Zakk_Sabbath Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. I really only messed with them when they brought Chris Hyatte in to write for them. I always loved reading his stuff as a kid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsplash Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The guys running DOI left one by one until it was only Sean McCaffrey (Mic) running it, and he shut the site down when he became more involved in running WSU. He also didn't really love Indy wrestling anymore, so it wasn't worth keeping it going. I miss the site though, it was a good place for results and little bullshit independent wrestling drama you wouldn't hear about otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivpvideos Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. RF was buds with the owner so ROH was evil and Gabe had FULL BLOWN AIDS. I just remember Sean Shannon for Corino challenging him to take a bump and he claiming to have a disease that I don't think was ever brought up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Shannon being trans was obvious in retrospect. She still has a hell of a victim complex about everything else, though. Wow, STILL? Some people grow up out of that shit. Jesus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. I really only messed with them when they brought Chris Hyatte in to write for them. I always loved reading his stuff as a kid Wow, Chris Hyatt! I remember loving his Mop Ups as a teenager, I'm sure time hasn't been kind to those, unfortunately . I do remember some ridiculous premise he presented about he and Trish Stratus that either he really believed or really wanted everyone to believe, and shit got really weird. Anybody recall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The Mop Ups are the embodiment of the "I remember my first beer" quote from Step Brothers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. I really only messed with them when they brought Chris Hyatte in to write for them. I always loved reading his stuff as a kid Wow, Chris Hyatt! I remember loving his Mop Ups as a teenager, I'm sure time hasn't been kind to those, unfortunately . I do remember some ridiculous premise he presented about he and Trish Stratus that either he really believed or really wanted everyone to believe, and shit got really weird. Anybody recall? Oh yeah, the "future ex-Mrs. Trish Hyatte." I don't remember the whole thing, but I guess someone duped him into believing they were Trish Stratus, and they had some phone conversations or something, and it was obviously BS. I also remember some kind of weird, gay, Triple H fan fiction or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagan Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Yeah, the Mop-Ups and CRZ got me through many a boring class at the end of high-school, first year or so of college. I also am ashamed to admit that back then I thought this Scott Keith guy had some real great insight on matches and angles. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Ah, KJP's Medium-Rare Raw Reports. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivpvideos Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Yeah, the Mop-Ups and CRZ got me through many a boring class at the end of high-school, first year or so of college. I also am ashamed to admit that back then I thought this Scott Keith guy had some real great insight on matches and angles. I thought Scott Keith's King Lear analogy with HBK and Bret to be mind blowing at the time. High School kids are the dumb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 If this is going to descend into "Hey, remember that guy who used to write about wrestling on the internet", then I got two words for you: Herb Kunze. I wish that guy was still writing about wrestling and forced to watch TNA, so we could read him becoming increasingly crazy each week. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cole Miner Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) If this is going to descend into "Hey, remember that guy who used to write about wrestling on the internet", then I got two words for you: Herb Kunze. Is that the guy that used to do PPV recaps based on $ value of the matches? To see if he got his money's worth at the end. Was an interesting way to it. Edit: actually that should be an easy question to find the answer. They use to get posted in the moderated RSPW as well. Probably only 100 posts there total in the last 10 years. Edited March 20, 2014 by Cole Miner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Poor Al Isaacs, nobody remembers him to even mock him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Can someone photoshop a maple leaf on his ass? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I forget which site they were on (it was either theshooters.net or shootangle.com) but I used to love GH & Joe's Raw and Nitro recaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. RF was buds with the owner so ROH was evil and Gabe had FULL BLOWN AIDS. I just remember Sean Shannon for Corino challenging him to take a bump and he claiming to have a disease that I don't think was ever brought up again. Sean claimed some sort of bone or vertebrae deficiency if I remember correctly. I hate myself for the fact that I probably AM remembering that correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I forget which site they were on (it was either theshooters.net or shootangle.com) but I used to love GH & Joe's Raw and Nitro recaps. I actually replaced them for two weeks in 2001. I pretty much just ripped off their entire schtick. Then some other cat (Justin Shapiro or something like that?) politicked me out of the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I forget which site they were on (it was either theshooters.net or shootangle.com) but I used to love GH & Joe's Raw and Nitro recaps. I actually replaced them for two weeks in 2001. I pretty much just ripped off their entire schtick. Then some other cat (Justin Shapiro or something like that?) politicked me out of the job. That sucks. Which site was it again? GH & Joe had the greatest email addy ever: [email protected]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I wrote for the nWWWo website back in the day...I miss the time when wrestling was my ONLY major concern in life. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I forget which site they were on (it was either theshooters.net or shootangle.com) but I used to love GH & Joe's Raw and Nitro recaps. I actually replaced them for two weeks in 2001. I pretty much just ripped off their entire schtick. Then some other cat (Justin Shapiro or something like that?) politicked me out of the job. That sucks. Which site was it again? GH & Joe had the greatest email addy ever: [email protected]. I believe it was theshooters but I could be mistaken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 To anyone still in their 20s, we all might as well be using the voice Charlie Brown's teacher uses. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Get off my lawn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 To anyone still in their 20s, we all might as well be using the voice Charlie Brown's teacher uses. "So you mean to tell me there was a time when you didn't even need an account to post on most message boards? But what kept the trolls out?" "Well, waiting 2-3 minutes for the whole board to load before you could get to the post input box on the bottom had a way of taking the troll out of people son" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfredoE Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I forget which site they were on (it was either theshooters.net or shootangle.com) but I used to love GH & Joe's Raw and Nitro recaps. I actually replaced them for two weeks in 2001. I pretty much just ripped off their entire schtick. Then some other cat (Justin Shapiro or something like that?) politicked me out of the job. That sucks. Which site was it again? GH & Joe had the greatest email addy ever: [email protected]. I believe it was theshooters but I could be mistaken They were part of shootangle.com, but they might have been on another site as well. That happened quite a bit in the early 2000s. GH & Joe were great. Their recaps were actually better than what was going on during the WWE/WCW shows. I only remember they were on shootangle.com because I use to do lucha articles for that site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Whatever happened to Declaration of Independents? I seem to remember really having it in for ROH for reasons I could never quite work out. RF was buds with the owner so ROH was evil and Gabe had FULL BLOWN AIDS. I just remember Sean Shannon for Corino challenging him to take a bump and he claiming to have a disease that I don't think was ever brought up again. Sean claimed some sort of bone or vertebrae deficiency if I remember correctly. I hate myself for the fact that I probably AM remembering that correctly. Spina bifida, IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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