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2.2.02 - 2.26.02
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February 26th, 2002
I had missed the first WWA pay-per-view because the WWF wasn't on Directv at the time,
and I mistakenly thought it wouldn't be on the dish.
I did get to catch their second PPV that was on this last Sunday and it was pretty much a steaming pile of crap.
Just in the sense that because Macho Man was unavailable for the main event title match against Jeff Jarrett,
that they replaced him with Brian Christopher was enough to make me find something else to watch.
There were so many better choices for that space than Christopher.
Even with that limp, Scott Steiner was the obvious right choice.
The only matches I thoroughly enjoyed were the hardcore midget match,
and Allan Funk's Hulk Hogan impression and match.
It just looked like most of these guys were out of practice or not used to working together like in Sabu's match with Devon Storm (Crowbar) and in the 3 way match with Juvi, Eddy, and Psicosis.
Also, the commentary by Borash and Madden was pretty brutal.
I was also a little embarassed by Zybysko's challenge to Vince McMahon.
He was called the living legend, but nowadays he couldn't carry Jericho's jock.
I don't even like Jericho and I say that.
Just pass the damn torch already and retire to Larryland where we don't have to see you anymore.
I understand they were trying to get any response on any level from Vince, Jericho, or the WWF in an attempt to get wrestling fans to know that the WWA exists,
but it was pathetic and I know that it will go ignored.
By far the worst waste of time during the PPV had to be Bret Hart's rambling nonsensical speech.
Talk about someone who needs to go away.
He was a great wrestler, and ususally a great wrestler can have a career in wrestling as something other than a wrestler when their time is up,
but apparently not Bret Hart.
He comes off with the personality of a cinder block,
and seems to have never learned how to talk in front of the fans in an entertaining and engaging way.
Whatever they're paying him would be better spent in hiring professional cameramen who won't miss every spot of the night,
and on better lighting and sound.
Imagine flying him in from Canada to Vegas just to deliver that babbling crap.
On to Raw...
- I like Mr. Perfect, it was good to see him fighting with Austin.
His promos are still a little weak though.
- I also liked watching Arn Anderson bleed like a fat pig.
- Kevin Nash doesn't seem to have much to contribute yet,
but I enjoy the Hogan and Hall angles so far.
- I was genuinely surprised to see that Mark Henry won that strongest man in the world competition...
does that mean we'll finally see him back on tv?
He doesn't look any leaner to me...after all the Ross reports given over the last year or two about him slimming down,
it was weird to see him look just as fat as before he was sent down to the minors.
Maybe he bulked out again for this competition?
- after seeing Molly on Fear Factor, I was pretty sure we'd see her in a match...
but I was surprised they didn't have Jackie on as well...
even test got to show his face for a minute or two.
- Are we going to end up with a 3-way dance at wrestlemania for the title between HHH, Jericho, and Angle?
- That had to be the worst Friendly Tap segment they've done over the years in Providence.
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February 18th, 2002
What the hell is wrong with this guy?
He turns down the opportunity to work in the WWF after winning the gold medal for wrestling in the Sydney Olympics.
And now he gets stuck in the snow for a day in zero degree weather and almost dies.
Read about that HERE.
I'll never understand why anyone enjoys cold weather let alone why anyone would actually live somewhere where it snows by choice.
But I guess he's happy slopping pigs or milking cows or whatever he does with his time these days rather than become a well paid celebrity.
He's one of the few who gets in a position where he can take advantage of his success in something and parlay it into a multi-million dollar career.
The only thing I can take away form observing his actions is to not drink the water in Idaho...
Not that I'd ever find myself in Idaho for any reason.
I was sure glad that the WWF pulled their heads from their asses in time to get the pay-per-view back on the dish.
For those saying that the WWF doesn't have enough top guys (or properly elevate talent),
they sure seemed to have enough to put on what I saw as a 3 main event PPV.
Any of those matches could have been interchanged in the card lineup with any other.
HHH vs. Angle, Rock vs. Undertaker, and Austin vs. Jericho all worked for me,
they all told a good story,
and held significant meaning.
In addition...RVD, Booker T, DDP, and the injured Chris Benoit also don't look out of place working the main event with any of the other guys I just mentioned.
Now add into the mix Hogan, Hall, and Nash,
and with proper pacing and storytelling you have so many possibilities for high quality main event matchups that will draw for a long period of time.
Milk the right feuds properly and just with the 12 I've mentioned it would be tough to run out of good and compelling television.
With all that said,
there are so many guys on the cusp of becoming main-eventers in the next year or two that will work their way into this mix.
Guys like Rikishi were there and fell out due to injury.
Test is a maybe with a personality transplant.
Big Show and Kane are always believable against anyone else in the WWF but they just need the right push.
Mike Awesome and Kanyon are maybes after they come back from their injuries.
Raven, Tazz, Rhyno, and Lance Storm, all ECW champs are very well received by fans and just need the right angles...
but they'd be top-level downgrades.
Regal is simply awesome and deserves elevation just for putting his lips on Vince's bare ass.
Edge is also in this group but I'd much prefer to keep the good tag teams like E&C, the Hardys, the Dudleys, and the APA together.
I can see Mr. Perfect having another serious run and to a lesser extent Goldust as a high-level contender.
There are also some unsigned veterans out there that may surprise you by coming to the WWF like Scott Steiner, Sting, and Goldberg...among many others.
HBK could dust himself off and get back in the game,
and there are probably numerous developmental guys I keep hearing about like Ron Waterman, and Shelton (sp?) Benjamin...
who could follow Angle's path out of the WWF farm system to the top.
Hell, even Tough Enough winner Maven is getting a fun and interesting push.
A quote of William Regal's that I read on 1Wrestling.com this week comes to mind.
As best as I can remember, he said something to the effect of that everybody gets ample opportunity to make themselves a success in the WWF,
and if they don't hit a home run, its their own fault not the WWF's.
I wouldn't disagree with that statement in 95% of the situations out there,
but I also believe that sometimes the WWF intentionally and othertimes unintentionally is responsible for certain wrestlers not having a career as great as it should have been.
February 15th, 2002
Rogan just had a major overhaul done to his website.
Its much better than the previous version...
I've been backing this guy and mentioning him here way before he got big with this Fear Factor crap.
I was also lucky enough to see him live doing standup in Brea the week I was in Los Angeles over a year ago.
His site is always worth going to,
he does take the time to do his own updates fairly regularly (considering his schedule),
and they're always great to read.
Go to the Los Straitjackets website sometime.
They're a band that always plays wearing their lucha masks.
Their music is that California surf stuff.
The website has some neat pages to look over including pictures from gigs and videos.
You can also click on any of the albums below to hear their sound.
February 13th, 2002
Here's a 23 year-old picture taken way back in 1979 of Hogan and Brutus.
Hogan's been wrestling longer than a lot of the current WWF fans have been alive.
That's all I got for today, go and buy a t-shirt.
February 6th, 2002
Well, the website obviously wasn't enough,
It was always just a matter of time before a video came out.
These useless broads have sunk so low as to have to cash in on the one and only thing they've got left...
their vaginas.
They couldn't quite utilize their vast intelligence, proper educations, or plain hard honest work to earn a living...
there's something so wrong with them that they couldn't even manage to marry some dumb rich guy and sponge from his wallet.
Their need for attention, money, and maybe even mind altering substances combined with a total uselessness in every aspect you can imagine means you strip (if you're ugly and need dim lighting) or do porn.
Amateur psychologists would diagnose this as either "daddy never loved me" or "daddy loved me in a very inappropriate way".
A couple of years ago the progression was one had something like this in their past and moved on to "respectable" wrestling like Jasmin St. Claire, Chastity, and Beulah did,
now it seems to be the other way around.
I wonder what kind of budget these are filmed on because these chicks have looked so worn out to me recently that I thought it might take George Lucas and his entire team of special effects artists to make these pigs look young and attractive again.
Read the sales pitch for this tape...
Tammy "Sunny" Sytch, Missy Hyatt, Tracii Taylor, Extacy and Rayn completely naked on this commercial tape.
This is not teasing, as all women will get naked.
For years men have wanted to see Sytch and Hyatt bear it all,
and now they can see it.
Watch as Sytch and Hyatt join Taylor, Extacy and Rayn, their wrestling friends, in a naked photoshoot.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot...they have some morals,
* You must be 18 or older to buy this video.
Don't get me wrong, I'd twist an ankle with how quickly I'd be trying to get this tape in my vcr,
and morbid curiosity compels me to need to know what every inch of their naked body actually looks like.
Also, I wholly endorse as many people as possible buying these things now.
Imagine...30 years from now, these tapes are available for 50 cents at every flea market.
"Gramma Missy" and "Nana Tammy" having to look their grandchildren in the eye after they've watched a vintage copy at their friend's house.
That's assuming that these hookers are able to reproduce after all the damage their guts have taken.
Welcome to the very dirty underbelly of sports entertainment.
Look, read this and appreciate the humor of the situation these pathetic creatures find themselves in.
But buy the tape!
I'm sure if you're a wrestling fan and are into chicks instead of dudes,
at $29.95 you'll probably get more than your money's worth out of this tape.
If nothing else, it would make a fantastic gift to a friend...I would have loved getting this for Christmas.
This is the perfect pre Pay-Per-View tape to watch with your friends before Wrestlemania.
February 2nd, 2002
I just finished watching WWF Excess and they ran a shortened version of Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant from Wrestlemania 3 in their "from the vault" segment.
It seemed to me while watching it that Andre (sick as he was becoming at that point in his life) was in better shape then, than the Big Show is in right now.
I'm probably just way too impatient, but ever since I heard the WWF had signed the nWo guys,
all I've wanted is to see Scott Hall on tv.
Reading online news sites, it seems like they're waiting for the ratings sweeps to start using them.
It may just be my own selfishness, but I think they should have had them on this last week to get some good momentum going into sweeps.
Oh well, the longer I wait...the better the payoff should be when they finally show up.
My night just got ruined as I was writing this update...
Excess was still on and now the robot wars that comes on after just started and some hideous sound was coming from the television.
I looked into the other room and there was that he-she thing formerly known as Chyna introducing the show.
Seeing that brutal man-faced hermaphrodite sucked all the will to live out of my body and I had to leap up and change the channel before my ears started to bleed and my eyes permanently lost all sight.
Somehow watching Howard Stern beat a half-naked girl with a huge dead fish is making the pain go away.
Santo Street is a cool website for those that dig the whole Mexican masked wrestler genre.
They have comics, posters, videos, toys, and autographs, as well as offering some historical information about Santo, Blue Demon, and the other classic icons, their history, and their films.
Check the website out if you have a few minutes.
I actually bought a signed lobby card from them through an ebay auction a couple of years ago.
I found a link there to The Mexican Film Resource Page that has some more in-depth historical information and history for those of you that dig this stuff or might be at all curious.
Its the night before Super Bowl Sunday,
and I guess I should go on record before the event and pick my choice.
Even though I'm a Dolphins fan, and it totally goes against my nature to cheer for another division team,
I'm still taking the Patriots.
I guess I like the fact that they're the worst to first team and did it with their backup QB.
it takes balls to leave a healthy 103 million dollar quarterback on the bench,
but it looks like that decision got them to the big game.
They also knocked off those crap-eating Oakland Raiders who I hate,
and I'm glad that loss was "controversial" and left them feeling like they were cheated out of a shot in the Super Bowl.
I also really dislike the Rams and still have no clue how they can afford that offense under salary cap rules let alone go out and get a whole new defense this year...
very suspect.
I think the Patriots actually have a chance of winning outright,
but even if they lose, it won't be by as much as the 14 point spread.
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