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What are some of the differences b/t the novel and the film?

I really liked The Sisters Brothers. I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown but overall a very good book. I liked the Orcs trilogy as well. I didn't like the follow-ups as much though.

No shit. Well that's the worst news I've heard all weekend. Didn't know that.

He had a pretty nice butterfly suplex he would bust out every now and then.

I wonder if Flair and Eddie were friends or something b/c he always sold a ton for Guerrero and gave him a lot of offense. Was Flair ever tight with the Guerrero family or was that just a case of Flair being Flair and doing his damndest to get a guy over? I'm thinking the latter, because Flair sold his ass off for guys in WCW with even the most minimal of talent. That's true. Just seemed like he always gave Eddie more than usual to me. Would've liked to have seen them work a longer term program.

No, it's more a comment on how awesome Playboy Buddy Rose is.

I wonder if Flair and Eddie were friends or something b/c he always sold a ton for Guerrero and gave him a lot of offense. Was Flair ever tight with the Guerrero family or was that just a case of Flair being Flair and doing his damndest to get a guy over?

That has to rank in the top three worst Dusty Rhodes cosplayers. But it ranks in the top 3 best "Playboy" Buddy Rose cosplayers. Great. I Googled and came across this depressing picture: Could probably still outwork half the WWE roster.

I want a Dungeon match.

I can't believe Joey no-sold The Claw.

Same thing happened to me. Killed me dead.

I loved his t-shirt that said, "the beatings will continue until morale improves".

What do those grimoire cards do?

Fixed that for ya

I got it for PS3 yesterday. PSN ID is cwoy2j I'm a Lvl 5 hunter at the moment. Rolling around and blowing things away with a hand cannon.

I think this is the one that had the WWF vs. NWA guys

What's irrational about it? Those kids suck. I hate precocious kid commercials anyway but those take the f'n cake.

I've only seen good reviews of this so far. Are there any cons to the game or anyone who doesn't like it so far?

I used to buy Wrestling Superstars which would always have some kind of special story (top 20 wrestlers with scores for their power, speed, ability to absorb punishment, etc, top 10 wrestlers who will rule the 90's) and a dream match where they'd take two top guys or teams (usually one from NWA/WCW and the other from WWF) and write a story about them wrestling. They did one where they did a kind of Olympic games dream match b/t WCW and WWF. They'd pair the wrestlers off in different competitions. The NWA team captained by The Road Warriors won the tug of war. There was also Jimmy Snuka leading the WWF team to victory in swimming, the Warriors winning the shot put for NWA, the West Texas State guys (Tito, Dusty, DiBiase) leading WWF to victory in flag football and the final competition was Flair beating Hogan in an obstacle course to win the whole thing for the NWA.

Also, after Sid won the title at SurSer 96, Stu Saks wrote an article about Sid calling him to a meeting in a bar a few days before the card. Sid handed him an envelope and told him to only open it if he lost the match. Well Sid won and Saks, true to his word, burned the envelope without looking in it. However, they did some investigating and got one of Sid's confidants to speculate that Sid had signed an agreement to retire had he lost the match and that this was Sid's way of motivating himself to win the world title at any cost (i.e. smashing Lothario with the camera and hitting HBK with it). Now that I think about it, that would be a great post-turn explanation for someone. The face had secretly agreed to retire had he lost so that's why he turned heel and won the match at all costs. Would've been a good explanation for Austin at WM17.

Yes! I was racking my brain trying to remember who the psychologist was. I remembered Basil something but thought it was the first name.

Yep and get this, he's a yoga teacher now http://www.layogamagazine.com/issue43/departments/eddie_ellner.htm

Who else used to read the Apter mags as a kid (or still do)? What were your favorite stories or ones that stood out to you? I used to love how they fleshed out the backstories to some characters. For instance, I remember a story where it was explained how Ted DiBiase became the Million Dollar Man. He got a huge inheritance and got arrogant. The one story that stood out to me for its sheer ridiculousness (and awesomeness) was the one about how The Horsemen hatched their plot to have Windham impersonate Sting at Halloween Havoc 90 so that Sid could easily win the title. They created this incredible narrative about how Sting's tailor was in debt so he was easily bribed to make a pair of Sting's tights for Windham, Flair got one of his many girlfriend's to recreate Sting's face paint for Windham and about how Windham was miffed b/c the other Horsemen told him he needed to get into the gym and lose some weight to look as defined as Sting. Now that's some investigative reporting. I also remember how each federation had their own "expert". WWF's expert was Tom Pilliard (probably misspelled that). And Eddie Ellner apparently is a real person.

Felt Plaumbo, O'Haire, and Shane Helms were the biggest losers talent-wise from WCW dying- felt like each of them would have been big stars in WCW had continued- they were getting over very well. Didn't they forget to shake hands with people or not say hi to Droz backstage? I seem to recall them getting shit for something like that.

It happened when Benoit/Angle had their match. Benoit was about to climb out of the cage but Austin was on the floor swinging a chair like a madman so Benoit opted for a headbutt off the top of the cage. Also, Angle had the match won when Austin slammed the door on Benoit's head.Austin turned his attention to Benoit but he was standing next to the door and was so unhinged that Angle opted to go over the top rather than take the chance that Austin would attack him even though they were both heels at the time.