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http://www.amazon.com/WWE-Best-Saturday-Nights-Event/dp/B001KKU9EG Thank you so much, G. Best part of this is the nice surprise: I'm so far behind in watching wrestling dvds that I actually forgot I have this set! Day: MADE.

Quick question: is the Hogan/Ordorff cage match where they both hit the ground at the same time on any DVD?

Yeah, no shit.I've noticed this showing up a lot lately; apparently, the fallout from the misuse of "literally" is to now overuse the use of "metaphorically." Wish I was more committed to my forum activity, I would so attach a Punk grumpy face cap from "Grammar Slam" right'chere ...

I think they're equal. I'll give you that.Show your work for full credit.

This was the first time I think I've ever given a like to someone (jaedmc) and given it to someone else ... what a weird, wild, wonderful feeling it is~...

I went to a ton of shows (maybe 40ish) between 2003 and 2009, but followed WWE throughout. I was into TNA for a while from 2003-2005 or so, but that burned out pretty quickly for me. Once Joe and Danielson were gone I just didn't care as much, and I was getting older and the time and money needed to follow this niche hobby became way too much to sustain. I followed ROH and WWE concurrently because they both gave me something I really wanted, and now WWE gives me both more often than not, and ROH, from what I've seen, gives me neither. It would be interesting to plug the TV equation into ROH around the time Joe lost the belt to Aries. Could they have grown into something through Summer of Punk/CZW/Best in the World Bryan Danielson? Yes, very much so. And then Faction Warrrz happened, and it looked EXACTLY like what an entire company built around a Nation of Domination/ Disciples of the Apocolypse/ Los Boriquas angle would look like. Doo. Doo. Butter. I think it was a misstep that ROH didn't really recover from ... I mean, yeah, all kinds of other stuff happened during that time, but that was the herald of the downward slope.

In case you didn't read it elsewhere, he's demanding all the books.

"Hy-vee," as in HIV?

Danielson needs to align w/ the Wyatt family. Not because Bray Wyatt is his messiah, not because he's following the buzzards; simply because they share an affinity for great beards.I don't know that the Bellas are all that "great," per se.

Doesn't count because he did too many "non-title match" jobs ranging from real guys like Cena and Bryan down to total numbnut non-entities like Ziggler and Kane during his bullshit longest reign. Modern history is just code for the "titles don't mean shit anymore" and stringing out Punk's reign as long as they did doesn't even make his reign anymore significant than JBL's. Besides by now cRyback's just the modern equivalent to The Warlord. And even he made Punk look like his punk bitch for the majority of those matches regardless of the end result."The Beast" gave way too much to the glorified tatted up sandwich artist. On the other hand, it really doesn't matter because by now it's clear Brock's only there to swap wins with the top guys even if they're glorified sandwich artists undeserving of the rub.I'm amused at the implication that Punk's reign needs an asterix next to it. Good luck with your petition.

Has Abraham Washington twittered about Young's coming out?

This guy? No doubt that man loves him some titties!

Maybe it's the similar contacts, but he looks like a super young Kane. Give Joey six months and he will look totally different. Never encountered a wrestler who could shift shape like him. I looked him up because - for some reason, ungodly as it was - I thought you might have been saying he was Joey Mercury (back off me, okay, it's been a long day ...), and I found that he wrestled a tag match against the team of ... Marty Jannetty and Sabu. ..... Marty Jannetty and Sabu.

Y'know, I could have sworn he got the shot, but it was in a four-way elimination match. (I might be wrong.)

Maybe it's just me, but I wish they'd released Christy and kept Val. Hemme's at least a decent ring announcer. I'm not sure what Val was good at. To steal something said in another discussion, "I'm such a child." Another post where the avatar makes the post even better ... Also, ahem ... "Hobo with a Shotgun" ...

I could be totally off base here, but the one to Gail Kim doesn't look so bad; she looks like she landed alright for the move, plus, hey, Hernandez ... handful of titty, good on ye, esse ... And it's easier watching the one to Doug Williams, because he ended up okay ... But being that's the case, I CANNOT watch the one into the pool without cringing at the near-miss to paralysis. I mean, motherFUCKER! Both of those individuals are idiots ...

Gee. Zus.

Who's made more trash than treasure: John Carpenter or Wes Craven?

Cursed. I just recently rewatched that film - $1.99 for the DVD through Amazon, why the hell not? - and motherfucker what a horrible ass film. Due to all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, I can totally understand why the film tanked, but a werewolf film without a single solid transformation scene (there's that one scene where the chick turns into ... something ... but ... c'mon, really? If you wanna count that, be my guest ...). Such a doo-doo film ... and YET ... likeable in its doo-doo-ness. My favorite bit of shit dialogue: Ellie (Christina Ricci): “Can you cover for me at the opening?” Kyle (Michael Rosenbaum): “What? And miss Jake’s big opening?” Ellie: “I can’t make it” Such a redundant bit of words, it's maddening to hear them echo in my head. Definitely, for me, a so-bad-it's-good movie.

Shame there was no Powers of Pain vs. Hogan/Warrior Summerslam main (or at least a Saturday Night's Main Event). I think that would be a match we'd still talk about to this day ...

I actually mentioned something like this on the old board, forgot how I put it but basically commented how I wondered if this wasn't a very purposeful attempt to parlay a new concept of face/heel dynamics. Greggulator says it a bit better than I did at the time though; case in point, I didn't think of him as a tweener but rather a full-fledged heel, which overlooks that he still does major face-type things. Could you imagine Flair back in the JCP days visiting terminally ill kids?

Wouldn't be surprised if he's gone soon. He hasn't been on the last two weeks and the WON said Brooke was fired. Between that and being behind on pay, writing might be on the wall for the end of Hogan in TNA.Can't imagine that Hogan would have fired his own kid.From PWInsider:"The feeling within TNA was that Brooke Hogan's role on IMPACT Wrestling had run its course and they mutually decided to part ways. Hulk Hogan was involved in the discussion as well.The split was said to be amicable. Brooke wants to focus on non-wrestling projects going forward, but the door is always open for a return if it makes sense to both sides.Also, financial considerations did factor into her release. One source in the company described her contract as being "a luxury we can't afford right now."Well he didn't fire her....technically. :PPlus from the sounds of it Brooke Hogan was getting overpaid. I also didn't factor in the gigantic idiocy of TNA (I know,I know) to pay her anything substantial in my previous post, when all she is known for is being Hulk Hogan's daughter. I wonder what they were paying her, especially in comparison to their in-ring talent. Imagine your a guy busting his ass in the ring, only to find out that you are probably being paid less than you're bosses untalented daughter, what do you do?Marry her? Worked for HHHim ...

The ULTIMATE HOBO! Or as some may call him, "Hoibo!" Okay, no, I'm done.

Are their hobo punches any good? (My first and, lord willing, last ever punches reference ... it was a good run.)

Thank you kindly Newb82. I think the bump is minimal. Back when there were still multiplecompanies, it was more or less a plot device to spur discussion about how guysfrom different companies matched up with each other. During my heyday, there was only really one company, so the "bump" gainedfrom it was kind of minimal. Like, if you were a guy on the WWE periphery,and were ranked higher than some prelim/midcard WWE guys, then that might giveyou the needed publicity boost to get bookings in something like the Super 8 orwhatnot. It had the same trickle down effect thru the indys. Maybe a guymaking $5 a match could get more bookings for more money because promoters inother places knew him from PWI500 now. Maybe a guy that got an unexpected highranking could jump from non-descript indys to some of the more well-publicizedplaces. For me, it was more about credibility. I could tell my family/friends Iwas ranked in the world's top 500 wrestlers, and it always seemed to be a bigaccomplishment they were proud of. It was also always something I couldthrow out there that showed I was on the radar of a major publication, and notjust some goof. Also, I had a lot of fans ask me to sign their copy, sothat was always kinda cool. Aside from my PWI500 rankings, I had a couple articles about me in TheWrestler, and I had the profile you mentioned in a Wrestle Americaalmanac or yearbook or whatever they called it - it was just a magazine thatprofiled a ton of independent groups. I was the NWA East Brass KnucklesChampion and they had my picture with the profile for NWA East. I was working in the office for the aforementioned NWA group, and I handled alot of the heavy lifting getting things like results/pics into the Apter Mags,and I helped get a lot of guys I worked with ranked. I had a pretty goodprofessional relationship with Brandi, as she handled most of those areas, andwhen she stopped handling the PWI500, I stopped being ranked. It really is all about who you know. ... mark ...