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Jason Powell claims that Dixie just recently saw the Heyman interview with Dave and Bryan (the one from right after the Lesnar fight, I guess). And she's since been in a foul mood.

Wade goes into some detail on his relationship with Cornette, which I hadn't heard before. From the 7-19 Livecast: "Haven't talked to him in forever, probably since the SMW days. ... He made some pretty unforgivable phonecalls. In terms of death threats and "I'm not going need an airport because I can take a gun in my car and drive to Minneapolis," and made some sexually and racially charged comments about my mother. It was really him at his worst. So I don't really have a lot to say to him..."

From the 3-5-2007 WON: The part about turning down a six-figure payoff (if that's close to true) is pretty funny now.

Does Babbysack vote?

(Edit: I meant to put WON HOF 2010 in the title..) Yohe posted the ballot on WC: I FOLLOWED THE HISTORICAL PERFORMERS ERA CANDIDATES The Assassins (Tom Renesto & Jody Hamilton) Red Bastien Cowboy Bob Ellis Yukon Eric Hans Schmidt Kinji Shibuya Wilbur Snyder John Tolos Enrique Torres Kurt & Karl Von Brauner w/Gentleman Saul Weingeroff Tim "Mr. Wrestling" Woods Bearcat Wright I FOLLOWED THE MODERN PERFORMERS ERA CANDIDATES Gene & Ole Anderson Carlos Colon Edge Owen Hart Curt Hennig Chris Jericho Ivan Koloff Fabulous Moolah Pedro Morales Dick Murdoch Rey Mysterio Rock & Roll Express Sabu Sgt. Slaughter Jimmy Snuka Sting Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker) I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN JAPAN CANDIDATES George Gordienko Gran Hamada Volk Han Seiji Sakaguchi Kensuke Sasaki Kiyoshi Tamura Steve Williams I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN MEXICO CANDIDATES Perro Aguayo Jr. Atlantis Cibernetico Cien Caras Karloff Lagarde Blue Panther L.A. Park Huracan Ramirez Vampiro Villano III Dr. Wagner Jr. Dr. Wagner Sr. I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN EUROPE CANDIDATES Big Daddy Henri DeGlane Giant Haystacks Horst Hoffman Mick McManus Kendo Nagasaki Jackie Pallo Rollerball Mark Rocco Johnny Saint NON-WRESTLERS (these picks do not count against the ten wrestler maximum) Lou Albano Bill Apter Jim Crockett Jr. Gary Hart Jerry Jarrett Gorilla Monsoon Dr. Alfonso Morales Don Owen Jesse Ventura Kent Walton Also a new guideline on the ballot: I.E., I have to put Big Daddy on the ballot, but don't vote for him.

From the new Keller-Mitchell show. WK: "That's the thing that people don't get when you're talking about wrestling learning from MMA. Everybody - well, not everybody, because people don't know about Pancrase - They say 'Oh! You're endorsing Pancrase!' Which is just so simple-minded as to think that the only way to link pro wrestling to MMA and learn from it. What you mean by learning from MMA is ... it's all about the ability to win or lose. ... One of the ways to make it like MMA make it about wins and losses..." Maybe I'm being picky here, but isn't the object of EVERY competition, from Olympics down to Hungry, Hungry, Hippos is to WIN and not lose?

Here's a good one, maybe. Was there anything more to story of Victor Quiñones' death? The WON reported it was suspected that somas and alcohol were the culprit. (I don't recall if toxicology was ever reported) But Dave mentioned, somewhat cyptically, a "side import/export" deal with Columbia. And this new business venture was finacially supporting the fed. And it was even pointed out that one of the Columbian guys was at Victor's house when he died. What this "side import/export" was, wasn't really explained. One would think if it was kosher, Dave would plainly say what it was.

What do you mean?, Dave has offered lots of good reasons. Like: *) Some of his old wrestling buddies now like UFC. *) Dana White acts kinda like a young Vince. *) The atmosphere of 1970s wrestling is the same as UFC's. *) The Japanese wrestling magazines cover MMA as wrestling, so why not?

That's just typical worker shit though. A guy claiming that he sold out an arena 100 times in a row, is a lot different than lying about someone having a horrible disease.

I'm not sure if you've seen more than just the recent Flair segments, but before last few weeks Flair has ranged from uninspired to abominable. There was a sit-down interview a month or two ago, where Ric looked like a decaying mummy; and he just sort of rambled on .. about something. It was so inarticulate that the interview was subtitled (and in true TNA fashion the subtitles were barely legible). But yeah, the Lethal-Flair feud has been pretty great.

Geez, this is like the Blob, it just keeps spreading and infecting more and more people. From the new Keller-Mitchell show: Keller: "Everything about it [wrestling and MMA], everything about it, EVERYTHING is the same, except one has real fights and the other doesn't. Out of 1,000 things you would write about MMA and 1,000 things about the pro wrestling industry - all but one thing is the same." Bruce: "Yup."

I thought the lessons of 2010 was Workrate \=/ Buyrate, after seeing the WM number. Have we learned anything from MMA that we didn't know already?

Yeah, his idiosyncrasies aside, he's defiantly good at interviews. The 50,000 word Nash interview from 2005 was epic.

When he was doing his sheet, I'd say Scott Teal was the best. He often knew more about his interviewee's career than the interviewee did. A common exchange might go something like: Wrestler: After that, I went to work for Gulas, I'm not sure when that was... Teal: It was July 1962. Contrast that with RF - there was an interview he did, I forget with who - who said something happened with him on the day JFK was killed. Neither RF, Gentry or the wrestler could come up with the date.

I can just imagine the slack-jacked bewilderment of a non-wrestling fan who reads that.

Speaking of the TNA NY show...from the Torch corres.:

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING FUCK. It's not like Sean Oliver is very discriminatory over the questions he chooses to ask. You don't say?

I sort of chuckled at Maria doing the "back in my day" schtick. A 20-something year old woman, who got a job from the Diva Search is concerned that indy girls in FCW aren't properly paying their dues. God bless pro wres.

Yeah, ECW Press turns a profit. Heh. I only used S&S as the example because they're WWE's publisher. No other "major" has released a wrestling book in the US that I can think of. "Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George" was published by Prentice Hall 30+ years ago. If you count Foley's novels, at least one of them was published by Knopf. Without double-checking, I think the recent Gorgeous George and Mildred Burke books had major publishers. Maybe "I Was A Teenage Pro Wrestler" too.

It was really more poking fun at Batista. He did say (per Dave) "the wrestling he grew up liking" is gone. (well, duh) The part about Austin/Rock was in the next sentence.

Screw TNA. Vince needs to write for WO.com

That's pretty much what Dave M. said. Either he misspoke, or Batista was still growing up at age 31. (Wasn't it Ted Dibiase who said being in wrestling is like being in eternal high school?)

FWIW: WWE let Matt Hardy work indies during their 'work the Internet' thing. He even plugged ROH during his "shoot run-in" on Raw.

For whatever it's worth, Keller says it's a shoot. And he says Daniels swearing on TV, also contributed to his endeaverment.

On the new WOR, Dave is back to thinking it's a shoot. "Bryan kinda got screwed. Hahaha"