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FYI, these were the shows I was talking about before in how they taped these in Rochester, MN ad nauseum, went to many of these tapings, they were brutally hard to sit through since they taped five hours in a row once a week (I think they did them on Saturdays). As you could probably see, the lights are extremely lowered because there really wasn't that many people at this shows, especially as they went on. When they first started doing weekly shows, they papered the shit out of these shows until they thought enough would come back and pay next time around, well they didn't. If I recall, tickets were real cheap, I think $5 for general admission and ringside was $10. Be prepared for some ridiculous shit, the show from Thursday already proved that with very odd gimmick matches. I just have watched bits and pieces of the last few shows, but I'm sure I'll post more on them when I catch up, as I probably will recollect things from seeing these horrible shows. One thing I did notice though, some really shitty production values with Bischoff doing the interviews behind a shitty looking bluescreen. Definately showed the company was about to go under here. And I forgot about that god awful announcer with Lee Marshall, ugh!

Here's more nonsense about this from that same site that was referenced. UPDATED: I'm told that Mike Myers has started writing Austin Powers 4 which will be an homage to his late father. "It's very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life," an insider tells me. As Myers has previously said, this fourth installment of the super spy spoof movie series will focus on Austin's arch-villain Dr. Evil, who was based on Blofeld of the Bond films. But what hasn't been known is that the AP4 plot is really about Dr. Evil and his son (introduced already as Scott Evil, played by Seth Green). (NEW) Myers said this week he conceived the film’s plot during a “spiritual quest” of self-discovery to help him cope with his dad’s death in 1991 following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. And it was during this time in his life that he said he was inspired to create the character of The Love Guru. “In many ways, The Love Guru is honouring him by dealing with his loss, because making silly movies is how I deal with things.” Myers is penning his idea with Baby Mama's Mike McCullers, who collaborated with Myers on Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers 3: Goldmember. There's no deal in place yet but New Line is panting after No. 4 despite Myer's recent box office bomb, The Love Guru, for Paramount. But does Myers realize he may no longer be a draw? (Probably not. Before the pic opened, he reportedly made diva demands from Conan O'Brien staffers last month for stupid stuff like Twizzlers and raspberry seltzer. Ugh.) Interestingly, I'm told that Myers had a character in the original Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery script called The Love Guru but decided not to shoot it and then wrote it out of the series. Nevertheless, when Paramount decided to make The Love Guru, it demanded that New Line sign a pledge that it had no claims to the character.

Hey I thought that Waynes World sketch at the Movie Awards was great, cmon now.

Exactly. There's no way they will do an Austin Powers 4 after what essentially was an Austin Powers extension of things with the Love Guru totally tanked. Suffice to say, that and XFiles are the two biggest bombs of the summer, well those and Meet Dave too. I don't really buy that the Austin Powers franchise "made" New Line Cinema either. Sure it definately got them to another level, and LOTR took that about ten steps farther, but in reality, I've always heard the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is what really got New Line off the ground and into the bigtime.

So far, all of the photos and footage I've seen of this reminds me of the TCM remakes, which I dont think is a good thing. While I didn't mind the first TCM, that prequal/sequal they made was just stupid. Needless to say, I don't expect to be blown away by this remake at all, so sick of them doing these, especially Platinum Dunes particularly, who seem to have a knack to create a formula with all of these remakes that are so similar to the next in the look and execution of the remakes. I actually would probably be more hopeful for it if someone, ANYONE, other than PD did this. I just wish they would get off the remake train completely and just do another Freddy vs Jason and leave it at that. Have Wes Craven and Sean Cuttingham work together on the project and just have the same guys who wrote Freddy v. Jason do another solid script. And have Kane Hodder and Robert Englund duel it out, it aint rocket science. Give all the Freddy and Jason fanatics one last film to really put a final conclusion to both series of films, bring back old names from the past films, such as Tommy Jarvis and Alice, Nancy, etc, from the Elm Street films. Tie it all in and it would work, making a good majority of the fans of past films satisfied. PD is also doing a Elm Street remake, which I'm sure will be some of the same shit they have churned out so far.

Figured as much, typical bait and switch promoter shit.

Some of the ppv match announcements could, I suppose, be spoiler tagged, and I can change such if its an issue. Sans with the finish regarding Tomko.

Of course they do, but you have to figure in the 25th Mania and the build it deserves. With nothing draw-worthy on the horizon, it makes sense to go back to the old draws of yesteryear to try to really get a strong buzz for the show. Ultimately, I think there will be alot of respect given to the Texas workers like Michaels, Taker, JBL, etc as well.

All he did was put up a stink about apparently having to job in some capacity in a match, I don't see how its anything but a bad thing since it's Nash being Nash and nobody gives this idiot boundaries or repercussions for his unprofessional actions. It really is nothing more than that. What should Nash be "having enough" of anyway, theres nothing that needs to be changed for the better or worse other than Nash most certainly NOT being put over Joe in their subsequent title match down the road here, and in addition Nash better put him over like crazy and not do some half ass job. This guy has never changed from way back in the WCW days, still the titbaby he ever was. Oh and one little other news item, no womens title match at the next ppv, its just going to be Love, Sky, and Kong v. Kim, ODB, and Taylor in a six woman tag.

Goofy turn in the Val/Dutt deal, but nothing surprises me with that storyline anymore. There was reportedly some sort of gauntlet match that was supposed to be taped as well (this was the match that Nash was balking at the finish of) but perhaps the reports got twisted and he was supposed to be in the eight man weapons match or something? I think its a huge mistake to break up Sabin and Shelley, by the way.

To follow up on the Nash story, from tnawrestlingnews.com.... According to a new report, Kevin Nash walking out on last night's iMPACT! taping was a clash with management over a finish to a Gauntlet match set to air next week on Spike TV. (It's weird, BTW, that the spoilers aren't even online for this taping yet at all) Nash quietly left the taping, but it appears everything has blown over and that he is still with the company. ---- As for Tomko, this was writing on the wall so to speak. He was constantly favoring his Japan schedule over TNA (and probably rightfully so, more money likely) and reportedly turned down numerous requests to do this and that in creative. One would assume he jobbed to Morgan at the taping last night, but that's hard to say. EDIT - He ended up jobbing to Joe in an eight man tag, makes sense. ---- On another side note, Dustin Rhodes appears to be officially done with the company since his profile is off their website now.

The only thing that seems like a possibility to me at this point is HHH/Taker, title vs career or something. I could totally see them begging both Hogan and Austin back, first and foremost to try to find one last hope for a match between the two (99 percent chance of not happening) and when that goes south again, I could see Cena/Hogan or Cena/Austin as a possibility. Either Austin or Hogan could get put in against Batista or Edge easily as well. I wouldn't at all be shocked to see them try to lure Rock back as well for one last shot as well since this is the 25th Mania, probably against Orton, or Michaels against Rock would be great. Again though, very slim to none that Rock coming back will even happen. Great in theory though. If they did Cena or Batista/Austin, Edge or Cena or Batista/Hogan, and Rock/Orton or Michaels, that would be huge for Mania 25. Punk/Hardy or Punk/HBK could be a possibility as well, but it's way too early to judge if Punk will even still be champion by the end of the year, much less until Mania. They may hold on Hardy for a long time and just give him the MITB match here, too. Which, if that happens, I would push for a heel Punk against Michaels or something like that.

I'm actually thinking it might have more to do with Paul Bearer than Vince, given I am pretty sure his old mask is what's in the bag.....

Oh wow, tonight's show may have been the best AWA show I've seen so far on ESPNC, it was fucking great. First, the segments they did at some junky looking bar in Minneapolis called Jukebox Saturday Night on New Year's Eve 1987 were fucking gold. It was all just surreal, Nelson was getting a good buzz on, and then interviewed half tanked guys like Wahoo (who cut the most driveling promo I've ever seen him do), Rockers, Mitch Snow, and then being surrounded by goofy looking drunks who are trying to get on TV on top of it. The ending segment with a clearly drunk Larry Nelson in a dunk tank with a super young Eric Bischoff holding the microphone for him while he was in the tank was hilarious, I guess Eric didn't lie when he said for those first few years he was pretty much a gopher for Gagne. This was likely his first on screen appearance in wrestling, well over two years after he actually was on TV regularly, essentially taking over Nelson's role in spots. On top of all this, Jerry Sags, who I don't even think was working for the AWA at this point (they came in later in 88), was constantly walking around in the background of the promo Nelson did with Wahoo in the bar, trying to get his face on TV. My guess is he was literally just there as a fan/patron of the bar that night and tried to meet some of the AWA guys while he was there. The matches themselves were quite the shit too. Some new guy called Billy Jack Strong debuts and makes the Ultimate Warrior (who I think he was kind of loosely patterned off of) look like a fucking technical dynamo. I've never seen such a shitty, sloppy worker in a long time. Starts to give the jobber a side slam, but instead this idiot doesnt even move at all once he lifts him by his side, and then just drops him with no protection.....and then tries the move again and fucks up again. He then gives the poor jobber one of the nastiest and uncoordinated botched closelines I've seen ever, basically a hard forearm to the side of the jobbers head. They also had Gagne v. Adonis to crown the first TV champion in the most unceremoniously ridiculous fashion. The match itself has great heat, most in part thanks to Heyman, and ends by DQ when Bob Orton shows up out of nowhere to help Adonis. One would assume they have a rematch to find out who is the first champ, but instead Gagne is announced as the new TV champion, showing him in the ring less than thrilled, but acting like he is. It came off so just matter of factly. On top of that, there wasn't even a title to give to him yet. Wow......just wow! Main event of the Rockers return to the AWA was pretty good, crowd again was super hot for this match. Solid show all around, hilarious on many levels.

Haha, I love how he makes a point to end it with "more coming" like he hasn't said enough. Why is this deuchebag promoter (I think its just retarded for him to even post the email, even at Graham's suggestion) then making such a big deal about August 18? Like we're all supposed to wait on pins and needless to find out what's all been said between them. Next thing you know, he's going to charge idiots $5 to read all of their correspondence back and forth. The way I look at it, Graham cut a fucking hell of a promo on the guy.

A ten minute clip from the new Kurt Angle reality show "The Real Angle" - seems as hokey and scripted as Hogan Knows Best. Gems include Kurt briefly mentioning he cheated on Karen with another woman for two years, and the woman ended up trying to kill Karen, Kurt launching off on WWE, and Karen having problems sleeping because she's horny and Kurt won't give her any. I shit you not. http://www.horizonent.tv/screening_area/the_real_angle.html

He took the bump way wrong though, or else Henry didn't lift him up enough before he tossed him out of the ring (which didn't look to be the case). Yeah, it was a stupid bump but there is a lot safer way to take it, too.

That's fantastic Thank god he got out of the D-List Hollywood gimmick That spot with the loser wristbands was gold.

Not sure how many of us actually watch this, but they got Chris Angel Mindfreak back on now and just saw a show today that saw Angel somehow put a specific card (10 of spades I think, like it matters) inside the head of a guy that was hypnotized, and then proceeded to cut the guys bald skull open with a razor (blood flows) and graphically pull the card out from underneath his skin. Pretty sick shit here. Couldn't figure out how they did this one, and it seemed really fucked up, compared to the other stuff he does.

Shit, that fall was nasty that Delaney took, he had to have broke his arm there, or got really lucky. I frame by framed the bump on the DVR and there is a single shot that just looks sick as hell from that fall, basically looking like he even popped his shoulder out maybe. I'll have to try to upload a screen capture here.....see for yourself...

It's been a decent show so far, keeping me entertained enough. Grisham isn't anywhere near as awful as Adamle was, he's just kind of standard. Nothing he says makes you really think he's awesome, yet he doesn't fuck up often either or come off goofy. The opening promo with Hardy and Henry was alright for what it was, Matt played to his strengths on the mic about never giving up, etc, better than probably expected. Tony Atlas did a great coward heel move by talking shit to Hardy, and then quickly moving backwards, behind Henry. Was it just me or was Ortiz's ring entrance taking forever? I didn't see many even responding, ironically enough. Chavo/Ortiz was actually ok, Chavo carried him to a better match than his first, that is for sure. The ending was a little predictable, but it sets up Ortiz/Bourne-Chavo/Bam deal, probably a tag next week. Miz/Morrison was also better than I expected, since it followed a different formula of a standard tag....much better than that ppv match they had a while ago that saw the midget get continously beat down, building to the Finlay tag. This time around it was the other way, Finlay was getting beat down bigtime, the midget tagged in, and then immediately got a more realistic finish from there. I don't need to see the Finlay family tag team anymore, BTW. If that means having to sit through a Mike Knox/Finlay feud, so be it. I already like the story already, Knox calling Finlay "soft." Might be better than one would think, if they just kick the shit out of each other. Either Chris Harris did the worst scripted promo of his life or else he was trying to be that condesending and is going to turn heel on Matt Hardy. Nice inside "he's a real wildcat" part there from Hardy, I'm sure that was in a script.

Punk clearly broke his nose last night after a way too stiff kick from Regal when they were doing a spot with Punk laying on the corner of the ring apron, by the ringpost. You could even see it all bent out of place after the match.

Jim Ross and Meltzer have both mentioned Grisham is getting the nod.

Who the shits is Jack Korpella?!!

I'm sure its just her in the ring talking about autism awareness, probably with a video package about the cause to boot. Nothing of significance.