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[jdw]

I'd be interested to see the rest of the mic spot. It's cut after all of Trip's burying, and would be interesting to see if Austin had any comebacks. There was the earlier discussion about Rock-Nash. Here's an example of Trip pulling it. Austin is probably one of the few people who could have comeback on Trip if he was in form to do it.

 

John

[rzombie1988]

I don't blame Austin, I blame it on the GM thing period. Let's just say I found it overdone and overexposed then...and here we are 7 years later.

[Loss]

I did feel kind of bad for Austin during that time though. The sheriff gimmick was actually his idea and he was excited about it and thought it would get over huge. I remember it being reported at the time that he thought it was such a good idea that he didn't want anyone beyond the creative team to know about it because it would be such a great suprise/reveal. Maybe the first sign that times had passed him by.

I really think Austin didn't work that well in a non-wrestling role. They still worked too hard to protect him, so you had him stunning active wrestlers on a regular basis when he was retired and if anything, they should have been doing occasional angles to beat him up. And yeah, I do remember Austin being overly excited about the Sheriff thing.

 

Obviously, a lot happened from 2001-2003 to take Austin from the hottest act in wrestling to someone who didn't make too much difference whether he was around or not. Some of it was Austin's body breaking down, some of it was others in the company gaining power and limiting what he could do, and some of it was paranoia on Austin's part.

 

I still recall the WWE magazine right after he walked out where they had quotes from pretty much everyone on the entire roster burying him for leaving, with ridiculous stuff like Undertaker saying he never thought much of him.

[Strummer]

so Chris Jericho is leaving WWE again. For the most part I would call the last 3 years a success where he cut some of the best promos of his career and had some intriguing personal feuds

 

I think he'll be back but I have no idea what's left for him to do

[rovert]

so Chris Jericho is leaving WWE again. For the most part I would call the last 3 years a success where he cut some of the best promos of his career and had some intriguing personal feuds

 

I think he'll be back but I have no idea what's left for him to do

Lets see what his next book says about Vince and Hunter first.

[artDDP]

Maybe cynicism has taken over, but all I could think watching that was that this was during the time period when Steve Austin could no longer wrestle and his GM role had run its course, so he was desperately trying to find a way to be useful and hang around, and HHH got to fill his normal spot of truth-telling heel and bury his gimmick.

I agree. My recollection is Hunter only really seemed "on" when his personal feelings toward someone were bleeding through.

[jdw]

so Chris Jericho is leaving WWE again. For the most part I would call the last 3 years a success where he cut some of the best promos of his career and had some intriguing personal feuds

 

I think he'll be back but I have no idea what's left for him to do

Lets see what his next book says about Vince and Hunter first.

 

Is he working on a book at the moment with a non-WWE publisher?

 

John

[rovert]

so Chris Jericho is leaving WWE again. For the most part I would call the last 3 years a success where he cut some of the best promos of his career and had some intriguing personal feuds

 

I think he'll be back but I have no idea what's left for him to do

Lets see what his next book says about Vince and Hunter first.

 

Is he working on a book at the moment with a non-WWE publisher?

 

John

 

Same as the first book Orion publishing.

 

A Lion's Tale documented Chris Jericho's journey from small-time dreamer to big-time superstar, from Winnipeg, Canada, to undisputed WWE heavyweight champion of the world. Having achieved his wildest dreams in A Lion's Tale, Chris Jericho's sequel kicks off just as the fantasy begins to unravel. Faced with endless internal politics on his rise to the top of the WWE company ladder, Jericho has to draw on the super-human resources that got him there in the first place. There are bruising encounters aplenty both inside and outside the ring. He reveals why he temporarily left WWE, includes the inside story of his time in Hollywood, and opens the can of worms that is life on the road with Fozzy. He also re-visits the premature birth of his twins and the pain of his mother's death, as well as the shock of Eddy Guerrero's and the Benoit family deaths. As upfront and outspoken as A Lion's Tale, the sequel is outspoken and direct as the man himself.

Release date: 17 Feb 2011

 

PWInsider reviewed a draft of the book posting quotes but only to take them down:

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/8/11/161...aring-about-the

[kjh]

I'm sure Jericho will be shrewd enough to be very careful about what he says about Vince, Hunter, Stephanie, et al. That doesn't mean they still won't be pissed off by what he has to say.

[Loss]

Jericho did say there are some amazing stories in the book about fights he has had with Vince over the years. He also said that there are some guys that will come across as villains, and he hopes they don't take it personally, because he has no resentment toward anyone now, but wanted to describe how he felt at the time. That screams HHH to me, but we'll see.

 

Jericho has always been very involved in crafting his promos and putting together his angles, and he also has a rep for being pretty outspoken. Most WWE guys aren't like that, so it doesn't surprise me that they had some bumps in the road.

 

I recall when Stephanie was defending Jericho when he came back and didn't catch fire like they thought he would initially, which makes me think Stephanie probably was one of his bigger supporters, maybe going back to all the screen time they shared years ago. I would say that she probably did more TV segments with Jericho than maybe even HHH. Either way, it's close.

 

Of course, that didn't stop her from going out of her way to wear high heels in 2002 in every segment when they were briefly paired to show that she was taller than Jericho.

[Bix]

This is amazing.

 

So you know how tons of people refer to PWInsider.com as PWSpyware.com for obvious reasons?

 

Guess what domain (along w/ the .net equivilent) Scherer bought last year and redirects to PWI.

[Strummer]

I can't remember where it was reported but I recall there being news about Stephanie loving to do those little segments with Jericho and encouraging the writers to come up with more of them

 

they did a ton of them in summer/fall 2001

[kjh]

This is amazing.

 

So you know how tons of people refer to PWInsider.com as PWSpyware.com for obvious reasons?

 

Guess what domain (along w/ the .net equivilent) Scherer bought last year and redirects to PWI.

I think we should keep coming up with new names, so that Scherer has more domains to buy.

[Bix]

An open letter to the staff of PWInsider, a site that infects visitors' computers with spyware.

[Kronos]

hey, gang, I may be going through some of the really old Matches posts -- especially the ones for a specific year -- a Bumping them with new comments/reviews. Some of them go back 5 years, but that section is so quiet.

 

Hope it's cool. Obviously, I want to try to add something worthwhile -- but even if no one's reading them, I shall still get to practice.

[jdw]

Someone should quickly register PWDouchebags.com

 

John

[Coffey]

It probably should be its own thread, but WWE Night of Champions was really good, in my opinion. I liked Dolph Ziggler/Kofi Kingston a lot. I'm digging Kaitlyn & Vickie Guerrero a lot. Although the ending was sort of abrupt, The Big Show/C.M. Punk was also entertaining. The Women's/Divas match was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. The main event was fun, with what I think was the right guy going over (you can't deny how popular Orton is). Plus, Kane/Undertaker did a lot to advance that storyline (although I wasn't terribly high on the match) and Daniel Bryan/The Miz was a great match with an unexpected ending.

 

I will probably pick up the official Night of Champions DVD. It was a good show. I liked the outcome to every single match, which is rare for me.

[artDDP]

Jericho did say there are some amazing stories in the book about fights he has had with Vince over the years. He also said that there are some guys that will come across as villains, and he hopes they don't take it personally, because he has no resentment toward anyone now, but wanted to describe how he felt at the time. That screams HHH to me, but we'll see.

 

What, no chance it could be Taka Michinoku?

[rovert]

Anyone think of DEAN's Bruce Hart impression when T.J. was on headseats tonight?

 

Daniel Bryan stole Del Ray's music.

[kjh]

Jericho did say there are some amazing stories in the book about fights he has had with Vince over the years. He also said that there are some guys that will come across as villains, and he hopes they don't take it personally, because he has no resentment toward anyone now, but wanted to describe how he felt at the time. That screams HHH to me, but we'll see.

What, no chance it could be Taka Michinoku?

Given that the big villains in his first book were guys like Mil Mascaras and Vampiro, artDDP may be onto something there.

[rovert]

Punk doing his IWA-MS style commentating on NXT was really great on this week's NXT.

 

Shame about everything else.

[kjh]

I love how Percy Pringle is predictably trying to kayfabe a taped wrestling show in 2010!

[rovert]

I love how Percy Pringle is predictably trying to kayfabe a taped wrestling show in 2010!

And bless him for it.

 

He looks relatively slim in this grainy pic of his return:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2ia8msw.jpg

[sek69]

I love how Percy Pringle is predictably trying to kayfabe a taped wrestling show in 2010!

And bless him for it.

 

He looks relatively slim in this grainy pic of his return:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2ia8msw.jpg

 

 

He had a gastric bypass a few years back. The last photo I saw of him was at one of those conventions where he looked slimmer but had loose skin that made his neck look like a vagina.

[rovert]

I love how Percy Pringle is predictably trying to kayfabe a taped wrestling show in 2010!

And bless him for it.

 

He looks relatively slim in this grainy pic of his return:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2ia8msw.jpg

 

 

He had a gastric bypass a few years back. The last photo I saw of him was at one of those conventions where he looked slimmer but had loose skin that made his neck look like a vagina.

 

Im aware of the surgery as he has done a tonne of interviews and had it paid by WWE so he could come back for WM20. But when I last saw him it seemed that he put back on a lot of weight since his wife passed away.