Matt D

I've always been a pretty big fan of Calf Branding, myself. Is anyone using that? And it's more of a spot than a move but it really confuses me that the ten count punching in the corner, or the ten count head into all 3 turnbuckles aren't used much anymore. They're simple movies that get the crowd involved.

Didn't Dixie JUST debut on screen in the last month or two. Oh, somehow I can't see them pulling out anytime soon.

For what it's worth, Hogan was a tremendous bully during his run on top in the WWF. He was a poor loser, constantly let others do the work for him while he took the credit, and always made sure he had the last word whether he deserved it or not. But people, ESPECIALLY KIDS, love this. He's like Superman from the 50s, the whole "superdickery" idea, where Jerry Siegel always had Superboy/Superman playing jokes on people and being a general dick. Every kid secretly wants to be the bully and barring that, they want to cheer the bully or be friends with him, be one of his cronies. Hogan and Hulkamania was all about that. The board's been great over the last week or so, btw. Keep it up. Would this be the note to talk about Outsider angles and stables in general (I have a friend who insists the secret to a good stable is to have the Leader, the Enforcer, the muscle, the technical veteran, and the young upstart, with those catagories overlapping to make at least 3-4 people). Oh, and while I'm at it, Re: The Five Moves of Doom. I think this is more of a tool than anything else. It depends on how they're used. They can be used lazily, without adding much to the story done in the ring and just to kill time with action to lead up to the finish or they can be an integral part of the match and the story being told. A move that a wrestler goes for in every match tends to mean more than a regular move because the fans are conditioned to expect it. Presumably, it fits into the wrestler's gameplan somehow. I think I read an interview where Bret actually considered his 5 Moves of Doom part of his extended finish and something the crowd expected in his matches.

I think the most mindboggling thing there was the attempt to cast Heyman as Campbell's archtypical hero. Well maybe not THE most mindboggling thing.

Honestly, it's been years since I watched weekly wrestling and I think the only thing that could force me to get back into it would be a shift to heavily focusing on continuity and character development. It's never going to happen, though, thankfully.

If they ever bring him back in, they need to package him with Tom Zenk in the "Chavo Classic" type role.

If we're talking about things that we had completely wrong as a kid, I was very confused about why Razor Ramon's initial promos seemed to be talking about Jesse Ventura's pet name for Tito Santana.