybuilder physiques being good workers was far more the exception than the rule so it's not like Dave was out in left field as a general rule. I know for me it was more that Masters' improvement came on shows that very few people watch, like Superstars. A lot of people only remembered him as the jacked up stiff who full-nelson'ed people and then got mocked by DX after he got off the gas. Hell, a lot of casual fans only watch Raw, so if anyone got sent to Smackdown they may as well have been endeavored in the eyes of a lot of people (at least while it was on MyNetwork).

I was wondering if you were the same guy from Wrestlinggames/The Wall. That was a fun place before it got ruined by family politics.

I'm sure the DVDVR sets are awesome (they usually are), but isn't the WON award just for commercial sets?

In the spirit of Loss's changes I didn't want to just stick this in the "comments that don't warrant a thread" thread. WWE on demand has debut matches as a theme this month, one of which is Goldust's PPV debut vs Marty Jannetty. Watching it made me realize just how underrated Dustin is since by all rights there's no way the Goldust gimmick should have been anything but Wrestlecrap at its finest. The fact that it not only wasn't, but was still viable in 2010, makes it even more apparent.

They weren't inflated at the time. It was an example of rising tides lifting all boats to be sure, but you had midcarders and jobbers taking home downsides never before seen (or since, really). A lot of people not at the top got accustomed to boom level guarantees and when those weren't rolling in anymore they decided it was time to move on.

It just sounds like something that only happens in TV shows when they need a quick way to move the plot along, all of a sudden a piece of evidence is found that was overlooked by not only the hordes of police who were there but all the assorted press (who are not above looking through someone's trash to make a story). I mean, if I found a book in my trash can that I know wasn't there I probably would look at it, but why would it have been left there? Obviously Chris wasn't in his right mind that day, but I don't get what he was hoping to accomplish if he was the one who left it. The only way it even makes a small amount of sense is if someone from WWE shows up to see why Chris isn't answering the phone, walks into a horror movie scene, finds the journal (that most likely has all kinds of fucked up stuff in it that could reflect bad on the company), and in some kind of panic or freakout just grabs it and throws it in the neighbor's trash can that miraculously gets overlooked by the cops. All that is a pretty big stretch.

I hate to be That Guy, but people like Irv and Bix are probably wasting their time because it's more than apparent that no one cares about rasslers dying (or killing their families). Even Dave seems to be fairly burned out of covering the story at this point. It's obvious that nothing will ever come of it, even if proof comes out second or third hand, since WWE will just bury any attempts to uncover any damaging details.

The note was found in the pages of a Bible that was sent to Chris's first wife in Canada. The question is why did the police not find it?

He seems to rub everyone the wrong way, plus he was the latest "punish the guy the internet likes" whipping boy. He didn't seem to take that well either, unlike Daniel Bryan who just went with it and ended up winning over the whole locker room (I remember John Cena going to bat for him on Twitter after Tie-gate).

I gotta think this ranks pretty low on the list of scummy things a Von Erich has done. I would think Fritz would be disappointed that she didn't turn her custody dispute over her son into an angle in TNA.

Considering Angle was so into the rapid-fire spot bonanza style matches, it's no shocker he couldn't work well with a 400 pound guy.

Dave can't afford a second DVR? I'm sure there's more than one TV in stately Meltz Manor.

So whatever happened with Ron Garvin? Did he piss someone off or ask for too much money? He went from winning the NWA title at the end of 1987 to working with Greg Gagne for the AWA TV title on the midcard of SuperClash III by the end of 1988.

I'd assume he meant that Hogan/Bossman wasn't supposed to be a huge program, it was largely meant to set up Hogan/Savage (since the Megapowers exploded in at tag match against the Twin Towers), yet somehow ended up doing killer business.

I like the latest WO.com tease headline: "Spoiler: WWE Turn Coming" and when you click the link it's just a note from the Tribute to the Troops show about Melina on the heel side of an 8 person Diva tag match. Also it's a subscriber only link.

His whole "I love hardcover books and bought a Kindle because I love reading!" shtick sure seems more and more like a front every day. By the way, WRT Dave's UFC coverage: Besides bringing up that specific match being kinda random (Kerry used that as his entrance music for at least 9 years), the entrance music is barely audible on the TV show with the match. It's one of the only (if not THE only) WCCW matches where WWE hasn't edited the entrances out on 24-7/Classics On Demand. Dave bringing up Kerry EVERY SINGLE TIME any MMA guy anywhere using that entrance music is getting to be like a Tourette's tic for him. Poor Dave doesn't seem to know no one under 35 is going to know who any of the Von Erichs are.

He was trying to pull Kerry outside the ring and his boot came off, it was obvious to people at ringside that there was no foot, but people were trying to convince them they didn't see what they thought they saw.

This is Baby Doll circa 2010: Not too bad considering her heyday was in 1986. She certainly has held up better than a lot of other women from the 80s.