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Well, all of them really. I was just curious if this would make it so they couldn't work ROH.

We just had 2, 10 & 38 as channels when I was young because we couldn't afford cable. So the only wrestling I got to see was Main Event on NBC on Sat. nights. So it's all I knew until we got cable and TBS. I'd never even heard of Ric Flair until I was probably eight or nine years old. That's when I started watching NWA and watching Nikita Koloff, Michael Hayes and The Great Muta. Until then, it was all about Hogan. We used to order the Survivor Series every year since all the family was over for Thanksgiving. My brother and cousin watched the show with me and we just tried to stay awake until the main event so that we could see Hogan. The Ultimate Warrior was the only other wrestler we really cared about back then.

He's the "Happy Homosexual?" It'll be a sitcome on UPN. A gay man with common sense trying to portray his opinion logically and clearly to a mass of uninterested, thick-headed rednecks. Sounds like a WWE gimmick.

Wow. Topgun Talwar is very unimpressive to me. Delirious is OK but is this going to be a conflict of interest because he sometimes works ROH? The Human Tornado is comedy. I can't believe he hasn't been sucked up by another promotion already. Justin Credible can't use that name, right? I haven't seen Vampiro in awhile, so that'll be interesting. Teddy Hart will be blackballed from here in a week or two as well. He's a fucking nutcase. Anyone want to bet on whom will miss the first date? Hart for being asked to not show up or New Jack because he'll be in jail?

To be fair, the internet wasn't around and a lot of us were A LOT younger and more markish then. It didn't matter how good a match was to me back then, if the heel lost and the face won, I was happy. Going back and rewatching the stuff nowadays, it's not the same.

I watched an episode of OVW from a week ago. Maria was the highlight of the show. She was hotter in OVW than I've ever seen her on Raw, if that's possible. I think she's my favorite "diva" of all-time now, at least physically, eclipsing Sunny from the 90's. CM Punk didn't impress me, however he was in a tag match. He won with the Anaconda Vice. I'm getting ready to watch ROH Vendetta from early November.

Austin is in worse shape physically and has had multiple fallouts with the creative. It sucks because I'm not going to lie and act like I didn't wish he was still around. He's still damn entertaining to me and I didn't have a huge problem with him hitting the Stunner on "younger talent." I was, at the very least, hoping he'd become a color commentator one day.

I've heard the Undertaker part was disproven? That's where he supposedly "stared while taping his fists" right? Regardless, HBK still went through with it, so the point stands.

To be fair, HBK did give a pretty big rub to Steve Austin at Wrestlemania XIV. Austin was pretty popular at the time already but it certainly helped.

You should just be more blunt, Loss. With this quote right here, you should've just told the fucker your point was that he was a hypocrite.

Good to hear. How soon is soon? Maybe we should hold off on the whole columns thing until the move?

Personally, I don't know why y'all paid for the site to begin with. I didn't think Alvarez was all that e-popular. Most people just care what Meltz says nowadays. If this forum had more activity, like, more posters like what we have, I could see this site charging a fee. I think it'd be worth it. Hell, it'd be worth it just to upgrade to a "real" forum so we can use the search feature and shit.

Yeah, it never really made sense to me either. It's not like the matches get a lot of time. The matches that do get time are usually in the main event slot anyway. So, just throw a couple new people into a backstage skit or vignette one week and then different people the next week. For example, whatever happened to Trevor Murdoch?

..but he's a SIXTEEN TIME WORLDS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION and his DAUGHTER IS IN THE FRONT ROW~! Yeah, it didn't make a whole helluva lot of sense to me. Why would Flair want to do a TLC match? Why would Edge, when he just won the belt? It was just lazy booking. Edge will be lucky to walk out of next Sunday's PPV with the title.

I've read that line like a dozen times and I still have no idea what he means. Anyone? No really Bryan, tell me why it's different. I don't see the difference. Well, I can sort of see where he's coming from. The Rock & Hollywood Hogan had a lot of build-up. The nWo came back. It was Hogan's first match in WWE in a long time. Hogan and the Rock are two of the biggest stars in the history of the business. Angle and Michaels aren't. Angle and Michaels had a match on free TV with only a week build. Hogan/Rock had a match on the biggest wrestling show of the year, with at least a month build-up and the anticipation of Hogan's return and all that. So, I can see why he'd say that. It was different heat. The Toronto crowd gave the "oh shit, it's Hogan" "this is a dream match" type of nostalgia heat. The Raw match was the "who's going to win/this should be a good match" heat. When you look at it like that, the content of the match doesn't really matter. I guess that's what he's trying to say? Shit, I don't know. EDIT: I like what Rudo is saying. It's true. A lot of people seem to have a "free pass" as it pertains to match quality. It's like, just because HBK, Angle, Benoit, etc. have had good matches in the past, that doesn't mean that every match they have is going to be good. Just because Kane, A-Train & The Undertaker have had bad matches in the past, that doesn't mean that every match they have is going to be bad. People look at a line-up and some matches are automatically good before they ever happen. People look at a line-up and some matches are automatically bad before they ever happen. It's not really fair. Hell, people are already saying this years Wrestlemania "will be one of the worst ever." What the hell is that even based on?

Yeah, I really like that entrance too. She just seems like she's really good at getting heat. She plays a good bitch. I also really liked the finish to the Henry/Mysterio match. Obviously I would've rather had Rey win the match but I did like the finishing sequence.

I've always been a pretty big fan of Yoko. The man was underrated. I really want to see that Hart match that got pimped. Bret was notorious for working in his opponents big three moves and Yoko's belly-to-belly suplex, leg drop and Bonzai Drop all looked like death when he connected with them. As far as HBK and cameramen go, let's say that I've at least noticed it. If it were something small or just a lil' work, I don't think I would've noticed it. It was the demeanor in which is happened, at least the WM11 one. I also was curious about the Sweet Chin Music on the timekeeper in the Ironman match with Bret Hart. It looked like he kicked that dudes head off. Did he really connect or was it just the best SCM ever?

Oh, honestly, I have no idea. I'm pretty ignorant to Billy Graham and a lot of the other wrestlers of his era. Jim Ross just seemed really out of place to me on that list and I remembered him being all over the other DVD's so I thought I'd question it.

How big of a role did JR even have backstage in NWA? I mean, if he just called their matches, I don't need to listen to him call the Road Warriors "two studs" for an hour. I've rather hear the opinions of the people they worked with and shit instead. It just seemed silly to me.

You know, honestly, at this point, I wish WWE would just end the damn brand split. It's like, they don't seem like two different products and they're never going to. The "dual-brand" PPV's don't really mean a whole lot and I know on at least a couple of occasions I've not watched a couple of PPV's because they were "Smackdown only" and my local cable provider doesn't get UPN so I wouldn't have had any idea of what was going on and why each match was happening. Of course, if the brand split were to end, Vince's dream of getting up to twenty-four PPV's a year would be out the window. That shit is ridiculous anyway. I swear, with Raw and Smackdown PPVs and now TNA, there's a PPV on like every-single-Sunday. The Royal Rumble is next week and we've already had two PPV's this month. People can talk about "new stars being made" and all that shit all they want. The fact is, we still have the "healthy" top tier guys on top. Triple H is still around. The Undertaker when he's on TV main events. Kurt Angle is right there. Shawn Michaels too. We saw Batista and Cena both get built-up. We're seeing Carlito and Masters, Kennedy and some other guys getting a chance to shine too. Couldn't WWE do that with one brand anyway though? I mean, it's not like people are clamoring for shit like The Boogeyman eating Jillian's mole and I can't help but think if the brand split were gone, we might not have to watch that or another failed Mark Henry run.

Just curious but why does Jim Ross' opinion matter on Billy Graham? He was all over the Bret Hart and Road Warriors DVD's too. I really don't give a shit about his opinion.

Hell, it's not even just the mean-spirited stuff. EVERYTHING seems to be going against WWE nowadays. Batista got hurt. Mike Goldberg turned them down. People are fighting over trademarks. Bret turned down Homecoming and Survivor Series, etc.

For me, it's tough to say. I wonder what I would've thought about WWF in the 80's had I been "smartened up" then. I probably would've been bitter that Hogan was on top and DiBiase wasn't, instead, I was a Hogan mark and I wanted him to beat everyone.

Angel has to leave mid-match to take shit breaks?

I say good riddance. He didn't bring anything to the table. I mean, I don't wish unemployment and hard times on anyone but as a fan, I'm happy about this release.