Sandman Released :(

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Doesn't bother me a bit. He was absolutely boring in the ring. wwe was/is not his cup of tea.

[dubq 0]

cabbage, I'm actually less fond of that idea because it feels to me like "ECW vs. TNA," or at the very least an ECW faction. It's not a bad stable on its own merits, but in doing this they'd be bringing in not one, but four WWE castoffs, increasing that stigma further, as well as setting up an angle based off of "these guys were in another promotion." Even if not pushed as "ECW," the subconcious association would be there.

 

I personally like Sandman in TNA because he has a distinctive style. RVD and Sabu do as well, and any one brought in as a singles star might be an asset, but to do them as a group loses some of that distinctiveness.

 

Speaking of RVD & Sabu - as much as most everyone thinks RVD deserves to be at the top of the card, etc. I'd still love to see him reprise his tag team with Sabu. I don't care where it is either.. ROH, TNA, NOAH, AJPW, wherever. I just wanna see it! Make it happen!!

[cabbageboy 0]

RVD and Sabu vs. Team Pacman baby! Come on, you know you want to see them put Pacman through a table. Of course given TNA's booking they might have Sabu job to Pacman or something.

[dubq 0]

Gerweck.net says this is from Sandman's myspace:

 

Hey people, this is The Sandman. I think now that all of you have heard about World Wrestling Entertainment releasing me from my contract. Please, I have recieved emails and comments with hurtful things to the WWE such as not watching their programs and doing stuff to them where they lose a fan base...PLEASE DO NOT DO ANYTHING HARMFUL TO THE WWE. I am VERY upset about my release but I am even more upset if you guys take it out on them. I have a great attitude towards WWE, Vince McMahon, Stephanie, HHH, and Johnny Ace...I will make damn sure I am back in the WWE one day. WWE treated me well, I had a great time on WWE Raw and on ECW on SciFi...I loved every moment of it and the wrestling business is and has always been one big family combined with entertainment purposes. I appreciate all of your messages and all and I can not thank you guys enough! I will be back in WWE one day again...count on it.

 

I can't view myspace from work but this is the link they gave at the bottom of the posting:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...logID=309278172

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Oct 14 2007 3:00P

ROH Meeting @ Tampa, FL

Oct 16 2007 9:00A

Autograph Signing @ Stamford, CT

Oct 18 2007 1:45P

TNA Meeting @ Orlando, FL

Oct 21 2007 4:00P

Ring of Honor @ Cow Palace

 

This is also on Sandman's MySpace page. TNA and ROH both, glad to see him getting paid after busting his ass to get in good shape.

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haha I find it funny he logs his meetings on Myspace. Wonder how happy ROH and TNA are about that, if its legit.

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Insider info on ROH? OMG SANDMAN IS PROJECT 161!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Hell with AmDrag...

 

SANDMAN VS. HYDRA IN CHIKARA~!

 

Yes! With Mantis on commentary. "Yes, I've heard a lot about this 'Sand Man' fellow."

[Hawk 34 0]

Oct 14 2007 3:00P

ROH Meeting @ Tampa, FL

Oct 16 2007 9:00A

Autograph Signing @ Stamford, CT

Oct 18 2007 1:45P

TNA Meeting @ Orlando, FL

Oct 21 2007 4:00P

Ring of Honor @ Cow Palace

 

This is also on Sandman's MySpace page. TNA and ROH both, glad to see him getting paid after busting his ass to get in good shape.

 

"Autograph signing" in Stamford? Why does that just sound like code for "meeting with WWE, to get my job back"? How authentic is this "myspace" anyways?

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Oct 14 2007 3:00P

ROH Meeting @ Tampa, FL

Oct 16 2007 9:00A

Autograph Signing @ Stamford, CT

Oct 18 2007 1:45P

TNA Meeting @ Orlando, FL

Oct 21 2007 4:00P

Ring of Honor @ Cow Palace

 

This is also on Sandman's MySpace page. TNA and ROH both, glad to see him getting paid after busting his ass to get in good shape.

Awesome, Sandman is doing the cow palace show. I actually might be able to see the Enter Sandman enterance live.

[NoCalMike 0]

Whoa, ROH in the CA Bay Area? I may just have to call Dangerous_A and Scroby and get some tix.

[RedJed 0]

How is ROH expecting to get a decent gate for a show at the Cow Palace?! Thats got to be one of the largest venues, by far, that they have tried.

[Hawk 34 0]

How is ROH expecting to get a decent gate for a show at the Cow Palace?! Thats got to be one of the largest venues, by far, that they have tried.

 

It is a part of the Wrestle Fan Fest convention going on that weekend. They'll be in Vegas the night before at the Sam's Town Casino.

[Guest huss]

How is ROH expecting to get a decent gate for a show at the Cow Palace?! Thats got to be one of the largest venues, by far, that they have tried.

 

Edit: Above post beat me to it.

 

Good idea on their part, you would have to imagine people already there for the FanFest will stick around to see it.

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Hilarious how Sandman points to the hypocrisy, that when Vince does the same thing, the "outrage" from Angle is missing.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Angle was in the WWF when the Steve Austin crucifixion happened. Didn't that happen early in '99? I thought Angle joined in late '99.

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Hilarious how Sandman points to the hypocrisy, that when Vince does the same thing, the "outrage" from Angle is missing.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Angle was in the WWF when the Steve Austin crucifixion happened. Didn't that happen early in '99? I thought Angle joined in late '99.

 

Well unless Kurt Angle is only offended by RELIGIOUS imagry, because WWE has done plenty of stuff that could be considered in awgul taste since Angle has been around. Technically Angle wasn't "In ECW" when they did it either, he was just there as a guest.

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haha I find it funny he logs his meetings on Myspace. Wonder how happy ROH and TNA are about that, if its legit.

 

That "Sandman myspace page" is not Jim Fullington, but an impostor.

 

Anyways, I would kill to see The Sandman in ROH just for the hell of it.

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Whoa, ROH in the CA Bay Area? I may just have to call Dangerous_A and Scroby and get some tix.

Umm..click the link in my sig for more information about Wrestlefanfest. (yes I'm gonna shill the convention for a second.)

Here's what's going on so far, there will be 3 days of wrestling convention-ness.

 

Friday, Oct 19th: there will be wrestlers for autographs and pictures (no clue how much each wrestler is going to charge), there is a slew of wrestlers showing up on the 19th, but the main attractions for Friday is a dinner with Eric Bischoff (group gathering I'm assuming) that will cost $50 dollars and all proceeds go to the Oakland Childrens Hospital and the other main attraction for Friday is Team 3D appearing. There is also a MMA show schdules as well, with Dog's Son Leean making his offical MMA debut and Midget MMA cage fighting as well.

 

Saturday, Oct 20th: More Wrestlers signing autographs (A lot more) and the main attractions are;

 

Bill Goldberg Signing Autographs

Roddy Piper Signing Autographs along with a Piper's Pit

Wrestling Show taking place at the Cow Palace

 

Here's the card (Card subject to change) for the Wrestling show.

 

Knight of the Indys-Last Man Standing Battle Royal; A wrestler will enter a ring every 60 seconds, the ring is filled, wrestlers can be elimated from the battle royal but no one will be elimated until all the wrestlers have entered the ring.

 

Here's the line up for the battle royal so far: Axl Rotten, DJ Hyde (might be Bj, the format makes it hard to read the names right), Sabian, Ruckus, Jack Evans, Drew Gulak, Human Tornado, Mike Quackenbush, Hallowicked, Helfyre (my trainer), Gran Akuma, New York Gangster, Lenn Dootis (?), and Rik Luxury. There are supposely more indy names, but they haven't been added to the bill yet.

 

Hardcore Fatal 4: Al Snow vs Axl Roten vs Nick Sinn vs Blue Meanie

 

One Man Gang vs Kamala

 

Tony Atlas vs Dr. Death Steve Willams

 

The Midnight Express vs The Rock n Roll express

 

Triple Threat: Sharkboy vs Billy Kidman vs JD Micheals

 

Texas BullRope Match: Black Bart vs Ron Bass

 

The Nasty Boys vs Vicious and Delicious (Scott Norton and Buff Bagwell)

 

Greg Valentine & Brutus Beefcake vs Koko B. Ware & Tito Santana

 

Test & A-Train vs Rick Stiener & Dan Severn

 

And are you ready for this, because I'm marking out for it, Ultimo Dragon vs The Great Muta

 

Main Event: Christan Cage vs Abyss vs A Mystery Wrestler

 

and the event is suppose to air on a ppv provider...AND at the moment, I've been booked as a ref for the show. Very excited about that.

 

Sunday- Oct 21st: Wrestlers signing autographs and the main attraction...Stone Cold Steve Austin signing autographs. There will also be ROH's show on Sunday as well, and it will be ROH's west coast debut.

 

Here are some of the wrestlers signing autographs: Abyss, Al Snow, Brutus Beefcake, Larry Zybysco, DDP, Mil Mascaras, James Mitchell, The Sandman, Kevin Nash, The Nasty Boys, Buff Bagwell, Scott Norton, Dan Severn, Ultimo Dragon, The Great Muta, Virgil, Gail Kim, U-gene, Dr. Death Steve Williams, Greg Valentine, Sunny, Francine, Barry Darson, Ax from Demolation, Andrew Test Martin, A-Train, Koko B. Ware, One Man Gang, The Steiner Bros., Kamala, Steve Corino, Sid, Harley Race, Godfater, Hillbilly Jim, Ted Dibase, Kurt Angle, Jim Nidhart, Jimmy Snuka, Ken Shamrock, Christian Cage, Molly Holly, and Nick Bockwinkle, plus many more!

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So are any organizations having seperate shows themselves on this weekend or are they part of the whole wrestling show that Sat? I have noticed Dale Gagne's AWA is promoting an 11am Sat show themselves...

 

If you havent already, you should do a post on this show in the "other" federations area....sounds pretty wild, they are even saying Steve Austin is going to be there I see.

 

And if they do get ppv clearance, I'll definately be ordering this.

[NoCalMike 0]

Any word on the ROH card?

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Source: PWinsider

 

"There is a person on MySpace pretending to represent The Sandman in hopes of getting up front money for booking the former ECW and WWE wrestler for indy shows. Don't send the person any money because he is not associated with the former ECW Champion. I have also heard stories of a former indy promoter who is saying he will get Sandman booked and is charging less than the actual rate so beware of him as well. Sandman is being exclusively represented for indy bookings by Tod Gordon. If you are interested in booking him, you can do so at this link: www.myspace.com/pwuczar. "

 

http://pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=26541&p=1

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So are any organizations having seperate shows themselves on this weekend or are they part of the whole wrestling show that Sat? I have noticed Dale Gagne's AWA is promoting an 11am Sat show themselves...

 

If you havent already, you should do a post on this show in the "other" federations area....sounds pretty wild, they are even saying Steve Austin is going to be there I see.

 

And if they do get ppv clearance, I'll definately be ordering this.

I actually had planned to post about the Wrestlefanfest in the Indy feds folder but I was going to wait until the end of Sept or the beginning of Oct to do it. It got brought up so I figured I shill it just a little bit.

 

I think the PPV is going to be on a limited amount of providers, but I'm assuming that as I don't know the full details. I don't think it's going to be a live ppv either, it might be one of those "this has already happen but you can watch it now" kind of deals and the show is suppose to be put on dvd as well.

 

The card may have changed as well, because I can't find it on the website right now. I actually got that card from Helfyre's (my trainer) myspace. The card was posted in a tiny square a few days ago, but now I can't really find it.

Any word on the ROH card?

I've heard nothing yet.