I was afraid to click on this because I thought it would turn in to WWE slash wherein a burly father figure type has to teach young Randy something in the gym all night.

Which is exactly the sad fucking state of affairs our world is in. People try to be good, and the scumbags and villianous fuck everything thing up and the "good" feel they have stoop down to fight them.

Fuck this, I'm going to Mars... and bed.

He's probably betting he's about to become an NWA World Champion now (whatever that means) and that will help him more for a comeback later than going to TNA and people realizing he can barely run, let alone work well anymore, on tv and that keeping him away from ever getting back to the WWE, which is what I'd bet he's making his comeback for, what with all the phone calls we've heard he's made to WWE over the past few months.

Santino's a riot.

Ah. Well, the underloud volume is part of WWE's theory that the apathy from seeing Orton and Cena fight each other for the billionth time and beat the WHOLE RAW ROSTER TOGETHER is just because your TV isn't hi-tech enough. The crowd really loves it! We swear!

BUY HI-DEF HI-DEF HI-DEF!!! It'll make wrestlemania that much better! OMG SWERVE -- the secret is to watch it on an old Zenith black and white TV, where the static and tinny sound equals audience response.

Hah, I remembered Swoll and Armstrong, but not Tatum. Poor fella, he couldn't help being shit.

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Indeed!

That would actually be highly entertaining, and would definitely make it easier to explain to my roommates why Dustin remains employed. I keep trying to convince them to watch impact with me, yet they always seem to walk in during a Blackdust/Rellik match, look at me like I've gone senile and leave.

I found this on Newsday the other day... interesting little wrestling blog. Written by Seth Mates (former member of WWE creative) and Alfonso Castillo (the guy who did Fonzie's Title Wave). Worth checking out.

The Steel Cage

Bump. And in case anyone hasn't menttioned it yet the hi-lite of the night for me was in the main event when Santino did the official "The Marine" salute in mid-air as he was about to nail the prostrate Cena. I know that we've seen the Santino sort of phenomenon in wrestling before but in Marella's case I hope they make an extra effort to keep this guy around for the long term. He's adding something good to the show practically every week.

He's asking for anything. Like Jeff is broke or something.

Or maybe he is?

I was too young (and too northern) to have experienced Gary Hart's greatest works first hand, but once I was let lose on the internets and broke the chains of markdom and spent every free cent on tape buying and trading I quickly grew too appreciate the man.

His interview segments on the Heroes of World Class and Triumph and Tragedy of World Class DVDs are probably the best parts of both.

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Dunno what WILD is.

Well, now that I clicked on this, I can eliminate any possibilities whatsoever that my mind will be able to stay fully on work for the rest of the afternoon.

I say that in a very thankful manner, by the way, BFG.

I'm loving how they have handled the slow turn of Christian Cage from heel to face. For a start they didn't do the usual wrestling thing and just switch in 1 week. Even better they've let the character keep what was working while still presenting him in a more positive light.

I'm also enjoying the way they continue to dip in and out of storylines, setting things up that are then followed up on weeks or months later. It makes the whole show seem that much more rich.

I still feel like TNA is coasting a bit, with maybe a few too many comedy elements (though at least they are mainly funny). But it does seem like there's an effort to build the next PPV into something major.

Really my biggest criticism right now is that there haven't been many matches or segments that just blew me away. It's been pretty consistently decent, but not unmissable.

Attention Dallas-Ft. Worth area residents (and there are a few):

WWE Vengeance is at American Airlines Center on 6/29.

Tickets supposedly go on sale tomorrow (per wwe.com, although ticketmaster has no reference to the event and they usually have pre-sales a day or two before general public sales).

Regardless of on-sale date, I'll be going. Anyone else getting tickets.....let me know.

We can connect at the West End Hooters prior to the show.

Yeah, but he wants to do more than the stupid shit. He did Walking Tall. He did the Richard Kelly freaky film that got booed out of Cannes (if you're unfamiliar with Kelly and Southland Tales but watch Entourage, Kelly is who Billy Walsh is based on and Tales got the reception that Median did). He tried to do the film about the Hawaiian king. He did Be Cool that was supposed to be more than it was. This is a guy who very clearly wants to be taken seriously. He can't get the gigs. Even him trying to negotiate to be in a superhero film (Shazam!) is basically an attempt to get into a raised level of respect.

He WANTS to be in the next Scorsese flick. Its just a very slow process for him, in large part because of his wrestling background (because really, his acting has been at least as well regarded as Marky Mark's).

Someone lock the fucking thread over there. The good news is it's been 2 days since someone posted in it.

But you know some idiot is going to post again, thereby keeping it active.

I'd rather have it be Edge than Jericho. I'm agreeing with Moose? WTF?!