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What a smart signing! Seriously, this guy will not bring in any new viewers, and in my opinion, despite his notable status was never that good at what he did. Two thumbs down.

Kurt Angle is a liberal who hates the military!

Ooohh.......cheap heat.

This is all so awful.

Meltzer said last night that there's a good chance of Dusty being GM.

But where does the picture come from?

I liked the Dragon Warrior name better than Dragon Quest. Thumbs down.

Someone needs to start a "Which TNA wrestler has the stupidest nick-name?" poll. It's either "Charismatic Enigma" or "King of the Mountain." That's only because they couldn't fit "Original Playa from the Himalaya" into the box for Dutt's match.

Lots of scenesters will tell you vinyl has a "warmer sound". It's been so long since I've listened to a vinyl record that I can't tell you if they'd be right.

I'm surprised it's taken this long to bring Steve Martin back. He hasn't hosted since '94.

Based on Smackdown this past week, I'd also expect JBL/Jordan.

The whole Ken Kennedy phenomenon on TSM is puzzling to me. Not that I can't understand why fans would like him, but the general elitist nature of "smarks" seems to be in direct conflict with the love they're showing this talent-impoverished individual. It's like if Pitchfork Media gave a 9.7 to the latest Breaking Benjamin album.

I don't think CRZ took wrestling too seriously, but I think he took himself a bit too seriously. Like, he quit Wrestleline because they didn't offer him the money he felt he deserved, but he continued writing his incredibly long recaps for free on his own site. I guess I can respect doing your own thing and not "selling out", but really, if you're offered the chance to make money for writing wrestling recaps, just do it! Especially if you're going to do it anyway for no money.

OK, fine, I'll just be a good TSMer, like all the rest of these here WWE fans. Hey, isn't it awesome when Mr. Kennedy says his last name twice??

It was just supposed to be a parody of the way Nash talks. You ever read an interview with the dude? He's an incredible douche.

What made it worse was that just after WCW died, the office talked about who they should bring in, and nobody wanted Nash. Not one person thought it would be a good idea to bring him in. And then Vince panicked and went against what everybody wanted and morale sank. Fuck, Nash is a fucking draw. Yeah, he can't do a fucking space flying tiger drop, but that doesn't fucking mean he can't fucking work. Like, you expect motherfuckers to get behind a fucking fucker like Chris Benoit? That's like watching a fucking porn star with a motherfucking two inch dick. You wanna be star, bitches gotta want to fuck you. And bitches want to fuck Nash. Oh, fuck yeah. Bitches suck his fucking dick and he cums on their fucking tits. So yeah, New York was like, fuck, let's get Nash. So Nash went to fucking New York and made money doing the nWo angle. Then he made fucking money with HHH. Don't fucking be jealous just cause you're jacking off while Big Sexy is fucking cumming on bitches tits.

I think it kind of sucks that they don't have any old Nintendo games in this one. Like, they could have at least put in some old Game Boy games like Super Mario Land or Alleyway.

Now THAT's some good news. Hopefully he stays around.

You know, it's a travesty that the whole "Shannon goes crazy" thread is lost forever.

Thanks to web.archive.org's archive of The Shooters site, I've found some quotes from Sean's breakdown: "Well, fuck that. CRZ is an asshole, and I'm sorry if your little numbed brains can't deal with that fact. The fact that he so glowingly loves to pick on me in his recaps when he knows I can't defend myself because of fear of retribution from his fanboys and the more sensitive members of my own squalid fanbase makes me fucking sick. Quite frankly I don't care any more, so let me repeat myself: CRZ IS AN ASSHOLE. Again, just in case you didn't get it the first two times: CRZ IS AN ASSHOLE. And fuck you if you can't deal with that." "You know, I used to enjoy writing about wrestling, I really did. But somewhere between WCW threatening to sue me and the shit with Hyatte, something happened. All of a sudden the fun went out of it. The people who encouraged me to keep on, the people who made me want to continue doing what I did, they shut up. But for every fan who stopped writing to me, there were ten people more than happy to fill my inbox with flame mail for everything related to my taste in wrestling to my sexual preference to my family problems." "And then there was Steve Corino's grandstanding and the mammoth response I got from that, dwarving any I'd previously received. I can't believe some of you fuckers would believe that I would make up that I had a birth defect just to get out of Corino's challenge. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA how much this damn pain hurts, and not just the pain in my tailbone, either, I mean the pain of not being able to be that physically active as a kid, of having lived most of my life in obesity and having to tolerate the constant abuse I took because of it." "But now, all of a sudden, I'm getting my staff telling me, "You know, you are too hard on ECW" and other criticisms, some of which aren't quite as nice as what I just listed. I'm getting constant questions about when paycheques will resume, and I can't answer them. I thought some of these people were my friends, but now I'm beginning to realize that I was just a source of income for them, and now that that income is gone they could care less about me, much less Rantsylvania." "I used to think maybe you people cared about me, but now I realize that you don't. To some of you I'm a Webmaster, to some I'm a recapper, but to all of you I am just some faceless nobody, someone who could disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow with barely a whisper of notice, someone who could be replaced as easily as a pair of worn sneakers, and likely disposed of in the same manner ... So, in summary, fuck you all." "Maybe that's the problem, because I view myself as a babyface of the most sugar-sweet variety. I think I'm one of the good people, someone who sticks up for what I think is right, someone who helps people come to a greater understanding about things and the world they live in, someone who speaks the truth and isn't afraid to do so." "There are people on this planet who do appreciate me, and I think it's high time that I started returning that appreciation and building off of it than spending my time putting on a puppet show for you all that is ignored at best, but more often than not is ripped to shreds for your shits and giggles. I deserve better than this shit."

Is that Kotz on the old board as "TheWholeFnSpoon"?

Sean Shannon was the owner of Rantsylvania.com, and a complete psycho. He was known for being completely anti-Bret Hart, to the point where he claimed (as mentioned above) that Bret was such a piece of shit that he was going to marry Martha Hart after Owen died. Sean had some real mental problems. He suffered his first mental breakdown after Luke Johnston (then-owner of the awesome TheShooters site) insisted that he show the proper respect to the Nitro segment in which Flair returned after being sued by Bischoff. He also was known for being sued by WCW for copyright infringement after creating the "nWWWo" website. In addition, he engaged in a public war of words with such wrestlers as Justin Credible, Tammy Sytch, and , I think, Steve Corino, due to his anti-ECW comments in his Wrestleline recaps. Anyway, in October of 2000, CRZ (for those who don't know, he was a wrestling show recapper who was known for writing insanely long recaps in which he would do play-by-play for matches and transcribe nearly every interview) put a comment in one of his recaps that would lead to Sean's second breakdown and his exit from writing about wrestling. Sean had been referring to Tazz as "Pete" in his Sunday Night Heat recaps, because he felt that Tazz's announcer character was a far cry from his ass-kicking ECW days, and CRZ mocked him for it: "RAVEN (with Tazzzzzzzzzzzzz) v. AL SNOW (with Head) - Tazz joins our pair of kings - MICHAEL KING COLE & JERRY LAWLER - and tells Lawler it's time for him to get "the rub. Hahahahahaaha!" Tazz offers King a new joke: "What do you call a pig who loves karate? Pork chop! AHHHAHAHAHAHA!" I'm gonna start calling him "Pete" until he goes back to dressing like a caveman and calling himself the Tasmaniac and fighting Sabu in front of twelve people in a high school auditorium. THAT'LL show 'em. Meantime, I'll be amused by his commentary. Meanwhile, there's a match in this ring between Raven (perhaps I should call him "Scott" until he becomes Johnny Polo again, huh?) and Snow (perhaps I should...okay, maybe I'm overdoing it). " So Sean completely flipped his lid about this. Perhaps it should be noted that Sean had hated CRZ for quite some time. According to CRZ, it was because he had refused to join Rantsylvania when the site was starting up. Also, Sean hated CRZ even more after Sean made a parody of CRZ's site, which he had just intended to show to his friends, but accidentally posted it online for the world to see. CRZ seemed amused by the whole thing, and saved the pages and posted the whole thing on his website. Well, that made Sean very mad, as CRZ was hosting his "copyrighted material" on his site without Sean's permission. So Sean went crazy on the Rantsylvania forum, referring to himself as a "sugary-sweet babyface" and banning those who criticized him. This led to him leaving the site, and the whole "IWC", for good. To give an insight as to how fragile this guy's psyche was, in early 2000, when he saw that the supporting members of Three Count were named "Shane" and "Shannon" he thought Vince Russo had created the characters to make fun of him, and so he cut himself to numb the pain the situation had caused. Later, his internet arch-nemesis, Chris Hyatte, found out about this situation and threatened for months to reveal it until Sean finally admitted it himself during his breakdown. So, Sean left Rantsylvania, and set up his own site at seanshannon.org, where he mainly just wrote poetry and blog entries. He also handed the Rantsylvania site over to Scott Keith, completely removing himself from that site's operations. OR SO WE THOUGHT! In April 2001, fans who visited Rantsylvania were suddenly re-directed to seanshannon.org. Apparently, Sean hadn't signed the site over to Keith as he had originally claimed, and he was upset about writers on the site making fun of him. Scott used the situation as a chance to set up a new site, thesmarks.com, and Sean redirected the rantsylvania.com address to an online essay about how George Carlin's bit about rape being funny was offensive. Recently, Sean has "come out" as a pre-op transsexual on his site. He has mentioned wrestling from time to time on his site, but largely keeps it to personal matters. And now you know the rest of the story!

You know, it's funny, they say that they're selling Acclaim's interest "if any" in the following games. So you could pay 5000 bucks for jack shit. Like, they're selling Double Dragon 2 and 3 for $5000, but I guarantee you couldn't do anything with those rights.

I remember some dude called Tom the Actuary. I also remember how stoked everyone was on Stephanie McMahon. I mean almost every dude used to just lust over her.

I joined the Rantsylvania board when I was like 14 or 15. But I honestly can't remember what my name was. I think it was probably something with Skeletor in it. On another note, I got so used to the old Delphi forum's style of having just one post per page than when they switched to the new board with thirty per page, I actually saw it as a step down. But man, was Sean Shannon awesome. I remember when he used to insist that Bret Hart was the absolute worst person in the wrestling business, even worse than the guy who killed Bruiser Brody, because Bret "tried to put Vince McMahon out of business".