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Chavo is really really good in his role in this angle.

RICKY STEAMBOAT, BRITISH BULLDOG, AND KERRY VON ERICH vs. THE WARLORD AND POWER AND GLORY (Hercules and Paul Roma), SUMMERSLAM 1991: This is the opening match from Summerslam 1991. The heels are managed by Slick, by the way. Heenan thinks the babyfaces will lose and that Slick will make the difference. Steamboat and Roma start. Roma slams him. Lots of posing. Steamboat comes back with a knuckle lock, kick, and then wrings the arm out. Roma takes him to the corner and gets in a cheap shot. Roma misses a charge, though, and Steamboat hits a trademark arm drag. The crowd is REALLY hot here and they seem to just HATE Roma. Hercules comes in and gets arm dragged, and the Texas Tornado Von Erich comes in. Kind of sad to think that neither guy is still living. Von Erich gets 10 punches in the corner. Bulldog and Warlord are in next, and Bulldog hits the hanging vertical suplex. Steamboat comes off the top with a chop, but then tries a monkey flip that Warlord blocks. Man, just seeing this match makes me realize how roided up all these guys were prior late 1992 when Vince finally had to start worrying about the steroid issue. All six guys in this match, including Steamboat, are just JACKED beyond all belief. And sadly, it really reflects the look of a lot of current WWE guys. Anyways, back tot he match. Roma comes in with a double axehandle to Steamboat's back. A lame sequence comes as Steamboat gets a reverse rollup on Roma, the ref starts counting, and Hercules comes in to try and clothesline Steamboat but misses...and the referee STOPS COUNTING even though Roma is still pinned and goes to yell at Hercules. Yeah. Warlord clotheslines Steamboat behind the ref's back, and the heels take over. Roma hits a really nice snap suplex on Steamboat for 2. I liked how Steamboat was trying to make a tag but Roma fought him off with a front facelock and then just dropped him with a nice suplex. Cool stuff from Roma as he lifts up Steamboat in front of him, faces the babyfaces, and hits a series of backbreakers on Ricky, as if to say "there's nothing you can do about it, bitches" to the faces. That's a cool dick heel move. Hercules comes in and gorilla press slams Steamboat. Warlord comes in and hits a body slam. That's some innovative offense, baby. Quick tag to Roma. You know that move Bossman does where the guys in the ropes and he jumps across his back? Roma does that here to Steamboat, except Steamboat isn't in the ropes, so it's kinda weird. Steamboat tries to fight back against Hercules, but Herc drops him with an AWESOME hot shot that Steamboat sells like DEATH. Steamboat finally gets the hot tag when he boots Warlord in the face when he tries a second rope elbow, and he tags Von Erich. Piper on commentary practically has a heart attack, and screams like it's the greatest thing in the history of the world. Warlord SUNSET FLIPS (?) Von Erich, who reaches out and tags in Bulldog. Bulldog leaps onto Warlord, who catches him, so Von Erich hits his TORNADO PUNCH to BULLDOG, punching his own partner right in the back, and somehow that causes Davey to fall onto Warlord for a two count. That's Von Erich's FINISHER, and Davey doesn't even sell any pain to the back. Ha. They screw up the finish slightly, as Bulldog hits the running powerslam on Roma and then forgets to tag Steamboat and instead pins Roma, who kicks out of Davey's finisher! So Bulldog then tags Steamboat, who hits a flying cross body for the pin at 10:43. Final thoughts: A really interesting match. The crowd was SUPER hot and it was a good show opener. The offense or work in the match was really nothing amazing, but it got the crowd going and did it's job. Steamboat was great in working the Ricky Morton role here, selling like crazy for the heels, and I liked Roma as the prickish heel. A few weird little things in the match made it interesting too. I'll go **1/2 here, but you could easily give or take a 1/4* depending on how you look at things.

PWInsider says that London vs. Spike is on Velocity.

I think people need to read this again.

Hopefully the segments are good, but really they didn't sound that great to me. We'll see how it comes off on TV, since the matches for this show are pretty much worthless aside from the tag title match.

There's also a Dawn Marie vs. Michelle McCool match on Smackdown. And a LOT of interviews and talking.

How long was Beulah with Raven in ECW before joining Tommy Dreamer? What was the angle that turned Francine heel after she left the Pittbulls?

Something that needs mention here is that at the IWA afternoon show in Philly on 6/11/05, Samoa Joe will face Necro Butcher. F'ing awesome.

Beef Wellington and the Bear vs. Team Toryumon from Chikara's Tag Grand Prix...it's comedy gold: http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UDZ7D2...9Y0LZ1V0Y6Q3954

Always loved Tazz's match with Angle at the 2000 Rumble.

"Money and pussy make man do evil shit." Great quote.

No shit! Holy crap! That was crazy. Why is next week two hours?

This Ray guy is going to be the most overbearing father ever, forcing his kid to play sports. Good to see Rob and Amber get first. I'm gonna watch until they get eliminated.

World Wrestling Entertainment released more information about their 4/2 Hall of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles, California on their WWE.com Hall of Fame subsite. WWE announced the following information about who would be inducting each new member of the Hall of Fame: *Sylvester Stallone will induct Rocky III co-star Hulk Hogan *Steve Austin will induct Roddy Piper *Jim Ross will induct Nikolai Volkoff *Jerry Lawler will induct Jimmy Hart, who he broke into the wrestling business *Randy Orton will induct his father, Bob Orton *Bobby Heenan will induct former protege Paul Orndorff *Sgt. Slaughter will induct former foe The Iron Sheik. Tickets for the Hall of Fame Ceremony, to be held at the Universal Amphitheater are still available at Ticketmaster.com. A one hour special will air on Spike TV during the ceremony, centered around the induction of Hogan. --PWInsider.com

NIGHT ONE - Friday April 1, 2005 - 8pm Super Dragon vs. El Generico vs. Kevin Steen for the PWG Title AJ Styles (TNA Wrestling) vs. Samoa Joe American Dragon vs. James Gibson (formerly Jamie Noble) Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky, Quicksilver vs. Joey Ryan, Scott Lost, Chris Bosh Christopher Daniels vs. Alex Shelley Havana Pitbulls vs. Kendo Ka Shin & Puma Jonny Storm vs Petey Williams (TNA Wrestling) Chris Hero vs. Chris Sabin (TNA Wrestling) Plus: Disco Machine, Excalibur, Phoenix Star, Zokre, Hook Bomberry and more! NIGHT TWO - Saturday April 2, 2005 - 8pm Matches To Be Announced

Hey it's my thread asshole.

Big Show? Damn, I remember this one, but I'm not sure who said it. Hawk of LOD springs to mind. Two for two, nice job. I LOVE that Hawk quote.

DX (HHH, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, and Chyna) vs. LOD and DOA (8-man tag, RAW 5/4/98) The story here is that DOA beat the NAO last week in a non-title match and were going to get a title match this week, but earlier in the show LOD came out and challenged DX to make it an eight man tag...so obviously DOA's title shot was just forgotten about and they don't get it now. Yeah. Anyways, we start with Road Dogg and Animal. Shoulderblock by Animal and then a BIG powerslam. Tag to 8-Ball, who clotheslines Road Dogg down. Lawler says he wants to see Chyna get clotheslined. Poke to the eye by Road Dogg and a tag to HHH. Punches, but HHH gets a boot to the face and in comes Skull. Suplex gets 2. The Harrises are so boring. I had to get that out. DX is in tweener mode here, just starting to turn face. The crowd pops as Skull clotheslines both HHH and Gunn. Clothesline to Gunn in the corner. Gunn comes back with the fameasser/rocker dropper. Tag to Chyna to a big pop. She hits a hurricanarana for 2. Chyna quickly tags out after her one spot. Punches as we go to an adbreak. And we're back, with HHH getting powerslammed by one of the DOA guys for 2. Hawk comes in with chops and punches. He punches Gunn, but then walks into a HHH facebuster. Chyna gets back in and kicks Hawk. Lawler talks about how Chyna can wrestle. Yeah, right. She heads up top and Hawk hits the ropes, causing her to fall to the floor. She no sells it, comes back in, and punches Hawk right in the nuts as the ref's back is turned. OUCH. Chyna taunts. Road Dogg drops a knee to Hawk for 2. HHH drops a knee for 2. Gunn comes in and hits a backbreaker and a leg drop for 2. He whips him to the corner but catches a back elbow, and both guys are down. Tag to one of DOA, and he cleans house. LOD and DOA have some disagreement for whatever reason and start to brawl, and the match ends just like that at about 7:00 televised. Could have actually been okay with a few more minutes and an actual finish, as the crowd was hot and the action while simple and generic, was done with intensity. But the ending fell flat. 3/4*

What was the deal with Goldust jobbing the euro title to Owen in 1998, taking HHH's place? Did HHH have a real injury or was it politics?

This is just a wild guess, but maybe the Huckster?

-Paul Heyman is at OVW right now scouting talent for WWE. His less-than-stellar relationship with Jim Cornette makes that kind of interesting. Heyman and Tommy Dreamer are also working to set up the ECW PPV, and apparently Heyman will announce the PPV with Tazz, as Joey Styles doesn't look to be doing the show right now. -Vince McMahon wants to return to the road even before his knees are better. The reasons for this apparently are ego, boredom at home, and Stephanie having a tough time without him there. -John Cena has been told he needs to get better in the ring. He has been putting in extra time training, and they hope he can develop into a top worker while being a top star like Rock did. -Randy Orton has a bad shoulder now and may need some time off after Wrestlemania. There are still plans to move him to Smackdown, and to make him a top heel there. Credit: PWInsider.com hotline

You have the wrong Dixie Carter, as the TNA one is in her 30's I believe.

Sgt Slaughter and Jesse Ventura on commentary, respectively. You are correct sir. "Undertaker...I...HATE...YOU." "You've got Mr. Ass...which makes Road Dogg Mr. Hole. You make a great pair. Then you have HHH, who is Mr. Nose, and Chyna, who is just Mister."

Very cool, thanks. Wow, look at that young up and coming roster for TNA!

You should do a TNA list.