strummer

I always thought his barber shop promo was great stuff. Plus, on From the Vault DVD, check out his promo from Challenge about the WM 10 Ladder Match

There must be no smart marks in Memphis

I believe Meltzer gave the Rumble match either **** or ****1/4. But I think Dave often overrated good matches from late 80s/early 90s WWF because there were so few of them at the time.

a longshot, but does anyone know the deal with Eric Embry killing off WCCW in the early 90s? I was actually a big fan of his when I was a mark, but whenever his name comes up on the net, it's met with disdain, so I'm assuming he was either a bad worker or must have done something to kill the territory. The wrestling magazines in the early 90s also used to kill him, outright saying the fans did not accept him as the top guy for an organization. Any ideas?

If Ahmed wouldn't have been so injury prone, he definitely would have had a run on top

note for Patriots fans, Tom Brady will be hosting Saturday Night Live sometime in April

from Keller: H-Bull asked today in the VIP Forum: I really miss being able to watch that show on Saturday nights. The old version where they were actually in nightclubs not when they were taping it before Raw. Am I the only one who actually thought they were on to something special with that show until they gave up on it? WK answered: The concept behind Shotgun was that it would be a weekly Saturday night PPV for $9.95. The idea was to make it gritty and ECW-like, run it at nightclubs, use a core group of talent that wasn't regularly at house shows across the country each Saturday night so they could be live for Shotgun, bring in a couple new bigger names every few weeks and pull them from that night's house show, and run episodic TV that had a totally different feel from the other shows. McMahon approved the weekly PPV concept and then it was pitched to cable companies, who it turned out weren't receptive to it. With no cable support, they just turned it into a weekly TV series. Once the reality struck that it wasn't going to make enough ad revenue to be worth having a separate core roster and flying big names cross country to work between the Friday and Sunday big arena house shows, it basically quickly became just another weekly show without anything different about i

from searching, I believe this is the final Shotgun to air before the transformation to Jakked. August 21, 1999: Billy Gunn defeated Chaz...Intercontinental and European Champion, D-Lo Brown, defeated Prince Albert...The Godfather defeated Scott Zappa...Mideon and Viscera defeated Derek Dukes and Dominick DeNucci.

WWF @ New York City, NY - Mirage Nightclub - January 4, 1997 Shotgun Saturday Night - debut episode; hosted by Vince McMahon and Sunny; included Todd Pettingill visiting with Rocky Miavia, Goldust, and Marlena in the VIP area, with Bob Backlund taking offense to Marlena's cleavage; included Sunny announcing that the following week she would provide one of her own personal sex tapes to counter Marlena's flashing and to prove that Sunny was the sexiest woman in the WWF: The Flying Nuns - Sister Angelica & Mother Smucker (the Headbangers) defeated Henry & Phinneas Godwinn (w/ Hillbilly Jim) at around the 12:30 mark when Angelica pinned Phinneas after Brother Love hit Phinneas in the head with his book of love; during the match, the crowd chanted "Holy shit" and "Go to Hell" towards the Nuns; at one point in the contest, Pettingeil interviewed Hillbilly at ringside about the Nuns; mid-way through the bout, Brother Love made a surprise appearance at ringside to manage the Nuns; after the bout, Todd Pettingiel interviewed Brother Love and the Flying Nuns in the ring, with Brother Love renaming them the Sisters of Love (Brother Love's first appearance in over a year) Goldust (w/ Marlena) defeated the Sultan (w/ Bob Backlund) via count-out at 9:31 after Marlena climbed on the ring apron, as Goldust was about to be caught in the Camel Clutch, and flashed Goldust's opponent; following the incident, Backlund threw his jacket on Sultan so that he wouldn't see and the two left ringside; during the bout, Pettingill interviewed Backlund at ringside regarding his comments about Marlena's clevage earlier in the show; late in the contest, Backlund went to the commentary table and berated Vince McMahon, Sunny, and Pettingiel Ahmed Johnson defeated Crush (w/ Clarence Mason, D-Lo Brown, and other members of the Nation) via disqualification when D-Lo interfered as Ahmed attempted the Pearl River Plunge; during the bout, Pettingiel interviewed Mason at ringside; after the bout, the Nation held Ahmed for Crush to hit him over the head with a steel chair; moments later; Goldust, the Godwinns, and Hillbilly cleared the ring and, after he regained his senses, Ahmed led the chase outside of the areana onto 56th St. where he eventually hit the Pearl River Plunge on D-Lo on the hood of a car Mascarita Sagrada Jr. pinned Mini Vader at around the 6:30 mark with a missile dropkick; prior to the bout, footage was shown of Jim Cornette picking up Mini Vader at the Port Authority Bus Terminal after Mini Vader was driven in from Mexico; before the match, Sunny danced the Macarana as Pettingill sang "Mascarita" to the tune of the dance song; Jim Cornette did guest commentary for the bout before going ringside; after the match, Cornette verbally berated Mini Vader before both minis stripped Cornette of his pants

I can't believe Christy is only 24 either, she looks at least 3-4 years older. I've found that most of the women look younger when they are not wearing layers of makeup on their face.

a weird myth/rumor that was on the net in 1998. John Tenta was going to be brought in and given a monster heel push and be put with Austin to headline King of the Ring 98. But when Tenta was signed, Vince was still mad at him for bailing out on the WWF in 94 and going to WCW and as a result was given the Golga gimmick as "punishment"

During the early stages of the NWO angle in 1996, my cousin and I were dying to see a feud between Kevin Nash and the Giant. We thought the matches would be "awesome" 1996 was my last year as a mark thank God

man, why all the baseball bashing X, there are a lot of people on the board that just happen to love the game. I love football as much as the next guy, but opening day in baseball is met with great anticipation, always has been always will.

Shaniqua was not fired, she quit. They loved her look so much that they were willing to give chance after chance, even though she had a horrible attitude

well, Meltzer on the Wrestling Classics board just said he doesn't think the story is true, so maybe the guy was lying or got mixed up

from PWI: I attended last night's house show at the Crown Arena in Fayetteville last night. The big news of the evening is that during an angle with The Coach, Ricky Steamboat was announced as the newest member of the WWE Hall Of Fame. Of course, this led to Coachman running down Steamboat and the Dragon laying him out! Also, I heard people saying that Matt Hardy was outside meeting with fans before the show, but I didn't see him if he was.

Once April 3rd hits, the city of Boston wouldn't care if Larry Bird, Bob Cousy, and John Havlicek came out of retirement, were put in a time machine back to their primes, and led them to the finals. Boston is all about baseball.

I don't know about Marty working a top program with Bret, he had little to no charisma and couldn't cut heel promos. Yes he was a better, much smarter worker, but I don't know if he would have gotten as over as Shawn did

the Mets/Dodgers deal is official

from Meltzer's update today: --After his performance on Tuesday against Kurt Angle, WWE has signed Marty Jannetty to a contract. It is not 100%, but he is expected to be on the Raw side and interact in some form with Shawn Michaels

Michigan State pulling away. Don't know if Vermont has any more runs left in them.

I don't think we ever answered this one. Wasn't that Rick Rude when he tried to kiss Cheryl Roberts the first time? Here's one somebody's bound to get wrong because it's not the most obvious answer: "Jake Roberts wanted to be a lawyer but he could never pass the bar." Sunny at Survivor Series 96.

I never hated him, but he became stale around the time of the Earthquake feud. I always thought after the Warrior program, he could have at least made a few slight adjustments to his character and maybe do a few different things, but obviously he stayed on the same course.

Syracuse catches a big break there, 3.1 left with the game tied