MikeCampbell

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!

I didn't have the SNME on my Roku this morning. But, I logged out and logged back in, and there they were.

"The world's toughest pumpkin did it! (Bobby Heenan - When Malenko dressed like Ciclope and won the Cruiserweight Title from Jericho)

The Justin Credible ECW Timeline is, to use a Cornette term, plain as toast. You'd think that there would be all kinds of good stories from Justin about how shitty the morale was with them not being paid, or how horrible the company was being run. But, if those stories are out there, then Justin isn't telling them. His only story about the PPV where XPW tried to run in on them was that he was wrestling Dreamer and Dreamer just said to him "Francine is fighting with a fan."

I may be really late to the party with this discovery, but I just happened to read it while surfing the web. Chris Benoit's longtime tag partner, Biff Wellington, actually died the same day as the whole Benoit incident.

That's really a great idea. A sort of This Week or Today in WWE History, with a few clips, and then a quick message saying that you can see them on the WWE Network. Edit: Or make it Today or This Week in Wrestling History, and they can also promote ECW, WCW, AWA, WCCW, etc.

Scherer saying that he wants to call Brian's job and get him fired just shows what a total, classless, douche bag he is. I'll fully admit I thought this whole ordeal was funny at first, but now it's gotten out of hand.

I don't know how you guys feel about including a lot of Benoit, but 1999 seemed to the year that he finally got some respect from the WCW bookers, so I'd think the following matches should be included: Benoit/Malenko vs. Windham/Hennig from UnCensored Benoit/Saturn winning the tag titles from DDP and Bigelow from Thunder Benoit winning the US Title from David Flair Benoit vs. DDP from Road Wild (not a great match or anything, but everyone KNEW that Benoit's title reign was ending here, and WCW actually got one over on them) I'd guess that the famous Spring Stampede tag match is already earmarked for inclusion. I'm also recalling a Nitro match from June: Benoit/Bagwell/Malenko/Saturn vs. Flair/Piper/DDP/Kanyon that ends with Bagwell pinning Flair to a huge pop. That's probably the pinnacle of Buff's popularity.