MikeCampbell

I think the concept of being a "draw" is really only applicable on the Indy scene at this point. My local group brought in John Morrison this weekend and actually had to reconfigure the arena to hold as many people as possible because the demand was so huge for him.

According to one of the interviews that Cody linked, it had to do with one of the wrestlers calling himself the Fakest Fake Wrestler.

The thing that struck me odd was that Shane's promo and Scorpio laying him out really seemed to make Shane into a babyface, and he was only a couple of months away from becoming a white hot heel. Shane wins the title, cuts a great promo putting over ECW, and Scorpio huge, and then gets laid out. Even if it was somewhat douchey of him to ask Scorpio to strap the title around his waist.

Wow, after reading the preceding three pages, any respect I had for Davey Richards is out the window. It's a good thing 2CW quick working with him when they did last year. They'd constantly book the American Wolves in tag matches, only for Davey to back out after the matches were announced. After six months, the promoted pulled the plug and quit booking Davey. Hollinger, if 3XW gets a chance, they should definitely bring in Eddie, he's always a class act.

ROH continues mooching off their former roster members that went on to bigger and better things, now there's a Samoa Joe DVD. Pretty mediocre match listing too, nothing before 2005.

I think I'm officially on the Davey Richards hate bandwagon after watching his ROH Pure Wrestling Rules match with Christopher Daniels. Daniels is trying to play off the rules and do submissions in the ropes, while Davey is doing stupid things like a giant superplex and then rolling through it just to do a regular vertical suplex.

ROH's TV method of taping TV 4 weeks at at time was considered outdated when ECW was doing it with Hardcore TV and TNN, and that was 12 years ago.

A few years ago, one of the local wrestlers who'd been around the block a few times was telling stories to a handful of marks and trainees, someone asked about ECW, and it somehow veers into the FBI, and into a Tommy Rich story. I forget all the names involved, but the short version was that some big guy purposely worked extra stiff and really roughed up Michael Shane (Matt Bentley, who already had the rep of being a huge pussy). Shane whined to Tommy about it and at the next spot show, Tommy makes a b-line for the guy and knocked him the F out with one punch and was in his face screaming "You don't do that shit!"

TNA would really have to work hard to do a worse job with "Rubix" than ROH did with Jigsaw.

A Doc vs. Windham moment?

I'll throw in Fantastics vs. Midnights from the first Clash for the US Tag Titles.

The days of a real world champion, by most of our definitions, are long over. When pretty much every promotion is able to be viewed on a national or international basis, there's no need for one. That's why the WWE pretty much killed the idea of the Undisputed Champion defending against both RAW and SD wrestlers after four months.

According to Rajah, Alex Shelley wants to go right to the WWE main roster and not do anything in developmental. I have a feeling that's going to rub a few people the wrong way.

I just watched this entire show, and Styles is fucking horrible. He must have supersonic hearing, because it seemed like every other thing out of his mouth was "I could hear that all the way from here!"

So ROH has started giving godawful nicknames to their roster members: "The Outlaw" Charlie Haas "Killer" Kenny King (KKK!) "Ruthless" Rhett Titus

For as much, deserved, flak as Michael Cole gets, he had some funny comments during the main event. When he commented that Big Johnny "Looked much better on the video tapes" the boys and I all lost it.

Someone needs to make gifs of the two Cena fans in the front row after the Show turn, the big guy in the green Cena shirt, and the kid in the black polo.

The 1994 Stud Stable in WCW were awesome! The Hangmen 3 in ROH was pretty bad.

You mean the one about how everyone in the business without exception is on something? "Does this make logic?"

Foley didn't have much of a role did he? All I'm remembering is a single promo at the NYC show.

I can only think of two production errors offhand on WWE TV in over ten years. A RAW episode where they displayed an on screen graphic for a match that "hadn't been booked" yet. And a couple of years ago when they accidentally gave away Melina's return by playing her music and titantron video too early.

I'm not Bix, obviously, but I haven't heard a thing about the Summer of Punk DVD other than the fact that ROH released one. Do tell, Rovert, how bad is it?

Boy, is ROH cashing in on their former stars. First they release a Joe vs. Punk DVD, featuring their three title matches, their 2003 singles, and their 2005 Straight Shootin' interview. Start tomorrow, Punk vs. Danielson will be available to download on their website. It's smart for them to get some mileage out of their former roster members who went on to bigger and better things, but you'd think they'd put the same amount of effort and energy into creating a genuine buzz for ROH and getting some new fans.

So Dave now says Brock's backstage blowup after the show was a work to convince people putting over Cena was the right idea. I've been somewhat vocal here in saying that it wasn't the worst idea in the world, especially the way they actually went about actually putting Cena over. But, someone should remind them how much these "work the boys" angles helped WCW.

PWInsider is saying that Brock had a fit backstage because he thought Cena double crossed him with the promo afterwards, and the plan was supposed to be Cena getting carried out on a stretcher, so the impression was that Cena won the battle and Brock won the war.