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The first incarnation of this thread got over well, so let's see if we can get it going again with all new trivia. Or at least forgotten trivia.

So in the tag title match that turned into a ladder match, Joey Mercury broke his nose and got what WWE.com called "severe facial lacerations" when he ended up eating the ladder. I always wonder when watching a WWE ladder match if someone's going to be seriously hurt, since every one now seems to be designed to have another "holy shit" spot meant to top the last one. I was thinking while watching the Cena-Edge match that if one of them had been hurt in one of the extended spot sequences, the company would have been seriously boned. I mean, what's going to come of Mercury getting his face bashed in last night? They were already considering MNM's reunion to be t…

Saw this in today's WO update: Unless there's a fountain of youth hidden in Japan, the last time I saw Misawa he was pretty broken down. Giving him a major title at this point seems like the puro equivalent of the Hulkamania Nostalgia Tour of a few years ago. I know he runs the company, but this seems to be at near Verne-as-AWA-champ-in-the-80s levels. Besides, I thought Marufuji was supposed to be one of the up and coming stars, does this mean NOAH lost confidence in him as a top guy?

I was supposed to post this yesterday: As the story goes, some time ago Dan Ginnetty found a source for "new" 80s AJW TV that nobody else outside Japan has (except a few tapes here and there). At one time I had just being paid a work bonus so I got a few DVD's out of nostalgia - basically because I am a big JB Angels fan and I wanted to see some of their big matches. Well, the stuff ended up being so enjoyable that during the span of 1 year, even after finding buying partners, I ended up spending a ridiculous amount on money on this stuff. In a different thread Loss said everybody should watch some of that stuff and form an opinion on that era, and I completely …

Here we go again. Hopefully, this will get more talk than the last batch did. Some of these names have been done before, but it's been a while, a lot of us have watched a lot more, and it'll be interesting to talk about them again. Here we go: Dusty Rhodes Bob Backlund Dump Matsumoto Atlantis Jim Breaks Sgt. Slaughter Adrian Adonis CM Punk Roddy Piper Randy Savage

but Ric Flair getting a huge pop for his return tonight was an unexpected bonus for me. I didn't think the current average fan gave a crap for Flair anymore and they weren't in the usual Flair Country hot spots.

Sek's post about Hogan/Taker at Survivor Series '91 in the other thread got me interested in compiling a list of our favorite lies and myths perpetuated by Hulk Hogan, lies that he may have told enough times that he himself believes they are actually true. Here are some of my favorites. Please share yours. * Bret Hart never put 150,000 people in Budokan Hall. This is actually true, but Bret never headlined at Budokan and the building doesn't hold nearly that many people. * Andre the Giant weighed 700 lbs at Wrestlemania III. * Hogan tore every muscle on the right side of his body slamming Andre at Wrestlemania III. * Hogan once had to shoot on Tatsumi …

Just remember; you can't complain about them cramming two-hours of material into one-hour shows or blowing PPV matches on FREE TV with zero build. That's just looking for stuff to complain about.

Andre the Giant vs. Akira Maeda (4/29/1986) This is the famous match where Andre doesn't sell for Maeda, and Maeda gets pissed and starts kicking the fuck out of him. What are everybody's opinions about this? My thoughts: Obviously Andre wasn't as tough as most made him out to be, although he was past his prime at this point. NOTE: This is in four parts and I've only linked to part 1.

In the hopes of actually getting excited about watching wrestling again, I popped in a little 1994 AAA. I think it did the trick. Fuerza Guerrera, Psicosis & Fobia v Rey Misterio Jr, Heavy Metal & Puma This match is all about roles. I like this for a lot of reasons, but the role playing of everyone involved is probably the main reason I like this so much. Fuerza is all schtick here, but he's so great at it, and he's capable of keeping up with anyone. I've heard Mexican Arn Anderson being thrown on him as a label in the past, but I really think Mexican Dick Murdoch is more applicable. One of my favorite things about Murdoch has always been the ability to creat…

Tomorrow's Turning Point PPV from TNA sees Samoa Joe wrestle Kurt Angle, one month after their first singles match and less than three days after Angle pinned Joe clean on Impact in around five minutes as part of a six-way that featured Sting, Abyss, Rhino and Christian Cage. Do you care at all about the rematch of what was build as the biggest match in TNA history? How has the booking affected your anticipation of the match? Are you excited for it any more than you were for the first match? Do you not care as much? Do you care at all?

I will be shocked if this isn't a worked shoot and it's their venting of their feelings towards Heyman. In fact, I fully expect Heyman to be sent home for real very soon.

I thought Flair and HHH hated each other because HHH beat him up for what seemed like hours last year on the Homecoming Raw, and they had a bloody feud that lasted several months. Are we supposed to assume that Flair has forgiven him or just forget that all that never happened? Considering the beatdown HHH gave him a year ago, what could make Edge and Orton think they're going to get under DX's skin by doing something not even quite as bad this time around? For that matter, did they ever explain why Shawn Michaels and HHH, after years and years of feuding, suddenly became friends? Of course, there's no problem with former foes becoming partners. It has happened many …

It's a one match show with a gimmick that has always drawn in the past. Trouble is I don't know if there is enough interest in ECW or the storyline the match is built around for this to be saved, even with the Extreme Elimination Chamber gimmick attached. Whatever this PPV draws, almost all of it will be down to the Chamber gimmick. I'm thinking this gets around 180,000 buys. I'll be shocked with anything below 150,000 or above 200,000.

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Just three of the latest news items regarding the gimmick of the Voodoo Kin Mafia, formerly The James Gang and formerly The New Age Outlaws, declaring war on DX and WWE. Does this make any kind of sense to anyone? It's a Vince Russo storyline, if that helps explain why such a nonsensical angle is taking place? What kind of payoff could possibly make this angle make sense or even make TNA look good?

Out of mothballs this whole thing goes! Tully Blanchard Akira Taue Aja Kong Negro Casas Dynamite Kid HHH Takeshi Morishima Finlay Mistico Edge

This Sunday's December to Dismember PPV has almost a record level of non-interest in it. There's little buzz surrounding it, and what buzz there is is solely down to the use of the Extreme Elimination Chamber gimmick. It would be easy to blame this on the way the ECW brand has been treated, and while that is true to an extent it's more true that overall domestic interest in WWE PPV's has fallen dramatically in the last year or so. Due to a combination of a product people aren't interested in paying to see and over saturation of the PPV market, WWE's number of domestic buys has reached record lows for the post-boom period. Their PPV numbers look good on paper but a lot of …

From the AP: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TN_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT Lots of great wrestling took place in that arena. Sad to see it go. I guess the venues in the Northeast are really the only old-time wrestling landmarks that are still going strong. The Superdome was damaged in Katrina, right? I know evacuees were going there at first, but didn't it eventually flood? And I would imagine all the TV studios where wrestling used to take place, like WMC-5 in Memphis and the Techwood Drive studio for TBS, have either been destroyed or renovated to a point where they're not really recognizable anymore. Is The Omni still in Atlanta?

This thread is specifically for HTQ to go crazy. So, because this interested me in Bischoff's book, tell us about some of the more memorable controversies surrounding the lies on the WCW Hotline.

WWE has promoted this years Survivor Series with essentially one Raw's worth of hype. Unless you visited WWE.com regularly last week, then it wasn't really until this past Monday that you had any real idea of what was going on at Survivor Series. There might have been some small mentions on the Raw from England, but if you didn't visit WWE.com on a regular basis then you probably had no idea of the teams at Survivor Series. With almost no real hype directed towards it, shocking for one of the 'big four' PPV's, are you in the mood to buy the PPV? Will you just settle for watching it the next day via some other means? Or do you just not care and are skipping it entirely?

"Green Lantern Fan is happy Joe won." "Green Lantern Fan panics when he realizes he forgot to stop his watch and note the exact time of the match." "Green Lantern Fan has stopped his watch, made a note of the time, and all is right with the world."

Angle beats Joe clean and refuses a rematch even though he's the face! Abyss beats Sting by DQ and wins the NWA title! FUCK YEAH TNA!

Flair obviously is a shell of his former self at this point, but he's still going. Most people seem to think he'll wrestle until he's either kicked out or dies, and he's not likely to ever get kicked out. On one hand, he's killed a lot of what he's accomplished in his prime by staying around way too long, but on the other hand, it's amazing that a guy who turns 58 next year is still on the road working a full time schedule.

What do you think the finish to Joe vs. Angle should be? We've talked about what the finish will likely be, but what do you think it should be? I've always said that Joe should go over clean. This is what I've said elsewhere: