Johnny Sorrow

I forgot about this until I just saw it. Who was "The War Machine" masked guy who replaced JJ in the WarGames rematch?

The Alliance did have a great mouthpeice in Heyman for all of two weeks. The week after the RAW where ECW joined WCW, they did this great promo with the Alliance in the ring with Stephanie, Heyman, and Shane standing in front of them where Heyman revealed that the whole Invasion was his idea and ECW was his child that Vince stole from him, so he now has stolen Vince's children who look to him as their Father now. (That was the gist of it. It was awesome.) And a few weeks later Heyman was the heel announcer and they didn't touch on the previous angle at all until the Heyman promo before Survivor Series.

Next on "The View", Wrestling Journalist Dave Meltzer. Remember, don't be "that guy" who encourages your hot girlfriend to go into showbiz. "Star 80" does wrestling better than wrestling. Eric Roberts was a great heel, though.

That'd be great actually because last year people at the F4W boards were saying how Pratt was being a great TV Heel and Alverez was furious about the comparison.

I agree with that completely. RAW was a show full of motivated, for the most part, guys who seemed to have an attitude of "We're gonna show them" re: the former WWF Big Stars who were in WCW. There were two cliques back then, and Taker's clique stuck around for the big win. Austin vs McMahon was totally what finalized the WWF being back on top, but "Mr. McMahon" didn't start because of Montreal. They had been toying with the character since they debuted it in Memphis. It would have happened without Bret Hart, I'd guess. (Although the fact that Bret was part of the Memphis Mr. McMahon" deal is kinda cool.

From a Jim Ross Interview from LAW re: "Not Signing The Big WCW Stars For Invasion"

I've been on a marathon of watching Will's Horsemen set and I'm right on "Pre-Starrcade 1986" and it's so great as this was when me and my buddy Joe were 16 and fully obesssed with wrestling. It was to the point where I convinced my Pop to take us to Greensboro from New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving in a hotel and at the Greensboro Colleseum, and I scored third row seats on the phone with TicketMaster. The Nikita Koloff face turn was so fucking awesome when it went down. I remember watching TBS or Worldwide and seeing that footage from the cage match and marking the fuck out once I realized that Nikita wasn't going to attack Dusty from behind and was instead kicking Ole Anderson's ass. All the follow up stuff with Nikita talking about learning to respect Magnum, etc was fucking gold. Granted, I always thought they were always waiting for an opportunity to turn Nikita into a good guy. Nikita was so super over as a heel that he had his own T-Shirt available at the merch table at cards. I had one that I thought was cool until my girlfriend asked me why I was wearing a T Shirt with a big Muscle man on it, "That's gay." They built Nikita's awesome turn to the Main Event at Starrcade...and they went with a double dq to end the show, (which was an awesome show), and the Omni crowd that got the Main Event were loudly booing Nikita, as they seemed like they weren't ready to cheer the "Russian". Nikita's face turn kinda fizzled after that. It should have been huge.

From the latest classic Observer: "Kevin Sullivan's line of the week was when he was saying all his violent acts of the past were accidents, mistakes and he was really a nice guy. He then said Bob Armstrong had a few accidents as well, four of them that show up every morning at the breakfast table."

That was awesome.

So, I have a question that has always bothered me, but I just remembered watching Will's Horseman set. During the mass exodus of wrestlers from UWF/ Crockett to WWF circa 1986-88, why did Vince take Sam Houston of all people? Was it a favor to Jake Roberts? Did Vince see something in him as the "Dancing" Young Cowboy? I love me some Sam Houston getting the shit kicked out of him as much as the next guy but I was always surprised that he ended up in the WWF at that time. That reminds me of a pretty funny story. When I was 15 I had just had my first serious girlfriend dump me and I was convinced the world had ended. My Dad and his best friend, who was like an Uncle to me, decided to take me out for a day of fun to cheer me up. This was a day in Philadelphia of going to the docks, checking out all the old boats and ships, cheesesteaks...and a NWA Crockett Show at the Civic Center. We bought our tickets in the Parking garage from a "scalper" as the show was sold out, (but still paid almost the regular price). So we were sitting in the upper level where the crowd always were drinking and smoking lots of weed. I had to turn down passed joints with a "I don't do that, but thanks." lie because my Dad was there, but we all got a contact high that left my Dad with a splitting headache. I left to buy a program and Dad told everyone around our seats about my "heartache", and I was totally embarresed. But everyone in our section were all really cool and sympathetic, especially the African American couple sitting behind us. Anyway, one of the undercard matches was Sam Houston vs. The Barbarian. Needless to say, Barbarian was killing Sam in many ways that did look insanely painful. This caused the lady sitting behind us to start screaming at the top of her lungs "STOP THIS! OH NO! THAT NIGGER'S GONNA KILL THAT WHITE BOY! AHHH!" Her boyfriend kept saying" Baby, calm down. It ain't real!" And then Sam would bump for something and look dead. She'd start screaming again, "STOP THAT NIGGER! THAT WHITE BOY IS DEAD!" The boyfriend tapped me on the shoulder saying, "Man, help me! Tell her it ain't real!" So I did but nothing helped. She was shaking and crying over the beating Sam Houston was taking from the Barbarian. After the match she made him take her home, as she had had enough of this.

I think that was a case where the debut and character pissed off the crowd so Afi was dead in the water.

Probably because Dynamite hadn't fully recovered from his back injury when they booked the match. And there was a storyline about Tito wanting to get Davis because he was the ref in the IC Match in Boston when Savage beat him. Granted, Davis wasn't "Heel Ref" yet, but the retro history gave Tito something to do at Mania while helping cover Dynamite's back. And Mr. Wonderful was awesome. I hated his guts at first when I was a kid but he won me over as maybe the first heel I liked. And his berating the poor fat girl cracked me up. That's almost as awesome as "At Home With Dr. D David Schultz", (which also made me start cheering him. Add in that Piper was their manager/ partner and it's easy to see how a 13/ 14 year old would start becoming a heel fan).

Unless the PPV is in New York or Philly I doubt it. And I'm sure that Dave would react to it in some sort of awesome way. He's been fantastic jaw jacking with the crowd this whole heel run. And Flair truly is his mentor, cause said jaw jacking is right out of "Ric Flair-1985-86".

I'm watching Will's 4 Horsemen set and even though I was watching this stuff at the time there seems to be lots of stuff I never saw. Which is awesome. What really got my attention was seeing former AWA Tag Champ Mr. Electricity Steve Regal IN Crockett, let alone teaming with Tully on a Mid Atlantic TV show, with a still photo of him after the match that said "A newcomer in the camp???????" This was while Ole was out and they were starting to hype his return. Was Steve Regal actually being considered as a possible Horseman? Edit: I forgot all about the group of dudes who'd sit ringside at the TBS studios in suits who were Horsemen and Cornette fans. Those guys were a blast.

Well it looks like poor Todd has had it with everyone goofing on him, and Alverez doing his own RAW reports. Farewell Todd. Heaven needed a Champion.

The Matt Hardy/ McIntyre match on SD last Friday was fucking great. Hardy lost, but it was after the type of match that's meant to put a guy over BECAUSE he lost. The week before, McIntyre attacked him before the bel and laid Hardy out, all cocky and condescending...and did so because Hardy cost him the MITB match at Mania. They have the rematch, and Matt is getting clobbered to the point where the announcers are saying maybe the ref shoud end this, the ref actually does try to stop it, but Hardy insists on competing. And then starts kicking ass, not for a few seconds..but for awhile. He's rubberlegged but doing it! He just may fucking win this match! It takes a DDT on the floor and a head shot on the steel shit under the ring apron to put Hardy away.And after the 1-2-3 the cocky douchebag stands with one foot on Hardy's face, holding up the belt, looking down at Hardywith disdain, but obviously exhausted and almost spent. Killer fucking match. And it put over Matt Hardy as the "WWE's Tommy Dreamer" character they've been hinting at for awhile.

I was at a Philly Civic Center Crockett show in the Mid-80's where the Rock n' Roll Express came out to Starship's "We Built This City" instead of ELO's "Rock n' Roll Is King" and lot's of people turned on them with boos, including my 16 year old punk ass.

As awful as that was, it did lead to the hilarious "D-Lo Brown has to buy Terri tampons" vignette that cracked me up.

I was thinking that Vince and Bret were convinced that the people who still cared about the Screwjob wouldn't be satisfied with a quick victory, and wanted to see Vince get beaten up for hours by Bret AND the Hart Family. And I felt that Vince blading a gusher would have made the whole long, boring middle part great. And as blah as it was, Vince scaring off Harts on all sides with the crowbar fucking ruled. "Yeah, yeah..who's bad now?" was Striker's best call of the night.

He was interviewing Bill Apter and did the whole "THE SHEETS RUINED WRESTLING" deal, probably thinking Apter of all people would agree, and Bill was all, "Um, no. Not at all." It was pretty funny.

The guy screaming "You fat pig!" at Dusty during the handheld match between Flair/ Tully and Dusty/ Magnum cracked me up, as well as Flair yelling that he was hanging out with Leona Helmsley on his lap, not exactly Loni Anderson and Linda Carter. Edit: Holy shit, that handheld Title vs Title Magnum TA vs Arn Anderson match was fucking awesome.

I thought that's what he said. Damn, that was callous of Lawler, although I presume it was screamed in his headset... Or, it was just an coincidence, with no hidden meaning re: Owen Hart whatsoever. Holy shit, you really think that Jerry Lawler would make that reference or it was "screamed in his headset"?

Hey, the Jack Brisco obit in the Observer is pretty fucking great, despite the typical "Dave being all over the place" stuff.

The Hogan/Muraco fued lasted a few months and was a big deal at least in MSG... and led into Hogan/ Bundy, which was a major angle. It wasn't as great as Hogan/ Orndorff but it still headlined Mania.

Ugh, what a turd.