Comments that don't warrant a thread

[sek69]

I went to the ROH site after reading the last post and saw this pic:

 

 

 

 

Really? The ROH TV belt has a circa 1960's television on it? With rabbit ears no less?

[Kronos]

Really? The ROH TV belt has a circa 1960's television on it? With rabbit ears no less?

Hey, I have rabbit ears.

 

Picking up a digital signal on my 720p HDTV. LOL

[rovert]

In fairness a flat screen would be difficult to see.

[jdw]

I wonder if Mr. Belts Maker (wasn't/isn't his name Parks?) hasn't joined the HD Era.

 

John

[Bix]

I think I heard that they get this one from a different belt maker.

[Slasher]

A WCMB poster named Neal Snow made that belt.

[kjh]

From Wade Keller's Impact review:

 

-On the stage Orlando Jordan appeared with a white creamy substance all over his chest. He licked some of it off his face.

Love and Daffney opened their boxes at the same time. Love won the title and Daffney had to do the strip tease. Taz asked Tenay, "Have you ever seen a zombie strip?" Daffney didn't appear to really have her heart into it, observed Tenay. She walked to the ring and unenthusiastically took off her hat. "Alright then," said a barely awake Tenay. She took off her collar and chewed on it. She pulled down her strap slowly like a sober person playing Truth or Dare with a bunch of uninhibited drunks.

 

Lacey Von Erich had enough and ran out and attacked Daffney with the BP Ugly Stick. She stripped to her lingerie. Taz said something tells him this isn't the first time she's removed garments of clothing in public with music playing. Meanwhile Tara and Love brawled on the ramp. Taz said he can't blame Tara for being livid, but it's not the fault of Love she got the luck of the draw. Sky stood on the stage and told Lacey that she really turned up the heat tonight in the Impact Zone, but rule no. 1 of the BP Club is that no Beautiful Person upstages the other, so next week she's cashing in her contract and it's going to be against her in a Leather & Lace Match. She told her to bring her lace and she'll bring her leather and "I'll kick your ass all over that ring, bitch!"

Nice to see such classy script writing from the "reformed" born again Christian, Vince Russo!

[rovert]

The title of Wade's audio review is pretty great too:

 

Impact: Two hours of tawdry, needlessly excessively dangerous, icky hot-shotting reeking of desperation and YELLING (38 min.)

As was Meltzer's kid atting worms analogy

[Cox]

Survivor Series '93. He was going to be one of the Knights and then have a booking role.

Strange that Terry Funk walked out of jobs with both WWF and WCW in 1993 before starting either.

[smkelly]

That Orland Jordan segment was weird, disturbing, and seemed like it should have been in a '90s indie snuff film...oh wait.

[Bix]

Honestly, I have to give Russo credit. It took almost 12 years after the release of "There's Something About Mary" for him to do a segment where wrestler was covered in ejaculate.

[MJH]

How outdated does it make wrestling look when a gay (OK, bisexual) man is "controversial". What next, an atheist gimmick where a guy's quoting The God Delusion all the time?

[Boondocks Kernoodle]

Was it ever announced on TV before SuperBrawl III that Flair would be making his return? I was watching the episode of Saturday Night from the night before that show (incidentally the last appearances of JR and Bill Watts) and while Gordon Solie mentioned Flair in his interview with Windham he didn't say that he would be there the next night, nor did Bischoff in his Control Center segment.

[Strummer]

Honestly, I have to give Russo credit. It took almost 12 years after the release of "There's Something About Mary" for him to do a segment where wrestler was covered in ejaculate.

 

Meltzer on WOL last night:

 

Bryan "Jordan poured milk all over his body"

 

Meltz (total deadpan) That was milk?

[rovert]

Any of you guys listen to the start of the April 5th edition of PWTorchcast with Keller and Powell which was made prior to Impact? Talking about Kanyon and concussions in general. Powell made some interesting and very sad comments about Kanyon that he was known to sometimes throw up after matches (a sign of a concussion) while also mentioning it was almost routine for Benoit to do the same thing after doing the diving headbutt for a period. Has that been revealed before?

 

Wade said he has emailed Dixie on the issue of concussions yet never got a reply.

[Bix]

Never heard that before. Pretty awful.

[MJH]

I never got how Benoit's concussions were caused by the diving headbutt... it's a front bump with minimal contact made with his head on the guys chest (unless we're talking someone with a Scott Norton sized chest). You're far more likely to wind yourself than knock yourself loopy. Now, those ones with the chairs/belts are a different story, but they account for how many of the times he did the move, exactly?

[Bix]

1. Whiplash.

2. Bryan Alvarez has noted that there lots of times he legitimately nailed guys with it.

[Slasher]

Plus I'm sure if someone jumped against the wall from about 6 feet away and smashed his forehead against the wall, and did it every night, he'd get a rash of concussions as well.

[MJH]

Eh, I'm still not seeing it. It's not as if he'd jump off the top and the first and only point of contact with anything is his head smashing their chest/shoulder. He'd land in a front bump (head to the side) only his head would be on their chest, his whole body (at the very least his forearms and/or thighs) would take the impact, not just his head. If guys chests were made of bricks then, yeah, I'd get it but a standard back bump (and the possibility of smacking the back of your head) is far more likely to lead to concussion city than the headbutt. As far as "high risk" moves go it's a fairly comfortable landing, really.

[kjh]

One thing to remember is that once you've suffered one concussion, it's very easy to suffer another one soon after if you don't take enough time off to recover.

[Bix]

Eh, I'm still not seeing it. It's not as if he'd jump off the top and the first and only point of contact with anything is his head smashing their chest/shoulder. He'd land in a front bump (head to the side) only his head would be on their chest, his whole body (at the very least his forearms and/or thighs) would take the impact, not just his head. If guys chests were made of bricks then, yeah, I'd get it but a standard back bump (and the possibility of smacking the back of your head) is far more likely to lead to concussion city than the headbutt. As far as "high risk" moves go it's a fairly comfortable landing, really.

Again: Whiplash. You don't need to hit your head to suffer a concussion. A concussion is when your brain slams into your skull.

[rovert]

Bix did you ever read the paperback version of Ring of Hell? It was revised wasnt it in the end? Was there anything new in it?

[Bix]

Never read the paperback was I know Matt was trying to correct any and all errors.

[PeteF3]

Eh, I'm still not seeing it. It's not as if he'd jump off the top and the first and only point of contact with anything is his head smashing their chest/shoulder. He'd land in a front bump (head to the side) only his head would be on their chest, his whole body (at the very least his forearms and/or thighs) would take the impact, not just his head. If guys chests were made of bricks then, yeah, I'd get it but a standard back bump (and the possibility of smacking the back of your head) is far more likely to lead to concussion city than the headbutt. As far as "high risk" moves go it's a fairly comfortable landing, really.

Again: Whiplash. You don't need to hit your head to suffer a concussion. A concussion is when your brain slams into your skull.

 

Interesting in watching the '80s NJPW set how less concussive Dynamite Kid was in doing his headbutts--he almost always landed knees-first. Granted, that ended up not doing a whole lot for his knees, but it does seem there's a "safer" way of doing the move.