King Kamala

Trades for some, miniature American flags for others!

Actually, bowling has been a demonstration sport at The Olympics before. And did you guys know that The Tug of War used to be an Olympic sport? They have to bring that one back, dammit! Oh the things you learn from wikipedia!

Not as but almost. I'd say both are probably among the ten worst PPVs their respective promotions produced. Wouldn't that be a doozy of a thread...trying to come up with the ten worst WCW PPVs of all time. Not sure where I'd begin...

I remember reading once that "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers was one of Vince's all time favorites.

Let me rate the WWF PPVs of '99 Royal Rumble '99: One of those PPVs that was kind of fun watching it live but really doesn't hold up well at all to repeat viewings. That kind of describes most of the latter part of Russo's run in WWF for me. The I Quit match is of course pretty damn good and X-Pac/Gangrel is a fun undercard match. The Royal Rumble is totally a clusterfuck and one of the worst of all time but I still maintain even a bad Rumble is somewhat entertaining. Can't remember anything else on the card. St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Again like Royal Rumble '99, was fun to watch at the time but now? Not so much. Another good World title match, a fun Hardcore title match, and Austin beating the shit out of Vince is almost always fun but everything else kind of sucks. WrestleMania XV: When one of the best match of the night is between the promoter's son and X-Pac, you know it's got to be a shitty card. Besides the main event and the aforementioned X-Pac/Shane match, everything else is the drizzling shits. Backlash: Haven't seen this one in years. I remember it being an enjoyable enough card. Rock/Austin II was definitely better than the first one and I remember Triple H/X-Pac being good and Undertaker/Shamrock was kind of interesting. Not sure if it would hold up if I saw it again but just looking the card on paper, I think it's a safe bet that it's better than any of the first three PPVs that year. Over The Edge: Haven't seen it, probably never will. King of The Ring '99: Cabbageboy to call this a very mediocre show is being extremely charitable. I'd say it's easily one of the ten worst WWE/F PPVs of all time. The tournament is completely rushed and is second only to '95 in terms of sucktitude. The Rock/Undertaker is extremely boring, Edge and Christian/The Hardy Boyz is too short to make much of a mark and is really only notable for being The Hardys first PPV match and an early encounter between the two teams. The MOTN by default is McMahons/Austin. Terrible, terrible PPV. Fully Loaded '99: Don't think I've seen this one. SummerSlam '99: Good main event, fun Shane/Test match, and not much else worth mentioning. Unforgiven '99: Weird show with the whole referees on strike angle. Don't remember much else besides that. The Six Pack match was unique and kind of fun at the time. No Mercy '99: Another show I've only seen once a long, long time ago. I remember it being an enjoyable enough show. Edge and Christian/Hardys was a nice foreshadow of things to come. Survivor Series '99: Really lame PPV. Not egregiously bad as KOTR '99 just a boring ass show. Armageddon '99: I don't really like this one. Doesn't have much going for it really besides The Kat flashing. Vince Vs Triple H was just absurdly long.

And now I believe the last Guerrero is off the board.

The Stars and Stripes Challenge thread raised this question. Did the Lex Luger-Yokozuna feud ever have a proper blowoff? After WrestleMania X, they just went into separate directions with Luger feuding with Mr. Perfect and Yokozuna forming that short lived tag team with Crush. Did WWF just realize nobody really cared about whether or not Lex would finally give Yokozuna his comeuppance and decided to abruptly end the feud? I just found it weird that they'd build up a feud for eight months and then just end it with no big final showdown.

Put a big grilled portabella mushroom on a hamburger bun, slap some condiments on it, and you've got a great vegetarian burger substitute. I shouldn't of called it a burger cause it really isn't but it's a hell of a lot better than that Boca Burger crap.

Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb? I was going to suggest Turner and Hooch but then I realized it didn't make much sense. Still it has a ring to it. And Truthiness can't claim I've never contributed anything to The WWE Folder in recent memory. I restarted the roundtable dammit. Sure I gave up on them after three months but what a magnificent three months they were! I'm sure Venkman and Dandy will attest to that... If you're going to attack someone for their complain/contribue ratio, why not gary floyd? He complains about WWE folder a lot and I don't think I've ever seen him post there! I restarted the roundtable dammit. My place in WWE folder lore is secure.

I haven't been accused of snitching or being a fucking bitch since EHME's heyday about six months ago. I don't read the WWE folder all that much so I'll take others word for t that Truthiness probably doesn't belong in The Gulag anymore. But I still maintain that ashamed wrestling fan, cabbage and DarKnight do. And we definitely need to come up with a clever nickname for the last two.

We all know Vince was desparate for a Hogan replacement and Luger wouldn't be the last one to try and fill his shoes. Who can forget Diesel's Hoganesque World title run? I'm sure we all want to to. Anyways, Luger wasn't a bad choice to be Hogan's defacto replacement but the fact that there was no buildup and no sort of transition from Narcissistic heel who bashes people with his steel plated forearm to All American hero and all around great guy who bashes evil foreigners with his steel plated forearm.

I just watched this about a month ago. I always thought as a mark that Crush should have been the guy to get the slam instead of Luger. And I never got the hell what Tatanka was trying to accomplish by trying to beat up Yokozuna. I guess softening him up before he slams him isn't a bad idea in theory but Yoko just got angry and legdropped him. Even as a mark watching this I thought The Native American Phenom was being a dope. I maintain that this angle was a pretty cool idea in theory (Upstart American bodyslams massive foreign heel World Champion on the 4th of July) but it just wasn't done with the right babyface. Luger just came off as too random and in the long term, the angle never really went anywhere. Still, I'd say it got off to a good start.

Let's gulag the both of 'em! And how about The Truthiness and ashamed wrestling too while we're at it?

Two completely unrelated comments I have 1. Last episode of At The Movies with Ebert and Roeper is on here tonight/this morning. Anybody else seen it already or is planning on watching it? Is it just a regular show or is it a retrospective? Kind of hoping for the latter but I'm taping it regardless because I'm a dork. 2. Watching the last forty five minutes of The Day After on the Sci Fi Network a couple of days ago at 2 A.M. got me into the mood for postapocalypse movies. Any recommendations? The more obscure the recommendation, the better. I know if anyone can help me in this area, it's you guys!

Ebert vaguely references the fact that he wanted Little Indian, Big City remade in the last paragraph of his written review for the remake. Jungle 2 Jungle review

I'm here to give a cheap plug to my new Kamala At The Book blog right here on TSM where I'll be rebooking AWA circa 1989. Enjoy, you crazy kids.

There aren't many more charmingly schizophrenic artists in pop music history than Harry Nilsson. Dude could go from a hard rocker to a well orchestrated schmaltzy ballad to Beatlesesque baroque pop to country rock to a whimsical Carribean infused track on one album side. Unfortuantely, that also probably led to the downfall of his popularity. He's one of those artists that could have only been a chart topper in the early '70s. Here he is doing a medley and talking about the art of songwriting on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Yeah, I was the one who picked Hector. Guerrero family members are like Lays Potato Chips, you can't have just one! When I realized there was still one wrestling member of the family on the board, I had to get him.

Fly Me To The Moon's somewhat respectable PSA is proof that people will see anything in 3D. Either that or parents are desparate for kids movies. Wall-E is still in some theaters and there's the new Star Wars but other than that there's not much. Still it sounds like one of the most astoundingly stupid sounding movies ever. Apparently, it has a live action insert at the end where Buzz Aldrin tells us that it was not physically possible for flys to have hitched a ride onto Apollo 11. Well no shit Buzz, you killjoy!

Alright I could have swore this guy was picked with one of his brothers but I guess he hasn't been. I've done both kinds of searches and his name hasn't come up. I'll apologize in advance for upsetting TheFranchise with this pick. I needed another draw for the big Latino crowd in Southern California and this guy is a natural fit and a steal at this point. He's part of one of wrestling's most famous families and was a huge draw for The Los Angeles territory in the Mid to Late '70s. I'm going to use him a fiery Latino babyface and occassional tag team partner with his younger brother, Hector. He's a two time former NWA Americas Heavyweight Champion and a seven time NWA Americas Tag Team Champion... With my 39th pick in The All Time Wrestling Roster Draft, I'm proud to select... ...Mando Guerrero Unless I'm mistaken he's the last member of the Guerrero Family to be taken.

That's kind of damning with faint praise. True but it is technically correct. At the same time, there were more WWF PPVs that year that weren't terrible than WCW.

Is it just me or is Buck Zumhoffe a dead ringer for Styx guitarist James JY Young? The resemblance is uncanny? ...Separated at birth?

Ah I see the hangup. Sorry Drury.

I think the one thing that kept Spring Stampede from being a truly great PPV was the fact they never really went everywhere after it. It was kind of like a precursor to TNA PPVs in a way- a lot of good wrestling but you knew it wouldn't really matter in the long run because they wouldn't build off of it. Still Ill stand by my statement that WCW had more good PPVs in '99 than WWF.

Drury....press the control and F keys at the same time and type in the guy's name. Will save all of us a lot of time.