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ECW, The Night The Line Was Crossed. Was this the first ever 3-Way Dance?

At a very tight stretch.As detailed in Turning The Tables (shill, follow link below, shill) it was the first singles match in the US where all three men were in the ring at the same time AND it could end via pinfall.* The first triangular match was in the late 1900s with people from three different styles of wrestling in a round-robin series.* Smoky Mountain had done a round robin series a few months earlier. Both Smoky Mountain and Mid-South had done multi-team matches.* There had been three-ways in Mexico and Canada.* The first US match to have three guys in the ring at the same time was in 1977 with Fritz Von Erich, Bruiser Brody and The Sheik, but elimination was by bodyslam only.

Just to give a random example of that type of show:

WWF @ Clinton, NY - February 8, 1988 (450)David Sammartino pinned Barry HorowitzJohnny V defeated George SkaalandOutback Jack pinned Iron Mike SharpeGeorge Steele defeated Ron Bass via disqualificationJerry Allen pinned Johnny VLittle Coco & Pepe Gomez defeated Lord Littlebrook & Little TokyoB. Brian Blair & Jim Brunzell defeated Nikolai Volkoff & Boris Zhukov

I believe in many of these cases the show would have been sold for a flat fee to a school or civic group which then sold tickets and hope to make some profit for their cause.

Alright, bit of a strange one. During the Attitude Era, RAW is WAR was the name of the first hour and the second hour was called The Warzone. Post 9/11 they simply became RAW and RAW Zone. Now I know why the shows were split into two seperate hour shows and given different names but I'm wondering if it still happens? Even if they don't call it as such on air, do the WWE still portray RAW as two one hour shows back to back to sell their advertising spaces at a higher rate?

Yep, that's still the case. If you watch exactly an hour into the show, there's a copyright notice followed by an 'SAP' (transmitted in Spanish) logo - this is the official switch between shows.

Flash.

Little Crazy was used by Sabu.

Literally or philosophically?

 

It's still there at www.realinmemphis.co.uk, or http://ccgi.simania.plus.com/forums/ for the straight link to the board.

I'm not sure it was ever used in the ring. (They may have planned to use it at the times but Sandman had left by the time the album came out, and when he returned a year later he was using the Metallica version). I think it was just a way of getting the song on the album without having to pay Metallica performance rates.Horrible it may have been, but I think it won a Grammy for best cover.

I believe it's the Piper documentary.

I would like some help on MMA terminology, particually on the ground. Whats someones guard? And what does side control mean exactly?

The guard is where the guy on the bottom has his legs wrapped around the torso of his opponent (ie above the waist). This gives him more control and makes it harded for the guy on top to throw down punches without being choked/put in an armlock:The contrast is the mount, where the guy on top has his legs apart and is pinning down his opponent from the waist and below. This makes it much easier to thrown down punches:Side control is where the guy on top is laying at 90 degrees to his opponent, giving him the ability to pin him down, work on punches to the head, and keep his opponent's legs at bay:

Most of the categories I made my mind up straight away, but the Lexx one was one I voted for late.

We will tell you EXACTLY how the company died in the first place,

Spent more than you took in revenue.Next question.

1PW is still in business, but 1 Up Games is in liquidation. Is it a very cynical question to ask which firm was technically selling the tickets to shows?On a legal point which seems to be being missed, if the company that sold the tickets to last weekend's 1PW is still in business, then they legally owe EVERY ticket seller a refund IMMEDIATELY. 3CW is a completely different company and taking up their offer of free admission to their show DOES NOT have any legal bearing on the failure of 1PW to provide the show for which they sold tickets. If you went to the 3CW show, that's entirely between you and 3CW as to whether they charged you admission - it doesn't absolve 1PW of their liabilities at all.

[*]Fan X buys a ticket to see Great Muta and some Americans at Doncaster.

[*]1PW "goes into liquidation"

[*]Fan X gets very sad because he knows he'll be at the back of the creditor queue and probably not get anything.

[*]3CW runs a show with no Great Muta/few Americans and accepts 1PW tickets.

[*]Fan X decides to use his ticket there as he might as well get *something* for his cash.

[*]1PW admits it isn't in liquidation.

[*]1PW's show didn't happen and, as it's not in liquidation, it owes every ticket buyer a full refund right now, absolutely no legal debate whatsoever.

[*]1PW announce "People needing refunds for Jan 27th, please e mail me direct at scgauntley@btinternet.com, and i will persoanlly sort. ( also any fans who still need NTB refunds, that did not use their tickets for WND, send me an e mail ".

[*]Fan X doesn't have his ticket any more. He used it for WND. He's not getting a refund by the sound of it.

[*]Having paid to see the Great Muta and some Americans, fan X appears to have been tricked into accepting a lesser show for his cash, acting on information that was untrue.

[*]Oops.

[*]That sounds a bit dodgy.

In my legally unqualified understanding, stating publicly that you've gone into liquidation when that hasn't happened is seriously iffy as it can mislead people into writing off debts, accepting compromise settlements and so on.

Presumably as many as have the same opinion and feel strongly enough to post it.

I fucking hate sushi. Cook the fish. Cook the fucking fish. Then eat it.

Sushi isn't raw fish. Sushi is a dish of blocks of sticky rice served with a topping of your choice. Raw fish is a popular sushi topping.

Bailey's the current chief cashier of the bank of England and took over in 2004. I presume Merlyn Lowther was a predecessor and appears on old notes.The best known Charles Buchan was, as somebody mentioned on here before, a football player who produced a famous monthly football magazine. He died in 1960 though, so obviously the venture capitalist just shares his name.But if you do have any questions about this show, it's best to contact APW's head of communications, Alan Smithee.

That I, personally, have worked with? Anna Friel, Kelly Brook, Dame Judi Dench (And I'm begging you to tell me Evangeline Lilly is a better actress than Judi Dench) and Keira Knightley. And that's just from the top of my head. I've worked with a few others that you've probably never heard of but are still famous on a national level. So I make that two Academy nominated actresses and one witha shiny gold Oscar on her mantlepiece. Oh, and a BAFTA winner

 

Well I've legitimately, genuinely, not just in my head, fucked an Emmy winner (female). What do I win?

Yes to both.

Yep, it was the cost of running shows. Not the drug testing.

There's no Charles Buchan?Jesus, how can you not even pull the most basic wrestling scam properly?Yes, it's fine to false-advertise wrestlers, lie about the arena, sell tickets for a show that isn't happening, sell sponsorship, make up posters to your forum, send out press releases in a different name from your own, pose as a journalist to cover your own story, and so on - that's all part of the scam.BUT THE MONEY MARK HAS TO BE REAL.

ECW did 3000 a few times. Their monthly averages in the post-Barely Legal era ranged from 900-2000.I'm not sure why we are discussing Sprules booking an ECW guy. There's no apparant serious prospect of him getting anyone, it's just a bullshit poll he's put up, presumably under the impression a tiny internet forum only visited by people who'd likely buy tickets anyway is a good form of market research for working out who would sell tickets to a 3,000+ seater building in Coventry. It's about as useful and relevant as me posting a poll as to which of the past 10 Playmates of the Year I should allow to fellate me tonight.

Would I be right in thinking the last ever 'WWF' show was the Birmingham NEC house show a couple of years back? I distictly remember the UK PPV from that tour being announced as 'WWE' Insurexion/Rebellion/whatever when it came on SBO, and the Raw the week after being the offical launch of the 'Get The F Out!' campain. My ticket stub says WWF, but I cant remember if the actualy called it WWE or WWF on the house shows.

According to www.thehistoryofwwe.com, the last show before the rebrand was a Smackdown house show on 5 May (two days later) in Worcester, Mass.

Yep, it's a particularly gruesome work. The story is that before the match, the guy swallowed a cocktail of pig's blood and vodka, such that he could begin vomiting it up at the appropriate time.

Just to be on the safe side, it's worth reminding people that you do actually have to vote through the poll button - just posting the name of your winner as a reply won't be counted.