Benoit to TNA?

[Black Lushus 0]

didn't he get bounced for good awhile back?

[The Czech Republic 0]

in all fairness, Carnival has gotten to be a lot better...DoCock, on the other hand, will forever remain terrible...

Carnival is cool. When the carnival was still coming, however, he was miserable. I made the distinction on purpose.

 

As for Shockmaster, I tried to run with the torch when we opened the new board, but he kept harassing me in e-mails telling me to stop. I never could rekindle the magic, so I signed up as "Croooooow!" after like a week

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Jay Bower was the one who made me a moderator on this forum. I've been around since Rantsylvania first started.

[The Niggardly King 0]

I wasn't around for the old days

[Guest JMA]

Jay Bower was the one who made me a moderator on this forum. I've been around since Rantsylvania first started.

Yeah, he was a cool guy. What's he doing now?

[The Czech Republic 0]

Hitting on chicks at Atlanta/north-central Florida grocery stores

[Placebo Effect 0]

Remember the whole Rob Black "puppy" situation?

 

I remember that fondly. The animal cruelty people actually came to Extreme Associates to talk to Black.

 

I have no idea what name I used, but I know I was on for a while before that.

[Sass 0]

I'll also remember the time SKeith worked everyone on the yellow board with the Hackmaster "joke" him and the Scotsman concocted. The shit hit the *fan* after SKeith let everyone else in on the joke.

[bob_barron 0]

I've been around since September 2000 at Delphi.

 

Craziness

[bob_barron 0]

I'll also remember the time SKeith worked everyone on the yellow board with the Hackmaster "joke" him and the Scotsman concocted. The shit hit the *fan* after SKeith let everyone else in on the joke.

 

I remember that, that was hilarious

[Placebo Effect 0]

I'll also remember the time SKeith worked everyone on the yellow board with the Hackmaster "joke" him and the Scotsman concocted. The shit hit the *fan* after SKeith let everyone else in on the joke.

 

Ohhh man. The pre-Scotsmanality days were great. Everyday something crazy was happening.

[Guest JMA]

Remember the whole Rob Black "puppy" situation?

I remember that fondly. The animal cruelty people actually came to Extreme Associates to talk to Black.

Didn't Black put something up on his site to make people think he was attacked by them? I also remember him actually mentioning Jay.

 

In any case, the whole thing was just like one long acid trip.

[Prime Time Andrew Doyle 0]

What was the entire deal with Sean Shannon?

[BUTT 0]

Sean Shannon was the owner of Rantsylvania.com, and a complete psycho. He was known for being completely anti-Bret Hart, to the point where he claimed (as mentioned above) that Bret was such a piece of shit that he was going to marry Martha Hart after Owen died.

 

Sean had some real mental problems. He suffered his first mental breakdown after Luke Johnston (then-owner of the awesome TheShooters site) insisted that he show the proper respect to the Nitro segment in which Flair returned after being sued by Bischoff. He also was known for being sued by WCW for copyright infringement after creating the "nWWWo" website. In addition, he engaged in a public war of words with such wrestlers as Justin Credible, Tammy Sytch, and , I think, Steve Corino, due to his anti-ECW comments in his Wrestleline recaps.

 

Anyway, in October of 2000, CRZ (for those who don't know, he was a wrestling show recapper who was known for writing insanely long recaps in which he would do play-by-play for matches and transcribe nearly every interview) put a comment in one of his recaps that would lead to Sean's second breakdown and his exit from writing about wrestling. Sean had been referring to Tazz as "Pete" in his Sunday Night Heat recaps, because he felt that Tazz's announcer character was a far cry from his ass-kicking ECW days, and CRZ mocked him for it:

 

"RAVEN (with Tazzzzzzzzzzzzz) v. AL SNOW (with Head) - Tazz joins our pair of kings - MICHAEL KING COLE & JERRY LAWLER - and tells Lawler it's time for him to get "the rub. Hahahahahaaha!" Tazz offers King a new joke: "What do you call a pig who loves karate? Pork chop! AHHHAHAHAHAHA!" I'm gonna start calling him "Pete" until he goes back to dressing like a caveman and calling himself the Tasmaniac and fighting Sabu in front of twelve people in a high school auditorium. THAT'LL show 'em. Meantime, I'll be amused by his commentary. Meanwhile, there's a match in this ring between Raven (perhaps I should call him "Scott" until he becomes Johnny Polo again, huh?) and Snow (perhaps I should...okay, maybe I'm overdoing it). "

 

So Sean completely flipped his lid about this. Perhaps it should be noted that Sean had hated CRZ for quite some time. According to CRZ, it was because he had refused to join Rantsylvania when the site was starting up. Also, Sean hated CRZ even more after Sean made a parody of CRZ's site, which he had just intended to show to his friends, but accidentally posted it online for the world to see. CRZ seemed amused by the whole thing, and saved the pages and posted the whole thing on his website. Well, that made Sean very mad, as CRZ was hosting his "copyrighted material" on his site without Sean's permission. So Sean went crazy on the Rantsylvania forum, referring to himself as a "sugary-sweet babyface" and banning those who criticized him. This led to him leaving the site, and the whole "IWC", for good.

 

To give an insight as to how fragile this guy's psyche was, in early 2000, when he saw that the supporting members of Three Count were named "Shane" and "Shannon" he thought Vince Russo had created the characters to make fun of him, and so he cut himself to numb the pain the situation had caused. Later, his internet arch-nemesis, Chris Hyatte, found out about this situation and threatened for months to reveal it until Sean finally admitted it himself during his breakdown.

 

So, Sean left Rantsylvania, and set up his own site at seanshannon.org, where he mainly just wrote poetry and blog entries. He also handed the Rantsylvania site over to Scott Keith, completely removing himself from that site's operations.

 

OR SO WE THOUGHT!

 

In April 2001, fans who visited Rantsylvania were suddenly re-directed to seanshannon.org. Apparently, Sean hadn't signed the site over to Keith as he had originally claimed, and he was upset about writers on the site making fun of him. Scott used the situation as a chance to set up a new site, thesmarks.com, and Sean redirected the rantsylvania.com address to an online essay about how George Carlin's bit about rape being funny was offensive.

 

Recently, Sean has "come out" as a pre-op transsexual on his site. He has mentioned wrestling from time to time on his site, but largely keeps it to personal matters.

 

And now you know the rest of the story!

[Black Lushus 0]

holy shit, I DO remember all that!

[Placebo Effect 0]

^ ^ ^ ^

 

That was beautiful.

 

Especially the Three Count part.

[BUTT 0]

Is that Kotz on the old board as "TheWholeFnSpoon"?

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

I'll also remember the time SKeith worked everyone on the yellow board with the Hackmaster "joke" him and the Scotsman concocted. The shit hit the *fan* after SKeith let everyone else in on the joke.

I signed up here originally as "Don't Work Me Keith", but quickly realized it was a lame name, and started over w/ this account.

[Matt Young 0]

heh el cubano, i remember that guy...

Jay Bower, right? He was pretty cool. I loved his Mike Sanders avatar.

 

Jay Bower's columns were great, especially the HHH comics.

 

And hey wow, my password worked for the old board. Apparently, I had 624 posts.

[Sass 0]

To this day, Sean Shannon's breakdown was one of the best things I've ever witnessed on the intraweb. That shim was truly batshit crazy. I kept hitting refresh just to see who he would ban next on the day of his complete meltdown and exit from Rantsylvania.

 

I *think* it was OldSchoolJohn who summed it up best:

 

"Watching Sean Shannon's breakdown was like watching Jake Roberts slowly turn heel after Eathquake crushed his snake. After that, he lost whatever grip on reality he had."

 

We can probably thank Steve Corino for *really* pushing Shannon's buttons after he challenged Sean-mantha to a wrestling sparring session or something, which was funny too. That's when he came out and admitted to his spina bonifdyda or whatever it's called and backed down from making fun of ECW afterwards. Quality stuff.

 

What was better than Shannon vs. CRZ was Shannon vs. the DVDVR crew. His 1/99 Misawa/Kawada recap was lambasted over there and he flipped the fuck out afterwards. I think he even threatened (**snicker**) one of the Phil's over there with bodily harm even.

 

Thanks for the recap Sensei.

[BUTT 0]

Thanks to web.archive.org's archive of The Shooters site, I've found some quotes from Sean's breakdown:

 

"Well, fuck that. CRZ is an asshole, and I'm sorry if your little numbed brains can't deal with that fact. The fact that he so glowingly loves to pick on me in his recaps when he knows I can't defend myself because of fear of retribution from his fanboys and the more sensitive members of my own squalid fanbase makes me fucking sick. Quite frankly I don't care any more, so let me repeat myself: CRZ IS AN ASSHOLE. Again, just in case you didn't get it the first two times: CRZ IS AN ASSHOLE. And fuck you if you can't deal with that."

 

"You know, I used to enjoy writing about wrestling, I really did. But somewhere between WCW threatening to sue me and the shit with Hyatte, something happened. All of a sudden the fun went out of it. The people who encouraged me to keep on, the people who made me want to continue doing what I did, they shut up. But for every fan who stopped writing to me, there were ten people more than happy to fill my inbox with flame mail for everything related to my taste in wrestling to my sexual preference to my family problems."

 

"And then there was Steve Corino's grandstanding and the mammoth response I got from that, dwarving any I'd previously received. I can't believe some of you fuckers would believe that I would make up that I had a birth defect just to get out of Corino's challenge. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA how much this damn pain hurts, and not just the pain in my tailbone, either, I mean the pain of not being able to be that physically active as a kid, of having lived most of my life in obesity and having to tolerate the constant abuse I took because of it."

 

"But now, all of a sudden, I'm getting my staff telling me, "You know, you are too hard on ECW" and other criticisms, some of which aren't quite as nice as what I just listed. I'm getting constant questions about when paycheques will resume, and I can't answer them. I thought some of these people were my friends, but now I'm beginning to realize that I was just a source of income for them, and now that that income is gone they could care less about me, much less Rantsylvania."

 

"I used to think maybe you people cared about me, but now I realize that you don't. To some of you I'm a Webmaster, to some I'm a recapper, but to all of you I am just some faceless nobody, someone who could disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow with barely a whisper of notice, someone who could be replaced as easily as a pair of worn sneakers, and likely disposed of in the same manner ... So, in summary, fuck you all."

 

"Maybe that's the problem, because I view myself as a babyface of the most sugar-sweet variety. I think I'm one of the good people, someone who sticks up for what I think is right, someone who helps people come to a greater understanding about things and the world they live in, someone who speaks the truth and isn't afraid to do so."

 

"There are people on this planet who do appreciate me, and I think it's high time that I started returning that appreciation and building off of it than spending my time putting on a puppet show for you all that is ignored at best, but more often than not is ripped to shreds for your shits and giggles. I deserve better than this shit."

[BUTT 0]

You know, it's a travesty that the whole "Shannon goes crazy" thread is lost forever.

[The Tino Standard 0]

It amazes/depresses me how much of this shit I remember. I might not have started posting here until March '02, but I definitely remember a lot of this stuff. There are names being mentioned in this thread I haven't heard in years. Wow.

 

I always liked CRZ's recaps. Incredibly detailed with good humor mixed in. He cared about the product, but it always seemed he never got TOO wrapped up in it or took things too seriously.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Highlight reel:

 

"I view myself as a babyface of the most sugar-sweet variety."

"Recently, Sean has "come out" as a pre-op transsexual."

"In early 2000, when he saw that the supporting members of Three Count were named "Shane" and "Shannon" he thought Vince Russo had created the characters to make fun of him, and so he cut himself to numb the pain the situation had caused."

"internet arch-nemesis"

 

I'll never feel ashamed of my TSM membership again.

[the max 0]

I've spent way too much time on the wrestling side of the internet. I remember all of the Shannon stuff, plus Hyatte's constant slams in his 45 page columns every week.

 

I don't remember my name from the yellow board, but I've been around for a while. I'm depressed about that.

[nl5xsk1 0]

^ Agreed.

 

I have to admit, though, that I was around a long ass time before I started to pay attention to the ~drahmuh~ and whatnot.

[Guest JMA]

We really need a TSM nostalgia thread.

 

No, screw that, we need an entire folder.

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

I don't know if that would be a good idea.

 

I've been around longer than most, but not as long as some. Does anyone remember the picture of Bradshaw ass-raping Chris Nowinski while Farooq was looking in the window and saying "Damn"? I made that. Some day I will plug in my old computer, get that picture, and post it again. Maybe.

[Damaramu 0]

I remember the Rantsylvania forum. I made like 10 posts on it before the changeover.

[KingPK 0]

Why the hell did I care about the NBA so much back then? And I made WAYYY too many list posts.

 

Oh, and I'm moving this to HD, since this ain't about Benoit to TNA anymore.

 

"Set Down HUT!!"???? Gayest thread title ever.

Edited December 10, 2005 by KingPK