JHawk

Hulk Hogan vs. Bob Backlund (1984). Vince actually wanted Backlund to turn on Hogan, dye his hair black, and feud with Hogan for a while, but Backlund didn't want his image tarnished. The feud could have done very well as a three-month MSG program with the proper build-up.

As weird and cool as that would've been, probably best it didn't happen for WWF in the long run. The rematch probably would have drawn a hell of a lot more money at WrestleMania 2 than Hogan-Bundy did.

But they were already a publicly traded company with the Get the F Out campaign...and the Katie Vick angle...and the Kiss My Ass Club...

There's a place called the Skyway Drive in Akron, Ohio that's done up like one of those fifties-style drive-in diners. They have the best cheeseburgers I've ever tasted. Period. A cheeseburger so good, Jimmy Buffett rated it in his top ten when his boxed set first came out.

So the second thing TNA needs is to lose what makes them different from WWE? Are you sure you're not a McMahon.

Think about that one for a second. Really. One theory I remember being floated was that the match was rigged to be a steel cage match (since there was one above the ring and all), but that something must've screwed up, and it landed on the coal miner's glove match. As an aside, has there ever been a GOOD coal miner's glove match in wrestling history? The only way I could see it being interesting if one of the wrestlers uses a heart punch or an iron claw as a finisher. I've never seen a good coal miner's glove match (or a good anything on a pole match, for that matter). Also remember that they had chains for the chain match and barbed wire for the barbed wire match backstage as well at Havoc 92. I don't recall seeing any of that in 93.

Crede has 9. Hafner has 26. Doesn't that kinda make win shares seem extremely overrated considering where their respective teams are right now?

Travis Hafner not making it, especially with AJ making it, is ludicrous. The guy is in the top 5 in HR, third in RBI, and leading the league in walks, OBP, and slugging, and he doesn't get the nod? You'd think Ozzie Guillen was trying to make sure his own guys got the nod over more deserving players or something. Well, it wouldn't be the first time. Remember in the early 90s when Cito Gaston took seven Blue Jays to the All-Star Game when they were having a good but unspectacular year?

JR: "Umaga is wrestling...um...some guy who you won't see for six months." King: "Wow, he looks impressive JR."

I took the bug in the fourth one to be a cockroach. And like a cockroach, ECW just won't die (although the new version might finally do the trick). If that's actually a cockroach, then I like it. A lot. If not, it sucks.

Yeah, because getting rid of Johnson for a new fifth starter did the Indians a lot of good.

I think it was a random spin at Havc 92, but because it was such a horrible spectacle they rigged the wheel in 1993. I'm not positive on that though.

Perhaps its because he's always on the road and is overworked? He can't take two and a half hours to figure out how to get a gimmick over?

There's some good stuff there, but the fact that they have two non-wrestling segments on there that are longer than some of the matches worries me a bit.

That's never stopped Angle from coming back early "for the good of the company".

Which shows you exactly how well people remember that Ironman Match.

I'm still trying to figure out why everybody at WWE seems surprised that RVD got caught with marijuana in the first place.

If Edge wins the ECW title tonight, expect the riot we would have gotten had Cena won the title at One Night Stand.

Is the haircut necessary for the gimmick change? If it is (and from what I've seen it probably is), then get it cut. It's that simple. What, would Sgt. Slaughter have had Terry Daniels in the Cobra Corps if Daniels looked like a hippie?

Hey, can I call dibs next?

Sadly, kids would eat such a show up with a spoon if they actually thought of that.

The same way Mick Foley's wife gave him permission to fuck Barbara Eden if he gets the chance...completely out of thin air.

Does your fiancee know about the Stacy obses......I mean that Stacy love you have? Yes she does. In fact, I have permission to nail Stacy if the opportunity arises. She'd probably kill me I actually went through with it, but hey, she said I could.

Oh, it happened, my friend. Lesnar had injured Holly on SmackDown in 2002, so Holly needed the one year neck surgery layoff. When he returned, Brock was still champion, so Holly got the shot by proxy. It pissed a lot of the smarks off, but the storyline made perfect sense kayfabe-wise.

Batista has enough charisma to relate to the audience, which is part of why he's so over despite being an average power wrestler. Hell, my fiancee likes Batista, and I can count the number of wrestlers she's ever liked on both hands.