King Cucaracha

SilverVision rules. 3 DVDs, six old school events. Of which I most recently watched... Shawn Michaels w/Diesel vs. Crush - King Of The Ring 1993 Pretty bleh, really. Shawn isn't the worker he becomes a couple of years later and Crush is Crush. Still, it does it's job. Power versus speed, only Crush gets to show off his leapfrogs and dropkicks. Crazy to think of the lumbering slug he became. Crush gets smashed into the post repeatedly to KO him, but Shawn doesn't settle for a countout and it almost costs him. But here come the Two Doinks, smoking cigars. They do they whole 'is it an illusion' crap which distracts Crush. Superkick to the back of the head, lame looking turnbuckle bump and the three count for Shawn. Really only noteable for Diesel's white sequined line-dancer jacket and cowboy boots. The New Foundation vs. The Orient Express- Royal Rumble 1992 Now, this I liked. Much like The Rockers/Express which opened 91 (which is on the same DVD but I haven't watched yet), it's a hot opener. Not on the same quality but still a pretty fun match. The crowd are red hot into this surprisingly. Neidhart looks odd in the High Energy style pajama pants, which only takes away from the match slightly. Decent tag-work to start and The New Foundation are very much like the Hart Foundation (obviously) only with a 'lightweight' Bret. The Express, meanwhile, looked good again. Pity they never got the chance to move up the card. Nice spot with Fuji's cane getting hung on the top rope and Owen going shoulder first into it. Usual face fight back and Neidhart knocks the hell out the Express. Beautiful dive through the ropes by Owen onto Kato, and then Tanaka gets the Rocket Launcher. A fun match with a hot crowd...good start to a memorable show.

The worst apart about this.....it's true. Uhm, only if you're 'random overreacting Benoit fan #16'. Anyway, on topic. Hopefully this 'demotion', if you can call it that, will prevent them having to go through with any future 'I was recently really a retard, I was just pretending' storylines which seems to be the last resort when he gets stale. That would just be a horrible storyline.

If this guy is treated as a comedy character and wrestles 'comedically' in the ring, that would cover the fact that he's actually a mediocre wrestler. Who knows, this might actually work and he might get over.

SURVIVE OR SURRENDER OAOAST CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Crystal vs. Zack Malibu © - Crystal. Seriously, who wouldn't mark for that? TLC TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Black T vs. GPX vs. NNMX © - GPX BARBED WIRE PERGATORY Sly Sommers vs. Calvin Szechstein - Cal TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FOUR WAY TAG CHALLENGE MATCH (The winner gets Ten grand.) Bryants vs. The Tethers vs. Frankensteiners vs. Skull Kid & Skull Mask - Frankensteiners. 24/7 TITLE MATCH Hoff © vs. Gunner - Hoff ALMOST FAMOUS MATCH Chicks Over Dicks vs. The Saints - COD, so we see what a 'muse' really is. CAGE MATCH Panther vs Chris Bryte - Bryte. X-TITLE MATCH Rick Edwards vs. J. Arthur Edwards - Rick Judas vs. Christopher Cain - Uhm, Cain Drek Stone vs. Leon Rodez - No contest due to mass run-in from Busted and McFly. The Mad Cappa vs. Stephen Joseph - Cappa

I think it's actually a dog collar.

Not like it'd be anything new for Spanky... Word.

Groovy.

I don't know if anyone could have really 'prevented' this, without keeping Kurt Angle away from the title. It seems like this is the way wrestling and wrestlers, particularly the top guys, have been heading ever since the industry became worked. Before then, the top guys would stay top guys because they were the toughest in the company. The only thing that the main eventers had to rely on was beating people up, and if they were good enough to be the best at doing that then they had nothing to worry about. Ever since that went out of the window though, and the power went right onto the bookers and promoters' shoulders, wrestlers had to find another way of staying on top for prolonged periods and other ways of getting power. It's not like it's a new thing. Almost all the longest reigning champions from, let's say the mid 80's, have used or attempted to use backstage relationships and power to their advantage. Hogan, Flair, The Von Erichs, Lawler, HBK, Nash, Bret, Austin, Jarrett, HHH, Taker, Zbyszko, DDP, Goldberg etc etc etc. Meanwhile, without gaining backstage power, there was nothing to stop the likes of Jericho, Guerrero, Big Show and Kane from dropping straight back down after winning the title. They were in the spot for a little while, but for whatever reason they didn't have the pull backstage. Or, nothing to stop the likes of DiBiase, Hennig, Rude and the rest from never getting extended runs at the top of the promotion. Which is all a long winded way of saying Angle's really only doing what the most determined people in his situation would do, and that's anything possible so long as they stay on top and keep things going their way.

Just a quick check...is Caboose on commentary for the show or not?

Ok, it's been confirmed that this Sunday night, The Wrestling Channel's "Supercard Show" will be "The Best Of Christopher Daniels". That's not to say it's neccessarily THE best, but judging from the card it looks pretty darn good. The A.J Styles "Best Of" earlier in the year was very impressive. Can this top it? Here's the card, from TWC Forum... Apart from the fourway at Main Event Spectacles, which I've heard was pretty average, this seems a pretty good collection to me. I'll be watching. Thoughts? {If this should go in the Misc Promotions folder then apologies}

I hope all you lurkers have something planned for Genesis. Uhm...yeah, anyway. I don't remember many of these at all, but this certainly explains a few things. It also makes my 'hitting people with baguettes' run in the JL seem like a Misawa match in comparison.

Ah, yes, but what about the fire!?! The wedding would be nothing without a huge wall of fire. And Candie in lingerie. Erm...on topic, I'll probably do some more goofy face stuff with Rodez seeing as that's where my lame attempts at humour are taking me. So, I guess I'm gonna 'run with it'.

What percentage of games he was available did he start though? Moyes was trying to keep Rooney out of the spotlight and prevent him from getting burnt out. Plus, come on, what service did he have at Everton? His performance at Euro 2004, combined with his bright future, makes him 30m ish in my book. When you consider the price Chelsea paid for Drogba, 30m for Rooney is not that steep, because I wouldn't have paid 10m for Drogba myself. Then again, I don't see Man U paid 30m. Adding Bellion into a 25m deal should be enough.

If used as a counter to a backbody drop or something like that, I might be able to buy it. Until then, it's kinda like a ROH Scramble Match...cool at first, but when you think about it it's horribly unrealistic (a group of people happening to stagger into plancha position 10 times, consecutively is, IMO, worse than the Destroyer, but there ya go.) Don't get me wrong, it's a cool move. And the importance of indy wrestlers creating new, crowd popping moves means this certainly won't be the worst come this time next year. But, yeah, it's a little TOO fake to take seriously outside of X Division spotfests.

Well, we bought a 12 oz steak for it and those things really do work. Strap on some electrical tape and you're sorte... ...you bastard.

"What a load of crap." Landon Maddix snarls as a buzzer sounds off on the T.V screen he's watching. "Why the hell would they need a timeout now!?!" "Eh." Megan Skye shrugs, as she waves her minature American flag into Landon's face mockingly...her black eye noticeably more healed than it was on Smarkdown. "Oh, yeah, that's right. 'Eh'. Sounds about right, coming from a damn Yank. Were you 'Eh'ing when your precious 'Dream Team' got crushed by the mighty Puerto Rico? Or were you whining and crying like a little baby, while us Spanish were out-performing you?" "'Us Spanish'? You were born in South Dakota, Landon." Stopping, Maddix turns away from the T.V screen and gives Megan a curious look...the red and yellow stripes painted on his face unable to disguise his unhappiness. "I'm half-Spanish..." "..." "...can we turn this off yet?" "Wait a minute, wait a minute...I wanna see how many more points we score." "There's only 5 seconds left." "All the same..." *URRRRRRGGHHH!* "...WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Megan leaps up as the Spain/U.S game ends, clearly happy to have won. Maddix meanwhile sighs and grabs Megan's miniture American flag...contemplating snapping it in half, but thinking better of it. "Now now, don't be a sore loser." Megan chuckles. "Bah! You cheated." "How did we cheat?" "The ref was in your back pocket the whole game! One of your 'all-stars' probably paid him off, considering how over-paid the entire NBA is nowadays." "As opposed to the pay at the 'mighty' Real Madrid basketball club?" "...have you decided where we're going yet?" "No...I mean, I've been having second thoughts. Don't get me wrong, a break would be nice and all, but we really should go down to Smarkdown with the rest of the roster. I mean, it's the right thing to do." "Why? King doesn't want me booked on the show and I'm not wasting the rest of my week in preperation for a dark match against some retiree in need of a few bucks to feed his alchohol addiction." "...but, Jamie Drazon's in the main event." The two share a hearty laugh, until Megan grabs back her American flag and waves it in Maddix's face with a whispered 'w00t'. "...sorry." she eventually mumbles. "I'm serious. We'll turn up, don't worry. But I'm just gonna go there, wrestle whatever dark match King wants to put me in...or, whatever Metal match or whatever crap it is they do before the show. It's not like I'll need any preperation for that. More than likely they'll put me up against Ash Ketchum or Petey the Penguin, or some other such loser. And then, when that's done, we're going. I'm not sticking around the entire show in the crummiest dressing room King can assign me, getting blanked by all the backstage workers who don't want to be associated with King's enemy, for fear of getting fired. No. No, we're gonna enjoy these few days, don't you worry. I still reckon we should go up to my Mom's. She's still dying to meet you...especially since I sorted out that whole marraige misunderstanding." "Thank Todd you did." "Yeah...that was one CRAZY month. Anyway...what do you reckon? She's still working, so we'd have the house to ourselves for most of the day or I can take you on a tour of my old childhood hangouts. Plus, my Mom's a great cook. Did I tell you about her lemon meringue?" "A couple of times, yes." "Don't sound too keen, please." Landon sighs sarcastically. "Oh, no it's not that I don't WANT to go to your Mom's. Really. But, I'd prefer to have some quality time...alone. You know, like we had before Card and Natasha came along? Just you and me, hanging out. And, South Dakota isn't really the capital of entertainment, is it. I hear Spain is nice this time of the year anyway. You still own that villa out there don't you?" "So you LIKE Spain now?" "Well, now we beat you...yes." "Ha...funny." Megan giggles and goes to wave the flag again, but Maddix cuts her off by holding up his hand as a lightbulb seems to go off in his head. "Fancy a trip to Athens?" "What?" "A trip to Athens. We could go out there and see what tickets we can get, watch a couple of events...we'd be back ready for Smarkdown, as long as we don't stay too long. It's perfect! I'm sure I'd be able to get tickets for a real sport like the football, or...boxing. Or Taekwondo. I might even learn something from it. Hell, I could pass it off as an educational trip and try to ship the bill onto the SWF!" "Can you do that?" "Only one way to find out. It's not like I'd be making any new enemies if it didn't work anyway. And besides...I'd say King owes me, so I'm sure he could afford two return tickets to Athens." "What about the...'drinks bill'." mumbles Megan, trailing off slightly to the end as she picks something up off of the small 'coffee' table in front of her. "Hmm...well, I don't want to bankrupt the company. We'll just take it easy. Five drink limit...per night, of course. Eh? ...Megan?" Landon turns around to see Megan stood frozen on the spot, a small rectangular piece of card in her quivering hand. Maddix quickly stands up and takes the card from her, which has a crudely drawn 'K' drawn on top left and bottom right corners...like a playing card...and a picture of a grinning Suicide King in the middle. Snarling at the bad pun, or rather double bad pun, Maddix turns the card over to see what's on the back and stops just like Megan had. The camera zooms in on the card, seeing the message wrote in thick black marker pen on the back... HOW'S THE EYE? "That son of a bi..." Maddix stops again as suddenly to his right, Megan start sobbing. Quickly Maddix wraps a consoling arm around her as he throws the card across the room. "...it's ok, nothing's gonna happen to you. Not while I'm around. Don't worry." "I...I..." "Sshhh...don't worry. King's not going to do a thing to you, Card's gone...he's just trying to play mind games with us..." With a snarling look, Maddix turns his head over to where the crudely created card lays and glares down at it as if it were really King, rather than just a picture of him, sitting on it. "...and it's not gonna work!"

Okay, my stats have been edited/overhauled. Not that it matters much, but eh.

Well, they announced on the news that Rooney's handed in a transfer request...so it's likely he'll be in a Man United shirt by next month. Not that we need him or anything, what with Smith/Van Nistelrooy/Saha/Bellion. But then again, it's Rooney.

Yeah. When the players use their feet (as in FOOTball) for 98% of all games, all season, then we'll talk. Until then, it's just rugby with pads. Premiership > NFL ...and so on...

So...when does London spraypaint "Rednecks Suck" on Noble's car? Only to find out it's Theodore Long's car.

Well, most T.V guides here describe it as "Over The Top Action From The U.S", so they're not all wrong. Anyway...isn't Raw moving to Tuesday from September anyway? Or, is it Thursday. They had Benoit doing a little cameo during the last Raw to inform everybody, but as soon as he came on I went to get a drink and only caught a quick shot of it at the end.

To your credit, the robotic referee worked. Just...not in that match. And believe me Max, I know ALL about rushed endings. About 50% of my matches have had rushed endings.

Statement: NWA:TNA should stop trying to hold out for a Pay Per View deal in the U.K, as they are currently, at least until they start touring the country (if that ever happens)...because the coverage here is 6 months out of date, which isn't a positive situation.

Flat metal objects (chairs, ringposts, steps, title belts, the ramp) can cut you open. The forehead is the only place most wrestlers can bleed from. Doing a 360 degree flip before jumping on someone is DEADLY. The ankle lock really does hurt. DTA- Don't Trust Anybody. Referees are easily distractable. If you're a good guy, cheating is good and perfectly moral. If you're a baddie, cheating is evil and inexcusable. If you have entrance music, you can magically turn it on and off whenever you want to enter a room (or, do a run-in), even if it's the most unexpected entrance (or run-in). It doesn't matter what occupation you work in, be it binman, taxman, member of the armed forces, clown etc. ...you can easily become a wrestler. Oh, and it doesn't matter that you never actually DO that job because you're at wrestling events every day of the week. Japanese people are either evil or they want to be American.

The BK Bomb is the single most annoying move name in the WWE right now. That CANNOT be his finisher.