King Kamala

IIRC, The Triple Cage match main event of Slamboree 2000 is actually pretty bitching despite the presence of David Arquette. It's the same match where Kanyon was thrown off the top of the triple cage through the entrance ramp a year (almost to the exact day) after Owen Hart's tragic death...IN THE SAME ARENA! You gotta love Russo.

I love me some bagels with cream cheese and lox. Too bad there's only one place in the Portland area that has it. Whenever I make my way back to NYC, I'll make a point of it to have that breakfast every day.

FWIW, The Tsongas Arena holds about 7,000 people. What's TNA's attendance record? 6,000 Also FWIW, the best seats available are the $35 ones (second cheapest). I'm about two hours away from Lowell and I'm slightly tempted to go down to see this one but school and shit.

I hope this question doesn't come off as insulting but I'm wondering why he decided to write about wrestling in the first place? It's a fairly odd thing to do for a living (assuming that he makes most of his living off his books).

Robbie Williams- Rock DJ Robbie Williams was a favorite of a young Penis Skullduggery.

Hey Cheech, I don't know if there'd be much interest in it but The Blue Meanie posts on a semi-regular basis at WrestlingClassics and I think he might be open to something like this. I could send a PM to him over there if you're interested.

Can any of you guys recommend me some Curtis Mayfield and/or The Impressions stuff. I downloaded an Impressions album a couple weeks ago on a whim and really enjoyed it, I also like what little stuff I've heard of Mayfield's solo stuff.

I'm willing to give it a try Kamala. Feel free to start the thread yourself and explain what you hope to get out of it. I'd love to see what you have in mind. Seems like an interesting venture. OK, I was kind of hoping someone else would do it but I can certainly do it myself. I'll start it tomorrow morning. The idea is basically a Town Hall ripoff. Which I might add is one of the best ideas to hit TSM in ages. Kudos to Dandy.

Bryan Ferry- "Don't Worry Baby"

I won't let this die- even if I become synonomous with it like Dandy is with his Town Halls in the WWE Folder. This was the year that nearly drove me away from wrestling for good. In fact, sometime shortly after King of The Ring that year I stopped watching for about a year. So the stuff I have seen from the second half of the year was through the magic of video tape and WWE 24/7 online. I know that many will argue that this was WWF's worst year (and rightfully so) but I'd argue that WCW was worse, at least until around the time Nitro started. WWF was boring shit, WCW was absurd shit. Amusingly enough, I was such a WWF loyalist as a mark that I pretty much stopped watching WCW once Hulk Hogan signed because I thought he was a traitor. ECW was completely off my radar at the time. We didn't get it way up here in Maine and I don't remember hearing much about it outside of the occassional PWI article until some of the guys appeared at In Your House:Mind Games a year or so later. So with that said, I'll weigh the pros and the cons of the WWF that year since that's the company I was watching most at the time. Pros Shawn Michaels. He came out of the year relatively unscathed. While Bret Hart was inexplicably stuck in lame feud after lame feud (Jean-Pierre Laffitte, anyone?), Michaels basically carried the company work-rate wise. Like him or not (and I know the majority of the board falls into the latter category), the man stole nearly every PPV he was on. SummerSlam '95. I'll forever defend this show. Perhaps the most underrated SummerSlam of all time. Sure, the main event is indistuably a negative star affair but for the most part, it's a solid affair. Besides the ladder match, you've got a neat Hakushi-123 Kid opener, a decent Barry Horowitz-Skip match, Bret Hart carrying Issac Yankem to a *** match, and a surprisingly watchable Undertaker-Kama casket match. Survivor Series '95. Best PPV of the year and the last great old-school Survivor Series. All of the elimination matches are fun with the exception of The Darkside Vs The Royals and Bret Vs Diesel is a classic. Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett doesn't belong anywhere above the upper mid-card but for my money, he made a damn fine midcard heel and in a year of incredibly lame heels, he shined. His feud with Razor didn't produce any classics but it could always be counted on to provide a solid *** affair. Bret Hart. God bless him, even though he was stuck in many lame feuds with many lame opponents, he almost always managed to have a decent match. Cons Diesel's World title reign. I don't disagree with Diesel being champion at the time in theory but once he won the title, they stripped away everything about the character that made it great and transformed him into Hulk Nash. It didn't help that he was stuck with a myriad of lame opponents. Do gooders bodyslamming hosses might have worked in '85 but not in '95. The Million Dollar Corporation. If not for the Dungeon of Doom, this would easily have been the worst stable of its times. DiBiase was obviously half-assing it during his managerial run in the WWF and the stable itself was the biggest collection of hasbeens and never weres this side of...uh...The Dungeon of Doom. The only memorable moment invovling this group was DiBiase's constant beratement of a destitute Nikolai Volkoff (the memory of Volkoff wearing the same tights as DiBiase except with a cent sign instead of a dollar sign still makes me chuckle). The never ending parade of lame, new characters. I can't think of a period where more awful characters were introduced in the WWF than '95 and the first half or so of '96. It seems like they were trying to compensate for a lack of talent by saddling people with "zany" gimmicks...that lack of talent leads to- Monthly PPVs- the company barely had enough talent to pull off doing five PPVs (See the '95 Royal Rumble match) that year let alone ten. The '95 Royal Rumble match for reasons already explained. King of The Ring PPV. We all know the story with this one. Bret Hart being saddled with lame feuds. Did Bret's grudge with Vince start earlier than we once thought? That's the only reason I can explain him being involved in feuds with a French Canadian pirate that stole his jacket and an evil dentist (Whatever happened to that guy anyways?). The Undertaker. '95 may have been the low point of his career, Foley came along at the perfect time. Basically, 'Taker was the antithesis of HBK that year. Whenever he was in a PPV match that year, you could almost guarantee it would be the worst of the night. It's a pleasant surprise to see how much he's improved since, I'm still not sure whether the improvement can be attributed to a much higher quality of opponents or Taker himself improving. Probably a combination of both. The only good thing that came out of that year for him was that bitchin' Phantom of the Opera mask he rocked after Mabel broke his face. King Mabel. Worst King of The Ring ever. Billy Gunn was bad but at least he didn't main event the second biggest PPV of the year. I could go on for longer here but for my own sanity and for yours, I'll stop. So what are your thoughts on 1995? Worst year in pro wrestling? Underrated ('95 apologists, you can come out of hiding!)?

Here's another one that means a lot to me and has gotten me through some tough times. I dedicate this one to a certain TSMer who broke my heart (you know who you are!). Long ago, and, oh, so far away I fell in love with you before the second show. Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear, but you're not really here. It's just the radio. Chorus: Don't you remember you told me you love me baby? You said you'd be coming back this way again baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby. I love you, I really do. Loneliness is such a sad affair, and I can hardly wait to be with you again. What to say, to make you come again? Come back to me again, and play your sad guitar. Chorus x2

Is it possible for the mods to delete every post I've ever made saying that Marvin was pretty good in The Food Folder?

I have an idea for a regular thread, Cheech. A weekly series called "Behind The Match" where we analyze a somewhat recent match (within the five years rule), the storyline leading up to it, maybe some juicy backstage tidbits about it, and the impact it's had on the workers in said match. This thread could also work in General Wrestling (Behind The Match OLD SCHOOL!) I suggest Hulk Hogan/Shawn Michaels for Week One.

Whenever I read Milky's posts, I picture Ogre in Revenge of The Nerds behind a keyboard since I thought one of his recent pictures he posted on here resembled him. I'm sure The Milkster will appreciate that.

I still maintain that the ending is kind of cool (though it made Bulldog look like a complete ass and ruined any shot he had at the main event until he turned heel) and the random appearences by Rick Martel and Dick Murdoch were kind of cool (but also emphasized the thin roster when they had to bring in two washed up guys who hadn't done anything in years to fill out the match) but yeah, I'd say it's the worst. Watching that PPV a couple months ago, I was taken aback by how dead the crowd was for that show. I don't know if it's one of the worst of all time but it completely kills a show that's actually pretty good by '95 WWF standards. Though I never understood why they hotshotted Bret-Diesel II when IMO it was the best choice for WrestleMania XI main event.

One thing I've always prided myself on as a wrestling fan is I've always had relatively good taste, even as a mark. The same type of wrestlers I liked then are pretty much the same type of wrestlers I like now. Sure I pretty much liked everybody back then but my favorites were guys I consider good workers now with the notable exception of Crush (As a youth I was enthralled by the vignette where he crushed a pineapple with his barehands). The point of this post is even a seven year old mark, I realized that King of The Ring '95 was absolute shit. I couldn't say that about many other shows from '94 and the first half of '95 (Heck, I still kind of enjoy WrestleMania XI for some reason...) but even as a mark I wasn't buying Sid and Tatanka Vs Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow as the main event of a major PPV. Heck, that barely passes as a decent main event of an episode of RAW from that era. In fact as stated earlier (maybe even in this thread), this show by itself swore me off of wrestling for almost a year.

Federation Era: WrestleMania IX, for reasons explained in the thread about it in the WWE 24/7 show. Great atmosphere and absolutely nothing else. This is the only WrestleMania besides the first that doesn't have a match that breaks the *** barrier. Attitude Era: WrestleMania XV. Terrible show, just represents the worst of the Attitude era. Rock/Austin is fun but they'd go onto much better matches with each other and Shane Vs X-Pac is kind of fun but outside of that, you got a lot of Russorific crap. Current Era: Hard to say. The last four or five WrestleManias have all been at least decent. If I had to choose, I'd say 22 is the least good of the. But I don't think I'd even put it near the Bottom 10 of all time. FWIW I classify the eras as; Federation Era: WrestleManias I-XII Attitude Era: WrestleManias XIII-X8 Current Era: WrestleMania XIX-present

Make it a day but if he doesn't interact with Leena during the day, keep him in there until he does interact with her. I'm afraid if I choose the latter, he'll just post something a couple minutes later and be cluttering up the folder again with crappy posts.

I haven't seen the match in years but I remember it being entertaining considering the superthin weak roster. As a mark, I remember thinking The Headhunters were going places when they entered then they were eliminated less than a minute later and never showed up in the WWF again. This deserves a thread of its own IMO but I think The Headhunters may be the most random Royal Rumble participants of all time. Up there with Mil Mascaras and a shitload of luchadors I don't remember names of in the '97 Rumble, Carlos Colon in the '93 Rumble, and Dick Murdoch in the '95 Royal Rumble. In fact, if I were to make a list of the Ten Most Random Rumble participants, I bet at least nine would be from '93 to '98.

Hey Mr. Moderator(s) seeing how MVP got 65 votes of his own, can we throw him in the Gulag for a day? I will note that Marvin's behaved a bit better lately while MVP has continued sucking.

There's no way anybody could tell me that Royal Rumble '96 was the worst ever. All the guys had their own entrance music!

Not to mention perhaps the lamest group of entrants since the first Royal Rumble if not ever.

That was an awful PPV. Maybe in the Bottom 5 of PPVs put on by the WWF. In fact, every one of the In Your Houses that year were generally terrible but at least most of them had one match worth watching (1 had Bret/Hakushi, 2 had Jarrett/HBK, 5 had Bret/Bulldog). In Your House III and IV may have been the worst back to back pair of PPVs until Kevin Sullivan's run with the book in WCW in '00.

1. Appointing Cheech as the Wrestling Folder Custodian. While I initally suggested this as kind of a joke, he's really worked wonders for those folders. The WWE folder in particular is looking better than it has in years and I've got some hope that maybe this is one WWE Folder renovation that will last. 2. My only complaint is somewhat minor but I hope you put some more people in the Whiny Bitches folder. 3. None that immedietely come to mind but if I do have one I'll bring it up. Oh I got one! Give established posters "presents" on their birthday like you did with Ortonsault. Surely if he deserves one, I do! 4. I would if I wanted people to know that I posted way too much on a forum. But yeah therotically if I had other internet friends from other places, I'd recommend this place. 5. I'm very optimistic about the board's future. We're on the up and up. It'll be hard to be worse than Mole.

Maybe it wasn't a dream match to the average fan at the time but on paper Shawn Michaels Vs Mr. Perfect at SummerSlam '93 was a Smark dream match. While it was a decent match by normal standards (**1/2-***ish), it was a massive letdown.