LucharesuFan619

Whatever dude, it's not worth the arguing.

I dunno, man...house show attendance is WAY down. Merchandising on the other hand is doing very good from what I gather, I dunno if you can say they're turning profits through and through...and I'm not saying that TNA ever did make straight and out profits because it's well known they didn't.

WWE is losing money from some avenues and gaining from others.

It was the first time I ever watched it on TV besides a tape of a past event. I don't get their PPVs so this was my first opportunity to watch TNA.

YES, Dames, YES!!!! You make me proud.

PuroresuFan.com and IchibanPuroresu.com are good sites to check out for puroresu info.

I'll have two awesome XPW music videos posted within the next few weeks. Both are match compilations (music videos of a particular XPW match). Downloaders will get a good variety, as one is a bloody death match and the other is a high flying, technical classic.

I'm kinda an on and off fan of them. Sometimes their booking is real good (such as the buildup to the six-man cage match with Punk, Candido, and Douglas) and sometimes their booking is downright bad, so it kinda depends on what month it is whether I'm a fan or not. My favorite's gotta be M-Dogg & J-Pro and also Hamrick & Smothers.

to the guy 2 posts above me - PWSpyware is the sarcastic name for PWinsider

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Nope not yet. I've been real busy lately with school, but I should have some updates over the next month. Thanks again for the interest!

Papadon & Havok

http://www.prowrestling.com/news.php?id=15101/articles/news Michael Moody, director of the great 101 Reasons Not To Be A Pro Wrestler DVD, sent word today that one of the stars of his documentary is now threatening to sue the director. While Moody is sure that there are no grounds for the lawsuit, he is at this time un-willing to release the name of the wrestler in question. Everybody in the documentary signed a “release form” (assumedly prohibiting any kind of legal issue, such as this, from the comments that are released on the DVD), which has basically got Moody’s back covered. It was made clear, however, that the wrestler in question is not ‘Babi Slymm’, the wrestler who it was reported last week actually physically provoked Moody after taking a series of questions he wasn’t really ready for, and didn’t specifically want to answer. All part of being involved in a documentary dishing the dirt and looking at the negative side of pro wrestling, really. In related news, the second print of the 101 Reasons DVD is almost out of stock. It is imagined that if sales stay steady through until the weekend, all copies will be sold out by Sunday at the latest. With this news going public, it could be marginally sooner, so it’s probably best to get your copy sooner rather than later to avoid missing out. It’s available from the official website, over at http://www.hollymoodentertainment.com/order.htm

There was speculation that Moody getting attacked by the wrestler was a work. I dunno, it very well could've been, I don't know, but in this article the author appears to state it as if it was pretty real. It's by Alex Marvez who is a wrestling journalist. Credit: Alex Marvez and The Scripps-Howard News Service "101 Reasons Not to be a Pro Wrestler" costs $19.99 and can be ordered at www.HollymoodEntertainment.com. The DVD was produced by Michael Moody. Michael Moody is a pro wrestling fan, although you might not realize it from the title of a newly released DVD. "101 Reasons Not to be a Pro Wrestler" is a three-hour documentary featuring behind-the-scenes interviews with some of the industry's top independent performers. Moody, who produced and directed the project, said his original intention was to focus largely upon the industry's drug issues and the lack of unionization. But while those issues are extensively addressed, the documentary turned into much more than Moody originally anticipated. Wrestlers come across as personally troubled (Joanie "Chyna" Laurer and Jerome "New Jack" Young), clueless (Sean O'Haire and Tylene "Major Gunns" Buck), guarded (Rikishi and Diamond Dallas Page) and brutally honest (Vampiro and Konnan) when addressing topics such as backstage politics and the impact of the Internet on the industry. "This is not an anti-wrestling documentary," Moody said. "I thought of the title editing one day and just listening to everybody saying all the negative stuff about the business. The majority of the documentary is negative, so I ran with it." Moody, 25, said the majority of interviews were conducted in September 2004, with some performers paid to appear and others speaking gratis. More than two-dozen subjects are broached and feature a wide array of responses combined with other adult-themed footage, like Laurer appearing heavily inebriated and Young working a disturbingly violent hardcore match against someone who looks like a senior citizen. "This gives insight into the business where people can see what wrestlers deal with and the struggles they go through," said Moody, who lives in Arcadia, Calif. "They get into a lot of information that you're not going to see watching television or a Vince McMahon documentary. You're going to learn how drugs influence the business, how wrestlers can't get unionized and how the industry has crumbled when there is only one place to work (i.e. World Wrestling Entertainment)." The documentary already hasn't gone over well with one on-camera participant. Moody has posted handheld footage on his Web site of himself being slugged last weekend by Tony "Babi Slymm" Drake backstage at an independent show in California. Moody, who admits he "survived the punch and ran like a little girl," said he is contemplating whether to pursue legal action against Drake. "I think he just didn't like being associated with people talking badly about the business," Moody said. "101 Reasons Not to be a Pro Wrestler" costs $19.99 and can be ordered at www.HollymoodEntertainment.com

I love Franky the Mobster. He's my new favorite wrestler, second only to...Beef Wellington.

CZW releases its DVDs on nationwide chains...Mike should know that better than anybody.

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At least he lasted longer than Brian Christopher's second go-around...

A whole bunch of matches from XPW eventually took their toll on him. He had gotten about 3 concussions in about 6 years of wrestling non-XPW indys, and then in 3 years of wrestling for XPW, he got about 14 concussions. So that right there shows how much guys put their body on the line in XPW.

That's right, but there was lots more to it than that. The fight was what resulted from the breaking of the script.

Ron Killings

The one and only "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels has been confirmed to contribute, and I've also just about confirmed with a former-NWA World Heavyweight Champion (whose name will be released shortly).

This is my second or third music video, depending on if I should count a past video I did which was really more of a trailer than a music video. This highlights Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. CM Punk for the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title. It took less than 24 hours, so I'm pretty pround of it, and it's about 10 times better than I thought it'd be. If you download it, please leave some feedback as to your thoughts or some type of rating (i.e. out of 10). I just watched it for the first time and can't believe I made it, let alone in sub-24 hours. Next on my MV agenda is part one of the XPW As You've Never Seen It Before tribute series, unless this gets a surprisingly good reaction in which case I'll try to make another match highlight video before that. Thanks for downloading and enjoy. ++http://www.megaupload.com/?d=398YGB4X ++http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39L26UQ2 ++http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2QDIFK6QBO1FD2Q8RA1S9MSFJT ++http://s57.yousendit.com/d.php?id=3DNQTVTAEQW481UGIB5UE2Q4G4

I see what you're saying and I understand what you're getting at, and you're right in one respect (considering how the thing was portrayed). I don't wanna get too much into it because it's a big drawing point to the retrospective, but for the record, hiring M-Dogg and Josh wasn't Shane's decision. He had nothing to do it and was against it. Same goes for Justice Pain. Shane actually talked specifically about Pain which I'll elaborate on in the articles. But hell, here's exactly what he said about the concept of luring talent away from other companies - "I never pursued anybody. I don’t do business that way. If Rob did, he certainly never made me aware of it."

Uhhh, yeah, whatever you say, dude...