DrVenkman PhD

Just got home after being out all day (work + being out), FINALLY got all of my updates (minus One Night Stand, and hopefully this "no recent PPV" thing gets fixed soon).

So, odds on Dinsmore going to TNA, getting a buzz going about how he'll finally be able to show off his "real skills", then do meaningless 2 minute bouts on Impact before joining The Bashams on the re-released line?

I don't see it on Best Buy's Canadian website and as awesome as it sounds, I'm on the fence over wanting any version of it on DVD for immediate re-watching and such or putting it off for a bit in hopes I can find it a few weeks later on a trip to the states.

As great as I thought Diesel was in my early teens, business was tanking with him on top by that point. I don't imagine a the October 95 IYH would have done much worse business if it was Diesel vs Mabel in a rematch (assuming they did something else in September). In the end, Bret probably would still beat whoever was champ at Survivor Series, it would have just been a worse match (though I am no wondering how a Bret vs King Mable match would have played out).

Maybe this is it? Get 10 people suspended after asking to become a major part of TV (but having HHH say no) and become Cena's next challenger by default.

Somehow the idea of putting the endorsement of one of KOAB's crazy "too many letters" rants as just as awful as endorsing rape and murder was seen as a serious knock and not a subtle jest.

Exciting 9th but I think I need to get some sleep before work.

It's right in your sig.

Don't forget insane KOAB posts.

I wish Detroit would capitalize on Yankees and Seattle losing and win this game, but it's not looking good.

This should be an interesting month to say the least.

pbone condones stripping, murder, rape, and KOAB posts everytime he posts due to his sig/av settings and such. A point loss.

I've been living in denial about this for 12 months now but the amount of people who actually go ahead and talk to their cable company (unlike me, who just e-mails because I'm not big on speaking with people on the phone when I have complaints, then and gets no response) seem to get the "it's their fault, not ours" response. I really don't know what's what, but flairfan was having a bevy of problems and bam, BBB complaint and he's rolling in the content. At one point I did believe the lack of recent PPVs was an issue with Canadian DVD distribution rights (PPVs often come out on DVD a month or so later here - or did at one point, don't know now - which puts it on par with coming out around the same time it should be on TV for $10 less) but then they just suddenly showed up last fall and I was happy. I also believe Cogeco told 10PoG that the content issues were a problem with WWE distribution. We'll see what happens in the future, I guess. I just haven't waited this long with such a baron update in ages, if at all.

Happy Birthday to MillenniumMan! Hopefully WWE.com gives you (and everyone else who subscribes) a late birthday present with a good match selection for 24/7 Online's September line-up.

Damn you're right, they didn't have it! I have it on DVD so I didn't really notice. Dusty's speech is very good. $10 Fanatics Series good though? If you're recording the show, yeah. I now forget exactly what I said in the letter but it was basically about wanting all the shows I should be getting. I look forward to positive results out of this.

Jim Duggan discusses the road back to the WWE

Raw is being taped on Sunday.

Yes that's where I got the idea from. I mean, you'd think in the month where they are having this air FREE for new subscribers, WWE and/or the Cogeco in my market would make every effort possible to make the service look it's best. I guess not, though. On the flip side new subscribers probably have no idea what is even supposed to be there thanks to the lack of schedule on WWE.com Edit: Complaint filed! I feel so dirty, turning on the company that has given me so, so many hours of free entertainment. But I'm paying for this channel and I'd actually like the programs that are supposed to be there to ACTUALLY BE THERE.

It's funny, but raz said it so I DQ it.

Man, this is the worst 24/7 I've had since subscribing. How can I have received so little on Friday, more than 48 hours after the updates should have been there? I'd do the BBB thing but I don't want WWE getting some letter with my name on it and thinking I'm a traitor of a fan.

Unless my memory is wrong, Rey vs. Psicosis was already on his last DVD. So were a lot of those matches, but still. However, unless it's just my copy, ther version on the first DVD has no sound for the stuff going on in the ring so a better mixed version of the match would have been nice.

Last I read about the Commendant on wiki made it sound like no one knows who he was. I know he was out and Don "Jackyl" Callis was in by Survivor Series 97.

C&P from Wiki: WCW under Ted Turner To preserve the inexpensive network programming provided by professional wrestling, JCP was purchased outright by Turner on November 21, 1988. Originally incorporated by TBS as the Universal Wrestling Corporation, Turner promised the fans that WCW would be the athlete-oriented style of NWA. 1989 proved to be a turnaround year for WCW, with Ric Flair on top for most of the year as both World Champion and head booker. Flair helped bring in Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk, and his pay-per-view matches with were financially and critically successful. Young stars such as Sid Vicious, Sting, Scott Steiner, The Road Warriors, Brian Pillman, The Great Muta and Lex Luger were given major storylines and championship opportunities. Despite this influx of talent, WCW soon began working to gradually incorporate much of the glamour and showy gimmicks for which the WWF was better known. Virtually none of these stunts—such as the live cross-promotional appearance of RoboCop at a pay-per-view event in 1990, the Chamber of Horrors gimmick, and the notorious Black Scorpion storyline—succeeded. Behind the scenes, WCW was becoming more autonomous and slowly started separating itself from the historic NWA name. In January 1991, WCW officially split from the NWA and began to recognize its own WCW World Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. Both WCW and the NWA recognized Ric Flair (who was by now no longer the head booker) as their World Heavyweight Champion throughout most of the first half of 1991, but WCW, particularly recently-installed company president Jim Herd, turned against Flair for various reasons and fired him before The Great American Bash in July 1991 after failed contract negotiations. In the process, they officially stripped him of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. However, according to Flair's autobiography, they refused to return the $25,000 deposit he had put down on the physical belt, so he kept it and brought it with him when he was hired by the WWF at the request of Vince McMahon. Flair then incorporated the belt into his gimmick, dubbing himself "The Real World's Champion". WCW later renegotiated the use of the NWA name as a co-promotional gimmick with New Japan Pro Wrestling and sued the WWF to stop showing Flair with the old NWA World Title belt on its programs, claiming a trademark on the physical design of the belt. The belt was returned to WCW by Flair when Jim Herd was let go and he received his deposit back plus interest. It was brought back as the revived NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Final split with the NWA During the period that WCW operated with its own World Champion, while also recognizing the NWA's world title, Flair left the WWF on good terms and returned to WCW, regaining the title from Barry Windham in July 1993. Immediately, the other, now smaller, member organizations of the NWA began demanding that Flair defend the title under their rules in their territories, as mandated by old NWA agreements. The title was later scheduled to be dropped by Flair to Rick Rude, a title change which was exposed by the "Disney Tapings", the months-in-advance taping of WCW's syndicated television shows at Disney-owned studios in Orlando, Florida. The NWA board of directors, working separately from WCW, objected to Rude and WCW finally left the NWA for good again in September 1993. However, WCW still legally owned and used the actual belt which represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (Rick Rude even defended it as the "Big Gold Belt") but they could no longer use the NWA name. WCW realized that the title belt, because of its rich in-ring history and visual impact, was highly sought after and respected in Japan, a fictional subsidiary, dubbed WCW International, was created to inject credibility back into the belt. It was made up of promoters from around the world, essentially their in-house version of the real NWA. The title thus became known as the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (as the World Heavyweight Championship as sanctioned by WCW International). WCW claimed that WCW International still recognized the belt as a legitimate World Championship. For a short while, there were essentially two world titles up for competition in the organization. Sting eventually lost the WCW International Championship to WCW Champion Ric Flair in a unification match on June 23, 1994 when the experiment was jettisoned. The Big Gold Belt was then used to represent the lone World Title in the company. It was used as such until WCW's closure in 2001

Sandman - role model of the Raw locker room. Crazy.