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WWF was pretty much dead in the South other than Florida until about 1987.

Maple Leaf was different because they had their own tapings but would show some matches from JCP TV and the best part was they would show top matches from Maple Leaf Gardens. I really don't know what it would compare to really probably Florida is the closest.

The story was that Crockett was scared that Tunney was going to go to Vince so he quit sending his top talent. Tunney's plan wasn't to go to Vince to start but with Crockett not sending the talent, it forced Tunney's hand to do what Crockett was afraid he was going to do.

Gee you don't think that the Silva/Sonnen rematch is taking place in California do you. Smell the money trail.

I hope to God we get a critique of LeBron's return to Cleveland somewhere in the WON empire.

MVP was cut today. Shocking.

Yeah I forgot about that and NFL Network has ended up with some stinkers as well over the years.

The only game that can't get changed is Monday Night Football and believe me ESPN would be ecstatic if they were able to flex that game as well because of games like last night.

Reggie Wayne & Marvin Harrison = Jon Fitch Randy Moss & TO = Tito In a sense, Wayne & Harrison are/were greater than Fitch. On the other hand, Moss & TO are greater than Tito. Moss was/is a sublime talent, generally thought to be the best of his era, and was on pace to top all of Rice's records if he wasn't as big of prick as Tito was. When was the last time Wayne got cut? Four teams have literally gotten rid of Moss because he wore out his welcome: they just wanted him gone. A fifth will soon join the others. Four teams traded for him / picked him up because they thought he could help him win games, not because they thought he could sell merchandise or get them on primetime. Seriously... does anyone think Bill Belichick gives a shit about merch or TV? His owner is a businessman, but Kraft also knows that no one outside of Boston ever gives a shit about the Pats when they aren't a Super Bowl contender. Doesn't matter if they have gun slinging QBs, which they've had a lot of in Plunkett, Grogan, Eason and Beldsoe. It's being that high end contender that made them one of America's teams. Tom Brady didn't become a star because he's banging models. He became a star by winning a Super Bowl in his first year as a starter. And his third... and his 4th. *Then* people started giving a shit if he was banging models. In the long history of pro football, guys like Tito get cut and thrown away all the time. Joe Montana was kicked to the curb in Dave's very own Bay Area because the 49ers wanted to win more than have the most famous player in the game QB them. Steve Young gave them a better chance of winning at that point. They did the same to Jerry Rice when it was time to go. After a few good years across the bay, the Raiders kicked Jerry to the curb. Namath, Unitis... freaking Kurt Warner couldn't get a job after two MVP's, a Super Bowl ring and another trip to the Super Bowl. I'm sure that Dave is going to say that Kurt was Jon Fitch boring, but that's wrong: Kurt was one of the most exciting gunslinging QB of the era, the definition of "exciting fights". OJ was kicked to the curb in Buffalo when they found a mark to take him off their hands, then Bill Walsh ran him after his first year in SanFran. The list is endless. There are plenty of Jon Fitch types who had long careers with one team, or only left via Free Agency because of a better offer. The NFL is a business. Huge business, and run like a business. No doubt about it, and TV tries to sell personalities. But it's not a great sport to use for a Fitch/Tito analogy, especially when you don't regularly follow the sport. John Bravo

The best was CM Punk calling himself a wrestler and Cole correcting him saying he is a superstar. Lawler fires back with Cole must be the sports in sports entertainment.

Well here is Juan Cena http://yfrog.com/9eqyf0j

John Cena posted this on Twitter earlier today. I really think they should use Darren Young as Juan Cena under the mask so John can be around while Juan wrestles.

And Stanford still has a real good shot of making a BCS bowl game

There it is. Dave's voice really picked up while delivering that and this was brought up because guys were complaining about being cut from UFC because they weren't in entertaining fights according to Dana.

I think when Christian comes back from injury they will get put back together.

In so many words he said that all of the above mentioned are a business first which I can agree to but he said that the sporting element isn't what is important it's the entertainment part. It was just a great diatribe.

Can anyone post the rant from Wednesday's WOL where Dave talks about how the NFL/NBA/MLB/Boxing/UFC/Wrestling are all the same thing. I think it started around the 35 minute mark.

Here's an interesting stat, compare the purses from the top 3 matches on the 2nd biggest UFC of the year to this Saturday's upcoming HBO boxing event.

That meme about boxing being dead well yeah

Dave sure likes to use these types of headlines to trick non-MMA fans into clicking on the link. He's talking about Herschel Walker but come on.

And wasn't true because they never won those titles.

Japan isn't the US regarding personal info like that. Look at all the guys that get married then months later people actually find out in the media.

Cancer is one of the main guys that posts on the board. I think he does the filming and editing of the video.