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They haven't done it in years but Cena vs Taker happened a bunch of times. Some of Cena's better matches actually. Course, if WWE wanted they could always pretend it didn't like ignoring the 1st HHH/Taker Mania match or the previous Hogan/Andre matches that took place before Mania 3 If they can find the right person and Taker is up for it, I really think next year he should lose and go out 20 & 1. Dunno who that person would be, maybe Punk if Austin isn't going to come back to face him. Rock's allready come out saying he'll be involved next year too.

Heh, maybe I was just a dumb kid but they totally fooled me with the Yoshi Kwan gimmick.

Oh, Smoove... Wasn't he a major lucha pimp during the GWE poll ? On a side note, SC used to be so fun back then. Yeah, good times. I kinda miss the big list projects that used to go on, sorta wish someone would try & re-do the GWE sometime.

You might remember him as Smoove Luv B on Smarkschoice. Eh, I remember the name but not much about him. I gave up on SC the second Modest got unbaned and given admin powers cause I saw that disaster coming well before he actually blew up. Give me a few days I actually wouldn't think it'd be that hard

Actually, I will. Finishing up to fill the voids of ECW 2000 (which reminds me how bad the Impact Players promos were, and how annoying Lou E. Dangerously's routine is) and then jumping into MLW, which I've never seen before apart from a few matches. To save you some time, watch the September 2002 MLW show and then skip the entire rest of the the promotion. MLW were the kings of disapointing "looked good on paper" matches.

On another forum he was outed as having asked a girl out through a PM and it embarrassed him enough to disappear. Which I find strange since he proudly had cyber sex with two dudes online under false pretenses. Cook disappeared after being outed as hetero? That's new. Sounds like i'd be better off not asking but i'll shoot anyways, who the hell is Kevin Cook?

Dixie's the Boss, Panda Energy are the owners but Spike does pay for a significant portion of the production cost & kicks in money for some of the higher priced talent like Sting & Hogan. I forget which but Meltzer or Alvarez or someone on the Observer site always puts forth the theory that Spike's support is at this point the only thing keeping the company afloat so that's why TNA puts so much effort into trying to get/maintain ratings instead of doing more to increase PPV buys, house show attendance, merch sales, etc... To be fair, she was talking about hearing that chant during segments that Russo hadn't written. (Basically she was admitting that some of the other writers on the committee are even dumber than Vinnie Roo.) But yeah, it's a really poorly-phrased line. To be even more specific they were talking about the Sonjay Dutt vs Jay Lethal tuxedo match from a few years back on one of the PPVs. On her youshoot Dixie tried to throw Dutch Mantell under the bus for that one which I sorta half buy. As a gimmick I could see that being something Dutch might suggest but the horrible "writing" leading up to it and the crappy overbooking of the match itself had Russo's fingerprints all over it.

Yeah, I don't ever recall him being called The Man. He went from The Boss to The Guardian Angel back to Big Bubba.

This is awesome. And this reminds me I should listen to more Lambchop. Kurt Wagner still has this great voice. 1st thing I thought before watching that video is Wolfie D & A children's sock puppet seems like an odd pairing. 1st thing I thought while watching the video is Nise Brody didn't buckle his seat belt. Click it or ticket kids. Good song tho, did make me want to hear more.

Yeah more or less. It's about 1/3 TNA guys, 1/3 former TNA guys and 1/3 random indy dudes and ex WWE guys like Chavo & Chris Masters. By all acounts it seems to be much better booked and have higher production then TNA proper. The debut show got something like 14 million viewers in India or some crazy # like that and has been really succesful so far

Really ? Russo is gone ? It sure took some damn time. Get rid of Hogan and Bischoff, hire some people who know their shit, and maybe there will be some hope. They aren't ideal but a Biscoff & Hogan led company would be such a step up from whear they're at now it's not even funny. Bischoff atleast has a few good years to his credit as opposed to Russo who's done nothing worthwhile since he left WWF 13 years ago. Like the worst year of WCW with Bischoff in charge isn't even in the same universe as Russo booked wrestling on the crap scale. Supposedly Dave Lagana might get the new head writer slot but nothing's been announced yet. He's a former WWE writer, worked for ROH for a couple years, got hired by TNA a few months back when Russo originally got demoted and has been helping with Ring Ka King. They've got Dutch Mantell working on Ring Ka King too so that's another posibility.

Following Meltzer's coverage of the TNA ppv tonight, if he mentions the crowd sucking one more time my head may explode. It might be a valid point but god damn do you not need to mention it when talking about practically every match.

Wow, so after a freakin decade on & off Vince Russo is finally gone from TNA?

I remember them having some decent stuff with Bagwell & Scorpio

From the latest show, there's a few guys still who you could compare with Chris Jericho's world tour career progression Jack Evans pops to mind as being pretty similar PWG/ROH/Super Indys = SMW/ECW Dragon Gate = WAR AAA = CMLL He'll prob never have anything that = WCW/WWF but still. Also, pretty sure Kamala had been wrestling for a # of years before he got the Kamala gimmick. Wasn't particularly good but he'd been trained and had worked a bunch of places by that point.

I think this is the one you're talking about http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?show...t=0&start=0

What ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder She's done so many interviews & junk over the years that I can't remember which one it was she mentioned it in. I want to say it was in one of her columns on wrestling observer or one of her podcast aperances on the site whear she talked about it but i'm not 100% on that.

Good stuff on the last show. I'm surprised you guys didn't bring up Missy Hyatt since she's admited to being diagnoosed with body dysmorphia and talked about how that's the reason she had so much plastic surgery over the years.

Anyone remember when it was WCW switched over to using the custom made entrance music? Mr Bang Bang, They Call Him the Natural, Simply Ravishing, Here Come's Johnny B Badd, Don't Step to Ron, etc... Watching early 92 stuff the songs they're using now and overall producion are the dirt worst so it'll be a welcome upgrade.

In other words, if the product is good, it'll export well. If it isn't, it won't. It's not about culture. You're ignoring the bold part as he def emphasised that them having a large crop of big name US/foreign talent played a big part in them being able to succede outside Japan.

Of the ppl he does shows with regularly I enjoy Vinny, Meltzer, Storm & Dr Lucha, even enjoy the segments with Granny most weeks. I liked the After Dark spin off show he did with Karl Stern too but that was mostly for Stern & his guest. Despite being an abysmal interviewer most of the F4 Daily guest are good enough to carry things and make them worth listing to as well. The Todd Martin shows are unbearably bad and a lot of that is due to Alvarez being at his worst on thear. Constantly trolling & arguing for the sake of it and talking in the most annoying manner possible & randomly screaming for no good reason.

Week 3 is all about the awesomeness of Cactus Jack & his feud with Abdullah. On the 1/18 Saturday Night we get a really good promo from Cactus talking about how him & Abby made up from the week before and were soul mates all while Abby stands next to him eating a picture of Cactus Jack and feeding him the left over bits while he tries to talk. Leads to Cactus Jack & Abdullah The Butcher vs Brad Armstrong & The Z Man in a short but wild match. Abby takes the monkey flip on the floor from Armstrong in one highlight early on. Jack & Abby win but Z man wants more so does a giant out of controll over the top rope dive onto Cactus which is pretty nuts for 92 WCW. Instead of helping Jack Abby runs over and attacks Cactus despite having had no problems in this match and getting along fine, Abby's insane so I buy it. Crowd loses their shit cheering for Abby as they get into a weapon swinging brawl outside. 1/19 Main Event Cactus cuts promo, solo this time on the Ross Report saying they'd again made up and everything was gonna be okay because as long as their were still Ron Simmons & Stings of the world to hurt & cripple him & Abby would forever be bonded. In the main event of Main Event Cactus & Ron have a pretty fun match that ends with Larry Zybysko running in to cost Simmons the match and Abby coming to the rescue. Post match Abby gives Cactus a running shoulder block that sends him falling down a flight of stairs. I checked future listings and other then a few Cactus vs Abby tags nothing comes of all this as Abby seems to have split in Feb or March which sucks because he could have gotten over huge as a face. Speaking of shit that sucks, Arn & Eaton win the tag belts off Steamboat & Rhodes in a 30 minute 2/3 falls match that was apparently so great that ubber fuckin heel & Dangerous Alliance member Arn Anderson felt the need to come on TV and say he wished he could cut the tag belts in half and give them to Steamboat & Rhodes because "in a match like that there are no losers". WCW being WCW couldn't wait to have this match at the big January Clash of the Champions show they'd been pusing all month or the big Superbrawll II PPV in Feb, nope, they OF COURSE did it on an untelivised house show. And Speaking of Superbrawll, in another WCW being WCW move, they haven't had Luger on TV all month (WTF is the story with that BTW?) but are hyping the big anouncement of his who his next title defense will be against for the Clash only they allready aired freakin commercials weeks earlier giving away that it was gonna be Sting vs Luger at the PPV. Anyways, other highlights of this week saw a surprisingly decent PN News vs Mr Hughes match on Saturday Night. Really enjoyable in a fat guy slugfest sorta way. Only goes a few mins as Vader comes in to help Hughes for the DQ but you come away wishing they'd gotten more time. Larry Zybysko wrestled Ron Simmons which was ok but more notable because I got a kick out of Madusa randomly telling the camera she could out Rap Simmons and Ross on commentary claiming that while Ron is a gentleman he wouldn't hesitate to smack around Madusa if she got in his way. Main event the Austin/Eaton vs Sting/Bagwell tag that's also on the 92 set. Really dug Bagwell getting whiped while Sting is held in the corner and made to watch by the rest of the DA.

Yeah, i'd be perfectly fine never hearing Alvarez again actually. He's smart/lucky enough to constantly surround himself with ppl I do want to listen to however so we're stuck with him coming along for the ride.