Ed Wood Caulfield

I'm in!

Vince needs to read the list of Royal Rumble participants again.

Jack Swagger 3rd Theme - On Your Knees (by Age Against The Machine) http://www.mediafire.com/?qjeyttzi0r2 Credit goes to Mr. Angle for this theme. Wow, that's a damn good Zach De La Rocha impersonator. Are you sure that that really isn't him? He sounds better than Chris Warren from the D-Generation X band.

I already said it, but I'll say it again: CONGRATULATIONS ZACK MALIBU!!!

That was when Sting started wearing the red and black facepaint and looked like a lobster.

Yes.

I don't remember anyone in my class liking wrestling until 4th grade, and even then it wasn't talked about alot. I just remember some of my friends talking about Shawn Michaels being their favourite wrestler and that was it. I had to repeat the 5th grade (September 1998), so by that point, we were knee deep into the Attitude Era so by then, wrestling was talked about a lot more often. Ironically enough, it was the "popular" kids who were the most into wrestling. The "nerds" were never into it at all. I remember my best friend that year being one of the "popular" kids, and we used to talk about the WWF and WCW all of the time. By 6th grade, talk about wrestling died down, which I have always thought was weird since this was in 2000, when the WWF was at their creative peak. I know for sure that some of my friends still watched it, but they were watching it less and less and not talking about it at all. I remember one of my friends telling me that he stopped watching entirely because he thought that Chris Benoit became WWF Champion. A couple of friends of mine used to pretend to have hardcore matches with each other. I do remember getting stunnered, Rock Bottomed, Pedigreed, 3D, and Broncobusted in 6th grade. And I do remember a friend and I watching WWF SmackDown! one night in July 2000 while talking to each other on the telephone. It was barely talked about in 7th grade, except with my best friend. In 8th grade, the two new kids in my class were both wrestling fans, so I talked about wrestling with them non-stop. I found some female wrestling fans that year too. Mostly everyone else stopped talking about it and stopped watching it by 8th grade (2002) I think.

SPANISH FLY As if beating Tha Puerto Rican is a big accomplishment! Even I’VE done it! Uh…not to belittle my own wins, but…well…you know what I mean. Okay, let me start over. I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Leon Rodez several times in the past, and I’ve come close to beating him more than once! Not to mention, at one time, I was a close ally of his. So, if anyone knows Leon Rodez inside and out, it’s definitely me! I’ve got the mental advantage heading into a match with him! AND I’ve got more heart, more fire and more passion than he does! Not to mention MORE TALENT! I’ve spent my whole life overcoming obstacles, winning when people least expected it, being the underdog. I don’t see why I should stop now! Not when I have the opportunity to become the smallest World Heavyweight Champion in the history of professional wrestling! I’ve shocked people in the past. I WILL shock them again! Spanish Fly throws in a crotch chop and sticks his tongue out for good measure. ------------- VITAMIN X There ain’t nobody in the One And Only AngleSault Thread who deserves a chance to become One And Only AngleSault Thread World Heavyweight Champion more than Brickston! In each and every Title Match that he has been in, he got beaten by a fluke! First, it was a countout. Then it was a rollup. And then it was one elbow drop when my client was dazed for 3 seconds. There will be no more flukes this time around! When my client faces Leon Rodez in the ring, he will attack him with no mercy. He will unleash the fury that lives inside of him, and he WILL break his ankle! I ask you, the Powers That Be, to give my client one more shot. And this time, I promise you, he WILL make it count! BRICKSTON Leon Rodez, I ain’t your friend no more! You have what I want more than anything else in the whole entire world: the OAOAST World Heavyweight Championship! Tha Puerto Rican got lucky in our previous meetings! But you? Ha, ha, you WON’T be so lucky! I see that you have a surgically repaired right ankle. Well, congratulations, you already have a bullseye on your body. I will make it my mission to break that ankle again! Except this time, it won’t break because of a bad landing or a chairshot. It will break because of the power of my bare hands! And then, I will FINALLY be in possession of the One And Only AngleSault Thread World Heavyweight Championship belt! And I WILL FINALLY BECOME ONE AND ONLY ANGLESAULT THREAD WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION! Leon Rodez, clench those fists, because it’s Fists Of Fury Time! ------------- THE BONE THUG Ya es hora de que la OAOAST estar representado por un hombre Latino TRUE! Tha de Puerto Rico no era más que un títere del sistema. Él lo vendió a su pueblo hace mucho tiempo! Pero yo, el hueso Thug, no da una rata de culo sobre el sistema! Los apasionados de la OAOAST puede ir al Infierno en la medida en que me preocupa! Yo soy sólo información sobre cómo convertirse en el Campeón Mundial pesado, y yo lo haré por todos los medios necesarios! Al igual que mi héroe Che Guevara, yo no muestran misericordia, no remordimiento y el miedo no! León Rodez, tú eres mi enemigo y debe ser erradicado! Cuando yo soy el pesado OAOAST Campeón Mundial, One And Only AngleSault Thread llevará a cabo por mis reglas! Mi puño de hierro será el juez, jurado y verdugo! Los latinos están tomando el mundo, y que pronto pronto se toma más de la lucha libre profesional a partir de la One And Only AngleSault Thread! Todos ustedes en el One And Only AngleSault Thread proa delante de mí cuando yo soy su líder! I ONE AND ONLY ANGLESAULT THREAD campeón del mundo peso pesado gringos y usted aprenderá a amar a otra persona o que! ARRIBA LA RAZA ~! ------------- THOMAS RODRIGUEZ Um…I don’t even know why I’m out here, to be honest. But…Leon Rodez? The OAOAST World Heavyweight Champion? What is this world coming to!? *Sigh* ------------- CUBAN WALL I could list the thousands upon thousands of reasons why I deserve the first shot at the new OAOAST World Heavyweight Champion, but you people all know the reasons why by now! Suffice to say, I am the best wrestler in the world never to be World Heavyweight Champion! I am the 2008 Lethal Rumble winner, a former OAOAST 24/7 Champion AND one-half of the most underrated tag team of all-time, Brains & Brawn! And yet, I have only gotten exactly ONE OAOAST World Heavyweight Title shot in my entire career, and that is just an injustice of the highest magnitude! Well, all I need is one more shot to win the OAOAST World Heavyweight Championship! Leon Rodez has fought the smartest, the fastest, the slickest, the sexiest AND the deadliest! But he has never met 6’7” 285 pounds of pure Cuban power! There ain’t NO WAY Leon will be able to take down THIS Wall no matter how hard he tries! It is about time that the One And Only AngleSault Thread took notice of me! I AM The Next Big Thing and Leon Rodez will be the first to find out just exactly what The Next Big Thing is made of! ------------- MR. BORICUA GRRRR. Me. Want. Title. Shot. Title. Make. Boricua. Happy. Get. Boricua. Money. Get. Boricua. Women. Pretty. Women. Women. Smell. Good. Women. Smart. Women. Make. Boricua. Happy. Me. Want. Title. Shot. So. Me. Can. Get. Money. And. Women. Leon. Rodez. Me. Will. Crush. You. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Mr. Boricua snorts, yells, screams, cranks his neck, sneers at the camera and then cracks his knuckles.

Oh man, I wish you kept Feel Good Moment Of The Year, because I've got two nominations: PRL and Leon Rodez's World Title victories. And for Feel Bad Moment Of The Year? Easy: Mr. Dick turns heel on The House Of Worship. A new award? Quote Of The Year? MOTYC: 10-Person Survivor Series Elimination Match: The Dream Team vs. The Cleveland Steamers (November Reign 2008, November 30, 2008) 60-Minute Iron Man Match For The OAOAST World Heavyweight Championship: Tha Puerto Rican (Champion) vs. Brickston (Challenger) (AngleSlam 2008, August 31, 2008) Zack Malibu vs. Bohemoth (AngleMania VII, March 30, 2008) 5-Man Prism Elimination Match For The OAOAST World Heavyweight Championship: Tha Puerto Rican (Champion) vs. Alfdogg (Challenger) vs. Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix (Challenger) vs. Brickston (Challenger) vs. Bohemoth (Challenger) (Halloween Spectacular, October 31, 2008) Chamber Of Hell IV (Zero Hour, September 28, 2008) 2008 Lethal Rumble Match (Anglepalooza, January 28, 2008)

-I'll have something from Tha Puerto Rican. Hopefully.

The only other time I can recall there being this dark cloud over everything was when The Outsiders invaded WCW. There was a very depressing atmosphere at Bash At the Beach 1996. But that was intentional. That just meant WCW was doing something right.

I love that Rock promo.

Yeah, there's a dark cloud over everything during this time period, starting from after SummerSlam. Survivor Series was a very depressing show even before the Screwjob. There was a feeling of "Something is going to go wrong, isn't it?" all throughout that night.

Rikishi made it an act to put his tights up from that point on to give the Stinkface, even after he turned face again. So, most of the time, he did wrestle in what appeared to be regular wrestling trunks.

It was kind of hard to see Rikishi has having a legitimate grievance that he was taking too far when the guy he supposedly ran over Austin for was already the unofficial top babyface in the company, ridiculously over, and someone the company were clearly behind. Maybe they were aiming for the victim mentality demographic? The Rock even mentioned this himself in the interview he did after Rikishi turned heel. He said, "Even before Rikishi came into the company, I was already a 3-time WWF Champion."

Well...it was fun while it lasted.

Hey, every other OAOAST World Heavyweight Champion has gotten their own thread, so why not me? It took 2 months for this thread to appear, but you all should know by now that I'm late with everything, so it's appropriate!

And I've edited in a PR/Leon video package right before the main event. Also, a commercial for Tha Puerto Rican DVD. Shout out to Patty O'Green for the DVD cover! You rock! Ch-ch-ch-check check ch-check it out!

It's cracking me up right now! "Arriba."

Yea! Also, I don't think a November Reign has been posted on a Sunday since 2004. So, this is just tradition. Just saying.

I wonder why Cody Rhodes only wore his "Prince Of Wrestling" black trunks one time (Unforgiven 2008). Because of the "Wrestling" part of the nickname?

General Interest Questions 1. Who are you and what's your business here? Feel free to not answer this if you don't want to. Basically, if you wish, let us know what your deal is and how you came across TSM Forums. I'm Steven. I came here back in 2002, after Dames took control. I had seen the board linked for a good long while during the Scott Keith days, but never felt the need to join. I did so one night, and I have visited this board almost everyday for the past six years. 2. When did you discover an interest in wrestling? What year/era? Perhaps it was the Showa era? Maybe the Heisei era? 1993? Attitude era? (You get the idea). What angle, match, or wrestler/character do you vividly remember as your first wrestling experience? I have been watching professional wrestling for as long as I can remember. My mother says that I watched Hulk Hogan from my crib when I was 1-years-old. That sounds about right, so I'll go with that. 3. The Company Line: A. Which companies have you actively followed in your tenure as a wrestling fan? WWF/E, WCW, TNA, WOW, AWF, AAA, CMLL B. What have some of your favourite companies been? Your least favourite? (In theory, your answer can be the same - if you were growing up a fan of the technical wrestling WCW brought to the table but thought the end of the line for them was some of the worst television this side of My Mother The Car, that's cool). Favourites have been WCW from 1996-2000, WWF from 1987-1993 and then again from 2000-present. Least favourite has been WCW from 2000-2001. Just brutal, so much so that I willingly stopped watching. Something that has never happened before or since. THAT'S how much WCW sucked to me. Though WOW was pretty awful too. As was AWF (the organazation with the round system that featured Sgt. Slaughter and "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka). C. What is your favourite company right now? Any reason why? WWE. It's free and on TV every week, so it's easy to follow. And I do like most of the wrestlers. And it's booked better than TNA alot of the time. 4. (Not So) Favourites: A. Who were your favourite wrestlers (or gimmicks) growing up / when you first started watching wrestling? Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Sting, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, "Macho Man" Randy Savage after WWF WrestleMania VII: Superstars And Stripes Forever, The Undertaker after he turned face, Tatanka, Lex Luger after he turned face, Razor Ramon after he turned face, The 1-2-3 Kid, Jake "The Snake" Roberts before he turned heel, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Virgil, Big Bossman B. Who were some guys you couldn't stand? I hated whoever I was supposed to hate. Though in particular, I DESPISED "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan and the nWo and wanted Sting to destroy Hogan once and for all at WCW Starrcade 1997. I also recall thinking Vince and Shane McMahon were huge assholes during the tail end of my mark days. The Rock was hated when he was a member of The Corporation too. C. Who are your current favourites (if applicable / different from A.) Shawn Michaels, Edge, John Morrison, The Miz, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Santino Marella, THE Brian Kendrick, William Regal, Mickie James, Beth Phoenix, Cryme Tyme, John Cena, Chris Jericho, JBL, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, Evan Bourne, Cody Rhodes, Manu, Ted DiBiase Jr., Randy Orton D. There was a 4th question here, but it basically ripped off the entire premise of a thread (or more than one thread, in theory) that already exists in General. Specific Questions about your Interest 5. How would you gauge your current interest level in the product? Do you still get butterflies of excitement that make you look forward to upcoming PPVs? Did you ever? Do you watch every televsied wrestling program live, or just a few - and FF'd via DVR at that? If you consider right now to be the most interested in wrestling you've ever been, the rest of the questions in this section can be skipped over. My interest is pretty low compared to my younger years. I still get excited for WrestleMania. I order some pay-per-view when they look interesting. I've definitely ordered more pay-per-views in 2008 then I did in 2007. The only WWE pay-per-views that I didn't order were No Way Out, Judgment Day, Night of Champions and No Mercy. I didn't order any TNA pay-per-views this year though. I watch RAW and SmackDown every week. I tend to forget about ECW (but I did watch it last night). I sometimes catch TNA iMPACT! when I'm not doing anything else. It's more out of habit than anything else at this point. 6. At what point in wrestling history (if it's not now) would you consider your interest to have been at it's peak? When were you compelled to watch every second of televised wrestling AND shell out money on PPVs, get excited about the release of video games, have TV/PPV parties with friends, etc. The Monday Night Wars. Switching between RAW and Monday Nitro every week. nWo, Austin 3:16, De-Generation X, The Rock, Mankind, Goldberg, Wolfpac, I brought into it all and I loved every second of it! WCW was awesome from 1996-1998, and the WWF was the bomb from 1998-2001. 7. At what point could you tell your interest was dipping and why do you think this happened, or what specific event(s) triggered the decrease? Was there anything even specific? Just a gradual interest loss of interest? Retirement (or death) of a favourite? A boring title reign on SmackDown in the Summer of 2004? There's only been one time in my life where I could have said "Fuck wrestling" and meant it. And that was in 2004. After Chris Benoit won the World Heavyweight Championship at WWE WrestleMania XX: Where It All Begins...Again and celebrated with Eddie Guerrero, I felt like I had seen everything there was to see in wrestling. So, my interest gradually dipped. I had so much going on that year that wrestling was less and less a big deal to me. I didn't even know when Vengeance was taking place that year, which is the first, and so far ONLY time that has happened with me. Wrestling didn't really matter to me for most of that year and into 2005. It wasn't until Eddie Guerrero died that I got really interested in professional wrestling again. That was when I realized that professional wrestling was apart of me and that it was never going to go away. 8. Have you ALWAYS stuck with wrestling even during times of low interest, or are there any lengths of time you stopped watching for a period only to come back at a later date? Well, I stopped watching the WWF in 1993 because The Undertaker scared me (I was 5, shut up). I didn't really care about WCW back then, so I didn't watch any professional wrestling from September 1993 - February 1994. I didn't watch again from March 1994 - May 1994 for some reason, but I did watch WCW Slamboree '94: A Legends Reunion. I watched WCW up until August 1994 when my cable got cut. I didn't get it again until March 1995, so during that timeframe I didn't watch any professional wrestling. That's been my longest drought to date. The next time that I didn't watch any professional wrestling was from February 1996 - May 1996. I don't know why. I didn't watch any professional wrestling in June of 1996, but since July of 1996, I have watched professional wrestling ATLEAST once a month, every month, every year. 9. If applicable, at what point did you decide to pack in the wrestling fandom? N/A Interesting Questions of a Somewhat Random Nature 10. What style of pro wrestling best resonates with your personal tastes? Has it always been this way, or have your tastes changed over time? Everything is good to me. A good match is a good match. 11. Where do you "draw the line" with the whole "suspended disbelief" deal? Do you tell critics to "relax because it's just wrestling and you should enjoy the matches" (aka TNA fans about everything that happens on Impact!), do you come up with solutions that the writing team didn't bother to think about but you figure "it's there if you read between the lines" (aka "WWE Apologists"), somewhere inbetween, or do you take your greatest joy in watching wrestling to deconstruct everything that makes no sense? I just try to enjoy it. The little details like logic, reality and sanity don't usually come into play. Unless something is REALLY REALLY stupid. But I find enjoyment in even The Undertaker's biggest supernatural shit so... 12. Do you attend live events? And more specifically, do you get a thrill out of big arena shows, do you prefer the smaller 'intimate' settings of the local indy show, or would you rather forget the whole thing and watch everything unfold on your HDTV without dealing with 'the marks'? Not since I moved to Florida. And I've only been to arena shows. Never been to an indy show in my entire life. 13. If applicable, what are the best and worst experiences you've had going to a show live? My first show was a WCW house show the night after the WCW Monday Nitro where Ric Flair defeated Eric Bischoff to become President of WCW. It was a fun show. Main event was Kevin Nash defending the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Goldberg and Bam Bam Bigelow. Nash ended up winning. I also remember a Konnan vs. Scott Steiner match, Ric Flair vs. Scott Hall, and Booker T, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero all made appearances. I liked it even though I was in the nosebleeds with my mother and her boyfriend at the time. My 2nd show was the taping for the WWF SmackDown! before WWF Fully Loaded 2000. I went with my mom. I had slightly more fun there. I don't know if I would call it the worst, but at the last show that I went to (a WWE SmackDown! house show in September 2003 in Madison Square Garden), there was this fat lady who sat in front of me and my parents who would NOT STOP SCREAMING! She had the loudest, most ear piercing scream I have ever heard in my entire life! She shouted for Chris Benoit, Undertaker, I forget who else. It was just irritating having to sit that close to her. My parents weren't too thrilled about her either. Ugh. 14. What are your favourite matches, moments, or events? Too many to name. Bret/Austin WrestleMania 13, WrestleMania X-Seven, the birth of Austin 3:16, the formation of the nWo, pretty much the entire Hogan/Sting feud from 1997 EXCEPT for WCW Starrcade 1997, Austin/McMahon kicked ass, CM Punk winning the World Heavyweight Championship was a nice surprise, as was Edge winning the WWE Championship at New Year's Revolution 2006 and Survivor Series 2008. The last time that I marked out was when Batista turned face on Triple H and Ric Flair. The Rock is my favourite wrestler, so pretty much everything that he did is awesome in my book, especially during 2000 and his heel Hollywood heel era. 15. Freestyle Add any closing remarks you feel are absolutely necessary to letting TSM know your thoughts on wrestling. Have fun and lighten up! Don't take professional wrestling too seriously. It's just entertainment. Enjoy it!

My mom and dad never had a problem with me watching professional wrestling. In my younger days they brought me tons of toys, tapes, ordered every pay-per-view, got magazines, video games, the whole shebang. My parents watched it with me alot of times as a kid. My mom still watches some shows with me from time to time. She's always had her favourites: Hulk Hogan, Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Sting, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, Marty Jannety, X-Pac, Triple H, Ultimate Warrior. She's also recently developed a new appreciation for Ric Flair. I do recall her banning me from watching wrestling back in 1994 because she said I got "too excited." But that ban didn't last very long at all. My mother has taken me to 2 shows, a WCW house show in December 1998 right after Starrcade, and a WWF SmackDown! taping in July 2000 (the one before Fully Loaded). My father took me to the WWE RAW after SummerSlam 2002 at Madison Square Garden with my cousin. My grandfather used to tell me stories of being a professional wrestler, even though they were quite obviously not true. I don't recall my grandfather ever grappling with The Undertaker or Shawn Michaels on WWF Superstars. He kept up to date on WCW for a time, but then in 1997, he completely turned on it. Called it "crap" and a "waste of time". And I still have no idea why. My uncle used to tease me that it was fake. My aunt is probably as into it as I am. She watches every RAW and SmackDown! with me. Her favourites are John Cena, Jeff Hardy, The Undertaker, Batista, CM Punk, THE Brian Kendrick, MVP, R-Truth, Kane, Edge, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, John Morrison and The Miz. My cousins HATED it. They used to tease me about it too, calling it fake and gay. Although, they certainly had no problem playing wrestling video games with me. Their younger brother and sister (my younger cousins obviously) like professional wrestling. It started with us playing WCW/nWo Revenge on the Nintendo 64. I told them that Hulk Hogan fought The Rock one time. They wanted to see the match. I popped in my tape of WrestleMania X8 and they've been hooked ever since. Although, I've only shown them WWF RAWs and pay-per-views from 1998 so far. They've yet to see anything recent. Some other young cousins of mine like professional wrestling also. They remind me of me when I was a kid.

I'm here! I'm alive! I'm working on the match right now.

The Leon/P.R. segment now has an ending. I edited it into the show. Sorry for the delay, KC, and everyone else.