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I had the same reaction. 1st one looked like a simple fuck-up, 2nd one looked intentional as hell. Why Mitsuhara did it, I have no idea.

Um... Etrigan? (In human form, at least.) Or any of the angellic versions of Lucifer. Gimmick-stealing motherfuckers. There already IS a tag-team called the Heartbreakers working the Southern region, they've been using that name for over two years, and it's a damn good team comprised of two guys called Larry Valentine and John Caesar.

Here's something amusing I pulled off of the DVDVR board, but I'm responding here cuz I'm not registered to post there and don't feel like doing so just for one thread. It's a letter that some guy wrote to Meltzer protesting all the awards ROH won in his year-end poll, and it's both kinda funny and spectacularly wrong-headed. I hate how any independent wrestling company that happens to run shows in Philadelphia always gets compared to ECW. The only thing that ECW and ROH have in common is that both employed Devito in a crappy tag team. He has a small point here, Joe does tend to beat the holy hell out of his opponents. But anyone who accepts a match with him should definitely know that by now. And how is ROH, with the top crowd attendance and tape sales in indy wrestling, just a "struggling indie"? Ya know what? I've helped book a lot of shows exactly like that. It's not easy, and it's not fun, but it's probably nowhere near as hard as what the ROH bosses have to go through. Just making travel arrangements to bring in guys from all over the world is a nightmare. Plus you've got to try and avoid shitting all over the various angles that various workers have going in other major indies around the country, keep all the guys happy with each other (hard to do with some of the best indy workers alive, since they do tend to have egos), and keep the product from getting stale. I think Gabe and his team have done a tremendous job overall. Well... except for the commentary, which ROH just never seems to get right, but nobody's perfect. Well, it's hard to argue with the financial geniuses behind massively profitable companies like Smokey Mountain and ECW. Yeah, ROH hasn't always done the best things for its championship. (One word: Xavier.) But at least they've actually built it up pretty well and made it really mean something. Plus it gets defended in more countries than either the WWE or Triple Crown titles, so it technically is more of a World championship than either of those. Name me ANY promotion in America besides the WWE that regularly draws over 1,000 people. Hell, for paid attendance ROH probably outdraws TNA on a show-by-show basis. Guess what, bunky: THEY DO. They work for ROH, IWA-MS, PWG, and any other company willing to hire them. Plus they've done tours in Japan, which is way more strenuous than the WWE's travelling schedule. Ooh, tough guy.

Yeah, that's what I meant. I've never understood Meltzer's insistance on claiming that MMA is a part of pro wrestling. It's not. Pro wrestling is fake. Mixed martial arts (in theory) is real. Wrestling feds and shootfight promoters should never compete for industry awards. (And yes, I know they fix some of the fights in PRIDE, but that's still the exception and not the rule).

I suppose this means that Brock either wants to wrestle in Japan or start a new career as a shootfighter? That's just way too broad for a no-compete clause. WWE doesn't compete with Pride, and McMahon damn well knows that. Methinks he was just trying to fuck over Lesnar for quitting. Hey Ace (or anyone else who knows international law), could Brock actually be punished by the American legal system if he went to work for, say, New Japan or Pride? Would a foreign government care about the WWE's no-compete clause?

Well, it's kinda sad, but hardly unexpected. At least it worked better than Mir. It's called dark MATTER ya dumbfuck. I knew a girl named Hubble who was the granddaughter of the guy they named the telescope after. That's all I got.

It was kinda gay, but most "coming of age" pics are. As corpse-themed movies go, I prefered River's Edge.

Well, glad to know you came thru it okay.

I heard some kind of legal entanglement over Rick James's music is delaying the release of the 2nd season dvds.

Didya have the aftertaste version of your life flashing before your eyes, or that "whoa" moment where your legs suddenly turn to liquid?

Sometimes I think this forum is one of the best wrestling-based collection of message boards on the entire Internet... ...then I come into HD and see threads like this.

::spit take:: Actually, it's LALI-ho... but the fact that you even remembered the reference just made my day.

You people are wacky. I've never really known many Hispanics. I hung out with Konnan one time... you can make your own "lazy Mexican" joke here.

People who don't tip at least a dollar deserve whatever they get. These service employees are merrily buttfucked by the restraunts who employ them for next to nothing, and they really do need their tips to survive. The only time I don't tip is when the service has just been spectacularly bad, or those rare times when the waiter is hostile or just disappears after taking your order.

I liked those too, damn this thread is bringing back memories. Anyone else remember Mark Hamill as The Prankster or something similar in a Flash episode? For that matter, does anyone else remember a half-hour Dracula show that used to air a decade ago? Basically a buncha kids trying to stop the Prince of Darkness, kind of a proto-Buffy, came on in the middle of the night.

Meltzer has always maintained that the Silverdome simply can't fit 93,000 people inside it. Having not been there and counted the chairs myself, I'm not certain which version to believe. But Vince coming out during Wrestlemania III and announcing the attendance figures was kinda suspicious, there's no way in hell they counted all the ticket sales that fast.

Christ, but this article did indeed piss me off. Time for a Dissection. Translation: "Flame on." Never reached his full potential? He made a living from wrestling, won numerous titles in different organizations, was a member of both the Horsemen and the NWO, was known to millions of people, and was widely loved and respected by the boys and fans alike. What more can a wrestler ask for? Uh, it wasn't like he was out forever and ever. Just three years. Less time than Shawn Michaels took off, in fact. Wrestling didn't change THAT much between '93 and '96. Are you gonna bitch about Flair wearing the same trunks for 30 years too? It was a fucking wrestling singlet, it's perfectly acceptable attire for a wrestler in any era. Clearly this guy is just some dumb fucking mark who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. His finisher was "just a suplex"... that he could (and did) hit on Paul Wight correctly. His microphone work was good enough to get entire arenas booing the shit out of him. You are right on one point: he was indeed a solid wrestler when healthy. He was frequently not-healthy because he was one of the best goddamn bumpers this business has ever seen, and would simply mutilate his own body to entertain the fans. Hennig was a better wrestler than everyone named here but Bret. (And maybe Flair.) And when did Valentine and Hall piss in your cornflakes to get named as examples of bad wrestlers? ...what was your point here? Yeah, he was mostly unsuccessful in WCW, that's cuz everyone not named Hogan or Nash was unsuccessful in WCW. Troll bullshit.

Jack Evans & Teddy Hart have a really slick variation on the Vegomatic that I always mark out for. Jack holds their opponent in backbreaker position, and Ted flattens them with a shooting star press. It is hard to believe as a legit move, but the SAT's Spanish Fly is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

I watched the match again, and damn you're right, it looked like Misawa was trying to fuckin' kill Kea on those last two moves. He dropped him right on the top of his head. (Digression: despite what some fanboys might tell you, it's actually pretty rare for a wrestler to really be dropped on his head. Workers create the illusion of headdrops by taking the impact on their shoulders, putting an arm down to block the move, or just rolling with it. The only real headdrop is one where the guy's arms are at his side and you can clearly see his cranium burying itself into the mat, which is pretty much what happened with Kea here.) On a second viewing, I liked the match even less. As interpromotional "dream" matches go, the Misawa/Chono vs. Kobashi/Taue match smoked this one like a cheap cigar.

Uh... UFC isn't pro wrestling. (At least, it's not supposed to be.)

Same here. I can chant, too.

True dat. I think that was the point with "O'Malley's Bar", to see just how ridiculously far he could take it.

Damn, Inc looks kinda like Jude Law in one of his "sexy dangerous" roles. Zack, I know you live the gimmick, but there's no way in hell that's not Gosselaar in that photo.

The problem with any budget cuts is that, for them to actually work, at least a few government programs have to be gutted or abolished. But, every government program tends to have some good points to it and does at least a little good work. So, budget cuts are gonna piss off a lot of people no matter how carefully they're applied. I still think the tax cuts were a dumb idea tho.

I got Murder Ballads and absolutely adored it, so I picked up that Best Of album, and ho boy, "disappointed" would be a vast understatement, it turned out to be nothing but mushy sentimental loves songs. What else has Cave done that's similar to Ballads? Fun fact: Cave is one of the few singers I can do a spot-on perfect karaoke of.