Jon Heder

LOL Napoleon Dynamite had a match on RAW? Man, I am glad I missed alot of those Guest host episodes.

We all know shit is fake and scripted.

You just made a thread about how something WWE did was fake and scripted.

See the problem?

awwww

His ring name was "THE FLAME."

WTF is with the Big Show and the IC title?

Probably won it on the tour and will subsequently lose it on the tour. One of those deals that is never acknowledged.

You know with Colt's Art of Wrestling Podcast, Ryder's Z True Long Island Stories, I'm pretty happy wrestling is back on Thursdays.

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the entire 1980 Showdown at Shea Stadium is available on Youtube

Mick Foley and Michael Cole are the commentators as the original show had no commentary

Rene Goulet vs The Hangman
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Ivan Putski vs Johnny Rodz
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Angel Marvilla vs Jose Estrada
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Fabulous Moolah/Beverly Shade vs Kandi Malloy/Peggy Lee
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Baron Mikel Scicluna vs Dominic Denucci
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Orton DVD cover

Tentacle porn.

So how come this guy couldn't make one of the NXT seasons?

Also theyre saying it's been reported that the guy was wrestling in FCW under another name. Can they not confirm that? Would seem pretty easy to look and see if he was there.

Here are some more vids from Showdown at Shea Stadium 1980

Tor Kamata vs Pat Patterson
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Tatsumi Fujinami vs Chavo Guerrero Sr.
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Antonio Inoki vs Larry Sharpe
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Andre The Giant vs Hulk Hogan
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Ken Patera vs Tony Atlas
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Here are the final two matches from Showdown at Shea Stadium 1980

Bob Backlund/Pedro Morales vs The Wild Samoans
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and finally Bruno Sammartino versus Larry Zybyszko
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Official SummerSlam promo (not on YouTube yet):

http://vids.wwe.com/12310/summerslam...n-pay-per-view

....wow you're dumb. Like seriously dumb. Really really dumb.

Pants on dog's head dumb. You're just...dumb.

He wasn't the only one, that chick Christina is Alicia Fox's sister who was also in FCW. Doesn't change anything for me.

WWE has never had a competition or something up to vote where it wasn't rigged in a way.

I'd be more concerned about their habit of hiring almost everyone from a contest which makes winning the thing a bit moot if everyone else wins in the end. The Divas Searches were the worst examples of this since WWE ended up hiring almost everyone each season and making the supposed contest seem like a "waste" of time.

Of course Tough Enough and pretty much all reality shows are in a way "rigged". A good example of this that always used is The Real World. Their first season had a fat chick, and a loner guy, a slob, now everyones drunk, perfect body and bisexual. How M-Dogg 20 was the second person cut (or was there to start with) is beyond me.

Fixed.

Dunno. For some reason started to really like this song

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Probably just because of the "association" that comes with it.

At least Cyber Sunday was legit.

<font color=goldenrod>He was.</font>

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Fuck, can't believe Lucky Cannon was eliminated from NXT. He was the best thing (other than Maryse) about NXT this season. It has to do with it coming out that he was arrested for impersonating a police officer. Totally wouldn't be surprised to see him get released in a couple of days.

Who cares if it was rigged? There we no spoilers out and no one knew who the winner was going to be besides for the WWE (And who knows if they were 100% sold). Basically, it does not matter because everyone was up in the air for everyone watching at home.

Heder was probably my favorite guest host. I mean, that's not saying much, but still. Great stuff with him and Miz that week.

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Only could find his promo and not the full match outside of WWE's own non-linkable links of the recent Superstars episode from Long Island.

Is that Drew McIntyre?

$65 for the Rumble Anthology Set (includes up to 2007).

This.

Again, we all know wrestling is scripted. I enjoy being a smartass as much as the next guy, but to keep ignoring the intent behind the statment to belittle the statement itself is just stupid.

It seems like an expensive effort in both time and money to promote something that, in the end, doesn't matter. I am going to use NXT as an example again. If the intent is to call up ALL of the best performers you think can make it to the next level, why even bother presenting it as a competition where "only one can win", then we see 5 of the losers on SmackDown the next week while the "winner" gets Superstars duty and/or "future endeavored"?

There is no logic in this, even in the world of wrestling, even to the casual fans with short term memories. They're asking the viewer to suspend belief, which is the nature of the beast itseklf. They're putting it over as some grand concept of drama, and give you the parameters in which they want you to accept the show, then afterwards, they say "all that shit about this being a one-winner contest? We made that shit up!" Use that creative energy you wasted putting together a season of Topugh Enough to give guys that are ALREADY ON THE ROSTER something to do. Use the timeslot for another hour of RAW. Make a show centered around a cruiserwieght title. Something. Just don't say "Here, you should care about this!" and when it's over, treat the audience like they wasted their time caring about it.

Better example. Let's say R-Truth wins the title. he has a long, drawn out chanse where John Cena just can't win it back. 6 months of nearfalls, stipulations, run ins, and intertwining angles later, he FINALLY wins the title back on PPV. Then, instead of celebrating, he immediately cuts a promo saying "You know what, folks? This belt doesn't matter. It's fake and scripted, and I don't give a crap about it." And drops it on the ground and walks off. Now please, don't take this opportunity to turn this into an anti-Cena thing. I just sued those two because they're the RAW main event picture right now.

I'm just saying that in this world that is wrestling, a World Title in general is the be all, end all, and then suddenly, you're being told by the new champion that it doesn't mean anything. And not in that Shane Douglas "I'd rather defend THIS title" way. The whole angle waste and you've just been told this in no uncertain terms.

This is kind of the same idea. IT'S NOT THAT IT'S SCRIPTED. WE GET THAT. THAT'S GIVEN. MOVE BEYOND THAT STATEMENT.

Divorce must have hit him hard

Tom, other than the IWC and FCW fans...who the fuck would know any of these guys were already in WWE Developmental?

God

And by God I obviously mean HHH.

Well, duh.

Shea stadium footage is pretty good, weird how soft the canvas looked though, the wrestlers boots appeared to be sinking into it in some areas.

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I was working last night and it wasn't until about 5:30 pm that I heard on the radio that TNA was in my town doing a show lol. Anyways we pulled into the arena to see if any of the Knockouts were out behind but none.

What was funny was when Matt Morgan came out to hack a butt. I wasn't surprised but the guy I was with was so surprised.

Anyways, didn't see any of the girls, and continued on with my night. Also Jarrett gave a solid interview on one of the local radio stations about an hour later.

Apparently the Kings of Wrestling had some sort of tryout with the WWE. The reports are saying they were "working out" in the ring before the show with WWE officials, so I'm guessing it's some sort of tryout at least.

Dear WWE,
Sign them.

Love,
IWC

Sign them, if for nothing else another couple running buddies for Punk.

Are WWE actually starting to put together a tag division? Can't see any other reason to bring back Murdoch since he wont get anywhere in singles, pairing him with Husky Harris to take on Nexus would be the obvious route.

oblivious

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lol at the commercial cut at 1:00.

"there's... PLANET EARTH!"

obtuse

Savio was one of my favorites. He was almost King of the Ring, mind you.

You know Dolph be hitting that (x2).

http://www.pwpix.net/superstars/n/ni...llery1/021.jpg

SAVIO VEGA

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Is Big Dave growing chest hair?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6...5782970d-200wi

Shane is really turning into Vince.

Article, from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ente...s-own-man.html:

Shane McMahon has never been afraid to knock on doors.

When he was just 5, his dad -- wrestling impresario and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon -- put him to work going from barber shop to barber shop asking if he could hang up fliers and posters for upcoming matches.

Years later, McMahon was still selling for his dad. Only this time around the doors he was knocking on were in Eastern Europe and China. As the WWE's executive vice president of global media, the younger McMahon was instrumental in getting WWE content and events in almost 150 countries.

Image1 Now McMahon, 41, is trying to do for Hollywood what he did for the WWE. Earlier this week his company You on Demand formed a partnership with Warner Bros. to get the entertainment giant's content into China via pay-per-view and video-on-demand cable platforms. You on Demand has access to homes in China through a 20-year pact with China Home Cinema, the pay-television arm of that country's CCTV-6 network. Cable operators can deliver the content into homes. You on Demand has said it expects to have as many as 3 million subscribers this summer.

China, with a population of 1.3 billion, has become a priority for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Assn. of America is trying to get the Chinese government to ease up on its restrictions on foreign films and double the current quota to as many as 40.

In the meantime, Hollywood is trying to find other avenues into China. Earlier this month, Legendary Pictures, a Burbank company that co-financed "The Hangover" and "The Dark Knight," unveiled a joint venture with a Chinese entertainment conglomerate to make English-language films in China that would be exported around the world. Cable represents another window into the market and Warner Bros. will make current as well as older product available through You on Demand.

Up until a few years ago, McMahon was content toiling for his father at WWE. He had been working there professionally since graduating from Boston University -- holding positions in marketing, sales, promotion and production. He even reffed some matches and got in the ring every now and then as "Shane-O-Mac."

Rising high up the executive ranks, McMahon was seen as a potential successor to his father. There was only one problem. "He wasn't going anywhere," he said and laughed.

As a favor to a friend, McMahon took a meeting with Marc Urbach, who was chief financial officer of what was then known as China Broadband Inc. The company had just secured a license to operate in China and Urbach, who grew up as a fan of the WWE, wanted to pick McMahon's brains about the region. McMahon had spent a lot of time schmoozing government officials to get WWE content inside the country.

"At first I didn't believe them," McMahon said when he was told the company had a green light to set up shop in China. "Getting the license is the hardest thing in the world." He did his due diligence, even flying to China to visit the company's offices there.

Initially, McMahon was approached about joining China Broadband Inc.'s board of directors. The more time he spent studying the company, the more intrigued he became. He joined the company in late 2009 as its chairman and chief executive and invested $4 million.

"It was the hardest decision I've ever had to make," McMahon said of his leaving WWE to strike out on his own. "I didn't want to wake up when I was 70 and say, 'I should have done that.'" Telling his father he wanted to leave was "brutal" and now, almost two years later, there remains some residual tension. "It's still hard," he said.

McMahon is confident that he is entering a buyer's market in China. The heavy piracy there has convinced him that consumers are hungry for content.

"If you give them access and it's better quality, why aren't they going to watch it," he said.

McMahon said he is "very far down the road" with other studios about signing deals similar to the Warner Bros. agreement.

Asked if he'd be striking any deals with his father for WWE content on You on Demand, McMahon cracked, "I don't know, I'm a tough negotiator."

-- Joe Flint

Glad he's doing well

It was that Puerto Rican flava

He doesn't cut the mustard compared to Alicia Fox vs Melina.

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Ultimate Warrior confesses
 

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lol at the references to the "Attitude Adjustment Tour". Surprised they haven't dragged that name out of the mothballs for Super Cena.

And so the mystery is solved.

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Yeah, wasn't expecting it to be from that move. Always thought it was like, the aftermath of a DDT or something.

How the fuck could that be a DDT?

Heyman on what he would have done with TNA:

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Like, he was DDT'd so hard, his head got stuck.

The his face was a mask at first.

The anonymous GM angle has been going on for a fucking year.

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He still amazes me.

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lol "sixteen men, one mission"

Has anyone else read about the rumored Raw countdown show to start in the fall? And , if so, what do you think about it?

No. Elaborate.

Read rumors about a show that would air at 8:30 on Mondays as a countdown show of sorts, like a NFL pre game show..

So WWE is looking for the next generation of Sean Mooney?

Looks like the Hypothetical thread about what if Cena or Orton was injured could become true at least for Smackdown pretty soon.

http://www.tpww.net/2011/06/averno-u...ussion-update/

He got cleared for now but isn't taking a small break as a health precaution which could end up being a bad thing if he gets another one in a short period of time.

From Ryan Clarke:

According to a source, CMLL discovered that WWE forgot to trademark the name Sin Cara in Mexico and ended up doing it for use in the country. You can bet WWE isn't happy about this.

Always a good idea to piss off the guys who can crush you if they choose to.

CMLL: HAHA! WE HAVE YOUR ONLY POSSIBLE DRAW'S NAME IN MEXICO! HAHA!

WWE: http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...rio_422809.jpg

CMLL: ...fuck you.