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I know Brock was talking shit, saying Nagata is a paper champion.

A friend of mine who's a trainer and a workout fanatic decided conduct an experiment to see just how easy it was to get a hold of steroids/GH/testosterone. Within seconds he found this site: http://www.forbodybuilders.net/ Anyone need some dianabol or deca durabolin? http://www.forbodybuilders.net/injectable-c-28.html They go into detail on there how they ship anywhere in the world, even to PO Boxes. Not to excuse Dr. Astin at all, but trying to get any reasonable handle on steroid distribution seems to be like trying to kill roaches one at a time.

I was reading in the WON that NJ was threatening to sue if Inoki used the IWGP belt Lesnar kept as the title of his new IGF fed. Well not only did Inoki use that belt, Angle won it in the match they had and went on TV with the TNA and IWGP/IGF belt. So would this have any effect on the talent exchange TNA had with NJ?

So I'm trying to shake off the dark cloud of the Benoit situation by continuing my series of (hopefully) thought provoking threads. Next up: Necro Butcher, what's the deal? I hear him get talked up a lot, and while he's not bad by any means, I don't get the amount of love he gets. I know he does non-deathmatch stuff but he's primarily known for taking horrific amounts of abuse in matches to a Foley-in-Japan-esque level. I'm sorry, it doesn't take a lot of talent to get torn up by weapons and barbed wire. Some people are into the deathmatch stuff, and that's fine. Whatever floats your boat, different strokes and all of that. I just always thought the point of pro wrestling was to convey the idea of what is going on is causing physical pain, not to actually inflict bodily injury on yourself. He's the most indy-est looking indy guy I've ever seen, he's like the Little Spike Dudley of the 80s WWF Hillbilly family. I can see how he can be a cult favorite or a niche star, but people are seriously saying things like "Necro: best wrestler of 2006?" and I just don't get it. Is it some form of ironic LUV that I'm missing the boat on or do people really think losing 3/4ths of your blood in a weedwacker-barbwire-broken glass-cage match is some form of high art?

Marty seems more like a booze/coke/weed kind of guy to me than roids, so I'd wager Jindrak just for the WCW-Atlanta connection.

Do those who've already signed up have to re-sign for each month? If so, count me in. You pretty much nailed it for me how the Benoit situation kind of cooled me off of wrestling for a little bit, but I'm getting back in the saddle now. I also have a vacation coming up where I'm gonna be off from 7/7 to 7/16 so I'll be using a portion of that time to get caught up on some hot men-in-tights action.

I can't see how OG could be anyone but Rey, both from the uniqueness of the initials (does anyone else have "OG"?) and from the fact that Rey looked like a 12 year old boy when he first came to WCW and now (as it was said on DVDVR of all places) he's basically Lashley minus a foot of height.

Dean Hill was awesome during the Johnny Jeter/Matt Cappotelli angle where he became so upset at Jeter he stood up and just went off on him. He's a tall motherfucker so it added visually to the idea of a usually mild mannered announcer losing control when faced with such nefarious heeling. That whole angle was one of my favorite things of the last 10 years, it was so old-school and so well done that it made baby Jesus weep that all WWE could do with Jeter was to make him a male cheerleeder. That was pretty much the writing on the wall that none of the guys I was really into watching would ever make it in WWE. In fact, the only one from that time who's on a WWE roster was Elijah Burke and it's an exercise for the reader to determine if being a midcarder in ECW counts as making it.

That's the kind of stuff that makes people not take the WON HOF seriously. For everyone who has a logical reason to be voting there seems to be 2-3 chuckleheads who get a vote because they pick up Dave's dry cleaning or some other inane bullshit.

Aren't ROH and NOAH part of that group that every fed in Japan other than AJ and NJ belong to?

How was Baroni able to walk out of the ring after that? I know adrenalin lets you do crazy things, but damn.

Ironic that the match that put MVP over the top in a lot of people's eyes is now effectively erased from history. If one day MVP ends up a star and the inevitable career retrospective DVD comes out, WWE will have it that one day he just magically became viewed as a A level player.

I think a case can be made that Angle was let go for general craziness as well as drugs. since I got the vibe that WWE thought Kurt was going to do what Benoit ended up doing. Wanting to keep working despite having severe muscle tears is abnormal behavior to say the least.

We all kind of figured it would end up that way, but it's undeniably clear now that the "Wellness Policy" was nothing more than a empty PR move in response to Eddy's dying while under contract. It kind of makes you wonder if the people who failed were stupid or set up by the company, as it seems that a brain damaged chimp could find a way to beat the testing. It's going to be interesting if WWE loses any sponsors or TV due to this.

From Tim Graefe's review of the ROH PPV: Homiesaywhat? I think I heard something snap in my head when I read that. How can you watch everything a company has ever done but pretend to be a total newcomer for the PPV show? Of course the review is capped off with this: I think my nose is bleeding.

It would appear that the 7/4 update didn't take place for us here. I'll have to check when I get back on Friday if it was due to the holiday or due to WWE request.

One thing mentioned in the WON is that Vince (with Stephanie's support) is in total us-against-the-biased-media mode where EVERYTHING is going to be spun like crazy to deflect as much heat off the WWE as possible.

What stuff has been edited off Nitros? I can tell when watching that something was cut, but I don't remember what. I just assumed it was ads for those contests they were always running/Nitro Party cut-ins/etc.

Bix, how many times were one or both of us involved in the "who's on steroids" threads that would pop up on DVDVR and mention Benoit, only to get shouted down by people who would post his workout schedule and go on about how it's COMPLETELY POSSIBLE to be that ripped despite traveling most days of the week? I know it's unlikely at this point, but what more is it going to take to make people deal with their own bullshit when it comes to the truth about their favorite pro wres fighter?

In one swoop this pretty much destroys any and all defense the WWE has come up with and has revealed the Wellness Policy to be a huge embarrassment to the company. Surprisingly, no one I've seen has made the connection between the drug testing being a joke and the Chairman of the company being jacked out of his gourd. The Muscle and Fitness cover alone would come back to haunt him right about now.

It just occurred to me that if they stick to the "no Benoit family" policy, there will be nothing left to show but NWA Saturday Night, WCCW, and AWA (if they even remember that they own those anymore). Plus the old school (W)WWF stuff. Chris would elminate all the recent WWE ppvs and the Monday Night War shows, and Nancy makes appearances on ECW and Florida. They could still show the stuff from before or after her time in Florida, but Kevin Sullivan's run was really the best run of the territory.

There currently isn't a test for growth hormone. That's a problem legit sports are running into now.

You know, considering his history, Superstar Graham was both the best and worst guest they could have had on tonight's WOL. Certainly no one can speak more on the mental strain caused by the business and the effects of drugs, but maybe they could have had someone on who didn't participate in an embarrassing campaign against Vince that probably ended up enabling him to continue WWF/E's policies of implicitly allowing steroid/HGH.

Here in Pittsburgh all the shows that were supposed to be taken down are still up. I can pretty much picture the folks that run the VOD service here getting the memo to remove stuff and being all "LOLZ, no". Unless the wrong show is being broadcast, they never remove shows early. I really hope this was just a one week thing and there's not going to be an effort to erase Benoit from history. But then the WM XX DVD listing on wwe.com has the main event as HHH vs HBK so who knows.

It all goes back to what nearly got Vince put in jail in 1994: WWF/E doesn't go around jamming a needle in the wrestler's asses, but they make it clear that you won't get higher than a certain level on the totem pole unless you bulk up. To get the big time cash you have to start with the injectables if you weren't lucky enough to be born a bigger guy. It's really a scummy deal since Vince always has the out of "I didn't FORCE anyone to take steroids" despite clearly not pushing anyone who wasn't obviously taking them.