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This wasn't a great match, but each of them had already worked twice that night, so it's hard to fault them for not having a lot left in the tank. It was nice to see them focus mostly on wrestling, aside from the one trip to the floor and Shane's suplex onto the guardrail. The finish left a bad taste for me, I'm fine with Scorp wiping out on the moonsault, and Shane taking advantage with the belly to belly, but Shane has to blow off the Tombstone piledriver in the process. What I really found hard to swallow though, with the hindsight of knowing what was going to happen, was Styles' commentary. He's pretty much kissing the NWA's ass the entire time, with all sorts of namedropping going on.

This has always been considered a landmark event in ECW history, and in Tommy's career, but this really doesn't feel like it. The blinding angle from later on feels like a much bigger deal. It goes on for far too long, and, as nice as Nancy is to look at here, listening to her same the shit over and over gets insufferable.

And, even more absurd is that the few times that they make genuine effort to make the title seem important (Miz/Bryan, Dolph/Ryder, Regal/Punk) the fans totally get behind it and the reaction to the babyface finally winning out is excellent.

From WrestleMania VI - When the Fink announced that Dusty and Sapphire weighed in at a combined 450. "You're telling me Rhodes only weighs 200? Because I damn well know that Sapphire weighs at least 2 and a half!" - Jesse Ventura

Nash got robbed here. UT pulled him under the ring, so he technically left the cage first. He shoulda been champ!

The Managers episode from 2009 was just added, I believe that only leaves the one about Southern Wrestling as the only one missing.

The Acolytes vs. The Mean Street Posse from the 12/5/99 Heat. The Posse gets the cream cheese kicked out of them, and Farrooq makes it more awesome by getting on the mic and asking "You wanna be a bad ass?" and clocking Rodney in the throat with the microphone.

I was referring to the attitude about not wanting how to learn to work their style. It comes off like he thinks he's too good to have to spend time in NXT when better wrestlers than him grin and bear it knowing it's the price you pay to get WWE paychecks. I'm sure they didn't drop that on him once he got in the door, it's not a secret they want guys to spend some time there before hitting the main roster. Wasn't that one of the reason they soured on Alex Shelley? Because he thought he should go right to the main roster, rather than doing anything in NXT?

Jack Swagger vs. Russev from Battleground please.

I saw him last year and had a good time. My wife thought he was hysterical. My buddy and I got a kick out of him telling the crowd to not be "that guy" - and "that guy" being the one who asks if it hurt when he got thrown off the cell.

If you want WrestleCrap, then you need the Francine/Justin Credible/Missy Hyatt/Steve Corino skit from the last ECW PPV. Fucking hilarious, especially Corino namedropping John Tatum, and when Victory asks Missy if she remembers him, she asks if she fucked him.

So, let's say that Spike winds up giving TNA the bird and opts to not renew, and this in turn leads to TNA being forced to close up shop. How exactly does Russo, Dixie, etc. wind up spinning it so that it wasn't any of their fault? I'm guessing it'll be the next version of "Jamie Kellner was the one who killed WCW."

I don't know why they just don't create a whole new category for The Main Event. There were only five of them.

This is almost approaching urban-legend status for me. It was mentioned in a Scott Keith rant so it may have been fabricated entirely for all I know, but I've never yet found it on Youtube or DM or anywhere--and I have looked, trust me. I think this might be the case. The only televised matches I can find on Graham's site are the debut at the Clash, a match on the 7/30 main event, the Skyscrapers' squash on Worldwide.

I liked the tag titles match, and I actually really enjoyed Swagger/Rusev. Nothing else did much for me. The Battle Royal finish has been so overplayed, that it's a swerve when it doesn't happen.

No. The Revolution was Douglas, Benoit, Malenko, and Saturn. Eddie was part of the Filthy Animals when he came back from his car accident in '99.

Did any of his Florida work as Joe Scarpa make it on tape? The Legends Roundtable episode about Southern Wrestling shows a Gordon Solie interview with him.

Another fake was Finlay at No Mercy 2007, although WWE blew the swerve themselves by having a close up of Finlay taking a perfectly protected bump on the way down, and also showing him quickly looking around and then feigning unconciousness.

Add another check in the overrated column for Kurt Angle. I, and others, have been saying it for years now. It's not that Kurt isn't good. He is good. But that's it. He's good. He's not great and he's not top five of all time. I just reviewed the Iron Man match he had with Brock, and Brock outperformed him in every way possible. What really stood out to me was that Brock made Kurt's finisher look ten times more lethal than Kurt ever bothered to. Brock does an Ankle Lock and it's an nearly instant tap out. Kurt does it, and it's the usual horseshit like crawling to the ropes and getting pulled back, and rolling through it and sending Kurt to the mat, etc.

Something else I just thought of: Didn't Maeda present his version of UWF, and later Takada present UWFI, as being "real wrestling" with the idea that New Japan and All Japan were "fake wrestling?"

Jerry, you make it sound like that sort of stuff is a byprodcut of an era that has long since passed, and that's just not the case. It's not a regular occurance, but that kind of stuff still goes on nowadays. Shane Douglas grabbing Gary Wolfe by the Halo, any of the Dudley Boyz riots in ECW. Concrete and I have told the story on this board before, of Brodie Lee KOing some dipshit who took a swing at him in the parking lot.

The first time that I remember the proverbial light bulb turning on in my head as far as the idea of booking went, was when I was 11 watching the WWF Tag Title tournament. And I noticed how every match set up another between good guys and bad guys. By the time it was wrapping up, my reaction to watching the Heavenly Bodies vs. 123 Kid/Bob Holly was "I know that Kid and Holly are going to win, even though I want the Bodies to, because Bigelow and Tatanka are already in the finals." I wouldn't be online another 3 or 4 years. All the internet really added were some terms to concepts that I already knew, like selling, juicing, etc.

For the longest time, I thought KENTA was legitimately the best in the world. Then, I saw this match. It's the best KENTA match I've ever seen, but it's all SUWA.

Honestly, looking back, I don't really see any good alternatives to Roma. They clearly wanted someone young, but still experienced, who didn't have anything else going on at the time. It's easy to jump and say Dustin, but, there's too much history between the Horsemen and Dusty (which was even brought up after AA turned on him at BATB the following year), and he had his own program with Rude going on. Bagwell was young, but couldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag. Austin and Pillman would have worked, but that breaks up the Blondes. Bobby Eaton had nothing going on, but doesn't add the youth factor that they seemed to want. What about Johnny B. Badd?

Included at the end of the episode when the Madness meets the Mania, is the Piledriver Music Video!