King Kamala

Sorry I sent you that drunken PM, Cheech. Not sure what I even said but I'm 75% sure I sent you something. Clearly, I'm not the intoxicated poster that KOAB is. But cut me some slack, I've only been drinking about six months or so.

bob_barron is a hero to most but he never meant shit to me you see. Straight out racist that sucker was. Motherfuck him and John Wayne.

Tommy Boy and his cameos in Billy Madison and Dirty Work will forever put Chris Farley on the good list.

I'm sorry, Cheech. I'm sorry everybody. First night of the spring semester. Vodka and Crystal Light....wtf was my buddy thinking? WTF was I thinking? Terrible chaser. Especially since the last one was grapefruit! Yeck! KOABoarding hard indeed.

Lordy begordy- I feel like I'm having a heart attack. I feel like I'm having a heart attack. Oh god- the wrong King is drunk posting at the wrong time (Monday night?)

Ugh, aforementioned white guilt led me to drink a lot of PBR and Crystal Light and Vodka (WTF kind of friend has Crystal Light as chaser?). My chest hurts. I feel like I'm dying. God bless Dr. King.

That's true, Farley didn't quite get the same chance that Belushi and Candy to portray other facets of his comedic talents.

I was going to make a light hearted, jokey Facebook note about Martin Luther King Day and somehow whilst looking for potential material, accidentally ended up on a white supremacist site. Ending up on that type of site on this day is going to give me white guilt to last the whole year round . KOAB (or EHME or Black Lushus or any of TSM's many great African American/Canadian members), please tell me I'm not a racist!

At the risk of sound blasphemous, I think Farley is kind of overrated. I think he's an incredibly fascinating figure but he's sort of one note . Not to say he's bad because he does that one note pretty well in five minute sketches but it gets kind of tiring in some of his lesser movies. John Belushi, on the other hand, though remembered as the originator of Farley's fat guys acts wacky and falls down funny shtick, could do impressions and did very well in those understated 12:50 type sketches on the show. Again, I like Farley but he's not in the league of John Belushi and John Candy in terms of great big man sketch comics.

And now a video tribute, thanks to the fine users of DailyMotion. With Alundra Blaye Vs Hakushi and Bull Nakano Weird to see Mean Gene comment on '95 WWF action. Vs Mankind (RAW after WrestleMania XII) Vs Randy Orton Hardcore Title Battle Royal (WrestleMania 2000) Vs Rock Lesnar (Royal Rumble 2004)

One of those '96 shows that isn't particularly good outside of one or two matches but I'm inexplicably and overly nostalgiac about. Maybe it's because I had just gotten back into wrestling after a year long absence or maybe it's because the first house show I went to was two weeks or so after this and there were a couple of rematches from this show. The booking of the tournament is somewhat underrated. Austin-Mero set up a nice, little mini-feud that managed to put both guys over and tide Austin over until Hart came back and Vader-Roberts put Vader over nicely as a sadistic monster without putting a dreaded (at the time) heel vs heel matchup. And as a mark, I personally thought they were setting up a Jake Roberts fights insurmountable odds and wins the tournament and validates his comeback finish or at the very least Jake Roberts fights bravely before Austin has to resort to cheating to beat an injured fogey. Besides even a mark with no knowledge of the inner working of the biz, I thought there was no way that bad guys would win The King of The Ring three years in a row! I may have been the only one but I was surprised to see Austin just kick the everliving shit out of Jake The Snake.

It isn't really that bad...though it is noticeable. I was just using it more as an example.

After Hours...man who knew Scorsese could do zany black comedy? Incidentally, the movie arriving at my house via Netflix coincided with Roger Ebert posting his Great Movies review of it.

They're $1.99 on Time Warner. Not too bad of a deal. It's a shame I go back to my cableless school on Monday or else I'd order a few (I haven't seen '96 and '97 since they first came out on VHS).

I'm going to be starting a new (sort of) running thread here in General Wrestling sometime late this week/early next week that's going to be a real doozy hopefully but before that I figure we're due for another TSM Profile. This one should be a doozy in its own right... Name: "Macho Man" Randy Savage Also known as: The Spider (indies), The Executioner (ICW), The Macho King, and Mr. Madness Height: 6'2'' Weight: 270 pounds Age: 55 Debut: 1973 Retired: 2004 Accomplishments: Two time WWF World Champion, Four time WCW World Champion, PWI Wrestler of The Year in 1988, Member of The Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame (Class of '96), Winner of Match of The Year for '87 in PWI and The Wrestling Observer (With Ricky Steamboat for their match at WrestleMania III), Former WWF Intercontinental Champion, Former USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion, Two Time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion, Three Time NWA Mid America Heavyweight Champion, Three Time ICW World Heavyweight Champion, PWI Most Popular (1988), PWI Least Popular (1989), PWI Comeback Wrestler of The Year (1995), PWI Feud of The Year (1997, with Diamond Dallas Page) Career Summary: Born Randy Poffo, the son of Angelo, a well known wrestler of the '50s and '60s. Began his career during the offseason during his unsuccessful professional baseball career. Would work alongside his father and brother Lanny. Feeling his boys' weren't being given the pushes they deserved, Angelo formed an "outlaw" wrestling promotion, the Louisville, Kentucky based International Championship Wrestling in 1978. He would move onto The Memphis based, Championship Wrestling Alliance in 1983. There he engaged in a memorable feud with The King of Memphis Wrestling, Jerry Lawler based on the real life animosity between ICW and CWA. Savage was signed by The World Wrestling Federation in June of '85. His first angle was one of his most memorable with the heel managers of WWF jostling to sign the new superstar with Savage finally picking his real life wife, Miss Elizabeth to be his valet. Soon after, he engaged in a feud with the biggest name in professional wrestling, Hulk Hogan. In February '86, he won the WWF Intercontinental title from Tito Santana. His memorable nearly fourteen month long reign would be ended by Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat in a legendary match in front of 93,000 (78,000? Aw hell, that's a whole other thread...) at The Pontiac Silverdome at WrestleMania III. Six months later, Savage would turn face by saving his former foe, Hulk Hogan from an attack by Honky Tonk Man (who Savage had begun feuding with over HTM's appraisal of himself as the Greatest Intercontinental Champion of All Time) and The Hart Foundation. Thus The Mega Powers were formed. At WrestleMania IV, Savage would reach the pinnacle of his career, defeating four men in one night to win the vacant WWF World title. He would hold the title for over a year, feuding with the likes of Ted DiBiase, Bad News Brown, and The Twin Towers before turning heel again over Hogan macking on Miss Elizabeth (Even as a mark, it didn't make sense that Mach was the bad guy). Savage would lose the title to Hogan at WrestleMania V. He would toil in the mid-card for a while as "The Macho King" against the likes of Jim Duggan, Brutus Beefcake, and Dusty Rhodes before being propelled back to the top in a feud with the then current WWF World Champion, The Ultimate Warrior. Savage would go cost The Warrior The World title at Royal Rumble '91, which set up a Retirement Match at WrestleMania VII. Savage would once again fall short in a WrestleMania Classic and would turn face again and reunite with Miss Elizabeth. The pair's "wedding ceremony" was interrupted by newly turned heel, Jake "The Snake" Roberts who pulled the ol' snake in the wedding present routine. Savage and Roberts would have a legendary feud, which resulted in Savage making his in-ring return at This Tuesday In Texas. Afterwards, Savage began a feud with WWF World Champion, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair over Flair claiming he slept with Miss Elizabeth. This culminated in Savage defeating Flair to win his second and final WWF World title at WrestleMania VIII. After losing the title to Flair in September '92, he feuded with "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair and the man who cost him the title, Razor Ramon with The Ultimate Warrior and later Mr. Perfect as his partner. After that feud, Savage would become a color commentator and only wrestle occasionally for the rest of his WWF run. He left the company in November '94 to join World Championship Wrestling. His departure at the time was thought to be an amicable one. Not soon after, Savage reignited his feud with "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. At the first World War 3 three ring battle royal, Savage won his first WCW World title. He would exchange the title back and forth with Flair, becoming the first (and only?) pair of wrestlers to exchange the WWF and WCW World titles. In July '96, he teamed up with Sting and Lex Luger to face invading newcomers Scott Hall and Kevin Nash and their surprise mystery partner, Hulk Hogan, a trio soon to be known as the nWo. Savage and Hogan wrote another chapter in their long history together with another feud, this time with Savage as the face and Hogan as the heel. The two would allign again with Savage joining the nWo in February '97. As a member of the nWo, Savage would participate in a memorable feud with Diamond Dallas Page, that briefly revitalized Savage's somewhat stagnant career. Savage would defeat Sting at Spring Stampede '98 for his third WCW World title but would lose it the next night to (who else?) Hollywood Hogan. The match would help start the heel nWo Hollywood Vs babyface nWo Wolfpac (led by Savage and Kevin Nash) feud. After a brief hiatus in the latter of '98, Savage made his return in The Spring of '99 with a new look and a new manager (his then 22 year old girlfriend Gorgeous George). Savage would form the oh-so-memorable Team Madness stable with Gorgeous George, Miss Madness (the future Molly Holly), Madusa, and Sid Vicious. He would win his fourth and final WCW World title at Bash at The Beach '99 in a tag team match with Sid Vicious against Kevin Nash and Sting but would once again lose the belt the next night to Hollywood Hogan. After a literally shitty match with Dennis Rodman at Road Wild '99, he disappeared and only made several more brief intermittant appearances with the company before leaving in 2000. After a brief return to the ring for TNA in 2004, Savage retired from wrestling and has seemingly been content with his successful voice acting career. Recently various rumors have innundated the internet over the reasons for his departure from the WWF and the ensuing tumultous relationship with Vince McMahon. The most notable of these is the rumor that Savage slept with a then underage Stephanie McMahon. Whatever the reason- Savage's wrestling career appears to be over. Though wrestling fans learned long ago to "never say never" Questions 1. Will we ever see Randy Savage in the world of professional wrestling again? Even in a non wrestling capacity (say getting inducted into a certain Hall of Fame)? Or do you think he's the rare case of a wrestler who saved his money over his career and is content in retirement? 2. Do you think his sterling WWF heyday was in anyway tarnished by his mostly mediocre WCW (Post DDP feud) and TNA runs? Has it been tarnished by the rumors regarding his WWF departure that sprang up after his retirement? 3. Where would Savage rank in a list of The Greatest of His Era? Greatest of All Time? 4. Don't usually like to divulge in this type of gossip but what are your thoughts on the rumors RE: Savage's estrangement from WWE? Is it a result of his unreasonable demands? A result of an affair with Stephanie? Savage just being content in retirement? Something entirely different? 5. Favorite moments, matches, etc.

As for great games of the '00s, how about The As-Royal game in '02 where The A's blew an 11-0 lead but then Scott Hatteberg hit a walkoff home run in the 9th to give them their twentieth win in a row? Atheltics/Royals (9-4-02)

In fact, we have the proof on video for two of the four!

Why can't we just post videos for the rest of this thread? Twisted Sister's cover of "Leader of The Pack" (sung from the perspective of the leader!). This pretty much killed their career. Warning this video is rated H for Humor!

II and III (which is about gutter punks and apparently, hasn't been released on VHS or DVD) are in their entirety on YouTube in their entirety but I is conspicuously absent. "Talk Dirty To Me" is one of the few hair metal songs I really enjoy but I've never seen why Poison is seen in a higher light than Warrant, Ratt or any of the other second tier hair metal bands. Maybe it's my seething hatred of Bret Michaels that dates back years before he made Rock of Love. Oh in my initial post, I forgot to mention that I own and enjoy the KISS compilation solely focused on their non-makeup, hair metal years. So cheesy, so good. Somehow Paul Stanley is more cartoonish without the makeup than he is with it.

This is the electronic store underling equivalent of Eric Bischoff showing up on RAW or Jeff Richards jumping from MadTV to SNL, I haven't decided which yet.

Another minor pet peeve of mine. Whenever I happen to cut the cheese around him (which isn't all that often), my best friend always does the universal PU gesture and says "GOD! Why do your farts always smell so bad!?" Wha? I know my flatulance isn't the most fragrant scent in the world but is there a world of difference between a good smelling fart and a bad smelling one? Maybe it's just me but when you're over the age of 11, isn't it generally common courtesy when someone else cuts one is to grimace and ignore it? Unless the fart is flagrantly audible or repetitive in which case its OK to giggle to your hearts content. Besides the dude has B.O. and I've never told him to buy some deodrant in the fifteen years or so I've known him. Yet still he has better luck with the ladies than I. It's clear females prefer B.O. to flatulance.

Of the two options, I'd rather have it as its own folder. HOWEVER, ideally it'd be a subfolder in General as it used to be.

I vaguely recall him making an appearance with The Old Age Outlaws. So that would have been around January '00. Wouldn't surprise me if he popped up randomly during the Millionaire's Club Vs New Blood feud. According to onlineworldofwrestling, he was released in Fall of '00 but he was gone months before that.

OK, changed my password here so now I can tell ya and enjoy the JN News goodness... Leena not figuring that out is a blessing from message board heaven

dohhhhhhhh---I'd tell you my password there if it wasn't the same one I used here *facepalm*