DrVenkman PhD

We have a no spoiling policy in that channel! Your attitude that everyone who uses the internet to look or discuss any wrestling related information wants to be spoiled (or should know better because otherwise they will read spoilers) is the same logic that caused Meltzer to have to apologize for mentioning Benoit's name (re: draft lottery) out of the blue in his news updates.

Daivari's first name in the WWE (which, more or less, seems to have been dropped) is Koshrow, not Shawn. Though I now understand what you were saying so disregard this. Good read.

That doesn't stop other people from going and then informing you online. I understand your point but there are times where a person is spoiled without intending to be. I chat in a channel in IRC that has a newsbot and a lot of times Meltzer's headlines will pop up as "Meanie vs JBL on SmackDown" or "SmackDown Spoilers - 2 titles change hands". I hate it when he does things that are unavoidable like that.

They also still have him doing Live Event News in Canada thanks to the magic of pre-tapes.

Well he did cancel his WOL appearance, and the fact he's calling the woman he has suppoedsly since made peace with a "whore" a few weeks before possibly being in an angle with her comes off as a bit odd.

From PWI: Jim Cornette, who handled the Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory along with Danny Davis, was fired by World Wrestling Entertainment. The last straw in a series of incidents was Cornette slapping an OVW student "ten to fifteen times" after the student, in front of fans, giggled instead of showing fear towards The Boogeyman Marty Wright during an OVW TV taping. There are a number of people who are noting that Cornette seemed extremely burned out in recent months, although none were willing to defend him for raising his hands to the student. One source noted that just last week, after returning from a WWE forced vacation, Cornette snapped and walked out of a taping while claiming he was done with the company, only to return an hour later. There is no word yet as to who will be taking over Cornette's duties yet. Lance Storm finished his tenure with WWE yesterday and has headed home to Calgary. During Cornette's "vacation", Storm, Tommy Dreamer, and Al Snow handled the TV end of the territory

I enjoyed readins his positive out of character views of the ECW show. It also shows he's not just being a total ass on the DVD.

It's always fun when they let Daivari speak in English. I thought his "yeah that's about right" line in regard to Teddy Long not understanding the foreign language but guessing what he was saying was good. That was one of the better SD!s in a while and I'm not terribly offended by men in masks beating someone on a fictional wrestling show up but maybe I'm a jerk. Example... this morning at work, a wrestling fan co-worker asked me if I "heard about London". I immediatley assumed he was telling me Paul London was released but felt better when he said it was bombings in England. Then I felt bad for that.

This is rather odd... from WWE.com: Matt Morgan talks to WWE.com about his release July 7, 2005 By David Agostino It was less than two months ago that Matt Morgan was at Judgment Day, helping Carlito defeat Big Show. Morgan was one of the more athletic and imposing Superstars on the SmackDown! roster. And at 6-foot-10 and just 28-years-old, Morgan figured to have a bright future with WWE. And while he still might, that future became slightly more clouded when Morgan was one many Superstars let go by the company earlier this week. In fact, after Morgan saw the first list of cuts on Tuesday, he took a deep breath, only to get the bad news one day later. “I saw the first list of guys let go and my heart just went out to them,” Morgan said in an exclusive WWE.com interview. “Still, you’re happy it’s not you. Then the second day you get the call.” Morgan had become a semi-regular on SmackDown!, even appearing on the July 7 show. Considering how much he was on TV of late, Morgan was stunned by his release. “It was kind of shocked,” Morgan said. “I thought I was doing everything they asked of me. I’m still so new to the sport and I have such an upside. I’m still going to get to where I have to go, I’m just going to have to take a different avenue.” Currently, Morgan, who was part of Tough Enough 2, said he’s looking over a pair of offers he’s received for small movie roles. But, above everything else, he’s committed to returning to wrestling. “Wrestling is still my top priority,” Morgan said. “I will look at my options, whether that means wrestling in Japan, Germany, anywhere overseas. Sometimes you have to take a step back to go forward. I want to get the opportunity to come back and show everyone the real Matt Morgan. The guy who’s the most athletic and promising big man in the sport.” Still, Morgan had a blast over the last couple months, and he’s still confident a return will be in the works one day. “It was awesome, I had the time of my life,” Morgan said. “I want to thank all of the McMahons, Jim Ross, John Laurinaitis and Fit Finlay for giving me the opportunity. I will see them again. I learned about having fun and not being wound so tight. It didn’t work out this time, but I’m willing to accept it and grow from it. I’m just 28, I’m only going to get better.”

Correct me if I'm mistaken but isn't Regal super good friends (and locker room heel snitch) with HHH? That seems like some job security.

More info on Jannetty Maybe he can come back in 2007. I feel bad for the guy.

My pals and I only had the chance to play Rage in the Cage once when we rented it and the Sega CD from a video store and boy was it fun. The thing I remember about the Rumble game (and even the Rumble mode in Raw) was me and afriend seeing how fast we could clear out the computer and get back to me vs him. Irish whip, backdrop/hiptoss, repeat. Good times.

THe night they panned over to Heyman as Lawler's commentary replacement. I think it may have been mentioned online prior to the show but I didn't see it and it shocked the hell out of me.

He did cut a promo that caused a guy to yell "Get to the point" so I guess that's sorta heelish. He also superkicked Booker T "right in the grill" (accoridng to T) then made fun of JR and Booker on commentary (during Booker T's kick based offense, Michaels went into JR mode, "Good God Booker get your own stuff! That's gimmick infringement!" or something along those lines).

That show was poor but I'll let it pass because it was a holiday and good lord I did not see that heel turn coming. I also enjoyed the opening segment. Things that bothered me were Dupree not dancing and, although JR did say this was Dupree's Raw debut since being traded from SmackDown!, they were implying he had never been on Raw before. They also didn't clarify the Edge situation that had been aluded to prior to the draft beginning - if he and Batista were seperated, his contract was void. Since he still carried the briefcase I guess it's safe to assume that has been forgotten and he is eligable for a shot against Cena / WWE champ now. So.. HBK/Angle/Flair/HHH eh? Would it be Evolution II or Horsemen 2005? (2005 being the version number, not the year). It was also slightly odd to see them starting a Cena/Jericho angle when you consider one was already in place.

He superkicked Hogan. BOO THIS MAN.

Love the picture.

They finally put "Steal taunt" back. These ideas all sound great but by now I'm leary of "ideas". There's a good chance they won't come to fruition or, once applied, will not work out as hoped. They even said in the interview the meter from last year didn't work out as they hoped. Edit: Having read a bit further, I must say I'm really hopeful that Stamina idea pays off. I also enjoyed this answer: "I would personally love to do that [alternate outfits], but it's just so much work for us to do that it's difficult... especially with a roster of more than 60 different superstars. Doing an alternate outfit for each guy would take a long, long time. That said, we are going to have alternate outfits for some characters but not all of them. Don't expect them on the lower-tier guys that wrestle in essentially the same costume all the time, though. And the reason, before you hammer us on it [laughs], is because we think that fans would probably be disappointed that we spent time on that rather than give them more and better unlockables for going through season mode"

Can't say I've ever left a house show dissapointed... I'm a mark for being at things live. House shows that I might consider bad today happened when I was a kid and a big mark. The group of us that left the "In High Gear" show at the Palace of Auburn Hills in February 95 determined that while the best match was Bret vs Owen, clearly the 2nd best match was The Headshrinkers vs The Blu Brothers. 3 years later we were all a bit wiser and wrestling was just a "tad bit" more popular. We attended a WCW house show the day before WrestleMania 14. I've never been the biggest WCW fan but this was an absolutely tremendous house show experience. Place was pretty much sold out and hot, something we hadn't seen for the two prior shows in October 94 and February 95 (both very low attendance). Nash and Hall no showed, so instead of Flair persumably jobbing to Hall and Bret Hart working with Nash, we got Flair beating Scott Norton and Bret Hart beating Curt Hennig. The show also opened with what seemed to be a really great Psicosis vs. La Parka match, Jericho doing some great mic work before losing a good match to Booker T, a great "Raven's Rules" match between DDP/Benoit and Kidman/Raven (DDP got on the mic to call Raven a fag post match). There was some crap like Brian Adams vs. Bulldog (though for me it was cool to see Bulldog) and Goldberg vs someone (though a lot of people really loved this... it was the height of Goldberg mania). The main event was Hogan vs Sting in a cage match and we really liked it, though probably moreso as marks. Sting pinned Hogan clean, too. Hogan was lying in the ring selling the Scorpion Death Drop while people tried to pelt garbage over the cage. He left when he got hit with something. I also really enjoyed the 2 house show at Joe Louis Arena in 2003... Benoit vs Angle was the main event for the February one and we had Row 4 seats for the November one. The November one wasn't great work or anything but being that close and yelling at everyone and seeing some react was great. Chanting "Dance! Dance! Dance!" with a group of people behind us at Rene Dupree was pretty great as was cheering Coach (which got a thumbs up from him) and adding "Bill!" inbetween chants of "Golddddberg"

For me, the question is when did I find out it wasn't as fake as I thought. When I started watching in 1991 the schoolyard talk was always about it being fake but we liked it anyway. That's not to say we didn't fall for some of the kayfabe - my cousin and I once wondered how much more money you got paid once you won / we're allowed to win a title. And just because it was fake didn't mean we weren't marks for Hogan. However as kids, we all thought that these people are somehow trained to take all of these moves without feeling pain at all (which is why we decided to emulate them on a pile of mattresses) Nobody ever got hurt or injured or felt pain, it was all part of the show! Blood was created with packets! WWF stood for World's Wealthiest Fakers (or in the case of non-fans, replace Wealthiest with Worst). As I got older / wise to the internet, I gradually realized that mat is hard, people are taking stiff shots, bad bumps, getting hurt, and the blood is caused my mutilating your head with a razor. Of course the flip side to this would be recently learning via a friend in school that not all suplexes are really a guy just lifting another guy, it's actually one guy doing a "handstand bump" and stuff like that.

But when did they work in the same promotion, aside from Konnan's super brief stint as Max Moon? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In Clagary. I actually e-mailed Meltzer (prior to HTQ's answer to my question) after the show to get some more info about Konnan's story... he said Konnan just told it wrong on the air.

The deal with these DVDs is they all were scrapped at various points in time so some sites (ex. videoeta.com) have them listed with the dummy date of Dec 30th.

On WOL, Konnan mentioned that he taught Bret Hart the Sharpshooter when he was there as Max Moon. Unless Bret Hart is a time traveller, this makes little sense considering he used it prior to 1992 (SummerSlam 91 off the top of my head as a show where it was used a finisher). However Meltzer agreed with Konnan and cited it as a story not many people know. Is Dave just being polite or is he as confused as Konnan? Or am I the one that's wrong?

The Kliq? Also are you sure it's not the brand logo?

That is what Tony Schivonie says on commentary, but it's not what Howard said. That does put things in perspective, though.