The Mandarin

Five-star episode.

The stamina mode looks like garbage. I loved the idea at first until watching the HIAC match- 1. It seems that the main effect of stamina depletion is your wrestler passing wind (complete with sound effect) and staggering for about half a second. 1a. If this effect kicks in every time I hit a finisher while I'm worn down, I will be an unhappy man. "And he hits it! The Pedigree! ..but give him a second to cover." My expectations for this game have been even further lowered.

Has Cactus/HHH HIAC been on a DVD yet? Because I desperately want to see it.

I got an advertisement on the page that Richard linked to for "The Weather Man". Did Nicholas Cage just use the same picture for "Lord of War" that he did for this new movie?

Because I'd rather pay Canadian money and not have to cross the border. Forget that I ever suggested Niagra Falls; I'd prefer it much more if they did a show in the GTA.

This is the feud that really got me into wrestling. I loved it. I can't believe I forgot some of those angles Ed described. They were fantastically done.

No, that was right after Survivor Series 2001. Weird. I remember hating that match because they jobbed out RVD when I thought it would be the start of a huge push after the Alliance went kaput.

Pfft. Buffalo? They need to migrate north. Niagra Falls, baby. ..or Toronto, whichever.

Hear this boy, for you will be hit upside the head with a mallet.

Batista is awesome. He put over Daivari and Christian(~!); doesn't get much better than that. At least he recognizes that the JBL feud sucked.

I'm still wondering why Kawada vs. Misawa (6-3-94) never makes the rounds of being "upped".

Boogeyman was absolutely hysterical. However, his debut was almost immediately followed up by a Burger King commercial that put him to shame. The King is the scariest guy on TV.

I'd really like to get a working, full copy of the Bret/Flair Saskatoon match.

Kate in the air duct was better. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For serious, yo. This man knows it.

Arn Anderson had it all other than looks. Aerial skills weren't overly necessary in wrestling then. Also- Lesnar, Eddie, Angle, CM Punk, Trish Stratus, Tully Blanchard, Curt Hennig, Owen Hart, Roddy Piper.

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Mysterio vs. Lesnar from 2003, my favourite match between Mysterio and a heavyweight. Others: Orton and Batista vs. Benoit and Edge; my pick for Evolution's best two on two tag ever. Jerry Lynn vs. Justin Credible from an episode of ECW on TNN; my favourite Credible title defense. There's others. I just can't think of them.

Yeah. You did a great job with sticking to the Sylvan Grenier gimmick, Czech.

While I enjoyed watching Bishop and Blade take disgusting bumps in front of me, I thought it didn't have any form and hardly looked like a wrestling contest. Watching and hearing them talk to eachother about the spots before they did them made me die a little inside. I thought the match was horrendous and it didn't do anything to improve my opinion of Chris Bishop (I'm not a fan of him whatsoever). Still, crowd seemed to really like it, so it wasn't anything detrimental to the show. Bakais is over the top to the point that I like him. When he makes a "shocked" expression, it's like his mouth travels six miles vertically. Good job on the report though. I reccomend RavishingRickRudo's report for another (albeit negative) analysis of the UWA.

Kennedy? ..Kennedy.

I'm fired? I'm watching this on TSN tape-delay, so I get 1 hour's notice, which is nice.

I forgot about Smaffles! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's something best left buried. I remember a number of people on the board turning on their closed captioning for the rest of the show after that, and then virtually everybody reported "1, 2 goirks, 3" at the finish, at the same time. ..that was so goofy.

Strange, strange words come up on closed captioning. Like Goldberg being called "Smaffles" or Steve Austin being named "Clyde" instead of "Gladiator" at WrestleMania.

This Steph promo is fucking shit.

That sounds tremendous. And thus the TSM League is born.