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I really liked his SummerSlam match vs. D'Lo Brown and the ladder match vs. Benoit. I enjoyed his WCW run. Haven't been a fan of him since, though. Puts himself over too much (I know I'm stating the obvious there, but it's true.).

Done early, baby... The History of Xtreme Pro Wrestling PART 2 Released by IndyWrestling619 on Friday, September 3, 2004 Exclusive to DeclarationOfIndependents.net. There is no place on Earth that Rob Black was meant to be more than California, and finally – in 1996 – that time arrived, as he staked a home in the Golden West. Yet there was one problem – only weeks into his residency on the West coast, Black was fired from the VCA company and found himself in the same predicament he was in before beginning the filming of his first porn movie, “Tender Loins 1”: absolutely broke. Initially, he turned to his contacts at Adult Video News and set up an interview with Mickey Blanks for a job at Sin City, but Black became too impatient to wait the four days until the interview and instead decided to give Patrick Collin’s Elegant Angel company a call. Rick Masters – who Black directed in his second production, “Cellar Dweller” – introduced the two to one another. Collins eventually gave Black a shot at Elegant Angel as a sales representative, but only after Black rejected Collins’ first offer for one movie per month at $5,000 each (they eventually settled for $10,000 a movie for the same number). Although the first signs of his nonconformist lifestyle came in his Extreme Video movies a few years prior, Rob Black’s reputation as the vilest pornographer in the industry truly began to be shaped when he joined Elegant Angel. The organization presented him with a significantly more public platform to exhibit his work than he possessed while running the relatively small Extreme Video. Upon working his way up to director at Elegant Angel, Black started touching on subjects that many observers (and even other directors) considered too controversial for even the porn industry. For instance, Roger T. Pipe of RogReviews.com wrote during the peak of Black’s career in the late ‘90’s, “Robert Black has picked up the ball in pushing the envelope and has proven that being on the edge is not always better.” Adult entertainment journalists Brad Williams – the moderator of RAME.net (the porn equivalent of wrestling’s RSPW newsgroup) – and Luke Ford both concur with that assessment. Williams stated several years ago on RAME that “Black is going for making sex as ‘dirty and disgusting’ as anyone can imagine,” while Luke Ford described Black several years on the British TV show, “Disinfo,” as directing “the most repellent, vile disgusting, morally troublesome work of which I’m aware.” And rather than deny these claims, Rob Black embraced them, and in fact still does. During the late ’90’s, he wore a necklace that read in tiny letters, “Whoever dies wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.” Black seemed to live by that motto. On the Disinfo TV show, Black concurred with his critics, stating that his productions “are the filthiest of the filth…There's the drug dealer and we're a little above that.” He explained his philosophy for directing porn in the January 1998 issue of AVN: "If I can shock someone, titillate them, arouse them, make them say, 'What is this?' I'm doing my job. Look at how many directors there are, and how many movies come out a year. And if I can be distinguished with my stuff, and have the Internet and the magazines full of my name, then I'm doing my job.” Perhaps Black was doing it too well, though. Many people believe that he has crossed over the line of decency. At one point in 1997, Black – according to the May edition of that year’s AVN – was summoned to the office of Patrick Collins (his boss at Elegant Angel), who “‘politely suggested’ that he scale back on the choking and other violent acts in his productions." Similarly, the reason Black was sent packing from VCA just a few weeks after arriving in California is that he got into a heated argument with its founder, Russell (Russ) Hampshire, because he refused to tone down the violent aspects of his films. And even so, this strategy seemed to work for Black. By late 1997, he was living the good life, smoking smoked three packs of Camel Wide Lights per day (he’s since quit, word has it) and driving a brand-new BMW. He and his then-fiancée, Tricia Devereaux, lived in a half-a-million-dollar home that – according to AVN – was “complete with diving pool, tennis courts and stables – in an 'exclusive, gated community' in nearby Bell Canyon.” And those weren’t even Black’s greatest achievements. The most important thing of all was that he had succeeded in impressing Tom Byron, the same guy who had looked down upon him half a decade before. Byron was none too pleased upon first learning that Elegant Angel had hired Black, since he was already an employee there. However, working alongside one another on various projects on several occasions led to the two finding some common ground, and subsequently, by around late 1996, this unlikely duo had become the best of friends. Byron's other company, Tom Byron Productions, entered into a business relationship with Elegant, which morphed into Extreme Associates in 1998. Elegant Angel employees such as Tiffany Mynx and Van Damage joined Black and Byron in their new Extreme Associates endeavor. According to Lukeford.com – one of the premier sources for up-to-date news on the pornography business – the rumor goes that Black launched Extreme Associates with a $90,000 loan from his father, Dominic. Black has yet to comment on that subject. The years since Extreme Associates was formed is when the aura that porn enthusiasts associate with Rob Black’s name reached its peak. His fame was already on an upswing when he was working for Elegant, but by the time Extreme Associates was formed, the pinnacle of his career was in sight. Extreme – and Rob Black, specifically – gained the reputation of going far and above the content of most other companies, which sparked many critics of Black (such as Luke Ford, John T. Bone, and ex-employee Wanker Wang), but that didn’t seem to faze the Rochester native. Black remained determined to lead Extreme Associates in the right direction, according to his controversial 2001 interview for the PBS “Frontline” series (in which he mounted a challenge to the federal government that came back to haunt him a couple of years later): “I like the challenge of doing something that people on the outside see as taboo. I enjoy the challenge of just making the thing as a whole work, and grow, and thrive, and go. My partner, Tom [byron] – he always says I'm a drama junkie. I thrive on the drama. And at times, I do. Aside from the money, I enjoy – that ... and just that eternal quest to keep going and make it bigger than it is.” When Extreme Associates was launched, Black was going out with Nikki Strassner, his second girlfriend in just as many years. He had previously broken up with Tricia Devereaux in mid-1997, but in late ’98, Nikki and himself followed that same course. At that point, Black began dating one of his Extreme Associates contract girls, Lizzy Borden (real name: Janet Romano). Black and Borden hit things off immediately with one another. In a March 2001 interview with Roger T. Pipe, Borden describes her first encounter with her future husband: “[Porn actor Mike Long a.k.a. Luciano] called me up one night to tell me he was signing a deal with Extreme Associates. I was worried because when I first got into the business, everyone told me never to work for Extreme, never work for Rob Black. We went out celebrating that night and the following Monday he called me to ask me to do a [sexual act] with him for an Extreme movie. I said, ‘Fine, as long as I don't have to meet Rob Black.’ Of course, I get there and the first person I meet is Rob. It turns out that he is just the sweetest guy and I can't understand why everyone hates him.” Whereas Black seemed destined to enter porn from an early age (due in large part to his familial connections to the vocation), Borden just happened to fall into it, more or less. Borden – born on December 20, 1977 in Huntington Beach, CA – looked back on her childhood in an interview with Pipe: “I was very shy and very insecure. I came from a broken family. My stepfather was an alcoholic who was very abusive towards my mother. He didn't accept me. I went through a lot of sh*t.” It took awhile for Borden to develop an identity. During her late teenage years, she held a job at Disneyland, but started feeling “like I had to be a different person just to make friends. People would ask if I was a virgin and I would say, ‘Yes,’ just to fit in. I was afraid of what they would think. I just got sick of being someone other than I was.” With Rob Black, his first direct involvement in the porn industry came when he met Tom Byron. As for Borden, working at a local strip club for about four months led to her meeting a woman named Jill Kelly, who introduced Borden to what she later realized was her calling in life: “I loved it because I didn't have to hide who I was.” She started doing porn under the alias of “Mia Mikels” and didn’t start going by “Lizzy Borden” (a takeoff on 19th century accused murderer Lizzie Borden) until she met Black and was given the name by him. In fact, there’s actually a promo photo Borden did while with XPW, in which she’s posing with a bloody axe in her hands. Borden began her tenure at Extreme Associates as an actress in their porn flicks, but within less than a year of working for the company, she had climbed her way up to the position of director. Contrary to what perennial XPW critic Bob Magee claimed in a 2002 article on PWBTS.com, mid-1999 was the last time she actually performed a sex scene in a movie. From then on, it was all directing Extreme Associates productions for Borden. Everything was going sensational for the new couple and also for Extreme Associates. In 1998, Borden and Byron moved in with Black. By this point, Borden had figured out that she was best off directing films (as opposed to acting in them), and all the while her soon-to-be husband was breaking through the upper echelon of the porn industry. Extreme Associates was emerging as a legitimate alternative in adult entertainment, much like what happened with pro wrestling’s ECW organization during the mid-and-late-‘90’s. Less than a year into its infancy, Extreme Associates won four AVN awards at the January 1999 CES festival, including the much-coveted “Male Performer of the Year” (for Tom Byron). Black and Borden (along with Byron and their other Extreme Associates colleagues) were on their way to redefining pornography, and the rest – as the saying goes – is history… Feedback welcome. The XPW: 5 Years Later web site will be done in a few weeks. No worries about Onita. Lots of never-before-heard stuff about what they were planning to do with him after the proposed Sabu program. Also the real reason his discussions with XPW fell apart (it's not really gone into in Kleinrock's SCU interview). Plenty of stuff on Supreme and Kaos, too.

Less than half a week till part 2 is released, focusing on the rise of Extreme Associates, Rob Black's moving to California, and his past relationships before meeting Lizzy. It will probably be up by the end of the weekend.

... This coming from a guy named tnamark. Took the words right out of my mouth.

I don't wanna get involved in any of the other stuff, but I gotta say - this is, bar absolutely none, the most ridiculous, illogical analogy I have ever read in my life.

What exactly is everybody's problem with Zandig? He's been treating his wrestlers like shit over the past year and a half, and he's using political power to prevent many of them from working in major promotions other than CZW. Sonjay is about the only one he's allowing to do any other major indy gigs.

“Without me in Mick Foley’s book, his book would’ve been as long as his penis.” – Al Snow (January 20, 2004; Trash Talking Radio) “Pepper was near my heart, very near my heart…until I had a bowel movement.” – Al Snow, when asked how Pepper the dog tasted (January 20, 2004; Trash Talking Radio)

http://www.proenigma.com/reqpro/(reqpro.co...ected-Part1.wmv http://www.proenigma.com/reqpro/(reqpro.co...ected-Part2.wmv There's your ROH for the day.

Berk leaving isn't a surprise. He's been on the outs with Zandig for awhile (just like Rebel, Derek Frazier, Acid, Cash, and others), even though he's tried to make it sound like a mutual falling out (it wasn't really...he can't stand Zandig). Good to see AMIL getting booked. They're amazing. I haven't seen Kingston work, but I've heard good things about him, and B-Boy always is a great guy to book newcomers to CZW against (i.e. his match with Excalibur) because he's so versatile in terms of styles.

That's my boy, Luke! Could to see he's getting some big indy gigs. The Pure Title change was really out of the blue, but Walters deserves it. But the Scramble Cage Match...that just sounds absolutely insane.

Chavito (Salvador) Guerrero III Oh, OK. That makes more sense.

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You don't want Dell. Unlike other brands, they put software into the computer that draws upon adware and spyware, making it much more likely for you to get such programs than if you buy any other brand. From what I'm aware, Dell is the only brand that does this, at least to the extensive degree it does.

Don't get a Dell. I have two brand new ones and they suck. That's about the best advice I can give you. Don't get a Dell.

Not a program, but a site - sleazydreams.com

Ahhh, OK. I see now. It is starting to make some sense, like you said. I tried the process through the way the instructions say, and it kinda works - the sound is there, but there's no video in the AVI file (it didn't give WMV for an option for some reason, but that's fine). That's the whole reason I want to transfer it to an AVI file - I need the video for a music video. What it maybe is the Compression dropdown menu - does it matter which one I pick? Listed are Cinepac Codec by Radius, Indeo Video 5.10, Intel Indeo Video R3.2, Intel Indeo Video 4.5, Intel IYUV codec, Microsoft H.261 and 263 Video Codecs, Microsoft RLE, and Microsoft Video 1. Does it matter which one I pick? Do I even have to pick one? I tried it by just leaving it as No Compression and the sound was there, but not the video, and then I tried it with Microsoft Video 1 and the exact same thing happened? Do you have any idea why it's coverting the sound, but not the video? Thanks again for such a quick response. You've been really awesome. I'm sorry I still have some questions. You've been really helpful.

1. What programs can you download to convert RM video files to WMV? I tried using WinAVI Converter and it works pretty well, only it writes WinAVI Converter across the screen on the new video file, and I want to use the clips for a music video, so it won't look too professional. Are there any programs that would to this effectively - keeping the RM files' quality, converting the entire file (Another program I tried had a two minute limit, and then you had to buy it), and not writing something across it. 2. What programs can you download to split RM video files? i.e. make a 43:23 video into like 10 4:00 clips? Thanks in advance to whoever can help!

OK, but couldn't the file be in any folder on my computer? Is there a particular folder to look in, or should I search for it (and if so, what would I type into the search box)? In the diagram, it looks like all hyrogliphycs that make up the file? Would mine look like that, too? Also, do I have to do anything differently since I want to do RM, not RMVB? Do I still write ,rmvb, or do I forget that? Thanks again for the help and suggestion.

Why are they calling him Chavo? That's not his real name, is it?

There has been a lot of speculation over the last few months when or even if Pro-Wrestling WORLD-1 will be running live events again. WORLD-1's original plan was to run monthly three show tours in different states but after the second tour WORLD-1 went into a re-organization to say the least. After disappointing attendence at two of the three shows Steve Corino decided to sell the WORLD-1 assets (W-1 Banners, belts, etc.) to Jack Victory and his investors. Mr. Victory and his investors are now going to create a brand new promotion based out of New Jersey and is planning on running shows in different states but they have decided not to use the WORLD-1 name because they are going to go with a different style then what WORLD-1 was using. His group will have an announcement shortly on their name and dates. The Pro-Wrestling WORLD-1 name will now be property of Pro-Wrestling ZERO-ONE to do with what they want. The WORLD-1 championship belt (currently held by Masato Tanaka), the WORLD-1 Openweight championship (vacant), the PWF heavyweight title belt (vacant), and PWF tag team titles (currently held and defended by Minoru Fujita and Ikuto Hidaka) are now property of ZERO-ONE. There are plans on brining the PWF heavyweight championship into ZERO-ONE in the near future. It is not confirmed but more than likely WORLD-1 will have shows in Tokyo under the NWA and ZERO-ONE banners once a year like 01USA did in 2003 and 2004 but as of right now there are no plans to run shows in the United States. The WORLD-1 website that was on the www.zerooneusa.com server will now be an English version of the Pro-Wrestling ZERO-ONE site. Any WORLD-1 or PWF news will be posted on this site. We apoligize for any confusion and lack of news about Pro-Wrestling WORLD-1 and thank you for taking the time to read this. - www.zerooneusa.com

Wooo, this is complicated. I DLed it and tried it. However, once I do the rmvb thing, there's no RMVB file that I can drag to the Playlist. All it says in the lefthand box is Desktop, then My Computer, then My Network Places, and when I click on MC or MNP, those folders open up. And in the righthand box where hte RMVB file apparently should be, there's nothing. Am I doing something wrong? This is what it looks like for me now: http://www.geocities.com/xpw5yearslater/eo_video.JPG Also, what do I have to do differently since I want to do RM, not RMVB? Do I do anything differently? I typed in the ,RMVB thing...is that only for working with RMVB, or RM, too? Lastly, these instructions don't seem to cover what I do to actually convert a particular file. Like go to Browse, then locate the file. Am I missing something? And don't take this the wrong way, but is there a simpler program one can use to do this? This program seems really complicated. Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated. Sorry about all these clarification questions.

WOOO, looks like a ripoff of XPW's Carlito Montana. Very entertaining segment, I must say (I just dl'ed it). Hopefully he can deliver in the ring...

Austin, IMO. Flair's close, though.

I think he gives Vamp and New Jack legal advice, which both guys need. I imagine he helped Vamp out with his divorce problems awhile back, and New Jack obviously needs help, LOL.

I used to dislike Bob Barnett a lot and still do to a fair degree, but I've come to realize that he's very knowledgeable, and most of the time his "sources" are pretty damned accurate. I don't have much doubt when it comes to this, because as we all know - he was right all along about Feinstein.