smkelly

I have quit smoking twice in my life. I started smoking in the Marine Corps when I was learning how to fire a howitzer. It was either smoke or just stay a perpetual nervous wreck because someone on one of the other cannons might have made a mistake with a timed fuse. It is one of those mistakes that kill people without them ever knowing they were about to die in one hell of an explosion of gunpowder and torn apart two ton steel tube. In the fleet though, alcohol became readily available, and it was dirt cheap too, as were cigarettes. I drank hard after a few bad field ops and my only deployment. Had too, I guess. Something was missing and something needed to fill that empty void. Quitting smoking is not a fun experience. I always go cold turkey, which doesn't help much, but my will has beaten it twice on its own now, thankfully. That same strong will helped me get into the Marine Corps. The Marines is like a drug on its own, man. But I definitely understand how addictive drugs of all shapes and sizes can be for people. Some people can handle the urges, others will literal claw their own hide off while in the grasp of withdrawals. I've seen that at the county jail before. Alcohol withdrawals can actually kill a person if not properly attended to. I also understand that I use marijuana for an appropriate reason, i.e, to manage debilitating pain and focus my mind. Some people use drugs to alleviate other types of stresses in their lives or to escape their own hellish reality. It's sad that it too often consumes them. I've been lucky that I have dodged that train on several occasions. Thanks. I try to be as good of a person as I can. The Marines thought me more then how to jump out of helicopters, blow stuff up, navigate abyss like darkness, and sweep and clear a house in under two minutes. Honor, courage, and commitment are the values they preach and the values I took with me even after my body couldn't continue as a United States Marine. My sense of fairness plagues me continuously as well. My ethics of loyalty are lifelong to the people I love and respect. I simply have too much respect for them to ever put myself and innocent people at risk because of my irresponsibility and stupidity. Every time I hear about another drunk driver hitting and killing someone is just another rock on the pile of the great injustice our country provides for alcohol distributors at our expense. When has a man or woman under the influence of marijuana ever killed an entire family on their return trip home from a soccer game? Nevertheless, I guess alcohol is a necessary evil because without it, the people that needed it would completely lose their minds within hours of its removal. /backtoprowrestlingonly

I guess I need to rewatch it because I don't remember it being like that.

Hah. I don't drive when I am high, though. Period. I refuse to take the chance of having that type of blood on my hands for the rest of my life. No way, man. I would rather walk whatever distance it is back home, and deal with those circumstances the next day than to take the chance of being one of those guys.

I have nothing against drugs. People have free will to do as they choose. There again though, I'm not a parent of a teenager who is wanting to experiment with narcotics. Nevertheless, I'll probably smoke pot till the day I die, though. And I'm not one of those types that brags about it, either. Marijuana helps control and moderate certain things that are wrong with me, like the amount of crippling pain I fight against on a daily basis because I tore my Achilles tendon, or the brain and heart injuries I suffered in the Marine Corps. Or the seven years of football on my athletic resume. It makes me a functioning cripple but without the nausea inducing side-effects of straight pain. If I were to lose that remedy, I might as well blow my fucking brains out because that is no way to live. Basically, marijuana to me is like vicodin to House.

I think this match is underrated. Very awesome exchanges in this one. A clear distinction between Misawa and Kobashi can be observed.

This is what I have: 10-29-94 Sabu vs. Cactus Jack NWC (Desert Death Match)

After reading SLL's point on blown spots, I think Sabu and Sasuke could possibly fall into that line of thinking. They did stuff many others couldn't to begin with, and moved at such a quickened speed that no wonder mistakes happened. They both have storied careers of making bad mistakes in the ring too. I mean, in the 90s, can anyone come close to Sabu in terms of the amount of tables he went through? Selling is very important to me. Especially with gimmick items, like chairs, tables, or ladders. I don't expect them to just lie on the ground for three minutes, but each item needs to be sold correctly. Falling off a ladder is not going to feel pleasant. Neither is being smacked with a folding chair or being put through a table.

A Heavenly Bodies 1992-95 compilation is being made by a member on CMax. I think they are one of the better teams that doesn't get quite enough attention. Their SMW run was awesome. Is there still a SMW set being made, which reminds me, what about the ECW set? I think if those two sets get released that this discussion will pick up again because of newly acquired footage/viewing. And...sorry for breaking the forum rules earlier this morning.

Of course. You're right. Keep telling yourself that.

I must be a brave coward then because I will gladly point out something not entirely popular even with the forethought of, "Imma gonna have some peeps mad at me." But I guess you know me better than I do because all my letters, nouns, adjectives, and own personal know-how is weirdly somehow always wrong to you. Must be some pedestal that you sit upon. The problem here is that you seemingly believe your opinions to be objective, not subjective. There is an obvious difference between the two adjectives. Here's an example of you: "I wish reviewers would use more star-ratings instead of paragraphs of text. It is easier for me to find what to watch and what not to much quicker." "Star ratings suck. The only worthwhile system is pass/fail or good/bad. If you want more detail have a conversation." The first line of dialogue is exhibiting a subjective nature, while the second line exhibits an objective tone. I use words that express my subjectivity - words such as "like" or "favorite". Whereas you on the other hand is primarily objective - best, worst, sucks, greatest, horrible. And you play off those terms as sermon. There is no other alternative. Everyone else is wrong and you are right. Gets fucking old always reading your responses to other members of "Your wrong." Sure I don't have to read your posts, but then again, some people could try a little harder not to be such a cunt all the time.

You clearly don't know anything about wrestling El-P!

Punk's looks have changed drastically over his career. He went from looking like a young punk rocker in '02 to grizzled biker bar looking dude when he was running the sXe society. Pretty obvious, yes, but I think he aged rather poorly over the years. He would not look nearly as bad as those before and after meth use posters, but his metamorphosis over the years is like a rockers, though. Anyway, his Indy days were awesome. TNA, not so much. OVW was apparently awesome. His WWE run has been hit and miss, with mostly misses early on, then some big hits, followed by confusing misses, rinse and repeat. His dynamic in the WWE is like the cycles of a person with bipolar. I still think the WWE has missed the boat with Punk. They barely tapped on his potential. Punk's well is deep like Lawler's. But I guess you can only do so much with a guy who looks like a meth dealer but says he's never done drugs before. Or it's his attitude problem.

Demolition better than Misawa & Kawada? That is REish to the third power, man. This is one of those rare times where my opinion will not waver under any circumstance. I wouldn't believe Jesus if he said Demolition were better than Misawa & Kawada. I guess Dylan had a premonition that the title of this thread could eventually change from "PG-13 vs. The World" to "Doc tells us we're all wrong and why". A good thread decapitated...what was the over/under on that one?

You know I wish reviewers would stick to the star system. If there is a *** tacked on to the end of one of those reviews, it would tell me I can wait on this one. But if there is ****+, I'm gonna hunt it down and watch it. Reading reviews like that are reading full-length movie reviews. Spoils the shit out of the movie.

Or for that matter HHH. Is Punk's career thus far compilation worthy? I think so.

Post of the Year. No lie.

That does seem conflicting.

I know Bret doesn't hold as much light to many around here like at different forums, but to me, Bret was an awesome worker. Exaggerated in skill, sure. But so is Flair, Benoit, Danielson, and Kobashi...or any other favorite wrestler a person has. I rate Bret higher than Ricky and Robert, maybe even combined. I guess Bret is that performer that elicits an emotional response out of me. Be it the SummerSlam 1992 match or the tribute for his brother. R&R never did that for me. Maybe for some of the older cats 'round this place they might have. But they never have for me. I think Bret and Jim would have rocked the NWA. They would have been the perfect heel dynamic opposite Morton and Gibson. See, they are both quick, agile, scrappy dudes. Bret is the quicker of his team, and the better versed wrestler, but Jim brings the strength and brawling to the table. I believe that if they had met in an NWA ring, we'd still be talking about their matches. That is an excellent question. I'm curious how many northern promotions and/or workers would crack your list, though? I'm hoping your not influenced by that old rivalry. It would really be such a shame to have to ignore you permanently from now on. How can you so easily dismiss certain teams, then? If you don't know what your list looks like how can you be so certain that teams you've spent time dismantling to one degree or another aren't on the list themselves? Also, it seems as though you have changed your opinion on PG-13 from, "I think PG-13 MIGHT be a top ten all time team" to "I am sure PG-13...would also be in my top ten..."

"I'm doing everything I watched my idols do!" copycat syndrome is a big problem, especially when they spend more focus and effort on moves and spots and less on selling them or having it all make sense.That's what I was going to say after reading SLL's post. I've commented on that tendency in puroresu too. Matches between KENTA/Marufuji and Marufuji/Kondo are played out like those epics from a slew of legends like Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi, and Liger. They did that from the beginning, like as in, their first match against one another. They leave no room for evolution or progress without having to resort to clinically insane bumps like in the first NOAH match between Misawa and Kobashi. They had exhausted themselves so completely they had to raise the bar of conventional wisdom and working commonsense in an attempt to follow their previous masterpieces. The US Indies, largely because of bootleg tape traders, have been granted the opportunity to watch the legends of their craft. The copycat syndrome is expected considering the nature of professional wrestlers. Their track record of solid and realistic reasoning and logic is not known for its beauty. The trope of, "Fans make wrestlers do insane things," or "Wrestlers do things to impress fans," is actually a pretty relevant talking point in my opinion.

I don't know, when R&R do all of those stereo moves...just too hokey for me. I can certainly acknowledge the critique on their offense though, as they were more of a finesse team then anything else.

I think you're misinterpreting his point there Dylan.

Wrestling parlays into many forms of entertainment, like comedy for instance. A comedian on tour is going to use pretty much all the same jokes in every city he or she frequents. If wrestlers used too many variations from the norm they would all be like CAW's, which would be just as bad (maybe worse) as the same thing over and over. The same logic applies for comedians or any other entertainer. Too much old material without fresh new material is a bad thing. Nevertheless, I do like seeing new match finishes as much as the next fan, but I can understand why it doesn't happen all of the time considering the work load and popularity of particular moves, like the atomic leg drop or stunner for instance.

Agreed. I particularly dislike it when one or several workers are clearly standing still waiting for the other or several workers to do their plancha, topes, or whatever to them. It is exposing.