MikeCampbell

According to PW Insider, WWE has signed Mistico.

He'll get a decent sized pop when he comes out. He'll probably eliminate a few undercard guys like Santino, Ryder, DH Smith, etc. and then get dumped himself.

My on-again of-again lucha watching has recently reverted back to "on" so this is awesome timing. Definitely keep it up, if you've got the time for it, Bix.

Obviously nobody here, except OJ could really answer that, but I would think so. Kobashi was two years into the reign at that point. I'm recalling the 9/10/04 title defense where the Budokan fans seemed to be dying for Taue to pull off the win. Plus, Rikio had a decent little push leading to the title match. He'd pinned Kobashi in a tag tournament final in November, and teamed with Misawa to beat the outsider team of Tenryu and Koshinaka in January, scoring the pin over Koshinaka.

What he said.

I'm surprised that more people haven't figured out what DGUSA really is by this point. It's just another Gabe fed with Gabe's boys, along with a handful of DG names to appeal to the DG fanboys. It's really no different than when Vince restarted ECW in 2006, it was WWE through and through, but with the ECW name and some familiar ECW faces to appeal to the orignal ECW fans.

Well, look at the circumstances of Miz winning the title, it wasn't exactly designed to show people that he was a tough guy or a credible champion (although I thought his counter of the RKO to the Skull Crushing Finale was rather nice).

Loss, assuming they did try going in that direction, what would Bryan's counterpoint be to Miz? Because while Miz was saying that Bryan didn't have the personality, Bryan was pointing out that he was a better wrestler than the Miz.

I watched it and enjoyed it, for the most part. I'll agree that Amy Lee was horrible. She said herself (over and over) that she was drunk on Jack Daniels. I think the problem was more with the crowd, than with the pannel. The roast was filmed at a legends convention. So I'm guessing that the bulk of the people there were specifically there for the convention and probably didn't know exactly what they were attending. Mick Foley had the same problem last year when Terry Funk got roasted.

In my teenage mark days, 1997-99, my buddies and I all thought Scott Norton was the toughest guy in the world. We always wondered why he was never in main events or challenging for titles.

I know it had to happen eventually, but I think ending his unbeaten streak was the beginning of the end of him. Whenever anyone on TV talked about Tatanka, the first thing they'd say was how he was undefeated. Once he lost to Borga and Yoko put him on the shelf, it seemed like they didn't know what to do with him. I don't recall any meaningful blowoff to the feud with Borga, Bigelow replaced Borga at the '94 Rumble. Then, he basically treaded water until the whole "Lex Luger sold out" angle started up.

Not because it's great or anything, but I think Team DiBiase vs. Team Dusty from the Surivor Series would need to be included simply for the historical impact.

My first one was Wrestlezone, when I was about fifteen. My best friend in high school turned me on to it. I don't recall that there was too much wrestling talk going on in the forum though. My first real board that I posted on regularly was TSM. TSM led me to DVDVR and SSS because Stuart and Dean would make posts in the puro section. TSM also led me to Spider Twist. Later on, I started posting on Happy Wrestling Land, which is still my all time favorite (although I maintain that this one is the best for pure wrestling discussion). I forget how I discovered NMB, maybe from Goodhelmet, and NMB became PWO.

The unedited angle where Cornette and the Heavenly Bodies show up on WCW TV and confront Bill Watts. I don't have the date available offhand. Bix might, I first saw the unedited version on Cageside Seats.

With the anniversary of his passing coming up, I'd love to hear you guys talk about Dr. Death.

During a match with Kerry he took off Kerry's boot and exposed the fact that his foot had been amputated in the motorcycle accident.

Polo: What kind of wrestling did you do, Gorilla? Monsoon: Greco-Roman, Freestyle. . . Polo: Any mud wrestling? Hot Oil? Monsoon: No. Polo: Banana wrestling? Monsoon: Stop. Polo: Even though it was invented by your relatives?

I just recently watched the match and I hated it. Hardy's selling was fucking horrible. He takes a 20 foot fall off the ladder and then a few minutes later he's stalking RVD with a chair. When RVD kicks it in his face, *then* Jeff decides it's time to actually sell. They get back into the ring and start running through their signature moves, until Jeff wipes out on the swanton and then RVD finishes him off. Van Dam was actually decent, he really made Jeff's stuff toward the end look convincing, but Jeff didn't seem to give a shit one way or the other. He totally blew off the ladder fall, when a similar bump the year before at WM had totally taken him out of the match.

I seem to recall a spell in 1991 or so when Ricky Steamboat was known as simply "The Dragon" and there wasn't any mention of his name. The same thing when Tito Santana became "El Matador" although later on his name was tacked onto the end.

I liked the MVP/Benoit matches, but it's hard to have a bad match with Benoit, and Benoit was clearly the better of the two of them. MVP's peak was his promo the first week after he got drafted to RAW, when he was calling out Orton. I thought it would lead to an Orton/MVP program and move him up the ladder. Instead he dropped the US Title to Kofi and got thrown together with Mark Henry and went back to SD.

I thought that the Dudleys were turned face so that E&C could be the top heel team, and not have to risk losing heat.

Isn't that the same show with Bulldogs vs. Rock 'n' Rolls?

Well he's kinda right for the most part. Punk made a name for himself in the midwest working for IWA and in St. Paul. During the same time-frame, American Dragon, Low Ki, Spanky, and others were way more well known and worked a hell of a lot more places. Punk wasn't even doing much in ROH until the Raven feud, and it was a Raven-style program, carried more by promos and interviews rather than matches.

I'm hoping Cena's "firing" doesn't turn into a carbon copy of when Austin got "fired" in 1998, where he's all over TV tomorrow night, and he gets a new contract next week. I'd like to see WWE at least pretend that the stip matters and keep him off TV for a few weeks, and bring him in as a guest host or something and then orchestrate his return.