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Two PWG shows in one month is very cool. Hopefully they have a really good lineup for that second show...and hell, they should add Joe vs. Dragon for the first one.

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Found this on the LordsofPain: "In a rather surprising story, Shane McMahon was not present at Unforgiven, according to the PWTorch.com Newsletter. McMahon has traditionally attended every WWE PPV and the following night's RAW, so his absence was a topic of discussion. It was originally believed that by the time he hit the age of forty, he would be in charge of WWE. However, with Stephanie's increase in activity behind the scenes, and her recent marriage to HHH, it seems the two have overtaken Shane in terms of backstage pull and are more likely to inherit Vince's position when he decides to leave WWE." Well, it's the Torch, so I'm guessing this could be bullshit, but do you think there's some jealousy from Shane with the way Steph and Trips are really stepping up power wise? You never hear about Shane's backstage influence.

Gabe Sapolsky posted on the ROH board that Bossman told him he might have been coming back to the WWE in November. Another Bossman moment...does anyone else remember him and Albert tear gassing Big Show or something like that? I vaguely recall that...

I'd like to see someone do his slide under the ring rope, then pop them with an uppercut spot. It would be nice to see someone do it on RAW. It'd be nice to see someone win a match with the Bossman slam, too. That reminds me of another great Bossman moment...shocking EVERYBODY and pinning the Rock to earn a title shot against Big Show at Armageddon in 1999. I remember that moment...seemed like the crowd just died once Bull Buchanon ran in, and they did the beatdown on him. Was Bull already around then? I thought he debuted right before WM2000. Al Snow's dog was Pepper. Man was that some Wrestlecrap. And of course it led to Kennel in a Cell.

I'd like to see someone do his slide under the ring rope, then pop them with an uppercut spot. It would be nice to see someone do it on RAW. It'd be nice to see someone win a match with the Bossman slam, too. That reminds me of another great Bossman moment...shocking EVERYBODY and pinning the Rock to earn a title shot against Big Show at Armageddon in 1999.

Bossman (and Akeem?) eliminated Hogan at the '89 Rumble, stunning the crowd who had expected Hogan to win. The Towers and Mega-Powers feud that began in the fall of 1988, spawned the angle that led me to initially follow professional wrestling. Of course, I'm talking about the infamous tag match on the February SNME show, as well as the cage match blowoff he had with Hogan in the May SNME, which led Hogan into his new feud with Tiny "Zeus" Lister. Didn't he even take a superplex from the top of the cage from Hogan?

I really hope the WWE gives him a nice tribute before Smackdown or during RAW.

I have never actually seen that Rumble...how did the Hogan elimination come about? I'd be remiss not to mention the Twin Towers, one of the best big man tag teams in history, IMO. He had a pretty damn good run in WCW in 1994 as The Boss. The matches with Vader were good. Anyone else remember his 1-2 week face turn in 1999?

My favorite Bossman moment is from one of the Foley books. Foley is wrestling Bossman at an amusement park and says something about how he saw Bossman puking after riding the Scooby Doo (a small kid's) ride. Bossman then, instead of denying it, says something to the effect of "hey, I have a weak stomach for those things!" I didn't get it exactly right, but you get the idea. Rest in peace, Ray Traylor.

I just watched that to see what you were talking about, and got a good laugh out of it. And of course Vince says "Barry Horowitz could very well win this!" Can someone PLEEEEEEEEASE post the full text of Jake Roberts' interview on the Heroes of Wrestling PPV?

CZW 9/11/04 Day Show ====================== Match one: Merc vs. DJ Hyde vs. Eddie Kingston vs. Jon Dahmer: Not much up here. Lots of stalling, a few good forearm exchanges by Hyde and Kingston, one or two nice spots, no flow at all, and Kingston wins with a funky leg submission on Hyde after about 8:00 or so. Forgot to time this one. Pretty much fast forward material. * Match two: Chris Hero vs. Alex Shelley (CZW Ironman title): Hero is great on the mic before the match, claiming he has defending his Ironman title against everyone, including Larry Zbysko and Virgil. He also says that he beat the first Alex Shelley, the second Alex Shelley, the second-to-last Alex Shelley, and now he'll beat "The Next" Alex Shelley. Hero plays heel and works over Shelley's left arm/shoulder during the match and does a good job of it with some cool stuff. Shelley hits an Eye of the Hurricane type move that Garuglio (sp) miscalls the Shellshock. He then calls a Cravate Suplex a Hangman's Clutch suplex. They counter several moves and Hero keeps going back to the arm and shoulder. Hero hooks a variation Hangman's Clutch for the win at 10:00. Solid ten minute match, but it felt really rushed, and something was really missing here. These guys would be great in a 25-30 minute match, but I don't think that should happen in front of a CZW crowd. **1/2 John House calls out M-Dogg 20 and Jimmy Rave, and they rip on the crowd a bit. Sonjay and Red come out for their tag match. Match three: M-Dogg 20 and Jimmy Rave vs. Amazing Red and Sonjay Dutt: Rave and M-Dogg almost immediately take control and work Dutt over for the majority of the match. One cool spot is where Rave does the old "fake the knee injury" thing, but Dutt doesn't play stupid babyface, and instead stomps the knee, saying he doesnt' care. I liked that. Red gets the hot tag seven minutes in and cleans house without moving very much, which is weird for him. Dutt and Red hit stereo standing shooting star presses. Another cool spot as Rave catches Red on a cross body, but Dutt hits a springboard double knee to the back (that move John Walters does) and Red lands on top for a two count. The end comes with Rave hitting a shining wizard on Dutt, and M-Dogg pinning him with his feet on the ropes at 10:00. Decent match, though Red looked really slow in here, as if he's still injured. Rave and Dutt looked far better than the other two in this match. **1/4 M-Dogg and Rave do a beatdown after the match, but Los Maximos make the save. Match four: All Money is Legal vs. Ghost Shadow and Spyral: They do some lucha-style stuff to start. They then start hitting some spots, so the match is basically a spot, 2 count, pickup, some punches, and the next spot, with some tags thrown in. These guys need to work on their transitioning, like a lot of indy workers. They hit some cool moves, however, so it's kind of like an ROH tag team scramble but with only two teams and therefore not the "non stop action" of a scramble. Ghost Shadow powerbombs one of the AMIL guys to the floor onto the other guy, and then hits a dive to the floor. They hit a few more spots, some good and some bad. Ghost Shadow finally gets pinned at 8:15 after a Gory Special/Swinging DDT combo-type move. These guys would be good in a four team tag scramble match, but in a traditional tag match it comes off as spotty and sloppy. Some nice spots here and there, though. *1/4 Ghost Shadow and Spyral argue after the match, so Shadow drills him with a forearm and leaves. Match five: Super Dragon vs. B-Boy vs. Bobby Quance vs. Excalibur: Before the match, Excalibur challenges Road Warrior Hawk to a match. The ring announcer informs Excalibur that Hawk is dead, so Excalibur says "he's dead...dead SCARED of me!" I guess that's funny or tasteless depending on your sense of humor. B-Boy's entrance is fun every time. Super Dragon and B-Boy get huge pops. Chris Hero comes out to join the announcers, since the winner will face him at the night show. Slow first few minutes, with some nice exchanges. They start to crank it up with some sick submission holds and strikes. Lots of awesome stuff near the end, too much to write and I'm having fun watching it. Super Dragon wins it with a Psycho Driver on Excalibur at 21:30. This was just a ton of fun, maybe the best fourway I've seen. They bust out everything here and the crowd loved it. **** Hero cheap shots Dragon after the match and hooks the Hangman's Clutch. Match six: Blackout vs. Los Maximos (CZW tag team championship): Blackout brings out a stripper who takes her shirt off (with just pasties on underneath), and this is what caused them to lose their license after a mother in the crowd complained. This is another match where judging by the competitors you probably know pretty much what to expect. The weird thing is that Blackout, the heels, play faces in peril most of the match while the Maximos dominate. The SAT's hit the Spanish Fly, but the ref is pulled out of the ring. Eddie Kingston interferes, and Sabin gets the pinfall at 17:15. Yeah, they gave these teams over seventeen minutes. Going in I thought this would be horrible, sloppy, and a spotfest, but it really wasn't that bad. They blew several spots, but it wasn't too bad of a tag match, though nothing great either. **1/4 Match seven: Mike Quakenbush, Gran Akuma, Icarus, Mister Zero and Shane Storm vs. BlackJack Marciano, Jigsaw, Hallowicked, Ultramantis Black & "Sweet & Sour" Larry Sweeney: Holy crap this was a lot of fun. With ten guys in the match I decided not even to try recapping it. There's tons of fun spots in here, comedy, and lucha style action. It's not a serious match at all, really, but it's just a lot of fun and the CZW crowd really enjoyed it. It ends with Icarus jumping off Quack and Akuma's shoulder as they sat on Zero and Storms' shoulders, splashing Sweeney for the pin. Hard to rate it because it's so different than the rest of the show, but that's what Chikara is all about - fun. It went 14:30 and was certainly a breath of fresh air. ***1/4 Justice Pain and Messiah brawl, as they fight on the evening show for the world title. Match eight: Adam Flash vs. Ian Knoxx (Steel cage): This was a real disappointment. They just never had any emotion, and weren't able to covince the audience that we should care about this blowoff cage match. The end comes when Knoxx misses a move off the top of the cage, so Flash climbs up with Knoxx on a table for his Last Call guillotine leg drop. Messiah wanders out and "accidentally" shoves the ref into the cage, crotching Flash. Knoxx tosses Flash off and hits an elbow drop off the top through the table (though the bump probably didn't look as good as it should have) and gets the pinfall at 12:00. Like I said...disappointing, though not horrible. *3/4 I guess this sets up Messiah and Flash in a feud? The H8 Club and Blackout exchange words about their weapons cage match coming up on the evening show as we close things out. Final thoughts: Well, the stuff I thought would be good (West Coast 4-way, Chikara, Shelley/Hero) was good, though Shelley/Hero could have been SO much better with a little time. The stuff I thought would suck pretty much did, though nothing here was offensive at all. Not bad for an afternoon card. Make sure to check out the four way match if you get a chance.

I think they're definitely playing it off with London as the face.

Matches announced so far: CZW title: Messiah vs. Kaos Ironman title, no time-limit: Chris Hero vs. Homicide Rave, M-Dogg, Sabian, and Ruckus vs. Dutt, Red, and Maximos Ghost Shadow vs. Spyral Roderick Strong vs. Jay Lethal Plus Eddie Kingston has made a "white trash challenge". Looks decent so far.

From LordsofPain: Smackdown Spoilers Hello, I am Wevv Mang and I was in attendance for tonight’s Smackdown taping. Here are the quick results. - Decent Crowd. Not packed, but very full. Not a lot of empty seats. Started off with the "Lonely Road" video. New footage added. Trish and Jericho among others. Velocity Carlito Caribbean Cool (who got good heat) vs Shannon Moore --Good match. Carlito uses a side slam type finisher for the win. Sorry, bad with move names. Kind of like a reversed Side Russian Leg Sweep, only he picks the guy up. - Bill DeMott and Josh Mathews enter. Long intro to Bill’s music. Nunzio (w/ Johnny) vs Akio - Really good match. Rico and Charlie Haas (w/ Jackie) vs The Bashams -Big return for Rico, who had a lot of crowd support. Rico gets the pin after a moonsualt. Rene Dupree (w/ Kenzo and Hiroko) vs Hardcore Holly --Rene really riled up the crowd early in the match. Big Heat for the guy -Side note: noticed that Hiroko is now wearing the French and Japanese flags in her hair, and worked the two into her fan. (hey, it’s Hardcore Holly, not that exciting) Johnny The Bull vs Tony Cilantro (?) -Jobber squash match Smackdown Big Eddy Chant after Michael Cole and Tazz enter. -Vince tells us it’s going to be a special night. Kidman vs Paul London --Kidman leaves the ring right after the bell to a lot of boos. Count out victory for Paul London. Booker T enters. Impromptu match. London Wins. -Big Cena chant for Booker Foley favorite moment Kidman and Teddy talk -Great promo from Spike and Rey. Kenzo tells Rey to speak in English after he gets all Latino. Really good segment Rey vs Spike (w/ Dudley’s) - Good match. Kenzo and Rene come out. They help Spike keep his belt. Steph favorite moment. Watch the show for this. T-Shirt guy bombard audience (like 15 T-shirts given out). I don’t get one. Bastard. -Moments ago, no commentary Recap of prison love scene with Heidenriech and Mikey Cole. Touching. In a creepy way. Nice edit job, but you still feel the love. Johnny goes to see Vince The Ministry (Gangrel and Viscera) vs Taker -JBL watches from the roof of his limo. Viscera sucks. Pretty quick squash match. Taker wins adn then taunts Bradshaw. Vince talks with Johnny. Watch the show for this. Johnny says he and Vince are a lot alike. Johnny reads more touching poetry. Crowd chants Eddy Plug Next Top Model Stone Cold shows up on the screen.Big crowd pop. Schoolgirl match. Dawn Marie vs Torrie Wilson. They look great. -Teddy comes out and flubs his line, but still manages to announce that Old School will be part of the match. Moolah and Mae enter. Booing ensues. Moolah and Mae win. Dead silence. -Thank God for hot chicks. -Torrie tries to get the fans to cheer. Dead silence. Eddy chant again Stone Cold moment. Big pop. Cut short. Booing ensues. Superstar Billy Graham makes an appearance. Carlito Promo John Cena steals the Rock and Stone Cold’s catchphrases from the top of a truck. Not in the arena. No Mercy Card Rundown -Eddy vs Luther Reins Kurt Angle cuts a great promo. Hearty "What?" chant Hogan favorite moment. Big pop Eddy and Big Show vs Angle and Luther -Still no mic time for the big man. -Ending was mark Jindrak running out to interfere. Angle gets a tranq gun (I kid you not) and shoots Big Show. Then they shave part of his head. -I leave after Show makes it up the ramp, and Eddy gets up. -That's all I needed to see.

Does he go anal on Vince?

Well, it's kind of cool that London gets a PPV match, I hope he and Kidman do really well in it. EDIT: Maybe we should post the full spoilers under a new topic now that we have them?

Show fears horse tranquilizers.

Post the full spoilers!

Found this on the Rajah forums, sounds true. This is what happens in the Eddie/Show vs. Kurt/Luther match: Eddie hits a frog splash off of Show's shoulders and is about to get the pin when Mark Jindrak (?) breaks up the pin and beats down Eddie. Show fights them off but Kurt comes from behind and hits Show with a tranquilizer dart. He then cuts off Show's hair. I'm sure full spoilers will be up soon, but I figured I'd post this anyways.

Who are their money marks? Maybe they think they have a better chance to make money off loaded shows than normal ones?

The event scheduled for this Friday, September 24th at the National Guard Armory in Lafayette, IN has been cancelled. Late in the evening during Friday night's card in Highland, we began to have problems with the ring, and the additional wear and tear by holding the Saturday event in it caused permanent damage to the ring frame that must be repaired. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will return to the Lafayette Armory on Friday night, October 22nd with "The Revolution 2004" strong style tournament. Already signed for the tournament: SAMOA JOE, "The Notorious 187" HOMICIDE, SUPER DRAGON, "The New Age Punisher" B-BOY, BJ WHITMER, "The King of Diamonds" EDDIE KINGSTON, and two more competitors to be announced. IWA Mid-South is back in action with a quadrulple shot of events during the month of October, beginning Wednesday, October 20th, at the National Guard Armory in Bloomington, IN. We will then return to the Armory in Evansville, IN on Thursday night, October 21st. The Bloomington event will feature AJ STYLES taking on CHRIS CANDIDO. Signed for both Bloomington and Evansville is the returning "Fallen Angel" CHRISTOPHER DANIELS, who will participate in a four-way matchup in Evansville along with AJ STYLES, CHRIS SABIN, and PETEY WILLIAMS. Also in Evansville, SAMOA JOE battles ABYSS in a battle of the big men. The quad-shot rolls on Friday, October 22nd in Lafayette, IN, and culminates Saturday, October 23rd in Highland, IN at the Lincoln Center with the IWA's 8th Anniversary Show. Already confirmed for Highland: "Anarchist" ARIK CANNON defends the IWA World Heavyweight Title against AJ STYLES, IAN ROTTEN teams with "The American Dream" DUSTY RHODES to battle "The Dream Team" STEVE STONE & CHRIS CANDIDO, plus MERCEDES MARTINEZ defends the Women's Title against MICKIE KNUCKLES, and a whole lot more. Mark your calendars! We will be announcing the date for our return to the New Albany, IN National Guard Armory shortly as well. Call the IWA hotlines at 502-569-1701 in Louisville and 630-585-3958 in Chicago.

Cool stuff. Beef jumping in on the Steen promo was funny. Too bad IWS doesn't release any DVDs, with all the attention they're getting in America now they could make a lot of money.

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