Kaz Hayashi

No idea what some of these are doing now, but:

Palumbo

O'Haire

Lance Storm

2 cool (scotty and GMS)

Jimmy Yang

Nowinski

Bull Buchanan

Stevie Richards

Das fucking wonder kid, Alex the German W

Kevin Thorne

Basically, some of 2004 and acouple of others

And as some have said:

Tajiri

Goldy

Holly

Holly

The turning of hot rod in mid 80's was initially strange. He and orton split as heels and then he had a feud with orton, Adonis and don the rock (I think he was the 3rd member).

Anyway, there's an episode of SNME where he actually makes a run in to save hogan from a double beating, only for hogan to later say something along the lines of 'stay out of my way you daft scotch bitch, I don't trust you'.

We eventually all began to love him, but at that exact time, you see him save hulk, and then hulk says he doesn't trust him with a look of angry hulk face.

My tweener input

I watched The Departed a couple of nights back. I have seen it before, but yeah, it's a good bloody film.

Mainstream and star studded, and usually wouldn't be my thing.

It's quality, probs seen by most of you already, but if you haven't seen it, defo give it a watch.

And it put me in the mood for some corrupt cop goodness, so I watched Training Day last night. Again, a classic mainstream film, and I highly recommend it.

Maybe both a bit obvious for this thread

I've had the pleasure of playing along side Foreign Beggars, Skinny man and De La Soul and a few more over the last decade. Nice to see some of which have been mentioned already.

In terms of what got me in to hip hop originally, the below need to be mentioned:

Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Red Light, Green Light -

The Pharcyde - Passin me by - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

Mos Def - black on both sides - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HajAuTU1pNA

In fact, anyone wanting to check out 90's albums, you need black on both sides and Bizarre ride in your collection. I'm all about 90's hip hop, i don't think it gets any better.

I'd love to see him as a one off at Mania. It would obviously need to have some kind of story, such as Flair being back in WWE and taking a beat down from Punk, Heyman etc, a few guys run to attempt the save but fail... then the lights go off for 5 seconds, and when they come back on, Sting is stood in the ring with a baseball bat, does his thing, his music hits and then he's out of there.

I'd like to see him make the 'lights out' save for someone that he's had a past with and agree that a match with Taker is too late in the day. He doesn't need a match.

He could possibly manage a little posse of misfit night time lurchers at some point down the line, a Sting / sinister minister type role.

Anyway, after 'it' happens, Sting on WWE games, legends action figures, a big fuck off best of Sting DVD collection, t-shirts, foam baseball bats, pogs, soup, whatever

they can knock out will generate a few quid. My generation will buy to reminisce, the new generation will buy his stuff because of the aftermath of promo videos and the fact that he saved someone like Cena.

I'm guessing Vince isn't that bothered because he didn't create Sting and because Sting has snubbed them in the past? or is there a personal issue I know nothing of?

There's fuck all that could make Michael McGillicutty look cool or marketable, though. He's the worst.

I think the fact that he is Perfects youngster is the only reason i bothered responding. He is tosh.

In fact Tosh off the bill would be more marketable.

Tosh's Tash = Title run

I'm not sure about a singlet, but he could get some trunks in the classic Mr. P colour-schemes (yellow & sky blue, blue & orange etc.) for a nice nod without looking like too much of a rip-off. Just about everyone looks better in white boots, too.

Yeah I like it. May be a Razor Ramon type waist coat with a Perfect esque colour scheme.

Possibly some snazzy shades too.

obvious one

ricky rude

Freddie

Been any word on 'Walk like a Panther' recently?

The transition from 95 to 96 wcw is a thong of joy in retrospect, beautiful

I remember seeing the pics in the WWF mag before seeing it on tape, an incredible kicking. Some may say deserved after the beatings he gave the likes of jim powers on the best of Saturday nights main event.

I've always wondered how hard were 'hard times' and who suffered from the hardest of times?

The Mountie was obviously raped, but what other hard times do you fondly remember?

After watching this weeks Raw and Smackdown.. I had a real buzz watching them just like I did each week watching during the last boom period.Does anyone else feel that we are heading down that way now with compelling must see story lines and crowds that pop for anything?

Raw did the lowest rating it's done in forever last week, and there are no signs of a boom period, including the fact that raw isn't very good. So no

It was a very decent show by current standards, as many have said, one of the best in quite a long time.

Regardless of how good this and upcoming episodes are, i don't know if it will make any difference to the ratings. Even if Hogan jumped to WWE, would it really rescue the ratings and create a spike? I personally don't believe it would and may just have to accept that wrestling just isn't popular at the moment and it is clearly struggling to gain new interest.

I have possibly just spoken a load of bollocks, but i think its fair.

Promos need this kind of energy, in fact i miss this kind of promo in general

Now here's a blast from the indy past. Apparently, Christian York of all people had a tryout match at last night's TNA house show.

Really? I always thought he was alright late 90's, will be interesting to know if he has matured or lost 'it', whatever it was. I did quite like kid kash, mainly for his explosive starts to matches in ECW during the same era, but I have to admit, I think he is brilliant now.

I know he isn't to everyones taste but he is very solid in all areas, a cracking heel all-rounder. If York had much to offer, I can't help but think that we would have heard about him on the indys/international promotion scene.

Either way, another name that will probs get lost in the shuffle.

- Tommy "Tiny" Lister is facing five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of commit mortgage fraud. Lister, who played Zeus in No Holds Barred, entered a plea agreement in which he admitted to being part of a scheme where he and several others conspired to get four separate mortgages on homes in Los Angeles via false information. The actions garnered $5.7 million in mortgages and when the mortgages defaulted the lenders were out $2.6 million. Lister also copped to withdrawing over $1.1 million in loans while using the properties as collateral and not paying back the loans, making his total amount of fraud $3.8 million. Lister is due back in court in SeptemberMoney must be tight at WTN.

one dancer, new dancer, no dancers?

Too slow Logan

fucking wonderful

Didn't Black rule this out in the porn revisited Louis Theroux doc?

He was clearly arse rammed on a daily basis whilst in prison too, in fact i think he stated as much. Either way, XPW relaunch? the prospect of reading a nastly bill whilst struggling to control piles is just as appealing.

The Flair link above made me look for this.

I love it. Flair post match.. "shut up skinny"