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Didn't Stephanie say Nidia was too fat or something?

Here's one: In the Pena obit in the WON, Meltzer suggests that Vince got the idea for the replacement Diesel, Razor, and Double J from Pena putting new people in the gimmicks he owned in AAA. Now there was a deal between the two in place, but I have a hard time believing Vince would borrow an idea from a Mexican fed he clearly felt was below him.

Say what you will about the new ECW, but Heyman coming out for the main even in a tracksuit with taped fists had me cracking up. He looked like he could be Triple H's crazy jewish uncle.

I've got one: Is Rock really related to the Samoan Wrestling clan, or is he their equivalent to Brian Pillman as "close friend to the family who's considered one of the gang"?

One of my personal favorites is his claim that the WM III match was up in the air because no one knew if Andre was going to do the job or not, when even Vince said (on the Hogan Ultimate Anthology no less) that it was because Andre didn't think his back was going to hold out.

There was a hilarious story in the latest WON about Hogan telling people that he hurt his neck when Taker tombstoned him to win the title back in 1991. He apparently was selling backstage as if he got dropped on his head and Taker felt bad about it for a while since he's got a rep for being safe with the move. At some point Taker finally watched a tape of the match and realized Hogan's head wasn't anywhere near hitting the mat and he got pissed about it. I just had this image of Taker watching and rewinding the tape getting progressively more pissed off while lightning strikes hit all around the TV.

I believe Loss said it on another board, but I really hope the Horsemen DVD stops when Tully and Arn left for the WWF in 1988 and doesn't dwell on all the "subsititute teacher" Horsemen we got in the 90s and 00s.

I was just wondering the other day when they planned to do anything with the WCCW footage, since they haven't shown hardly any of it on WWE 24/7 yet. It's going to be hard to top Heroes of World Class as far as a documentary goes, I hope they make up for it by loading the extras with matches. Also, is it me or does "Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man" sound like a rejected porno title?

TITLE RELEASE DATE Armageddon 2006 1/16/07 ECW Extreme Rules (2-disc DVD) 1/30/07 New Year's Revolution 2007 2/06/07 The New and Improved DX (3-disc DVD) 2/20/07 Royal Rumble 2007 2/27/07 Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology 3/13/07 No Way Out 2007 3/20/07 Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen 4/10/07 WrestleMania 23 5/22/07 Backlash 2007 5/29/07 Great Families of Wrestling 6/05/07 Judgment Day 2007 6/19/07 ECW One Night Stand 2007 7/10/07 Vengeance 2007 7/24/07 The Great American Bash 2007 8/21/07 The Ladder Match 8/28/07 The Triumph & Tragedy of WCCW 9/18/07 SummerSlam 2007 9/25/07 Unforgiven 2007 10/16/07 Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man 10/23/07 No Mercy 2007 11/06/07 John Cena: My Life 11/06/07 Stond Cold Steve Austin's Life & Legacy 11/20/07 WWE Cyber Sunday 12/04/07 Survivor Series 2007 12/26/07 ECW December to Dismember 01/01/08

Completely random Ron Simmons appearances on RAW make me a happy man. DAMN~!

While I appreciate that his family was able to work WWE, it's not quite as entertaining overall as "Big Daddy" Bruno Beefcake: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_137454.html Somehow a friend of mine met Mr. Bruno Beefcake and got an 8x10 glossy photo. My friend knew of my wrestling fandom and insisted I knew who this guy was and I had no fucking clue.

The end of WCW all tends to run together in my brain, can anyone remind me what was the deal with the Hogan-Sting match here? They intro Hogan first, (who doesn't come out) then intro Sting, then try to bring Hulk out again who finally comes out in street clothes to do the whole "lay down for the pin" thing and leaving. Was this an actual angle, or just backstage bullshit bubbling over to TV?

I know it's cliche at this point to bash the WWE writing team, but how much does it speak to their abilities to script promos when fucking Kevin Federline had the promo of the night on RAW? If he's ever stupid enough to divorce Britney, he's got a fine career ahead of him as a heel manager. That promo he did was very Andy Kaufmann 2006 style. Not too often do you see a "celebrity" expect to be booed *and* encourage it to the point where "controversial" John Cena got a huge pop to confront him. Not to mention it got Nitro and Melina over since they actually produced one of their celebrity friends instead of always talking about them like your buddy's girlfriend in Canada.

I didn't watch, but if they kept to kayfabe, Maria should have been bare ass naked within 5 hands of the "Diva Strip Poker" thing on ECW. I mean, her character is such an idiot that HHH has to explain what "Suck It" means, yet somehow she's able to grasp a decievingly complex game like poker?

Random thoughts: HHH again proves he doesn't pay attention to the internet by having a segment where DX responds to the comments the net has been making almost verbatim on RAW. I was shocked that Edge was allowed to point out that DX is a recycled gimmick from 10 years ago. Either he's got pics of HHH banging someone other than Steph or they're going to dump the mother of all burials on him next week. After watching Candice Michelle do a poor man's Elvira gimmick as the WWE 24/7 Halloween host, it seems clear that she's mildly retarded. Hearing her speak borders on painful, she has a speaking pattern that can only be described as a female version of Rick Steiner's halting brain-damaged style after huffing a tank of Helium. Benoit-Regal from No Mercy might be the stiffest US match ever. It was awesome to hear JBL marking out on commentary. It rules when you have two guys who are comfortable with each other in the ring like that and the results are a match where both beat the piss out of each other in a completely enjoyable manner.

For those of you not aware, he's the guy who stabbed Bruiser Brody. He's doing an angle in the IWA in Puerto Rico where Savio Vega stabs him with a fork: STAY CLASSY, PUERTO RICO!

This is fairly big news, some folks are predicting the demise of AAA as well. To put it in a US perspective, this would be like if Eric Bischoff dropped dead during the Monday Night Wars.

Basically that the company doesn't want wrestling fans to work in the production department, but all the PAs were required to watch 6 hours of wrestling a week (on top of working 45-50 hour weeks). They purposely don't list credits so no one can take credit for anything which lets WWE hold it over everyone's head that their jobs are expendable. He also mentioned stuff like WWE having their library on a giant server like machine where if you wanted to find every time Terry Funk did a certain move you can punch it up and get all the matches. Also, the Attitude Era stuff is unblurred in the archives and needs to be reblurred every time it's used. He hints that they do it that way because they're holding out hope they'll be able to use the scratch logo again (the lawsuit is still pending, they just started blurring to avoid any further claims by the Panda People). It's a huge pain in the ass, that's why you don't see it too much in DVD releases and almost never in promos and packages. Said that everyone in the company knows SmackDown is the B show, despite upper management trying to drill it into everyone's head that both shows were equal. There was also funny stuff like guys on the production staff not knowing HBK and Razor had a ladder match, and that Todd Grisham is a funny guy despite having almost zero knowledge of wrestling. He also mentioned that HHH is probably one of the nicest guys in the company (mentioned he came to the production studio while the guys were having lunch and just sat around BS'ing with them for like 2 hours) but he gets a rep for being a dick because he's such a perfectionist when it's time to put in work. One bombshell he mentioned was that according to folks on the writing staff, Randy Orton's suspension was a work. They wanted to move him to RAW and try to give him more of a bad boy edge, while working the "dirtsheets" at the same time. All the stuff like him talking about smoking a joint in WWE Magazine was just part of the work to make him seem more like a bad dude. The official company line is that TNA is considered just another TV show they compete against like 24 or whatnot, but every episode of Impact is recorded and logged (to see if any former employee uses a WWE trademark perhaps?) while UFC was not.

http://dl01.blastpodcast.com/indeedwrestli..._1157433044.mp3 Interesting look at the WWE from a guy who was on the low end of the totem pole.

I found it funny and interesting that they spent so much time on Brian's encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling when said knowledge is seen as the #1 way to not get or keep a job in the WWE. In fact, that's one of the most puzzling paradoxes of the company right now. They always stress in DVDs and whatnot how important it is to know the history of the business and respect it, yet if anyone dares to let it be known that they're even a fan they get looked down on as a dumb mark.

Just watched the main feature last night and a few things stood out: WWE can be schitzophrenic when it comes to if their DVDs follow kayfabe, but this was the most "open" DVD I can recall them producing. They usually use the insider doublespeak to talk about angles, characters, and co-operation but I don't ever remember them directly talking about it before. I was really taken aback with the acknowledgement of HHH and Steph's real marriage since Hunter blew a gasket at WWE.com for doing the same thing. I kinda chuckled as well at the mention that Vince thinks sleep is the enemy, what with the long standing rumor/open secret of his fondness for Columbia's finest. I was surprised how frank Vince was about the XFL. Yeah, they tried to put a spin on it a little, but they basically came out and said "yeah it flopped, but what the hell, it was worth a shot". Not to mention Joey Styles adding (correctly, IMO) that what turned the football audience off was too much WWE content. The stuff about the family was interesting. It seems that Shane has no stomach for the typical overboard McMahon stuff, while Steph thinks everything her dad does is brillant unless it involves her directly (the incest stuff, slapping Linda). Triple H making comments about Vince being the typical "you better not mess with my daughter" dad was hysterical. Made me think that it would have made a better storyline than DX vs Vince. Greg Gagne is a bitter, bitter man. Can't really blame him, but god DAMN could you see the steam rising off him. Ironically, his brief segment in this was a million billion times better than any promo he ever did in his career. He actually made me want to see him fight Vince. What the hell happened to Dusty? His embarrassing attempts at facial hair aside, the dark circles under his eyes made it looked like the Horsemen got back together and whooped his ass for old times' sake. That map of the territories they cut to a few times was awesome, someone should make a JPG of that. Finally, Shane said that now that Vince is in his 60s and a grandpa that he's going to start slowing down a bit to enjoy life. Guess in McMahonism "slowing down" means having Hell in a Cell matches with your son-in-law.

In a way you're right, but then you have DX squashing everyone left and right while driving the point home that they're the stars of the show and no one else is worth investing time in. All while JR babbles on his new blog about how the business is all about giving young guys the opportunity to shine. Right, just like the Highlanders were getting over as the team to finally beat the Spirit Squad and now they get jobbed to DX in seconds.

HHH's cheap shot on Masters tonight was really low class. I'm sure reports will come out that Masters was okay with it, but you really shouldn't have the boss's son-in-law make size jokes about a guy who reportedly had some severe mental issues about his body image. Especially when you're best friend is standing next to you looking like an anorexic 12 year old girl.

BTW, Angle hasn't had neck fusion yet. He need it, but he'd have to retire if he had it done.

Well despite the torn groin and abdominal muscles he suffered in his last WWE match, there's also his neck which is in such bad shape he gets occaisonal bouts of numbness in his extremites. He dropped RVD on his head because of it, which is something to consider if he gets in the ring with someone like Samoa Joe. I also don't really think he fully understands the consequences either. Look at his website, he credits TNA with "saving his life". That's not someone who has a strong grasp of what's going on. He's got a severe drug addiction, and he's now working for a company that has no testing whatsoever and seems to make a point of hiring people who get fired for drug reasons. I mean, think about it: in the past, Vince McMahon has employed guys with known drug issues like Roddy Piper, Kerry Von Erich, Brian Pillman, Eddie Guerrero, William Regal, and most of the 80s lockerroom, yet it was Kurt who got the "yeah, you got to go" treatment. It's like Keith Richards telling someone he can't party with him because he does too many drugs.