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Apter is a no brainer, IMO. His magazines promoted territories better than half of them promoted themselves. I remember following angles in Florida and Oregon solely by their coverage in the Apter mags since they weren't on TV here.

Not to mention Domino's is running a campaign now where they basically say their pizza has been shitty but they improved it and it's better now. They aren't a family business but it's essentially the same tactic.

The thing about the Sleaze Thread at DVDVR is that it got a lot of people to join the board, and a lot of the old timers were pissed that people were starting threads about Jimmy Valiant's shitting habits instead of discussing the latest Japanese indy fed. That led to the mods doing things like banning people for even mentioning it, which of course only increased interest since making things taboo never makes them go away. Also DVDVR was hacked and/or had server issues more than any large message board I can recall. I guess that's what you get when your IT guy was a creep with a Transformers and POV blowjob fetishes.

Hell, his angle in 1989 in the NWA was that he was a crazy old man wanting one more run on top.

Terry's second career as a brawler/hardcore legend wasn't painfully embarrassing to watch as Flair's second act has been at times.

I just assumed Sonnen was trying to get people interested in purchasing the fisticuffs event he was taking part in. If that's considered "working" now, then anyone who ever tried to get someone interested in anything ever can be considered a "worker".

I realize the cartels are more powerful than they've been before, but any company who operates in Mexico has to be aware that they've existed in some form or another for quite a while now. I just find it amazing that a company that has been at times the #1 company in the world and a solid #2 (instead of a TNA style by default #2) at others runs basically month to month. I know the economy hasn't been the greatest in Mexico, but how can they run PPV and TV tapings if the budget is that tight?

The thing about Flair is that he certainly should be considered the greatest ever, or #2 at the very least, but there's going to be an entire generation of wrestling fans who see him as the equivalent of Jordan playing for the Washington Wizards. I could imagine how difficult it would be to convince someone that started watching wrestling in the 2000s that Flair is one of the all time greats.

Cubsfan has a post up on his blog about AAA having to do cutbacks due to having an entire gate stolen by a drug gang at a show that didn't have enough "protection". AAA pays their talent directly from the gate, so losing a whole show meant they had to cut back on other things. My question is how can a major company like that (in a part of the world where drug gangs are not a new concept) still operate that way? If you ran a business in a place where you know at some point you're going to get shaken down, shouldn't you do the business equivalent of hiding some money in your sock?

The Halloween one he did for (I think) TNT is my favorite whacked out Piper promo, even more so since I believe Steph was one of the kids in it.

Certainly when watching WWF programming from the 80s you can tell some guys are a lot more revved up than others. Piper for one comes to mind immediately, some of his promos from back then were done under the influence of at least one if not several substances. Even more so when you contrast it to ones he did in the 90s on up to today where he seems like a LP played on a slower speed by comparison.

Huh? I know people say he's a coke fiend, but is there any suggestion that he actually has any addictions? Or is that just a throw-away line? There's been a lot of people who worked behind the scenes that have similar tales of Vince being coked out of his mind a lot of the time, not to mention the stories of his legendary work ethic/schedule that would be nearly impossible to maintain as long as he has without some kind of chemical assistance. Also the tons of examples of Vince exhibiting inappropriate/weird behavior both on and off screen. In short, there's never been any conclusive proof but there seems to be enough circumstantial evidence to assume he's not just getting by on Red Bulls.

Did it ever come out what Antonio Pena died from? The WON always seems to use weird code words, the gist was always that it was something resulting from Pena's lifestyle. It seems like he was implying AIDS, but he also would always mention his drug use so it was never clear which part of his lifestyle we were supposed to draw our conclusions from.

From today's Herb: What job has Linda created? Doesn't the WWE usually increase their profits by doing a post-WrestleMania endeavoring almost every year? A lot of behind the scenes jobs have been cut from their internet/new media/whatever Shane was in charge of as well. So what proof is there anywhere that Linda can create jobs other than other Republicans saying she can?

Just the fact that Vince would make a drug joke about anyone else short of Keith Richards pegs the needle on the Irony-O-Meter.

I've thought for a while that if they are going to bring him back, a great way to do it would be like that. No one would remember, but they explained his disappearance by having (I think) Barrett say a throwaway line about Bryan having a conscience over the first beatdown and not wanting to be a part of that. It would be a great callback to that if the only way the WWE team could win is by recruiting someone who used to be part of Nexus. I have a feeling if that was ever pitched to Vince, he'd have one of his weird moments of not wanting WWE guys to look inferior, but if they did it in a ROH friendly city like NYC or Philly the pop would be huge.

I was thinking, and this may be cynical of me, but isn't it funny how Dave had all these "he doesn't want anyone to know he does all this good stuff" stories about Cena in the WON not too long after he pretty much outed him as the guy Mickie James was fired for fucking/stalking?

I think it stems from him wanting to have a fresh start in the IWC since he (allegedly) burned some people in tape deals.

He's like the internet version of the Midnight Rider. I responded to him on another board with a comment that made it clear I knew who he was and he had a mini flip out over it.

Wasn't Tom Cole the one who was planted in the audience of the Donahue show to be the big "gotcha" against the WWF, only to have him basically apologize to the McMahons for the embarrassment it caused their company that he got molested by their employees. Kind of how Hector Guerrero was apologizing for Eddy's death. Also Cole wasn't exactly 100% credible pre-(alleged) payoff if I recall correctly. Didn't he name Patterson as one of the perpetrators just because he was openly gay?

Also because of those, he had to get off whatever steroids/HGH he was on so now he's way less muscular and of course can't work out as much due to the hip surgeries. If he's just standing at ringside he doesn't look too bad. Anything that requires him to move is painful to watch.

I really wish someone, anyone, would do some actual research to back up any candidate's claim of being fiscally sound. Is it fiscally sound to stop drug testing because your competitor isn't and as such eating your lunch? Is it fiscally sound to sign one of your top stars to a 20 year contract and then a couple of months later come back and say "you know what, we can't afford this"? Is it fiscally sound to spend money building an entire developmental promotion (when you already had one established with a self-sustaining promotion) just because your agents like living in Florida?

So I watched a whole show of AAA for the first time in years, and a few things occurred to me: 1. Konnan is like the lucha Magnum TA now. Wherever they were taping the show at had two steps off the main stage to the walkway, and boy was it awkward watching him try to walk down just two steps. I guess after what he's been through it's amazing he's still alive, but it would probably be better for everyone if he had a backstage only role at this point. 2. Maybe it's me, but the heel ref act gets really old when it's in 3 out of 4 matches. It's one thing when it's just a heel ref fast counting faces, but they do entire spots with Tirantes Jr - sometimes he does more involved spots than the guys in the match. It's one thing when you have Earl Hebner shove back the heel who pushed him, but when you have refs doing sunset flips it's getting silly. 3. Dr. Wagner Jr. is still my favorite lucha guy. Especially considering that he comes out to "Bad Medicine". Bon Jovi and lucha, what more can you ask for? I love that AAA made him their world champion with him being only under what seems to be a verbal contract, and then he showed up at a CMLL houseshow presumably to watch his son but also made a point of letting the crowd know he was there. Speaking of his son, is there some kind of rule on how the Hijo/Junior thing is handled? Wagner's son is working as Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr when you would think it would be easier for everyone to call him Dr. Wagner III.

To be fair to Taker, he's had some bad luck when it comes to injuries. Isn't this the second time he got his orbital bone broken by someone else's carelessness? The thing with Mabel injuring him with a legdrop (and him wearing that Phantom of the Opera mask) was a legit injury was it not?

....and no one who has said people's names before matches have done it as well as Howard did. Also, Lawler is taken seriously in the WWE? Maybe by people like us who have emotional attachment to old Memphis stuff, but I'd wager the vast WWE audience just sees him as the guy who used to talk about boobs all the time and lost a Kiss My Foot match to Bret Hart.