Gorman

Well, he's fought MMA, so you've gotta stay in your weight class.

Explaining to the girls that Uncle Pepsi won't be on the show in Cleveland next week ...

to "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'..."

Well, Punk is a former IWC Champion ...

You never know. I'm surprised that I'll be attending Collision at the Cleveland Cavaliers' arena a week from Saturday when that has always been a WWF/E building.

(adds "Picked up Punk at the airport" to resume) --- "Dave says Punk and Perry are absolutely suspended." (crosses it out)

They could have saved money by making a Haku cardboard standup instead of Jay White.

I announced the Moosin: God of Martial Arts pay-per-view with Bas in 2010, and I would love to team with El Guapo again.

Thoughts on Guilty As Charged 99 Axl & Balls came out and demanded another match, invading the Doring-Roadkill vs. FBI match. This time, Axl & Balls won. Sid made a surprising debut, but he showed that he was a perfect fit in ECW. He chokeslammed Kronus over the top rope through a table, beat him with a chair, and won with a powerbomb. Sid has been extreme from day one! Paul Heyman said Masato Tanaka and Jerry Lynn could not wrestle due to injury. Fortunately, the Dudleys were not scheduled, and they beat New Jack & Spike decisively in a street fight. Buh-Buh then challenged The Public Enemy to determine the top team in ECW history. Taz won the ECW title with a win over Shane Douglas. Sabu interrupted (with lights out AND fireworks!) to put both men through tables before Taz recovered to win the match. For making his own World championship and then eventually beating the real champion, Taz is the MVP.

I would love it if both wrestlers came out, signed the contract without saying a word, and left. "We'll be right back!" (commercial break)

I would recommend Punk-Joe at World Title Classic, Low Ki-Joe from the first Glory By Honor, and Styles-Danielson at the first All-Star Extravaganza. Hidden gem: Saints-Prophecy at The Battle Lines Are Drawn

With all of your tentacles, you can do the entire Elite pose all by yourself!

Yet on the next PPV, Funk cuts a promo on Dreamer and mentions how much he hates Jake the Snake.

Thoughts on November to Remember 98 New Jack repaid Jack Victory for attacking him before the last PPV by doing the same thing. Unlike Victory, New Jack was arrested. Terry Funk angrily confronted Tommy Dreamer for not choosing him as a mystery partner. Later, he apologized to Joey Styles, and said he was leaving ECW and the sport forever. Balls Mahoney and Masato Tanaka gained revenge for injuries caused by the Dudleys by upsetting them for the ECW tag team title. Forever only lasted 45 minutes, as Funk came out of retirement for a record-breaking 75th time. Dreamer and Jake Roberts beat Justin Credible and Jack Victory. After the match, Funk attacked Dreamer, who refused to fight back. Worst fan sign: Hipke Sisters Still Sleep Together (held up during the main event) --- Just watch the match! Teamwork is vastly overrated, as the Triple Threat, bonded by years of friendship, lost to the New Triple Threat (RVD-Sabu-Taz), who hated each other. Sabu stole the pin and the MVP award by hitting Douglas and his partner, Taz, with the Arabian facebuster. After the match, Sabu and Taz were at each others' throats, just as they were at Barely Legal.

From "King of Atlanta" - Page 183 - Souled Out 2000 "Worst fan sign: DDP IS A HICK"

Thoughts on Heat Wave 98 Before watching the other 16 ECW PPVs, I'm calling this the best in company history. Just like WrestleMania X-7 and Spring Stampede 94, the show was set up perfectly. The wrestlers wrestled, the fliers flew, and the brawlers brawled. It was perfect. Even the match that got canceled (New Jack vs. Jack Victory) worked out because they joined the battle after the main event. The first two matches (Lynn-Credible and Storm-Candido) played out the same way: The babyface looked great but the heel's entourage interfered to set up the heel winning with his finisher off the ropes. After destroying the ring in their first match, Tazz and Bam Bam Bigelow wrecked the ramp in this one. Tazz crawled out of the hole and beat Bammer with the Tazmission. After the match, Taz challenged Shane Douglas, the injured ECW champ who was on commentary. The Franchise angrily tossed his monitor off the balcony. NOOOOOO! We don't have that kind of budget! The Dudleys had broken Beulah's neck and put her out of wrestling. Tommy Dreamer called out her name and DDT'd Buh-Buh Ray on a ladder to win the six-man main event and the MVP award.

I rewatched this just for you! See the comments above.

Sure! Here is my WCW history book, "King of Atlanta: Who was the MVP of World Championship Wrestling," which I just published this summer. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9S8NVLG?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

While you're waiting for that book to be finished, may I recommend another book about WCW ... ? (see signature)

Thoughts on Wrestlepalooza 98 Axl Rotten & Ballz Mahoney asked for a title shot and got it immediately. Even though Chris Candido & Lance Storm couldn't get along, Axl & Ballz couldn't beat them. Candido actually hit his own partner with a chair and stole the pinfall for himself. The "Georgia wrestling legends" segment gave us the hilarious sight of Junkyard Dog in an "EC F'N W" T-shirt. Bill Alfonzo took a page out of Bobby Heenan's managerial playbook by managing both RVD and Sabu as they battled for the TV title. Fonzie managed to "call it down the middle" and the bout ended in a 30-minute draw. This was the opposite of the Sandman-Sabu match at November to Remember 97, as Sabu and RVD hit almost all of their crazy moves. New Jack vs. Bam Bam Bigelow was the crazy style clash that we didn't know we needed. New Jack hit a guitar shot from the balcony but knocked himself out in the process. Bigelow dragged him to the ring and beat him with Greetings from Asbury Park. Shane Douglas is the MVP for successfully defending the ECW title with a clean win over Al Snow despite having three broken bones, including a broken arm. Even though Snow didn't win the big one, he landed on his feet by teaming with Head at the next month's WWF pay-per-view.

Well, Punk did put Daniels through a table at The Battle Lines Are Drawn ...

Ian is able to announce the weekly ROH shows from home.

Yes on both counts.

Looking forward to attending Collision & Ring of Honor in Cleveland on Sept. 9.

Thoughts on Living Dangerously 98 ECW showed a video for W*ING Kanemura, who did not appear for his match against Masato Tanaka. Then the Sabu-Sandman "dueling canes" match was declared "too extreme" by the pay-per-view censors and taken off the show. So it seemed like ECW was having massive problems on only its fourth PPV. Everything had to hit perfectly in order to compete with the big monthly shows from the WWF and WCW. But then one moment happened that showed us that ECW would give us something crazy that we can't see anywhere else. Bam Bam Bigelow fell backwards onto Taz and they crashed through the ring. Bigelow dragged Taz out of the hole and pinned him to end Taz's long winning streak and win the TV title and the MVP award in his hometown of Asbury Park, NJ. Now ECW had to finish the show with a broken ring. Paul Heyman elected to show the censored Sabu-Sandman match, inciting a hilarious on-air argument with Joey Styles, who was terrified that ECW would be banned from PPV. The match wasn't even especially extreme, and the "dueling canes" barely came into play. While that match was airing, ECW passed out mannequin heads to the fans, but there was no time for Al Snow's match against John Kronus. Fortunately, Lance Storm chose Snow as his mystery partner and he pinned champion Shane Douglas to send the fans home happy with their souvenirs.