May HAVE. And Ian has already pointed out Crash appeared on WM XVIII - he won the Hardcore title under the 24/7 rules.

Shit, King of the Ring 99 indeed had no Boss Man indeed. It's that.

yeah, good point, Im blind. the 24/7 rules made it slightly harder for my mind to remember the vcr run backs

Cheers gents.

Would anybody please be able to direct me to a half decent link to watch or download the Rumble please? I'm always a bit sceptical about downloading from sites I Google.

Thanks.

Super, I would recommend trying www.galaxiawrestling.net - that's where I watch every episode of RAW, Smackdown and Impact as well as all PPVs.

Awesome, that'll do me

Hi people

Im sure this has been asked many times before but 264 pages is a lot to go through. I dont wanna annoy anyone if they havent watched the rumble. How do you put the black spoiler bar up over your words?

Many Thanks

You just put it in spoiler2 tags, like this:



SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read
spoiler here

Thanks very much!

Have you ever used the download option on that site?

No, I'll admit I haven't Mojo.

I'm trying to remember a wrestling match i've seen from Japan with 2 guys and tones of Lighttubes.. its on youtube somewhere in 3 parts.. Can anyone help ?

No probs, it appeared that they had quite a few files that was worth a watch.

Well, thanks for the tip Mojo - I may consider that in future.

Is the Elimination Chamber PPV one of the free to air PPV's this year? I thought I read somewhere it's free again.

That could very well be Ryuji Ito vs. Abdullah Kobayashi... they've had many such matches in Big Japan and I've seen some of them on Youtube, for example this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVqbtyL-PXs which is in 3 parts.

Whatever happened to Joey Mercury? Did he get released again?

He's currently recovering from surgery on a torn pec. He's been appointed trainer at FCW in the meantime, not clear if he will remain there once he's recovered though. He's still got a profile on wwe.com, but I can't see what they'd do with him creatively post SES.

According to uk-tv-guide.com it is on sky sports 1.

Brilliant. Thanks for that!

Question for the MMA fans, I used to have a video what a friend of mine copied for me what he'd bought from the tape traders back in the day. It was a UFC PPV from New Years Eve 2001 ( I think ) and it was pretty much a best of type deal showing fights from all the shows which werent clipped from what I can remember so you had a couple of fights from each one. It was on for about 5/6 hours or something like that, anyway I'm just wondering if anyone knows the proper name for said show so I can try and find it to download as it was awesome.

Cheers

I used to have a copy of that. I'm pretty sure it was called Ultimate New Year's Eve.

Thats the one, cheers.

Looking into it they did this up until 2004 from what I've managed to find. The show I had was definitely New Years Eve 2001 come to think about it as I left school in the Summer of 2002 and I got it while there so when I named it 1993-2002 it was just the lead up to 02.

I've had a bit of a search round for a download link for the 2001 show but the only one I could find was the 2003 version but from reading the description its the same type of deal going from UFC1 till 2004, hopefully it still has the fights I had on my video.

Cheers once again

Reading an old Powerslam magazine from about ten years ago there and they said WCW had a stable called the "Old Age Outlaws". WTF was that all about? Thanks!

It was Lazza Z, Mr. Wonderful, Arn Anderson and Terry Funk. They feuded with nWo squad of Bret, Jarrett, Kev and Scotty Steiner for about 4 days (a Nitro and a Thunder). They formed together because the nWo kidnapped Arn Anderson and tortured him for days. Scott Steiner even poured coffee on him. It was a lark. Funk then in turned kidnapped Jeff Jarrett and they had a swap. The nWo got the worse deal, as far as I'm concerned. They should have kept Double A, if nothing other than to continue to pour Maxwell House on.

They were around about early 2000, it was Funk, Orndorff, Arn, and Zybyssko. I really can't remember much about it other than it leading to the Funk vs Nash ppv match (which may or may not have been for the "President" role).


Butch or Ian will remember.


Edit. Fuck sake Ian, that was quick.

What was the deal with Sionne replacing Samu in the Headshrinkers? Was there a storyline behind it?

I believe the storyline was that Samu had a serious back injury caused by Diesel's Jacknife.

Has any major US American promotion ran with an all black main event?

Booker T vs The Rock at SummerSlam 2001, would class as that, wouldnt it?

Cheers, I knew it must have been done but was scratching my brain to think of a match.

edit:

When do WWE usually tour in the Autumn?

um.. the autumn? nah seriously its around november, usually a week or two before survivor series although last year they done a short, 3 date tour of aberdeen and butlins in september as well as the november tour

Does anyone no what the ECW show was where Raven returned and he and Dreamer won the tag team belts

26th August 1999 at the EcW Arena, taped for broadcast on EcW on TNN.

I'm not sure about the date or anything, but it was definitely at Elks Lodge in NYC.

But anyway, I have a question related to the ECW Arena. Back when I used to get all my stuff off of traders, Outcast Video (remember them?) had an On The Road type shoot with Rob Feinstein (I think) and a couple of other people, possibly Gabe Sapolsky. I remember reading said description of the video and it mentions that they take a tour around the ECW Arena, going behind the scenes and discussing the Arena's most famous moments from where they happened.

Anyone know the shoot I'm on about and more importantly, know how I can go about obtaining a copy? Ta.

I think it's this one:http://www.rfvideo.com/shootwithrfvideo.aspx

I do believe that's the one I'm after. I was on the RF Video website not long ago and coudn't find anything.

Cheers fella.

They dont take a tour or anything. They are just sitting at a table. Doug Gentry and Gabe Sapolsky are quite inslightful and tell some top stories about ECW back then. Whats cool is that Gentry and Sapolsky are so humble about the time they spent in ECW and happy to have been there, so it doesnt come across like usual ECW personalities shoots. Rob Feinstein doesnt seem to know what the fucks going on, which is odd since its his video. He keeps getting corrected by Sapolsky.

Hmmm, I don't think it's the one I'm after then. The one I seen many moons ago definitely describes how they take a tour around the old ECW Arena, like standing in the Eagles Nest discussing the night Tommy Dreamer was thrown off it and so on. It has to be out there somewhere. A quick search on XWT and PWT has yielding nothing, although I am downloading Feinstein's 2009 shoot.

You're right, I was getting mixed up with November to Remember, the first PPV since Raven's return, where he Dreamer and Sandy came out to consecutive super pops to face those darn upstarts, Rhino and the Impact Players.

Feels closer to twenty years ago than ten.

How much is the average WWE ref on yearly?

Every video I've seen of his, Feinstein doesn't have a clue what he's on about. He doesn't even write his own questions, does he? It's like he gets them from messageboard suggestions or something. The amount of times in a video he'll ask a question and the interviewee says "What? That didn't happen. Do you mean the time in ______ when __________?" and Feinstein will just go "Uhhhhhh.... I don't know. I guess memories of working with Tracy Smothers?"

Feinstein never knows what he's talking about, but if its actually his own shoot interview with questions about himself, he must be really thick if he cant answer his own "what are your memories ..." quiz.

What happened to TWC? I used to watch it for the shoot interviews and the odd NJPW/Classics, and vaguely remember it merged with something else to show mostly Cage Fights/MMA. Anything more juicy then it ran out of cash?

It was sold to The Fight Network for a pretty tasty sum (I believe), but then The Fight Network ended up going under some time later. After the buyout, they ran TWC rather poorly, with loads of re-runs and crappy programming and things just began to slide.

The Fight Network is still going in the US, isn't it? Just here that they stopped it.

Right, Booker T's WCW theme music. What is it a rip-off of? I'm thinking Kraftwerk's "Sex Object". The "Yes! Yes!", "No! No!" parts definately come from that tune. What other tunes does that particular theme copy? Thanks there.

Kraftwerk - "Sex Object"

What matches have taken place at both a Starcade and a Wrestlemania? I can think of Ric Flair Vs Randy Savage (Starcade '95 and Wrestlemania 8).

The only other close one I can think of off the top of my head is Steiners Vs Wild Samoans (Samoan Savage & Fatu) at the Starcade with the tournament and Steiners Vs Headshrinkers (Samu and Fatu) at Mania 9.

Are there any others or any other close ones? I know I could Wiki this but I am throwing it out there for a bit of fun.

Good question, I can't find any other exact instances but a close one would be Hogan v Piper who headlined Starrcade 1996 and they also faced each other at WrestleMania 1 teaming with Mr T and Paul Orndorff.

Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio faced eachother as part of a 3 way at Starrcade 1998 and then were in a multi-person match at WrestleMania XX (but I can't remember if they were in the ring at the same time though).

Why do they spell ROH as "Ring Of Honor" rather than "Ring Of Honour"?