King Kamala

I think the peak of Jesse's Hogan bashing was WrestleMania V. Speaking of which, I don't understand why WrestleMania V doesn't get nearly the same amount of flak as IV. Yes, V is a little bit better than IV but not that much better. The crowd is still dead throughout, the card is just as long, and there are probably the same amount of good matches.

Yep, they have a song on the terrible WCW Mayhem CD. "Bailendo". I don't know why I remember the song name but I'll have that song stuck in my head. I don't even know what the hell it means...

That Hogan/Andre match at WrestleMania IV is awful, just awful. I can hardly stand watching any Hogan/Andre matches except for WMIII (And even that one sucks, the atmosphere sort of makes up for it).

I know of a gas station restaurant that isn't a truck stop. It's not very good but the desserts are pretty good.

Well if there aren't any tissues nearby....

That's terrible. Just terrible. Now I can slightly understand where he was coming from with his foodman rant.

It was a 14-man tournament. Ugh I'm an idiot. Still anything more than 8 is IMO excessive for a one-night tournament.

Sorry to slightly derail the XPW thread- but I always thought Benoit winning the title was a last ditch effort from Russo to keep his job? I though he was fired after Souled Out not before. Then again, The Nitro before Souled Out just reeked of bad Sullivan booking (George Steele, Tito Santana and Snuka show up out of nowhere and all go over the then U.S. champ, Jarrett in one night ).

Hey now, keep in the sports folder, ladies.

Allow me to put on my fantasy booker hat. I actually didn't mind the idea of the tournament but I felt a 16 man tournament was a bit excessive. The KOTR tourneys had it right with eight men tournaments. I would have done DiBiase/Bigelow, Hogan/Andre, Savage/Steamboat, and One Man Gang/Duggan as the tournament matches. Roberts/Rude would have been a non-tournament match (to set up their Post WM feud) and I'd just add Muraco, Valentine, Bravo, and Butch Reed to the battle royal

It's hard for me to get perspective on how hard they were pushing DiBiase at the time since I didn't start watching until February '94. Most of those aforementioned big wins seemed to be on the house show circuit. And most importantly- why the fuck would you want to end a 3 and 1/2-4 hour show with a heel going over in the main event?

I'm sure Bob Barron will be thrilled to find out that Tina Fey is returning to host the first post-strike episode of SNL on February 23rd. http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02...episode-of-snl/ Ellen Page is hosting March 1st. Apparently they're going to do four shows in a row for the first time since the first season to make up for lost time.

I agree with cabbageboy- what had DiBiase done before WrestleMania IV besides the vignettes, buying the title from Andre, and winning a couple of squash matches. I'm not opposed to the thought of a DiBiase title run but I thought WMIV ended perfectly with Savage overcoming the odds.

Scott Keith's Biggest Fan! That's what his name was.

I didn't know Chuck Klosterman posted here. How can you not love it? Actually most KISS fans really hate this album. Even Gene Simmons has gone as far as to say "It was good but it wasn't KISS good"

I don't get the point of Valentine going over Steamboat. Was it to fuck over Steamboat and keep him from putting on another potentially showstealing match with Savage or was it to put Valentine over? I always had a feeling that wasn't really supposed to be Steamboat's last match since the announcers kind of teased a Steamboat/Valentine feud (And looking at Cawthon's site, they were apparently supposed to have a house show series after the match). And they gave him a hype video before the match where he said that 1988 would be the year of the dragon. I don't think they'd do that to a guy who was leaving. And I always liked Ventura mentioning that Steamboat's kid had cheeks like King Kong Bundy when he was carrying him down the aisle (Especially since Bundy had been gone for like six months at that point)

The one where the WWF logo is flying through the mountains and shit? Good lord, that was badass I also am a fan of the opening battle royal. I'm a battle royal mark and that's one of my favorites even if it is a bit jobberific.

Speaking of KISS, whatever happened to Paul Stanley (The TSM poster)? That guy was our resident crappy retro music (And KISS) lover. I miss him.

Back in middle school, KISS' Music From The Elder was my favorite concept album. Listening to it now, it might just be the cheesiest album of all time. Though I still maintain "The Oath" and "A World Without Heroes" (The latter was written by Lou Reed!) are pretty kick ass. Oh who am I kidding? It's probably my 2nd favorite KISS album. Milky, what are your thoughts on KISS?

Don't forget Savage wearing four different outfits.

Hubble, the dog in Good Boy! teaches that dogs will be pulled of Earth and returned to their home planet in a "global recall." I've told you all you reall need to know about the movie's plut. Owen Baker (Liam Aiken), the young hero, adopts a terrier who turns out to have arrived in a flying saucer to investigate why dogs on Earth are our pets and not the other way around.This will be a no-brainer for anyone who has watched a dog operating a pooper scooper, nor do dogs look like the master race when they go after your pant leg. Roger Ebert's Your Movie Sucks

Czech is still feeling the Illinoise to my knowledge.

There was Jim Duggan Ted DiBiase Don Muraco Dino Bravo Bam Bam Bigelow One Man Gang Jake Roberts DRAW Rick Rude Ricky Steamboat Greg Valentine Randy Savage Butch Reed Second Round Hulk Hogan Draw Andre The Giant Ted DiBiase Don Muraco One Man Gang gets a bye due to Roberts/Rude draw Randy Savage Greg Valentine Semi-Finals Randy Savage One Man Gang DiBiase gets draw due to Hogan-Andre draw Finals Randy Savage Ted DiBiase Yep, I'm a dork for doing that in under five minutes off the top of my head.

No, the old one. Back when it was in the scary "Why did you drop me HERE?" location. My god, that was a horrible section of Baltimore. Most of the city is fine but that one area where the old station was, jesus christ. You felt like you needed a firearm just to walk outside. If I remember right, they aren't anywhere near the same sections of the city. Is that old bus station next to a Best Western and have a KFC in the food court? I've stayed at that Best Western (During an Os series with The Red Sox in '05). The hotel was OK outside of the fact that the pool was broken but it wasn't in the nicest of neighborhoods and that bus station was shady as hell.

Hey doesn't the guy who posted the Foodman rant still post here in some capacity? There may be some hope for a NYankees minor comeback in the future.