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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.

Very true, but it just made me wonder if Vince knew about Kerry's foot then and had it as an ace up his sleeve while he was sabotaging the card from taking place. It seems like a lot of people knew/suspected about it for a while, but after the DeBeers incident there was blood in the water that Vince jumped on. The fact that they tried to rely on an archaic law about barring people with artificial limbs from legit contests to keep him from competing in a worked event shows they were just trying to fuck over the show.

Wasn't one of the reasons WWE moved to in-house production was to use non union employees? I also remember one of those shoot interviews with someone who used to work in production for WWE who stated that they stopped showing credits so employees couldn't claim credit for creating anything.

From the sounds of it, rovert makes it look like Snowden trolled him on a message board (he's been known to do that) and he's mad about it. Unless by personal situation you mean he stole your lunch money or something.

Dave really goes off the rails when he tries to talk about practically anything in sports other than wrestling or MMA (usually). His comparing the NFL to the CFL or XFL is ridiculous to the point of either trolling or sheer cluelessness, just like comparing MLB to Japanese baseball. One league is far more established than the other and has a significant financial edge on the other. It's like trying to say the winner of the Premier League soccer championship is somehow lesser if they don't play the winner of the MLS cup in America. It's not to say lesser leagues don't have talent or have entertaining contests, but trying to build your case by stating sportswriters don't get upset if teams of lesser leagues aren't included just makes you look like you have no clue of anything that goes on outside your own self created bubble.