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Dave's coverage of MMA outside of his Yahoo! column is at times both maddeningly frustrating and sickly entertaining. I'll say this again, Dave must have a really great editor at Yahoo! because his column there does not read like anything I've read in the Observer.

I can't wait to relive those Dungeon of Doom angles and see the Yeti one more time!

That talking point was mentioned in a reader's letter in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. For a second there I thought that thread was going to break out in the WSJ.

Estimated at $50M by the time its done. John Amazing waste of money. WCW level waste. Can you imagine just how much WCW would have spent just for some cheap publicity had they actually tried to manage a Hogan campaign in 2000?

So when she winds up in TNA will Mick Foley push for her to be booked as his storyline girlfriend and pepper all promos with sexual innuendo?

Reminds of the late 90s when the fans would hoist their most vulgar signs as Jim Ross screamed about "freedom of expression! Freedom of expression! By God, freedom of expression!"

My thought is there's some bad blood between many in WWE and Brock because the promotion got behind him and put him over many top stars only for him to quit. Either that or he broke some locker room rule about not celebrating a WWE title win with your right foot pointed outward or something equally ridiculous.

I agree with him, too. I didn't actually read the link above, I just misinterpreted the post.

Does this mean voters in California can't make eBay purchases?

What still surprises me is that after Starrcade 1997 was such a big rip-off, next month's Souled Out did a similar buyrate. There wasn't an immediate backlash against WCW and I think even SuperBrawl did well. I don't think it was until they shifted the focus onto Hogan and Savage feuding over the NWO in the spring that WCW began losing steam.

Nash no-showed Starrcade 1997 where he was supposed to have his blow-off match with the Giant. He claimed a rapid heart beat or something and was saying he was panicked because his father died of a heart attack. In a 2003 "Torch Talk" with Wade Keller he said it was because he got trashed on hash brownies that weekend. Seriously.

Was Hamilton known for the "feign heart trouble to get out of jobbing in blow-off match on undercard of most well-built pay-per-view card in promotion history" booking strategy? Or did he come up with the "five years after feigning heart trouble reveal in dirtsheet interview that you actually just ate one too many hash brownies and had a bad trip" philosophy?

Sek, I lol'd first thing in the morning. Slickster, do you know if there's a full copy of the McMahon Playboy interview available online? I found a website that was posting it in segments yet seemed to stop after two.

Was watching this yesterday and they actually cut out an entire segment between the first and second commercial breaks, the part where NKOTB Donnie Wahlberg calls in and discusses his sibling rivalry (in reference to Bret/Owen) with "Marky Mark." Hmm. I thought the match seemed a little abrupt.

Is someone urging their sponsors to boycott again?

Ill raise you gonorrhea of the eye from facials. You've got me there. I was going to mention wrestlers who were slicing their faces open four nights a week but considering recent trends in porn it's not as if facials are saved only for the main event or to get a mid-carder over. I find grossly stiff chair shots and weapons brawls just as crass as cutting your head open. Wrestling is supposed to be a performance, not two guys pretending to connect on punches but really laying in weapons shots and rolling around in real thumbtacks. I'm willing to think 70% of the casual wrestling audience thinks the blood is fake anyway and it loses much of the impact.

I lol'd.

A guy who currently gets his jollies twittering silly shit and doing shoots acting silly in order to get a laugh when marks are over reacting to his BS that he knows is BS. I can accept this; though, on the other hand, it's hard for me to believe he's BS-ing when he's been acting like he's one of five guys who ever drew in history for much of the last fifteen years.

Porn doesn't feature blade jobs. I still think that aspect of pro wrestling is really, really sleazy.

Nash acts as if it was him who headlined MSG in 1994-95, not the WWF brand. Nash loves to throw out that he's a big star because he's main-evented cards at MSG. Does he really not realize he was never, ever a legitimate draw? He was over as an Intercontinental champion mid-card act and really over as a mid-card tag team act in WCW who happened to be part of the hottest act in wrestling but when left on his own at the top of the card his "charisma" and in-ring work turned away more fans than it turned on. His WCW championship reigns saw ratings drop by half in six months and his WWE feud with Triple-H was brief and disastrous. The only T-shirts he ever sold had him and another guy's face on them and someone else's wildly popular logo splayed across the back. TNA hasn't cracked a 1.5. Who the hell does Kevin Nash think he is?

Yikes. I just started this thing because I thought the DVD set was fun.

Today there are still plenty of fans who totally suspend their disbelief, so it's not entirely implausible there were plenty more back then. I've run into quite a few people who think Steve Austin's act was legitimate.

Our local paper ran a Blackjack Brown wrestling column that mentioned this. Now that I'm older, more familiar with Hogan's machinations, and more cynical I'm inclined to believe this was Hogan spreading the word through acolytes to pump up his per-appearance deal with WCW or at least get some sort of contract leverage.

Heel Cena drops the strap to babyface Triple-H at WrestleMania. That's still where I think this is going. And, thanks S.L.L., for the new signature quote!

Don't forget the obsession with masturbation.