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So New Japan is turning away paying customers so they can give more tickets away? Do they not want to make money anymore? WWE doesn't even try to hold that suspension of disbelief. What next, will John Witherspoon show up next as Shelton's grizzled dad who clears out the locker room when he takes a shit? The part about not complaining about the schedule pisses me off, as it's a symbol of all that's wrong with wrestling. I don't know if Regal was playing the role of sockpuppet for Vince or if he really feels that way since he's a legit badass, but when most people you work with are on painkillers to some extent or another it's moronic to say people shouldn't ask for a reduced schedule. That sound you heard was the rest of Heyman's hair falling out.

People seem to think if you point out someone is undersized then you must be implying they need to use steroids. HBK's probably not the best example since he most likely can't add weight because of his back injuries, but it does come close to exposing the buisness when a balding 40 year old with a chicken chest can go toe to toe with someone like Kane and only lose because of outside interference.

Flair's book has an ironic twist now, considering the last couple chapters are love notes to his now bitter ex-wife.

You kidding? Steph will be telling the writers to come up with more suicide angles and stereotypical gimmicks while little Vincent Hunter Paul Shane James Kennedy (KENNEDY~!) McMahon-Levesque is pushing his way out from betwixt her labia.

I guess it's time to add Joe to the list of people who are hated in proportion to how successful TNA gets....

For as much of a rep PWI got for being a mark mag, it's funny to look back and see how "smarkish" some of it really was. The heel columns in particular could be written by any of today's IWC.

Called "Good bye WWF as we know" , it's a salute to the pre-WWE era. Watching this made me play a little game called "count the markouts".

That's not exactly what I just read, Sek. That guy was already concussed before the APW trainers decided to put him in the ring with Singh. The kid couldn't protect himself because he was probably still woozy from the first concussion. Singh just happened to be the poor bastard in the ring that day.

Actually I think Singh gets a bad rap for that, the guy got a concussion on a spinebuster and he didn't want to look like a pussy a few months into wrestling school and didn't let himself heal properly. I blame APW's policy of abusing the n00bs more than anything Singh did. It's not his fault they sent a kid with a few months experience in there to trade bumps with a giant.

How much you wanna bet his WWE push is going to focus on him killing that guy.

I'm surprised he hadn't signed him by now as well. Now the question remains, who's gonna get squashed by him first?

I've always been a fan of Dustin, but he's always been stuck fighting perceptions that may or may not have been at work. His first WCW run was good, but everyone just assumed he was being pushed because of his family name. Then his first Goldust run was overshadowed by the "is he gay or not" crap that had any other company but WWE handled it, could have been a breakthrough in wrestling. Then he was back to WCW with the abortion that was "Seven", until finally he went back to the WWF/E and got the props he deserved with the BookDust team.

I find it hard to watch old wrestling and not think of the current state of the guys involved. It makes watching matches like the 10 man from Canadian Stampede interesting to say the least.

There are people who don't think it was a burial, saying WWE main eventers are supposed to be able to go 20 minutes and it wasn't HHH's fault that Steiner couldn't hang. Of course that ignores the fact that Steiner was getting over, and people who start to get over shouldn't be put in a position to get exposed, especially when it's a face being exposed by a heel. That just goes against every booking rule there is. But then, the people who make that argument are usually the ones that have an excuse for every burial HHH has masterminded in the past 5 years or so.

Yeah, these videos run on Flash, so you gotta have the most recent version. I figured if it worked for me on my Win98se system it should work on everyone else's newfangled machines with their fancy new operating systems.

but for those who haven't, enjoy as the New Age Outlaws shoot on HHH. This is probably the best example of the messenger ruining the message. No doubt what they say is true, or at least greatly based in fact, it's still fucking Road Dogg and Billy Gunn bitching about people not doing their best to elevate talent.

Actually it shows that current WWE is being accepted as proper wrestling booking and what used to be considered good booking is looked at as strange. If Joe's push upsets that guy, he would have really been pissed at Nikita's push.

A Savage-Piper feud would have blown anything Hogan could do not only out of the water, but out of the atmosphere as well, which is probably why it never happened.

I've been watching this off and on, and it's just amazing. Some of the VQ isn't great but it's the history of Piper's Pit from the first segment in 1984 up till the angle with Adrian Adonis at WM 3. All the famous moments are included: Piper slapping around jobber Frankie Williams (capped off by the famous "just when they think they have the answers" line). Piper turning Snuka into a human fruit salad. Piper and Captain Lou badmouthing Cyndi Lauper that turned into the birth of Rock N' Wrestling and the build to WM I. Piper abducting midget wrestler Haiti Kid and shaving his hair into a mohawk because he was a fan of Mr. T. The whole Pipers Pit vs the Flower Shop angle, including Piper destroying the Flower Shop set. (Ironically, Adrian "retired" his leather jacket and started the Adorable gimmick on a segment of Piper's Pit, which is also included). One thing that really stands out, especially on the 84-85 segments, is how far ahead Piper was in terms of promo skills of everyone else in the WWF. He wasn't just being a heel, he was flat out making people look dumb. A great example was when he had WWF tag champs Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas on the Pit. It immediately becomes clear that the Rock didn't inherit his promo ability from his dad, as the Soul Man tries to trade promos with Piper and fails miserably. Atlas almost scores by saying Piper reminds him of his wife wearing that skirt, which Piper turns around by saying "Man, if I remind you of your wife, I feel bad for you". I think part of the reason he was programmed with Hogan is Hulk was seemingly the only face who had the charisma to go face to face with Piper and not come off looking like a complete tard.

Goodhelmet was putting them together, but he was waiting for 2005 to finish before finalizing the project. He's not using the Meltzer Year, he's going Jan to Dec.

Even sadder, I'm getting the WM box set from NetFlix, and I'm up to WM 7. Seeing Savage and Liz reunite is just heart wrenching to watch now.

TNA's coming out with a Best of Christopher Daniels DVD soon, I'm guessing it will probably just solidify everyone's opinon of him no matter what side you're on.

I think if you went back in time one year ago and told the Carters that TNA would have a national TV deal, DVDs in production, and Sting under contract all by the end of 2005 they would probably have thought you were high. I think TNA is doing exactly what it needs to do. Panda seems to have the patience to let the company get their legs under them instead of making the mistake others before them made to challenge WWE right out of the gate. In fact, I don't even recall them mentioning WWE until Christian debuted and I guess the temptation was too big to resist then. Panda's a big company, they can afford TNA to lose if they have faith it will eventually turn a profit in the long term for them. Sure, TNA still has a way to go, but people shouldn't overlook the impressive gains they've had in 2005. We have two wrestling companies on national TV for the first time in 5 years. We should take a second to remember how cool that is before we go after TNA with torches and pitchforks.

Considering Impact got a .9 rating on Christmas Eve (at 11pm, where they went up against some guy in Rome with a funny hat), I think the Carters know they might have something with this wrestling thing.