JHawk

Jim Cornette at Clash of the Champions X, about The Samoan Savage during his match with Steve Williams: "He's so ugly he has to ambush breakfast."

1. Somebody's got to play the heel when you're working with Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper, and Savage had been wrestling as a heel prior to the retirement. Would you really want Vince, Piper, and Savage all favoring the faces at once? 2. Since Tugboat's turn just kinda happened and never involved Hogan, I have no idea if they were trying to foreshadow it or not. A similar incident had happened at the Royal Rumble that year with no fanfare too. They did have one match that made a Coliseum Video though. 3. Perfect was I-C Champion, and Valentine was still early in his babyface run (which might explain why he was in that long), but Davey Boy might have been a better choice for last man eliminated.

Raw from JHawk's Beak (5/17/2004) You guys all know the deal by now, right?

ECW on TNN (just after the change to "The National Network" -- and this is paraphrased except for the "punchline"): Joey Styles: "Do you realize that when TNN becomes "The National Network", their slogan is going to be 'We've got pop'." Joel Gertner: "That's still better than their original slogan. 'TNN. We fuck pigs'."

I'll admit Steinbrenner's better now than he was 10-12 years ago (hell, back then Torre would have been fired the second the D'Backs won the 2001 World Series), but he's still a jackass. Cleveland fans have a general rule. You're allowed to be a jackass as long as you play well for us. The second you leave and badmouth the city, fuck you. Ask Manny Ramirez and Albert Belle about that one.

Then why are you a Steinbrenner fan?

They did an angle to build up to it where Benoit, Kane, and Taker went against each other in various combinations to determine a number one contender, but since all of the matches ended in DQ instead of pinfall or submission, Commissioner Mick Foley gave all of them the title shot.

I've been waiting for Roy Jones Jr. to get knocked out for years. Great fighter, but such an arrogant punk that I couldn't wait for someone to take him out. Antonio Tarver is my new hero! I can't wait for the HBO replay next week.

I hope Barkley paid to watch that fight.

On Raw during the Kane/Taker-Austin/HHH feud: Heyman: "Kane should not be allowed to use that cast as a weapon!" JR: "Why don't you go tell him that? You're not doing anything!" Heyman: "Because he scares the hell out of me. And I'm a fearless man!"

I guess Zmuda's hosting a dinner in the event Kaufman shows up (there was an AP article on yahoo a couple of days ago, the link escapes me for the time being). Do you think people will ask for their money back when they find out kaufman's actually dead?

You'd have to double check cawthon's site for sure, but he lost to Ted DiBiase on The Ultimate Challenge Special airing the week before WrestleMania VI (taped around March 10 or so), and I don't remember him being on WWF TV after that until he came back as "Terrific" Terry Taylor in 1992.

During a Tito Santana match in his El Matador days: Monsoon: "There it is! El Paso del Morte!" Heenan: "El Paso del Pace Picante?"

NWA World Wide Wrestling circa 1990: A fan at ringside is flipping off Terry Funk. JR: "That guy must like Funk, he's giving him half a peace sign. Either that or he's telling him he's number 1."

Without a new Tough Enough on the horizon anytime soon, it wouldn't make any sense to keep harping on that. Which is exactly why they will.

Wasn't "Real American" originally supposed to be for them, but ultimately got shifted to Hogan for whatever reason? (I always thought it was because Windham left, and took a lot of the credibility of the team with him, but I might have made that up). Exactly. Windham left around October or November 1985 IIRC, and Rotundo actually went with him (or a month or two later) before returning a few months later and teaming with Dan Spivey. Windham and Rotundo wrestled as a team at the AWA's Wrestlerock event on 4/20/86, and Rotundo was wrestling WWF shows by June or July again.

Royal Rumble 88, after Vince McMahon got down on Jesse Ventura about his grammar. Ventura: "McMahon, this is cable. I can say 'ain't'."

Joey Styles: "Al Snow got a little head and finally got some respect. Yes, I said it. I think it's funny. And if my mom's listening... ::very meekly:: Sorry Mom."

That's possible. But it's not like someone's out there downloading every match Israel Matia ever had either. I know damn well that there's a market for all those MSG shows that aired on the MSG Network, and he might release one MSG match as a DVD extra...and there were usually better matches on that card.

So would I. But I'd also look at what some people were downloading or buying off ebay and going "Maybe I ought to release that for commercial sale." Vince McMahon hasn't quite figured that part out yet.

I might like the Eddy-JBL match. Mostly because I'll be at BW3 and probably on my fourth or fifth beer at that point.

I'm sure there will be tickets available the night of the show. But you'll be behind me. Front row baby!

Dammt Laz,you're gonna make me read the Torch site to actually get a full review!

I've said it before, but since the question's been asked: The main reason I do straight play-by-play is simple. When I was trying to pay rent during school I couldn't afford things like food, much less cable, so I couldn't watch anything except SmackDown and whatever syndicated show I could get on my antenna that week. That meant I was relying on the internet to follow the cable shows, and even back then Scott Keith was a rather lazy writer, so I'd get the result but no sense of what actually happened. The only recapper I could find that did enough to give me a feel for the show was CRZ. I didn't need to read the interviews word for word, but the PBP of the matches was appreciated. So basically, I write for the people that didn't see the show. If you saw it and just want my opinion, that's what the commercial break paragraph is for. Theoretically, everybody should be happy. As far as using star ratings...well, I'd rather not use them since A) people always bitch about them, and B) It's not usually that hard to figure out if I like something or not, but without using them you always get e-mails asking "Why don't you rate matches?" and I got tired of answering them. Sometimes I'm lazy and forget to explain the rating, but I try to respond to it when called out on it.

No love for Badstreet USA?