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Here's another one about a guy in a wheelchair who works out: Go to the third chapter selection screen and highlight the "Name Change" option, then press Right, Right to see a hidden "Warrior University" commercial.

Not that I would want to see JR leave the booth, but Stephan Quadros would be a great replacement. Meltzer has said on WOL that they've brough him in for interviews before but he obviously hasn't been called back.

OK, I just came back from the greatest wrestling show I have ever seen live. Match 1: Tony Mamaluke and Sal Rinauro retain tag titles over Dunn and Marcos: Just an average opening match to get the crowd fired up. Ending was a bit botched as it was a fireman's carry drop but it came down way too slow. Mamaluke wraps himself in an Italian flag and Rinauro RIDES A BICYCLE to the ring. "Where's my pizza" chant and Rinauro replies "we don't have pizza...but we have BICYCLES!" Match 2: Jay Lethal over Nigel Mcguiness, CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI and Davey Andrews. OK, this was my first time seeing Claduio Castagnoli and he is immediately my new favorite wrestler. Everytime he'd counter a hold he'd stop and yell "HEY~!" or pump his arm and go "whoo, whoo, whoo" and the crowd was totally into him the whole way. He's like Lance Hoyt with talent. Nigel got good heel heat, and the crowd liked Lethal with "Let's Go Lethal" chants. Nigel had an iron with him too and tried bashing somoene against the pole but they moved and he broke part of the iron. Lethal dropped Andrews with a sick full nelson suplex for the win. After the match everyone shook hands (including Claudio with the referee!) and NIgel snuck up behind Lethal to give him a low blow but Lethal turned around and Nigel pretended nothing was going on and shook his hand. Fun, fun match. Match 3: Matt Sydal over Jimmy Rave. Rave is HATED by the crowd. He's pelted with pink streamers which piss him off and someone throws one of those shower puffs at him too. "DIE JIMMY DIE" chants. Sydal hit a sweet moonsault to the outside on both Nana and Rave. Rave was about to use a rope or something when Jade Chung came out of nowhere (she leaped from right behind me) and stopped him and Sydal suprised him with a roll up for the win. Match 4: Ricky Reyes over some ROH student who's name I couldn't catch. Maybe a minute long with stiff kicks and then a choke for the win. After the match one of the trainers or something got on the mic and said "I think he's dead! Somebody call an undertaker!" at which point the lights went out and funeral music started. It's PAUL BEARER!!! Big pop for him and he gets on the mic and in total Paul Bearer voice and character starts talking about how he's the new commisionerrrrr ohhhh yesssss. Then, JIM CORNETTE~!!! comes out to a mammoth pop and tells Paul Bearer that he knows a great manager but he's tired of the character crap and Paul Bearer asks "his his name Paul?" and Cornette says "no, his name is Percy" and puts over what a great manager Percy Pringle is and says he would make a great manager here in ROH. Cornette continues by saying Paul Bearer lied, he's not the new commisioner....."I AM!" YAY~! Cornette then goes on a TIRADE, turning red in the face, just ranting about how he's not afraid to "slap some sense" into someone who's out of line, and talked about all the backstage politics and said ROH is a wrestling company that actually listens to its fans and as commisioner he promises to always listen to the fans. Mamoth pop and "ROH" chants. He then calls out Julius Smokes and tells him there will be no managers in the main event and gave him a count of 10 to leave or else the Rottweilers would be fined 1,000 dollars. The fans counted down with Corny and Smokes, Reyes and Grim Reefer scurried which was funny. Match 5: Roderick Strong over James Gibson. BJ Whitmer seconds Gibson. WOW. This match had amazing emotion. Mammoth pop for Gibson as he came out, he went around and shook hands with all the front row fans. He got bombarded with yellow and green streamers and chants of "Thank you Gibson!" "MVP" and "Please Dont Go". This was a long match and it was excellent, ****+. The whole time, the fans were into it, either clapping along or just silently watching and giving respect. A lot of ground holds early and then Gibson started turning up the MMA spots, including a spot where they were on the outside of the ring and just started slugging at each other like they were Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar. Gibson also used the pride knees and went for several variations of the choke. Awesome moment came when Gibson fired off 7 German Suplexes in a row and bridged on the last one, the ref apparently counted to 3 and the bell rang and the crowd let out a mammoth pop, but apparently it was a mistake because the ref quickly signalled it was 2. "You fucked up" chant at the bell ringer. Gibson hit a Tiger Bomb that everyone thought could be the finish but Strong kicked out. They went up top, and Gibson was going for a top rope Tiger Bomb, and Strong countered into a deal where he had Gibson up on his shoulders and came down dropping him back first over his knees. He immediately followed up with a liontamer with the knee in the back and Gibson tapped. Huge ovation for both after the match and more chants of "MVP" and "Thank You Gibson", he got on the mic and was clearly emotionally overwhelmed. He thanked us and said ROH ressurected his career and put food on his family's table. In a great moment the crowd just erupts with "WE WILL MISS YOU", Gibson stops and looks like he's going to break down and then just quietly responds "I'm gonna miss you too". He then starts getting fired up and yelling about how ROH is the best wrestling company in the world and how he hopes one day to wrestle for us again and raises Roderick Strong's hand and says "This is your new MVP!" Gibson, Strong and Whitmer all hug as "A Country Boy Can Survive" plays to another standing ovation. END THIS SHOW NOW, ITS ALREADY PERFECT. Intermission Match 6: Whitmer and Jacobs over Izzy and Deranged. Big heat for Lacy who said something on the mic but got bombarded with "Shut the fuck up" chants. The gist of it was she was leaving Izzy and Deranged. Jacobs was funny before the match as he got stuck doing the whole climb over the ropes deal and had to ask for help from Whitmer to get over. He then encouraged Whitmer try it and he needed Jacobs help! This match was short and it was a mess. The former Special K kids were just totally off. There was one SICK missed spot where Izzy was gonna do a moonsault from the middle of the top rope to the outside, well he got up but I guess didn't get the distance he needed and ended up coming right back down over the top rope snapping his neck/chest area on the rope! It was SICK. People chanted "You fucked up" but I was too scared for the kid to do it. Can't remember how Whitmer and Jacobs won. Post match Lacey left with them and everyone was waiting for them to turn on her but they didn't. Jacobs sort of had a "wink, wink" look on his face like they were just playing her. Confusing angle. Match 7: Colt Cabana over Jack Evans. Evans is super over. Big "JACK" chants to start with some competing "Colt". Of course there was a dance off with Jack doing all this complicated breakdancing and Colt countering with such moves as the robot. Early on was some comedy as they were both countering each other and they both were going to come up with stero kip ups but Colt couldn't get up on his. So he tried a few more times, failing each time. Finally, Jack offered him his hand to help him up, and Colt took it but then kicked him in the face. Colt twisted Evans in many holds including at one point where he was just stretching him with his legs held back and head the other way in like a standing Boston crab. Crowd chants "That's disgusting!" Jack turns to the crowd and yells "According to my watch, it's 6:30!" some guy yells back "Actually, it's 9 o clock!" He misses the 630. Colt removed his elbow pad, screamed out Homicide's name and finished Jack with the big lariat. Fun match. Post match Julius Smokes came out onto the stage and told Colt Cabana to watch out for Rottweilers. Colt looked around like he was going to get jumped but nothing ever happened, so he ran backstage. Match 8: Christopher Daniels over Jimmy Yang. Decent match, understated probably to not burn out before the main event. At a quiet moment early, someone yelled out "Allison Danger, what makes you so dangerous?" which got huge laughs and an applause and both guys just stopped and turned to the guy. Yang used a lot of kicking variations. Daniels hit Angel's Wings, but Yang kicked out. He locked Yang in the Kogi Clutch and was in it for like a minute and Yang passed out and the ref called for the bell. Kind of an abrupt finish. After the match, Daniel didn't shake his hand but applauded him and indicated he had his respect. The crowd gave Yang a huge ovation and chanted "Please Come Back". Match 9: Kobashi and Homicide over Samoa Joe and Lo Ki. Just an amazing, amazing match and an amazing atmosphere to boot. Each entrance was just louder and louder. Kobashi got tons of streamers. Ki and Joe shared uneasy looks at each other early. Big "Kobashi" chants. Kobashi and Joe wanted to start with each other. Hard chops for everyone! Kobashi's chops were just sick to experience, so short and so hard. Homicide and Kobashi were totally on the same page, including when Joe and Homicide were in there, Kobashi, on the apron yelled "Homicide look!" like Joe was coming in, that caused the ref to turn around and confront Joe so Kobashi came in and helped Homicide double team! When Ki and Homicide were in there they seemed tentative at first but then just went at it. Ki delivered some hard kicks to Homicide. Joe did a suicide dive onto Kobashi. Just way too many jump out of your seat spots to remember here, but Kobashi dropped Joe on his head with a sleeper suplex and gave a half nelson suplex to Lo Ki. Ki did a sick move where Homicide was hanging upside down on the ropes so Ki climbed up and came down to a double stomp to his face! Joe gave Kobashi the muscle buster for a huge pop and great near fall. Kobashi did a spot where he must have chopped Joe 30 times in a row in the corner. Finish came when Homicide took out Joe with the rolling hilo to the outside leaving Lo Ki with Kobashi. Kobashi delivered the Orange Krush (suplex into a powerbomb) for a 2 count, and even though everyone was chanting for the Burning Hammer, he did the Lariat to KI for the win. Huge ovation after and all 4 had their names chanted. "Arigato(sp?)" chant. Kobashi bowed to all 4 sides and raised his hands. Joe took the mic and said NOAH and ROH were the cutting edge of Pro Wrestling and put down "sports entertainment". Joe shook hands with Kobashi and Homicide and Ki left with each other. Just an amazing, amazing show. I can't even decide whether the main event tag or Gibson/Strong was the better match. They were both amazing and total "main events" with great atmosphere. The Cabana/Evans and Castagnoli matches were really fun too. They're not coming back to Philly until April which is just too damn long.

Or think the Bezerker from WWF circa 1992. If you still don't get it, the joke is , the men who did this gimmick were these big burly tough guys who would yell HUSS like they were vikings or cavemen or something and stomp around the ring in fury boots and beat the shit out of everyone....well Jimmy Jacobs does all of this but he's small....really small, and skinny, so it's funny.

I'm going tommorow and CAN'T WAIT!!! My first live ROH, and I can see Kobashi and Joe...and Ki and Homicide all being stiff and awesome to each other! Plus the new authority figure, Gibson's last ROH match, Yang/Daniels, new tag champs! Whoooaa boy. Well it's great to hear Kobashi was busting his ass, bodes well for tommorow.

Monty is an aquired taste. You have to see a lot of him to appreciate him. He has loads of charisma and gives the most unique and awesome interviews in wrestling. He's just so crazy and psychotic but in a funny/goofy way but so intense. The POUNCEEEEEE is a great move for the fans to call for and anticipate and he hits it with an explosiveness that kills his opponents dead. Plus the little things like the facial expressions, the sniffing the air and the marking the ropes are all the things that will help establish him as a complete character. Give him a chance to grow on you.

I've been watching since the very first weekly PPV in June 02. I ordered most of those Wed. night PPVs, saw all the iMPACTs! on FSN and have seen all the monthly PPVs. I was SO SO happy to see them on SpikeTV. The first show was exactly what it needed to be. Sahadi is the freakin' man. The Prince Nana/James Earl Jones dude is the freakin' man. Mike Tenay is the freakin' man. Scott D'amore....well you get the picture. The people BEHIND the company right now are making it look as slick and professional as it ever has, and the product itself is the best and tightest it's ever been. AJ Styles and Monty Brown totally came off as stars, the X division is going to get over huge and even Jarrett did ok considering the people in charge are totally using him to transition to someone and Nash is ok in that he seems to take his role seriously and last time he was around he worked hard. Team 3D was a great suprise. Oh did I mention the Orlando fans? They freakin' rule too and show so much energy and passion. TNA made WWE look antiquated and slow paced. The pace was frenetic and will hook people. Next week should be great and hopefully everyone orders Bound For Glory. YAY TNA~!!!!

I am cursed with cable, but I found a way to see this show. Best MMA show I have ever seen. It was 4 hours packed with all good to great fights. A++++ for Bushido: The Tournament!

Didn't know where to post this, went with here since it sort of effects WWE but if you want to move it to Sports thats fine. It's not official yet but being reported on several MMA sites. Here's the one that broke the story: http://www.insidefighting.com/betweenRound...p.aspx?uid=2232 Should make for an interesting head to head.

You know what would have been awesome? If there was a sign that said something like "no pictures" and someone asked to take a picture, and he responds "hey, read the sign, taking pitcures is not cool" and then he spit an apple...

Actually, it's from somewhere in early 2000, because it's from an interview used for the Wrestlemania 2000 two-disc. The only visual proof is have is the leather jacket that Helmsley is wearing, which he stopped wearing before the quad injury. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HHH continued to wear the jean/leather jacket until he went back to wearing all the dressy stuff in mid-2002. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Under the jacket, he's wearing a DX shirt so that proves it was from 2000. Anyway, that was a great read. It's good to see Warrior defend himself. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He also doesn't have THE MUTTON CHOPS~!

You know, I might just be mishearing things, but am I correct on recent releases they've just started muting the "F" leaving the "WW" part?

Rumors have Waltman possibily jumping to WWE so who knows. They won't do anything solid with him after the last stunt he pulled.

The problem is that even if they use every gimmick under the sun, which they will have to do to work around the limitations of a match involving both men, it won't come anywhere close to being as good as Liger/Joe, Ultimate X and Styles/Daniels. The last thing TNA need, apart from Jarrett on top, as to have Jarrett and Nash in their first NWA title match on their first post-Spike PPV and have them so obviously upstaged by the guys underneath. What does it make TNA look like if they have two guys on top working a gimmick-laden match that will be **1/2 at best, and underneath them are guys working ****-level affairs? It makes them look like idiots for not putting what even their new found casual fans can see are their most talented workers on top. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good, I hope it happens. Then the TNA owners will finally see Jarrett is not the top star and won't book him in main events anymore.

Actually, the chapter on Tejada claims as a young player coming over from the Dominican looking for success, Canseco claimed he talked to him about steroid usage but has also said that he doesn't know if Tejada ever used steroids. So essentially the story was mostly conjecture.

Eh, they had a suprisingly good match at Against All Odds (ironicaly named show) which is either a good sign because they could do it again or a bad sign because it's likely never to happen again. Not the main event I'd go with but if everything under it is awesome, which it looks like it will be, it will be forgivable.

The White Sox are still in first place and playoff bound. The Orioles are in FOURTH place and will finish under .500, likely with a worse record than last year. Man, when fans have to resort to defending how brutal their team's collapse was, you know it's bad!

Al, Sammy Sosa was probably the LEAST of our troubles. He was the model citizen in the clubhouse and to the press. Of course he also stunk horribly in his worst season ever and did us no good on the field. Much worse were: A) The collapse itself!!! It was simply UNFATHOMABLE that we'd finish under .500, considering our record at the all star break, it might be MLB history in fact. After the first 2 months of being SO awesome, it's mind boggling how bad we got and how quickly. B) Palmeiro going from 3.000/500 hero to steroid disgrace 1B) Dragging Tejada, our lone shining star left into this and implicating his name C) Sidney Ponson getting arrested 3 times (2 DUIs and punching a judge in Aruba), seeing his weight and ERA swell before having his contract voided under the unprecedented "morals clause" which will now have to go to court. D) Lee Mazzilli, a classy, respectable man becoming the scapegoat for our mess and being fired after early considering for manager of the year. 1D) Unless you all are hardcore O's fans and are posting on Os insider board (I assume you don't) you missed all the fun reports of members of his coaching staff sabotaging him to the owner. E) Just when this season is finally about to be put out of it's misery and over, Brian Roberts, the universally loved all star 2nd baseman has his arm nearly ripped off in a grusesome on field collision and is now questionable for next year. Might as well start the misery early. Honorable mention goes to Team curmudgeon Steve Kline who from the very first week (when we were good mind you) endears himself to his new city by bashing the team and wishing he was back in St. Louis to a reporter there. He continues to make foot in mouth statements all year long as he has the worst year of his career. Like I said, Sosa sucked, no doubt, he's finished and was a massive disappointment, but we still didn't give up anything for him, most of his contract is being paid for by Chicago, and he's gone after this year. So no real harm. The blame for that one falls on Peter Angelos for not actually spending the bucks to get Delgado or Sexson or a real power threat to help our lineup and instead playing the whole Washington Nationals are leaving our future uncertain BS card with MLB. Just a god awful seasons in every way and it's nearly killed my love for baseball. EDIT: And now I'm off to Camden Yards. I'm not kidding, I got these tickets a while back and this has been the least enthusiastic I've ever been about going to the Yard. Maybe I'll wear a bag over my head.

Ah, so Bound For Glory is guarenteed to kick ass. Good to know! Feed Jarrett to Monty and they could have the perfect card.

For God's sake, this has been like the season from hell for Orioles fans. After seeing Brian Roberts nearly have his arm ripped off, I thought this couldn't get any worse but Tejada getting dragged into this mess Palmeiro has created is sickening. In big bold letters so no one here at least gets the wrong idea: Tejada cleared in Palmeiro saga

Not the end of the world. Tanner/Louiseu is the main event anyway. They could get someone else to fight Irvin (maybe another TUF alum like Hoger as suggested), and they still have Chris Leben and Josh Koscheck in featured fights.

Thought: Edge goes to Smackdown, feuds with Big Dave after Eddy and takes the title. Remember, he still has the MITB contract for a WORLD title shot. He could get his heat back immediately upon arrival by using it for a title match. EDIT: Just realised the MITB contract is on the line. Eh, whatever, they could still make Edge the #1 contender easily enough, it's not like anyone else on Smackdown is in line.

*just realised that* hmmm....ok I guess but I'll wait for them to announce it before I give them any credit.

Wow, WWE had the chance to counter with an awesome match like Michaels/Angle or the Cena/Angle rematch but instead they went for more "classic" WWE "comedy" with Cena vs. Bischoff. Are they even TRYING to win the hardcore fans?