Johnny Sorrow

Oh, bullshit. "Ready To Rumble" is fantastic "It's 3:30 am and I'm stoned" viewing.

Thanks...but now I'm really confused. How are they usually diagnosed? The JAMA article emphasizing that "brain death is real death" really throws me for a loop if this can happen. Is it possible that since there will be no organ donation with the elderly patients, that the term "brain dead" is used without testing to make the family more comfortable or something? I honestly don't understand how someone could legitimately be brain dead and then live off life support, especially since not surviving off life support is criteria for brain death in the first place. They seem mutually exclusive if "brain death is real death." It's pretty much that there's no active brain activity to speak of but the other organs are just going on for awhile until the inevitable death. Usually, the patients I'm working with have had suffered from some form of Alzheimer's or related dementia that has ravaged the brain. We never get into the why's and why nots, we just make the patient and family comfortable. But the idea that someone with a healthy history or strong constitution keeping on breathing as there's no discernable brain activity is something that happens. It also happens with chubby little old ladies sometimes. I'm not in the DX end of things, I'm in the "comfort" part. There's a lot of mysteries in the things that can happen at end of life times for seniors.

I've worked in geriatric care for over 18 years, and I can recall many times when a patient was declared brain dead and breathing tubes were removed and they hung on for awhile longer, sometimes a week or so.

There was like, two weeks only, of Raven hanging out backstage or right outside the arena, doing "ECW Raven" stuff. It went on while other shit was going down. It was out of nowhere, if I recall right, and never went anywhere.

Hardcore Holly vs. The Bix. Book this now, wildpegaguy

What's the story here?

You do understand that lots of books quote interviews others have conducted and it's considered normal, right? I just read this book about standup comedy, a much more mainstream subject, and there are plenty of interviews by others cited. What does it matter? Haynes most likely would've told Randazzo the exact same thing. Should he have left out all of the Benoit & Guerrero (dead guys who he couldn't talk to) quotes from other sources because he didn't interview them himself? It's been awhile since I read that book, but I remember it having a pretty strong "Vince is EVOL" tone. Also, the errors were fixed for the paperback. The newsletter sources revolting is a change, and what's with the trend (starting with Meltzer and continued by you) acting is if this book had a chance to be a giant mainstream crossover hit that shook the entire world? Randazzo's mainstream interviews were minor ones, and it would've taken a big push from a major news outlet that happened to come across the book to get any further. Sold out its first 2 printings in 2 weeks. Not at my Borders. I've read the whole thing during visits on my way home from work by taking the one copy and dog earing where I'd left off. So many stories I've heard on shoot videoes. Sex, Lies, and Headlocks in no way had a "Vince is evil" tone. It was pretty much "Here's what happened". Granted, they got a LOT wrong, but the dude did have a fine disertation of the original steroid trial and the BodyBuilding fed stuff. And Bix, chill..man. I continued something? I'm a 38 year old douchebag. I haven't continued anything in recent years except being dull. I do think that perhaps a book that has an "important" story to tell would make the national radar and not just be argued about by dudes on the internet. No one cares. Because it's Pro Wrestling. I'm not being uncaring or a dick here. But the fact is...no one cares. It's sad, I guess. But no one actually gives a shit outside of a handful of fans of said "terrible" industry. Shit, I was actually awaiting Nancy Grace to have your pal on her show, but no go. It's a dead story to the media now. I'm not saying that's good, it's just the way it is. No one actually cares about the clowns at the Circus or the Elephants. It's a bitch to be sure, but there ya go. The sad truth is that no one gives a shit about Pro Wrestling and what goes on in it, and if a book needs to be written about it to try and alert people to the problems, it shouldn't come off as ramblings of a disgruntled ex-fan.

A book classified as "True Crime" should be true all the way through. Without comments like if Billy Jack Haynes had actually killed McMahon it would have changed wrestling, probably for the better. Really? The Haynes shoot is reputable? And Vince being murdered would have been a positive? A book about how fucked up wrestling is should be out there. But not with a tone of hate and disdain. It makes the book look like the ramblings of a hurt fan. There's enough shit out there on the record to show that wrestling is fucked up without using RF Shoots as "sources". Fuck, "Sex, Lies, and Headlocks" comes off better than this and that was full of errors, but the Author never came off like he had an agenda. Whatever, it's all not that important in the long run. Wrestling isn't going anywhere, it's not gonna change, and this book will end up collecting dust at Borders next to the Kane "biography." And I'm not trying to contribute to the stupid fighting going on about this, just my two cents.

It read to me more like his Pillman stuff was an addition to the review, but not stated as such. Pretty much Dave saying what he had to say, and then emphasizing it with his extensive knowledge of Pillman.

Meltzer's review: Credit Wrestling Observer

I always liked the F4W for the most part, especially the radio shows. The Board is....something else.....

http://www.kayfabemovie.com/ Sorry if I'm late to the game with this...but holy shit the trailers are hilarious.

Cool.One of my favorite memories from that show was before the show, me and my buddy wandered over to the far right of stadium seats right by the wall where people from Crockett were hanging out and such, possibly catching some of David Allen Coe or whoever it was who played a set before the show. We were technically "backstage" sort of. David Crockett was signing autographs and my buddy asks him, "Hey, David! Is Flair gonna fight Jerry Lawler on the Bash Tour?" Crockett just looked at him with a look that said, "Shut the fuck up, mark." And then Magnum wandered by and we said "Hey, Magnum!" He looks over and is greeted by two 16 year old dorks in Nikita T-Shirts, going "AAAARRRGHHH!" and doing the Russian Sycle arm deal. He also just looked at us with a "Fuck you." look. It was so great, even as dorky as it is 22 years later.

I found the results at titlebelt.net, but no attendance figures 7/1/86 Philadelphia Cage Match Dusty Rhodes & Road Warrior Animal beat Ole & Arn Anderson NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Road Warrior Hawk dq Nikita Koloff beat Magnum TA Rock & Roll Express & Baby Doll beat Midnight Express & Jim Cornette Jimmy Valiant beat Baron Von Raschke Ron Garvin beat Tully Blanchard Indian Strap match Wahoo McDaniel beat Jim Garvin Bunkhouse match Manny Fernandez beat Shaska Whatley Black Bart beat Todd Champion The Barbarian beat Denny Brown I was at that show and it was great. But as far as the place being oversized, what they did was set up the ring in the middle of one corner of the Stadium, possibly near the pitcher's mound, I can't recall; there were rows of ringside seats and in the stands they just sold tix to that closet section. They had barricade tape as you'd reach the ends of where tickets were sold. Sorry if that's confusing, I couldn't think of a better way to describe it.

Yeah, Ric Flair and Bobby Eaton were like twins. I can't tell you how many times I turned on TBS and mistook the two of them. That "less muscular" Ric Flair with the giant arms was just the picture twin of Eaton.

lol Gabe is back at it again with some more douchery. Refering to JR's blog about Danielson's dark match: That's a hilariously awful "I need to stay looking rebelious despite the reality that a mention of ROH on WWE.com is huge" attempt.

Having a Southern accent is somehow relevent to someone's opinion?

"Yakuza kills someone in a movie = cool. Yakuza kills someone in real life = horrifying." Ummm... I love "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas" because they're fucking movies. When I see footage or pictures of actual mob hits, it's rather disturbing. I don't see how this talking point has any legs.

The Roddy Piper face turn in 1986-87 leading up to WrestleMania 3 was fucking awesome, as it developed somewhat slowly. He wasn't suddendly a good guy and the only good guys at first who'd back him up against Adonis, Orton, and Muraco were the Bulldogs. At the time, it was really wild that Piper was gonna be a good guy, and it was so fucking cool.

I love Naylor because someday I'll catch him and he'll have give me his pot of gold, actually.

WCCW -- The Von Erichs were on The 700 Club, "alternating occasional truth with a few major lies and minor fibs." Wow, I remember watching that when I was a Senior in High School. I was channel flipping and noticed the Von Eriches so I left it on. It was a pretty wild thing to see.

Is the Namorian homeworld anywhere near the constellation of Destrucity? Also.... I'll take "Sentences that Fritz Von Erich never actually said in his entire life" for $1000, Alex. Hahaha, that's awesome.

I'm just getting tired of people shocked over it. That and WWE somehow thinking that doing it makes the problem go away. The people who go on about how it's "Yet another Vince McMahon move to rewrite wrestling history" are particularly stupid.

It's the Machine Guns, but it is a good question.

I need to see this.