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It sounds ridiculous, but pretty much everyone in that Wargames besides Sting and JJ take indy bookings during the week and probably couldn't all be in one place at the same time prior to the show. Considering having 8 guys in a cage would take some planning to avoid it becoming a total clusterfuck, they had to do something to get some planning done. Personally, I'm waiting to see how the ROH-botz and TNA haters (they're usually the same people) reconcile Corny being the on-air authority figure in both promotions.

I've always thought Nash could (and should, considering how he's looked in the ring lately) be the Jesse Ventura of our time in terms of the "wrestler turned color commentator who's great on the mic". Having a wrestler on the announce team would give TNA's shows a boost in cred since the best announcers in wrestling have always been guys who were former performers like Jesse, Gorilla, and Bobby Heenan.

I like it just because it seems to be a natural heat seeker for the smarter TNA crowd. For all the (not entirely undeserved) heat Nash gets from net fans, the man's gold on the mic and as long as it doesn't lead to Big Kev squashing the entire X Division single handedly I'm looking forward to this.

After hearing it on the radio, I Googled the lyrics to "Obsession", most famous to most of us as the theme to Saturday Night's Main Event back in the 80s. Considering what we've heard about Vince McMahon since then, I can guess what made him like the song:

Short answer is Vince wants to give guys a WWE-owned gimmick they control the copyrights to. Longer, more hypothetical answer is that Vince seems to think any gimmick that a guy uses outside of the WWE is too bush league. Ironic considering the company line is that they'll listen to any input the worker has, yet the record seems to show they ignore that input and put the guy in a clown suit and demand he get over.

From WO.com I think I might need to change my pants.

I like how even in 2006 there's still "was it a work or not" debate about things. Michael Cole was put in charge of WWE.com mainly due to the previous guy in charge getting too shoot-style (ie: mentioning Steph and HHH's baby when they're divorced in storylines). This is 100% work gearing up for Big Dave's return.

Why would they do an angle involving Mick Foley and Tommy Dreamer in Anaheim? If they would have done it practically anywhere on the east coast it would have got a much bigger reaction instead of dying a slow death.

Saw this in today's WO update and it made me chuckle: I would pay twice the amount asked for this PPV if Dusty was doing commentary. "THEY BE CLUBBERIN' EACH OTHA FOR REALZ, TONAH!"

From the daily WO update: OVW had some of the most exciting TV of any wrestling promotion, and now I guess no one outside of Kentucky will see it. I wonder if WWE was getting tired of hearing complaints that they were messing up everyone that got the call from OVW.

I always heard that's why the storyline was ended.

The fact that all WWE could come up with for her is to call her fat makes me very sad.

Also, is it me or was Joey's new gimmick "cynical internet wrestling fan"? I swear it sounded like every jaded smark on every internet wrestling board. Did anyone else see those black dudes sitting behind the announce desk during the Lawler/Styles segment? Bruvva did the whole OH SNAP/ AW NAW HE DID-ENT routine when Styles slapped Jerry.

Half of the Rock?

That splash you heard was the internet having a collective orgasm over Joey's promo on RAW tonight.

Poor Trish, pops out her shoulder then Meltz calls her a dude. Wasn't her night, I guess.

He'll be the announcer for the "ECW Brand" no doubt. Tazz too, probably. I think it's a good move since Styles has been uncomfortably lame during this stint on RAW once Vince started getting up his ass over every little thing and completely cut his balls off.

I believe it's the very same.

From the IWC board via DVDVR: What the fuck was a Carolina promoter doing in PA anyway? Dude better have booked a flight out of the country and/or never sets foot in PA again as I'm sure Afa will want to have a chat with this douchebag.

TNA may or may not be the next WCW in terms of competing with Vince, but it's definately the next WCW in terms of giving net fans something to bitch about. The sheer TNA hate on places like DVDVR is mind boggling at times. I don't know if it's large or just a few people being very vocal, but people are wishing TNA would go out of business because they're not pushing all the generic X division flippy flop guys to their liking. I swear, sometimes I think wrestling fans don't deserve to have more than one national company.

I'm watching Jerry Lawler win the AWA title from Curt Hennig, 1988. Lawler's awesome punching + Curt's awesome (over)selling = greatness. The match is in Memphis, so Curt knows he's going to be booed like Satan and just goes balls-out heel. As good as his WWF work was, I'd have to say this is one of the best matches of his that I've seen. It really shows why Lawler's managed to have a 30+ year career almost free of serious injury, everything he does has a purpose and he makes his bumps mean something. When he does his version of Hulking Up (taking down the strap) the crowd pops like it's MSG in 1984 at a Hulk Hogan match. To top it off it has Lance Russell on commentary, who if I had the choice, would call every wrestling match ever. I just love his style, he sounds just folksy enough without sounding like a rube, yet at the same time he's not the stereotypical JR-like overselling announcer.

It's just not cool to be a fan these days, even if you're a former wrestler.

Brought back from the dead! I was wondering, I recall back in my PWI reading days that one of their heel columnists (Eddie Ellner maybe?) made a comment stating that he was sure Lazer-Tron was really a "hooded Hector Guerrero". Finding out years later that he was in fact Lazer-Tron made me wonder why would PWI spill the beans on someone who was in the NWA when they were way more accomidating to the Apter mags than the WWF was. Hell, I think Tron was the NWA World Jr. champ at the time. It wasn't part of any angle, it just seemed like a huge breech of kayfabe from the one place that defended it to the death.

To me, forearms (at least how most guys seem to throw them) look more business-exposing than crappy punches do.