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I'll take Styles over JR any day of the week. JR was really bad towards the end. Hell, during the WM highlight video they played on RAW, where they showed Austin beating HBK for the WWF Championship, it made me sad, because Ross' commentary was soooo much better than what he was doing towards the end in WWE. At least Styles doesn't rely on the same crappy cliches and one liners week after week after week. As for Styles shilling things and putting over people like Ashley Massaro, what do you expect, for him to say how crappy she is? Fact is, there were plenty of terrible workers in ECW that Joey Styles put over during his time with that promotion.

Well, the one point that is true is that government agencies were aware that the hijackers were in the US, although they apparently didn't know what they were up to, and didn't do anything about them.

Ugh, people are still pushing the 9/11 conspiracy drivel? Just because something would make a good movie plot, doesn't mean it happened, kiddies.

It's probably a phone sex line or something.

Why is WWE obsessed with bringing in these journeymen types who aren't even true "legends" and trying to push them? No one seriously wants to see Jim Duggan on a recurring basis.

Children born illegally would be taken as wards of the state and be raised to fight in the military. Sure, it'll never happen, but I can dream right?

Man, if the SFA anthology was coming to Xbox, I'd totally buy it. <------- Still doesn't own a PS2, and probably never will.

Regal is retiring soon? Isn't he only in his mid 30s or so?

Those kids probably have great parents... Just another argument in support of requiring people to get a parenting license before conceiving in this country.

I really didn't think the officiating was that bad. It seems like every major game in the NFL, you always hear "the refs sucked", each and every time. I think you could have super AI robotic refs, equipped with special laser sensors, and people would complain that they weren't fair enough. As far as the conspiracies go...it would make for a good movie script, but there's no reason for the NFL to fix any games. The NFL is unique right now in that there aren't any Yankee-like teams dominating the sport year after year. Almost every team draws well at home, and most teams get covered pretty equally. There isn't any "league favortism" or such BS.

- How they got together and why they got so huge. Well I don't know how huge, Zenk says they headlined, but that's Zenk for you. You have to remember WWF ran more than one "circuit" at a time. There would be an "A" show, a "B" show, sometimes a "C" show. Sometimes WWF would run four shows in one day! (Two matinees, two evening shows). So, they could very well have been headlining during their run, but probably not on the "A" circuit, which would have been Hulk Hogan and whoever he was feuding with. I do know the Can-Am Connection was supposed to be quite popular, especially with the ladies (they were sort of the WWF's version of the Rock & Roll Express, I guess). - What happened during the breakup, both guys have very different reasons, and they both don't seem credible at all. What was the story behind it really, why would they break up such a bankable team, and did it ruin their careers or would you say that they both were better off doing their singles career? From my understanding, Tom Zenk wanted more money. I think he claimed Martel had negotiated the contract, and was getting more money. Zenk wanted more of a share, and when Vince balked, Zenk left. That is one side of the story I've heard, anyway. It's hard to say if it ruined their careers. I don't think you can say Martel was hurt much by it. He won the tag belts with Santana, and then had a hot feud with him after Strike Force broke up. He also went on to cap off his career in WCW, winning the TV Title in 1997 (something that has been basically forgotten). Zenk didn't do as much. He was fairly popular in WCW in the early '90s, but I don't think you can say he had anywhere close to the success of Martel. - Would you say they were more enjoyable than Strike Force? I actualy really liked strike force, but I heard these guys were way above. I think some would say the Can-Am was less annoying than Strike Force, because Strike Force had an annoying entrance theme

Kinda surprised it's at that specific timeslot, but glad it's going to be on Thursdays. I miss having wrestling as an option on Thursdays.

Nikolai Volkoff really was from Eastern Europe, if I'm not mistaken. I think he might have been from Yugoslavia or somewhere like that, though, not actually Russia. I think that's as close as it gets, though.

Yes, exactly. What has to be remembered is that most of the Muslim countries are still in a stage of barbarism. I don't think you can look at their countries and compare them to the US, and say that they are at the same level of civilization as the West. We need to quit pretending that we can deal with them in the same way as our more civilized allies. Just look at their reaction to those political cartoons in Europe. They're burning down embassies. Their societies can't deal with things in a reasoned manner, for the most part.

Well, they sure didn't have the paint schemes down yet, that's for sure. I wish there were still teams like Demolition around today...face paint wearing, bad ass, tough guys. There are too many teams today that are just a couple guys with a very generic "pretty boy" look. As far as the outfits...well, it was the '80s. Back then, especially if you were a kid, you didn't really associate the leather tights and gear with gay/S&M lifestyles. There were rock groups like Kiss and Judas Priest (I know, I know...) that wore similar outfits around the same time. I just thought they looked scary, in a cool way when I was a kid. Btw, maybe this was brought up earlier, but does anyone remember hearing about the "New LOD" that briefly appeared at house shows, featuring Road Warrior Animal and Crush? (This was in 1992, I believe, after Hawk left for Japan and Demolition was dead).

Hey, here's a blast from the past: Remember when Kid Kash was an ECW jobber named "David Morton Tyler Jericho?" Probably the worst name for a wrestler ever.

If I remember correctly, the deal was Steamboat was feuding with the Dangerous Alliance (not sure whom specifically), but started bringing a ninja to ringside to protect himself from DA members running in during his matches. During a match, the ninja hit Steamboat with a phone, and of course ended up being Paul E. I don't think it was revealed who the original ninja was or what happened to him after that. It was more just to advance the feud between Ricky and the DA.

Something I just remembered earlier today: I seem to remember around '93 or '94-ish, DDP (at least I think it was him) being involved in an angle where he was banned from TBS programming for "cursing" on air. I remember seeing the clip...of course he didn't use any actual swear words, but I think he was going off on whoever was president of WCW at the time. Does anyone know what the heck I'm thinking of?

Well, I'm all for bringing in _good_ big man workers. We don't need to see more Lance Hoyt-ish Test clones. Mike Awesome is good when he has his working boots on. The problem is, he seems to be pretty hit or miss (Masato Tanaka being his only consistently good opponent that I'm aware of). Brock Lesnar would be awesome, but I doubt TNA could afford him, though I could be wrong. I'd think Brock would be half-tempted to come to TNA as the ultimate "F U" to Vince McMahon. Other than that, who is there really out there? I don't know of any really talented "super heavyweight" types tearing up the indy scenes right now.

I don't see the point of doing another one of these. Yeah, ECW was cool, and the last show was nice. A fitting tribute. Do we really need to see it a second time, though, probably with even less real ECW guys?

1) In the old WWF mags, they had this ridiculous set-up for the Savage-Flair match at VIII, with Flair doctoring photos of Savage and Elizabeth. Was that even mentioned on tv? The pictures were done really well for 1992. They could have been from two seperate photoshoots, I guess, but don't squash my dreams. - I'm pretty sure it was two separate shoots. They made a huge deal about the photo doctoring on WWF TV, and even said Randy Savage was trying to buy up all the copies of the magazine, etc. Personally, I think it was a really well done angle (heck, anytime Flair and Savage has feuded, it's been good). 2) Why did Michael Hayes go under the name Dok Hendrix? Was the name copyrighted? By who? I faintly recall them not being able to say Fabulous Freebirds on WWF TV. - Don't think there was anything restricting WWF from talking about the Freebirds (they did from about 1999 on when Dok reverted to being Michael Hayes). I'm pretty sure Michael Hayes probably has the copyright to the name "Fabulous Freebirds", and almost certainly "Badstreet USA". I think Hayes became Dok Hendrix so people wouldn't remember his wrestling career when he was shilling the latest WWF crap or performing in lame skits. Just a guess, though. 3) Why did WWF can the original concept of Livewire so quickly? It's still an innovative idea for a show. Even though it was poorly executed, WWF was clearly going for an "edgier" tone. Some of the calls sounded scripted, but most of them sounded like Howard Stern fans on a christian call-in show. It's still odd to watch Vince Russo, Tammy Sytch and Todd Pettingill take calls from weird fans that just want to shout "NWO" on WWF TV. McMahon was on one of the last episodes. That was an early example of the hosts (whoever they were that particular week...I remember Russo being there as Vic Venom) mentioning that he was the owner. Didn't Paul Heyman (or someone from ECW) call in? Surely that was planned. Anyone? - They canned Livewire because the calls were either: 1) obviously plants, or 2) smarks calling in and talking about how ECW ruled and WWF sucked, etc. Livewire was a really cool show, certainly more interesting than anything else WWF has ever done on Saturday mornings (ie. not just another show recapping RAW). Paul Heyman did indeed call in during one episode. He claimed to be a caller from Conneticut, and went off on Vince McMahon. It was definitely a work, but a very well done one. Eventually the show went to an all recap format before getting reformatted/cancelled. 4) Something I've never seen discussed (though I'm sure it has been ten trillion times)...What was the deal with Backlund's 90s run in the WWF? Why did he win the belt? What were his feelings about playing the INSANE Mr. Backlund character? When did he stop appearing on TV? Apologies if he is still semi-active, I haven't watched wrestling on television in almost 5 years. - Backlund won the WWF Championship simply to transition from Bret Hart to Diesel, without having those two wrestle right away (they were saving it for later). He's dabbled in local politics since leaving WWF, IIRC.

Maybe she doesn't even really care about making a comeback. She's probably made so much money in the last eight years that she'll never have to work again...so long as her hubby doesn't blow all her money (which seems entirely possible).

Maybe she doesn't even really care about making a comeback. She's probably made so much money in the last eight years that she'll never have to work again...so long as her hubby doesn't blow all her money (which seems entirely possible).

Why the hell do indy guys complain about doing a job every once in a while? "Oh no, three hundred people are going to see me get pinned after a 20 minute match. Nope, can't do that, no sir."

I could be wrong, but I thought the crutches were partly a work to make him more sympathetic (selling the attack from Earthquake).