El-P

One of the greatest of all time, without a doubt...

Shawn refusing to play heel because of his "religious beliefs" is so fucking ridiculous on so many levels.

Shawn certainly had his share of good matches in the last decade. But *great* matches, I just don't see them. Despite haven't watched most of the pimped ones. But then again, Michaels has always been wildly overrated in my eyes. Funny to think that he's riding on HHH wave though, when you think back at HHH being the Bruti of the Clique... Times fly.

What are the "great matches" Shawn had since his return ? His embarrassing return match with the back no-sell from hell ? His overblown "WWE modern epic main event" formula matches with Angle, Taker or Cena ? His super scripted, cute but cute only, awkward-with-bad-acting Flair (temorary) sendoff match ? I can't say I've seen a lot of WWE this decade, but I've seen every WM and quite a bit of the "great matches", and the only Shawn match I really liked a lot was his match with Jericho at WM 19. Jericho being the far superior worker. Shawn's accomplishments have been overblow to unimaginable proportions to me, much like most of the WWE product (mostly because it's pretty much the only top thing around, TNA being a glorified indy). Anyway, from many records, the new Shawn is pretty much the same person as the old Shawn. only now people love him. Go figure.

Yeah, I don't get this obsession about him not knowing who these people are. I mean, I myself don't know a shitload of current or last decade "pop culture" personnalities who for most people are as familiar as family members. You could talk to me about characters from Lost, Prison Breaks or the Sopranos, I would look at you with a void expression in my eyes, as I would have no idea who you're taking about. Todd Martin has been a goof on many occasions about many subjects, but I don't see the issue with him not necesseraly knowing who those people are. Really.

Well, that didn't make waves in the wrestling community.

By underlining the fact that you weren't making a joke with that, you just did make a joke. Made me smile.

His wiki page states that Halme died on January 10 at 47, apparently a suicide.... Haven't heard about it. Did I miss something ?

Yeah, Missy was hilarious. Odd because sometimes she acts like a drunk slut, and at other times she comes off like a pretty smart and witty person. Didn't she use to write some good stuff for some newsletter at some point ? I remember reading some interesting articles that she wrote.

I was curious to see how the two shows would end up being like. Reading the reports, I won't even bother watching any of them I think.

I watched Gilbert booked ECW 93 product not too long ago, and well, it was not very good at all. And Gilbert King of Philly gimmick was only good for a bunch of silly vignettes.

That is really was Saturn was all about ? The rape story was a work ?

Well, that's not surprising considering how bad he looked on the last picture I saw of him. Too damn bad, cancer is a bitch. RIP Doc, he's been an awesome wrestler at times.

Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels would be hysterical only for the reactions and over-"analysis" of the Shawn apologists, the Shawn haters, the Bret Cult, the Bret haters etc... Add the Flair marks who hate Bret and want to prove Flair was still good in in match with Shawn... That would be better than the match itself. Make it happen.

Jeez, that article on Barthes was pretty embarrassing... More than luck, you'll need ton of aspirins...

Obviously, this decade sucked.

Didn't remember those ones. I do remember him calling them and Sasaki "crowbars" though... Did I miss something about Dreamer ? Where does he works now ?

Yep. Only one of the two was great in his domain. Reminds me this movie by excentric French director Luc Moullet, "The prestige of death", in which he simulates in own death to finally be recognized and his body of work be canonized. "All dead guys are great guys." Same applies to Eddie Gilbert I guess, who I never understood why he was considered a great one...

Fonzie said in his shoot interview that it was basically a miscommunication issue, and that both guy made it out backstage, there was no problem between the two. I think he said Luger wanted to carry the dance despite being green and of course Brody the veteran disagreed. "Brody shooting on scared Luger" is a total urban legend. Yes, it's puzzling that it's still out there when the video is widely available.

I'm French and I know who Jude Apatow is. And I've not seen any of his movies, which I don't think are that huge of a success here anyway. But still, his name has been on the forefront of american comedies for the last few years.

Well, maybe Bret wants to one-up Flair in terms of whoring out yourself. Gotta love that feud.

At least, Bret was colorful, which is more than what you can say about the dull and bland generic look that has been the rule for the past decade. Austin and Rock's black tights were a breath of fresh air in the late 90's, but the 00's have been the decade of blandness also in term of look. More bland than HHH or Orton, you can't do. I miss the times when wrestlers had tons of differents and colorful outfits (Savage, Bret, Jake Roberts, Rick Rude, Ric Flair etc...). I don't think the "look" aspect of wrestling would capture my imagination if I was a child now. Not enough variety, not enough color, expect for Rey Rey.

I can definitly see Brody work a match with Onita. They would have packed the Kawasaki stadium and made shitload of money. Hell, Onita did get Tiger Jeet Singh to do a job, so Brody, for a last big payday and match as he was getting old, could very well have done it. Like Tiger, two match program, with Brody killing Onita the first time, and then do a job in a deathmatch in which Onita takes 99% of the big bumps and Brody only bleed a lot and barely touch the wires.

You mean, her charisma ?

From his appearance on european tours, Bret looks miserable. I guess he does lust for a spot under the lights again.