HE'S GOT A BITHYCLE!!

Since WWE is using a classic NWA/WCW PPV name tonight, I think we should take a moment to remember some fine classic wrestlers, some of whom are no longer with us...

HE GOIN' TO DA PAY WINDA!

man, this was greened uber early.

I'm going to try to find as many instances of Dusty going insane as I can now. Crazy Dusty is best Dusty.

/Amerrrrrrrrrrican Dreeeeeeeeeaaaaam

Sacrelige.

P-Money All $tar: HE'S GOT A BITHYCLE!!

MINUS 5 STARS.


/in before modmins realize they greened this earlier then they normally do

Dusty's "I neglected you" promo in which he begs to be Dustin's PAHTNAH against The Stud Stable

Take a CCR song and say it like Dusty and you have an 80s Dusty Rhodes NWA promo.

"Eye thee...a bad moon...on the risin....FAW HATHMEN!!!...eye thee trouble comin yaw way"

Jim from Saint Paul: P-Money All $tar: HE'S GOT A BITHYCLE!!

MINUS 5 STARS Cena Cats.


/in before modmins realize they greened this earlier then they normally do

/FTFY

FirstNationalBastard: Since WWE is using a classic NWA/WCW PPV name tonight, I think we should take a moment to remember some fine classic wrestlers, some of whom are no longer with us...

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*hang head*

You are missed.

Sigh...just watched some Mid-South (UWF) action on YouTube. Damn that was entertaining.

Hella more entertaining than the WWE's been in years.

Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: Since WWE is using a classic NWA/WCW PPV name tonight, I think we should take a moment to remember some fine classic wrestlers, some of whom are no longer with us...

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*hang head*

You are missed.

Well, only the top two are gone... Grizzly Smith died in 2010, Davey Boy Smith died in 2002. However, J.T. Smith, and Sam Houston (aka Michael Smith, son of Grizzly Smith, brother of Jake Roberts (Aurelian Smith) and Rockin' Robin Smith) are both still alive, as are Jake and Robin.


Also, Speaking of Grizzly and his progeny, you could really say that the Smith family provided us with a lot of great moments over the years. Grizzly was also a booker in WCW, and was responsible for a lot of Cactus Jack's run. And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals. And Robin... well, she botched America The Beautiful at Wrestlemania V.

The Smith family... they had a tremendous impact wherever they were.

Rwa2play: Sigh...just watched some Mid-South (UWF) action on YouTube. Damn that was entertaining.

Hella more entertaining than the WWE's been in years.

Good news, Vince bought the Mid South library a few weeks back. Plans for Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiase, and History of Mid South DVD sets have already been rumored.

British Bulldog was one of my favorite wrestlers. I loved that press he had and the Union Jack was a cool addition. I cried when I found he died.

/not really, but my 12 yr old self did.

FirstNationalBastard: Rwa2play: Sigh...just watched some Mid-South (UWF) action on YouTube. Damn that was entertaining.

Hella more entertaining than the WWE's been in years.

Good news, Vince bought the Mid South library a few weeks back. Plans for Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiase, and History of Mid South DVD sets have already been rumored.

I don't know if you can call that "good news;" especially with the amount of retconning he does with the DVDs.

FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Rwa2play: I don't know if you can call that "good news;" especially with the amount of retconning he does with the DVDs.

"And then Mid-South tried challenging me and I squashed them."

Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Try Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-South. Jake had some good runs there.

Rwa2play: Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Try Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-South. Jake had some good runs there.

Okay cool. Thanks.

Rwa2play: FirstNationalBastard: Rwa2play: Sigh...just watched some Mid-South (UWF) action on YouTube. Damn that was entertaining.

Hella more entertaining than the WWE's been in years.

Good news, Vince bought the Mid South library a few weeks back. Plans for Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiase, and History of Mid South DVD sets have already been rumored.

I don't know if you can call that "good news;" especially with the amount of retconning he does with the DVDs.

The good news is the matches will get released on DVD and the internet, and either Classics on Demand or WWE Network will probably make use of the weekly shows to fill their programming needs.

The documentaries are secondary. But the matches and shows? That's the goldmine.

Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Aren't he and Sam Houston cousins?

FirstNationalBastard: Rwa2play: FirstNationalBastard: Rwa2play: Sigh...just watched some Mid-South (UWF) action on YouTube. Damn that was entertaining.

Hella more entertaining than the WWE's been in years.

Good news, Vince bought the Mid South library a few weeks back. Plans for Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiase, and History of Mid South DVD sets have already been rumored.

I don't know if you can call that "good news;" especially with the amount of retconning he does with the DVDs.

The good news is the matches will get released on DVD and the internet, and either Classics on Demand or WWE Network will probably make use of the weekly shows to fill their programming needs.

The documentaries are secondary. But the matches and shows? That's the goldmine.

True. Then again, there's always YouTube.

Orgasmatron138: Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Aren't he and Sam Houston cousins?

Half-brothers.

Didn't you read my small tribute to the Smith clan and their great works up above?

Orgasmatron138: Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Aren't he and Sam Houston cousins?

Half-brothers. Rockin' Robin is also his half-sister.

Gunny Highway: Rwa2play: Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Try Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-South. Jake had some good runs there.

Okay cool. Thanks.

IIRC his more heelish persona was started around the time he was in Florida and helped Kevin Sullivan win a loser-leaves-town match with Dusty in a cage. It was further developed when he was the "jewel" of Paul Ellering's "Legion of Doom" stable w/ the Road Warriors and King Kong Bundy

Rwa2play: Gunny Highway: Rwa2play: Gunny Highway: FirstNationalBastard: And Jake... Jake had a great mind for the business, but dulled it with too many chemicals.

Jake is someone I really missed out on. I was very young during his WWE run and never got to watch him at his best. I hear so many good things about his mic work and understanding of how the business works but it is tough to find older stuff online.

Try Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-South. Jake had some good runs there.

Okay cool. Thanks.

IIRC his more heelish persona was started around the time he was in Florida and helped Kevin Sullivan win a loser-leaves-town match with Dusty in a cage. It was further developed when he was the "jewel" of Paul Ellering's "Legion of Doom" stable w/ the Road Warriors and King Kong Bundy

Yeah, unlike the crap WWE comes out with, a real DID YOU KNOW is that Jake and King Kong Bundy were original members of the Legion of Doom before Hawk and Animal split off solo as the Road Warriors.

I was always curious what that meant, "Jake had a good mind for the business." I honestly have no idea what that means, because as soon as he should've been going to the next level, he descended into a pile of cocaine. We really missed out on what could've been a legendary heel run in the 90s. Nobody was more hated than Jake in 1992. Flair looked like a chump compared to Jake.

OH, THEYS GONNA BE A THLOBBERKNOCKUH TONIGHT, TONY SHAHVONNEE!!!!! I DO BELIEVE THERE'TH A CLUBBERIN' UP AHEAD, IF YOU WI-YALL!!

"It's The Great American Bash Brain!"

"The 100 meter Olympic Trails?"

"No that's the Great American Dash."

"Wowie Maui?"

"Nope, that's the Great American Hash."

"That dead singer from Kingsland, Arkansas?"

"Uh, uh, that's the Great American, Cash."

"Kim Kardashian?"

"Kim Kardashian Brain?"

"Oh sorry, Monsoon, that's the Great Armenian Gash."

"WILL YOU STOP?"

verbaltoxin: I was always curious what that meant, "Jake had a good mind for the business." I honestly have no idea what that means, because as soon as he should've been going to the next level, he descended into a pile of cocaine. We really missed out on what could've been a legendary heel run in the 90s. Nobody was more hated than Jake in 1992. Flair looked like a chump compared to Jake.

Besides being one of the best interviews and a very credible worker, even though he had a potbelly and knobby knees, Jake could have been a great booker. In fact, the reason he left WWF in 1992 is rumored to be that after Pat Patterson was fired in the wake of the ringboy scandals, Jake went to Vince and requested to come off the road as a fulltime wrestler and finally join the booking crew in Pat's old spot. Vince said no, so Jake quit. And after that, Jake's career really went to shiat.

When he came back in '96 as Religious Jake, he was again part of the booking crew. But, his "personal demons" led to things not working out, and that's where we see him in Beyond The Mat.

Mid South, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling.

What the hell happened?! Why are these places mark central now?

verbaltoxin: I was always curious what that meant, "Jake had a good mind for the business." I honestly have no idea what that means, because as soon as he should've been going to the next level, he descended into a pile of cocaine. We really missed out on what could've been a legendary heel run in the 90s. Nobody was more hated than Jake in 1992. Flair looked like a chump compared to Jake.

Becoming a drug addict doesnt mean you didnt have a good mind for what you were doing before that.

verbaltoxin: Mid South, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling.

What the hell happened?! Why are these places mark central now?

WCW.

Eve though they were technically a global company, WCW was still based out of Georgia, and their hotbed was the old Mid-Atlantic territory (VA, SC, NC, GA, FL). And WCW torched those areas and salted the earth in their final years.

FirstNationalBastard: Yeah, unlike the crap WWE comes out with, a real DID YOU KNOW is that Jake and King Kong Bundy were original members of the Legion of Doom before Hawk and Animal split off solo as the Road Warriors.

This. That was a pretty feared stable back then because of who was involved.

verbaltoxin: I was always curious what that meant, "Jake had a good mind for the business." I honestly have no idea what that means, because as soon as he should've been going to the next level, he descended into a pile of cocaine. We really missed out on what could've been a legendary heel run in the 90s. Nobody was more hated than Jake in 1992. Flair looked like a chump compared to Jake.

I would assume that "having a good mind for the business" was knowing how to tell a story in and out of the ring. A real good feud with two or more people that knew how to push the audience's buttons got fans into "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" mode when the match was set.

That's why I love a lot of the Southern-based promotions: they *knew* how to push the right buttons to a feud. Mid-Atlantic, GCW, CWF, Bill Watts' Mid-South pretty much wrote the book on it.

FirstNationalBastard: verbaltoxin: Mid South, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling.

What the hell happened?! Why are these places mark central now?

WCW.

Eve though they were technically a global company, WCW was still based out of Georgia, and their hotbed was the old Mid-Atlantic territory (VA, SC, NC, GA, FL). And WCW torched those areas and salted the earth in their final years.

I was a mark for WCW International. WCW logic always amused me. World Championship Wrestling needed an "international" division. Any excuse to keep that belt around and give Vince the finger, I suppose.

But yes it's pretty telling that the only thing going in the South is TNA. NWA Wilside was around for a while but Bill Behrens ditched it to work for the Jarretts. It's been pretty scarce though.

So we are just letting JFSP win with the Cena picture tonight right? That's a rule for events like this, kind of like how the faces always get the last laugh in a dark match.

Due to wildfires, they are doing Raw/Smackdown tapings both on Monday next week so don't expect much wrestling (less than normal). I'm on vacation all week so good luck without me.

Bobby_and_The_Gorilla: "It's The Great American Bash Brain!"

"The 100 meter Olympic Trails?"

"No that's the Great American Dash."

"Wowie Maui?"

"Nope, that's the Great American Hash."

"That dead singer from Kingsland, Arkansas?"

"Uh, uh, that's the Great American, Cash."

"Kim Kardashian?"

"Kim Kardashian Brain?"

"Oh sorry, Monsoon, that's the Great Armenian Gash."

"WILL YOU STOP?"

Apparently, taco bell doesnt like when you do spit takes in their restaurant. Thanks for helping me find this out, Bobby. Stay Classy.

Bobby_and_The_Gorilla: "It's The Great American Bash Brain!"

"The 100 meter Olympic Trails?"

"No that's the Great American Dash."

"Wowie Maui?"

"Nope, that's the Great American Hash."

"That dead singer from Kingsland, Arkansas?"

"Uh, uh, that's the Great American, Cash."

"Kim Kardashian?"

"Kim Kardashian Brain?"

"Oh sorry, Monsoon, that's the Great Armenian Gash."

"WILL YOU STOP?"

Oh my GOD, LMFAO @ this whole thing but lost my shiat at "Great Armenian Gash". +10 internets to you good sir!

I wonder if tonight could get to 1004 posts. Are there enough people around/alive/with accounts to make it work?

I miss a JFSP Cena rundown.....could we get one in honor of our country?

TheManofPA: So we are just letting JFSP win with the Cena picture tonight right? That's a rule for events like this, kind of like how the faces always get the last laugh in a dark match.

So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

Also, speaking of Davey Boy Smith earlier...

This was Davey and Dynamite Kid in the early 80s...



Here they are in '86



Steroids, eh?

And it took its toll. Dynamite wound up a cripple, and his cousin Davey Boy wound up dead.

And it made him do some crazy shiat. If you look around the 'net, you can find the book written by Diana Hart-Smith, with all the horrible allegations of various things like guns, roofies, rape, suicide attempts... Although Miss Hart-Smith now says she regrets writing the book.

Davey Boy and Diana's son, David Hart-Smith was in the WWE for a while as part of the Hart Dynasty, and was involved with both TNA's Ring Ka King and a new Stampede for a while.

verbaltoxin: So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

[redacted] demanded I follow him on twitter. I am not half as tough and stubborn as I act like I am so I did.

:(

Jim from Saint Paul: verbaltoxin: So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

[redacted] demanded I follow him on twitter. I am not half as tough and stubborn as I act like I am so I did.

:(

That's how I know you have me favorited.

In your heart, where it really matters.

verbaltoxin: Jim from Saint Paul: verbaltoxin: So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

[redacted] demanded I follow him on twitter. I am not half as tough and stubborn as I act like I am so I did.

:(

That's how I know you have me favorited.

In your heart, where it really matters.

JFSP has no one favorited, it's all an act within an act.

Well, maybe Bobby and the Gorilla because that guy is hilarious.

verbaltoxin: So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

Get thee to twitter. Speaking of twitter, currently trending is:

#JohnCenaInspiredUsInSoManyWays

Also currently trending is:

Blow Me

Is it possible one is constantly being used in response to the other? ;-)

Also, if we had hashtagged all the tweets we have tweeted today as a collective group, I am quite sure we could have got #fWc trending or something.

verbaltoxin: So has anyone heard from [redacted] today?

FYI, you aren't going to

I just want to know who the other matches are going to be if they are doing a 20 man battle royale. It would be great if the BR went for an hour, I'd be down with that. Winner is Smackdown's GM because supposedly Monday will have a big name that can only do one night.

Who knows what "Big Name" for WWE means....maybe the hot chick from Suits (fight amongst yourself who that is)