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I'll have to doublecheck which set it is, but I know it was footage of those MSG matches. I thought it was the 80s set, but I'll make sure if yours isn't blurred.

I don't think they were fired for steroids, as much as Davey was just asked to lay low until the trial was over and Warrior was just completely out of his mind at that point. As an aside, it's hilarious to read Warrior's take on his WWF career. Like almost every wrestler, he was completely innocent and everything that happened was someone else's fault. Not that it's out of the question to suggest Vince would try to screw one of his employees, but the stories of Warrior's behavior are legendary.

I'd wager I'm probably in the minority on most of these: I don't mind the LOD 2005 angle. They just didn't throw Heidenreich in there as the new Hawk and expect people to buy it. They showed him reluctant to take on any of the LOD gimmick until Animal assured him it was okay. I thought it was uncharacterisically classy on WWE's part to acknowledge no one will replace Hawk and made it so it was Animal giving his blessing as the surviving member to have Heidenreich don the LOD gear. I dig the Undertaker-Orton feud. Orton's that cocky bastard you just want to see get his ass kicked, and Taker's still capable of putting on a respectable performance. Ever since his MMA phase, Taker's really done a good job expanding past the standard Hoss Moveset, and he probably has the best looking punches in the business. I've said it before, but he's spent so much time feuding with some of the most useless wrestlers in history people tend to really sleep on his ability when he's paired with someone who's not a complete waste.

I noticed on the 80s DVD that those old MSG matches would have "World Wrestling Federation" in the chyron for champions and it got blurred out like a logo in a rap video. What confused me is I'm almost 100% sure they've let that go unblurred before since during the block logo era they always had that blue WWF banner with "World Wrestling Federation" hanging from the rafters.

I've been noticing that on newer WWE DVD releases, they're not only blurring the WWF scratch logo (which everyone knows is a no-no now) but in footage of 80s stuff where they identify the champion with "World Wrestling Federation (Whatever) Champion", the World Wrestling Federation part is blurred. They're even blanking out the "F" when someone says "WWF" as well. I thought Vince was allowed to use WWF for all the pre-scratch logo stuff. Did the panda people bust his balls again?

The Observer HOF will continue to be meaningless until the Rock N' Rolls are in. Any Hall of Fame that refuses to induct the team that redefined tag team wrestling with a formula still used by pretty much every promotion to this day is nothing more than a joke.

Apparently you can't get "Captain Charisma" shirts at WWE live events or from ShopZone, and he's pretty disgruntled that a projected main event push got scuttled. Since he's been on SmackDown, he's been squished by Batista twice and punked by the Mexicools last night. I wonder whose Wheaties he peed in.

Someone one said (it might have been Ali, it sounds like something he'd say) that the point of boxing is to not get hit, rather than to beat someone's brains out.

I always understood that Warrior just did one of his patented flakeouts, and Bulldog got let go because they didn't want obvious roid users around when Vince was on trial.

I was wondering, considering their timeslot, what would it take for TNA to be considered a success? A 2.0 rating? A certain level of PPV buys? What's the magic numbers that would allow you to say that they've "made it"?

One thing that made Piper great is his kilt was instant heat for everyone. His opponent would get heat for calling it a skirt and Piper would get heat when he'd go nuts over it. Carlito just looks like a doofus with his tropical shirt and out of control 'fro.

That's probably one of the sternest "fuck you"s I've seen from WWE for a while. They've always been polite announcing departures. I guess telling them no to a repackaging really pissed someone off.

Jesus, I think I peed myself a little bit just reading that matchlist.

This was a great match, watching this with my dad and grandfather on New Year's Eve was one of my favorite childhood memories.

How about some AMW vs XXX goodness from TNA? I don't know the dates but I know the cage match was one of the best matches of the year.

Pretty cool thing to do on TNA's part. It's kind of a sad comment on the business when a company does something good and it's almost shocking.

I was watching the Wrestling Gold set with Cornette and Meltz on commentary, and during a match with David and Kerry, Dave makes a comment about how Mike Von Erich should never have been a wrestler. This kind of shocked me, as I always thought Mike was decent until his health problems and his share of the Von Erich curse took their toll.

Whats even funnier is the guy who runs it pretends he's part of the Gagne family in order to give the new AWA some credibility.

I just thought of something.... Should Joshi be in a separate category? I don't know how about footage availability but there was enough quality Joshi in the late 80s early 90s to justify its own category.

Sounds like a pretty solid plan. The only downside would be like you said, people who use this as a way to get the DVDs then don't take part in the main event. Since we're a small enough community, it should be fairly easy to keep track of who was sent DVDs and then compare that with who takes part in the tournaments. I'd say most of us here would be fully engaged in the concept, so we shouldn't let fear of leechers take away from the project. If it becomes too big of a concern, perhaps a deposit system could be drawn up so people would have some motivation to contribute and not leech. For point #2, I like how you have things divided up in terms of time period, I'd go with how you have it.

So whats the haps with this? You guys need any help with DVDs or anything?

You almost have to be impressed by Hogan, in an evil genius sort of way. The lengths he goes to protect his spot are just amazing.