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Weird. Don't thing I've ever seen him do it before. So, it's like the Swinging Noose, only not off of the ropes?

What's Red's "Red Alert" move?

Cool pics. Yo, I'm NOT the only person who thinks that Rebel looks A LOT like Simon Cowell, am I?

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Triple H Key wins: 1. Hell In the Cell (No Way Out 2000): retires Cactus Jack in a match that everyone thought he was going to lose and didn't have a chance in. 2. WrestleMania 2000: first guy to survive three others and first heel to retain since Deisel 3. Royal Rumble '00: one of the best matches either man has ever had. Cactus may've returned, but he convinced a lot of people he was that damn good. Other notable wins: Iron Man Match at Judgment Day 00, over Y2J at WrestleMania, first title win over Mankind on RAW, HBK at Armageddon, Kevin Nash at Badd Blood, Austin at No Way Out Key losses: 1. vs. Goldberg at Unforgiven: These guys had a real-life feud and in their first one on one match (at least I think it was their first), HHH did the job. That's a lot of bragging rights gone down the drain. 2. HBK at Summerslam - sure we all knew HBK was going to win, but still...HHH had a lot of bragging rights on the line vs. his mentor, and he lost. 3. Hogan at Backlash - Hogan's first major win since his return, as he had lost to Rock at WM. This made HHH take a step back for a bit. Other key losses: Rock at Backlash 2000, Kevin Nash at Judgment Day, Undertaker at WM17, Goldberg at Survivor Series, Benoit at WMXX Defining moment: beating Foley on two straight PPVs, and then pinning him at WM

Found this old interview with Wade Keller on RSPW... http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&...a.lm.com&rnum=2 Apparently, there's a part two to it somewhere, also. K:In terms of your career, are you pretty happy with the way things have gone for you in terms of bookings internationally and domestically? S:I'm happy, but I'm not satisfied. K:In what ways are you happy? S:I'm happy because I don't have to take a booking if I don't want to because I have one to back it up. I can get the kind of money I want now because if they don't give it to me I can take another booking and probably get it. I don't have to take a booking if I don't feel like it. I'm taking every booking I can get, but I like the freedom of not having to. Before I felt so pressured I had to take it. Now I just feel pressure, that everybody's watching me. K:In what ways aren't you satisfied. S:I want to make more money, of course. Probably get something national. K: Would you be interested in working for WWF or WCW anytime soon if the offers were right? Or do you have some things you still want to accomplish before going with one of the big two? S:I talked to somebody last Monday [This interview was conducted August 9, 1994] from WWF. They still want to change my name. They didn't say anything about money. They said I'd make a lot of money, but they still want to change my name so I said "When you guys decide you don't want to change my name, I'd probably come" K: Why is keeping your name so important? S: The name itself I like. I like it because now I feel it's my name. Sheik gave it to me, but I built it so I don't want to sell out yet. If I can't find work, then yes maybe I will sell out, but right now I can find work. I'm not making a million dollars a year, or even close, or even one hundred thousand a year, but I think if I stick with it I will - on my terms. K: Does the WWF want to keep your image or gimmick but change the name? S: I'm not even sure if they want to keep the gimmick. K: Lightning Kid changed to 123 Kid and kept his image the same. WOuld you be willing to slightly change the name so they could at least trademark it but it would still be something similar to Sabu? S: Yeah, yeah. If they wanted to call me Zabu or something. Even Sabu with something at the end of it. They didn't go into detail. They just said they wanted to change it. They had no idea what they were...they probably do, but they didn't want to tell me. They said they didn't have any idea what it would be, but they would definitely be changing it. I told them I didn't want to come yet. [Anyone know why they couldn't leave it at Sabu and still trademark it???] K: What about WCW? S: They don't ever call me. [Once again, a shining testimony to the infinite wisdom that is WCW] K: Do yo uever call them? S: No. I hear it's a bad time now because of Hogan because I guess they're not giving out no money now. K: Earlier you said you were feeling pressure. In what ways are you feeling pressure and is that good or bad pressure? S: The way it was before, when I would have an average match as Sabu, people would rave and go "Wow! That's great." Now when I'm having what I feel are good matches they've seen me enough to where they're saying they want more. SO my good matches are below average now, I think. K: Do you feel a pressure to satisfy the fans in various towns who are there every time to see you or are you satisfied to put on good matches for the vast majority who don't see every match and aren't that critical? S: I'm trying...I'm...I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just trying to work harder every time, you know what I mean? I'm trying to please everyone and I can't. K: Are yo ucoming to the point where you're telling those people who always want to see you improve on the last performance that you are going to give them a good show, but not always exceed expectations and improve 10 percent every time? S: Well, I'm trying to improve 10 percent every time to please those people, but eventually I'm not going to be able to. The people who have been seeing me a lot are saying "Well, that match wasn't as good as the last match you had" or something like that. I don't believe that. I think the last match I had with (Chris) Benoit was pretty good, but I'm sure some people probably don't think it was. K: When you talk about wanting to improve 10 percent every time, does along with that improvement necissarily include doing more dangerous things or does it simply mean getting a better variety of things that aren't necessarily dangerous? S: Both. Not necessarily something more dangerous, but something original. Every time I go to ECW I try to bring in a new move. Same with Japan. Every time I make a tour of Japan, the same thing. I've still got about eight moves I haven't debuted yet [DRROOOOLLL!!!!! ] because I'm trying to stay ahead of everybody else, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'm not just wrestling for myself, I want the people to see it. I don't want them to see so much they can't remember it. K: Who are some of the opponents you feel fortunate to have had the chance to wrestle or learned from wrestling them? S: I can't explain it. I know what you mean. I've learned something every time I wrestle someone like Chris Benoit or Too Cold Scorpio or Terry FUnk. Every time I wrestle Terry FUnk I feel I've learned something. Or I'm closer to where I want to be. I've learned from every match lately, but I can't really explain what I've learned. K: Do you feel fortunate you are able to wrestle as wide a variety of opponents as you have lately? A lot of wrestlers, especially in the major promotions, wrestle the same guy for two or three months and then another guy for two or three months? S: Yeah, I love it. I can't believe I get to wrestle that wide range of guys. I'm very fortunate for that. K: Are you concerned about the risks you take in the ring? Do you ever feel you shouldn't have done a move after you do one or you should just cool it a little bit? Do you ever regret a move that injures you or do you take it as a challenge to come back and do it again and not get injured? S: I've had both feelings. I mean sometimes I go "Why did i do that? I could have ended the match without doing that." Terry Funk said one time after I wrestled the Lightning Kid and I tried to do a Frankensteiner and he was supposed to reverse it into a powerbomb and it kind of looked like it almost broke my neck, he goes "You could have had that whole match and you could have cut out that spot and nobody would have even noticed." Sometimes I do get that feeling, that I could have done the whole match and not done certain moves that hurt me and nobody would've noticed. K: Do you believe that if you go to the WWF and they invest television time in you that by definition you're goin to have to tone down a little bit? They don't want their investment in you with you having to sit out three to six months with a broken leg. Will you have to be more routine? S: Yeah. Well, no. I'm not goint to be a routine wrestler. I refuse to do that. I refuse the hiptoss, armdrag, leapfrog, dropkick style - what everybody does. [Guess we can't look forward to any classic matches like Ricky Steamboat eh? ] I refuse to do that. But I can adjust my style so it's less dangerous, of course. But just to make them happy. I can ease in my dangerous stuff without them noticing. K: Would you feel a responsibility to satisfy your commitments over the long run by not necessarily going after the table every night where you might break a rib for the sake of lasting longer? S: Okay, this is my plan. My plan is to do this stuff as long as I can, until I get into a major promotion. I'm going to keep doing this dangerous stuff for at least another two years, then I'm gonna ease it down to where hopefully I'll be over enough to where my little things will get as big of a pop as my big things. Like, the other night when I wrestled Benoit, he kicked the shit out of me like a heel. When I made small comebacks, I tore the house down. Instead of having to bust the table to tear the house down, that wasn't important to the people. I still did it only because I wanted to, not because I had to. I think in a couple of years, if I keep this up, I can slow it down and I don't think the people will notice. Right now the people who haven't seen me who haven't heard of me, I want them to see me and say "Yeah, he is as good as they say". Instead of saying "He isn't as good as I thought he was. " I don't want to let them down yet. I'll let them down slowly. Not let them down, but I mean ease down my intensity. K: You mean to extend your career not to rest on your laurels? S: I want to wrestle 20 more years, until I'm 50 like Terry Funk. I've always thought like that. I never went out there and thought maybe tongiht would be my last match. I never think that. Even if I did break a leg, I could still work. I'd make myself work. WHy not? I'm hungry still. I'm as hungry as I've been since I started. K: What's your situation in Japan right now? S: I'm going back August 25th. They still like me. K: Are you still satisfied working for FMW? S: I'm not 100 percent satisfied. I will never turn my back on them because they made me money when no one else would. They've given me the opportunity to do anyting I want in that ring. Most people say you can't do this and you can't do that. When they saw me the first time they said do whatever I wanted. I did and they loved it. I plan to be with them the rest of my career if possible. K: Do you sometimes feel left out not being able to be in one of the major two promotions in Japan and wrestling some of the guys you'd like to on a regular basis? S: Yeah, I feel that, but then that's just selfish on my part. They gave me a break, so I'm going to give them a break until they don't want me no more. I've been offered a lot of money to go to New Japan. The money sounds really great, but the double-cross doesn't sound real good. The way I could go is if I double-cross. They're (FMW) not going to let me go. If I go, it would be a double-cross. K: FMW is not going to look at you leaving like Jim Cornette looks at Brian Lee joining the WWF, as a natural progression and an opportunity for you? S: It would be totally different. It would be like me going to the competition. K: Who are some of the guys in Japan you'd most like to wrestle? S: Mike Awesome, Goto, Onita, Dr. Luther, and Judge Dred since he's there now. K: How about some of the guys outside of FMW you'd like to wrestle? S: LIger, Samurai. I'd like to wrestle Benoit in Japan. I think we'd get a better reaction in Japan. Ultimate Dragon. I'd like to wrestle him. I'd like to wrestle Stan Hansen. He'd probably kick the shit out of me, but I'd like to wrestle him. (Laughs) K: Are you satisfied with your role and your placement in ECW in the last few months? Are you happy with your progression and the progression of the company? S: Yeah, I don't mind it. I guess it's okay. K: You don't sound entirely enthusiastic. S: Well, because they put me back with Shane again and they keep trying to put me in tag matches. I'm not letting them. I don't want to be a tag wrestler. Because with my gimmick, especially the way they brign me to the ring out on the gurney and all that, how can I stand on the apron and wait for a tag? But then they want me to break character, they say "The fans are smart here" They say we're wrestling for the hardcores, the 'smart-marks' or whatever they call them. Why let the people know they're smart? I still say treat it like they don't know. I'm not really excited about the way they're using me, but they're treating me good otherwise, I guess. K: Are you satisfied with the way your character is portrayed now, tweening with the fans cheering you even though you haven't changed your style? S: I like it. It's not like I'm kissing up to them and trying to get them to cheer me. It's just happening that way. I like it, but if they didn't cheer me, I'd like it just as much. I'm just glad they like my wrestling. K: Do you feel a similar loyalty to ECW as you do FMW? S: No. My loyalty to ECW comes up in December. If they can't give me more matches per month or more money - I'm not trying to pressure them, but I'm not getting any younger and neither is my mother. I want to take care of my mother better. SO the only way I can do that is to make more money. If they can't give me more money by December, then I think I might go somewhere in January. I talked to Onita and I told him I want to take a year absence from Japan and I will never return for another company. If I'm gone for five years, I wouldn't return for another company until I come back to FMW. I want to take a whole year off because I think when I come back I could make a bigger impact in Japan. Plus, I want to take a year off to build up my name in the States.

Who was the runner up in the 2001 (or was it 2002? I forget...) PWF Legacy Cup Tournament, eventually losing to CHRISTOPHER DANIELS.

They'll ban him. Meanie's on really good terms with Mark Nulty, Crimon Mask I, etc.

When will this week's Lazarush be put online?

How the hell do you have access to all these satellite feeds? They're awesome.

WCWDVD.com? WTF?

Ahhh, OK. Sorry about that. Well, they were good times while they lasted.

And didn't they hype Ruckus and Damian Adams for the show? I thought they were going to go one on one or something, after that fall they took at one of the past shows?

Who wrestled HOMICIDE two nights ago at USA Pro...

Me. It's coming. It's coming. I got interviews with Vic Grimes, GQ Money, Leroy the Ring Crew Guy, Pogo the Clown, and others coming soon, too. But it's coming in the next few weeks. It's going to be in article form, though, about CZW's current status. It'll have lots of comments from Rebel. Ya, that's true. Plus, guys like CJ O Doyle don't really work for other feds, so we wouldn't get to see his greatness anywhere else. So, there's a benefit to 3PW running, I guess.

Rebel is so cool in real life. Every other word out of his mouth is the F word, it seems, but he's really polite - please, thank you, etc. And he's really funny. He shoots straight from the hip. No bullshit.

Hopefully. The sooner, the better. The only 3PW show my friend ever went to he got in for free at. It was like the XPW stories. Nobody even checked if he had a ticket.

It should, especially considering how many times she's been penetrated...

Jasmin is a sh*thead. Always has been, always will be. She's as unprofessional as they come.

Whose Vader Bomb has now been adopted as the finishing move of Suba of JAPW.

CREDIT: NWATNA.com 05.13.04 | The toughest test of A.J. Styles's second reign as NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion will be Wednesday's (5/19/04) Deadly Draw match with three challengers in one night for the fighting champion. NWA Director Of Authority Vince Russo's solution to end the chaos revolving around Style's title is an innovative bout where Raven, Ron "The Truth" Killings and "Wildcat" Chris Harris will draw numbers one through three. The wrestler who draws number one faces A.J. for five minutes. If there isn't a winner, wrestler number two makes it a three way match and potentially we could see a four way bout with the NWA Championship up for grabs. The American Dream Dusty Rhodes makes his in-ring return by joining James Storm in a Bunkhouse Brawl against Kid Kash and Dallas. The best of three series pitting Sonjay Dutt and Amazing Red concludes with the winner getting an X Division Title shot at Frankie Kazarian. We'll preview the May 26th World X Cup with Team AAA from Mexico facing Team Japan in a 6 man tag team match. And, Team NWA captain Jerry Lynn puts his captaincy and team position at stake against Bobby Rude. If Lynn wins, he gets 5 minutes with Team Canada's leader Scott D'Amore, but if he loses he's off the X Cup squad. We invite your questions and comments for Mike Tenay at [email protected]. Please include your hometown and state (and country if outside the U.S.). The volume of mail doesn't allow us to answer each question or reply personally. Click on "Interactive" at the top of our home page to access previous "Ask The Professor" columns. Let's go to the electronic mailbag: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: GARY MARCUM Where are Steve Corino and Mike Awesome? Who was El Leon? ANSWER: Corino just wrestled on the May 8th Hustle III event at the Yokohama Arena in Japan in a loss to Dusty Rhodes. Awesome is scheduled to appear for Jersey All Pro Wrestling on June 5 as Vader's tag partner against Samoa Joe and Dan Maff in Rahway, New Jersey. El Leon unmasked on the TNA PPV as Apollo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: SHAWN (GILBERTVILLE, MASS.) Will your TV deal with FoxSportsNet be a two hour or one hour show? ANSWER: As we announced Wednesday (5/12/04) on the PPV, Impact, our new one hour show debuts Friday, June 4, on FoxSportsNet at 3 p.m. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: TIM SMART (ST. LOUIS, MO.) Will TNA ever do a national tour. It would be my dream to see TNA live. ANSWER: No dates to announce yet, but I hear that live arena events are a possiblity for later this year. Stay tuned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: SIMON ATKINS (NSW, AUSTRALIA) What's the relationship between TNA's Amazing Red and WWE's Rey Misterio? I see them both do each others moves. ANSWER: Yes, it's pretty obvious that Red's in-ring style is heavily influenced by Misterio. But they aren't related. A very similiar question was asked by RCHASE619. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: JEREMY PEATROSS I'm really interested in who the members of Team Japan will be for the World X Cup? ANSWER: It's primarily a team from All Japan with Mitsu Hirai Jr. (Nobukazu Hirai), Taichi Ishikari and Ryuji Hijikata joining Nosawa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: MATT WEINSTEIN (NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.) Was there a wrestler named Moondog Moretti? Was he one of the Moondogs? ANSWER: Yes and no. Ed Moretti was recently honored at the Cauliflower Alley Club banquet in Las Vegas, Nevada. He grew up in the Bay Area as a huge fan of Roy Shires Cow Palace Wrestling. He was a solid performer in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. He paid tribute to his idol Lonnie Mayne by choosing the nickname "Moondog". Moretti is still involved in the business with Portland Wrestling in Oregon. But, no he was not part of the Moondogs tag team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: ALDRICH (CALIFORNIA) When will Impact air on the West Coast? ANSWER: 3 p.m. every Friday on FoxSportsNet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: TYLER JENNE Where is Sean O'Haire? ANSWER: O'Haire lost to Hiroshi Tanahashi on New Japan's May 3rd Tokyo Dome event. Similiar question from RYAN (ABBOTSFORD, B.C. CANADA). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: DIEGO SANCHEZ (SANTIAGO DE COIMPOSTELA, SPAIN) I just want to tell you how great the TNA product is. I have read every single one of your columns on the website and I'm a big fan of your announcing work. Why does everyone keep calling CMLL by the name EMLL. CMLL stands for CONSEJO MUNDIAL de LUCHA LIBRE. ANSWER: EMLL stands for EMPRESSA MEXICANA de la LUCHA LIBRE and is basically interchangeable with CMLL. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: MIKE (NEW YORK) Can you rattle off the names of some of the Doink The Clowns? ANSWER: Matt Borne, Steve Keirn, Steve Lombardi and Ray Apolo among others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: MICHAEL MCCARTHY Did Abyss wrestle under any other names in WWE or WCW? ANSWER: No. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: ARBOK947 Where is Mickey Jay? Where was the first TNA PPV? ANSWER: I just saw the former WCW referee at last month's Cauliflower Alley event. He lives in Key West, Florida and occasionally referees. His most recent work was with MLW. The first TNA PPV was June 19, 2002, in Huntsville, Alabama. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: CHRIS (SPOKANE, WASHINGTON) I haven't missed one single TNA show. What happened to Steve "Mongo" McMichael? ANSWER: McMichael is a radio broadcaster for his former team the NFL Chicago Bears.

I saw one XPW match of his from Go Funk Yourself against Pogo...it was terrible, and it didn't seem to be because of that worthless sack of shit Pogo either. Sure, he dragged down the rating, but all Nosawa did was...guess. Yep, that's right...DROPKICKS! If the man is this great worker that you claim him to be, then why doesn't he do at least something OTHER than a fucking basement dropkick or a knife-edge chop in TNA? Ya, the Pogo match was crappy. Hell, it sucked, like you said. However, if I were to pick his worst match ever in XPW, that was definitely it. Almost any other match he had in XPW I can recommend checking out. Kaos blew up with him at Free Fall, but it was still a solid match, IMO. He and Kaos and Psychosis had a slow-paced, but solid match at NYR2. I really liked his match w/ Ebessan vs. Mexico's Most Wanted at Rapture and his King of the Death Match Tournament 2001 match vs. Johnny Webb. He had a pretty good match with Dynamite D at Redemption, too. His CZW match with Nick Berk was pretty good, also. But the Pogo match was definitely his worst match ever in XPW. I'm actually talking to Pogo later tonight for an interview, and I'll ask him what it was like working with Nosawa, since they speak different languages. I haven't seen much of his TNA work, beyond the Super X Cup matches he had. I don't know - maybe he's dumb and doesn't realize the exposure he can get if he works hard on TNA shows. He seems the opposite of Juvi. Works hard on other shows but sucks on TNA, whereas Juvi mails it in most of the time on other shows but works well in TNA. If you want a Best of Comp of Nosawa and Mitsunobu Kikuzawa's (Ebessan) best matches in Japan, PM me I can hook you up with someone who sells them for a good price. EDIT: He also had a really good match with Tracy Smothers in XPW, which had ungodly heat thanks to Smothers. It's ultra hard to find, though, so don't even bother looking.

Never heard've the Lethal Ride, but the Lethal Injection (it's also called the Lethal Driver, sometimes) is a Tajiri-style Back-Mounted Octopus into a Head Drop. EDIT: Markingout, did you ever find out those AMIL moves?

Nosawa is fantastic. You really gotta get a hold of his MLW, XPW, and FMW work, and also his CZW work, to appreciate him fully. His TNA stuff doesn't do him justice.

That's great that they got a plug on such a major show. That's gotta bring nothing but increased ratings. The question is how much. But that's a great thing that he plugged them.