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Masking agents can be detected. It's only the cheap tests that'll be fooled by that. In response to justcoz, we don't know if the tests are random or not. That's because the WWE is so damned secretive about the whole process and refuses to discuss anything about it with the public. Why do you think they tell us that Benoit passed his April screening, but won't tell us exactly what his testosterone levels were? Or what the results of any of his OTHER drug tests were? Between a drug testing policy that's not hard to fool and an obvious reliance on big guys with ridonkulous big muscular bodies, the WWE sends a pretty clear signal that using hormone supplements is A-OK.

That's extremely white indy worker Nikki Roxx, who basically got handed a gimmick and told to "go be weird".

1. The allowed level of testosterone is higher than any other similar steroid testing policy. 2. If you've got a prescription, you get a free pass, no matter what or how much you're taking. 3. They don't actually watch the guys pee. It's easy to substitute someone else's urine. This isn't a policy designed to actually catch drug users. It's a legal cover-my-ass to point to and claim that they're policing the locker room while still allowing the steroid mutants to rise to the top of the card. And they didn't even do THAT much until Eddie's death forced the issue.

Just don't try to ford any rivers. That NEVER works.

You guys are all fucking spoiled. Half of those shows sounded good by REAL outlaw indy standards. First of all, pretty much all of you could name at least one well-known wrestler on the card. Hah! That's not a shit show. I've both seen and worked shows where: 1. There was not a single recognizable face on the card 2. Intermissions were frequent, and often lasted twenty minutes or more 3. A small plastic cup of cola from the concessions cost $2 4. There WERE no concessions 5. None of the guys had boots or tights 6. None of the guys were above the age of, oh, twenty-seven 7. The ring was homemade. Yeah, you read that right. 8. They featured a cage match, and people literally had to push on the sides of the "cage" throughout the match so it would stay up 9. Wrestlers attacked fans and vice-versa 10. Rigged raffles were held with a secretly pre-determined winner, people basically spent money on nothing and didn't know it 11. Half the locker room were obviously on drugs 12. The ENTIRE locker room was obviously on drugs 13. Incompetent referees botch finishes, incompetent announcers say wrong stuff, incompetent music kids play the wrong cds, incompetent security guys don't do a damn thing to prevent fights, and incompent workers doing their best to break each other's necks.

No, there's really not much more they can do. It would help if they had a REAL drug testing policy instead of the easily beatable bullshit that they've got now. I was just saying Doyle was naming ridiculously over-the-top examples where the WWE would've been legally liable if they hadn't done anything.

Yeah, I'm not a fan. I'm a former TV play-by-play announcer on a local cable access show at midnight, so I'm different and better than all the rest of you peons, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD JINGUS.

It's pretty proven that the only way to REALLY spike ratings is to get a Real Superstar (Hogan, Austin, the nWo as a whole) and then surround them with interesting supporting cast that we haven't seen a million times already (Piper, Rock, Crow Sting) and a few interesting feuds that are kinda new and unique while still basically following the established formulas (Hogan vs. Andre, Austin vs. McMahon, WCW vs. nWo), and then ride the gravy train til the wheels come off.

EXCELLENT point. I get real sick and tired of hearing "Rey is too small to be a top guy" or "Joe is fat". You've been brainwashed to believe exactly what Vince wants you to about Bigger Iz Better, idiots.

Ross shouldn't have talked to the reporters, period. Apparently he was the ONLY person who did. No, you can't force reporters to go away and not cover a story. I was shaking my head at the absurdity of that one. Pete Doyle's "look, the WWE does help people!" examples are stupid. According to him, a person has to be literally falling down and verbally incoherent, BEFORE they work the show (because from what I've heard, being so afterward isn't uncommon) before they're sent to rehab. Uh-huh. That kind of ignores all the functioning addicts who hide their symptoms, all the steroid-related heart attacks, all that kinds of stuff.

Still, the shows of that time period lost even more money than usual for ECW. Artistic success or not, Dreamer was a financial failure as a booker. Whether he COULD have succeeded or not is debatable, but he didn't.

The time when they lost their TV deal, PPV buys dropped like a rock, and the company went out of business?

Well, thanks for the apology at least.

Oh yeah, KBV2 already had a couple problems with slow pacing, that utterly superfluous scene just stopped the movie dead in its tracks for no real reason. No, her very first line at the beginning of the first movie was "Bill, it's your baby::BANG::" The deleted scenes that they stuck back in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now are almost all completely unnecessary, and it's pretty obvious why they were cut out in the first place. Especially the ENDLESS, shrill, and incredibly boring sequence at the French plantation.

Saturn is done. He got stabbed in the back a few years ago to, I believe. No, he was shot three times in the neck. Basically, he stumbled over some dudes raping a woman in an alley and went Batman on them. They shot him. He said "Yahtzee! You're welcome," and continued kicking their asses til he saved the chick. I might've slightly embellished some details there, but that's basically what happened. And then he rehabbed for a year to get back into shape... only right before Hardcore Homecoming he suffered a broken neck, not sure if it was in training or during a match. I haven't heard much about him since then, so I guess it's safe to say he's not coming back to wrestling.

And that's what happens when a naturally skinny guy stops taking steroids. You just can't look like that all the time without a little extra help.

Nobody can seem to find the actual link to this alleged list. I'm calling shenanigans.

Search on youtube for Giant Singh (Great Khali) vs. Giant Silva for one that was even worse.

4 hours? I can't even get 1/3 of the way out of my state in 4 hrs. Sometimes I wish I lived in some of the smaller states on the east coast for that very reason. Yeah, having just moved to Texas, you don't realize how damn big this state is until you see it personally, like Khali unnatural freaky big. I live north of Dallas, and for someone to drive from here to Scarlett's hometown would take almost as long as it would for me to drive all the way back to Tennessee. Although, the specific drive GZ is talking about ain't fun, Atlanta is a traffic nightmare and all the interstates going to and from it are pretty bland and don't have near enough rest stops.

Khali's actually bumped about as many times as I can count on my fingers. He literally can't do it much because of his freakish physique, he'd actually break stuff internally if he did. And yeah, Gigante's entire offense consisted of lame forearm slaps to the back, but at least he looked slightly light on his feet, and not like he's always half a second away from tripping and falling like Khali frequently does. Plus, he'd actually sell his opponent's offense. (Awaiting "big guys R invincible and shouldn't sell!" argument.)

Actually, I see a lot in common between Gigante and Khali.

I founded it, I'm the root admin. Of course, it's mostly a figurehead deal, IllustriousOne does all the tech work and provides the server space. But I tell all the hot Pit groupies that I'm the power behind the throne. Nothing like the phrase "I run a wrestling message board!" to charm the pants off chicks.

Well, this is the first time I've really directly addressed you in, uh, a while, don't remember the exact length of time. But, Frigid: I'm really not that mad at you anymore. Oh I was, a LOT, but, hell, I've had people who I was a lot closer with do shit to me that was a lot worse since then, so between that and the classic "time heals all wounds" my apathy has pretty firmly settled in. As for Czech, I've never had a problem with him. I don't know why he has such a problem with the Pit. I keep the green design he made because I think it looks cool and it makes the board look different from all the other cookie-cutter Invisionboards.

Haven't yet. Remember, I originally founded the damn place just because I thought that banning people from a message board was stupid. Not for any political reasons, that all happened as a coincedental side effect. (Personally, like Invader, I have very little confidence in the vast majority of all politicians regardless of which side they're on.)

That, and the fact that the entire Invasion was booked so poorly from start to finish that your average ten-year-old kid who writes inane letters to Apter magazines could've planned it better.