King Kamala

There's a thin line between over the top and elaborate and cartoonish and stupid and tonight's angle crossed it. I'm all for over the top and elaborate angles but tonight was just downright awful. And do I really need to remind you of Russo's track record with WCW and TNA?

Lou Thesz and Rikozidan would have killed if they had a worked shoot angle during the match where Thesz refused to cooperate and Rikozidan had to improvise a new finish.

Glad to see you're back on the board, Mr. Russo.

Hmm, that's an elaborate setup to end a failing angle.

Well, that was easily one of the most surreal things I'd ever seen. I was nodding off during the main event and I thought I was dreaming for a second. I was LOLing for the most part.

My completely uneducated guess is the revealing of Fink's toupee by the Hair Club for Men dude was supposed to be a big surprise so they kept Finkel off most of the show to not let the joke wear thin and had Bill Dunn do it.

Oh damn. I wanted Bob Orton Jr. I was briefly considering drafting him as a tag team with Don Muraco but I realized the ruling on that would be controversial and I didn't want to waste their indivdual talents by having them as a team. Though they were a damn nifty team.

Yeah, it was in Boston in early 98ish. I remember the main event was Sting and Hollywood Hogan in a cage match and Mark Madden was on commentary. Recap from DDT Digest

Man, I'm not usually bummed out by celebrity deaths. But for the second time in the past two weeks, I've been genuinely upset by a celebrity's passing. RIP George

I was about to say that I've never seen anybody walk out of a movie but then I remembered a couple old biddies who were sitting behind me walked out of I Heart Huckabees about halfway through the movie because they didn't get what was going on. There are many valid reasons for walking out of a movie but that definitely isn't one of them. Maybe I'd think differently if I was 60.

The only time I even thought about walking out of was Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within when I was 13. The only reason I stayed there was it was a friend's birthday. It didn't stop me from threatening to sneak into a showing of Scary Movie 2 at the same theater. My philosophy of not walking out on movies is similar to Richard Roeper's. I always have an unrealistic hope that no matter how bad a movie is, maybe it'll get better. By the time I realize the movie isn't going to get better usually I've invested too much time in the movie anyways and might as well finish it.

CHICKENS!

Louis is a damn good suggestion that I hadn't even thought of. I was thinking of snagging Mr. T in the next few rounds as special attraction. He was competent for a non-wrestler and I pity the fool who doesn't like T.

This thread is dedicated to all knockoffs, sodas and otherwise. And Milky is totally right about small town fast food places. I'm sure most of you won't believe me but one of the Top 10 burgers I've ever had (borderline Top 5) was a Whopper from a Burger King in the booming metropolis of Farmington, ME. Of course, small town fast food places can also be putrid. Really, there's no in between.

Fun fact: Hydrox actually came out four years before Oreos. Sadly, they are no longer around. The world no longer needed second rate Oreos. The late Mello Yello and its little remembered offshoots. Once endorsed by Dusty Rhodes and the stars of JCP. This thread is pretty self-descripitve. Talk about some of your favorite and least favorite knockoffs. The celebrated ones and the lesser known ones (Dr. Thunder, the necter of my youth)

Well, they've got a Single A Baseball team!

I bought what I thought was Starrcade '97 from a video store when they were clearing out all of their wrestling tapes and I looked inside and it was Starrcade '98. Though with that scenario, it was really a lose-lose situation for me.

There was an AP article I read yesterday that said Chris Matthews was the frontrunner for Russert's replacement. Lord help us all.

I doubt I'll have any cruiserweights (Like Diamonddust said, I might draft some smaller guys but I'm not going to have a title for them or anything) and I definitely won't have a women's division. However, I haven't ruled out as the as yet untapped midget division.

I don't remember any such time period really. Evan Karagias was one of the blandest light heavies I've ever seen and his winning the Cruiserweight title would set off a chain of events which led to that title being ruined forever!

I've been wanting to do this Let's Talk About for some time but am only now just getting around to it. I may be the biggest mark for latter day WCW Saturday Night on the internet. For the last year or so of its existance when Jimmy Hart was in charge of the show, WCW Saturday Night may as well have been a separate brand from Nitro and Thunder. There was a deluge of wrestlers on Saturday Night that you rarely saw on the other two shows. It was WCW's crossroads, where semi-stars of the future (Chuck Palumbo, Mark Jindrak, Devon Storm, Elix Skipper, Chris Harris, Vampiro,Shark Boy, Lash LeRoux) met hasbeens on their way out (The Barbarian, Bobby Eaton, Robert Gibson, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Van Hammer, The Armstrongs,Tommy Rogers, Al Green) with a bunch of never weres (Frankie Lancaster, Dave Burkhead, Disorderly Conduct) and then-current midcarders thrown in for kicks. Every Saturday Night, I could almost guarantee that I would see one or two matches that were better than anything I saw on Nitro or Thunder. Devon Storm tore it up everytime he appeared on Saturday Night. I remember he had a rocking match with Booker T. Then he moved to the big shows, became Crowbar and teamed with David Flair, and was never quite the same IMO. Though I guess, teaming with David Flair could do that to you. I even enjoyed the semi lame exclusive storylines they had on the show like a bizarre four way mini-feud between Erik Watts and Jim Duggan, The Armstrongs, Steven Regal and Dave Taylor, and The First Family (Brian Knobbs and Hugh Morrus). Then there was a Barry Horowitz-Alan Funk feud that was fueled by Alan Funk making fun of Horowitz for never winning. I don't think it ever got resolved because Russo and Bischoff returned and the show became all recaps. And who could forget "Janitor" Jim Duggan fishing the TV title out of a garbage can and defending against the likes of Fidel Sierra, Steven Regal (who Duggan sent packing to the WWF), and Robert Gibson? So share your memories about the last days of WCW Saturday Night. "Hardwork" Bobby Walker, we salute you!

I didn't take that into consideration. I figured you didn't like Prince, otherwise I would have listed "1999"

How could you forget "Cars"!?

I think you're absolutely but Mellow never specified whether we were doing North America centered promotions.