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I know this wasn't directed at me, but since I have also worked with Tracy at times over the years, I thought I'd share. Years ago when I was working for the HWA, Tracy was coming up and doing our weekly shows for a stretch of a few months. Aside from always being professional and extremely nice to everyone, from "vets" to rookies to announcers to refs to bell ringers to security guards, etc, of course he was also always the best thing to watch on the show. He could do the same promo or schtick every week and it was always over. We did a weekly TV show and even though his promos always got recorded, we knew we couldn't use them for TV because it was a one hour show and his promos generally went 20 minutes or so before the match even started. Not sure if he still does, but he would always bring a green worker or manager or someone on the road with him. Basically they'd drive him, set up his merch, etc, and in return he'd get them booked on the show for maybe a small payday and more importantly, the experience of traveling with him and learning from him. For a few weeks he was bringing a guy around as his manager that called himself The Internet Terrorist. He dressed in a suit and carried a laptop which he would occasionally open and type on during a match, turned in a way that the crowd couldn't see it wasn't even powered up. I remember one particular match where Tracy objected to a call the referee made and stopped the match and grabbed the mic for a mid match promo, as he often did. He got out of the ring and took the guy's laptop, opened it and sat it on the apron, clear to everyone that it wasn't even on. He did some fumbly exaggerated typing and said he was "officially filing a report with HWA management about how biased and terrible the referees of the HWA were, and while he was at it, he was sending an e-mail to Dave Meltzer burying the HWA!" It struck me as so funny then and still does to this day. I'm ten years into the business now and still going, and I've been on shows with many legends, and still, the period of time when I got to regularly work on shows with Tracy are the highlight of my time in the biz so far.

Southern people think it's normal for people to sound like that

I just can't believe after lighting up crowds across the country, saving the WWE from the orton/batista disaster and carrying Mania on his back to a very respectable buyrate people are debating whether Bryan was just a bunch of smarks being smarky. I can't think of a more ridiculous talking point that routinely pops up.

I think as a quarterback Tom Brady needs to be more careful of who he hangs out with and not let his friends from his past bring him down.

I went to a house show and had seats by the rail. Adam Bomb ran by and I slapped him on the back and my hand was drenched with a substance I hadn't felt before. My friend convinced me it was radioactive and I was concerned I was going to die.

Latest Monday Night War reminded me of how much I fucking hated DX, even as a teenager. Also I hate their constant wankery over how "awesome" DX was.

I'm feeling really old watching the first Nitro and seeing all the stores in Mall of America that are out of business by now. I mean, Service Merchandise????

I felt that the Raven/ Tommy/ Beulah Summer camp backstory was fucking stupid , to be honest.

This is an odd talking point to me. WWE crowds sit on their hands for most of the year. This wasn't just smark-filled crowds trying to sound cool on television. Regarding that Bray/Bryan vs. Usos cage match, this was a random RAW crowd in....let me check...Providence, Rhode Island that was super-fired up every time Bryan did anything at all. Watch that RAW and there was mostly silence except for Bryan. Same thing with the Rumble crowd. I mean, I guess you could say that NYC and Philly fans came to Pittsburgh and that explains the reactions to Bryan (and to no Bryan in the Rumble), but Bryan was getting the same reactions at Elimination Chamber in Minneapolis. It's hard to say that this pattern indicates fans that just wanted to get themselves over - and if you watch the shows, they aren't chanting cute phrases or anything like that. They are just really behind Bryan. It's not so much of a talking point to me as much as it seems either 1.) Blatant trolling or 2.) Hilariously bad attempt to undermine Bryan's main event push.

In that case, tell us Tracy Smothers stories then.

Southern Minnesota?

Perhaps there was a lady in the men's restroom.

First Class should have just been Magneto, Nazi Hunter for 2 hours. Then it would be my vote to win the whole damn thing.

One of the best, love her.

http://instagram.com/p/sh2u0hscMr/ Justin Roberts is my new favourite thing

More like he just needs a full offseason to get healthy from the surgery he had last offseason. And I doubt they spend all that much time together anyway. And if I'm him, I'm trying a whole bunch of other things before "stop banging Kate Upton" enters the picture.

Minus the homoeroticism. And amazing theme music.

Not where i live, where people fly the stars and bars and dont tread on me flags in their front yards and drive pick-ups with the flagg on their license plates. I went to high school with a jackass who had the stars and bars on the rear window of his truck. Fucker was born in northern Michigan, from a family that has lived in area for at least four generations... Was it a rural area of Michigan? I ask because I've lived both in cities and rural areas of Maryland and I can tell you that being an ignorant-ass hick who proudly sports that flag is more a rural thing than a southern-specific thing. Same with country music.

Man, that DK/SMII match is a punch in the nuts.

Got you covered: Ben Kingsley, SCHINDLER'S LIST:

Better than the Divas.

Not gonna lie. I've never smoked, but I sure could go for a cigarette right now.

Live action trailer

I truly wish I could say the same.

Stop wasting your time with that and go watch a bunch of Tracy Smothers.

Yeah - that is the one thing I will give Mongo credit for. He sure at least wanted to be there. And of the footballers who went wrestling full time - he probably had the third best NFL career (Yes - I am very Meltzian in my qualifiers there)

how dare you post candid pictures of him with a mascot! He will block you in lieu of punching you in the face!

Guys, this was my first actual PastaMania commercial and I...I don't know where to go now. Also I just can't contain my ecstasy that a real and proper answer to "What were you doing at the first Nitro when Ric Flair wrestled Sting?" could be "I WAS BUYING SISTER, SISTER POGS AROUND THE CORNER! NO ONE TOLD ME I THOUGHT IT WAS FLYIN' BRYAN STILL!!!"

Maybe they're setting up a gimmick talk-show host battle royal for WM? Jenny Jones Maury Donahue Springer Ricki Lake Leeza Geraldo just imagine with all of them in the ring, the pop when the next theme turns out to be:

I'm just getting into this gold mine having missed all of this stuff originally and holy shit that first Nitro looks like a telethon. I don't think, in my entire life, I've seen something that made me feel as good as Jushin Liger running out from in between a Yankee Candle Shop and a GadZooks! WHY ISN"T THIS THE WORLD ALWAYS?????

I need a new Red Dead so bad you guys But it'd ruin my life because I'd be killing Herbert Moon too much

I don't know if you guys have heard about this Dean Ambrose guy but he's the best in the company at it and has been since the Shield turned face. He was the face in peril in all their tag matches despite being resident scumbag when they were heels, it was fucking cool.

I haven't watched a lot of his Zayn stuff, but Generico was one of the few guys on the indies who got this. He was all about working as the underdog, eating a lot of offense, and begging people to give him the strength to brainbuster a motherfucker on a turnbuckle. He never really looked super-human, he just looked like a guy who lasted and found one opening to maybe get the win.

Crowds these days are more interested in getting themselves over than they are getting behind a babyface to triumph over the heels.

So we have a Heat Wave cast, and it's Dominic Purcell. The true tragedy of this show is that we will never, ever get Grodd, and what every CW drama needs most right now if it's gonna stay relevant is a man-eating psionic gorilla.

HAHA! So it's not even worth it, then. I'm glad I don't have to even worry about it and have more time to enjoy Chelsea Handler as a woman who runs a cute independent Swiffer store that is being put out of business by Ralph Macchio's new Roomba franchise....until they meet and fall in love...in the Lifetime Original Movie, DUSTLESS IN POUGHKEEPSIE! If you miss Phylicia Rashad's moving cameo as Maya Angelou, you don't understand drama. And Stay tuned for the post-Apocalyptic sequel in which Lori Laughlan and Blair Underwood are mankind's last hope in DINOSWIFFER VS. ROOMBACUDA!

This is probably the first funny thing associated with the Tim and Eric Show. Congrats.

Another thing I'm sick of: commercials that show families falling apart when the dad is left in charge. You know, there are spaghetti stains all over the walls, laundry everywhere, pizza boxes piled to the ceiling, etc. Do ad agencies really have that low of an opinion on women that they think they just have to tell them "Your family wouldn't be able to dress themselves without you, now buy our brand of paper towels!"?

I promise to be as obnoxious and intolerable in 2014 as the typical Seahawks fan. #LOB gohawks

maybe Inoki dressed up like that because he was skiptracing The Great Antonio so he could kick Great Antonio some more

He's another guy who could team with Fuerza Guerrera.