King Cucaracha

The IWA card: And the CZW card for Violent By Design: Quite a few guys pulling double duty. Should be two damn good shows. Obviously, Joe/Necro is the 'big match' but Tracy Smothers vs. Castagnoli (has the CZW commentator done some research and stopped calling him "Constanoli" yet?) should be all kinds of awesome. Punk/Homicide was pretty good way back at "IWA Fairytale: Dragon vs. Hero"...it'll be interesting to see Punk in the 'ECW'/'CZW' arena anyway. CZW-wise, the Triple Threat and Hero/Kingston should be damn good. The Cage main event'll obviously have bumps galore, ditto the TLC with Nate and Bailey. IWA's belltime is 2PM and obviously, cards are subject to change, with people pulling double duty and therefore the possibility of injuries. Looks a pretty exciting double header, on paper anyway.

BWO. Awesome Bomb on Tanaka. Sandman's entrance. Tracy Smothers. And...that's pretty much all I marked for all show. EDIT: Almost forgot the BalconySault. Crazy, Awesome and Tanaka were the three that really surprised me with their performances.

Flair- Dillon HHH- Flair Angle- Arn Christian- Tully Tomko- Ole Of course, that'd de-rail all of Christian's momentum, so it's a bad idea. But that's the line-up I'd go with in an ideal situation.

It's funny. They ran this on UK TV over the past couple of months and got terrible viewing figures. Then, suddenly, they take the idea to America and people lap it up. Crazy.

Happy birthday to... ME!! Yay me.

I made sure to catch a replay of this so I could offer an actual opinion, based on facts, instead of what I've said in the thread so far. In my honest opinion, one of the most over-rated PPVs ever. It was good, don't get me wrong. But some people have been comparing it to Wrestlemania X7 which is completely laughable. Whever it was because I didn't watch it live or not, I don't know, but it left absolutely NO lasting impression on me. Whatsoever. Hell, my first thought once the show had ended was "what was all the fuss about". 'Decent' matches, a 'decent' garbage brawl, an ECW vs. WWE storyline that there was no reason to get involved in...good for nostalgia, except that I've seen everyone on the show wrestle since ONS except the tall guy from the F.B.I. It was accurate to the old ECW, sure. But it had no more of an impact on me than watching NTR '99 two hours beforehand. They must have done something right though, to (apparantly) get such a good buyrate and to have so many people 'marking teh fuq out' watching. Then again, that's what Heyman such a good booker. He knew exactly what would push an ECW fan's buttons and he did it. Genius? Who knows?

Yay me! Oh...wait.

By the way, the 'BOYCOTT VENGEANCE' stuff is pathetic guys. You do realise who you just paid for your little ECW nostalgia trip? You realise everyone who went to the Hammerstein Ballroom to 'stick it to the man, one last time' were lining the pockets of 'the man'? As long as Vince is getting money, I don't think he gives a crap if the ECW PPV out-draws Vengeance. It was a nostalgia PPV that's going to be forgotten in weeks on-screen. The only thing Vince gained was knowledge, that he can wheel out ECW's carcass everytime he needs to pop a buyrate and get money. I don't see the buzz in a weekly ECW show either. You can't run on nostalgia alone. ECW can't be ECW in a WWE televised environment.

Angle, HBK, Jericho (when motivated), Benjamin. I make that 4/6. 5 if you count HHH, who still has decent matches with the right opponents. To say they 'can't wrestle' is crap anyway.

Back in 'the day' when wrestling was all the rage, about 20/25 of us had a Hardcore Battle Royal every now and then in school. Somebody even decided to bring in a replica belt for us to run around with. What we looked like I have no idea, but they were fun as hell. I busted up my knee Frog Splashing a friend off of a climbing frame once, jammed my spine by (stupidly) hitting what was apparantly a sweet Stunner. Me and a taller kid would go around 3-Ding people. I managed to play Crash once, with lunch ending with about 10 people chasing me through the school. British education system at it's finest.

Well, guys like Eddie and Rey had nothing to gain from the show. If one of them picked an injury, that'd be their storyline in jeopardy and however long on the shelf. And for what? One match on a reunion show? I can't blame Eddie or Rey to be honest.

Drunk guy hits person he doesn't like. Stop the presses people.

See, it's not just me...

*hits Adam with SWF Tag Title belt* WE'RE TAKIN' OVAAAA~!

Glad it was okay, Supes. Although, if I had thought about it, I would have asked Chuck to make sure I went over you. Again.

Swiped from the IWA:MS board. Joe, post Necro match. Ouch.

This is bothering the hell out of me. Is there any way I could get rid of the "edited by...." portion. I don't have the option to uncheck the box when I go to edit anymore. ....I don't have that check box. Which makes this difficult. Is it a mod thing? Because the check box disappeared for me the same sort of time I became a mod.

*waves SWF banner* OMG INVASION~! ***** PPV OMGDZ~!

Hoff, welcome to BURN~!sville. Okay, now that joke has jumped the shark, we can officially forget about it.

Send everything to Hoff by 9PM Eastern Another HI-YAH update, as the semi finalists are announced. Depending on the scores, there may be tie-break matches this week. Plus, debutage. Kinda.

Well, that's cool then. I was just saying, if it's my match you were waiting on, it'd be best to put the show up without it because of...reasons. Yeah, reasons.

Looks like they pushed the right buttons. I haven't seen this board marking out so much since...well, maybe since Evolution turned on Orton. And even then, not so much. Still don't regret not ordering though. Sounds like the kind of show that'll live in the memory for a couple of months but won't hold up all that well over time. Still, if the DVD isn't edited to all hell then I'll be picking it up, just to see what all the hysterics here were about.

So what the fuck am I supposed to do, considering he's finishing off the Tag Title Match? Leave it out if you want, I'm not really bothered.

Hey, it didn't take as long as I thought. *sees everyone glaring at him* What? Yeah, important show, not telling you why, read. Yay me for surviving my first show post.

Yeah, as I say, he doesn't work best as a face. Not sure if it's his offense, his selling, I don't know, but something doesn't fit right as a face. He gets the pop and then he only really gets cheered for the C'MON BEH-BAY~! (which is a 'catchphrase', so it's not as bad when he shouts it as random generic face shouting) and when he cheats.