King Cucaracha

Hmm...to win the World Title, or not to win the World Title. Decisions, decisions... ...does Thoth's bus have leather seats? And those pull out ashtrays on the back of the chairs in front of you.

Apart from probably loving the business and wanting to wrestle day in, day out etc...if I were Jericho, I'd choose a promotion like TNA with the next couple of years. He's got money already so that's not as much of an issue, plus his band will bring in the cash. He can be the top guy in the company again...and not be made to look a fool(probably)...plus family stuff. If this is true, or even remotely true, Vince needs to wake up and realise what's about to happen.

maybe in your opinion.... Depends what mood you're in. If you want to be entertained, you'd watch an RVD-Lynn match over say an Angle-Lesnar match...if you wanted to actually watch good wrestling(of the pure kind), then you'd go for the Angle-Lesnar. Say what you will about spot wrestling...if they get the spots right, the crowd will lap it up, and that's what they're there for...to pop the crowd.

Wait...Austin hit Stacy? I thought he just used a WRESTLING MOVE on her. If not, I guess the rehased bitching about Austin's domestic abuse does have a point.

I'm doing it, in hopes of getting the EWR writing bug again. Writing for the SJL has stopped me from wanting to do any EWR diaries recently...

*cough* I hate to bitch, but didn't I already win the European Title Number One Contendership when I beat Aecas? I'm being held down god damn. And adding my two cents, I think the two 'lower' titles should be unified, at least temporarily.

WHY...why must ALL Japanese wrestlers by default team with other Japanese wrestlers, or feud with oither Japanese wrestlers in the WWE. Why?

Past Life Name: Edna Krabobpal Past Life City: Salt Lake City Past Life Job: Accountant How You Died: Eaten by lion, who was then eaten by a shark

Muy Bueno. Oh...wait...

Off topic...or, maybe not...but damn has Dreamer gotten fatter recently or what? He looks like Rhyno did in his ECW days...

Well shit...looks like I'm gonna have to no-show...and believe me, I'm as pissed off as Thoth and all will be. I've had one shitter of a week, and have hardly been on the computer all week due to having a big school assignment thrust upon me. And now, I've got 1,000 words of my match done, and half an hour left on the computer. I'm real sorry to Manson, Thoth and everyone...and I'm also pissed off, so I'll leave you with this angry face... There.

And yet you have *Kane* on your list. Somebody put this in their sig. While you're at it, add the ratings Matt Hardy has drawn in compared to Kane's. Exactly. And for the above thing about Lesnar...didn't Show mess up a chokeslam injuring Brock's ribs. I can't remember that far back to be honest, but I'm sure that's what happened.

Heyman isn't an active wrestler but he's still a person who got hurt. Even if you don't count Heyman, the other times stand. Well, Holly was because he sanbagged him on a powerbomb. And where did he hurt himself against Big Show, I don't remember that one.

1) Rey Mysterio If it were up to me, he'd have been a Heavyweight Title contender after Summerslam. He proved he could stay with the big name players at the time like Benoit and Angle, he's over with the crowd...plus he can put on exciting matches. Not to mention merchandising ideas would be high. 2) Eddie Guerrero The best around. Simple as that. 3) Brock Lesnar Got the superstar look, plus he can go in the ring. Plays heel, plays face, and is one of the top stars in the business. 4) Chris Jericho Mic skills, in-ring skills...it's not a hard choice. 5) TWGTT So, I cheated. Bleh. Best tag team around, and they're still relative rookies. A feud between the two could draw great ratings within a couple of years if built right. 6) Matt Hardy The gimmick and the in-ring skills. 7) Kurt Angle He's still got a good couple of years on him yet. The big star when he's a heel. I still can't stand Face Angle, but that's just me. 8) John Cena Future big player, with the gimmick and respectable enough wrestling skills to boot. 9) Randy Orton A couple of years, and he'll be the big thing on Raw. For all the stick he gets around here, he's not too bad in-ring wise. He's got the look, the heritage...decent enough mic-skills. 10) Spanky Damn I wish the kid wasn't a glorified jobber. With guidance from Shawn Michaels(as manager), the kid can go further than just the Cruiserweight Division. Honourable Mention Those who may be too old to build a little company around, like Taker, Benoit, Tajiri and of course Stevie Night Heat. The Women's Division...Trish, Molly, Victoria, Lita...even Gail and Torrie to a certain extent. Hurricane and Rosey. Goldberg is he can stay injury free. Same for Edge.

Ah, THIS again?!?!? Nobody could have possibly watched ECW and not liked it, huh? I've seen a lot of ECW. And not much of it was good. Some was, so I'd stick with it (much like WCW up until the brutal end), but by and large, it was unmitigated crap. Tajiri & Mikey v FBI was excellent in 2000. I can't think of much anything else that was too good. They can be over all day long. They are talentless workers who couldn't put a single BUTT in the seats. And Jerome Young is just a thoroughly useless waste of blood and skin. I'd say they are like Hacksaw Duggan --- except that Duggan DID draw fans all over the place in Mid-South/UWF. How exactly was Jack's gimmick any different? Heyman took a guy Cornette GAVE A GIMMICK TO (and Corny has some bad gimmicks, let's be real honest here) and just continued it. Of course, sad thing is that as bad as Corny's gimmicks are, I'd give him free reign over my company LONG before I'd give it to Heyman, simply because my guys won't be crippled at a young age (though, in the end, I'd give the book to Raven, all things being equal). You got part 2 correct. In droves. They were over amongst the ECW mutants, but so were hacks like Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten, so their taste is iffy. Remember, SID got a HUGE pop in ECW. SID --- so you can't possibly claim that ECW mutants were "smarkish". They were the biggest marks on the planet. No, I'm saying the crap matches made ECW suck. That and their obnoxious fanbase who actually believed that Shane Douglas was a great worker at any point in his life --- or the same jackasses who when a guy would nearly kill himself for their perverse pleasure, would chant "ECW! ECW!". Jesus, if I was a worker, I'd have just done headlocks ad nauseum since obviously MY work wouldn't have meant a thing to the "fans." Them not making money is used to demonstrate that fans OBVIOUSLY didn't love the product as THEY CHOSE TO NOT WATCH IT, much as ECW fans wish to believe otherwise. Hint --- when you can notice THE SAME GUYS in the audience at ECW events, that's a BAD thing. You didn't hear of WWF or WCW having "fans" who "smarks" recognized, did you? No "Sign Guy" or "Hawaiian Shirt Guy" in a major promotion. ECW missed that whole "enjoyable matches" piece of the overall equation. Your desperate attempts to defend ECW is almost laudable. I liked SMW and they didn't make money (Thrillseekers v Heavenly Bodies blows anything ECW did out of the water). I liked UWF (you know, that promotion that was "extreme" WAY before it was cool, yet ALSO had good matches and compelling storylines) and they were hardly major money-makers when I first got introduced to them. No, but nobody claims that ROH is "family" and that whomever the heck books them (is it Feinstein?) is like a "father figure". You want to mention that line of crap, expect to get it handed back to you. Dreamer had an opportunity to leave? He wasn't that desired, hate to break it to you, and didn't he own part of ECW? No. But NWA:TNA's low match quality makes them suck. I can live without big money --- I have a harder time forgiving horrid matches. And, since I see this coming, you won't find much praise for WWE out of me. In fact, their recent Smackdowns have been quite bad. I don't watch ROH as I won't go out of my way to do so --- thus, I've NEVER ONCE MENTIONED ROH. You are the one who carps on that over and over. 1) I asked because you'd obviously not paid attention to the crowd pops that Sandman and New Jack got. See RRR for the 2000 arguement. 2) So when Sandman was World Champ during 95, ECW didn't suddenly become a bigger force than just another indie fed. Sure, it wasn't just Sandman, but he was Champ and people didn't seem to complain. When he returned from WCW, people didn't get excited about his return? And I agree on New Jack...to a point. 3) I would respond, but the comment on Heyman just brings me to the conclusion you're an anti-ECW guy, and nothing'll sway you. But how many 'young kids' were crippled in ECW might I ask you. Give me a list would you. And no, Sabu doesn't count, he was hardly 'young' when smark darling Benoit crippled him. 4) So if you like Sid, you're a mark? Good god. ECW fans enjoyed the product and tried to help it become big time, and they're marks for it. So they MUST hate the people WE hate, or else they're marks. They must CONFORM to YOUR standards, or they're the bad guys...the people in the wrong. Riiight. I could go on all day on how ECW fans weren't marks, but it'd just fall on deaf ears with you. 5)Explain the difference between ECW chants, and "ROH" chants, "CZW" chants, "TNA" chants, "Holy Shit" chants... " Jesus, if I was a worker, I'd have just done headlocks ad nauseum since obviously MY work wouldn't have meant a thing to the "fans." " Ok, now I've totally stopped taking you seriously. If you'd done that, you'd get booed off in any company in the world dumbass. Go ahead, and get yourself in the business, and try it. Lets see how far ya get. Exactly, you wouldn't. "Sign Guy" was a character dumbass. Sign Guy Dudley remember. Don't you mean "Hat Guy", who was a plant wasn't he? The amount of times that guy got into scraps and spats with heels, he must have been. 6)I've seen plenty of enjoyable ECW matches. Maybe your idea of a good wrestling promotion is different to mine. In fact, I know it is, because you''re going out of your way to talk down ECW at every opportunity against every arguement. 7, 8, 9) Man this is getting pointless...it's like talking to some sort of a wall. A wall that shoots back with answers that avoid the questions. I must ask, what wrestling do you watch...because so far ECW is pure crap, TNA has bad matches, the WWE is bad and ROH isn't worth watching.

Taz and Douglas were the most overblown guys on the ECW roster. That and that really crappy Al Snow "Head" gimmick. -=Mike ...Oh, and Nova inventing every move in the history of the business got a little old Taz was like Goldberg...he was pushed to be a legitimate bad ass, and people were made to believe it. Hey...didn't Heyman book Taz to be a star...nah, probably wasn't. Probably all the reactions from those damn mark ECW fans. If the Head gimmick was so 'crappy', how the hell did it get so over. Aren't crappy gimmicks supposed to be bad gimmicks that are an embarrassment to people watching? I dunno about you(you probably would be embarrassed, because it's ECW), but I'm not embarrassed when I see an ECW event with Al Snow and Head on. Because it's mindless comedy. Because it's off the wall. Because the fans were 100% behind it. Watch Living Dangerously 98 and tell me this 'crappy' gimmick didn't get over. Exactly. Nothing that could bring that sort and amount of widespread crowd support could be crap. You're getting desperate now with Nova. He made moves up. He was known as an innovator, and once it got over, he set about 'creating' new moves. God forbid he should do something different and innovate moves rather than use other people's moves.

How often do guys go to other companies because the "quality" of their company's product is bad? Do you think a single ex-WWF'er in TNA would rather be in TNA? -=Mike I'd venture to say Jeff Jarrett, D-Lo Brown and Raven for starters, seeing as Jarrett has the book, and Raven and D-Lo got jobbed out of existance under Vince. Add to that list Jerry Lynn who also hates Vince for the way he was totally patheticly booked. A.J Styles is kind of ex-WWE, who actually turned WWE down on a contract offer. Plus any other exWWF/Eers who know about the backstage politics and arguements, and don't think they'd stand a chance of being anything worthwhile in WWE.

At the risk of being offensive, what the heck did ECW make Sandman and New Jack? Talentless hacks who couldn't draw? Did they REALLY need the help? ECW got as many people over as possible because the top guys would leave at the soonest possible moment for somewhere else. -=Mike You hate ECW, we get the point already. But come on...have you ever WATCHED ECW? If you have, or plan to do so again, turn your god damn volume up when Sandman or New Jack come out, and tell me they weren't over. And tell me that Heyman didn't turn them from a surfer guy and an overly racist SMW guy into someone people gave a damn about. I'm sure you will tell me that...or rather, you'll come back with the 'neither of them drew a dime'. ROH doesn't draw too much money in...none of the indies do really. You're using lack of money as a reason for ECW sucking. So, by all rights, any indie promotion that puts on enjoyable matches but doesn't have millions of dollars sucks. And as far as the 'leaving as soon as possible' arguement...again, does ROH suck just because Paul London and Spanky jumped to the WWE at the first opportunity? No. Did RVD or Tommy Dreamer leave the company at the first opportunity? No. Most people left for the money...like I said, so have Paul London, Spanky...Nunzio, Jimmy Yang, Alexis Laree...does that make ROH, NWA:TNA or any of the other companies they and others work for suck as a result?

Hmm, lets see...Will Smith and Chris Roq(sp?) do it all the time...it's nowhere near as big of a deal. And it's obvious, blatantly obvious that the guy's created this not just for humour, but so he'll get massive publicity so people will know about the game. Controversy can be the best form of publicity. He's probably laughing away right now at the fact so many people now know about his game, where as if it was a non-offensive game, he'd get nowhere near the publicity, and nowhere near the sales.

I'm not saying he came up with that idea. But...Vince made Hogan into the biggest face in wrestling history. Bischoff capitalised by turning him heel. The point is, Vince made Hogan into the huge star, and because he was such a huge star and such a huge face, the heel turn worked ten times better than it would have without Hogan's big name on it. Vince provided the basis... ...it was Bischoff and the WCW backroom staff who made the NWO...but it was Vince that made the NWO's founders.

ANOTHER plain singles match!?! I have hardcore moves in my move set...I WANT to use them! Ok, with that out of the way...(excuse my anger, I've just had a shitty soccer training with my so-called shambles of a 'team'.)...this should be a big challenge, and I'm not holding out much hope for a win...but, I'll try. G'luck to Todd as well.

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Crowd reactions for Vinnie Vegas and the Diamond Studd...the WCW creations Crowd reactions for Diesel and Razor Ramon... I rest my case. Vince was the one who managed to make them more than just jobbers. If he hadn't, then Hall and Nash would not have got the nWo spot in the first place. Not to mention Vince McMahon helping make Hulk Hogan what he is, so without that Hogan would not have got into the nWo spot...the nWo spot wouldn't even have been around probably.

I wondered why that promo started mid-way through...damn SJL production values. Seriously though, conrgats to IL, Bowers and to Todd...and to Liston. Boo on Spike, but seeing as you lost two matches, it remind me it's funny how karma hits you sometimes. And well done to everyone who showed but lost...

Over here in good old Blighty, all the music critics seem to be raving about The Darkness. Some claim it's part of a rock revolution back over here. If you haven't heard of them, The Darkness play an 80's style rock...think AC/DC. They have Kerrang awards, and are tipped for a Mercury Music Prize. But are they well known over in America yet? And are they any good in your opinion. I was brought up with the old rock like Queen, AC/DC and The Rolling Stones by my dad, so I like them. But then again, they started up in the same county I live in, so I'm a little bias.