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A mod/admin needs to do that. You can't edit subjects here after posting. Meanwhile, the WWE/UFC story wasn't in the WON. Which...umm...really?

It didn't really have legs anyway but those initial promo videos were tremendously well made, thanks in large part to having by far the best production values of any pretape they'd ever done.

Never read the paperback was I know Matt was trying to correct any and all errors.

Again: Whiplash. You don't need to hit your head to suffer a concussion. A concussion is when your brain slams into your skull.

Piper did something stupid (IIRC in an interview) and got canned, and O'Haire was attached to him so he got depushed. The gimmick wasn't going anywhere though. No no I mean why did he even become Piper's lackey and the Devils' Advocate gimmick dropped so suddenly. One week he was this awesome gimmick that, if given time would have been huge then the next week he was hanging out with Piper and the gimmick was never mentioned again IIRC he was unable to do a decent promo without multiple takes. Too bad, since the initial promo segments with the incredible production values was as good a setup for a new character as they've ever done.

1. Whiplash. 2. Bryan Alvarez has noted that there lots of times he legitimately nailed guys with it.

Apparently he worked for WWE as a commentator and in international marketing, too.

Never heard that before. Pretty awful.

I knew Oliver did announcing for UFC now and obviously has connections there, but I didn't know about the rest (though I did know he did some announcing for DSF). Back in the days when TNM was relatively high-profile I don't remember Oliver giving any indication that he had any presence in the business other than making a text-based wrestling simulator for MS-DOS.

Which of course begs the question of how the hell does Oliver know this shit.

Honestly, I have to give Russo credit. It took almost 12 years after the release of "There's Something About Mary" for him to do a segment where wrestler was covered in ejaculate.

I can see why the "we're not wrestling" stuff would drive Cornette up a wall. He sincerely loves this stuff and his bosses are so steeped in self-loathing that they claim it isn't what he loves because they see themselves as above it even though it is it and...I'm suddenly very confused.

I think I heard that they get this one from a different belt maker.

They also took away everything about the Diesel character that made fans get behind him while he was a heel within a week or so of him winning the title.

The number of alleged voters in the poll is the best part.

Sharon Sidello being Fifi was a false rumor.

Not that Angle wasn't (isn't?) crazy, but that was the most obvious blind item ever. Well, yeah, but it was still a blind item.

Kurt Angle going out of his way to rebut a blind item is really an amazingly underrated bit of crazyness.

Survivor Series '93. He was going to be one of the Knights and then have a booking role.

J.J. signed a non-disclosure agreement about his role as administrator of the original WWF drug testing policy, so he's not talking anytime soon without being sued. I'd love to know what was up with the WCW testing stories that Mero told during the Benoit fallout. He mentioned that not only were there plenty of times where wrestlers would taint their samples with Visine, somehow causing them to pass, but there were also lots of times where guys would test negative but nobody would know why. Who was handling the WCW contracts at the various times where they forgot to pink slip wrestlers and their contracts rolled over (Iron Sheik in '89-'91, Kevin Wacholz in '93-'00 in spite of wrestling only one match for the company)?

As rovert said it was confirmed, but IIRC Wade reported it slightly more ambiguously as "death watch." What was the timeframe for this? Only idea I've heard was that someone asked Terry Funk for an idea under the guise of it being a hypothetical question during a discussion about the business in general, since Funk, while sharp, is the type of guy who could be naive in that situation, plus he's someone that we know angrily called up Dave right after the screwjob (Dave has mentioned that both Funk and Doug Furnas called him up because they were more appalled that they did it with Bret's young son at ringside than anything else). It would take Hogan coming clean, which is highly unlikely, but what was the medical problem being treated legitimately by Zahorian that got him out of testifying? It hasn't been long, but since it's been spoken about relatively openly, did Nigel McGuinness fail the WWE physical exam because of his arm injuries or because his brain damage was too severe? Both versions have made the rounds. I guess the whole "flushing Eddy's steroids" thing that we speculated about here was answered by Irv Muchnick's book but the question is how he found out. It seems clear he wasn't talking to Chavo so I would guess that Meltzer told him (since there were clearly issues with Dave and Irv over Irv outing sources and private emails), and the question is if it was Benoit or Chavo who told him, which probably won't get answered unless it was Benoit since it would probably be a bad idea to out Chavo as admitting to doing that. Were the Hebners and Roadkill really fired from WWE for some weird merchandise selling reasons? That always sounded odd. What was Jose Gonzalez's specific reason for killing Brody?

That was absolutely fantastic.

I liked the Hogan-Rock rematch but it wasn't as good as WM.

Similar but different: In the Kerry match he doesn't do a flip, and it's also a lot more smooth looking.

It doesn't bother me either, but I don't get saying that he didn't do it. And I've never seen him do the turnbuckle smash flip spot in any other match.