JHawk

Proof that Vince McMahon was a broadcasting god back in the day: Baron Mikel Scicluna is stomping SD Jones' arm (MSG 9/24/79): "The Baron is trying to blend his arm in with the mat!"

Sadly, it should have made perfect sense to anybody. Hogan had spent 11 years hulking up following the finish. Everybody's finishing move. It had happened to Savage at WrestleMania V. Stupid and unrealistic, yes, but anybody who had followed Hogan's career from 1984 on should have seen it coming.

Wasn't Ole the head booker at that time? So he's actually saying "I had the dumbest idea ever, but I decided to run with it anyway?" Maybe he's trying to pin it on Jim Herd.

The closest things are the Hall in Schenectady (sp?), NY and the Wrestling HOF in Newton, IA. I'm not sure howgood the NY one is, but the Newton HOF covers pro and amateur wrestling and was constantly visited by Lou Thesz before his death. But I don't think you'll ever see one specific HOF that encompasses all federations.

Basically, it's the one thing anybody remembers from Foley's first WCW run, and even Foley thinks it was probably his worst match. Mil Mascaras was brought in solely to draw crowds to some of the towns on a tour of South Texas, including that Clash in Corpus Christi. But Mascaras basically refuses to look "bad" for anybody, especially a low midcarder for WCW. The match was horrible, with Mascaras taking the weakest looking backbreaker ever and Cactus heading to the apron for the big elbow. But by the time Cactus turns around, Mil's already in the ring. He dropkicks Foley, who does the Nestea plunge off the apron and bounces his head off the floor. Cornette sells the fall on commentary as if Cactus should be dead...and Cactus returning to the ring as if he's amazed Cactus isn't dead. Basically, it's infamous because Mascaras refused to sell anything, so nobody remembers anything about it except Foley's fall, which still makes me cringe everytime I see it.

I actually went from a 10 to a 16 without ever moving. Damn added area codes.

Then there's people like me who don't like Bonds but would have rather seen the actual milestone live than on tape delay. But if they're going to cut away from the game for Bonds, they should have for Johnson too.

Niether can I. I've never seen someone say "x player is more important than his sport" and seriously mean it. I'm not going to get into an argument with you since you're more delusional in your battles than the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but give me one example where anybody said Bonds was more important than baseball. And don't quote a post about it being history or about the moment. Since you said "player", I want an example of the player. Point taken on the Johnson thing though, but baseball has always been under the belief than home runs sell better than pitching.

He says on the first page that not everything is 100% accurate, as most of the info is sent to him from other people. And there's still the fact Austin was working FULL-TIME in USWA, and could've been in that hot feud with Chris Adams at the time. It could have been a tryout match. Does anybody have that show on tape? Maybe they can tell us if a fairly well put together young man with long blonde hair got his ass kicked by The Rockers for less than three minutes.

Nobody's mentioned Hulk Hogan getting dragged around backstage by The Undertaker's motorcycle? Or the motorcycle not starting during a climatic chase scene? That feud was a perfect demonstration of unintentional comedy.

So Nova's playing a character named "Simon Dean"... ...and Dean Malenko's real name is "Dean Simon"... Coincidence? Will he use a Texas cloverleaf and start trying to fuck Lita? Tune into Raw to find out!

That's probably the match in question I'm thinking off from the tape. I remember that match, purely for Mil's non-selling of a backbreaker, and Cornette's great commentary. "Oh no! Cactus Jack is dead!"

IIRC, Foley used the "Manson" name for most of his ten month run in Dallas...at least when he wasn't doing double duty as Zodiac II. He was also "Cactus Jack Manson" for the infamous Clash X match with Mil Mascaras.

Thursday California at Southern Miss Friday Connecticut at Boston College Saturday Nebraska at Pittsburgh San Diego State at Michigan Maryland at West Virginia TCU at Texas Tech Ohio State at N.C. State Oregon at Oklahoma LSU at Auburn Wisconsin at Arizona UAB at Florida State Notre Dame at Michigan State Clemson at Texas A&M UCLA at Washington Florida at Tennessee USC at BYU Minnesota at Colorado State Tiebreaker #1: How many total points will be scored in the Connecticut/Boston College game? 49 Tiebreaker #2: How many yards rushing will Cal's J.J. Arrington have against Southern Miss? 140

You've combined the opening promo with the Mean Gene interview. Savage: "I'm gonna make some boot and belts out of that creature!" Okerlund: "Damien? You're going to skin Damien?" Savage: "No, I'm talking about I'm gonna get me a Jakeskin belt, yeah."

Pretty much any heel in Philly. Halloween Havoc 92 is probably the best example of this, with Michael Hayes, Arn Anderson, and Bobby Eaton getting absolutely amazing pops throughout their match with Shane Douglas, Johnny Gunn, and Tom Zenk.

Really, how can you go against these teams this early into the season? Especially considering the teams they're playing this week aren't at their level. As for the other games, it came down to "ranked team v. unranked team", so people didn't want to risk their points on an underdog that most of us are in the dark on (Troy and CSU, for example). I'm actually surprised Notre Dame didn't at least get a handful of votes, as I don't expect that game to suck.

I could have sworn I picked Boise State since I have them marked in my notes. I really need to proofread my notes. But on the bright side, I can pretty much ignore the rest of the weekend since Florida State seems incapable of beating Miami anymore.

Paul Heyman: "Able to leap tall cruiserweights in a single bound. More powerful than a locoluchador. Look, JR, up in the ring! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's The Hurricane!"

Joel "So Large It's Hard Not Hurtin' Her" Gertner

Where they part of the price decrease? Yes they were. You can also try Circuit City, as I know the one I work out still has a couple left and we don't have it listed as out of program yet.

Probably Hulk Hogan-Andre the Giant from WrestleMania III. Just because I have it on about six different tapes and DVDs at this point since they keep re-releasing it.

Unforgiven 2001 Chris Jericho: "So tomorrow's your birthday, huh? How old are you, 37, 38 years old?" Stephanie McMahon: "I'm 25." Jericho: "I asked you how old you are, not how many men you've been with the last week."

I haven't mentioned when the column has gone up in a while, but I think it's my best work in months.

Who's trying to kill you, Mr. Donutheadman? I dunno, but they'd better not.