MikeCampbell

I was thinking either Hector Garza or Shocker.

Was the Ray Mendoza, Jr. who worked WCW in 1996-97 one of the Villanos unmasked? It seems weird that Tenay always made a point to mention that V4 and V5 were Ray Mendoza's sons, but never said word one when it came to Ray Mendoza Jr.

That TNA is making a lot of money, and doing so with integrity. They love their fans and they love their wrestlers, so in her eyes they're not a failure.

The most hilarious thing she said was when she was asked why Russo was still employed. Because he's a polarizing figure that people either love and hate, and that makes him "a great character."

No, she doesn't go into specifics about who wrote segments. She rarely did in the interview.

I just finished watching the Dixie Youshoot. She honestly doesn't come off actively bad in it. But she sounds like she's trying to be diplomatic, like she's at a press conference and not taking questions from a bunch of wrestling fanboys. That said, the clip in the trailer where she says that she told the creative team that she'd fire someone else if there was a "Fire Russo" chant is showed in full and isn't as bad as it looked. The context was that the chants always broke out when it was someone else's angle, storyline, whatever, and that's why she told them that.

Did nobody learn anything from the CB Dolloway fiasco from the final of TUF 7?

I'm surprised that this happened to any wrestling promotion in Mexico in the year 2010. Like Sek said, Mexico is hardly a new area for drug gangs. Let alone that it happened to AAA, who've been around for eighteen years.

I dug this a ton! They seemed to be hitting on all cylinders before Pierroth's freak accident, and the other five didn't let that stop them from putting on a quality match. The only thing that I didn't quite get was the end of the first fall. Did the tecnicos win by count out or was it stopped when Pierroth got hurt? I thought the ending was also a bit odd. I understood that Texano got his team dq'd for giving Estrada the Martinette, but why did the refs bother counting the pin?

Having gotten a bit more antiquated with Lucha, I decided to give this another look. It's plain to see this isn't a bad match, but I still like the WWC tag match more. Mostly due to the story that WWC told, with the Mexicans being put behind the 8-ball right off the bat as well as Love Machine's piledriver and Blue Panther returning the favor. That said, I did still enjoy this from a wrestling perspective. The only real issue I had was the second fall when Octagon pinned Barr. Eddy knocked down Santito with plenty of time to make the save, and had to more or less sit there and watch Barr drop the fall, it was a bit exposing. That aside, they were given plenty of time, and I really liked how each fall was given plenty of time to play out. Having watched a good amount of CMLL in the couple of days, I was used to seeing the first two falls over in less than five minutes, so this was a nice chance of pace. Not to mention Art trying to prevent Octagon from saving Santito and slipping on his ass.

I think that's actually what Dave was talking about. I first saw it get used when he compared the buyrate to the UFC PPV with Ortiz vs. Shamrock to whatever PPVs WWE and TNA ran in the same month, and his take on why UFC obliterated them as far as PPV buys went.

I'm hoping the documentary portion gives the Jericho/Malenko feud its due. I've always felt that was that feud that really highlighted Jericho's promo skills and turned him into the Chris Jericho we know today. The pop when Malenko unmasks at Slamboree was awesome.

Anyone have an idea of how complete the TV version of this match is? This was included on the ECW "Big Ass Extreme Bash" comm release and only a couple of minutes is shown.

Is this what eventually led to him turning heel and becoming JC "The Ice Baby"?

Was there anything from Yujiro and Naito's run in CMLL last year that anyone here would recommend checking out? Stuart was pimping them as fucking great heels when they came back to Japan, but I'd long ago learned that Stu views anything related to NJPW with rose colored glasses. Still, the anti-Mexico gimmick sounds like a lot of fun.

PWInsider posted several newsbits regarding TNA's version of One Night Stand. Some of the more interesting things reported: - There was a different plan for the PPV until Dreamer pitched this idea to Dixie Carter and she went along with it. - Dreamer has been given total control over the show. - Shane Douglas wants to wrestle Ric Flair - TNA hopes to have RVD vs. Jerry Lynn headline the show. - One talent, who has been off of TV for years, is refusing to come in unless he is was granted a multi-year contract by TNA. I'm at a loss for who the unnamed talent in the last newsbit is. Anyone have any guesses?

I don't think he's been entirely accepted yet. I've mentioned before that I work with an aspiring MMA fighter, and he's one of several guys I know who despise Brock. Every time Brock has a fight, they swear up and down that Brock will get beat and quit. Then when Brock wins they pull lame ass excuses out of their asses. "Brock will lose because he can't take a punch and Carwin will KO him!" "Brock only won because of the lousy reffing, and he took Carwin down, so he can't stand and bang with the big boys!" Of course, maybe the group I know are a huge minority.

I remember a Hardcore TV episode, shortly after Raven came back in '99, dedicated to the Dreamer/Raven history, and Styles mentioning that Beulah's baby being Tommy's got them kicked off a few TV stations. Right after Beulah got out "It's Tommy's" they cut right to commercial and came back with Tommy kicking Raven's ass.

Considering what's acceptable on TV in 2010, yes it does seem odd. But probably not odd for 1996. People always used to talk about how Roseanne pushed the envelope for what was acceptable on prime time TV, when you watch reruns of it now, it'd downright tame.

Has there been any sort of official confirmation that the WWE'e Elimination Chamber DVD is going to include the full 2005 version of the match? The initial material on the release simply listed the match as "HHH wins his third chamber in a row" but the new one lists the full match.

After his match at tonight's Chikara show, Danielson says he's TNA bound.

http://www.rspwfaq.com/2010/06/26/i-dont-r...battle-royales/ Since the PWI MOTY was a battle royale, then obviously there wasn't anything good in 1972.

I can sort of understand her logic here (without the benefit of context of the question asked and her whole answer). "Fire Russo" to her, means that they hate the booking. Shit rolls downhill, always has and always will. So if the fans dislike the booking, then it's going to be the low man on the totem pole who feels the brunt of it. It's no different than last year when the WWE started feeling the impact of the shitty economy. They didn't respond by firing HHH, Orton, Cena, etc. when they headlined PPVs that drew less money than the previous year. They responded by laying off front office staff.

It's funny, I was thinking the same thing actually. He's working every indy out there it seems, but not ROH at all. Unless all these indy promoters really opened up the purse strings, or Danielson made enough in his short time in WWE to lower his price. It seems odd that he'd work for so many little feds but not one where he'd make a decent payday. Of course ROH is also on television. . . .

Charlie Haas did at one point. He commented after his first release that it wasn't Johnny's fault, he had the hardest job in the world.