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Tenay:"He just threw him off the ramp!" Yeah, we know. Don't forget Don West's always present during an AJ Styles match, "HE HIT HIM WITH THE PELE!"

I think Sun [Phoenix area sports station] and the Fight Network in Canada also air Xplosion. As far as I know that's about it.

uh... he meant K-Krush, aka K-Kwik, aka Ron Killings, aka R-Truth

I hear ya on the Xplosion. It's the one TNA show I want to watch but cannot. Damn you TNA!!!!

Agreed. He held probably a thousand Memphis territory titles in his career. I always liked Lawler though. Hell I grew up watching him at the city park. He was involved in some of the best feuds I've ever seen, mainly Austin Idol. It's a shame that Memphis never had good quality videos of the "Big" matches. They always occurred at the Mid-South Coliseum where they had the shittiest camera crew ever. A lot of the major matches are pretty much unwatchable by today's standards.

Ted is 3rd gen as well.

Don't know how you feel about it's legit World Title status, but Lawler also held the World Class World Title. He won it in a unification match against Kerry Von Erich after defeating Curt Hennig for the AWA strap.

I would mark out bigger than shit if the E brought in Nana!

Guess they're gonna hold off the Intercontinental Championship match for the Punk/Rey winner for the Rumble huh? But judging by the way they got the tag titles off Punk & Kofi so soon, might it happen tonight?

Does he know Prince Nana? Nana would be pissed if he knew that Kofi was teaming with Punk. Nana would be very much pissed if he knew that. But, judging from the comments Nana made during his surprise return about 6 weeks ago, he has many reasons to be pissed off. Just a couple, He's wanting a job in Ring of Honor again because he's tired of driving yellow taxi cab. He misses shrimp cocktails.

Yea, I remember that. They dropped the belts to Benjamin and Haas wasn't it?

Not saying it cuz he's Jamaican, just cuz Punk's straight edge. I really didn't think either of them would be down with that kind of thing. Hopefully they just dropped the belts cuz Punk's getting the IC title.

Gotta be something to it. Pretty sure Punk wouldn't fail a wellness check, the guy wouldn't even take pain killers when he fractured his skull. Could it be Kofi?

A. Performer Of The Year - the best overall combination of someone who can back it up in the ring but can entertain on promos. 1. Nigel McGuiness 2. Chris Jericho 3. CM Punk B. Wrestler Of The Year - the wrestler who can best work a technical match. Though part of "working" is the ability to entertain a crowd (this is why Hulk Hogan can never be called a bad worker - bad mat technician yes, but the man could work a crowd), this is meant for those who may not be over with Casual Joe, but Hardcore Henry says he's the greatest of all time. 1. Nigel McGuiness 2. Bryan Danielson 3. Chris Jericho C. Entertainer Of The Year - while everyone is eligable of course, the idea here is that just because all their matches are about * or less, you find them to be a guilty pleasure or hilarious or what not. I already know who the winner is but we'll go through the motions. 1. Santino Marella 2. Charlie Hass 3. Rhett Titus D. Tag-Team Of The Year: 1. El Generico & Kevin Steen 2. Miz & Morrison 3. Briscoes E. PPV Of The Year: 1. WWE Summerslam 2. ROH Driven 2008 3. WWE WrestleMania F. Match Of The Year: 1. Kevin Steen & El Generico VS Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black - ROH Driven 2008 2. Chris Jericho VS Shawn Michaels - Ladder Match from No Way Out 3. Nigel McGuiness VS Claudio Castagnoli - ROH New Horizons G. Best Television Show Of The Year: 1. ECW 2. Raw 3. Smackdown H. Smart-Mark Out Moment Of The Year: 1. CM Punk winning the WWE Championship I. DVD Of The Year (note: The SummerSlam Anthology is eligible for this): 1. SummerSlam Anthology 2. Viva La Raza : The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero 3. The History of the Intercontinental Championship J. Feud Of The Year: 1. Chris Jericho VS Shawn Michaels 2. Bryan Danielson VS Nigel McGuiness 3. Austin Aries VS The Age of the Fall K. Angle Of The Year: 1. The Age of the Fall L. Non-Match / Segment Of The Year: 1. Flair Sendoff on Raw M. Female Of The Year (either for wrestling ability or because you find them hot, I don't care): 1. Beth Phoenix 2. MsChif 3. Kelly Kelly N. Announcer / Colour Commentator Of The Year (one or the other): 1. Matt Striker WORST OF: A. Least Entertaining Wrestler (Don't use the "Best Of" classifications, this is for the person who you hate to see in the ring because you find no redeeming entertainment value with them - it probably goes without saying they can't wrestle): 1. Brent Albright 2. Snitsky 3. Lance Hoyt B. Worst Interviews/Promos/Non-wrestling Segments: 1. Kane 2. Michelle McCool 3. Abyss C. Worst Tag Team Of The Year: 1. Chavo Guerrero & Bam Neely D. Worst PPV Of The Year: 1. Cyber Sunday E. Worst Match Of The Year: 1. Frank Trigg vs AJ Styles F. Worst Television Show Of The Year: 1. TNA Impact G. 2008's "Embarrassed to be a Wrestling Fan" Moment: 1. Frank Trigg's attempt at Pro-Wrestling H. Worst / Most Disappointing DVD Of The Year: 1. The Life and Times of Mr. Perfect I. Worst Feud: 1. Undertaker vs Big Show J. Worst Angle: 1. Paul & Katie Lea Birchall K. Worst Announcer / Colour Commentator (one or the other): 1. DON WEST L. Worst Non-Match/Segment Of The Year: 1. N/A M. Worst Female Of The Year 1. Michelle McCool

I have been noticing that they run a whole lot more dvd sales than they used to. There's almost constantly a huge sale going on in the ROH shop. I really hope that ROH doesn't go under. For 6 years now it's been the saving grace of American wrestling.

Ok, I'm pretty disappointed with the Kane dvd. It's in a cardboard case that's not even the size of a normal dvd case. It folds out like the other 3 disc E cardboard cases, but instead of having the hard plastic disc holders, it just has slits cut into the cardboard to slide the discs in and out of. Guess it figures his dvd would be screwed up seeing as how his brother, Taker's Tombstone set had all 3 discs on one holder.

The local Best Buy here has their TNA dvd's $6.99. They only had 7 different titles. Global Impact, Best of Bloodiest Brawls and 5 2008 ppvs.

Yea, I read the other day on Hero's Wikipedia page that he was the PWG Champ. The guy deserves accolades, but if they're not running shows but 2 to 3 times a year it's a pretty pointless accomplishment. I had no idea Top Gun was one of the owners. Any idea what he's doing now? I used to keep up with him through his Myspace page, but he deleted his account a little over a year ago if I'm not mistaken. Said something about his gimmick and who he really was were too close and it was causing problems. That may be why he got out of the spotlight altogether.

Wow. I wondered what had been going on with PWG. Haven't really heard anything out of them in quite a while. They still work Top Gun Talwar? That guy always reminded me of Colt Cabana...cough...cough....I meant Scotty Goldman

Nice. About time someone stood up to ol JBL. But Joey Styles? Never saw that coming.

Alright VKM, when can start expecting my royalty checks to arrive? Guess someone in the E actually reads these things, huh?

Man that listing for SNME is awesome. Definitely a must have. Thanks for posting it!

Agreed. Why do they stink with those guys. I can't think of anyone off the top of my head that would be worse. They should let Beer Money do commentary. James Storm always finds a way to crack me up.

Shows how much attention I've been paying to TNA lately. I was not even aware they had a ppv tonight.

from the ROH Board My notes on the show. Pre-show matches were horrendous. Shawn Schultz is a great worker, but it's hard to pull off anything wrestling Ninja Blue. As for the second pre-show match and the Boogie Woogie Boy, all I can say is UGH. Briscoes & Kenny Omega VS Kenny King, Sal Rinauro & Rhett Titus - Briscoes entered to a huge pop. The first 4 minutes or so of this match were hot with everyone brawling outside the ring. After that though it was pretty tame. The Briscoes didn't hit hardly any of their spots leading me to think they were probably banged up from the night before. Kenny Omega hit the suicide dive of the night though and garnered a huge pop. After the match the Haze came out and confronted Rhett Titus once again. Titus continued to claim that he and the Haze "Got it on" until the Necro Butcher came down to the ring [to a huge pop]. Titus then admitted that he in fact did not get it on with the Haze and further admitted that he was in fact a virgin, which elicited the predictable "You're a Virgin" chant. Delirious VS Alex "Sugarfoot" Payne - Delirous coming out with Jimmy Jacobs got hardly any heat or any reaction at all. Jacobs however received a good amount of emo and huss chants. Ol Sugarfoot got a pretty good reaction. The match was so-so. Some fan up in the bleachers continuously yelled out "[insert random action verb here] him Retardo". That got rather annoying pretty quick. Over the course of the match the Nashville crowd warmed up to Delirious and his odd antics. Shadows over hell looked rather impressive. Ashley Lane VS Serena Deeb VS Daizee Haze VS Sara Del Ray - Deeb and The Haze got pretty good pops as expected. Del Ray and Deeb opened the match and whenever these two were in the ring together it was pretty awesome. They work each other very well. The Haze had hardly any ring time in this match and poor Ashley Lane took some nasty bumps to the head. At one point toward the end Del Ray was attempting to pin Lane and The Haze flew off the top rope with a dropkick to Del Ray's face, landing on Ashley Lane's head. Immediately following this, Del Ray hit Lane with the Royal Butterfly with Lane again taking a bad head bump. Del Ray immediately covered Lane for the victory. Lane was laid out in the ring for a few before being carried to the back. Davey Richards & Larry Sweeney VS Erick Stevens & Brent Albright - Sweet and Sour entered to a pretty decent Bobby Dempsey chant. All managers/seconds were barred from ringside in this one so when they tried to run Sweeney off he instead took this as a chance to further humiliate Bobby Dempsey. He pretty much told him he was worthless and sent him to the back. Pretty good match with Richards and Stevens spending the majority of the time in the ring. Sweeney hardly broke a sweat. Richards was holding Albright for Sweeney to nail him with a chair, but at the last second Albright ducked and Richard's took the shot. Albright covered him for the pin. On a side note, the aforementioned guy that kept calling Delirious Retardo, kept calling Sweeney Sheila in this match. Grizzly Redwood & Bushwhacker Luke VS Irish Airborne - Of course the faces got a pretty good pop. Pretty dismal match with nothing really exciting happening. All of our pain and suffering were ended when Grizzly Redwood put Luke in a headlock and performed the ol Bushwhacker battering ram. Austin Aries and Necro Butcher VS Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black - Both Aries and Black received pretty good chants during their entrances and at various time during the match. Back and forth match with Black taking a pretty sick pair of knees to the face from Aries when he attempted to kip up from the headscissors with his patented dropkick. The match just broke down and ended up with a lot of brawling outside the ring. Necro hit his moonsault from the top rope to the outside before the ref counted both teams out. Bryan Danielson VS Claudio Castagnoli - AmDrag got huge pops while Claudio got the predictable "Hey". This match was really good. AmDrag hit like 3 suicide dives to the outside in a row before Claudio picked up a chair on the final one and hit Danielson in the head. The chair busted Danielson open pretty good as within seconds he was drenched in blood. Claudio then took the belt off the ref and whipped Danielson with it. Match was very back and forth with Claudio hitting the backdrop into the European and a Ricola Bomb and Danielson hitting Claudio with the MMA Strikes and getting him in the Cattle Mutilation. Match finally ended when AmDrag took the belt and wrapped it around Claudio's neck before putting him in the Triangle. Pretty hot match that got the crowd really going. ROH World Championship - Nigel McGuiness VS Jerry Lynn - Pop of the night went to Jerry Lynn. This may have been the best match of Jerry Lynn's career. It was back and forth throughout with lots of near falls and lots of sick high impact moves for both men. Lynn attempted a suicide dive but it looked like he powerbombed himself on the floor from where I was sitting. Match finally ended when Nigel got out of the second cradle piledriver, rolled up Lynn and put his feet on the ropes for the 3 count. I cannot wait for the dvd of this show so I can watch this match again. After the match Nigel told Jerry Lynn that he was a never was. He also told him that no one in the back wanted to wrestle him because they were afraid they'd put him in the hospital for the rest of his life. Overall it was an awesome show. The crowd looked to be between 600-700, which I was thinking was pretty good for their first ever visit to Nashville. The crowd was sort of blah at the start of the show, but they warmed up to the ROH style. Hopefully, ROH will be back in Nashville as we drove 4 hours to go and that's the closest they've ever came to here.