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I still think it was funny that the D-list celebrities on Dancing With The Stars were looking down their nose at wrestling.

That doesn't make sense, why would a probation officer keep someone from plying their trade? Couldn't he give him the number of a PO in Birmingham and say "call this guy when you get there or you go jail"?

Boogeyman wasn't eating poop, his gimmick in OVW is that he eats liver as well as worms, and someone (Punk?) trapped the Spirit Squad in the bathroom with Boogey by throwing liver on the floor and shutting them in.

I always thought that what works in wrestling really hasn't changed since like, the 70s at least. When I hear a promoter saying that something won't work anymore, I hear it as they're too lazy/not skilled enough to pull it off. People try to make things harder than they need to be. There's a 25 year template of what makes money in wrestling and what doesn't. Sure, sometimes it requires luck to snag the right guy at the right moment, but it's not rocket science.

Someone at DVDVR made an interesting observation: WWE did just recently roll out the new drug program, and Marty is on probation. Maybe he balked at pissing in a cup?

From WWE.com: Working the angle, or did Marty fuck up again? Either way it's the most strangely worded release note ever.

According to obsessedwithwrestling.com, Choshu's real name is Mitsuo Yoshida, which sounds more Japanese than Korean to me.

The first volume they put out was good, the second was just CLIPTASTIC~! Even with a low end distrib, they did shockingly little with the mint they were sitting on.

I hate having WWE in control of almost all wrestling footage, but Graham wasn't doing shit with it. Better WWE owns it and gives us a shot of seeing some of this stuff.

Is he Korean ethnically or was he just born in Korea, because his real name sounds more Japanese than anything else.

Japanese have always disliked Koreans, Rikidozan was Korean passing as Japanese and I don't think the truth was revealed till well after his death.

I hear stories about Misawa not liking Americans too, and I wonder how much of that is a product of Japanese culture, which is one of the most homogenous industrialized cultures on the planet. I mean, someone pointed out at DVDVR (before their hypersensitive mod squad shut it down as usual) that Bob Sapp could never be as popular in the US as he is (was?) in Japan because his whole appeal is being a giant black guy. As far as Benoit goes, not to defend asshole behavoir but it would be REALLY hard not to rib guys who have to wrestle as "The Dicks" considering the typical wrestler mindset.

I think that it'll probably get them some more mainstream viewers, and I don't think TNA will expose him by doing 20+minute main events. Some people will probably complain, but TNA needs some names people have heard of to get some of the old WCW audience that doesn't watch wrestling anymore. If he gets some more eyeballs looking at TNA, I don't think it'll be a bad thing.

...and Edge is now in the mid-card feuding with Foley and the WWE has beaten the fans over the head with Edge being a transitional champion who got lucky. BRILLIANT~!commercial guys>

Yet they showed up at the last OVW taping renouncing the Dick gimmick, saying they were going back to being the Tolands. Meltz theorized that since they live near Louisville, they're going to spend the 90 day period putting over tag teams in OVW.

From WO:

The ROH/TNA spat seems to be growing, as ROH has decided not to book Lethal for any more shows since he chose to go to the TNA PPV and miss the ROH show that caused Strong and Aries so much problems. Both companies are sending a message that they want to be #1 priority for their workers.

And in all the excitement over Taker actually working, somehow "Taker's best match in years" turned into "MOYTC for 2006" on the net.

Meltz HOF News: Holy crap, someone remembered SD Jones is still alive! See, that's the kind of randomness that makes the WWE HOF awesome. Who would ever have thought we'd see SD Jones on TV again?

I think that it's been proven that Foley needs time to rev up when he makes these returns. He's always flat the first time he cuts a promo, but after a few weeks he's back up to that "I think he's going to commit a felony in this match" level he gets in his good promos. I think it's partly because fans have some sort of mental divide between "Mick Foley: Fun Guy and Author" and "Mick Foley: Guy Who'll Hurt Himself As Long as He Hurts You Too". Mick seems to know that, and kicks into his Cactus voice so the fans know that gears have been shifted. Granted, crowds were shitting on Cena before HHH got involved, but Hunter was the one who said it was because Angle didn't know how to work heel. Edge managed to get boos against Cena, by those rules that would mean Edge is a better heel than HHH. If HHH wants to be the heel all the time, that means you have to get your opponent over. Pointing out your opponent's flaws (especially ones the fans can see for themselves) is bad business. How is anything HHH said supposed to make anyone want to buy WrestleMania? He totally ran down the WWE Champion, called him a bad wrestler, and said one of his big moves is pumping up his Reeboks. That's pretty much the definiton of burying someone. What's worse is HHH doesn't seem to know or care that it affects him too. If/When he wins at WM, so what? He beat a guy he dismissed as a bad wrestler. If Cena somehow wins, then HHH just lost to a guy he punked out in a promo. I won't even get started on Cena doing the "we're feuding but I'm going to do nothing but sing your praises" promo. Is Dusty helping write both shows now?

They pretty much have to do the double turn for HHH/Cena, or else the match will die a slow death in front of the famously tough Chicago crowd at WM.

I think the ROH fanboys have lead the charge when it comes to "seeing more than there actually is". Not to knock someone for being a fan of a promotion, but I haven't seen such blind fanboy LUV for one group since the heyday of ECW, the only difference is Meltzer isn't under the spell this time like when he said Sabu was the best wrestler of 1994 (LOLZ!). It's especially amusing to see them get their feathers ruffled at TNA since they're starting to pull rank on ROH, causing all the fanboys to look down their noses. "Oh, TNA thinks they're big shots now"....uhh yeah...PPV, soon to be primetime TV, and they're about to start running houseshows. It's not WWE level but it's more than ROH does. It's a shame too, since I've liked most of the ROH I've seen, but their fanbase makes me long for the days of ECW Mutants claiming the Eliminators are the best tag team ever. What does this have to do with the topic? Well since a lot of the reviewers on the net tend to be ROH fans, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of TNA reviews where the product gets shit on mercilessly, all under the excuse of "well they want to be big time so I'm being harsher in my review". It works both ways, when someone has an axe to grind against a worker or a company, they either start to nitpick or just flat out make shit up in order to justify their opinons.

It makes the RAW team the faces since they're the ones with the handicap, which is what you'd want if you were planning some angle designed to make Cena more heelish.