King Kamala

Steamboat and Angle were close to being my two picks. Very nice.

To fill an 80,000 seat venue- you're going to need two huge stars and both of these guys fit the bill in more ways than one. This first guy is one of the most beloved figures in professional wrestling. He was perhaps the biggest draw in pro wrestling in the '70s and first half of the '80s before shockingly turning heel and becoming one of the most hated men in the sport. He is one of the greatest big men to ever grace the ring and a name that virtually anyone with any knowledge of pro wrestling will identify with it. I'm sure you figured out long ago who I'm taking. With the last pick in the first round of the second all time wrestling roster draft, I'm proud to select... "The Eighth Wonder of The World" Andre The Giant! I plan on using him in his lovable, gentle giant incarnation. But he'll be provoked into action by his ruthless opponent, who'll be able to handle his own and then some against the giant... With the first pick of the second round, I'm picking a guy who made a huge impact in his short professional wrestling career. He is effective as a babyface but I'll be using him as a ruthless, psychotic heel. He is not only a giant killer but a legend killer and will stop at nothing to cut Andre down to size. He's a three time former WWE Champion, a former IWGP Champion, not to mention the current UFC Heavyweight Champion. With the first pick in the second round of the second all time wrestling roster draft, I'm proud to select... Brock Lesnar!

HOLY SHIT! The guy I thought might go Top 5 and certainly thought would go Top 10 has fallen to me! In fact, both of these guys could have gone in The Top 10 easy IMHO. Before we get to them, let's talk about where I'm going to base my promotion. This city was a hotbed for wrestling in the '60s, '70s, and early '80s. It also plays a part in my super card's name.... I'm going to go with Miami, Florida as my home base and the setting for my super show will be a recently closed stadium that held a few CWF super cards in its heyday as well as a few Super Bowls. The Miami Orange Bowl My television tapings will mostly take place at a legendary boxing and wrestling venue of the '60s and '70s... The Miami Beach Convention Center

Yeah but to be fair to the good citizens of those states, are there any other really great wrestling venues in them? Hope this doesn't count as a spoiler but is anybody else surprised to see no venues outside of North America get picked so far? I know that this board isn't really big on international wrestling but I thought for sure one or two would be off the board.

Terry Funk was one of my Top 5 remaining guys but wasn't the guy I was referring to earlier.

No, Andre wrestled semi-frequently in Japan and Mexico after WrestleMania VI. His last match was only a month or so before his untimely death. He wrestled mostly in tags and six man matches where he just kind of sat in the corner. And I'm assuming the guy that you're talking about is former WWF job guy and one half of the second team to hold the WWWF Tag Team titles, Rene Goulet.

There's one guy that I thought for sure would be a Top 10 if not Top 5 pick that I'm crossing my fingers and hoping he'll somehow fall down to me. Though I doubt that'll happen. Really, there are four or five obvious guys who'll obviously go near the very top (Hogan, Austin, Rock, and Flair) and then after that, it gets kind of confusing. There are maybe 20 guys that could go next and I wouldn't say the drafter was wasting a pick.

There was also one in 2001 about a month before WCW went out of business. Interesting to note Kid Romeo's presence on the card as he would be WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions like a month later. WWF @ Atlanta, GA - Georgia Dome - February 5, 2001 (24,639) Jakked: Billy Gunn defeated David Young K-Kwick defeated Rick Michaels Albert defeated Onyx Essa Rios defeated Kid Romeo Raw is War: WWF IC Champion Chris Jericho pinned Matt Hardy (w/ Lita) with the Lionsault after Dean Malenko came ringside, attacked the challenger, and threw him back inside the ring; after the contest, Malenko, Perry Saturn, and Eddie Guerrero attacked Hardy and Jericho - with Guerrero hitting a frog splash onto the IC title belt which was placed on Jericho's face Edge & Christian defeated Sho Funaki & Taka Michinoku WWF Tag Team Champions the Dudley Boyz defeated the Undertaker & Kane via disqualification when the referee wrongly accused the Undertaker of using a steel chair on Bubba Ray Dudley, after interference from Edge & Christian Rikishi & Haku defeated Too Cool when Rikishi pinned Grandmater Sexay with a belly to belly suplex and the Bonzai Drop Chris Benoit defeated Al Snow via submission to the Crippler Crossface The Rock & WWF World Champion Kurt Angle (w/ Trish Stratus) defeated Steve Austin & Triple H when Angle pinned Triple H with a low blow and chairshot; after the match, Austin hit the Stunner on Angle; late in the contest, the Big Show came ringside and attacked the Rock before leaving

Damn..."Rowdy" Roddy was my #1 pick at this stage. Good pickup.

If Brody continues his filmed readings of classic TSM posts, I'd say he has an outside chance at capturing Best Poster in '10!

Damn, these last few venue picks have hurt me. My #1 is still on the board luckily but virtually all of my backups are gone. Guess its back to the drawing board.

Damn- Detroit was my #1 choice for a city. Though I was going to use The Silverdome (technically outside of Detroit but really close enough to count as it) for my venue. Oh well eight of my top ten choices for venues are still on the board with ten guys ahead of me. I like my 80% chance of getting one of 'em. A lot of my top 20 guys are still on the board.

Hell, I'm willing to bet there will be picks in the second and third round that can have promotions built around them. Last year, I drafted Buddy Rogers in the tenth round and most would agree that you could build a promotion around him.

Hmm...wow, it's official...at least one of The Big 3 (welll IMHO) has fallen out of the Top 5. Very interesting draft already.

The first single from Tinted Windows (band featuring Taylor Hanson, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, James Iha formerly of Smashing Pumpkins, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. I don't know. I love me some power pop and Fountains of Wayne but I'm not entirely sold on this.

I don't think I'd ever call Flair the top wrestler of all time but I would call him one of if not the best guy to build a promotion around. I know it doesn't make sense but I can't quite explain it without dropping names.

Eh, I figured I'd try to narrow the scope rather than just call it The French Film thread.

Yeah, when I asked him via PM, Mellow even said he'll allow somebody to pick Northern NJ if NYC is taken.

The more I think about it, the more I love my pick. I'll be able to craft my top feud with the click of a button with no waiting period. Also will have the ability to take tag teams with no problem. Pretty sweet. Only problem is waiting for my first two picks is going to be endless. Especially since I don't have classes tomorrow. Ugh!

Man, the waiting game sucks. I want to play Hungry Hungry Hippos! Fake edit- wow soon as I say that I see Hawk in the thread! This is the second time in a week something like this has happened. I won't bore you with the anecdote.

The Decalogue is Polish, Ravenbomb. Nevertheless, I do have it on my queue thanks to the write up of it in one of the Great Movies books. Watched Vivra Sa Vie two weeks ago I think. It was a film I appreciated more than outright enjoyed but it was good nonetheless. And yes that Anna Karina was quite the babe.

So to expand the breadth of my film knowledge, I'm taking a class on French Film Directors once a week this semester. I know virtually nothing about French films. The course is mostly focused on the French New Wave, though there has been one exception so far and there'll probably be a couple more. I also plan on adding some essentials that aren't on the curriculum to my Netflix queue. Right now I've got Breathless and Shoot The Piano Player plus a couple more French movies that pre-date the era. So far we've watched; Cleo From 5 to 7, Vivre Sa Vie, Jules and Jim, and My Night At Maud's (plus Fat Girl) . I enjoyed all of these to some extent except Jules and Jim (had its moments but wasn't my cup of tea). So TSM, recommend me some French New Wave. Some other French movies would be neat to but I figured I'd narrow the scope.

I was thinking about starting a thread about The French New Wave in Movies/DVD/TV last night before realizing it'd probably end up getting one serious response from Byron The Bulb and then somebody asking me why I wasn't posting the thread in the music folder.

So when does this thing start? Whenever Hawk gets here and makes his pick?

This draft certainly won't be the same without him. My favorite Drury moment was him drafting Eddie Graham. So out of nowhere. Thanks.