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8.2.01 - 8.19.01
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August 19th, 2001
Congratulations to Michael Quade who won the free Terri Runnels autograph.
As you can see above, the new autograph chosen to be given away on November 1st is a Vince McMahon signed 8X10...
good luck to everyone who is registered (and will register) to win it.
Was I the only one who wasn't all that impressed with the new set for Smackdown?
I genuinely felt that the original one was better.
That big fist is pretty stupid.
Tazz should have turned on Austin and been set up for his big push in a series against Austin and the rest of the Alliance.
I think I'm going to end up missing the Summerslam PPV tonight...
unfortunately unless the RVD/Hardy match is the best match in the history of wrestling I don't think I'll find too much reason to watch the rebroadcast on Tuesday since I'll know the outcome of the matches once I watch Monday's show.
X Entertainment had a cool thing on Michael Buffer you can see by clicking HERE.
I went and looked around at Dusty Rhode's Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling WEBSITE and wasn't too impressed by the general presentation.
You would think they'd be able to have someone that could put together something a little nicer.
Especially if you consider that every aspect of your business is representative of you and an amateur looking site reflects that everything else may be the same way.
I'm running a buttload of AUCTIONS on ebay...buy something damnit!!!
August 14th, 2001
The drawing for the free Terri Runnels autograph is tomorrow...there's still a few hours to click the above link and sign up.
Monday's Raw had 2 really long non-wrestling segments.
Steve Austin giving a speech to the "troops" and humiliating Raven, Hugh Morrus, and Tazz, and Rock and Jericho ragging on Stephanie's big fake boobs.
Neither one was bad but they both ran a little too long and I found myself getting bored.
Stephanie still needs to lose a little weight if she's going to show off those things like that.
I was excited for the Angle/RVD match and was hoping for once there wouldn't be a run-in and just a lot of high spots.
I'm bored with Edge & Christian, I'm bored with Spike & Molly, I'm bored with X-Pac, and I'm already bored with that yokel Shane Helms...he should keep his mouth shut he's worse than the Hardys ever were on the microphone.
The Staziak stuff was funny...
Did anyone hear the Al Snow joke about him on Heat referring to his previously being fired from the WWF for recording people without their knowledge?
You can also still hear the fans calling him Meat.
The final match held no interest for me for some reason, so I found myself doing other work while it was on and just listening to it.
About a quarter of the way through the set-up segment for that match it was pretty obvious where they were going with this giving us a tag match later that night.
I don't really think much about Rhyno.
I already see his glass ceiling.
Its pretty much the formula to set up the matches for the PPV and then mix up those opponents in tag matches as a "preview" of what you'll see at the PPV.
I think sometimes its done too often.
Booker T. and Rhyno tagging was a little weird while Rock and Y2J as a team made much more sense.
While on the subject of Booker T, I think he's doing great and as long as they make him a strong competitive heel like Austin, I totally see him as a headliner.
Speaking of people doing great, Kanyon is one of the guys I always enjoy seeing.
He always does a really good job.
Kanyon's been posting updates to his WEBSITE regarding his new experiences in the WWF and they're interesting to read.
He really comes off as a hard worker who truly appreciates the opportunities he's been given and really wants to go above and beyond in living up to people's expectations.
Another website I like to go to is Lance Storm's.
He has a new interesting COMMENTARY about the instant effects his short time in the WWF have had on his life, fame, and routines.
Okay, I decided to check out Saturn's WEBSITE to see what pearls of wisdom he's been spouting.
He hasn't contributed anything new since March...
Those few fans he actually has may start to feel alienated and even disappointed in that bald bastard.
I guess if I'm talking about bastards, I should mention how happy I am that it looks like we've seen the last of Dean Malenko on TV.
The story I've heard is he'll become a road agent and possibly train the younger talent.
I just hope he isn't a trainer on next year's TOUGH ENOUGH.
By the way, didn't the first episode or two of Tough Enough lead you to believe that the main person training them would be Tazz?
I like the way Al Snow is with them, but I would have been interested in seeing Tazz being a little harder on them as well...
kind of a good cop, bad cop.
The remaining people do seem to have learned a lot.
This is a new Santo comic book that is coming out.
It looks like it might be pretty cool in that the stories will be based off of the Santo movies.
The Mexican features had Santo as a superhero fighting all types of evil including evil robots the undead.
A lot of those movies were probably bed considered as horror movies.
The comic would have to be about that stuff, because regular wrestling matches in comic books just sounds stupid and drawings would not capture the spectacular nature of actually seeing real people doing the moves.
The one drawback I'm seeing is that it looks like all the people involved in creating this are jabronis.
Not that the drawings are terrible, but I know for a fact I'm a better artist than the guys drawing this book.
And my art is available for everyone to look at on this website to back up that fact.
On a final note, they did some ragging on ICP and their fans HERE.
If you're one of those crossover wrestling/ICP fans, you might have an interest in what they think of you...
If you don't like ICP, you'll probably get a laugh out of it too.
August 8th, 2001
I was getting too many signs today to not do an update.
First, I sat down to watch TV and the brief moment I surfed by Walker Texas Ranger, it was an episode starring Roddy Piper.
Later, on Jeopardy, the female contestant (who won) was a big WWF/Rock fan.
Then even later tonight, while riding the bike at the gym, I looked up at the TV and Macho Man was on ESPN involved with some Slim Jim sponsored X-Games.
I also saw a sports highlight of Steve 'Mongo' McMichaels getting kicked out of a Cubs game.
Way too many random wrestling reminders on a day when there is none on TV.
I also just got this AIM while doing the update:
italicus0: Aundre the giant biography is on...
I read that the RVD/Jerry Lynn match on Heat was edited down by nearly half the time.
The folks in England got the whole unedited match...
I'd rather have seen the entire match than that gay Scotty 2-Hotty segment at the restaurant.
Raw wasn't that great...but there were great moments.
The Rock and Angle was funny.
The DDP/Taker storyline bites ass.
Stephanie has the biggest pair of tits I've ever seen.
Are they pairing Kanyon up with someone new each and every week?
The Booker T stuff had its funny parts, but it came off so fake.
I am confused with the whole Debra/Austin thing...
didn't she hit him with a cookie tray Thursday?
The Ivory thing made no sense.
Shane's match with the Rock was pretty good.
Where are most of the midcard alliance guys?
Why didn't we see more of them and less of the bad segments with Booker T and DDP?
Paul Heyman really tore Terri a new ass and what he said was all true.
I sent an email to everyone on the old mailing list letting them know I had to change service providers and that to remain on the list and entered in the giveaways that they needed to re-sign up on the new mailing list (found on the left column of this page).
So far 19 of 70 people took the time to read the email and actually take 30 seconds to do it...
oh well, the lazy bastards just won't be eligible for the free autographs which is fine by me.
August 2nd, 2001
Only a few things could happen to make a Sunday Night Heat show a "can't miss" for me.
Fortunately, one of them is being aired tonight...
That's right, a kick-ass match between Jerry Lynn and Rob Van Dam.
If you never saw their classic ECW matches, I can't stress enough how important it is to watch Sunday night's show.
For those that have seen their past matches, they already know to watch.
I'm glad for the fact that Kurt Angle is still getting the top push.
It would be a little frustrating to me if Rock had the main event for the next PPV immediately following his return.
The interplay between The Rock and Booker T. so far has been pretty good.
You can see in just the few short weeks that they've been working with Booker T. that he's already improving geometrically with his outside-the-ring camera skills.
Kanyon's been doing real well I think and he even talks about his recent story direction on his WEBSITE.
He's another one who's better than most might think at every aspect of what the WWF does, and its good to see them utilizing some of these guys well right off the bat.
I got the new WWF magazine in the mail Tuesday and it had the return of The Rock as the cover story...good timing arriving one day after his return on television.
The WWF magazine and the RAW magazine are pretty different.
I think the WWF one has mostly fake interviews and plays mostly to those who more believe what they see on TV.
The RAW magazine has a lot more behind the scenes information.
There was an article on Dean 'STINKO' Malenko in the last issue.
I'll be honest, they have yet to find a way to make him interesting...even in an article about his life and family.
I'm so glad they're making him a road agent so I don't have to see him on my TV.
Am I the only one that feels really bad for Jerry Lawler?
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read his latest 2 POSTINGS on his website in chronological order before doing anything else.
What a shitty deal he's gotten.
He quits the WWF in support of his wife being fired.
His son gets fired for drug posession.
Now, his wife has left him...(seemingly for someone else???)
She should have had the decency to do this a little sooner so that maybe he could still have gotten his gig back with the WWF,
but in my opinion it looks like she waited things out and when it was 100% certain that he wasn't going to be able to get her back in the WWF is when she decided to fire the other barrel of the shotgun.
What an evil bitch.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...
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