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Well, Light-Heavyweight/Cruiserweight is generally considered < 230 in pro wrestling, so let's see: Heavyweights: Manson Mak Francis Archie Griffon Li'l Buck Bryan Rodgers Danny Williams Nick Blum Cruiserweights (according to listed weight): Landon Maddix Johnny Dangerous Toxxic Todd Cortez Spike Jenkins Insane Luchadore Wildchild Scott Pretzler Jay Hawke JJ Johnson (still active?) Ejiro Fasaki Zyon So, at the moment, Cruiserweights outnumber the heavyweights 2-to-1. I can kinda see your point, Stryke, but I also think that having the fed be 75-80% Heavyweight is just as bad as having 65-75% Cruiserweights, especially when 90% of the Cruiserweights always want to be the Heavyweight Champion, anyway...

I wasn't "put" in this feud, Spike. As for the rest of your comments... well, you're entitled to your opinion, but I submit that the argument that Va'aiga and Judge were presenting (and myself, in PM/chat conversations with Zed) was that a title division can be as good as the people in the division want it to be. No title should be inherently more deserving of a higher place on the card, with the possible exception of the World Heavyweight Championship, and as I recall, at least two "mid-major" promotions (ECW and TNA) have, for a period of time, promoted a secondary title over their own Heavyweight title. And, maybe it's just my opinion, but I feel that everybody in a given title division should want to make it as good as it can possibly be; you were in the CW division, and even set the record for the longest reign, yet you clearly didn't think very highly of the Cruiserweight division, since you never really made much of an effort to get either the belt or anyone else in the division over... But that doesn't mean that either those of us still in the CW division, or the people reading the shows, should feel the same way. In fact, I am hopeful that the work that Pretzler and I are putting into trying to elevate the CW division will inspire some other people to want to compete for that belt. Plus, let's not forget that this is an angle-driven fed; the most interesting angle should main event a PPV. Maybe you're angry because it's me and Pretzler instead of you and Toxxic, but if you are, you need to take it up with CC, because I had no input in their decision. - Dub Cee

.... You just can't resist the urge to rain on my parade at every single possible opportunity, can you Sacred?

Ultimate bumpage~! I dunno... in light of the 13th Hour card, I guess I felt that this thread was mildly pertinent, simply because of some of the discussion about whether or not a Cruiserweight Division would ever be viable again. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that it's been a roaring success, but I'd like to think that I've helped to make the division relevant... I'd especially like to thank Pretzler for being willing to participate in an angle that I feel has helped to elevate the division, even if just a teeny weeny bit. Hooray Cruiserweights!

Ol' Crash sure has come a long way, hasn't he?

No, the Hardcore division opens the show; Manson + Rodgers = heavyweights.

... The Cruiserweight Division main events an SWF Pay-Per-View... I can die happy.

Just make sure I'm not in it, and all will be well...

All you have to do now is work in a way to point to your outstreched palm and shout, "THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES!" And... uhm... didn't you wrestle me two June's ago?

Many apologies, my liege; some of us have to work out here...

SWF Lockdown HOLT report June 1, 2005 Johannesburg, South Africa, at Wanderer’s Cricket Stadium Report by Michael Pierce of Johannesburg, South Africa, Smartmarks.com reader Dark Matches: - Zyon beat Matthew Kivell with a spike cradle piledriver. - Martin Hunt beat Muhammed Koran with Sweet Southern Comfort Grand Slam Tapings: - John Duran beat Brian Levy in 2:05 with Blunt Force Trauma - They showed highlights from Storm where they replayed the World Cruiserweight Title match, as well as the following promo where Pretzler challenged Wildchild to a Best-of-Three series to determine the Number One Contender to the Cruiserweight Title. Cyclone Comet and Kevin Cole speculated on air as to what the match stipulations might be. - Archie Griffon beat Alan Clark in 6:38 with the Arch Nemesis. - The second highlights package showed some of the recent events between Ejiro Fasaki and Toxxic, as well as the highlights of Ejiro/Buck from Storm. - SWF World Heavyweight Champion beat JJ Johnson in a non-title match in 10:57 by submission with the Cobra Crossface. Lockdown: - After the show went to commercial, Mak helped Danny back to his feet, which started to get him back into the crowd’s good graces, only to hit him with the Franchise Tag! - Megan climbs into the ring and stands between Johnny and Maddix, begging him not to do any more damage. Johnny ignores her, however, and shoves her to the side, but just before he can piledrive Landon onto the Tag Title belt, Wildchild runs down to the ring and convinces him to leave. - Even though there was no replacement match shown on television, the live crowd was treated to a good ol’ fashioned Dace Night squash, as he crushed Chance Silver in 1:59, showing off all his signature moves for the crowd before putting Silver out of his misery with Defenestration. Pretzler climbs onto the turnbuckles and taunts the crowd, holding one finger in the air and shouting, “One more!” He left the ring just as Wildchild started to come around to avoid conflict. Biggest Pops 1) Wildchild 2) Danny Williams 3) Landon Maddix 4) Insane Luchadore 5) Bryan Rodgers Most Heat 1) Scott Pretzler 2) Mak Francis 3) Manson 4) Jay Hawke 5) Johnny Dangerous

Well, aside from the fact that Pretzler no-sold my new ring accoutrements within the first thirty seconds of the match, and grabbed WC by the dreadlocks, when I've said in the past that he doesn't have dreadlocks but braids (dreadlocks are thicker), I liked the ME; it advanced the storyline and included a lot of the elements that I had in my own match, had I bothered to turn it in.

Uhm, I would like to say that, from personal experience, "spot monkey vs. street fighter" is only a favorable style matchup if you don't have to write it...

Any good compression software? Right now, I've been trying to puzzle through InterVideo WinDVD Creator, and it not only leaves files way too big (I can't do anything with a 4GB .avi), but it cut off a good two minutes of the file I was trying to convert.

Tomikaze = Unprettier, unless I'm mistaken. Unprettier =/= Wild-Driver, by the way.

It wasn't "Most Embarrasing." It was "Best of... Vol. 15," which is the one that also features the Strike Force/Hart Foundation title change, as well as the Sherri Martel/Fabulous Moolah title change, and the Glamour Girls/Jumping Bomb Angels title change. Gene did, in fact, describe it as an "Embarrasing" match, although after watching the match twice, I have no idea why. So, that wasn't Slick, huh? Damn if it doesn't look like him, though...

I just wanted to make the comment that, in my opinion, this is a much more appropriate name than "Current Events," as it seems to me that nearly all non-political current events end up in General Chat.

Are there any good programs for doing that in reverse? Converting DVD to .avi? They don't have to be free.

While watching a recently acquired "Best of the WWF" tape (I don't remember which volume), I was watching a tag match that featured Mr. Fuji & Tiger Chung Lee against the Wild Samoans, and I happened to notice that the gentleman who would later be known as Slick was the ring announcer for that match. This led me to wonder two things: 1) At what point did Slick transition from being a ring announcer to a manager, and was his previous occupation ever recognized on air? 2) Was Slick the only manager in the "Golden Age" of the WWF (and, for the purposes of this question, "Golden Age" is defined as 1984-1993) to never manage even one champion?

.... One word: Nofuckingway.

It wouldn't be like the Kings of the past, unless Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion were #2 and #3 on the Suns in assists.

I'm not sure if I understand what this is supposed to mean; are you implying that casual fans should like the Yankees? That if I were to wake up tomorrow morning and decide to start following baseball that I, having no geographical loyalties, should just start rooting for the Yankees?

2004 ALCS, Games 4-7, and Game 4 of the 2004 World Series.

Hrmm... After reading Landon's match, I guess I'm going to have to tweak my stats a bit. Evidently, at least one person thinks that WC's "Rolling Elbow Smash" is a different move from what the move actually is, so I guess I'm going to have to think of a more appropriate name for it.

Wait, so I was seriously supposed to write my match as if it took place on an actual beach?