King Kamala

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.

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 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.

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.

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.