sek69 Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Is this another one of those weird Dave blind spots where he won't hear any bad talk about someone who everyone else dislikes? I haven't seen anyone else not say Bruce is full of shit at best if not borderline crazy at worst. Dave seems to give him way more benefit of the doubt that he would anyone else on the same subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Bruce Hart is on with Dave & Bryan on this Wednesday. Poor Dave. Unlistenable. Lance Storm really buried Bruce on the following edition of the show. With Todd Martin on the other end of line which made it more great as he had defended Bruce and the book on the forum and on another radio show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 What did Storm say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 What did Storm say? This may shock you but Bruce is a deceitful carny. Todd asked Lance his impressions of Bruce Hart he said he didnt know him really well, Lance said he tried to listen to the Bruce interview while sitting in a car waiting for a plane to land and gave up listening after 20-30 minutes to instead watch the stars in the night sky for more excitement. Bryan explained that the show with Bruce was taped at midnight. Lance said that he has had conversations with him in past and it takes forever to get to his point. Lance said he didnt anything against Bruce but hasnt had the greatest experiences with him. Lance said between WCW and WWE he did four shows for Bruce for Stampede. Lance and Bruce did a radio show for PR for the shows and Bruce spent the interview talking about he had a relationship with WWE now meaning in the future fans would see the Rock, Austin etc on Stampede shows. Lance felt that Bruce was coming across as someone who was full of shit and sabotaging the forthcoming shows that weekend feeling people would save their money for when the Rock was coming in. He told Bruce specificly that there was a slim chance that WWE may want him for the KOTR PPV and it was up to Bruce then whether he wanted to advertise him for that Sunday. Bruce said that was ok. But Bruce went ahead and advertised him and Lance got the call from WWE to be at KOTR. Lance told Ross Hart that he was doing the PPV. When Lance called WWE offices he was told that Bruce called WWE to tell them Lance made a commitment to be at the Stampede show Sunday and got Lance canceled off the KOTR AND Johhny Ace told Lance that they were going to bring in Lance for Raw as well but Bruce told WWE there was a Monday show which Lance was booked on but there was no Monday show for Stampede..... On a funny note Lance was asked by Bryan about how the Sunday show went and Lance replied that the ring showed up 45 minutes late and the posters promoting the show arrived an hour after the ring. So Lance missed the KOTR PPV for a show that drew 40. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Bryan Alverez was on Lagana's podcast. He said Death of WCW sold 5,000 copies. Even with the rollout of e-readers that is pretty impressive five years after publication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Is that over the lifetime of the product? It was released back in 2004, I think. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 He said it sold 5000 copies last year alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Not bad at all in an era when (i) books are spotty in selling, and (ii) WCW has been dead for a decade. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Sorry jdw should have been a lot clearer. I would have thought 5,000 total too as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilclown Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Is that over the lifetime of the product? It was released back in 2004, I think. John His is the best selling book in the history of the company. He's done very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It's the best-selling non-WWE wrestling book, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It's the best-selling non-WWE wrestling book, I believe.Bret Hart and and Chris Jericho made the NY Times' Best Seller List. Jericho did it twice. Biggest non-WWE book that didn't make the NY Times' Best Seller List I could believe but 5,000 copies in 2010 alone (not sure how many of those are through official channels and how many are for the signed copies he sells, as he rather cockily bragged about the success of the latter recently) really sounds like a lot, even knowing what Dylan told me about B&N making sure that stores keep it in stock. I can see it having staying power to a degree ("Hey, I liked WCW...") but that's a hell of a lot, especially when there's a WWE retail DVD that only sold 13,000 copies (Superstar Graham's). Could a lot of this be the Kindle/Nook effect? A big part of those devices is impulse buying while you're bored, especially since you can do it anywhere if you have a reader with a EVDO or 3G cell antenna (which was all of them until last Summer, when both Amazon and B&N unveiled Wi-Fi only models). It's available from the Kindle and Nook stores, as well as a number of other ebook stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kowking Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It's the best-selling non-WWE wrestling book, I believe.Bret Hart and and Chris Jericho made the NY Times' Best Seller List. Jericho did it twice. Biggest non-WWE book that didn't make the NY Times' Best Seller List I could believe but 5,000 copies in 2010 alone (not sure how many of those are through official channels and how many are for the signed copies he sells, as he rather cockily bragged about the success of the latter recently) really sounds like a lot, even knowing what Dylan told me about B&N making sure that stores keep it in stock. I can see it having staying power to a degree ("Hey, I liked WCW...") but that's a hell of a lot, especially when there's a WWE retail DVD that only sold 13,000 copies (Superstar Graham's). Could a lot of this be the Kindle/Nook effect? A big part of those devices is impulse buying while you're bored, especially since you can do it anywhere if you have a reader with a EVDO or 3G cell antenna (which was all of them until last Summer, when both Amazon and B&N unveiled Wi-Fi only models). It's available from the Kindle and Nook stores, as well as a number of other ebook stores. Did Superstar's only sell 13K? That's amazing. Where'd you read that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 I don't remember exactly where I heard it but it was credible and explains a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It definitely tanked I do know that at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilclown Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It's the best-selling non-WWE wrestling book, I believe.Bret Hart and and Chris Jericho made the NY Times' Best Seller List. Jericho did it twice. That's fairly meaningless. There are books in the genre that made the NYT list that Alvarez has sold 10 times more than. Lots of major publisher releases sell a few thousand copies in the first week, make the tail end of the NYT list and are never heard from again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Graham's DVD tanking isn't that surprising given that they never pushed it hard on TV and it was one of the few WWE DVDs not published in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Did Graham's latest fallout with WWE happen before or after that DVD came out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 It's the best-selling non-WWE wrestling book, I believe.Bret Hart and and Chris Jericho made the NY Times' Best Seller List. Jericho did it twice. That's fairly meaningless. There are books in the genre that made the NYT list that Alvarez has sold 10 times more than. Lots of major publisher releases sell a few thousand copies in the first week, make the tail end of the NYT list and are never heard from again. How many copies in a week does it take to hit the best seller list? And which wrestling books have made the list: 1st 2 Foley, Rock, Bret, both Jericho, Flair I think...what were the others...Chyna and Angle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 I would be interested in which NYT Best Selling wrestling books WrestleCrap outsold. Data source as well. Is the book business similar to the box office data where we can go look things up at someplace like BoxOfficeMojo? That would be fab. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Babinsack writes a blow by blow play by play of the WSU iPPV which is about the length of the Observer: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/19707/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kowking Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Re-reading 1/15/93 WON: Pimpinela Escarlata is expected to be the next Negro Casas, according to Meltzer Er, anyone wanna shed some light on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Babinsack writes a blow by blow play by play of the WSU iPPV which is about the length of the Observer: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/19707/ He's the Observer's Green Lantern Fan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I know Babinsack is as low-hanging as low-hanging fruit can get on the internet, but there's nothing about that writeup that doesn't convince me his walls aren't covered in pictures of WSU girls like some kind of women athlete Beautiful Mind deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Speaking of WO.com and girls, anyone else notice how often that pic of Christy Hemme ends up on the front page? It's almost like the default photo unless some breaking news happens. Perhaps Bryan has a secret redhead fetish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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