Kronos Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Yeah, so, how bout that Bob Backlund? I hear Dave Meltzer isn't very fond of him. LOL! The more I think of it, the more I think he uses too many rest holds. What's the chicken wing thing, anyway? Would it kill the guy to throw in a standing moonsault or a half-nelson suplex now and then (or is that a suplait)? Sheesh. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 I hear he was a mongoloid or an autist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Is it true that Stevie Richard faked his neck injury in '97 to jump to WCW with Raven? Wikipedia states that he was fired from for not passing a physical, which makes me think it was at least partially legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Yeah, so, how bout that Bob Backlund? I hear Dave Meltzer isn't very fond of him. LOL! The more I think of it, the more I think he uses too many rest holds. What's the chicken wing thing, anyway? Would it kill the guy to throw in a standing moonsault or a half-nelson suplex now and then (or is that a suplait)? Sheesh. . . Frankly, I'm starting to think that they should've left the belt on Superstar Graham. I mean, he was drawing so well, whereas Backlund is only drawing well because of his opponents. I mean, yeah, he sold out MSG against Bobby Duncum, but where hasn't Bobby Duncum sold out the house? Graham managed to draw big attendance numbers against nobodies like Dusty Rhodes and Mil Mascaras. Big mistake on Vince McMahon's part. I hope when his son takes over, he'll replace Bob with a similarly charismatic star of questionable workrate. You'll never see me complain about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronos Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Is it true that Stevie Richard faked his neck injury in '97 to jump to WCW with Raven? Wikipedia states that he was fired from for not passing a physical, which makes me think it was at least partially legit. I don't know about Stevie, but I once faked a cold so I could miss work. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indikator Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Wasn't he paralyzed mid-match? That would be an awesome con job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 I think the match is a little overrated because of the historical impact, but criticizing the booking, considering the boom it created? Really? I agree that the "quality" of the match has long been overrated. But the angle remains gold, and a massive amount of the match is about the angle. It's hard to factor in the angles from the two big Kerry-Flair matches of 1982 from the quality of the matches. One almost could split them into ****1/2+ for the angles and something else for the match quality. I like the quality of August match a bit better, and the angle of the December match is hard to argue with given what comes after it. But this is SKeith, and he's an idiot. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 It was a guest reviewer, not Keith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I'd like to apologize to SKeith for blaming that review in him. SKeith is still an idiot, though. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I still need why "SKeith" is a biting insult explained to me, though. Is it because "Skeith" sorta sounds like "skeeve?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I still need why "SKeith" is a biting insult explained to me, though. Is it because "Skeith" sorta sounds like "skeeve?" I always thought it was just shorthand used by people who don't take him seriously. Never thought it was meant as an insult itself. That's what "Scooter" is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I always thought it was just shorthand used by people who don't take him seriously. Never thought it was meant as an insult itself. That's what "Scooter" is for. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I'm pretty sure that someone, maybe John, said at some point that it was supposed to be an insult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Morris Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 So just checking an old thread out of curiosity and Loss brings up the old "fantasy booking" that was on Rantsylvania. Some of us later found out the guy doing it was 14 years old, and if I'm not mistaken, he had been contributing to 1wrestling.com. I have no idea why I'm bringing this up... I just am. (I could also mention that I was one of those who wrote at The Shooters and joined others in making fun of that fantasy booking.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I'm pretty sure that someone, maybe John, said at some point that it was supposed to be an insult. Nah. People read too much into it. As Loss said, just short hand. There were/are too many other Scotts and Keiths in wrestling fandom to run the risk of insulting when pointing out that SKeith is an idiot. SKeith is nice, short, is unique for him, has a little bit of color when you pronunce it... fit well. "Mr. Schemer" is the one that's an insult, though it allegedly started out innocently enough. The person who came up with it said it was a typo... and he first used it in an e-mail with Dave. But when you look at the layout of a keyboard, it's hard to see how an M gets in there in the place of an R. Maybe a feudian typo, but it was pretty fitting given Dave. I though "Herb" was pretty funny, though I'm far too nice and respectful to use it. It was pretty funny in origin, and is pretty "Dave". John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 Details plz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Evil Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Details plz. It's a nice picture of the Undertaker hugging Sherri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 It's the Undertaker in gimmick but out of character in a posed photo that looks to be professionally shot. I'm curious as to what led to it being taken and/or released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Looks like Dave is now going to be doing multiple audio shows a week and the Observer will now be available to subscribers of the F4W site. F4W/Wrestling Observer Merger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Details plz. Not a juicy story, or Dave being an ass or an idiot. Just that it's fitted the way he tends to things like this. "Herb" is Dave's father. It was his father's e-mail address that Dave used when he went online. Likely became 99% filled with Dave related stuff, so it simply because Dave's while his father went off and got another one. A decade later, Dave is still using it rather than getting a freebie like a GMail address (or several to split business from non-business). In the sense that if you've known him as a friend and how his mind works on stuff like this, it fits him to a T. Kind of absent minded professor, not really asking anyone in a serious way how to do something, and then finding something that "works for me" and sticking with it long past the freshness date. Like I said... not a juicy story. My comment about being too nice and respectful to use the name "Herb" for Dave like a lot of people do is because I knew it's his Dad. My dealings with Mr. and Mrs. Meltzer over the years found them both to be really, really, really nice people. Family means a lot to him, and with a pair of very good parents, I understand why. So it's not a nickname I can use for Dave. Just be wrong for me. "Schemer" was from Travis, supposedly an accident in an e-mail conversation. His crack when pasing it along was that the typo completely went over the heads of the Bob.com duo he was talking with, or that what they wanted out of him meant so much at the time that they pretended no to notice. We (the several people at tOA that Travis shared it with) thought it was funny enough to start using. In hindsight, I'm not sure why we didn't look down at the keyboard and notice where the "m" is in relation to the "r" and realize that Travis was pulling our legs on the "accidentally" part. Nothing juicy there, though something going over Scherer's head *or* him ignoring something because he's looking to get something out of you... that's Scherer to a T. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 John, I was asking for details about Undertaker shooting a semi-out of character photo at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Meanwhile, aww: http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/hornfathersdaycard/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 John, I was asking for details about Undertaker shooting a semi-out of character photo at that point. "Never mind" John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Wow, they're REALLY putting a lot into Jericho's heel turn. Having him sideline Michaels, bringing Flair back to do a segment, and sacrificing both HHH and Cena in order to build his heat right before a pay-per-view. Where was this push years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 What happened to DVDVR? Someone forget to pay the bills or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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