King Kamala

I want this to be a running thread, Czech guesses TSM regulars' favorite *insert legendary rock band* song. I may be the only who thinks this but this is the best thread to hit The Music Folder in weeks if not months.

I'm indifferent towards that one. But your approach isn't terribly far off. My favorite is "For No One" I could have sworn I heard Milky say his favorite Beatles song was "Fool On The Hill" but maybe I was confusing that with him saying that was the song that describes him the best.

I'm going to make a wild guess with "Piggies"

GOD DAMN! That's a great selection. Dr. D totally slipped my mind. A borderline main-eventer in my book.

Kidding aside, it's downright infuriating that Giant Gonzalez got drafted over a Johnny Valentine or Jim Londos. I expected a lot of old school guys to get ignored but not this many. I don't think there's a good explanation to picking Giant Gonzalez in the 10th round (or whenever it was, sometime in the early times). Even if you're looking for a big man, there were way better options available. Just off the top of my head, there was; Crusher Blackwell, Big John Studd, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Haku/Meng, Haystacks Calhoun. I could go on all day. Virtually anybody would be a better choice than him. I'm also surprised at the number of Japanese workers picked thus far. The IWC's love of puroresu is well documented but I didn't think there'd be this many guys taken at this point.

I was thinking about them when I picked The Headshrinkers but I already had one monster tag team with The Skyscrapers and The Headshrinkers can bump around a little bit better. Still an awesome pick, Cranda. Meng was one of the best monster heels available. He was a guy that was wasted by both WWF and WCW. A bonafide badass motherfucker.

We've been talking a lot about '99 and '00 WCW so I thought I'd continue that tradition. After all, it's a lot more interesting to talk about bad wrestling than it is with good wrestling. Now this is an angle that I thought had incredible potential. There are many ways you could do it and make it compelling television. Allow me to put on my fantasy booker hat. You could have The Millionaires Club as the sympathetic babyfaces, legends of the squared circle being pushed aside by a youth obsessed new regime. Or you could have the opposite with The New Blood playing the babyfaces and looking to knock off the egomaniacal stalwarts that have had a stranglehold on WCW's main events for years.Unfortunately, WCW decided to do it in the worst way possible. Both sides came off looking like assholes. And not the compelling "shades of grey" assholes that us in the IWC tend to love just plain "I want to change the channel to RAW" assholes. You were never really sure why The New Blood were exactly the heels and why The Millionaires Club were the babyfaces. And why the hell would you name a babyface stable "The Millionaires Club" in the first place? Hasn't professional wrestling taught us to hate the wealthy? This was just one incredibly frustrating storyline. While I doubt WCW could have shot back to #1 if this angle was successful, I'm not sure if WCW was past the point of no return in April 2000. I'd even argue that the failure of this angle was the tipping point in WCW's demise. Russo and Bischoff joining forces to save WCW was hyped endlessly as something that could save WCW and perhaps regain them the top spot. Maybe I was a sucker but I kind of bought into the hype and when it quickly became clear that the big angle that was going to revive WCW turned out to be a big dud, I realized WCW was certainly never going back to #1 and it might be over for good. There was a sliver of decent stuff. The first few shows might not have made for good television persay but it was certainly interesting television. And working with new opponents, brought out the best stuff in years from Hogan. DDP and Jarrett's matches were consistently good. Though it was kind of absurd that with a still loaded roster that those two were on top. Of course, this was all rightfully overshadowed by stuff like Tank Abbott ripping off Mark Madden's shirt, David Arquette winning the WCW World title, and the general unreigned absurdity of Russo's booking. So let's talk about a time when world collided. When Russo joined forces with Bischoff and young clashed with old. Relive the crappiness (or greatness, Russo apologists are welcomed here) in this week's Let's Talk About...

Tom Brokaw. It was a Russert tribute show. I'm assuming they aren't trudging him out of the old folks home to replace him full time. I really have no clue who's going to replace him. Nobody at NBC comes to mind.

Czech may hate me for this but for years I confused Stereolab with Audiovent (little remembered Incubus vanity project).

Brock Lesnar going over The Rock stand out to me as good of an example as any of using an established superstar to elevate someone.

With all due respect to drury, there are still a boatload of decent hosses available. Hell, some of the best big men of all time are as yet undrafted. Virtually, any hoss would be better than Gonzalez. I'm not surprised he got drafted. He's got a good enough look (faux naked fur body suit aside) and is absolutelyfuckinghuge but I didn't think he'd go until the last five or six rounds at the earliest.

HEY TOUGH GUY!

Here's another one I'm surprised hasn't been picked yet. This guy is one of the most memorable wrestlers of the '80s and one of the most beloved personalities in wrestling. To this day, when he makes his sporadic appearances on RAW, he always manages to get an impressive pop from the crowd. While his wrestling skills leave a lot to be desired, he could brawl with the best of them in his day. He's the perfect foil for "Superstar" Billy Graham. It'll be played up as one of the most tried and true storylines in wrestling; The Hollywood Showboat Vs The Blue Collared Everyman. He's a former WCW U.S. Champion, WCW Television Champion, UWF World Tag Team Champion, Mid South North American Champion, and the winner of the first televised Royal Rumble. With my 12th pick and the 215th pick overall, I'm proud to select everybody's favorite idiot.... "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan I'll be using the slightly less cartoonish, Buford Pusser-esque UWF/Mid-South era Jim Duggan for my fed.

Warrior beating Hogan and thus getting the figurative torch passed to him didn't end the WWF's "golden era". What ended it was the half assed booking of the Warrior's World title reign and the fact that the WWF themselves didn't seem ready to move on from Hogan. Heck, the biggest post WrestleMania angle that year involved Hogan! Warrior's first PPV World title defense was completely overshadowed by Hogan getting revenge on Earthquake for sitting on him. But Warrior actually winning the title and for about a day and a half, getting the figurative torch passed to him by Hogan was very well done. The WWF did a good job with the buildup to giving the Warrior the ball but didn't know what to do with him after he had it. And I hate defending The Warrior as much as most of you probably hate me reading it. But The Warrior has been responsible for most of the shit that's got him rightfully derided by the IWC but he's not completely at fault for his Diesel bad WWF World title run.

Technically, any WWE that happened in the past five years is supposed to be discussed in the WWE Folder.

What's the verdict on dumplings? Appetizer or main course?

Spinach and artichoke dip with the breadsticks thingys they always serve with it!

There are so many great tag teams left on the board and I thought I'd fill the final slot in my roster while the gettin's good. I think a good tag team division is essential to a good promotion. This tag team is one of my all time personal favorites and a team I thought surely would have been picked by now (or at least one of the members solo). They're up there with The Steiner Brothers and The Road Warriors for producing the most entertaining squash matches. They didn't just beat guys, they destroyed them. They were also incredibly agile for big men and an essential part of the incredibly underrated WWF tag team scene of the mid 90s. These men are three time former WCWA tag team champions and former WWF Tag Team Champions With my 12th pick and the 210th selection overall, I'm proud to select... Fatu and Samu...The Headshrinkers! I'll be primarily using them as heels against The Nasty Boys. I think that series would produce some incredible brawls. But a series between them and Strike Force would also be super nifty.

I've said it before on this board many times and I'll say it again. There was nothing wrong with the buildup to Diesel's WWF World title reign but the actual reign itself was terrible.

I hate to defend Nash but to uneducated marks at the time like myself (and Venkman), Diesel was easily the #3 heel in the company behind Owen and Yokozuna. One of my biggest markout moments was watching Razor Ramon beat Diesel at SummerSlam '94. I thought Razor had no chance because Diesel was one of those guys that was just too tough. Granted, I thought Giant Gonzalez and Ludvig Borga were "too tough" to be beaten. Ah, to be a mark again.

Yeah, at this point DiBiase was gone from the WWF (IIRC, his last appearance was jobbing to Razor at SummerSlam '93) and doing a very brief stint wrestling in Japan before he retired.

Obviously, I was hoping for the same. Kamala is a damn underrated monster heel and I would have like to pair him up against Kerry Von Erich. Alas, it was not meant to be. Still a couple of really good monster heels left on the board.

The (dumb) reasoning was that Art Donovan is a Baltimore legend (He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Played with The Baltimore Colts in case you don't know exactly who he is) and a generally gregarious guy who was a good talk show guest and thus with the show being held in Baltimore, he should commentate! Of course they didn't take into account the fact that he knew jabsolutely nothing about wrestling and the rest...is WrestleCrap history.

I've been mildly impressed by The Top Guns as well. Sure, they were completely inept and awful on the mic and they came at an a time when there was an overabundance of pretty boy babyface tag teams in wrestling, most of whom were leagues better than them (The Rockers, Rock 'N' Roll Express, Strike Force) but in the ring, they're pretty decent. I'm quite surprised that neither of the guys got runs in WWF or WCW. They're far from the worst thing about these shows. I'm kind of upset I missed Don Rickles on the Celebrity Corner segment last night. Those segments are completely useless but I would have liked to seen Rickles riff endlessly on Verne Gagne

Sausage. Though I imagine this decision had a lot to do with the fact that most bacon I've had in the past few years has been turkey bacon. I love regular bacon and turkey bacon is an acceptable substitute on occasion but damn my dad for finding a way to include it in every meal I have at home.