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Is this true? If so, Feinstein has had a bad week. Today's Weekly Gong reported that recently PRIDE won in a lawsuit against an American video company "RF Video" who illegally produced and sold PRIDE pirate videotapes. The court judged the president Robert Feinstein to pay PRIDE compensation for damage of ten million dollars within five years divided two million dollars per year. It is said that PRIDE has had huge amount of deficit for past few years and this compensation can be recouped these deficit for the organization credit - Puroresu.com

Monday I believe.

I wonder if Rf is watching south park... SEXUAL HARASSMENT PANDA! Rob..touching little boys makes me a SSSSSSAAAAAAAADDDD PANDA

Show retired Hogan now?

I think Low-Ki is in the background.

http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=871&p=1 World Championship Wrestling had a tremendous success during its run in the late 1990s. The promotion was on fire, fueled by the New World Order angle and propped up by the likes of incredible Cruiserweight workers such as Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit. The company was the hottest ticket in town at one point, beat the hell out of Monday Night Raw in the ratings, and featured an amazing collection of stars. For fans, performers, and company employees alike, it was magic. The magic was gone soon enough. High priced contracts and silly demands soon bloated the once-successful finances of the promotion. Politics kept new stars from breaking out while the top stars got older and less mobile within the ring. Fresh gimmicks drew stale. The work horses of the company soon left for the richer pastures of the WWF. Management turned into a mess with Eric Bischoff, Bill Busch, Vince Russo and the like bouncing around quicker than underlings knew which ass to kiss in a given moment. We all know the end result of the WCW story. The company died. Vince McMahon cherry picked what he wanted like a haggler at a Sunday morning flea market and ran away with it before WCW's staff knew what hit them. Those who were left behind in the dust had to come to terms with the idea that their dream jobs were gone. They had to live with life without wrestling and may actually have had to get legitimate jobs outside of the business. There were production people, management people, and others who were left on the outside looking in as WCW imploded, with neither the power nor the ability to transverse the changes in the business and secure themselves a position in the WWF. Once WCW died, there were many who spoke out about the problems of the company. It was the political cliques that killed the company! It was the worthless talent being paid while the youngsters were held down! We wanted to do better but we were thwarted by the evil management! We knew the company was being run like a joke but we were powerless to do anything! It was that damn Russo! That damn Busch! That damn Bischoff! That damn AOL-Time Warner merger! That damn Jamie Kellner! Damn that TBS! In other words, it was anyone but themselves. They all spoke out publicly, spinning their reasoning for the failure, pointing the fingers at others and in the case of some, promising they would never again allow their public comments to be clouded by company loyalty to the point of ridiculousness. It was time to move on for all. But have they? NWA: TNA has been in existence for well over a year. The promotion, which features a number of the old WCW names in management and creative positions, has a tired feel to it. There is no sense of excitement to the promotion. It often comes off as a tired retread of a style that was popularized in the late 1990s during the Monday Night Wars. The problem with that is there seems to be many within the company who are still fighting the war. Like the Japanese soldiers found lost on remote Islands decades after World War II was over still believing their homeland was fighting the good fight, NWA: TNA seems mired in the muck of a promotion and a product that not only failed, but died three years ago. The names have changed, but the faces remain the same. So do their sins against the industry. NWA: TNA recently paraded the fact that the promotion was given the "Most Innovative Company of 2003" award from Bill Apter's Total Wrestling Magazine, but what have they innovated? We have announcers being fired and re-hired, non-athletic non-wrestlers in prominent pushed positions at the expense of the rest of the crew, haphazard booking decisions, reminders that you are the underling in the business with constant references to WWE, the promotion grabbing any WWF castoff they can, and retreads of tired gimmicks that worked better in the WWF years ago pushed with more prominence than younger, more athletic stars. Ultimate X matches and endless tournament gimmicks aside, if innovation was recreating the same environment that helped turns fan off of World Championship Wrestling, TNA had the award locked up for the next decade as long as they continue down this familiar, tired yellow brick road. There's only one problem with this yellow brick road. There's no Emerald City at the end, only oblivion. There continues to be more and more ruffled feathers among some in the company who continue to see the more talented performers shafted in order to accommodate bigger names with less of an upside. With the notable exception of Raven, who is credited with working hard and trying to assist some of the lesser known names by doing programs with them, those who on paper are the best logical investments in the long-term future of the company are treated as the least important. Just like WCW, the workhorses of the promotion are the afterthoughts while the "Good Old Boys" network is back in power. The ghosts of WCW have returned to life, only now it's the same people who pointed the fingers at others completely responsible at the helm. On this past week's edition of NWA: TNA, Lex Luger made his return to the promotion. After being tagged with a $5,000 pricetag for his debut appearance months ago, Luger cut his asking price down to $2,500 per appearance. Luger returned with no fanfare and no build to press slam AJ Styles and lock him in a torture rack. With Styles again sacrificed to Luger, one starts to wonder who sees the upside in the situation aside from those who immediately profit from the company. Styles, who has been looked to by the promotion as their golden boy and praised as someone who once turned down a WWE developmental deal in order to build his name with TNA, has been the epitome of a good soldier for TNA from day one. He has had to endure senseless turns, a NWA championship run where his manager (Vince Russo) was a larger focal point than Styles himself, as well as the weight of the company on his shoulders when he was (with Jerry Lynn and Low Ki), among those who put the promotion on the map with their X-Division. This past week, Styles wrestled for 11 minutes, going through two tables and putting his body on the line in order to have the best match he could. His price tag with the company is reportedly much less than half of what Luger got for his run-in and attack at the end. There's something grossly unfair about that. Think about it this way: on one side of the scale, you have Styles, who is among the best investments the promotion has made since day one, as he is young, athletic, a decent talker, a great wrestler, and by all accounts, a true company man. He's also turned down numerous Japanese tours and the money that goes with them since he is under a TNA contract. He's taken the NWA belt with him on different independent bookings to raise awareness of the company. On the other hand, you have a bloated, aged Luger who's best days in the ring were being carried by Ric Flair, Barry Windham, and Ricky Steamboat over a decade ago in 1989. He is a former World champion and PPV headliner, but name one great Lex Luger match against anyone other than the aforementioned three? What swell of interest was there for his last TNA bout beyond outrage from hardcore critics over his booking? Honestly, Luger's last television exposure was on WWE Confidential during a 911 telephone call regarding the death of Elizabeth Hullette. His better days are well behind him. Who would you invest in for your company's future? Who has the greatest upside? Well, by the actions of TNA managment, Lex Luger would be your man. As long as Dixie Carter oversees a company that allows its future to be determined by names that no longer have the upside they once did at the expense of building and creating new stars, much less blazing a new trail with their own sense of identity and style, the clock is ticking on the company. WCW had hours of television ratings, house show business, merchandise sales, and a fanbase in their defense, which kept the company afloat. TNA has a weekly PPV (buyrates unknown) in a small building on the Nashville Fairgrounds. To be fair, complimentary tickets are easy to come by. The promotion has been outdrawn at the gate by Ring of Honor, a company that has no television exposure whatsoever in its own short-lived existence. Carter is either having the wool pulled over her eyes by those who should know better but are protecting their interests, or is content playing the role of ATM Dixie. Yes, Carter saved NWA: TNA from extinction when the promotion ran into its early money problems by aligning TNA with her family's company, Panda Energy. While Carter should be applauded for her efforts in finding TNA their money backers (making Panda the 2004 version of WCW's Turner Broadcasting), it appears that she has done as much to contribute to the current TNA issues as much as she did to salvage the promotion from death. Much like Eric Bischoff who brought WCW to near-dominance of the business only to create the issues that killed it, Carter has sent the promotion down the start of a similar road. While there are those who are busting their butts in the ring like Juventud Guerrera (at reportedly $300 an appearance), others who are doing much, much less are making much more just based off their past history. BG James is making a reported $1000 a shot, which in last week's case was to do commentary. Jeff Jarrett makes triple that according to some sources. While he has a number of responsibilities with the promotion and is the nucleus of its management, he should also realize that the excesses of WCW will catch up to TNA a lot quicker since they have no following to start with beyond whoever is ordering the PPVs and if that was anything to brag about, TNA would be bragging. This is professional wrestling, after all. Things have to change. The ghost of WCW has landed in Nashville and it's not going to go away without a full housecleaning of the political landscape and new plan of attack for their long-term business. It's time to stop investing in talent who's better days are behind them in lieu of hard working performers like AJ Styles, America's Most Wanted, and Abyss. One can make an argument for the likes of Jerry Lynn and D-Lo Brown, but the likes of Luger and some of the others? There is just no chance of getting back the investment TNA is putting into these "bigger" names, not when you are trying to build a brand that has proven to have no buzz, and has minuscule, if any, revenue streams at this point. I have no doubt that there are many within TNA who want to make the company succeed, including some of the names of the aforementioned. However there are real questions that only those involved and time itself can answer: *Do they want TNA to succeed so they have their own continued cash cow or because they have a passion for not just the company, but the business itself? *Are they willing to accept the fact that they have become the new "Old Boys Network" and things need to change? *Can the promotion find an identity and a crew of workers to build a real foundation as opposed to mortgaging their mansion on tired retreads? It can be done. Look at Ring of Honor as proof. *What will they do when just like WCW, the more talented and harder working underpaid workers leave for promises of better money and pushes elsewhere? *Does the management care enough about the company to rethink things and build a buzz for the company before time runs out? *If time does run out, are they willing to take the blame if it falls apart on them this time, or will it always be "someone else's fault?" NWA: TNA has two hours a week to give fans their $10 weekly investment back with more than that money's worth in entertainment. If the company doesn't want to get the most out of those they invest in themselves, can they care enough to give back to what little fans are supporting their upstart promotion? Mike Johnson can be reached at [email protected].

Brock is Bare Naked...better watch out for Rob Feinstein.

CBS Evening News just had a piece on Perverted Justice.

I'll be in GA..on the bleachers, but like I said..tickets need to come first

Low-Ki posted something about not, but he was done with the company anyways.

Signs arent welcome at ROH unless your row 1 or last row, no blocking people's views like WWE. And I'll be at 3/13 if the police deems it safe to send me my tickets sitting in Langhorne at the RF offices...

From Last Month... RFWrestling (10:23:27 PM): the only court I know about just went out of BUSINESS Not anymore Rob..

So...should I expect my 3/13 tickets I ordered Sunday night?

http://www.declarationofindependents.net/d...cpinions17.html

http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=935&p=1

Gabe had said ROH will be fine no matter what.

http://users3.ev1.net/~neighbor311/RFexposed.wmv

What the fuck....this better not affect ROH.. Cmon Gabe..BUY IT!

I mean he wont be able to do the match with a crowd because of conflicting schedules. Thats why it is empty arena.

Corino wont be in the US for any scheduled ROH shows.

http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=871&p=1 World Championship Wrestling had a tremendous success during its run in the late 1990s. The promotion was on fire, fueled by the New World Order angle and propped up by the likes of incredible Cruiserweight workers such as Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit. The company was the hottest ticket in town at one point, beat the hell out of Monday Night Raw in the ratings, and featured an amazing collection of stars. For fans, performers, and company employees alike, it was magic. The magic was gone soon enough. High priced contracts and silly demands soon bloated the once-successful finances of the promotion. Politics kept new stars from breaking out while the top stars got older and less mobile within the ring. Fresh gimmicks drew stale. The work horses of the company soon left for the richer pastures of the WWF. Management turned into a mess with Eric Bischoff, Bill Busch, Vince Russo and the like bouncing around quicker than underlings knew which ass to kiss in a given moment. We all know the end result of the WCW story. The company died. Vince McMahon cherry picked what he wanted like a haggler at a Sunday morning flea market and ran away with it before WCW's staff knew what hit them. Those who were left behind in the dust had to come to terms with the idea that their dream jobs were gone. They had to live with life without wrestling and may actually have had to get legitimate jobs outside of the business. There were production people, management people, and others who were left on the outside looking in as WCW imploded, with neither the power nor the ability to transverse the changes in the business and secure themselves a position in the WWF. Once WCW died, there were many who spoke out about the problems of the company. It was the political cliques that killed the company! It was the worthless talent being paid while the youngsters were held down! We wanted to do better but we were thwarted by the evil management! We knew the company was being run like a joke but we were powerless to do anything! It was that damn Russo! That damn Busch! That damn Bischoff! That damn AOL-Time Warner merger! That damn Jamie Kellner! Damn that TBS! In other words, it was anyone but themselves. They all spoke out publicly, spinning their reasoning for the failure, pointing the fingers at others and in the case of some, promising they would never again allow their public comments to be clouded by company loyalty to the point of ridiculousness. It was time to move on for all. But have they? NWA: TNA has been in existence for well over a year. The promotion, which features a number of the old WCW names in management and creative positions, has a tired feel to it. There is no sense of excitement to the promotion. It often comes off as a tired retread of a style that was popularized in the late 1990s during the Monday Night Wars. The problem with that is there seems to be many within the company who are still fighting the war. Like the Japanese soldiers found lost on remote Islands decades after World War II was over still believing their homeland was fighting the good fight, NWA: TNA seems mired in the muck of a promotion and a product that not only failed, but died three years ago. The names have changed, but the faces remain the same. So do their sins against the industry. NWA: TNA recently paraded the fact that the promotion was given the "Most Innovative Company of 2003" award from Bill Apter's Total Wrestling Magazine, but what have they innovated? We have announcers being fired and re-hired, non-athletic non-wrestlers in prominent pushed positions at the expense of the rest of the crew, haphazard booking decisions, reminders that you are the underling in the business with constant references to WWE, the promotion grabbing any WWF castoff they can, and retreads of tired gimmicks that worked better in the WWF years ago pushed with more prominence than younger, more athletic stars. Ultimate X matches and endless tournament gimmicks aside, if innovation was recreating the same environment that helped turns fan off of World Championship Wrestling, TNA had the award locked up for the next decade as long as they continue down this familiar, tired yellow brick road. There's only one problem with this yellow brick road. There's no Emerald City at the end, only oblivion. There continues to be more and more ruffled feathers among some in the company who continue to see the more talented performers shafted in order to accommodate bigger names with less of an upside. With the notable exception of Raven, who is credited with working hard and trying to assist some of the lesser known names by doing programs with them, those who on paper are the best logical investments in the long-term future of the company are treated as the least important. Just like WCW, the workhorses of the promotion are the afterthoughts while the "Good Old Boys" network is back in power. The ghosts of WCW have returned to life, only now it's the same people who pointed the fingers at others completely responsible at the helm. On this past week's edition of NWA: TNA, Lex Luger made his return to the promotion. After being tagged with a $5,000 pricetag for his debut appearance months ago, Luger cut his asking price down to $2,500 per appearance. Luger returned with no fanfare and no build to press slam AJ Styles and lock him in a torture rack. With Styles again sacrificed to Luger, one starts to wonder who sees the upside in the situation aside from those who immediately profit from the company. Styles, who has been looked to by the promotion as their golden boy and praised as someone who once turned down a WWE developmental deal in order to build his name with TNA, has been the epitome of a good soldier for TNA from day one. He has had to endure senseless turns, a NWA championship run where his manager (Vince Russo) was a larger focal point than Styles himself, as well as the weight of the company on his shoulders when he was (with Jerry Lynn and Low Ki), among those who put the promotion on the map with their X-Division. This past week, Styles wrestled for 11 minutes, going through two tables and putting his body on the line in order to have the best match he could. His price tag with the company is reportedly much less than half of what Luger got for his run-in and attack at the end. There's something grossly unfair about that. Think about it this way: on one side of the scale, you have Styles, who is among the best investments the promotion has made since day one, as he is young, athletic, a decent talker, a great wrestler, and by all accounts, a true company man. He's also turned down numerous Japanese tours and the money that goes with them since he is under a TNA contract. He's taken the NWA belt with him on different independent bookings to raise awareness of the company. On the other hand, you have a bloated, aged Luger who's best days in the ring were being carried by Ric Flair, Barry Windham, and Ricky Steamboat over a decade ago in 1989. He is a former World champion and PPV headliner, but name one great Lex Luger match against anyone other than the aforementioned three? What swell of interest was there for his last TNA bout beyond outrage from hardcore critics over his booking? Honestly, Luger's last television exposure was on WWE Confidential during a 911 telephone call regarding the death of Elizabeth Hullette. His better days are well behind him. Who would you invest in for your company's future? Who has the greatest upside? Well, by the actions of TNA managment, Lex Luger would be your man. As long as Dixie Carter oversees a company that allows its future to be determined by names that no longer have the upside they once did at the expense of building and creating new stars, much less blazing a new trail with their own sense of identity and style, the clock is ticking on the company. WCW had hours of television ratings, house show business, merchandise sales, and a fanbase in their defense, which kept the company afloat. TNA has a weekly PPV (buyrates unknown) in a small building on the Nashville Fairgrounds. To be fair, complimentary tickets are easy to come by. The promotion has been outdrawn at the gate by Ring of Honor, a company that has no television exposure whatsoever in its own short-lived existence. Carter is either having the wool pulled over her eyes by those who should know better but are protecting their interests, or is content playing the role of ATM Dixie. Yes, Carter saved NWA: TNA from extinction when the promotion ran into its early money problems by aligning TNA with her family's company, Panda Energy. While Carter should be applauded for her efforts in finding TNA their money backers (making Panda the 2004 version of WCW's Turner Broadcasting), it appears that she has done as much to contribute to the current TNA issues as much as she did to salvage the promotion from death. Much like Eric Bischoff who brought WCW to near-dominance of the business only to create the issues that killed it, Carter has sent the promotion down the start of a similar road. While there are those who are busting their butts in the ring like Juventud Guerrera (at reportedly $300 an appearance), others who are doing much, much less are making much more just based off their past history. BG James is making a reported $1000 a shot, which in last week's case was to do commentary. Jeff Jarrett makes triple that according to some sources. While he has a number of responsibilities with the promotion and is the nucleus of its management, he should also realize that the excesses of WCW will catch up to TNA a lot quicker since they have no following to start with beyond whoever is ordering the PPVs and if that was anything to brag about, TNA would be bragging. This is professional wrestling, after all. Things have to change. The ghost of WCW has landed in Nashville and it's not going to go away without a full housecleaning of the political landscape and new plan of attack for their long-term business. It's time to stop investing in talent who's better days are behind them in lieu of hard working performers like AJ Styles, America's Most Wanted, and Abyss. One can make an argument for the likes of Jerry Lynn and D-Lo Brown, but the likes of Luger and some of the others? There is just no chance of getting back the investment TNA is putting into these "bigger" names, not when you are trying to build a brand that has proven to have no buzz, and has minuscule, if any, revenue streams at this point. I have no doubt that there are many within TNA who want to make the company succeed, including some of the names of the aforementioned. However there are real questions that only those involved and time itself can answer: *Do they want TNA to succeed so they have their own continued cash cow or because they have a passion for not just the company, but the business itself? *Are they willing to accept the fact that they have become the new "Old Boys Network" and things need to change? *Can the promotion find an identity and a crew of workers to build a real foundation as opposed to mortgaging their mansion on tired retreads? It can be done. Look at Ring of Honor as proof. *What will they do when just like WCW, the more talented and harder working underpaid workers leave for promises of better money and pushes elsewhere? *Does the management care enough about the company to rethink things and build a buzz for the company before time runs out? *If time does run out, are they willing to take the blame if it falls apart on them this time, or will it always be "someone else's fault?" NWA: TNA has two hours a week to give fans their $10 weekly investment back with more than that money's worth in entertainment. If the company doesn't want to get the most out of those they invest in themselves, can they care enough to give back to what little fans are supporting their upstart promotion? Mike Johnson can be reached at [email protected].

ELEVEN fucking wins.

Murray is gonna run on the stage and spear him.

CONFUCKINGQUISTADOR~!

Chris Guy (Bobakanush) Eh? Didnt get to do a damn thing.