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I'd imagine the Iron Sheik would be over like Hulk Hogan with the "EEE-RAN NUMBA VON!" routine.

The WWE produced DVD on the Triumph and Tragedy of WCCW was originally set to release 9/18, but a check on Amazon indicates it was pushed back to December. The offical WWE DVD page still lists the 9/18 date, and it's curiously the only non-PPV release without a clickable link to further info/matchlisting/purchase details. Granted, current events would make it awkward to release a WCCW documentary now, but it seems like this might end up on the back burner for the foreseeable future.

I would imagine CMLL would make him drop the mask if ever left the company. No way they'd let him take something they invested so much in and use it to make millions elsewhere. Also hasn't history shown that after the initial "OMG WWE is here for the first time ever/in years" shows, attendance usually goes down for international shows? The last European tour was pretty much a bust. I don't think there's a long term market for WWE style wrestling outside of the US and Canada.

Got mine.

Watching Hardcore Heaven made me realize that Lawler was doing the same gimmick in ECW that Andy Kaufman did in Memphis, just substituting "WWF" for "Hollywood". The promo he cut before the match with Dreamer was almost an exact copy of one of Andy's except he name dropped WWF stars instead of movie stars. I was waiting for him to bust out the "I'm from the WWF not from EEEEEEECCCCCCCCWWWWWWW (in exaggerated southern retard voice)" line

I have to admit, any time I think Vince's balls can't get any bigger he raises the bar.

USA is about to launch its HD channel, sometime in the next month or two it should appear in your channel lineup. WWE has supposedly been testing HD for a while now, so you'd think they'd be ready to go at launch. Now would WWE launch RAW alone in HD, or wait to launch all their shows at once? The CW network is somewhat hamstrung when it comes to HD as a lot of their affiliates are smaller power stations that may not have the ability to go to HD in the near future. WWE's also not had any of their PPVs in HD either, something the UFC's been offering for a while now.

They'd mention he was a wrestler, and I think that he was once a tag champion, but it was usually framed in a "it was a long time ago" context.

The Florida episode currently running has a match from the David Von Erich heel run I heard so much about but never saw. It's so surreal as someone who grew up watching WCCW to see a Von Erich go rudo style.

The lineup for October: Kind of a blah offering, IMO. October seems to be a weak month since they always have to have "wacky" stuff in the Shorties which ends up sucking. Other than the WCCW, NWA, and MNW stuff everything else seems like a pass. I kind of wish they would ease up on all the 80s shows, since it ends up creating shit-tons of overlap when 3/4ths of the Hall of Fame matches are from shows they've aired already.

Reason I'm Going to Hell #70809: My supervisor's getting married this week (he's a big wrestling fan mind you), and on the card that was passed around I wrote "Best Wishes, and remember a Stone Cold Stunner is not the best way to settle a marital dispute".

Perhaps, but the NFL is very concerned about the effects of concussions after Steve Young and Troy Aikman, which makes last week's situation all the more frightening.

To prove how concussions are more ingrained in the macho mindset and not just a wrestling centric issue, Jon Kitna of the Detroit Lions had a concussion that knocked him out of last week's game, only to return in the 4th quarter to seal the win. Not only was he allowed to return to a game the same day he had a concussion, he was taking all sort of Foley-esque hits in the process that surely wasn't good for a recently mushed brain.

Are you sure you aren't confusing him with Phil Mushnick who always is bashing WWE over something? I don't recall Irv ever being anti-WWE other than actually telling the truth about stuff and not the WWE version.

Watching the latest Monday Night War, there's already been one uncensored mention of Chris Benoit along with Arn's promo about Kevin and Ben Sullivan with the punchline of "no one wants to bury their child, but it looks like your child buried you" being left intact. WWE lightening up on the editing, or just an oh-shit-we-missed-that-one moment?

I have to object, this rules and always has ruled because you never knew what he was going to say.

Would it be fair to assume Misawa probably cost Gabe a good bit of cash considering how he allegedly dislikes Americans? If so, nice to know his brains aren't scrambled to the point where he can't still fleece a money mark when he sees one.

A non-head injury related thought, HHH makes it a little more difficult to defend him against the internet crybabies when he single handedly beats down the top 2 tag teams on RAW.

Didn't Sasuke fracture his skull at one point too?

The angle with Cena/Orton/Cena Sr. was a straight up old school babyface heat gainer for Cena but the crowd was still overwhelmingly pro Orton. That's got to either be overestimated on Dave's part or proof that people are booing Cena for the sake of booing him. You'd think Memphis fans of all places would have ate that up. Why put Taker in with Henry for his return match? You know you aren't going to get a ***** match from a guy coming back from injury, why put him in a match that is guaranteed to suck?

Probably they require anyone who asks for help to join the Kiss My Ass Club first.

I'm not a finance wizard, but wouldn't it raise red flags in the sense of a publicly traded company inflating numbers used to calculate income? I mean, attendance X ticket price = total gate. SEC types would pay attention to that, right? Most people in wrestling know attendance numbers are exaggerated, but is Joe Stockbuyer supposed to know that? Wouldn't it be theoretically possible for someone who owns stock to make the claim they bought it on false pretenses if they found out that most (if not all) shows have exaggerated attendance totals? Yes, it's not breaking laws, but it's not quite how a traded company is expected to behave.

So I have the New Mexico-Arizona game on as background noise, and when they throw to the sideline reporter I hear a voice that sounds familiar. I turn around and I see SEAN F'N MOONEY on my TV for the first time in like 20 years.

The WO update for today mentioned the battle royale at the next TNA ppv would crown the first women's champion. Why is TNA creating a women's title when they fail at booking the men's ones?

It also ended up leading to his dismissal from WWE from painkillers if I recall the timeline correctly.