Corey_Lazarus

Which is what I was trying to say but had trouble making out. Because I am retarded.

Yes, nobody cares about Dimebag. Nobody cares about one of only guitarists in the last 20 years to do something new. Nobody.

Czech, I meant that Lennon had MORE fans, but I feel that Dime's fans were more diehard. Dime's fanbase < Lennon's fanbase Devotion from Dime's fanbase > devotion from Lennon's fanbase IMO, anyway.

Dimebag Darrell died on the 24th anniversary of John Lennon's death. I somehow have a feeling that one was more important than the other industry-wide, but one has fans who are more diehard than the other.

Jet Li is brutally awesome in everything he's in. So damn fluid in his movements.

I'm seconding Ong-Bak. I LOVE that movie. Especially the barfight between the main character and that one American that did nothing but use weapons. Reminded me a lot of an ECW brawl, just more fluid and more one-sided. The beginning of it was AWESOME, as the main character just ends a fight quickly with some other guy, and then the American puts down his newspaper and walks over to him, offers to shake his hand...and then SMASH! Beer bottle over the head!

#3 would be perfect if it had nothing on the back. #1 is interesting, though the saying on the back should be underneath the design on the front. WWE needs to start making non-black shirts. Not every wrestling fans wears black. It worked for ECW, the nWo, and Austin 3:16 because most ECW fans were also fans of rap and metal, and black shirts are popular amongst those fans, and the nWo's colors were black and white (and then black and red, and then black and silver), and Austin 3:16 just looks stupid on anything but a black shirt.

95.5 WBRU is playing Matisyahu a lot. I'm heavily digging it.

And what's even funnier is that Smith never once says he didn't like Peters. He said he hated his ideas and his demands, but, IIRC, he said that the way Peters comes off makes you like him.

Si. Good thing you'd buy a CD, because we might be heading to Philly to record soon with one of the members of Pissing Razors doing production for us.

Actually, the XFL failed because the initial games, and several of the ensuing ones, were terrible. And no, the 6-sided ring does NOT have to go. I agree that it's gimmicky, and I don't care for it myself, but it's not such a hinderance to my enjoyment of the product that I think it needs to be removed.

Here's 10 things I would do to TNA... 1. Get the belt off of Jeff Jarrett by April of '06 and onto either Raven or Christian. Raven's program with Zbysko should conclude with him gaining his rightful rematch clause that Zbysko and Jarrett are refusing him, and having him go over almost 3 years after Destiny would put a terriffic cap on the feud. Either that, or have Christian win it in February after his program with Monty Brown ends in January (maybe have a mini-blowoff where both men still have beef with each other, and no differences are solved, but Christian, who won at the January PPV, gets a title shot in February). 2. Have somebody continue to work with Monty Brown on toning down the gimmick of his act and turning it into a character. I loved the Brown/Christian in-ring tradeoff, and would love to see Brown do the "Alpha Male" stuff more subtley so as to help him get over outside of Orlando. 3. Make some rule changes to the X-Division to separate it from the rest of the company. I've touched on this before. I would have it be that the only DQs come from outside interference, excessive use of weapons, and purposefully harming the official in the ring. Make each X-Division match have no time limit, or maybe even make all title bouts 2/3 Falls (to give it the Lucha feel that the X-Division style was originally based off of). 4. Push Samoa Joe like a MOTHERFUCKER. Make him similar to the "Path of Rage"-era Taz in ECW, only less talk and more action. Don't have him completely squash people, and only have certain people even come CLOSE to beating him (could make new stars in the process by having a relative unknown like, say, Sonjay Dutt come close to defeating Joe, only to get caught in Muscle Buster out of nowhere and then choked out) but ultimately defeating. Not only does this put Joe's first one-on-one TNA loss over HUGE, but it also helps elevate whoever they choose to finally pin Joe or make him tap. 5. Have Raven start gaining more followers. It worked in ECW, it worked in WCW, and it worked in his first few months in TNA. It will ALWAYS work for Raven, as fans just buy him as the cult leader sort. 6. Stop having Abyss do the J-O-B to everybody and their grandmother. Have him DESTROY some people, just flat-out decimate them, before somebody having the guts to bring back the barbed wire to ultimately defeat him. Have Abyss go on a complete rampage that even frightens Jim Mitchell, and then we'll get TNA's first true monster back. 7. Give everybody a regular tag partner. They won't be competing for the Tag belts all the time, but when the booking calls for a tag match to hold off on the one-on-one PPV blowoff? The two wrestlers can use their regular tag partners, and new feuds can start this way. It also helps boost the credibility of the NWA World Tag Team belts if everybody has a partner and wants them. 8. Give more creative freedom to the lowercard guys. This was one of Vince Russo's only true strongpoints, in that he let the lowercard guys give him ideas on how they'd like to be used. If it worked? It worked. If it didn't? Back to the drawing board. Everybody in TNA is a "professional wrestler," but not enough of them have any reason to be in the company other than being a wrestler. I find something wrong with that. 9. Get some better theme music. Either hire a small team of musicians, be they professional studio musicians or members of bands that have either faded from the spotlight or are the "reunion show" groups (like Motley Crue, where they'll tour every here and there but not full-time), or get lesser-known bands to contribute material for TNA to use as theme music. A variety of music for the wrestlers helps differentiate them, and as many of us have said in other threads, one of TNA's biggest downsides is that most of the wrestlers have generic entrance themes. 10. Add a third, heel commentator. I enjoy Don West's enthusiasm towards the product, and I think Tenay is one of the more knowledgeable commentators in the business (although now that Raw has Styles, Tenay is no longer the best PBP guy on TV), but there's something missing. 3-man teams have worked in the past so long as all 3 add something different, so giving Impact/PPVs a 3rd, heel commentator with a decent enough knowledge of how to do PBP and enough wit to be a good color guy would be good.

I think the only person who was worn the NWA World Heavyweight title during the TNA era that did so better than AJ has been Killings. AJ's matches as World champion were very good (especially the ones with D'Lo Brown and LowKi), but TNA failed to book him as a STRONG champion both times. His first reign was overshadowed by having Vince Russo as a manager, and his second reign came during not only TNA's worst booking period (Duthtay > Dirty Dutch) but was also based entirely off of lucky roll-up wins (which was especially confusing considering he won the belt right after a WHITE HOT program with Abyss). If AJ were to be given the Heavyweight gold again, and booked PROPERLY as a champion (ie. strong defenses, booked as the focal point of the scene, and maybe given a manager to help him speak and stay a face that DOESN'T overshadow him), I have no doubt in my mind that he'd be the best top guy in all of North America thanks to having an all-around GOOD package (he's better in the ring than anybody close the top belts on Raw or SmackDown, has a MUCH better look than Danielson, and having a babyface manager to help him through promo's that doesn't 100% overshadow him like Russo did would help him in the stick department).

1. I've wanted to know this for a while, so what the FUCK is up with that guy's eyes in your sig, Happy Medium? 2. Yeah...white kids are lame these days.

I typed in "Zombie Apocalypse," and they're not listed at all. I find that kinda funny, and take an odd amount of pride in that.

Hey, wait...One Night Stand was this year, wasn't it? Fuck that, I'm editing my "Best PPV" answer!

Smith's rant on Jon Peters on his lecture DVD is hilarious, so I knew most of the Smith-related parts (especially the polar bears). Smith: "Superman doesn't have guards at the Fortress of Solitude. It's the Fortress of SOLITUDE. He goes there to be ALONE."

Haha, he smokes slut butts. Tell 'em to smoke Camel Lights, if he's gonna smoke anything light. Smoother, tastier, and they roughen up your voice a bit better without the nagging "it takes forever to smoke" BS.

And he gave Sean Waltman the Syxx-Pac name for free.

Nothing too offensive, and it's refreshing to hear a somewhat-raspy voice in a punk band again, so kudos.

Here's the amazing thing: when one division is amazing in the quality of its matches and/or feuds, the other two divisions lack focus and are just there to fill out the show.

I'm part Portuguese. PART. I don't run around waving the flag of Portugal all day, or even speak the language. I take pride in the fact that my grandfather was Portuguese simply because I take pride in knowing my grandfather since he was a good man, and I hope to be as close as possible to how he was as a person when I'm older. And I love how being po' is hip these days. "Yo, man, I ain't got no dollaz" when they live in a HUGE FUCKING HOUSE. It pisses me off. Motherfuckers acting as if they're T-H-U-G when they come from Wall St. ...oh shit, now I'm sounding black... ...I guess being white really ISN'T cool. Oh well. White Power.

Mini-rant... I hate how the X-Division went from a division based on high-flying, high-impact matches to just being about GOOD matches. Seriously...how do you classify a division that encompasses all styles as long as the workers are good and put on good shows? You can't. Thus, there's no reason for the X-Division anymore. Methinks it needs some rule changes to it that make it stand out from every other match that just happens to be really good. Something like the Pure Wrestling division of RoH has. Make it so that there MUST be a winner, either via KO, submission, pinfall, or count-out. Do something with the ropes, or maybe institute a UFC-like rule where if the action comes to a standstill, the referee can break up the wrestlers and make them go back at it.* I dunno, just ANYTHING to separate the X-Division from the World title scene besides match quality/character development. Giving the X-Division it's own set of rules would also make it so that workers that don't do the high-flying tomfoolery but are labelled X-Division because of the quality of their work (Samoa Joe, Roderick Strong, etc.) don't stick out and actually belong. It also makes it so that ANYBODY can challenge for the X-Division title so long as they work by the rules of the division. * = I'm not saying that the X-Division matches can't have good, solid matwork, but this eliminates restholds that don't matter. Once the fans start getting bored during a resthold, the referee can break it up and make the workers go back at it. Try to keep the matches fast-paced.

I'd say him, Frankie Kazarian, and Michael Shane/Matt Bentley are tied for worst X-Division champions to date. Frankie's title reign just came at a really bad time when the X-Division was pretty much cut down to a post-knee injury Amazing Red, so all of his highspots were slowed down and he couldn't bump as much and thus wasn't nearly as impressive, and Sonjay Dutt, who's a good worker but isn't THAT good. Siaki and Bentley, however, have no excuse for being poor champions, since it was the matches themselves that were bad. Plus, Siaki is a heavyweight who does some innovative power moves here and there, so him being an X-Division worker didn't make ANY sense.

I saw this movie just over 2 years ago. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Thanks for reminding me. Oh, and it wasn't just a rockpile. It was a LIMESTONE pile (hence why he screamed when it started to rain).