Slickster

You must have missed the part where I said that the people who don't do this for fun usually DO get training. NCW members have been trained by NWA affiliates and XPW graduates (among others) and have even wrestled NWA champions. However, the vast majority do it for FUN and have little to no desire to go pro. I'm not a great wrestler by any means and am definitely not going to be a pro wrestler, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to get together with your friends, make up gimmicks, and have a good time wrestling. This isn't the place to go on another anti-backyard detour. Now, could you provide me with the answers to the questions I posed in the first post of this thread, or will I just have to ignore your future posts in this thread?

1) NCW's member feds are mostly about having fun, not about going pro. 2) However, a lot of our members have wrestlers who are either trained OR are actually pro wrestlers themselves.

Well, whaddya think?

Thing is, we're like the NWA Main Offices instead of a member promotion, so the way we do things is different.

No, Cena won the popular vote but GM Angle gave the award to JBL anyway.

Good ideas!

I run NCW (www.ncw1.tk), the world's biggest backyard wrestling organization. We've got 13 member feds around the world and we put out a 30min online show each week. Thing is, nobody seems to care. No one knows about us or about our member promotions. Does anyone have any ideas that could help NCW expand its audience? Thanks in advance!

They only beeped 'These Boots' due to Nancy Sinatra complaining.

I think it was the first table-breaking spot, yes.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS.

Hartford, CT

EXCELLENT point, man.

geocities.com/ogeesewrestling Go there the morning after the show.

Clinton invaded Iraq?

Why *did* Hall win WW3, anyway? He had been nothing but a tag team wrestler up to that point. Even after winning, he stayed in the tag team division with Nash until 5/98.

I always thought that was craptastic...all three rings not lined up with each other. It would've been cool to see someone get dumped out...but land in the other ring instead. Like the oldschool 2-ring battle royals....get tossed from Ring 1, go to Ring 2. It's a double-elimination match that I'm surprised nobody does anymore.

I disagree about winning WW3 as being a possible opportunity to build a new star. I mean, if they did the 'winner gets Starrcade shot' a la the 98 edition, then they'd have just one month to make them a credible challenger in the eyes of the fans. Compare to the WWE, where the Rumble winner has 2+ months of buildup to put heat on the match. Also, the Rumble has 30 guys all in one ring; you could get attacked by 29 other guys through the course of this match. Plus, it's an hourlong match full of constant action. World War 3 was just 3 battle royals right next to each other with only 19 other guys in each ring. You don't even TOUCH 30 or so of the other guys in the match (they're eliminated in other rings). You don't need stamina to win this match (all went around 26:00). All you need to do is hold onto the ropes/stay low to the ground to win, like in any battle royal. Bottom line: winning a Rumble requires Herculean effort, while World War 3 can be won with luck. I think any casual fan could see that then and can see it now.

Superstar Billy Graham as GM (in the vein of Jack Tunney) would rule.

SN was on at 6:05 for 15 years. It was moved to Saturday morning at 10 in 6/00, then killed in fall 00.

Still, this is fantastic!

I'd do the same thing. Interesting choices, all, especially SBVIII (The only SuperBrawl I'd actually want to see).

Billy Gunn (9) & Chuck Palumbo 02/21/02 Rockford Smackdown! Rikishi (2) & Rico 5/19/02 Judgement Day Billy Gunn (10) & Chuck Palumbo (2) 06/06/02 Oklahoma City Smackdown! They got 'married' in 9/02, so the comparison is still valid.

JR SNAPS!!

God damn. That's perfect.

I was just watching the WM7 main event before this, so this was surreal. I always mark for Sarge matches for some reason. EDIT: If Kane wins, it'll be the first time the World Title changed hands in Virginia since November 26, 1995 (when Savage won World War 3 in Norfolk).