Mystery Eskimo

Works for me So Cal makes an announcement about a 4 way this week? Or we hold it off for a week?

If we go with that, could Dan Black be one of the challengers? He's never main evented a PPV before! A thought - if we needed extra matches on the PPV, the 3 spaces to face Hoff for the title could be earned in qualifying matches earlier in the show. Although would mean a lot more writing, obviously. Otherwise...maybe Black vs CWM, Brannigan vs PRL perhaps, two matches I don't think we've had before.

So what's going down next PPV? I think I'm going to have start writing for it asap to get anything decent done.

Apologies for not working on the tag match. I'm still active and hopefully get back to writing asap. Things have just been hectic for me, as for many others by the sounds of things.

Birchall and Regal should take the tag titles off Legion of Embarassment asap. They'd have no one to feud with, but they could beat jobbers every week in a more interesting way at least.

I've no interest in the Premiership and the likes of Rooney anymore. I know thats jumping on a bandwagon but still. Forest won tonight!!! Two in a row!!!

I think the next series will be just as close. England have another year to gel and advance together, whereas the Aussies need to make some changes. Plus its another year on for McGrath and Warne, not so important for Warne but still.

Not if the market clearly won't support said expansion. Sure, ROH can and should work hard to scrape up every available cent of the Indie fanbase, but they're being realistic.

There's no way Jarrett's dropping the title back straight away. If he's got the card of Spike's approval to play, it'll take injury or a major signing from WWE to get the title off him in the forseeable future.

There are some valid points about marketing and technology. The ROH website doesnt even put up official results and reports, you have to rely on the message board posters. But ROH will always have a fresh supply of talent. If they were to lose all of the guys mentioned currently in TNA it would be a huge blow, but not an insurmountable obstacle.

There were a load of extracts in a thread here somewhere, if you search a little. It was pretty awful.

Regardless of whether or not this stuff is true, Punk would still have been better off going to TNA.

Short and not all that sweet. But there ya go. BUFFER The following contest is set for one fall, with a TV time limit of 20 minutes. Cue: "Quiet" BUFFER Introducing first, from London, England, weighing 235lbs, the Ice Heart, Daaaaaaaan Bllllllllaaaaaaaaaaack! Dan appears on the entrance stage to a surprisingly favourable reaction! He starts to walk down to the ring - only to get taken out with a forearm shot to the back of the head, as Stephen Joseph follows him out! SJ grabs Dan and throws him down the ramp towards the ring to a chrous of boos from the crowd. COLE A heinous assault! Stephen Joseph not wasting anytime, jumping Dan Black during his damn entrance! COACH Smart thinking from SJ. Now he has an advantage before the match has even begun. Stephen Joseph grabs Dan's head and slams it onto the ring apron. Referee Nick Patrick yells at SJ to get in the ring. SJ responds by grabbing a steel chair and aiming to swing at Dan's head! Nick Patrick sees SJ, and quickly calls for the bell to start the match! *DING DING* COLE Good officiating! If SJ had landed a chair shot before the official start of the match, there was nothing Nick Patrick could have done. SJ still seems tempted to swing the chair, but finally drops it and rolls the stunned Dan into the ring. Black rolls to his feet and flings a punch at SJ as he follows in, but Stephen avoids it and clocks Dan with a stiff forearm to the jaw. SJ whips Dan into a corner and runs in with a stiff lariat to his chest. Black staggers forward, and SJ catches him with a quick snap suplex. Stephen doesn't go for a cover; instead dragging Dan up by the hair and headbutting him right between the eyes. SJ then lashes Dan's chest with a stinging chop, followed by a blatant eye poke. COLE Stephen Joseph just unloading on Dan Black here. CABOOSE He wants to prove a point or two, and as usual is taking short cuts to try and do it. SJ rams Dan throat first onto the top rope and tries to choke him with it! Nick Patrick counts him off, and SJ releases Dan reluctantly. Black rubs at his throat, but has little time to recover as SJP catches him with a hard kick to the gut. A whip to the ropes, but Black ducks SJ's lariat and clamps on a waistlock, looking for one of his textbook German suplexes, but SJ quickly breaks Dan's grip, catches him with a back elbow and then a hard side Russian legsweep. Stephen Joseph drops a hard elbow to the sternum of Black, and then another. He goes for the hat trick - and Black rolls aside! SJ clutches his elbow, while Black is up and ready for him. SJ turns into a big European uppercut that snaps his head back hard. Dan grabs SJ, applies a front face lock and nails him with a brain buster. He then drops an elbow of his own, right down on the back of SJ's neck. COACH Black targetting the neck, as he often does. A weakened neck will help him get a pinfall with his BlackOut stunner, or a submission with his Heart of Ice crossface. COLE Stephen Joseph has wrestled Dan many times before, however. He's got to have a good idea of how to counter Black's game plan. CABOOSE I'm not sure there's going to be any gameplans here. Popick just wants to hurt Dan, and vice versa. Indeed, there's still not been a single cover in the match, as Black brings SJ back up and whips him off the ropes. Dan goes for a tiltawhirl backbreaker, but SJP escapes and lands on his feet. Black swings and misses, and SJ hits a jawbreaker, followed by a swinging neckbreaker. Now SJ does cover - ONE! TWO! Feet on the ropes! THREE! No, Nick Patrick sees at the last second, and calls off the cover. SJ retracts his legs, allowing Dan time to roll away and get to his feet. SJ pushes Patrick aside to get at Black, who greets him with another uppercut, followed by a kick to the cut. Dan brings SJ into a headscissors, lifts him up, and drills his head into the mat with a Cradle Piledriver! COLE Black busting out one of his old school Eskimo moves! That could be it! ONE! TWO! THR- No, SJ makes use of the ropes again, this time draping a foot to break the count! The crowd BOOS as the Puerto Rican makes his way down to ringside! COLE Oh no, whats he doing out here? COACH Supporting his friend and mentor? PRL applauds SJ as Dan shoots him an irritated glare. That second of distraction is all SJP needs, as he jumps Dan once again, quickly hitting a belly to back suplex into a cover that gets just one before Black angrily rolls up a shoulder. SJ tries to whip Dan to the ropes but Black reverses it - only for PRL to grab SJ's foot from the apron, saving him from returning to Dan! Black angrily charges SJ, who ducks and backdrops him out over the top to the floor. SJ predictably then draws Nick Patrick aside with a complaint about Dan pulling at his tights. PRL goes to work, stomping Dan down with a big grin on his face. The crowd roars in approval as Tony Brannigan runs down the aisle! PRL looks up just in time to get level with a clothesline from the former World Champ's muscular arm! Brannigan grabs PRL and throws him head first into the guard rail, as Dan Black picks himself up. Brannigan beats PRL all around the ring, drawing the attention of Nick Patrick. Dan Black slides back into the ring and to his feet - where he's immediately met by a devastating LOW BLOW! SJ gathers Black up for his FINALITY! Cover! SJ yells at Patrick! ONE! TWO! THREE! *DING DING DING* COLE And Stephen Joseph pulls out the victory! CABOOSE PRL made a valuable distraction. The likes of PRL and Popick, along with GPX, Drek and Crystal - they have their game plans together. They're working smart. Their targets like Dan and Tony are going to have to smarten up. Being great wrestlers isn't enough. SJ allows his arm to be raised. Tony Brannigan looks up from putting the boots to PRL, and charges the ring, causing SJ to scatter out. Brannigan checks on Dan as SJ helps PRL to his feet. There's an INTENSE staredown between the two sides as the SJ/PRL pairing retreat slowly up the ramp. SJ mouths and points to Tony "Next Week!" COACH Hmm, I smell a tag team match! COLE Well you just ruined any surprise that might have been. You suck. COACH I'll show you, you'll see! CABOOSE You really have nothing I would ever want to see. Let's go somewhere else. Quickly.

Sure, I'll try and get something up tomorrow.

Wasn't that already agreed upon? At least between you, me and Eski? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Couldn't remember Uhh, Tony, PM COMING~! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I figured SJ would pin Dan on HD this week, and then Black T would get the PPV win. But let me know what you guys think.

Well, they could have had him go on to meet Cena this month, but as HBK seemingly has a phobia of playing the heel now you can't blame the bookers for going with Angle.

In England, they also demonstrate against the introduction of heavy student tuition fees. The Government then proceeds to ignore them and increase the fees.

Sharky wrestled in WCW a few times. Did Kid Kash?

Me too. Decent effort by Giles this morning to get us to 373. Still about 50 short of what we should have got, though. If we can limit the Aussies to a similar score, I think we'll have done pretty well.

Dan Black vs Stephen Joseph

My first feed in months Good "new champ" promo to open up. Put over the importance of the strap nicely. The announcement of Knight was a surprise, be interesting to see how that pans out. I'm not sure why Fly is fighting Boricua but was a fun little match. Heh! Dusty finish! I totally bought it. Good work from Tony, a nice little old school style tag match here. Los Diablos are an...intriguing team. A cool stablewar developing with team Heyross and CSI. Nice to see Cappa back, if only in character form. What I read of the match was solid. The TLC match was pretty damn cool. Considering 4 of us (although I didn't do much) worked on that, I think it hangs together ok. Of course, its a total spotfest, but who cares. All 8 guys should really be off the next show selling injuries, but I'm sure they'll be ok

Train deserves another shot, I think. He tried hard and was carry-able. He & Morgan could have made a solid monster tag team.

How long until the next batch of releases for guys you "have nothing for", and will Shelton Benjamin be amongst them?

Why shouldn't Austin lose to Hogan? He doesn't have anymore of a future than Hulk does. If they want to have Austin save face, just put over how injured he is. As for HBK/Rock, they should let each man go all out on the mic. Don't worry about who's the face or heel. The fans would pick their favourite and go with it, and both men are good enough on the stick and in the ring to adjust to that.

Yup, definitely neither.