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The standard UFC contract is ridiculously lopsided to the company to the point that several clauses are dubious in their legality.

I think the thought process is that steroid usage is a personal choice, brain damage isn't.

I was wondering where the schizophrenia question came from, given that's one theory behind the deaths I've never heard of before.

Part of it I think is all the research into concussions and CTE that has been done means that some wrestling fans now think it's OK to idolise him again.

Like the third season of NXT was designed to get Kaval over? I think with both Punk and Bryan, earlier on in their WWE tenures, there was a constant battle between the writers that were high on them and the man in charge who wasn't. Punk also had the problem that he had heat with some of the agents.

Really, Punk went through several patches of being badly mistreated by WWE from September 2005 till he resigned with the company in the early summer of 2011. The same goes with Daniel Bryan until he got over as a cult figure at WrestleMania 28. The only reason WWE got their moneys worth with the two is that they were able to overcome all the attempted burials and bad booking due to their innate talent and confidence.

To be fair, we all thought Vince Russo was out of the business for good when Joe signed with TNA.

If not Duggan (picking the TV title out of the trash), then who? Um, Duke "The Dumpster" Droese?

In the trailer to Sean Waltman's Timeline WWE 1994 shoot DVD, he tells a story about how he was shooting the shit with Vince, joking about bathroom humour, when Arnie (I guess Skaaland) jumped in and made a comment about Randy Savage and Vince's face turned sad and he almost went into tears. Um...

Meltzer said on his radio show that one of his editors told him to tone down the original story he had wrote for the Observer, which was bad enough to read.

There's a segment in the extras section of the DVD release where Nigel basically said the same thing, and reveals enough that it's clear his neurological problems were why he got out of the business.

ECW's annual attendance figures from prowrestlinghistory.com: Year Shows Avg Att 1992 18 356 1993 19 540 1994 40 518 1995 52 690 1996 67 792 1997 98 1,027 1998 108 1,560 1999 135 1,401 2000 87 1,834 2001 3 1,667

The new ECW documentary has led to another online squabble between Dave Scherer and Wade Keller, after Keller posted an old 2006 Torch story about how PWTorch was unfairly scapegoated in WWE's book about the history of ECW. IS WADE KELLER OF THE TORCH A LIAR? NEW ECW DOCUMENTARY "Barbed Wire City" - Must-read supplemental Torch articles by Bruce Mitchell and Wade Keller on Kulas-New Jack incident (w/Addendum)

It's worth noting that the style change coincided with Nigel starting to work tours of Pro Wrestling NOAH, where you had Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi take insane risks on badly broken down bodies, so placing all the blame on Gabe and ROH would be unfair for that reason too.

Triple ugh, TMZ have posted the 911 call Flair made on their site. Totally unnecessary.

TMZ is reporting that homicide detectives have already ruled out foul play as a possible cause of death.

Listening to Dave's audio update now, pretty clear he think it's a heroin overdose.

Apparently he'd performed well as an opening match performer on his recent tour of AJPW.

Wade Keller via Twitter: Mr. Schemer, still an asshole after all these years. John The first apology was lousy. As I said at Cageside Seats:

I picked up a couple of them from a local magazine shop when I was younger, so yes some places did sell them.

Shannon "Daffney" Spruill wins out of court settlement from TNA

Of course, Meltzer has been trashing Rios as an idiot for that column.

I know he eventually killed his own territory, but The Sheik not being in the top 50 is pretty ridiculous, but to be expected.

I thought Flair tripped over the suitcase he was packing and smashed his forehead on a dressing table drawer?

I may be partly to blame for this: Pornstar Kendra Lust denies having an affair with WWE star John Cena