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I don't know what you're talking about there. Would you mind explaining that? He is obviously talking about Steve Austin refusing to give Owen Hart a push when many felt it was time for Owen to get a run around late 1998 but because of the neck injury, Austin never accepeted what Owen did to him and wouldn't let Owen get pushed so they gave owen the blazer gimmick and the rest is sick sad history. Austin had nothing to do with it. Owen wasn't pushed and was given the Blazer gimmick because he refused to do a sexual storyline with Debra. BTW, the Blazer was going to be Intercontinental Champ the night Owen died.

Led Zeppelin's label "Swan Song" had Bad Company on it. They were pretty successful and not overly offensive.

Dude, "Fall To Pieces" isn't that bad, you're right, for a normal band. But I can't believe the talent in that band somehow produced that musical abortion.

Structure is something required by simple minds.

You wanted to see a wrestler die right in front of you? Shame on you....... I'd say Foley/Austin from Over The Edge '98.

The post Mania 14 Raw where they teased Austin-McMahon in Philly. I was there live, and it was probably the best WWE show I have seen.

Exactly. If anything, they've always respected each other, except for a little spat a couple years ago when Bret praised Hogan and Warrior took offense.

And so it begins.......

Was it Foley-Rock? I know Angle-Benoit had a "submission" match at a PPV.

Hey Paulie, why don't you try getting RVD a main event spot instead of bringing crackheads into SD. I dunno why I found that ironic, but I did. Good thing I'm not the only one. Candido though is past it to be a real cruiserweight threat....or anything for that matter. I don't follow wrestlers ages, but he's gotta be getting up their in years, and from what I've heard recently, he's not in the best physical condition. I haven't seen him work since he was in WCW, but I have heard he is tearing it up in the Jersey independents these days. If Guerrero and Regal could make the most out of their respective second or third chances, why not give Candido a shot? After he is retired, he could help book things as well.

I dunno.....Led Zeppelin?

Yeah but Warrior is right once again. How much longer did it take Bret to make the kind of money Warrior made after what? Like 3-4 years in the business?

Just because VR is probably the best rock around right now, that still doesn't mean it is anything more then average.

The interview was rambling, but that was Warrior's style. He still got big ass pops for every nonsensical sentence he said. There was still money to be made with Warrior/Goldberg, Warrior/Bret, Warrior/Sting, and about ten other combinations I don't feel like typing out.

But aren't submit and surrender the exact same thing?

I'm just starting to feel bad for the guy. It is clear he has deep seeded emotional problems, and fear of failure of any kind just terrifies the shit out of him. All this media backlash is just going to keep him away longer.

Silent Bob: [to Holden] So there's me an' Amy, and we're all inseparable, right? Just big time in love. And then about four months in, I ask about the ex-boyfriend. Dumb move, I know, but you know how it is - you don't really want to know, but you just have to... stupid guy bullshit. Anyway she starts telling me all about him - how they dated for years, lived together, her mother likes me better, blah, blah, blah - and I'm okay. But then she tells me that a couple times, he brought other people to bed with them - ménage a tois, I believe it's called. Now this just blows my mind. I mean, I'm not used to that sort of thing, right? I was raised Catholic. Jay: Saint Shithead. [silent Bob backhands him. Jay raises his fist as if to strike] Silent Bob: Do something. Silent Bob: [to Holden] So I get weirded out, and just start blasting her, right? This is the only way I can deal with it - by calling her a slut, and telling her that she was used - I mean, I'm out for blood I want to hurt her - because I don't know how to deal with what I'm feeling. And I'm like "What the fuck is wrong with you?" and she's telling me that it was that time, in that place, and she didn't do anything wrong, so she's not gonna apologize. So I tell her it's over, and I walk. Jay: Fucking-A. Silent Bob: No, idiot. It was a mistake. I wasn't disgusted with her, I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small - like I'd lacked experience, like I'd never be on her level or never be enough for her or something. And what I didn't get was that she didn't care. She wasn't looking for that guy anymore. She was looking for me, for the Bob. But by the time I realized this, it was too late, you know. She'd moved on, and all I had to show for it was some foolish pride, which then gave way to regret. She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away... [silent Bob lights a cigarette] Silent Bob: So I've spent every day since then chasing Amy... [takes a drag from his smoke] Silent Bob: So to speak.

So in other words, only mentally healthy well-adjusted people are depressed? That's a VERY jaded view of this world. Good. Always have low expectations, that way you will never be disappointed. And you'll never get to the stars either. No one made their fortune in this world by setting low expectations Money's not important to me.

Hilarious stuff.

Has that aired on TV yet? I remembe reading that there would be one, but I haven't heard when it'll be on. It was supposed to debut today actually, but was delayed until June 30th for reasons unspecified.

"Christ, you overcompensate for what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can just waltz in here and do our jobs. You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic and important than it really is. You work at a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add! I work at a shitty video store, badly as well. That guy Jay's got it right, man. He's got no delusions about what he does. Us, we like to think that we're so much more advanced than the people that come in here everyday to buy paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?"-Randal

Supposedly one a year after the first one drops, and nonstop touring to promote them. Time will tell........

I'd watch Smackdown for Candido.

FLYNN: Ultimately, obviously, WCW gets absorbed by WWF. It fails. WARRIOR: Yeah, as soon as I got there I realized it was falling apart. It was inevitable. FLYNN: Why did it fail? WARRIOR: Bottom line is nobody was in charge. Bischoff—as much as he was credited for rebuilding and reinvigorating WCW when they were happening—while I was there, he literally ran from the responsibilities of the job. I don’t know if it was anxiety or what. But he had this thing about “spontaneity” as he would say, and there was no advance preparation. You couldn’t reach him all week. About an hour and a half before live show-time, Bischoff and his “yes” guys—all of them playing favorites for their own buddies—would get together and start deciding, then, what to do. It was erratic and destructive, shooting from the hip like that. Somebody has to be in charge overall. At WCW, at that time, every talent did whatever they wanted to. There has to be a chief in charge of sorts. Someone who makes it clear what the hierarchy of talent is—who goes over, who shines, how talent is going to come off in the programs, on the TV. In WWF, that happened. In WCW, everybody went out and did what they wanted to do regardless of their ability to sell tickets or where they stood on the talent roster. If I’m in the ring and I’m punching at a guy and he doesn’t want to sell or take bumps, yet in the next segment he’s selling for his bottom-of-the-card buddy, like he’s trying to stand on banana peels, it looks ridiculous. A guy has to know his spot and work it. Too many there that were middle-card guys didn’t know they were—nobody acting with authority told them. In the end it’s about making money and in the beginning someone with authority has to lay it out about how a talent is getting used, let others know, in an essence, the investment being made and how that investment is to be treated—come off, be portrayed in the ring. Say what you want, and others can think whatever they will—and naturally the business has changed in so many ways since then, but when I went over there in ’98, Ultimate Warrior was a Main-Eventer and I can assure that is the kind of investment they made. My first 15 minutes in the ring, after another long, long absence, proved that beyond any reasonable doubt. It was a launching pad WCW could have used to take Ultimate Warrior to a whole other level. But they didn’t want to do the work, put the time in. They were already convinced reaching for the lowest, degenerate level of creativity was where it was at. And as much as I was willing to give it whatever it would have took, you need a whole team of people behind you. FLYNN: You haven’t wrestled since then. Has anyone approached you to come back since then, like the Jarrett outfit? WARRIOR: Yeah, when they first started up they did—others too, mostly dreamers. I spoke with both Jeff and his dad. They, the Jarretts and others, always present themselves like they think I’m sitting at home drooling for a chance to charge at the ring and that I should be grateful that they called, like, allowing me an opportunity to do so. Blows me away. Of course, that is how most other guys still working, outside WWE, are. They don’t know anything else, are afraid to go out and attempt anything else and get all their self worth from being in a ring, staying part of the circus of it all. They don’t have any other means of making a living for themselves so when anybody calls and says jump they say how high and when their feet hit they ask about how far to bend over. This type of attitude they have though, these promoters, like the Jarretts had when they called, creates a problem when it comes to negotiating with me. This has contributed to many mischaracterizations. They get offended when they realize I know how valuable the Ultimate Warrior is and if they want him he isn’t going to come cheaply. They don’t get away without discussing those details with me like they do with others, which is to say they don’t really discuss them in detail at all with others. It’s like, “Hey, we have a ring set up and are going to put your face on TV for a little while, come on down and we’ll figure what we’ll pay you afterwards.” That’s enough for most guys looking for work not doing anything else. That doesn’t work for me. Another thing with the Jarretts, in the initial conversations, was that they told me they were going to go in a different creative direction, not so heavy on the degenerate, shock-value provocativeness. It became clear the more I paid attention to what was going on through the grapevine that they weren’t being honest about that. So, I pulled back after that too. And it also became clear very soon into discussions that Jerry was really getting involved sorta to get Jeff his own little clubhouse, where he could play and be king. So that Jeff could have a place to live out his own “get-over” dream. Despite his oddball reputation, the guy really does know what he is talking about.

So in other words, only mentally healthy well-adjusted people are depressed? That's a VERY jaded view of this world. Good. Always have low expectations, that way you will never be disappointed.