King Cucaracha

No, I'm a fan of good, smart, wrestling. "Technical" is irrelevant (see Hansen, Stan). It truly saddens me that spotfest crap like this can get ****+ ratings, while the greatness of a Jumbo Tsuruta goes unnoticed by the average fan. Congrats...you just missed my point. And I back up my earlier statements by simply saying 'who'? *(waits for all the Japanese fans to verbally destroy me)*

Did anyone think Rock and HHH could go an hour at Judgement Day. Sure...it had interference at the end. But I think they handled that Iron Man quite well. Question is, will this one be a HBK/Bret style less falls is more...or a Rock/HHH style the more falls the better Iron Man Match.

It's the end of the year, and the results are out for the top 100 wrestlers as voted for by 'grapplefanatics staff'. Anyway, the top three are... 1- Chris Jericho 2- Kurt Angle 3- A.J Styles And the current TNA Workers that are on the list...(there's quite a few former workers of course, due to my many roster cuttings)... 3- A.J Styles 4- Low Ki 5- Chris Daniels 9- Kid Kash 20- Scoot Andrews 21- CM Punk 37- D'Lo Brown 39- Ikuto Hidaka 57- Jeff Jarrett 60- Masato Tanaka 63- Colt Cabana 92- Julio Dinero 93- Kid Romeo 94- Chris Hero 95- Elix Skipper 96- Jimmy Rave 100- Swinger The BIG news however is you are watching Fox! NWA:TNA have announced a Television deal with Fox for a late evening show on Thursday night. Indirect competition with the WWE at last. So the weekly PPV's are out, and our first monthly PPV event will be Quest for the Gold on January 25th. Of course the main event will be the 'Don't call it a Royal Rumble Match, it's a Quest for the Gold Match and don't you forget it' Match, with 30 men going for the #1 contendership to the World Title. Also, RoH have a new graveyard slot for RoH Thursday. So they now have two graveyard wrestling shows. Only a matter of time before they're nipping at my heels. The bad news is, I lose money again. Only 905,000 this time. I say only...I lost 4 million the first month. So anyway, Jerry Jarrett's not happy, the bank I loaned 400,000 off are pissed cause I'm still in negative numbers for money...and this ride could end at any time. So, February's PPV has aptly been named End of the Line...just incase. Now I have a T.V show...changes must be made. Namely...the King of the Darkmatch Title is useless...because there's no darkmatch spot. But never fear, because it has now become the NWA Hardcore Title. Ekmo's greatness shall reign on. And C.W Anderson has been offered an open contract...but Bret Hart has left the company. Well, time for a Foxy edition of... *NEXT WEEK'S PREVIEW* ~NWA:TNA enters the unknown of network television, with a big main event. New NWA:TNA World Champion D'Lo Brown has sent out an open challenge, and will face off against Jeff Jarrett. However, will Raven and A.J Styles play their part in proceedings? ~The X-Division is on the line, as Frankie Kazarian goes one on one with Chris Sabin. Sabin does not hold a victory over Kazarian since Anarchy in the Asylum began. Can he change the records, and in the process regain his X-Division Title. ~Also Jonny Storm will take on Elix Skipper one on one. America's Most Wanted take on The Gathering. And with only six spots on the show...that's about it as far as announced matches go. More is sure to happen though on a big night in TNA's history.

Finally...a half decent inverted atomic drop(video 3)

Guys in TNA and in top 100 for my fed...which has just been updated in fantasy booking...read it and I'll stop pimping it. 3- A.J Styles 4- Low Ki 5- Chris Daniels 9- Kid Kash 20- Scoot Andrews 21- CM Punk 37- D'Lo Brown 39- Ikuto Hidaka 57- Jeff Jarrett 60- Masato Tanaka 63- Colt Cabana 92- Julio Dinero 93- Kid Romeo 94- Chris Hero 95- Elix Skipper 96- Jimmy Rave 100- Swinger I'm still surprised Jericho got 1st, when he's not even in the WWE top 5.

Yep...if I wasn't so lazy, then Delta would be hearing from me... But... I am...

I was counting all the named events before the PPV's as well. Even then though, I guess it's not that overused. EDIT: Add anything with the Dudley Boyz vs Spike and a partner.

Down With The Sickness should be Big Show's theme, rather than the crap he has now. "Change" by Deftones would have been a cool style Ministry Taker theme. And for PPV themes, I'm sure the WWE would pretty much use Linkin Park if they could.

Matt vs Albert Matt vs Cena Since when did he turn face? And rico...they'll announce the Rebellion card early, and change it beyond all recognition a couple of days before. They always do.

Well, I'm back to this diary...finally. NWA:TNA- ANARCHY IN THE ASYLUM, SHOW 18 Announcers: Mike Tenay and Scott Hudson Hell of all hells, Ekmo isn't here tonight. Erik Watts however is, and he's in the ring for the return of Watts Cooking. Tonight his guests are two men who have both issued challenges to Frankie Kazarian. What a coincidence. First off, Jonny Storm. The Brit walks out and he's not as over as I'd like him to be. So of course, he's looking for some overness osmosis from Erik Watts here. He enters the ring, as Watts quickly announces the other man as Elix Skipper. The two stand either side of Watts, and basically talk about who should be the number one contender. In the end, Skipper challenges Storm to a match next week, which is accepted. Overall: 57% Notes: Jonny Storm gained overness from this segment. Erik Watts lost overness from this segment (Well this was just to start off the feud between these two, as Jonny Storm is in for a push ASAP. Hopefully they click in their match next week.) Starting up the PPV, and Cyrus is in the ring. It seems Jerry Jarrett has been unimpressed with the situation of NWA:TNA...so he wants Cyrus to help out. He has been in consultation with the front office, and he is very pleased to announce...but suddenly he's cut off. By bagpipes. The crowd explode, as out walks Rowdy Roddy Piper, who's obviously the returning star. Old or not, he's over like crazy. Cyrus is in shock, as Piper enters the ring. Big Piper chants as Cyrus tries to cut them off. Piper stops him, and informs everyone he has returned to the NWA:TNA. As usual, he takes a pop at the WWE, but his main focus is business. He's here not to wrestle, but to manage. And he's also here to shake up the NWA:TNA, and try and make it a force in proffesional wrestling. Good for him. Cyrus starts up with the fat jokes and then the age jokes, but doesn't get very far as Piper fights back with insults like only he can. Piper finishes up by announcing he will be back later on, before leaving. Overall: 90% Notes: Cyrus gained overness from this segment (Oh yes...Roddy Piper is in. Russo's gone so there's no disliking problems. Piper should be a good signing, if he can get some of my roster over. Speaking of which, he'll be back later in the show...but why?) Tag Team Match Kid Kash and Swinger vs Amazing Red and Sonjay Dutt It seems Dutt could be one for the future...once I find a good role for him. Last week Kash beat Dutt in a US Title Match, and Kash is feuding with Red. Swinger is a Network pal of Kash, so everything fits into place. Red and Kash take on most of the match, and end up in the ring at the end. Dutt and Swinger brawl on the outside, as in the ring Red gets set to hit a powerbomb, but Kash falls forward through the move into a pin for a three count from nowhere. Kash and Swinger escape quickly, celebrating up the ramp as a replay shows Kash using a steel chain to knock Red out in mid powerbomb. Another cheap win for Kash. Winners: Kid Kash and Swinger by pinfall Crowd: 56% Match: 87% Overall: 71% Dames Rating: *** (The Red/Kash feud rages on, and yet again Kash gets a heelish cheap win. Once again, I get a good match involving Dutt and Kash. If I can find the right gimmick for Dutt, then he may become the wrestler of 2004 for TNA...providing I don't get fire at the end of the month.) Four Way Elimination Match, X-Division #1 Contendership CM Punk vs Julio Dinero vs Chris Sabin vs Scoot Andrews In the end, I couldn't resist signing Scoot. He's in, and of course Dinero and Punk are feuding. It shows as they opt to start this match, tags being in effect for this one. Punk and Dinero pound the hell out of each other, until a tag is made by Sabin from Dinero. From there, Sabin and Punk take up most of the match, before Punk is blind tagged by an impatient Dinero. A lind clothesline to the back of the head is Punk's answer to that, as Sabin hits the Future Shock to eliminate Dinero. Scoot enters the match and NWA:TNA for the first time, and the second fall lasts for a good 7 minutes before Punk gets hit with a vicious kick to block a top rope jump and get the three to take out Punk. Down to Scoot and Sabin, Andrews hits a kick on Sabin to get a close nearfall. In the end, the new guy does the job, and a Future Shock ends it with a win for Sabin. Winner: Chris Sabin Crowd: 60% Match: 80% Overall: 70% Dames Rating: **1/4 (Sabin vs Kazarian next week...these number one contenders matches are full of surprises. Sabin still does not hold a victory over Frankie Kazarian...will that change next week?) NWA Tag Team Titles Triple X© vs America's Most Wanted This is probably one of the most reliable matches of NWA:TNA...it'll almost always get good ratings all round. Even though Low Ki and Daniels are in a dislike relationship suddenly, I don't want to split the team, so I've kept them together. Sure, a feud between them would draw major money, but this is still a feud. The usual nice mix of wrestling, brawling and high spots from these four guys, America's Most Wanted come close to winning on a number of occasions. Towards the end of the match, Low Ki suddenly pulls a chain from his tights. You'd think that'd hurt...having a chain down there. Especially if it begins to tangle... Back to the match, Low Ki goes to use the chain with a right hand but Storm sees it coming and blocks, before taking the chain himself. One chained right hand to the head, and a three count for new Tag Team Champions! Or not...because here comes Brian Hebner(boo!), telling the referee that Storm used a chain. The decision is quickly reversed, the belts are returned to Triple X, and the AMW are furious. Winners and still Tag Champs: Triple X by dusty finish DQ Crowd: 73% Match: 88% Overall: 80% Dames Rating: ***1/2 (Hebner should be my biggest heel right now. EWR 5.0 needs referee angles. And Heel Coachman. I demand it.) Suddenly, here comes Roddy Piper again. He stops on the stage, forcing America's Most Wanted to take a side exit. You can't get in the Hot Scot's way. He back out here, and it's time to make an impact. He's here in NWA:TNA to manage...and to manage some select athletes to greatness. He's seen the treatment foriegners get 'up in Stamford', and he doesn't want it to happen here...especially not to his fellow countrymen. He's here to give the guidance needed to make these kids great. And these kids? Well...they're El Midgeeto, Gary Steele and Jonny Storm. The three come out, and with Piper leading things, these men will revolutionise NWA:TNA...for they are the geniously named British Revolution. Overall: 84% (Three guys who all need overness, and are all Brits. So they are the most needy of Piper's managerial services. And I don't mean 'managerial services' in the WWE Stacy and Torrie sense of the words. Piper is here in the old school manager role. To help un-over wrestlers get over. Not to be fought over in pointless hoss feuds.) Hardcore Match Shane Douglas vs Ron Killings This one is personal. Or rather, it's a feud. There wasn't too much basis for the feud, but by god they hate each other now! A hardcore match at 'both men's request', this was a brawl. Chairs, trash can lids, tables...your usual WWE hardcore fodder all got used. Both men went for the win on many occasions, each time getting only nearfalls. Douglas, being the heel he is, wins by placing his feet on the ropes with a roll-up. What a heel...he even cheats in hardcore matches. After the match however, the fights continues, with both men brawling through the crowd and then backstage. The feud continues. Winner: Shane Douglas by pinfall Crowd: 83% Match: 62% Overall: 76% Dames Rating: * We then get a video highlighting the feud between A.J Styles and D'Lo Brown, which has been going on for a good few months. Tonight...it ends. Inside of a steel cage. And it's next. Overall: 71% NWA World Title, Cage Match A.J Styles© vs D'Lo Brown Nice even match...crowd got into it. Styles was on the offense for most of the match, but in the end D'Lo got the advamtage for long enough to hit the Lo Down, before both men clambered up the cage. A fight on the cage was stopped with a D'Lo right, Styles scrashed to the mat and D'Lo escaped to end the feud and take the World Title for the first time in his career. Winner and NEW World Champ: D'Lo Brown by escape Crowd: 81% Match: 76% Overall: 79% Dames Rating: **1/2 Overall Rating: 78% Attendance: 3452 Buy rate: 0.20 Best Match: Kid Kash vs Sonjay Dutt Hottest Match: D'Lo Brown vs Raven vs Ron Killings vs Jeff Jarrett Worst Match: Ekmo vs El Midgeeto Best Segment: Styles attacks Bret and gets arrested Worst Segment: Pheobe Ward 'debuts' with the Super F.R.I.E.N.D.S Best show ever...nice way to end the year. More will come soon...sooner than it took to put this show up.

Wanting good wrestling over pointless spot-a-mania?! What an absurd idea we have! I'd take Bret over a dozen spot monkeys any day. That's your opinion, you're intitled to it. Of course, being a Benoit fan you're a big fan of technical wrestling. Not every fan in the world wants to see a Benoit submission fest though. I'm a spot monkey fan. I don't prefer spot filled matches to submission matches neccesarilly(yeah...I should learn to spell that word). But, spot filled matches have their place in wrestling too. Tell me...who has been the most over in his career...Benoit or RVD. No offense to Benoit. I'm a Benoit fan. But there's certain wrestlers like RVD who go out there, hit some high spots, throw in a little wrestling and can get super over. It's a proven thing. The crowd, according to Dames' review, were hot for the high spots. Why? High spots will pop the crowd. High spots will get over. Spot monkeys will get over. In my eyes, Hart has a lot more potential than most spot monkeys, because he must have Dungeon experience. But the way you get over in your first match in a company is by impressing. If that's by busting out the high spots, then so be it. I'd judge him after a few weeks rather than two matches on his first show in TNA. Hell...Owen Hart's debut in WCW wasn't the 'technical masterclass' he was capable of.

As one of the big ECW marks on the board, to me ECW lowercard comedy was funny. As for Charlie Haas...it depends what you're doing with him. I thought of turning him face and giving him the all-american gimmick. Bluechipper might work as well.

Ok...question. How far can this kid go? Can he live up to the expectations put on him, and get to the levels of say Owen Hart? (I think Bret's out of reach for almost anyone.) I'm not sure personally. Dames' seems to like him, but it's gonna be tough to break through right now. Especially conidering the Harts' history with the WWE, the only truly global company around.

The funny thing is, whenever Shawn does his old 'stripper dance act', it's supposedly wrong because he's a devout Christian. Which shows how much people know. Being a Christian doesn't mean you have to live a boring, uneventful life. Sure...some stuff goes against 'God's teachings'. But still... And why shouldn't he 'force religion down our throats' as you say. He's a Christian. He's proud of being a Christian. And also...if Vince can make t-shirts that market towards Christians but also show you're a wrestling fan, then of course he'll do it.

Have you seen ECW Cyberslam 99? And if so, was it the same as their War Games only with more guys. If so...I can see why people wouldn't like it. And lmao at the people who see the word 'Hart' and instantly think he MUST be a 'good wrestler' and not a 'spot guy'. 'He can't be a spot guy...he should learn a little wrestling from Bret. Bret rulez!1!!!1!' Not all the Guerreros wrestle(d) alike. Not all the Von Erichs wrestled alike. Why should all the Harts?

Think yourselves lucky...I bought the VHS, and the tape FINISHES in the middle of Corino-Tajiri. I take the tape out...the rest of the tape is fuckin' missing!

Dude, I live in WASHINGTON STATE. Do NOT complain about the Cali indy scene, you have it way better than some of us. Ahem...I live in the UK. The best we have around here is the FWA. Which admitedly is very good. But there's one good promotion for a whole country over here almost. There's probably more, but none I've ever heard of. Think yourselves lucky...over here, if you mention wrestling, half the people would mention Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy.

For ECW... Tajiri vs Super Crazy Jerry Lynn vs Rob Van Dam Dreamer vs Credible Dreamer vs Raven And great matches or not, Benoit vs Angle is THE overused PPV match, with HHH-Rock a close second.

That was a total and memorable balls-up. Sure, it was ok with commentary. It got explained on there. But I swear, the fans thought Fuji had turned face. So did I at first. I guess they explained it in the end, because Demos were super faces about a week later. Ah...the days of fickle 'cheer for the faces, boo for the heels' fans.

Lesnar's 'Angle Slam' on Shelton Benjamin early in the year/late last year during the Team Angle gauntlet.

You realise anyone who doesn't get a push in the next six months will be jobbing because he didn't appear at/did something wrong at/didn't buy a big enough wedding present for this party/wedding. My guess...it's his party so he can have it whenever the hell he wants. And people wonder why HHH hates the internet.

Totally off topic...Rip Rogers is like a cross between Steve Corino and the pink obsessed Steven Richards. I actually thought he was Corino for about a minute first time I saw him.

No offense...but there's a difference between 'slowing things down' and 'a 10 minute headlock'.

Ahem... HBK was thrown out of DX in 1998. Your topic said 1999. Which lead me to believe you meant the 'HBK getting thrown through a car window' angle. That would be a good idea. Only trouble is, after an overly long search for the culprit angle, it'll turn out to be Mark Jindrak... Jindrak will take over Evolution, Jindrak will wrestle Triple H with Austin as guest referee, they'll both destroy Austin and in the end it'll all turn out to be a ruse, and Triple H will have been the one behind his own near crippling. And the best part...You Never saw it coming Austin! Austin vs HHH at Mania, HHH goes over. Damn...if I weren't a WWE 'fan' I'd so be head booker.

Just watch...she'll try and sue within a week. Seriously...all the shit going on in the world, and she's worried about dipping sauce? Some people need to get real.