Corey_Lazarus

SO yeah. I'd like to add the 2/3 Falls between Lynn and Styles to the Lynn DVD discussed earlier. And AoO, please don't close this thread. We're actually having fun in this one, for once.

My sig sucks because it's pimping my e-fed characters...my avatar is the truth, though, along with my custom title. I should bring back my Toxic Avenger avatar, though.

He's saying it about people that wear shirts of bands they don't even like. It's an "indie kid" thing to do, and all the more reasons to fucking HATE indie kids. They're extremely pretentious, when they shouldn't be, since their music fucking sucks and the songwriters they idolize can't hold Zakk Wylde's guitar picks or come close to Dave Mustaine's lyricism. I hate band shirts with pictures of the band on them. That's just screaming "I'm a fucking tool."

tangerine...putting KoRn and Slipknot on the same stage as Shadows Fall and Black Label? I guaran-fucking-tee you that Brian Fair and Zakk Wylde would kill all of those fucking pussies in KoRn, and leave only Joey and Mick alive in Slipknot. My dream tour... HEADLINER STAGE (in reverse order of play) Slayer Shadows Fall Motörhead Nevermore Exodus SECOND STAGE The Misfits Flipp The Dickies Toxic Narcotic The Unseen THIRD STAGE Nile Dark Tranquility Arch Enemy In Flames Cannibal Corpse Main stage is thrashy-stuff, second stage is punk/hardcore, and third stage is Death.

And I ripped on them for overexposing the Ladder match gimmick, too. Your point? 4 matches of the same HUGE gimmick in one year's span should NOT happen. That would be the equivalent of a HIAC at Rumble, Mania, SSlam, and Series. It also doesn't help when only one of the three thus far have been good.

FOX had a show similar to this concept, called "Murder in Small Town X." That was a very, very cool show, since whoever was voted "off the island," so to speak, had to go investigate one of two areas (voted on by the team, of course) that the killer might be hiding at. They had to look for clues (which were actually made fairly obvious), and if the killer found them, then the rest of the team had to go get the clues. Quite a swell concept, IMO.

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Ultimate X1 was a ** affair. Blown spots galore, and Sabin had to carry both Kazarian and Shane, and Sabin isn't at the point in his career when he can really carry anybody. Ultimate X2 was ****1/4 by my watch, and the MOTY so far for TNA. LowKi and Daniels made it all the more interesting, and this was around when Michael Shane started to actually NOT suck in the ring. Sabin winning in the same type of match where he lost the X-Division title? All the more ownage. Ultimate X3...sucked. **1/2. It was ALL Sabin, with Petey Williams being the only other person in the match doing anything close to carrying their weight. Hector Garza was shit in the match, and every spot done was just a repeated spot from one of the prior UX's. Ultimate X4? Overkill. Think about that. We've had four Ultimate X matches since September 2003. 4 matches of the same gimmick in 11 months. That's to the point of overkill that Ladder Matches in 2001 WWF were.

Boston pop/punk band Dirty Water opening for The Misfits in '02. Seriously. What the FUCK?! First band was Chaos, a decent BHC band. Then there was The A-Team (I think that their name), a kickass BHC band. And then...Dirty Water. Fuck you. When I saw Megadeth in '00, Boiler Room (generic whiny nu-metal) and Staind opened. They all got boo'd the fuck away. The Megadeth fans weren't having it. At the H82K2 tour (Slayer and Soulfly headlining), the band downthesun opened. Nobody could understand anything because the bass was turned up way too high, but they had two vocalists, and I'd imagine they sound like post-Felons Dope (ie. generic nu-metal that blows ass, as Dope's first album was fucking great for a nu-metal band). Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Mudvayne, and Linkin Park for Metallica. Yeah, it makes sense because Metallica became a soulless radio rock band, but seriously. It's well-known that Metallica primarily plays the old thrashy stuff live, since that's what the people come to hear. So...why the fuck would a bunch of thrash fans want to hear LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT?! Bizkit was decent live, because they seemed to genuinely enjoy themselves up there, but Fred was getting shit on by EVERYBODY. Between songs, they got shit thrown on stage. Fuckers.

Lynn/Styles was TNA's first big feud, and it concluded a few weeks before AMW/New Church really started to get interesting. I can't stress enough how Lynn/Styles put TNA on the map, and then they go around and treat Lynn like shit. The man made Styles a name in this business via their feud, and they just sweep him under the rug because Jarrett doesn't PERSONALLY like him. I won't buy an AMW DVD, or a 3LK DVD. AMW hasn't had enough good matches (they've had three or four that have been more than your average Velocity fodder, and even in those they were carried big-time) to warrant a DVD. 3LK just sucks too bad. Why not just make it a Truth DVD? James and Konnan have been nothing but lackeys for Truth, so what the shit? I'm still awaiting the Amazing Red DVD, considering Red is the only wrestler Don West ever splooged himself over entirely. GO, RED, GO! GO, RED, GO! That gives me an idea...what would your pick of the matches be for a DVD about the TNA wrestler of your choosing (none that are already in the making, like Styles or AMW)? 10 matches minimum should work, and try not to include something already on another DVD (unless you feel its important enough). Amazing Red vs. LowKi (debut, Week 5) vs. AJ Styles (X-Division title, their first match in TNA together) w/ SAT vs. Tres Jobberos (I forget who against, but the first Red/SAT six-man in TNA) vs. Jerry Lynn (I forget the date or what was important about it, but this was the match from '02 that Red took a HUUUUUGE overselling bump for the Cradle Piledriver over, unless I'm confusing this with the other Lynn/Red match) w/ SAT vs. XXX (last show of '02) w/ Lynn vs. XXX (Tag title win) vs. Jerry Lynn (X-Division title #1 contendership) vs. Kid Kash (X-Division title win) 6-man (#1 contendership to X-Division title) vs. Dutt (third match)* * = Show highlights of the first and second matches before this one, to bring viewers up to speed on it.

The only wrestling shirt I'm embarassed to own is a knockoff Hardy Boyz shirt from mid 2000 from Wal-Mart, or somewhere similar. It has a picture of Jeff mid-Swanton over a sun, and then Matt doing a legdrop beneath it, with a picture of the two of them off to the side. I wore it maybe twice. And I'm not ashamed to wear my wrestling shirts in public, mainly because mine all fucking rock. Original Austin 3:16, original DX, Taz's "Survive If I Let You" ECW shirt with the "synonyms" for Taz on the back, Raven's mid-95 ECW shirt with the silhouette of him with the World title on the front and "Quote the Raven, Nevermore" on the back, Rob Van Dam's first WWF one (only borderline sucky one in my collection), ECW "Surgeon General's Warning," ECW "Join The Revolution," and an original nWo 4-Life shirt.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of them DID come in full-time, or maybe a Kurt Angle-like effect will happen, and that episode of Impact! will either be offensive or suck so bad they don't want to be in TNA (re: Angle was going to go to ECW in 1996, but when they did the crucifixion of Raven, he pulled out and threatened a lawsuit if they showed his face on television). Also, remember: few champion amateur wrestlers actually go pro. To many of them, pro wrestling is "fake" and "beneath them." The only one to really change their mind about the sport(s entertainment) has been Angle, since even the Steiners were pro fans before going amateur.

I'm glad the only shirts I wear are band shirts. Oh, and Czech (I think you're the one that brought up Independent and the Iron Cross)? Independent's symbol is a Maltese Cross. Curved ends make the difference, my friend. (And I'm only anal about it because I love the Iron Cross.) Shirts I hate: -Pretty much every shirt here thus far. Also, the overabundance of "YANKEES SUCK" shirts in my area (considering I live in Mass). I REALLY want to make a shirt that says "RED SOX LOST," considering I chant that whenever I'm at a public gathering (read: concert or wrestling event) and the "yankees suck" chants start. I think I started the chant at a Slayer show, ironically enough. -"Rebel." My girlfriend has this shirt, and though I really like the design of it, and think it looks great on her, I hate the fact that it's a commercial shirt that says "REBEL" on it. -"Free Mumia." I think KKK will agree with me on this. The guy's a cop killer, and these assholes are trying to be cool by listening to RATM and saying "free Mumia." Why not "Free the WM3"? Oh, that's right, these fuckers don't know shit about the West Memphis 3. You want a REAL case of cops fucking over some people? WM3 is it. -The purposefully faded and dirtied shirts (designed to look old and aged) bought at Abercrombie and such. You just bought the shirt, got ripped off $50, now shut up and go buy a cheaper shirt that looks better. -While on the topic of Abercrombie, while still in high school (wow, two months ago, seems like forever) I saw this little shit wearing an Abercrombie shirt that said "Heavy Metal Festival" on the back in the Iron Maiden script. I stopped him in the hallway and asked him what his favorite metal band was. He said Papa Roach. I had to be restrained from decking him, and all I ended up getting in was a dope slap off the side of his fucking head. ...I hate people...I hated high school...thanks for bringing these fond memories back up, bitches. ...I need a smoke...

So...rest area? Or is it just a space on the side of the road?

The problem with that main event scene is that the bolded names are ones common fans will consider "WWF/WWE cast-off's," especially Hardy and D'Lo. Nothing they've done since leaving the WWF/WWE has made them seem like anything really special in the eyes of many, so why make them the main event of a company that's trying to be the ALTERNATIVE to WWE? IMO, the main event should have consisted of Styles, Abyss, Jarrett, Truth, Lynn, and Raven for a while now. Each of them are over enough to be at that spot (with the exception of Jarrett, who the fans sit on their hands for due to overexposure), and for Styles, Truth, and Raven, they've been deserving of that spot for at least a year.

Woosh.

Yeah. Abismo Negro is the worst member of Team Mexico (which is sad, because they all suck completely except for Garza). Juventud Guerrera was the best member of Team Mexico before visa problems occurred. Fix the visa problems, bring Juvi in, and kick Abismo out. It's not as if the hardcore Abismo Negro fans will be mad...

I do believe the whole "arrested at beginning of show, free by the end" thing can be solved with the notion of bail. The lawyer finds how much bail is, and then pays it ASAP to get their client back to the show. Also, it's not like law really matters in the business, both in and out of kayfabe. And what's Alex Shelley's Shellshock? If it hurts suspension of disbelief, I'd imagine it'd look similar to Lash LeRoux's Whiplash 2000, which is a Cravate Russian Legsweep (hold opponent's head over shoulder, as if to go for Stunner, hit Russian Legsweep out of that). Although, in truth, that has the effect of causing more whiplash to the neck, since it's being pulled forward while also being pushed back.

What's funny is that Douglas looked better in the ring in TNA than he did in XPW or his last WCW stint. Probably his opposition, though. Also, I heard Douglas/Credible from (I think) CyberSlam '99 was really good. And I still believe Douglas/Taz from Guilty As Charged '99 was ***. No more, no less.

Petey Williams. And Team Canada would be so much better if it had its original lineup of Teddy Hart, Jack Evans, Petey Williams, and Johnny motherfucking Devine. As it is now, with Williams, Devine, Eric Young, and Bobby Rude? Suck-diddly-ucks. Williams is bland and his finisher is more contrived than an SAT spot, Rude is boring as shit, Eric Young botches more than he connects with, and Devine is left out of everything when he's the one that knows how to work a match the best.

Well, AoO, he asked for acoustic songs, not MELLOW acoustic songs.

Black Label Society - "Another Spoke In The Wheel" Black Label Society - "America The Beautiful" (more or less just Zakk playing it, but it sounds GREAT) Black Label Society - "Blessed Hellride" Foo Fighters - "Times Like These" (acoustic version, I believe it's a WAAF exclusive) Shinedown - "Simple Man" (acoustic cover of Skynyrd's classic, also a WAAF exclusive, and one of the most heavily rotated songs) Acid Bath - "The Bones Of Baby Dolls" Acid Bath - "Scream Of The Butterfly" (at least I THINK it's all acoustic)

The only excuse for backyarding is having fun. Really. And if you go "if you think {insert serious injury} is fun...", then seriously, shut up. Like I said, I don't even backyard anymore, and I'll be the first to admit it's stupid, but shut the fuck up, man. You're going on and on about how he's a disgrace and how any wrestler that would work backyard or work WITH a backyarder should be fired...come down from your perch. If the kid wants to kill himself by trying to do a Kudo Driver, then let him. Not gonna hurt you.

The song's credits doesn't say Hammett helped write the tune. It says written by Hetfield, Ulrich, and Mustaine. Hammett's only contribution was the breakdown solo (the slower part that adds about a minute and a half to the song's length), really.

Lovely how they don't touch upon the feud that made TNA in Lynn/Styles when hyping the tag match...