MikeCampbell

I sort of see how Vince could think he was backed into a corner. If Bret is still on WWF TV with the title, especially at a taped show, and Bischoff goes on a live Nitro and announces that WCW has signed Hart, the WWF is basically screwed.

SSS has partial results for the time frame you're looking for.

I just picked this up the other day, and finished it off in two days. It's not bad, but it reminds me of a cross between Flair's and Rock's books. It's really condensed and abridged like Flair's, and like Rock's he doesn't really have a whole lot to say because he's not had much of a career. He's got some good stories, but he more or less just rushed through his childhood and pre-wrestling days. The line about him having a 3-way while his wife couldn't vaccum may have been removed, I don't recall seeing it in the book, and I was especially looking for it when he mentioned her cancer, and his various cheating exploits. The 'fight' with Booker T was totally dodged, he just made a mention of him not showing him respect and that Booker had earned his respect and that was that. Funilly enough, he also mentions that it was his dream to have a Hell In A Cell match with UT.

Flair, Arn, Tully, Ole, and J.J?

Well TNA runs in the south, and ROH runs in the northeast, are you saying TNA > ROH in those departments?

Better in what sense? Matches? Angles? Promos? MOVEZ~!?

No love for Gorilla? 'Give me a break!' Actually I agree for the most part. Lust the other night I was watching an old Coliseum tape with a match between Jake Roberts and Scotty McGhee and somehow Monsoon and Ladd got talking about Migeul Perez and how his son started wrestling, and I sat there asking myself how they got onto that topic and what the point of it was.

What I find to be both funny and stupid at the same time, is that everyone was giving props to the WWE for actually going through and making the violations public, especially to a young guy they seemed to have hopes for. And now with the truth coming out, they look just as bad as ever for basically screwing out with the policy so they could make themselves look good to the media.

I've been reviewing Vengeance 2003, and I was totally taken by surprise by Cena/Undertaker. I could have done without them disrespecting the FU, but aside from that, the match seemed to be exactly what it should have been, judging by the storyline, the young punk needing a lesson in respect, but also earning some of his own along the way. The more of these earlier Cena matches I see, the more I agree with Loss about the Cena backlash being all about his character, and not his wrestling. Not that Cena was a great wrestler here, but he was more than up to the task. I saw the Word Life DVD a few weeks back at FYE, and I'm wishing I picked it up to see how good their SD rematch is.

And I'm bumping this back up. I was watching the Jeff Hardy match from RAW Monday night (which I thought was damn fine) and I suddenly thought of something: Aside from the history of attitude issues. Are Randy Orton and John Cena really that different? I don't mean they're exact equals (I'd put Cena over Orton), but when I got to really thinking, I found lots of similarities. They both had good runs in OVW before being called up in 2002. They both were groomed for greatness upon their call-ups. They both take lots of flak for their lack of MOVEZ! Yet both have been part of some damn good matches. They've both taken flak for their finisher, but they're two of the most over and protected finishers in the WWE today.

The funny part (to me anyway) was that it wasn't even anything I started. Someone else started a thread about the ass-sucking wonder that was Misawa/Marufuji and wondering if that's the sort of performance they could expect out of Misawa, and it just sort of snowballed from there.

I've seen the Sano, not the Bison. Have you seen the Marufuji match, Phil?

Gotcha. Sarcasam doesn't always translate well with me to the written medium.

You clearly have no respect for the boys in the back who bust their asses for you. You could not be more wrong if you claimed that you saw Elvis walking down the street.

A Montreal DVD with interviews from Bret, Vince, and Shawn, with documentary and highlights of the build up and stuff would be the shit! But it'll probably never see the light of day. Who knows? Maybe the ten year mark will give Bret the idea that it's over and done and he needs to let it go?

I seem to have been banned from the ROH Message Board, for insinuating that a broken down and past-his-prime Mitsuharu Misawa probably won't be able to put the best match that ROH has ever seen, and for guessing that he's probably coming more for the big payday (judging from ticket prices) rather than for any great love for ROH or the fans. I guess someone got pissed off.

Is anyone at all shocked that Teddy Hart got himself canned from the WWE already?

My fiancee almost bought me a pin she saw in Hot Topic that said "I'm cooler on the internet." I hope Gordi is exaggerating a bit about Hyatte being a crazed egomanic, a la Skeith. Because that's just sad. A wise man once said "The internet is serious business."

I don't know if the popularity of sites like 411/Inside Pulse etc. has much to do with strictly columns. I'm sure there are popular columns, but since 2003 when I started on 411, I only go out of my way to read a scant few of them. Most of the traffic is generated by the news, TV recaps, and tape reviews, I'd guess. I know when I stopped watching WWE in 2003 when I was in college, I kept up with all the goings on in the WWE by reading the RAW and SD results every week. But overall, it's mostly the news that I'd guess brings the traffic. Poor and cheap folks like myself can get all of the news from the WON, Torch, PWI, etc. without having to pay for it.

A few weeks back on the 411 Podcast, the subject of JD Dunn came up and Larry Csonka summed it up best "He picked up a lot of Scott Keith's old stuff and does it a lot better." (stuff meaning recapping RAW, ECW, and SD, as well as video reviews).

Ah, OK. I was thinking maybe he spazzed out on the ROH board or something.

How so?