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Sorry if this isn't worth its own thread, feel free to delete it if it's not. There's a poll at tv.yahoo.com now asking who your favorite WWE star is. I always like to see WWE polls in mainstream outlets and the results. Current numbers: Question: Who's your favorite current WWE star? 4013 votes since Sep 28 2004 HHH 14% 547 votes Chris Benoit 8% 335 votes Eddie Guerrero 7% 294 votes Kurt Angle 7% 271 votes Chris Jericho 9% 360 votes Shawn Michaels 16% 626 votes Randy Orton 8% 333 votes Undertaker 31% 1247 votes

Peter as a child: Whoa! Not only are ghosts real, but their innards are made of children!

Hero vs. Nigel has been added to the 10/7 show.

WWE Smackdown spoilers from Wichita by Jerry Denton Ok I just got back from tonight's Smackdown live in Wichita, Kansas. Carlito Caribbean Cool made his debut against a jobber, and won . Torrie Wilson was guess ring announcer during the Bull & Akio match. Johnny the Bull defeated Akio The Bashams beat 2 local talent Funaki And Shannon Moore lost to Tag Champs Kenzo and Renee Dupree. The Start of Smackdown had Kurt Angle cut a promo on how he would have backup in his corner for the match at No Mercy, he then called his new clique out, Mark Jindrak and Luther Reigns. Kurt says that he will win at the pay per view and that he will have backup. Teddy Long then came out and said that if anyone interferes at No Mercy they would be fired. 1st match The Dudley Boyz defeated Rico and Haas with Miss Jackie. Dawn Marie was doin commentary and attacked Miss Jackie during the match. It turned into a cat fight and it was clothes coming up and almost off. dont know how much they'll edit. Undertaker had a promo with him telling JBL that he would be taking away to hell in the hearse. Booker T defeated Paul London when Kidman distracted London. Kidman after the match hit London with a chair and said that he would kick his ass at the pay per view. They had a pretaped interview with John Cena and he said in a rhyme that he would win at No Mercy. After commercial break John Heidenrich was on top of the Smackdown fist and he started to read everyone a new poem. After commercial it was JBL and Hardcore Holly 3 Hardcore Holly coming out to one of the biggest pops of the night defeated Jbl by DQ. JBL beat down Holly with a chair and the stairs causing Holly to bleed. After the match JBL gets spooked because the Undertaker shows up and he tells JBL that there were 4 men standing in his was off the title, Gangrel and Visora and then there was an explosion and in the corner of the arena is Orlando Jordan stuck to the Undertakers cross. Taker then tells JBL that has the last that stands in his way. After commercial Big Show cuts a promo about Kurt Angle. Nunzio defeated Spike Dudley with The Dudley Boyz In his corner in a non title match. The Main Event Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak Defeat Eddie Guerrero and RVD. After the match saw RVD & Eddie getting attacked by Reigns, Angle, and Jindrak. After a miscue with the ring bell Angle takes out Jindrak while RVD takes out Reigns. Eddie and RVD give Angle Double frog splashes for the close of the show. All In all a good show. Some of this maybe a bit out of order such as promo spots and all.

Velocity: 1) Carlito Carribean Cool vs. Jobber (maybe a dark match? maybe not?) 2) Akio vs. Johnny the Bull 3) Bashams vs. Jobbers 4) Suzuki and Dupree vs. Shannon and Funaki Smackdown: 1) Dudley Boys vs. Rico and Charlie 2) Booker T vs. Paul London 3) JBL vs. Hardcore Holly 4) Spike Dudley vs. Nunzio 5) Eddie and RVD vs. Luther Reigns and Jindrak

Good for Chris, I hope he does well.

Looks kind of like a throwaway show...

If you were going to create an indy promotion tomorrow, what kind of one would you make? Would you load up on indy stars like IWA-MS and try and make money through tape/DVD sales? Would you go to an area of the country that has little wrestling or an area where there's already a lot of indy wrestling (like Philly) since there's already a proven audience there? Who would be the top guys you'd want to bring in or have on your shows? I think if I was to start an indy promotion, I'd find a city/area where people don't have much entertainment, and maybe was a college town. I think I'd try and rent out a place where people could drink, and offer drink specials, have the show from like 10-1 on a weekend night, and maybe run twice a month. Have some T&A, some high flying spotfests, some hardcore shit, and some stuff for the smart marks, too, just to make sure the DVDs and tapes would sell on the internet. I kind of like the atmosphere IWS has for their shows, it seems like they consistently draw good, hot crowds of 300-500. How would you guys do it?

A seventh live event for the month of October has been added to the IWA Mid-South Wrestling schedule! IWA Mid-South returns to the National Guard Armory (1015 S. Main Street) in Scottsburg, IN on Saturday night, October 9th. Bell time is 7:30pm. This will be our return to Scottsburg after an eleven month absense from the venue, and we're looking to make it a usual stop on the schedule, given fan support locally. Matches for this event will be announced during the coming week. The Scottsburg Armory is located less than one mile off Exit 29 on I-65. Signed for competition on both our Thursday, 10/7 event in New Albany, as well as Saturday, 10/9 in Scottsburg: Big Japan Pro Wrestling stars Ryuji Ito and Daisuke Sekimoto, in addition to your IWA favorites. Keep your eyes peeled to the IWA web site during the coming week for matches for New Albany and Scottsburg. Don't forget our weekly Tuesday night chat at the Official IWA Mid-South Yahoo Group TONIGHT, 9/28, beginning at 8pm Central/9pm Eastern. To participate, visit the chat section of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iwamidsouth Call the IWA hotlines at 502-569-1701 in Louisville and 630-585-3958. www.iwamidsouthwrestling.com www.midwestwrestling.com

Match one: Danny Daniels d. Eddie Kingston with a low blow and a piledriver. Pretty blah opener, though Kingston had some good comedy and they played their characters well. Kingston works well with guys like Hero and in tag matches, but this was pretty blah. *1/2 Match two: MsChif d. Mickie Knuckles and Tracy Brooks: Good women's match, very hard hitting. **1/4 Match three: Nate Webb d. B-Boy: Good match, these guys work well together. The crowd didn't get into it that much, though, which is fairly disappointing. They didn't even get into Nate's entrance that much. **1/2 or so. Match four: Madman Pondo and Cash Flo d. Corporal Robinson and 2 Tuff Tony in an elimination tables match. Just horrible. The final bump was okay, and Flo coming off the top through a table was decent, but the rest was just horrible, awful, terrible stuff. DUD, bordering on negative stars. After the match, Ian sets up Corp/Ian vs. Pondo/Tony next month, because Tony turns on Corp in this match. The whole segment is weird, as Pondo keeps laughing and doesn't seem to be taking anything seriously. Nothing about this was good. Match five: Steve Stone d. JC Bailey with the Whiteout, an especially sick version this time of his Flatliner finisher. Fairly short, probably 5-6 minutes or so, and nothing too special, but nothing bad, either. *1/4 Match six: Arik Cannon d. Roderick Strong: A good hard hitting match, but I was really disappointed that this only went a little over 8 minutes. Lots of suplexes and strikes, so if you like that stuff you'll love this match. I really wish they gave them 15 minutes or more, though. **1/2 Match seven: Claudio Castagnoli d. Alex Shelley with a variation sleeper hold: Double C comes out in an aqua blue sui and tie and black pants. Wrestling in a sleeveless dress shirt and tie can't be fun. This is just a great 11-12 minute match, with tons of fun mat work, non-stop wrestling and action, and good selling, psychology, and pacing. I wish they got more time, but since they only had 11-12 minutes they just go non stop the whole way through, with very little wrestling. This is a super fun match, it'll be fun to watch it again. ***3/4 Match eight: AJ Styles d. Matt Sydal with a Styles Clash on the third or fourth try to hit it. Really good junior heavyweight style match. If you saw their match at Simply the Best 5, this is a lot like that, so if you liked that don't even worry about any star ratings, I guarantee you'll love this. The pacing is very fast, the selling and psychology is rather minimal, but the action is very fun and hard hitting. Sydal's spiked rana on Styles here is absolutely sick. The crowd absolutely loved it, so they obviously did something right! ***1/2 Match nine: 2/3 falls, Bryan Danielson and Chris Hero wrestled to a draw at 1 fall apiece. They stretch the SHIT out of each other to start. Danielson gets the first fall with a nice pinning combination at 15:00. It's a really different match from the Highland one, as Hero is in control a lot more, and isn't blatantly outwrestled by Dragon like in that match. For the second fall they start to bring the hard strikes. Dragon works over Hero's left arm. Cannon comes to ringside to taunt Hero. Hero gets the second fall with a Hero's Welcome at 24:30, after Dragon had fought out of the Hangman's Clutch. The third fall they both take more chances. We see Dragon superplex Hero, and both guys miss top rope moves. Hero counters the Cattle Mutilation to the Hangman's Clutch which Dragon fights out of to an Indian deathlock/bridging chinlock submission. They then go to a double hangman's neckbreaker submission, and both men tap at the same time at 29:00. Really, really, REALLY good match with a slightly goofy ending. I wish it was in front of a hotter crowd, too. But this is the match everyone expected them to do in Highland, I think. Great stuff. ****1/4 Ian tells Danielson after the match that the next time he wrestles Hero, it'll be in a 60-minute Ironman match. The weird thing is that Danielson and Cannon are suddenly friends, and Danielson is playing the "chickenshit" heel. They could really use some backstage vignettes here to explain things, as all Dragon says is "me and Cannon are friends now" and something about Cannon promising him something. Match ten: Petey Williams d. CM Punk with the sharpshooter to retain the IWA title: This went 20 minutes, and something was just missing from it. There was little/no psychology, as Petey didn't really work over Punk's back or legs or anything leading up to the submission victory. Punk did some nice stuff, but after the previous matches this one wasn't that great. They did work hard for 20 minutes, though. **1/4-**1/2

I was watching Boondock Saints again the other day and DAMN do they say "fuck" a lot in that movie. What move do you think has the most cursing/swearing/naughty words ever?

Which of these IYH PPVs is your favorite overall?

Well, I ordered it. We'll see if it's any good.

Gabe posted this on the ROH boards.

I just added two Smart Mark Video masters to the list. The first is the 8/27/04 Chikara show. If you haven't seen Chikara and don't want to pay $15 at SMV to see if you like it or not, get it here for $8. It's a really fun show, which is really what Chikara is all about. The second is the CZW day show for 9/11/04. It has the FANTASTIC Super Dragon vs. B-Boy vs. Quance vs. Excalibur match, Hero vs. Shelley, and a great 10-man Chikara match. Definitely worth picking up for the cheap price. PM me or email me - it's first come, first serve. If you have paypal, that would be great. The CZW show is no longer available.

Adam West: I love this job more than I love taffy ... and I'm a man who enjoys his taffy. ====== Diane Simmons: Tom, I'm getting late word that you're a petty, jealous closet-case. Tom Tucker: Bit of breaking news, we now go live to Diane being a bitch. Diane. ====== Tom Tucker: Now let's go to Greg The Weather Mime. OK... it's going to be cold... lots of wind... and it looks like parents are going to throw human fecal matter from the rooftops onto their children ... oh, GOD. That's awful. No wait, it looks like rain. Yes, rain. ====== Meg: I just want to kill myself...I'm gonna go upstairs and eat a whole bowl of peanuts. (Lois and Peter stare in silence) Meg: I'm alergic to peanuts. (Peter and Lois keep staring) Meg: You dont know anything about me. (runs upstairs) Peter: Who was that guy?

Well, clearly to each his own. I think putting Hero/Danielson under *** is a little ridiculous, as is Mike Rome saying on the DVD boards something to the effect of Hero constantly having bad matches. But to each his own, I guess, and that's why star ratings are subjective. I've become a real Hero fan, and others aren't, so I can live with that. I guess I can say that if you're a Hero fan you'll love this match with Dragon. I'm sure you liked it less, Tim, because Dragon was in control for less of the time here compared to their 8/21 match, and since you don't like Hero you didn't like the match as much. But I like the story the last two matches have told; on 8/21, Danielson dominated Hero when in Highland (where Hero has been "cursed" lately), causing Hero to get away from "wrestling" and try to outstrike Danielson and take some risks, only to be caught off the top rope with an armbreaker into the Cattle Mutilation for the loss. On 9/15, when not in Highland, it was more of Hero's match, yet he was still not able to get the win over Dragon. I like the subtleties to this slow building storyline. But just like I said that if you liked Sydal/Styles the first time you'd love it again here, if you are a fan of Chris Hero's work, you'll love the 9/15 match with Danielson. (Not to mention the 9/16 tag match with Hero/Nigel vs. Shelley/Strong). If you're not, then don't bother. It's as simple as that.

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I thought that Orton/Flair segment was fucking phenomenal.

Well, Val Venis can't sink much lower...

Cool topic, and I have several ideas. My first is a suggestion I've made several times on this board: WWE should make Sunday Night Heat an actual DECENT SHOW again. I'd say the same for Velocity, but it's on at 11PM on a Saturday...not a great timeslot. But Heat is at 7:00 on a Sunday. It USED to be a show that got good ratings back in 1999 especially. Have at least one big match for the show as the main event, and advertise it on RAW. Don't have a clip show where you show entire clips; you can get across what happened in video packages or quicker clips. This would allow more time for matches and promos. Promos would allow guys who don't usually get a chance to talk on RAW a chance to hone their skills on Heat. Hype the show on RAW, and bring the viewers back. What do you think?

...who beat the Repo Man on one of the first RAW episodes ever...

Meg: Mayor West, can I have an interview with you? Adam West: You can't interview a dead man! [He jumps out the window.]

I've enjoyed Conan for years, his humor usually makes me laugh for whatever reason. I don't know why they're announcing this so far in advance, but when it happens I really hope he gets to keep the same type of show instead of changing things up to be more "Leno-like".

...who is going to have some angle with Trish Stratus on RAW tonight...