Phantom Lord

In Tommy's defense, if he did say such a thing to Dixie it was probably in a joking and sarcastic manner and as we know Dixie will believe anything. Case and point Dusty saying "We should just have a whole damn PPV with cage matches" and Dixie loved it so much we got Lockdown.

She would have to pass a drug test first. Man that was a fun fight. I did not think Meisha could get Ronda into the third round. Man, if we here in NY could get MMA legalized. Ronda would get some nuclear heat at MSG.

You know you're doing your job as a heel if the Granny in the first row wants to kill you.

An Indy hipster gimmick? That could be just about anyone with a long beard. They would just need a hat.

Back when Rick Rude was announcing in ECW, Mikey Whipreck used a testicular claw on JC Ice in a tag match and Rude called it the "Barron Von Bobbit Claw Hold". JC then got on the microphone and spoke in a high falsetto voice. The rapid knees to the balls finish did sort of happen in one of the first UFC PPV's. Joe Son got punched in the balls like five or six times in a row before the referee stopped the fight. The video got attention a few years later when he got convicted of rape and torture and sent to prison.

I thought the show was pretty good for the most part. The opening with everyone constantly coming out and interupting Dixie was the gag that kept on giving. Rockstar Spud was also quite awesome when he kept getting in Hardy's face. The love tap that caused Hardy to want to kill him was great. Spud is such a great little twerp. Dixie really is doing a great job as the delusional power hungry boss. Also the bits on Magnus were produced really well and made TNA almost look like a real company. I also liked the ODB/Tapa match. They basically had ODB wrestle against her how the WWE should have everyone against The Big Show or to a lesser extent Khali and that's never knock them off their feet. It was sort of like a late 80's Andre The Giant match. Build up to the attempted slam only for it to fail in some way. Jeff Hardy looked like hell on the show. I don't know if he suddenly got good at selling or he really couldn't walk, but man he looked haggard. Considering this show was taped the day after last weeks, its possible he was really banged up especially after his head bounced off the ramp.

Didn't Kevin Von Erich use the Stomach Claw as his finisher? I always liked the idea of that hold. Take the claw which could do so much damage to a man's head and try and rip out their stomach. In CM Punk's match with Brock at Summerslam, he should have tried for a stomach claw considering all of Brock's digestive issues. For the claw to really work (aside from someone doing it right and making it believable), you need an announcer to fear for the life of the person in the claw. Michael Cole sometimes comes close to being able to pull that off, but no where near what would be needed. JBL can switch on the seriousness though for it. The Claw would be a great finisher for someone in TNA...but Tenay and Taz are beyond a parody of themselves at this point to put over it.

Where is that Street FIghter guy..... I marked out for this. A couple minutes earlier he hit a Goldicanranna on Swagger and then he does The Gold Rush (Code Gold doesn't have a good ring to it). Dustin continues to be awesome.

Yeah, I saw that and then figured it had to be a fantasy thing. Would have been a fun match though. I was just curious though cause I know Bockwinkle defended the AWA World title at the Maple Leaf Gardens. I think in the updates they had up a month or so ago, from an MSG show in 85 they had Mr. Wrestling II on a WWF show at the Garden. That's amazing if Bockwinkle never wrestled at MSG.

I watched most of the 2nd part of the Boston show from 87 that's up. It took a while before they mentioned his name, but Monsoon was completly ignoring The Duke of Dorchester. It was quite amusing during the Patera/Haynes vs. Demoltion match when The Duke kept correctly pointing out that Patera was using the heavy arm brace as a weapon. Bob Orton used his cast as a weapon for two years...but the one time a "good guy" did it...Monsoon turned a blind eye. That was a fun little tag match that turned into a fun pier six brawl at the end. I'm guessing this had to be close to the end of Ken Patera's run with the WWF back then (or was he still around in 88). Nick Bockwinkle was also doing commentary and he was really the fifth wheel between Monsoon being a homer for the good guys and Duke losing his shit every time a good guy cheated. While watching it I was trying to figure out, did Nick Bockwinkle ever wrestle at Madison Square Garden? In retrospect he was in still amazing shape for a guy his age back then. It's a shame they only gave him a trial run as an announcer. They could have had him join The Heenan Family in 87 and essentially be what Ric Flair was in 91 when he came over.

Miz never really recovered from when they teased making a super couple with him and Maryse only for the WWE to have Miz dump her on tv (it did give us that hilarious clip of Maryse with her fuck me eyes as he was doing it). The Miz is so much better as an obnoxious asshole. Right now I don't know what the hell they are doing with him. It was reported creative turned him heel but totally forgot he had the Christmas Bounty movie coming out at the same time. Miz's biggest problem is he needs someone to bounce off of. He would be great in a stable or at least in a tag team again.

Watching WCCW now, I can totally get why people would hate the Von Erich's today. I mean the word nepotism doesn't do them justice. Fritz Von Erich might be one of history's greatest monsters just on how he monitized David's death alone. Out of all the Von Erich's after David died, I'm really surprised Kevin wasn't pushed to the moon as the family savior. Compared to Kerry he was far more stable and reliable. If WCCW were around today, there would be some down right nuclear Cena Sucks type crowds with men rooting for The Freebirds.

I must has missed the whole selfie thing last night. Granted around 9pm I put on Fox On Demand and watched Sunday's Family Guy so I guess it happened somewhere in that half hour. I caught the end of RAW on the DVR and I must say if Randy's new gimmick as champion is to get disqualified/counted out to save the title then I am all for it. It would be so old school for him to keep on holding onto the title like that. In the old days they would just build up to a No DQ or Cage match. I think that kind of deal would work for Randy. Triple H must be having his minions scouring the old Mid South and Mid Atlantic tapes for ideas.

Okay, I'll go with Larry is a better wrestler than Paul Orndorf, but Paul was a way more sucessful one. Orndorf had to of made ten times feuding with Hogan then what Larry did feuding with Bruno. Of course he sank it all into a bowling alley so advantage Larryland.

It could be worse. One of the major reasons that Cartoon Network cancelled "Young Justice" is because girls watched it. I don't even get that logic at all, what the fuck. Even in kids demos, advertisers and industry want the male demo. But it is Cartoon Network which is run by Time Warner and well there's your answer.

I got a good laugh out of the notion the WWE sent out feelers to A&E. I mean there are some arts types that absolutley hate that Duck Dynasty is the highest rated show on that network. They would probably take a running leap out of the A & E building if they signed a rasslin show. Looking at those other options, they would be crazy to leave USA again. There is no way they would ever get real sport money. I mean it's not impossible for them to change from a soap opera into a "sport". They would need to change into the same kind of presentation that UFC does to build up fights. I think under Triple H's rule, they would move that way. The problem is the WWE would never move to a big match system. Everything has to be on a weekly basis. The deal Brock Lesnar has would be interesting for some of the other top guys, but they would never do it for anyone else.

It did and it was awesome.

I was shocked that Sabbath got more than the token metal nomination. Best Rock Song and album get shown on tv (well one of them does anyway). Best Rock Song is a three way between McCartney/Nirvana, Sabbath, and The Rolling Stones. I would have a really hard time voting between those three songs.

AJ's right to be paranoid/living her gimmick. Punk always gets in a relationship with some female wrestler and ends up making her go crazy. But on the off chance this is just some big work, what are the odds we see AJ vs. Beadle at WM 30. I feel for AJ though. The WWE makes people live in character virtually 24/7 and when something like this happens of course they blame the person for taking their character too seriously.

When the opponent dumped the bucket of water on his head and just stood there pointing I was like "oh shit...it is ON". You have to admire how hated a rivalry must be if armed police step into the ring for the equivalent of a rope break.

That was awesome. The match was pretty damn intense.

Even if they could do it now, TNA has shown that they go out of their way to ruin people who are over that they don't want over. Pro Wrestling is a weird business. You got people who could potentially make you money and just because it's not someone you want, they just ignore them. Case and point Eric Young. He should have become a mega star for them after the Bobby Roode feud when he won back his freedom. Not to say Joe Park would have been a main eventer, but there was something about the character that people liked and in typical TNA fashion they did nothing with it.

I watched this match over the weekend. It was quite amusing to see Watts run over Sting and then he gets the five minutes with Eddie Gilbert. Eddie took one taped fist right hand from Bill Watts and sold it like a gun shot (like Scott Hall taking the Stone Cold Stunner). He got split open like a stuck pig and it was awesome. I love how the Oriental Spike from Terry Gordy was literally a death move. Jim Ross damn near had a corinary "BAH GAWD, BILL WATTS HAS BEEN IN THAT SPIKE FOR SEVERAL MINUTES". It's a shame we can't get stuff like this today. Just imagine the fun of an alliance to end John Cena and that happening. I also watched part two of the World Class Star Wars. I loved the lay out of the show. They made the world title match between Flair and Kerry seem like it was the most important match ever. That's what I really miss about world title matches. Just the presentation of them like that. Make them seem really important. Anyway I remember watching the match on a WWE dvd release and some how the video on 24/7 is worse than one that came out a few years ago. In retrospect, having two referees in the ring at the same time doing simultanious counts is really confusing. People should have known what was coming just by the way Michael Hayes was making himself front and center in that match. Still so awesome to watch. The match itself was really secondary to the story it set up.

One of the close up's they showed of him and I was Jesus, he looks like someone who's been up the last few days on a Meth bender. The whole straight edge thing is admirable, but man take some Amiben or maybe that ZZZQuil stuff and sleep for a week.

Supposedly Krush had been talking backstage about how he was going to shoot slam Yokozuna but the powers that be had been very strict that if anyone who participated in it tried something like that they'd be fired. If he could shoot slam Yoko he deserved a push. I was there for the Slam challenge and everyone was rooting for Crush to do it. If he couldn't do it then no one could. Is a "shoot" body slam even possible on a guy of Yoko's size?