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This also may be a touchy subject depending on whatever the current family dynamics are, but I wonder did the kids realize Vince was only interested in buying out Stampede as a way to get the talent he wanted for a discount. It seemed like based on stories from various Hart related books that Stu was under the impression he could carry on running shows.

Speaking of Dusty and the NWA title, was there any truth to the legend that the reason Dusty's reigns were so short (at least the first two) were because the Giant Baba wouldn't have approved someone looking like Dusty touring Japan as champ and the NWA didn't want to piss Baba off? Also that reminds me of Dusty's promo on the freshly heeled Dick Murdoch (which is on the NWA TV ep now up on WWE 24/7) where Dusty mentions his 3 world title reigns when listing the reasons he's better than Murdoch despite the total of all his time with the belt put together adding up to what, a month or so?

Obviously WWE has been going after stuff on YouTube forever, but it's also equally as obvious that they are putting extra effort into removing anything involving Linda and all the embarrassing angles she's been a part of over the years.

I would have expected a lot of folks here, SLL in particular, would be feeling a certain way at this set pretty much only existing to cement the current WWE history of the Raw title = NWA/WCW title.

ITT it's once again proven most of Dave's opinions on guys are based on things he's never seen personally.

I love how Dave (that was his post, right?) seems to enjoy rubbing it in everyone's face that Hogan in 2009 isn't the same draw he was in 1986. I think pretty much everyone had that figured out after his last WWE run at the very least, if not before. Also re: the whole Snowden/Dave wars....it seems that Snowden's raging against the machine and he will never be able to convince anyone on that board since they desperately hope UFC going mainstream will legitimize pro wres since one of "theirs" is heavyweight champ. That's really all it seems to boil down to, wrestling fans hoping to finally be able to have a comeback when a non fan starts busting their balls over liking that fake wrestling stuff.

From today's update: I wonder who convinced who, either way the talking point lives on.

I think Foley's just the only guy in wrestling who doesn't make Missy Hyatt jokes (he counts her as one of the ones who helped him break in the business) so that's a sensitive area for him.

I just can't put any credence into a book written by a guy who's blog started to resemble Jack Nicholson sitting in front of a typewriter in The Shining. I half expected the book to be 300 pages of "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES IRV A DULL BOY". All the tireless research and investigation he put into it and the only thing he seems to have really dug up is that the timeline of the text messages was mis-stated by WWE and that higher ups in the company probably knew Benoit was the killer long before the tribute show. Both are things you would also have learned by reading the WON, which Dave managed to uncover despite obviously softballing his coverage to protect sources/friends in the biz.

Someone really needs to establish that one great performance =/= a star being made. You would think people who spend so much time watching pro wrestling would be aware of that.

I was thinking today, has there ever been someone booked on top who's such a mis-mash of prior gimmicks as John Cena? WWE is so quick to repackage guys as soon as they decide to give them the big push, but Cena's still out there in his baggy-shorts-and-tennis-shoes from his original rapper gimmick, dog tag chain (which somehow has become a treasured item he must kiss before handing to the ref) from his "promoting The Marine" phase, and his t-shirts still reference the "Hustle, Loyalty, Respect" motto from his Chain Gang gangsta period. Then you have guys like the Miz, who once they get blessed from above ditch their Cena-with-a-Bedazzler pants for an outfit that if WWE was CMLL would make him look like Jerichocito.

I didn't see any mention of 40+ old meat curtains, so yeah....

Strange article. No mention of Liz at all. John Maybe they're finally getting up off the guy and not doing the ridiculous "you killed Liz" stuff. I'm just glad to see the guy's looking better than those emaciated post-paralysis pics.

Yes, I did post more about it on Cageside Seats. It clearly supposed to be a positive review but the ROH fans in the comments and at the ROH forum (where the thread was locked) don't seem to understand that. Wrestling fans upset at someone pointing out the obvious homoerotic undertones? Shocking news.

Basically that guy was a local nobody indy wrestler who worked one of the main newspapers into believing he was a big star in the WWF and WCW (and New Japan as well). Pretty much the only thing true about the story is that the guy is from Pittsburgh. Fun Fact: one of my best friends had a friend-of-a-friend who knew this guy, my friend insisted for like a month I had to know him because he knew I was a wrestling fan.

Two things struck me reading that Kevin bit: 1. Anything, no matter how bigoted, sounds hilarious when you picture Kevin's voice saying it. 2. The image of Kevin waiting for hours in the airport was like the saddest thing ever. In my mind they were playing the sad walking away music from the Incredible Hulk tv show while Kevin walked slowly away.

The last thing the WWF wanted was to have another lawsuit involving the sex scandals, that's why they were buying everyone off left and right to avoid any of them making it to court.

When it comes to Patterson, I always felt Dave kind of held back on him and I can only come to one of three conclusions: 1. Dave didn't want to be seen as furthering the gay=pedo stereotype. 2. Pat was somehow a source and Dave didn't want to burn any bridges (unlikely). 3. They were bros and he didn't want to have his friend's rep sullied in any way (like how he goes apeshit when someone suggests Pillman was anything less than perfect).

In my experience, people generally only want to be told things they want to hear and tend to get really upset if you tell them anything else.

It's also been somewhat established that a large amount of the "I nearly got killed by crazy fans upset by my heel tactics" stories were carny bullshit told by old timers wanting to prove things were tougher in their day. I think it's one of the main reasons people in TEH BIZ by and large dislike the internet, since people are more likely to call you out on your tall tales. The only territory that seems to have legit fan encounter stories is Mid-South/UWF and that was in large part due to Watts' policy of keeping kayfabe by confronting fans.

I think that was at whatever HOF the Samoans got in at, since that appears to be Afa's daughter in the pic with him.

I'm happy for you Irv, and I'mma let you finish, but Sean Shannon had the best internet meltdown of ALL TIME! (sorry I had to go there) Also, Irv has quickly become the poster child for "what he's saying may be right but you feel compelled to disagree with him because he comes off as an obsessed nut".

As I noted on another forum yesterday: Anyone else think it's kind of funny that a guy like Jim Cornette ,who's whole shtick was the pansy mama's boy who was always getting the short end of gimmick matches and feuding with women, hates Russo so much? I mean, yeah, I get he's an old school Southern Rasslin' kind of guy, but is there really that big of a leap from Corny getting tarred and feathered back in the day to whatever-on-a-pole matches?

Honestly, Bret's WCW run ended up doing that for me. Yeah, you can blame the booking but that conveniently ignores the fact that a lot of the times he was out there mailing it in more than anyone not named Kevin Nash. It was like as soon as he set foot in WCW he realized what a mistake it was.

I'm guessing a lot of Dave's fandom of Edge comes from him being one of the few (perhaps the only) who got the fans completely behind Cena when they feuded. It seems fairly easy to tell that Dave is annoyed by the mixed reactions Cena gets (since a lot of it comes from male fans booing just because the girls/kids are cheering and not because of anything Cena is doing), so anyone who can get the crowd fully behind him will get a pop from Meltzer.