Phoenix Fury Legdrop

Iggy was Nona's dad. Nona was Little Pete's little buddy in seasons two and three.

I was watching two seperate episodes of the greatest show ever made, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and they had me scratching my head. There was an episode in the first season where Pete and Ellen broke marching squad formation to finally "come together like two atoms" and form a relationship or something. They kissed and held hands into the sunset. Yet, in an episode in season two where Pete and Ellen went out on a date to the drive-thru to see if they had the chemistry to make something work (that Pete ruined by taking Endless Mike's scumbag advice...."Fog = Fun"). My question is, did the episode from season one where they got together just not exist in the season two universe? Or, was there just no continuity to the show?

I must compliment Jay publically on an awesome interview. I guess I got a rep around here as the "Wildside fanatic", and even I learned a ton about Dan, Wildside, and wrestling in general from this. Again, even if you know diddly squat about Wildside, read this NOW. Dan's theories on the business will interest even the most minor of indy fans.

Update on topic question: it turns out they did acknoledge in the "King of the Road" episode (featuring a guest starring role from the dad from Unhappily Ever After) that Pete and Ellen decided to stay friends.

Steve Buscemi also ruled in the episode where Ellen led the revolution against algebra, if only for the line right before they hunt down the old algebra teacher, "Let's MOTIVATE!" Speaking of guest stars, that show had a zillion of cool ones, didn't it?

I wouldn't necessarily call Sal/Seth/Luke/Gabriel from Freedom Fight a MOTY candidate, but it was quite insane. Likewise, Alter Boy Luke by far has gone the farthest since XPW's collapse. He's excelled in Wildside; going from perennial jobber for SAL~! to one of the top and most over faces in NWA Wildside.

I think "Symphonic Anarchy" is the Led Zep ripoff they use in the previews.

As announced on the show, Sly Summers & Josh Matthews vs. Crystal and Teddy Weddy: if Sly & Josh lose, they must split up as friends forever.

Sly vs. Crystal, and Sly's plan to bring in the 12-18 male demographic for TE.

Definately the only local group (which runs maybe 2-3 times every 2 years), the Intergalatic Wrestling Federation. No, unfortunately, it's not based on humans vs. aliens, like the names suggests, though I think booker/ticket-taker/wrestler/part-time clown Ronnie Vegas must be on something on Mars in order to put on crap THIS bad. One show, he worked as both the top heel/champion (with authentic ripoff WCW title belt) and an undercard comedy act Doink ripoff (as "Boink The Clown"; came out to the old Goldust music too...I'm dead serious) with a guy that was at least 6'4, and legitimately fatter than Iceberg, doing a dumb hillbilly gimmick. The moron even took tickets up front in his Ronnie Vegas gimmick, with the clown paint on. Ridiculous. They sold $6 programs, which featured Nikoli (sp) Volkoff, King Kong Bundy, some random midgets, and Sid Vicious. NONE of these guys were on the show. They held raffles monthly for some horrible-looking airbrushed t-shirts for the top guys on each show (the only time I even put money in for it was for an autographed shirt the one time Ricky Morton came through town). Every show, the same old lady won the raffle. Do ya think it might have been rigged? I haven't even gotten to how awful the matches were. I saw one good match in the four IWF shows I went to: The Cold Bros. (New Jack ripoffs with athletic ability) vs. Chris Hamrick & Ricky Morton. Morton looked a zillion times worse here than he did in TNA eighteen months after this show. Hamrick, however, ruled all. Ironically, Hamrick played Ricky Morton in a match featuring Ricky Morton. It was a bizarre site to see. But, Hamrick proved why he's the King of Men. Then, you got the rest of the stuff they put on. If you compiled every shitty Memphis comedy match from the 80's onto one show, it'd still be a little bit better at the style they were going for here. Every stinking match, they did nothing but bad comedy spots that would only have worked if it were 1963. To add to it, there were maybe 4-5 guys in half-way decent shape at every show. Everyone else was either disgustingly fat and pale, or disgustingly skinny and pale. We had Public Enemy, maybe ten months before Ted Petty passed away, in for a few shows. Johnny especially looked at his worst. He was immobile, carrying probably 350 on a frame totally not meant for it, and the biggest dick you'd ever meet. Ted, on the other hand, did work his ass off, even if the matches did suck. The last show they did here, Ted did double-duty: once in a masked gimmick in a battle royal, and in the main event "TLC" (as in a WWE comedy-style hardcore match with one table bump off the third rung of a ladder) match with Grunge (and this 73 year old guy with long, grey hair and army fatigues on, who took a SCARY bump off the apron that may have been more brutal-looking than anything you'll seen on cable in months, but ended up okay). His ring gear in the battle royal was an XWF shirt (this was a week after the Orlando tapings), a pair of camoflague pants, and headgear eerily similar to the mask Conan O'Brien wore on the SNL he hosted when he was "The Beekeeper from the Village People" in the Congress/Napster skit. He didn't really try to hide who he was: he did all his signature taunts & spots, even if the XWF shirt totally gave it away. Still, the battle royal, like the previous one done at the afformentioned Morton show, was won by local DJ Rob Lee. They even put the other three DJ's in attendance in there, and had them in as the last four guys, where the other three turned heel, but got thrown out). That's just part of the wacky, wild, yet extremely embarrasing adventures with the IWF. Quick inside joke: How do you know when the IWF's taking a two-year break from your town? They announce a Ronnie Vegas/Bobo Brazil Jr. cage match at Wabash College's basketball arena for the next show. (I do realize no one here got that joke, but that exact thing's happened three times, and each time, they never came back.)

Holy crap, Slater Vayne was announced as being from Bayside, California. That rules in so many ways.

To plug for them, expect a live report by ShooterJay & Zack Malibu of this show, under the PCN name, sometime (I would say tomorrow, but I don't want to rush them) on the main site.

Gabe & Doug announced ASX, I think. Gorman might have been in there with Gabe, I forget. But yeah, they sucked.

No offense, man, but any team besides Garigulo & Corino was AWFUL. Punk & Gorman have been the only good commentators since Eric left. Donnie constantly tried WAAAAAAAY too hard to sound "official" or something, and was worse than anyone in WWE when it came to calling moves (Watch Road to the Title; he called the Red Star Press, "a side suplex variation"). Gabe & Doug...I mean Ray & Chris are HORRIBLE. I've seen every show they've done, minus Unscripted, and it's pure torture listening to them. They're the masters of the obvious ("Those Special K kids must be on something!") , they don't know as many move names as people give them credit for, they're in constant agreeance with each other (which makes for boring commentary), and they help deflect from the match, not add to it. As for the best commentating team; if we're going outside of WWE, like I say in each of my Wildside reviews, Dan Wilson & Steven Prazak are IT. They make astute points, they get the wrestlers and stories over, they add to the match with their constant explanations of the psychology, they know move names, they know their history so they can go back and explain certain things through that, and, during the absolute jokes of matches (read: Carlton Kaz/Magnum from Freedom Fight 2002), they have about the best Abbott & Costello act in the business. By far, in my humble opinion, the best commentary team in our country.

Seriously, it's worth the $12. No one's doing anything this good for the rest of the year. The emotion, the build, the work, the story....it just all clicked. Jeremy V., if the feud with Rainman didn't do it for him already, made him a star to any Wildside fan. It closed the book on probably the longest-running storyline on the indies at the time (Jeff G. Bailey finally getting his after over three years of terror), and had the most emotional ending I've ever seen at an indy show (Rick Michaels riding off in a blaze of glory in his return to the ring after 9 months, and getting revenge on Bailey). A crowning achievement in Wildside history, for sure. Hopefully Jay & mine's review of it will be up by next week.

In no particular order... Jimmy Rave/Jeremy V./Hotstuff Hernandez/Onyx-Iceberg/Jason Cross/Rainman/Justice (War Games; Wildside Freedom Fight 2003) Jimmy Rave vs. B-Boy (CZW Truth or Consequences) Punk/Rave/Daniels/Kazarian (Do or Die) Hero vs. Punk (When Hero Met Punk) London vs. Dragon (2/3 falls; Epic Encounter) David Young vs. Tony Mamaluke (Wildside TV from Feburary) Trent Acid vs. Homicide (CZW Then & Now) Jimmy Rave vs. CM Punk (IWA-MS Ultra Styles Clash Weekend: Night Two) Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Jacobs (2/3 falls; IWA-MS Quote the Raven) Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Jacobs (30 Min. IronMan; IWA-MS Spirit of '76) Doug Williams vs. Christopher Daniels (ROH Night Of Champions) Paul London/Homicide/Colt Cabana/BJ Whitmer (ROH Revenge On The Prophecy) Salvatore Rinauro/Kid Kool/Jeremy V./Slim J (Double Elimination; Wildside Hardcore Hell: Night One) Chris Hero/Ace Steel (IWA-MS Spirit of '76) That's all I can think of for so far.

Is anyone else having problems downloading 4.2?

Does anyone know where I could find any SYS tapes? I tried eBay, but no go. Thanks.

Sadly, I don't get that channel.

Lazz is alright. Won't be an embarrassment in a squash.

Rave Chat It starts at 7:30 Eastern; sorry for such short notice.

The official return of Sly (last week was the unofficial) comes this week....but details don't get much more than that.

I definately second War Games. By far, one of the more emotional matches in years. MOTY candidate, if not MOTY period, for me. The four-way double-elimination Jr. Title match from Wildside's Hardcore Hell Night One with Sal Rinauro, Jeremy V., Kid Kool, and Slim J was probably one of, if not the breakout moment for V and Sal, and just incredible. Jimmy Rave/B-Boy from CZW a couple of months back was CZW MOTY, imo. Despite the crowd absolutely sucking, it was better than Acid/Homicide; though I loved that match too. As much as I hate ROH's booking, or lackthereof, their wrestlers have tons of incredible matches this year as well. Off the top of my head: London/Whitmer/Cabana/Homicide from Revenge on the Prophecy, Williams/Daniels from Night Of Champions, London/Dragon from Epic Encounter, and the four-way from Do or Die (though I hear it's much better unedited; they took out 6 minutes of Punk & Daniels getting heat on Rave, apparently). For IWA-MS, of course you got Hero/Punk from Febuary, Punk/Rave from USC Weekend, Shelley/Jacobs from both QTR and Spirit of '76, and Whitmer/Stan Dupp (aka the best Rhodes). This is just off the top of my head. I'll probably name some more when I look through my tape lists again. Indeed, 2003 has been great for indy wrestling.

Three words: Salute Your Shorts.

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