Johnny Sorrow

I love Paul Jones because he was the perfect foil for Jimmy Valiant.

I had read all the posts about how incredibly bad Micheals was before I saw it. I guess I was expecting him to be flipping around doing back bumps while holding his arm saying "The Pain, the pain! Woe is me!" like Dr. Smith from Lost In Space. So when I did see it I was like, "Well this isn't anywhere near as bad as people are saying." I forgot about Heyman, he was pretty shitty.

I thought the JTG squash match was a lot of fun, and anyone who had been reading on Internet news knew a Ryback squash was going to come from a mile away upon seeing JTG. Nice for the WWE to send a message to those who feel they got ripped off. At least JTG had fun with it, yelling at the ref "Keep his eye away from me, I don't want to get pinkeye!"

The entire Punk/ Cena/ Show Bryan match and all the storyline stuff that goes with it was fucking great on RAW tonight. It's some really well done old school Pro Wrestling. So was the YRJ/ Ziggler/ Miz stuff, come to think of it. I loved Sandow vs Christian, and the feud between Sandow and Brodus is also a pretty classic old school mid-card gimmick guys program. I thought the contract signing was well done, Ok, I just watched the HBK "over selling/ worst thing ever/ yada yada yada. thing and I'm not getting the outrage and scorn. I'm pretty sure that if a monster broke my arm I'd react even worse. He's supposed to be a retired and broken down guy. I'd say his reactions were more close to normal than "business exposing". If anything, HHH was the shitty actor in all this.

I'm still watching RAW, and man...the crowd seems to have been wanting to cheer Jericho for some time given their reactions. And that triple threat was fucking good.

Holy Shit, Roddy Piper seemed brain damaged on the Pit tonight. Jericho totally took over to save the segment.

Holy Shit, dude...that's awesome.

I liked "old man DX" if just for the fact that they goofed on each other the whole time. To me it was like when me and my old running buddies get together for a Furthur show. I'm a sucker for "the old bad guy gang gets back together to get even with a powerful bad guy and then fuck up the young punks."

By being obnoxious. Angle wearing Red, White, and Blue was just a nod to him being an Olympian.

The UnAmericans never did anything offensive. In fact, it was very Canadian in how bland the approach was. There wasn't much more to it then "you know, we really don't care for you". If you're referring to Hassan, I think they were past the point of "kill him for amurika" heat and into "what the fuck are they thinking?" heat. They almost burned the flag on Raw. At MSG. Two weeks before the first anniversary of 9/11. And I recall Storm talking about how the crowds wanted to kill them in the parking garage or some shit like that.

Even more odd considering they were never presented as fake brothers! They didn't in 85-86, but in 90 when Ole rejoined the Horsemen they did call them brothers.

Isn't it basically the same thing he did with Jim Duggan? Taking badass brawlers and turning them into a kid-friendly comedy act? Again, the difference was making Duggan just a bit more kid friendly..and taking two guys who were known as bloody evil heels who'd tear your face off and eat it into friendly goofballs and make them more money then they ever saw before that.

The Vince is a "genius" shit gets tossed around a lot, but it really must take a special kind of genius to look at the Sheepherders and say, "I'm gonna make you two into delightful babyfaces!" and make it work.

So I sez, "It was only 78,000 ... SEVENTY-EIGHT." She looked at me like she'd never even heard of Zane Bresloff! "So I says, Junk YARD Dog?..more like Junk FOOD Dog, AMIRITE?!!!!"

That hits the nail right on the head, man. I remember when I was like, 14 and the Bulldogs had just first started appearing on TV. My best friend and I were talking wrestling and he asked me if I had seen this new team The British Bulldogs. I hadn't, and the next Saturday we were watching together and they were on. It was like seeing a shot of exciting shit we'd never seen before from two guys who looked cool and jacked. A lot of it doesn't hold up for me now, but at the time it was fucking cool.

Ha, that's awesome dude.

And a lot of it is that they didn't grow up rich, at least Vince didn't, and he still has a chip on his shoulder about it.

Muraco wasn't a cool heel. I was just a weird kid.

And The Magnificent Muraco did this and this I can't find the promo where Backlund has just lost the belt, does a heartfelt interview with Mean Gene where he's crying...he leaves, Muraco and Albano walk in and start going "BOOO HOOO! BOO HOOO! WAH! WAH!" It was glorious. He's the greatest heel ever.

PWI? Come on, bro. I loves me some Patera, but the draws there are Bruno and Backlund with Patera being a part of it cause he wasn't a fat typical WWWF heel. Muraco was so fucking hated it was insane. I liked him and wouldn't say so to my pals cause they loved Snuka so much they'd have kicked my ass.

Dylan, The Snuka/ Muraco feud had people my age at the time wanting to see Muraco killed. It was one of THE most heated feuds ever. Teenage boys in the NorthEast worshiped Snuka and wanted to see him eat Muraco's entrails. That's why the end of the cage match stinks so much. And I know Bock traveled, but not like Flair who had to wrestle so many stiffs as a touring NWA Champ.

1. Jerry Blackwell or Vader? After seeing what I've seen from the AWA set, I'm saying Blackwell. Blackwell was just done and gone when I first saw AWA in the 80's so the set has really shown me just how awesome he was. Give me the short giant fat guy who taunts like a crazy redneck and bumps like a pinball over the fat guy with a jockstrap on his face. Ed Wiskowski/Col. Debeers or Dutch Mantell? : I love Wiskowski, but Dutch is on that "other level" as far as I'm concerned. Ken Patera or Don Muraco?: Oh Muraco in a cakewalk. The Magnificent Muraco was cool as fuck AND had people frothing at the mouth wanting him to die. "Smart" fans of the day called him a lazy beach bum..so they made it part of his character. Patera, while great, always side absorbed heat. He absorbed Blackwell and Sheik's heat and he absorbed Studd and Heenan's heat. Nick Bockwinkel or Ric Flair?: Flair, if only for the fact we never got to see Bock travel territories and work with all the local heroes and stiffs. But Bockwinkel was so fucking awesome.

Yeah, if I was gonna answer based on what I see at house shows then Cena and Rey are definitely draws.

That's a hell of a start! Awesome! And HERE'S the show "Push Me To The Moon" http://www.tnt-radio.net/archive/585-whata...me-to-the-moon/

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