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I think it's now pretty clear that PS and its readers all live in some alternative dimension where it's always 411Wrestling.com circa 2003.

 

Nah, everyone loved Cena in 2003 for his basketball shirts and 'edgy raps'. 2005, maybe.

I laughed at Fin Martin when he put Jack Swagger on the cover of the magazine and said the reason he did it was because WWE were failing to push new stars, so he has decided to do it himself. Um, Ok. Its been a poor magazine for many, many years and I don't value the printed opinions of its editor.

 

Actually I stumbled across my copy of this magazine the other day- Swagger was World Heavyweight Champion when he was on the cover of Power Slam. In fact the cover says 'Who else will join Jack Swagger in the elite?' or some such. What you've said definitely does ring a bell though. Maybe it was a centrefold?

Lacey von Erich.

I'd also like to point out that all of the top 5 have at one point or another performed in that room upstairs in the Jolly Beggar!

 

They've all worked in TXW but, if I remember rightly, bizarrely Spud never appeared at the Jolly Beggar/Tam- his only TXW appearances were during the ill-fated Jumpin' Jaks phase and I don't think he was on the AMP Sabre/Danielson show.

Dude, you need to use proper spelling and grammar or my interest in your writing will collapse like a flan in a cupboard. If you don't know how/can't be bothered then get someone else to do it. There's probably some great stuff in there, but I only got to Paragraph 4 before quitting entirely.

 

I enjoyed the Snoop plane thing.

 

Of course I had a novel published this year (see signature) and am now going to present one of my own stories for assassination at the hands of the UKFF here (this one is a half-decade old now, mind).

I'd like to see ask the people that voted for Ronin which of the half a dozen matches he's had in the last year they saw.

 

Yeah, I thought that. Ditto Staniforth really- the two of them can't have had 10 matches between them this year (and by that I mean, their combined matches do not add up to 10, not that Ronin vs Petey has happened ten times).

Wheres Brad Flash in the ShitArse list?

 

Number 7

That's one small ring.

 

And when I say "ring" I mean "audience".

I saw a Maddog Maxx vs Dan Ryder match once in AWW and thought it was really good, and that Maxx seemed to be a good old-school veteran heel. Imagine my surprise to learn he's only 26, when his gimmick and appearance would pitch him as being in his mid-40s!

 

I haven't seen any of his matches since about 2008 though, so he may well have become worse since.

Does anyone know why Kurt Angle doesnt wear his Olympic gold medal in TNA?

 

Just wondering if he's been stopped from wearing it since leaving WWE?

 

It's because James Wallace could get a try-out at any time, and the safes aren't that secure.

 

Gratuitous dig there. That said, didn't Wallace claim he will be on the next Olympic team anyway? This is probably still his best chance of taking home gold!

What week did they hold a Tag Team gauntlet match that had Syxx Pac as Scott Hall's partner?

Online World of Wrestling is your friend:

September 18, 2002 - NWA:TNA: Scott Hall returned to TNA with partner Syxx-Pac to participate in the Gauntlet for the Gold..

They teamed up again the next week before Hall started no-showing, supposedly because Hall "couldn't find a babysitter" (source: OWW).

I certainly never need to hear anyone say "Yeah boi" again after watching that match. Still, it's pretty good..... FOR ME TO POOP ON!In the interests of fairness, are there any links to LPW matches which are, y'know, good?

Isnt that...Jekkel?

I don't think this ever got addressed- that's Jekkel vs Exodus.

All of those videos were like torture. The Dread debut at least had redeeming comedy value, but the Dread/Slayer vs New Twin Towers match- I mean, what? The audience is full of kids, and you're wrapping barbed wire across people's faces?Compared to those two, Fireball vs Rage was like Austin-Hart, although it still wasn't, y'know, GOOD or anything (and Fireball's 3/4 length pleather just looks wrong). My favourite part is the kid calling the moves before they happened: "SUPLEX! SUPLEX!".

Ian 'Pitbull' Johnson. Not only a card carrying shitarse for the past twenty five years but also a convicted paedophile! Only in wrestling...

This guy needs to be on some form of list...

Sex Offenders List?

I was going to say "it's a shame, because actually, that show looked quite good", and then I saw Scott Grimm in one match and Ronin vs Geraden as the main event, and... nah.

I think most of the reasons Ronin got twice as many votes as anyone else have been covered. But in case you weren't reading, Ronin, the main points included:- Slow, lazy, sloppy matches: the ones I've seen have seen sloth-like grace and as much psychology as a nursery school syllabus, garnering the crowd reaction you may see from Wembley Stadium. While it's empty.- Ridiculous inability to keep kayfabe: because trash-talking in a Midlands accent during a match and strolling around unmasked wearing your own T-shirt during a show is- guess what?- breaking kayfabe, for Gawd's sake. I know it's a fake sport, but jeez, let me suspend my disbelief sometimes.

The chasm between Ronin and Mad Mike, and between Mad Mike and everyone else, is staggering really: BlokBusta and Exodus's votes ADDED TOGETHER don't put him above Mike.There have been several Ronin/Mad Mike matches- surely there must be video footage somewhere for our lolz. Also, I can't believe I forgot Carnage on mine, a babyface champion who won a hard-fought TLC match at AWW and got BOOED for it. Nor can I believe that the Icons of Dominance feature not at all on this list.

married two kids,

Pregnant with two more, by the looks of it.

"When the topic is about wrestling, the topic should be about YOU, Peter"

Oh, come on!

Undertaker says hi

Never drew a dime.

Oh come on. Even I have paid to go and see Undertaker wrestle.

He's not at the level of Goldust, but he's never really drawn, has he? He was a big part of the product when it was shit and when it was great, when business was great and when it was in the toilet. He didn't really effect business at all. He drew money with great talent and didn't with crap talent. There's no evidence to suggest that Undertaker = money.

Weren't there reports that people were leaving the Smackdown! tapings in their droves following the 'Taker match, and he wasn't even the main event? Surely Taker's feuds with Austin and Michaels drew (although granted, it's Austin and Michaels) and his feud with the previously-unknown Kane was commercially successful?As for the main topic. I'm bisexual, but I'm well aware that wrestling isn't exactly tolerant of homosexuality- sure, Rico was a face, but an outrageously OTT gay character; you can guarantee that the mooted Chris "Only Gay In The Village" Kanyon and Orlando "Intergender Love Triangle" Jordan storylines would have either/or (a) not gotten over, (b) turned dramatically into Wrestlecrap, © depicted the wrestler at their centres as a screaming queen, rather than a badass who happened to be gay. I think the only homosexuality-based storyline that got over and didn't depict either character as WRONG was the Mickie James-Trish Stratus unrequited love story. Even then Mickie was depicted as a lovelorn nutcase and y'know, it's two hot women, of course it got over (I assume doing the same storyline with, e.g., Matt Hardy and Brian Kendrick wouldn't get the same reaction). So I'm well aware that wrestling is, at its centre, essentially redneck and that a Loser Must Wear Dress match is probably going to invoke a few insinuations of homosexuality. However, a face wrestler coming out accusing people of being "ass up, face down, pillow-biting faggots"? That's going too far and, for me, would have automatically turned Tighe and Simmonz face against such idiotic comments.And this is from a man named TRACEY?

When Guerrero finally was anointed WWE champion in early 2004 (he "lost" his title four months later), the organization marketed his triumph as a redemption story. The company released a DVD recounting his life story, and later a WWE-authorized autobiography (both called "Cheating Death, Stealing Life"). In both, Guerrero claimed that he had been sober for four years.It was a hopeful, inspiring story. But like much about wrestling, it wasn't true.Ashenoff, Guerrero's old friend and tag-team partner, visited him regularly during his championship years and remembers being shocked by his physical and emotional decline. "I could see him getting weaker and weaker. You'd see him in the dressing room looking like a mummy in ice packs. He could barely move after a show. . . . He was taking all these painkillers and he was very paranoid. He was just an emotional basket case.""Without a doubt," Ashenoff says, "he wasn't clean [in the months before his death]. I know that for a fact. All those years [of abuse] finally caught up to him."

That came out of the blue for me

To add to what others have been saying about his physical state, Guerrero's mental state was no secret during his championship run:- After the first JBL match, he refused to get a blood transfusion or take any time off, despite the ridiculous amount of bloodshed in that match.- He struggled with the pressure of being champion so much that he was grateful when the title was taken off him.- Shortly after being champion, he blew an angle with Big Show, Kurt Angle and Luther Reigns, and picked a fight with Kurt Angle over it (Angle, you might expect, beat him easily). This was at least the second time he'd argued with Angle and Reigns.In short, he was totally knackered, both physically and mentally.

Also, would you all say that this is the biggest Wrestling story of all time? Bigger than say when the WWE bought WCW out?

Probably the big wrestling stories of the last 20-30 years have been the steroid trials of the mid-90s, the Montreal Screwjob, Owen's death, WWF buying WCW and Eddie's death/Wellness implementation. The Montreal Screwjob was featured in a motion picture while I think the steroid trials did as much, if not more, damage to wrestling's reputation than this did; that said, I can't recall seeing wrestling featured in so many mainstream outlets for ooh, ages. Which is a long-winded way of saying: yes.