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Post by devilfish on Jan 2, 2012 22:35:20 GMT -5
JERICHO!
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Post by devilfish on Jan 2, 2012 22:33:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I think its kinda cool that we have resensitized ourselves to profanity enough that an occasional swearword mas more impact
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Post by devilfish on Dec 31, 2011 19:55:33 GMT -5
Y'all ain't gonna believe this...But I mentioned on my Twitter to LuFisto that I had given her the inspirational wrestler of the year...and he wrote that she was honored!
EPIC WIN!!!!!
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Post by devilfish on Dec 30, 2011 19:50:10 GMT -5
Well, hello there everyone, It's time for the second part of the 2011 Hennie Awards honoring the best and worst in Wrestling over the last 12 months. I'm your compere, Officer Brian Henegar. This time we focus on the truly awful. The WORST of everything of the year. So strap on the barf bags...we're going in.
FLAT-OUT WORST MOMENT OF THE YEAR Sting Vs. Jeff Hardy, TNA Victory Road ‘11 Okay, let’s go ahead and get this out of the way. Jeff Hardy was on…something. No-one is quite sure what it is, but he was on something. In the main event of what was to be one of TNA’s biggest PPVs against Sting, Jeff Hardy proceeded to do something that sadly for him wasn’t unthinkable. As his entrance music blared, Hardy stumbled out of the entrance way, looking as if he had just enjoyed a post-match bong with Rob Van Dam. As Sting, and the fans at the Impact Zone watched in confusion, Hardy stumbled around the ring before the bell. Eric Bischoff then walked out, presumably to pad for time, and to tell both wrestlers to make it short. The bell finally rang, and 90 seconds later, Sting rolled up Hardy for the win. The crowd then proceeded to tell us what we had seen was bull excrement…and Sting agreed. In the aftermath, Hardy was fired by TNA, TNA offered all viewers of the PPV 6 months of free on demand video service, and TNA has attempted to move on. Hardy, to his credit, appears to at least be attempting to get his life back in order. Here’s hoping that this time next year, we’ll be honoring Jeff with the “Most Improved Wrestler” award.
MARK MADDEN AWARD (Worst Commentator) Michael Cole The tradition of the heel commentator in wrestling is long and storied. From Bobby Heenan, to Jesse Ventura, to an early Jerry Lawler, heels are always good to help tell the story. However, there is a HUGE difference between being a heel and being obnoxious. Michael Cole has breached that wall, and has managed to make himself the single worst thing about Monday Night Raw as of late (and considering how bad the booking was for most of the year, that’s saying something.) What can be said about a man who (in storyline at least) made fun of Jerry Lawler’s dead Mother, mocked Jim Ross’ Bells Palsy and has slurped the Kool-aid of every heel (especially the Miz) in the WWE. However, mercifully, it may be ending. According to Bryan Alvarez, Cole is being seen as one of the reasons why WWE’s ratings are taking such a hit nowadays, and they are telling him to cut out his heel antics. We can only hope…
WORST WEEKLY TV SHOW WWE NXT Why is it that some of the best of intentions can cause some of the worst things in history? The discovery of nuclear fusion, for example, led to the creation of the atomic bomb. WWE is dealing with this sort of problem right now. NXT was such a great idea at first, giving young developmental talents a chance to earn a spot on the roster. However, somewhere along the way, NXT began to degenerate into the mess we are seeing now. No-one is quite sure what NXT means anymore, since the current season, called “Redemption” has been running for 42 straight weeks, and from the looks of things we are no closer to finding a “winner” of this competition as we were at week 1! Now, this may be a bit of a cheat, since (like Superstars) NXT is now a wwe.com exclusive, but we can’t have TNA hogging ALL the awards this year. The going rumour is that Superstars will be making the move to the WWE Network when it launches on April of 2012. Here’s hoping NXT ISN’T one of the shows making the jump with it.
WORST FEUD/ANGLE OF THE YEAR DJ Hyde vs. Greg Excellent, CZW Hey Everyone! Sing along! “This is the song that doesn’t end! It Just goes on, and on my friends!” This is the best way to describe the CZW feud that simply won’t END! It began before last year’s(!) Cage of Death and after CoD 13, the feud is still going stronger than ever. To quickly summarize, DJ Hyde bought CZW from John Zandig for $50,000 and is the new owner. Fan-favorite Greg Excellent starts acting unhappy and generally jerkish, and makes long, meandering shoot promos on Hyde. Hyde becomes the bad guy and starts making excellent's life a living hell. Both men have made ham-fisted heel/face turns since the audience simply doesn’t want to boo Greg, even after he gave his own mother a Tiger Driver (yes, really.) CZW Owner DJ Hyde has begun doing his best Mr. McMahon impression since he is now forced to be the heel, and the premise has since gone beyond ludicrous (DJ Hyde will be showing up at the January show dressed as the genie from Aladdin to grant Excellent three wishes since Greg won at CoD 13…again, yes, really.) But sadly, this rivalry shows no sign of ending any time soon…sort of makes you pine for the days of Zandig threatening to throw Lobo off a building to get a match, don’t it?
BIGGEST HEADSCRATCHER OF THE YEAR WWE’s insistence on the word “entertainment” As successful as Vince McMahon has been at the WWE, it has always appeared to many that he has never been fully satisfied with being pigeonholed as ust a “wrestling” guy. Maybe this is why he has always tried to make us believe that what we were seeing in the ring every week wasn’t “wrestling” but rather “sports entertainment” (a term he coined at the first WrestleMania). We’ve put up with this for a long time, but in 2011, things began to get a little…how should we put this…odd. After the announcement that “The Price is Right”s Drew Carey was getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at WrestleMania XXVII, TVWeek magazine posted a story, mistakenly calling it the “pro wrestling hall of fame” Now, to be fair, THAT is a different animal located in New York. As such, WWE publicist Kellie Baldyga sent them a truly…interesting email to clarify things. Among other things, she wanted to make it clear that WWE was “not a wrestling company, but a global entertainment company.” She also made sure to point out that “No, we don’t do wrestling events, they’re entertainments. And we don’t have wrestlers, we have Superstars and Divas.” Huh, interesting, since my Dish Network DVR lists Raw and SmackDown! as “wrestling” every week. It got even weirder at the Hall of Fame ceremony, where (according to Dave Meltzer) all the inductees were supposedly forbidden from saying the dreaded “w” word. (Though Tammy “Sunny” Sytch soon made a mockery of that by repeatedly mentioning the name of the old “Smoky Mountain Wrestling” territory.) However, later in the year WWE began to relent, and the word “wrestling” has been cropping up more and more as of late. And, to be perfectly honest, I truly believe that WWE isn’t so stupid to forget that it was wrestling that brought them to the dance. Now ,if at one point in the future we find ourselves preparing to buy tickets to “GlobalEntertainmentMania,” THAT’S when we need to worry.
NATHAN JONES AWARD (Biggest Disappointment of the Year) Sin Cara (Azul) As hard as it may be for some people to do, in a way, I really felt for WWE COO Triple H this year. A great deal of the things he has tried to do have just been blowing up in his face. Mainly, his two biggest talent acquisitions of the year proved to be busts. Now first, there was the former Amazing Kong, Kharma, who had a chance to become this generation’s Chyna, but was forced to take time off due to becoming great with child. It’s unfortunate, but it can be forgiven, somewhat. His second big aquisiton, however, gets no such free pass. I am of course speaking of the former Mistico, Sin Cara. Touted as WWE’s biggest free agent signing ever, Sin Cara was supposed to be a megastar in the making, sort of the next Rey Mysterio (who, let’s face it, ain’t getting any younger), who would help WWE truly explode in the Latino community. Almost immediately, however, the trouble started. On his first night, Cara appeared to have botched his (admittedly spectacular) entrance, and his opening match with Primo Colon wasn’t filled with the jaw-dropping maneuvers we had been shown in his introductory vignettes, Also, that weird blue & gold lighting scheme they kept using during his matches was odd. Rumours began flying that Cara was acting like a diva behind the scenes, that matches he was in had to be refilmed MULTIPLE times, his was refusing to “pay his dues”, and he also refused to learn English (like he promised). A wellness violation led to him taking a 30-day vacation, during which time, Hunico, another WWE Luchadore signing, took on the role of Sin Cara. When Mistico returned, it looked things were finally getting back on track, with a well received Mask vs. Mask feud between the two Sin Caras. But, alas, it wasn’t to be. At Survivor Series, Cara landed awkwardly, and ruptured his Patella Tendon, which will sideline him for around 5 months. Now, there’s no doubt WWE will bring him back, to try to recoup their huge investment. But, let’s just hope that WWE gives Cara a late Christmas Present…some seasoning time in FCW.
DECEMBER 2 DISMEMBER AWARD (Worst PPV/Major Show of the Year) Randy Savage Tribute Show - New Port Richey, FL - July, 11, 2011 The winner of this year’s worst event award wasn’t a Pay-Per-View held before tens of thousands of screaming fans. It wasn’t broadcast for the world to see on TV. In fact, I can’t find any clips of it on YouTube. However, I chose this event because this small indy “benefit” show, held at a tiny Florida sports arena represents everything that is wrong with the state of Professional Wrestling in our modern age, and should serve as a cautionary tale to any indy booker out there. Just don’t do any of the things this jackass did, and you should be fine. On this night Promoter Dino Puglia of New Era Wrestling held an event to “honor” the late Macho Man, and also to benefit two local children’s hospitals. A praiseworthy cause to be sure, however soon enough, we saw the true character (or lack thereof) of the promoter. Among other things, neither of the hospitals in question received a dime of the money raised, since according to Puglia they didn’t raise enough money to cut the two a check. Of the eight name talents announced, The Honky Tonk Man & Savage’s brother Lanny Poffo didn’t show up because neither had been contacted about appearing in the first place, a band that attended were not given anything for their troubles, and perhaps most gallingly, since there was no bell or proper sound system, the ring announcer gave Savage a ten bell salute by saying the word “ding!” into the mic ten times. After the show, rather than own up to his misdeeds, Puglia claimed he was suffering a cardiac emergency and fled the scene. The Tampa bay Times called the event “a blemish on the face of wrestling.” To be honest, that’s putting it VERY mildly.
WORST PROMOTION OF THE YEAR TNA Wrestling/Impact Wrestling In her famous 1988 hit “Opposites Attract”, Paula Abdul spoke of taking “two steps forward, two steps back.” Well, TNA/Impact or whatever else it wants to call itself, has perfected the subtle art of making sure that every step forward they make as a company is negated by their own stupidity. Case in point: TNA announces that they are aligning with former WWE affiliate OVW as a developmental territory. Good. However, they announce that if you are signed to OVW, headquartered in Louisville, KY you have to pay your own travel and relocation fees. Bad. This has sadly become de rigueur for TNA. Every success met with failure. Russo gets removed from heading the creative committee, but the same mistakes remain. The compelling build up of a Sting/Hardy matchup collapsing in 90 seconds. Not to mention horrendous booking (still today), underpaid talent who brag on twitter about how they’ve been approved for Food Stamps, and a general sense of malaise that palpably hangs in the air in Orlando. TNA truly earned this award…and sadly it appears that they have become experts at collecting it.
JACKIE GAYDA AWARD (Worst Match of the Year) Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole – WrestleMania XXVII It’s sad that this particular match was one of the best built of the entire WrestleMania event. Watching the build up, all of us fans knew how it should be booked. Cole enters the ring, Lawler grabs him, has his way with him for five minutes or so, piledrives him at least 2 times, pains him, cold beers and stunners all the way around. Instead, we got a slow, plodding, altogether boring match that sucked every ounce of live energy out of the Georgia Dome. It didn’t end the Cole/Lawler feud which is STILL going on, and it was the capper to an admittedly lackluster WrestleMania.
WORST WRESTLER OF THE YEAR Matt Hardy It is tremendously sad to say this, but Matt Hardy seems determined to ruin his life. It’s sad since Matt Hardy is a highly talented wrestler, with amazing skill, undoubtable charisma, and the ability to get the crowd by his side (even if his love for cheeseburgers gets him a time or two.) Let us recount the road to rack and ruin he has chosen to take. In August he wraps his car around a light pole and gets arrested for reckless driving and DWI. Afterwards he takes to Twitter claiming that the wreck was “almost angelic” and that he felt like he had been “injected with a pure life force.” On August 30th, he makes a YouTube video which looked for all the world like a suicide note, that is later found to be a hoax, or “one last attention grabber” as Hardy would call it, which made MANY people (NAWC hostess Nikki Heyman amongst them) angry and more than a little sad. Then on September 12th, his girlfriend Reby Sky calls the law on him for acting string out, and cops find a huge passel of drugs in his home. THEN, he checks into rehab (as per a court order), only to get kicked out with a month to go for failing a second breathalyzer test. Now he is in his second stint, and truly, I sincerely hope it works. What makes this infuriating, is that for years, it appeared that Matt was the more sane member of the Hardy Boyz, now it appears he may be the most messed up of all the members of Team Xtreme.
Ironically, during one of his last WWE stints, Hardy used the catchphrase “Matt Hardy Will Not Die!”
I hope and pray that he’s right.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy what I wrote, and I see you New Years Eve for the Main event wards.
Until next time internet...HIT 'EM WITH THA FOLLLLLLLLDIN CHAIR!!!!!
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Dec 28, 2011 23:06:10 GMT -5
Well thank you for the kind words. I hope tomorrow's dubious honors are equally as entertaining
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Post by devilfish on Dec 27, 2011 23:48:46 GMT -5
Hey guys, This is (former) Security Officer Brian Henegar, I'm the man, who guards YOUR memories. As an occasional guest on the NAWC podcast, I have always wanted to write something about wrestling for you guys, and this is the biggest way I can start. These are the 2011 "Hennie" Awards, awarded to the Best, and Worst of wrestling over the last 12 months. Today we'll start with the Special Achievement Awards, and later this week I;ll show the Dubious honors, and then on New Years Eve, I'll post the Main Event Awards. I really hope you enjoy them, and please give me any feedback you have.
THE 2011 HENNIE AWARDS
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
ENTRANCE OF THE YEAR The Miz “Hate Me Now”, WrestleMania XXVII What better way to start than with the best entrance of the year? It’s interesting if you think about it, but for a form of entertainment that relies almost exclusively on massive showmanship, whenever wrestling stars attempt an over-the-top (by wrestling standards, anyway) entrance it can be a huge crapshoot. For every great entrance such as Shawn Michaels’ famous zipline entrance at WrestleMania XII and John Cena’s famous Car entrance, you get crap like Triple H’s “Gonad the Barbarian” entrance at WrestleMania 22. However, the main event of WrestleMania XXVII featured this year’s greatest entrance. For many, The Miz’s WWE ascent was seen as a welcome reward for rising to the very top of the fed. At the Granddaddy of ‘em All, The Miz gave a truly memorable entrance that summed up everything about his rise to the top. Set to Nas’ “Hate Me Now,” The pre-match music video chronicled The Miz’s rise from MTV reality star, to Tough Enough contestant, to WWE Superstar. After that, Miz and lackey Alex Riley made their grand entrance, running through giant inflatable letters spelling out the word “AWESOME!” Fitting, since that’s the best word to describe this year’s greatest entrance.
PARACHUTE PANTS AWARD (For the return no-one wanted to see) Ian Rotten There are some things in life no-one ever wants to see return. Smallpox, The Great Depression, Pauly Shore Movies. And for wrestling fans we can add massive scumbag and all around abhorrent human being Ian Rotten to that list. A quick refresher: Among Rotten’s misdeeds were paying off the late JC Bailey with pain pills, crashing the aforementioned Mr. Bailey’s funeral and hitting up his parents for gas money, and generally running the most honky-tonk grapping promotion ever. It looked like he was finally done for after all, announcing in 2010 that IWA Mid South was closing its doors and he had found a “shoot job”…filling chalupas at the local Taco Bell. But, annoyingly, he refused to stay down. Apparently, after only a few weeks, he had been run out from the border, and decided to do the one thing he ever had a slight sniff of success at, wrestling, making at return at Indiana’s XCW promotion. Now, we here at the Hennies never want to deny anybody the right to make a living…but if ever anyone deserved to be forced to live in a cardboard box under a freeway underpass, yammering to anyone who’ll listen about his winning the 1995 PWI Feud of the Year, it’s this guy…though he did help give us one truly memorable evening…
SHOOT OF THE YEAR Ian Rotten on “Then the Bell Rings” There is an old saying in this world, you reap what you sow. And on March 23rd, The aforementioned Mr. Rotten brought in a bumper crop on BlogTalkRadio’s “Then the Bell Rings,” hosted by Jerry Wiseman. Rotten made the mistake of allowing open phone calls, and what ensued was two hours of verbal murder. Everyone from former girlfriend Micke Knuckles to the always hot-headed Billy “Halfbreed” Gram called to tear into Rotten. And Rotten didn’t do himself too many favours by admitting that he has, among other things, misused money raised for charity, insurance fraud, and selling prescription pills to known drug addicts. However, the most heart-wrenching moment came when JC Bailey’s father Joe came on, and you could just hear the pain in his voice as he talked about losing his son. The evening was painful, infuriating, and altogether unforgettable.
PLEASANT SURPRISE OF THE YEAR Cody Rhodes brings back the Classic IC Title Belt Nostalgia can be a funny thing sometimes. We, as humans, have this indescribable feeling to go back, and relive past glories. In 2011, we got a healthy dose of it, as the former “Dashing” Cody Rhodes brought back a classic to WWE. The WWE Intercontinental Championship has been around since 1979, when it was awarded…er, um, I mean when it was won by Pat Patterson in a tournament in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (yes, that’s the ticket). Since then, the belt has been seen as the stepping stone to the WWE Title, and has been in and out of periods of prestige. The most famous design of the belt itself was established in 1986 by legendary beltmaker Reggie Parks. The design was scrapped for a less-popular oval-shaped belt in 1998, but in 2011, Rhodes announced he wanted to bring some prestige back to the belt, by bring back the classic WWE Intercontinental Championship, complete with the vintage white strap and everything. The new-old belt was a welcome throwback…now if we could just do something about the “spinner” belt…
DVD OF THE YEAR (TIE) “Memphis Heat” and “WWE Greatest Rivalries: Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels” It was hard to choose between these two DVD’s. I spent days, if not weeks going over their high and low points in my mind when it dawned on me…These are my damn awards and I can do whatever I bloody well please, so I declared a tie. “Memphis Heat” is a godsend to every old-school fan of the territory days of wrestling. The DVD talks about the history of one of the most underrated territories in wrestling history, Memphis’ old CWA Territory. Everyone who was anybody during those days was interviewed, from Jerry Lawler, to Bill Dundee, to even referee Jerry Calhoun, recounting their memories of the good old days, if there is a complaint it’s that the DVD ends right after the Andy Kaufman feud, which is a bit short, in my opinion.
“Hart Vs. Michaels” is quite simply put, a miracle. If you had told me as short as five years ago that these two guys would be willing to sit in the same room at the same time, I would have thought you were crazy. The DVD is an amazingly indepth review of one of the most storied real-life rivalries in WWE History. If you ever head any doubt about the truth behind “Montreal”, this DVD will open your eyes to the true story behind that night, and everything that came after. Both are must-owns for your DVD collections.
POST-MATCH REACTION OF THE YEAR Sting, TNA Victory Road, 2011 This will be short, as we will discuss it later, but in one of the few times when a wrestler allows his emotions to show through his persona, After their notorious match (if you can call it that) at TNA’s “Victory Road” Pay-Per-View, Sting finally let loose with his own frustrations. Responding to the audience’s loud chants of “This is Bull-Sh*t” Sting looked to the camera, and announced to the world in general, “I agree! I agree!” Couldn’t have said it better ourselves Mr. Borden.
GLACIER AWARD (For the slowest event in wrestling this year) The Epic 45-minute cage construction sequence from CZW “Cage of Death 13” For those who bought CZW’s Cage of Death 13 event held in Philadelphia in December 3rd on iPPV, you would have seen some reasonably good matches, you would have heard Larry Legend’s wonderfully over-the-top ring announcing, and for about 45 minutes before the main event, you would have been bored out of your skull. After the semi-main event, all action stopped as the ring crew set to work building the “creation of devastation.” And for those of you construction fetishists out there (and I know you people have to exist), you would have a true feast for the eyes, since rather than show some pre-taped interview segments, or (shocker) classic matches and moments from CZW’s history, instead the hard camera kept on a constant shot of the crew working to build the cage. I actually put a stop-watch to it, and it clocked in at 46:35. No wonder CZW crowds are so rabid…after waiting that long for a match, you’ll cheer ANYTHING that doesn’t involve zip ties and constantly fumbling with the directions.
YouTube/WEB SERIES OF THE YEAR (TIE) Botchamania & Z! True Long Island Story In the years since Al Gore invented the internet, entertainment has changed dramatically. We are now in the realm of what is called “User Generated Content”, where the producers themselves are taking to the mighty intertubes directly to entertain the masses. Two wrestling-themed shows have risen above the rest this year, and have become truly head & shoulders above the rest. The first is the comedy series “Botchamania.” Produced by a man known simply as “Maffew,” Botchamania is to bad wrestling what MST3K was to bad movies. Using a stripped-down, highly self-referential style (and lots of Japanese video game themes), Botchamania is teaching an entire world of wrestling fans how to laugh again, not to mention making Jim Cornette’s face a star in its own right.
Z! True Long Island story is, simply put, a phenomenon. Almost 1 year ago, WWE Jobber-to-the-stars Zack Ryder felt like his career was going nowhere. So he took his trusty flip-camera, rounded a gaggle of WWE talent, and decided to do what his ancestors in the grappling business did: find a way to get over. And get over he did, his merchandise sells out at arenas, even if he’s not there. And Zack has propelled himself to become a bona fide Superstar. Besides, any web show where you can see Hugh Jackman, Mr. Belding, AND John Cena is okay by me. And this leads nicely into our next award…
INSPIRATIONAL WRESTLER OF THE YEAR (TIE) Zack Ryder & Genevieve “LuFisto” Goulet Zack Ryder and LuFisto are the two people who make me proud to be a wrestling fan. They have shown that for all the politics, hurtful rumours, and general negativity that often permeates this business we love, there are always good things we can find, and these two people deserve this honor equally so.
Like lots of WWE midcarders, Zack Ryder felt like his career was going nowhere. He was just a jobber, relegated to “Superstars” and playing out the string. Zack knew something had to be done. So, he got a flip camera, and knew that one of two things would happen: either he would get over…or he would get fired. Zack took to YouTube and created one of the most amazing, funny, and groundbreaking shows ever: “Z: True Long Island Story.” Ryder, wasn’t sure it would work, but he knew he had to try. After a few weeks, something funny happened. Signs for Ryder began showing up on Raw, his merchandise was selling out in every town, and “We Want Ryder” chants popped up everywhere WWE went. Ryder had tapped into the WWE fanbase like no other star in recent years, and the WWE began taking notice (thanks in so small part to getting John Cena as a supporter). Slowly, Ryder was incorporated into more shows, and now his success is undeniable. Ryder had found a way to get over, and it makes a lot of fans happy that WWE is listening to their fans at long last. Zack’s success serves as an inspiration to any wrestler who has felt underutilized, and to any fan who ever wondered if their cheers made a difference.
Ryder was able to overcome adversity, but this year Genevieve “LuFisto” Goulet overcame something far more serious. On April 17th, 2010, LuFisto, kicknamed the “Super Hardcore Anime,” wrestled a match for the Shimmer promotion when she felt something was wrong. She felt faint and collapsed in a heap. Her fellow wrestlers rushed her to the emergency room, where LuFisto was hit with a shock. She had suffered a blood clot in her brain, and as a result, a mild stroke, which if it hadn’t been for the quick actions of her friends, would have debilitated her. An outpouring of love from her fans and fellow wrestlers helped LuFisto through her tough time, and she vowed to keep wrestling as long as possible. Well this year, LuFisto finally managed to slay the dragon which nearly killed her. After a battery of tests, LuFisto was found to have had a small hole in her heart, said to be about 5mm large, which was the one of the main culprits to her stroke (along with a family history of heart problems). LuFisto underwent open heart surgery to fix the problem on July 14th. Upon examination, doctors discovered the hole was four times larger than previously thought, but they were able to fix her up, and LuFi has been given a clean bill of health. With changes to her diet, and losing some weight, LuFi says she feels better than ever, and she has been able to keep doing the job she loves the most. If that’s not inspirational, I don’t know what is.
FINISHING MOVE OF THE YEAR Double Rotation Moonsault, Ricochet. I can remember the first time I saw a moonsault. It was Starrcade 1992, and The Great Muta was facing Barry Windham for the NWA Title. Muta ascended the turnbuckle, and with a graceful arch he leaped backwards and dropped onto Windham. It looked awesome to me as a young lad of 10, and since then I saw the moonsault become, sadly, old hat. When Terry Funk and VADER of all people can pull off the move, it loses its luster. Trevor Mann, better known as Ricochet in the “Dragon Gate” promotion managed to make the move awesome again, by giving the moonsault a simple, but awe-inspiring variation: he threw in another flip! Why, just look for yourself:
Ricochet’s Double Moonsault is quite simply put, a sight to behold, and it’s not just me. Last year, the Wrestling Observer newsletter gave it the Move of the year award, Here’s hoping that soon, he gets the chance to show it off to a larger audience.
Next time, the Dubious honors of 2011
Hope you enjoy them, and until then...HIT 'EM WITH THA FOLDIN' CHAIR!
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Sept 18, 2011 20:33:41 GMT -5
I personally don't think of Jim Cornette as a cancer, but in recent years he has done a lot to make me lose a great deal of the respect I had for him. The biggest thing I don't like about him is seeming complete lack of personal accountability. To wit, everything bad that happens to him is NEVER his fault, and he's more than happy to tell you everything that IS to blame.
SMW dies because "the wrestling business was in a recession, we had a bum TV deal". Not that despite running every week, and drawing 1000 plus crowds everywhere they went, they almost never raised ticket prices, and kept booking the Heavenly Bodies vs the R&R Express for years at a time.
His WWE tenure ends because everyone hates poor old Jimmy, and he hated working for Vince McMahon. It couldn't have been that you SLAPPED Santino Marella (one of your TRAINEES) across the face (admittedly he shouldn't have laughed at Boogeyman, but come on)
Hell he even blames WWE for one of their rings in OVW breaking, since WWE wanted them to change from cables to ropes (understandable, since as I understand it, they're different rings). Jim makes it clear on one of his shoot DVDs that they had NEVER had a cable break, and the first time they used ropes, it broke. But the way he says it, you'd think Vince McMahon had cut the ropes in secret, whilst twirling his mustache like Snidely Whiplash!
Look, I'm not saying that Jim doesn't make valid points a lot. I can understand him being bitter at a lot of stuff. Hell, I think he's a genius, and without him my favorite promotion ever, SMW would never have existed. But come on man....it's not ALWAYS someone else's fault!
End of rant.
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Sept 7, 2011 15:35:09 GMT -5
All I can say is...
Jam.........T...E...
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Post by devilfish on Sept 7, 2011 6:46:34 GMT -5
Eh, personally, I am really enjoying NCAA 12. The big thing is they have finally discovered how to make realistic field degrading and dirty unis, which adds a whole new level of realism to the game. Now I admit some of the problems you have are there, but I've been playing it for a few months now, and I am really having fun with it.
But hey, to each his own.
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Post by devilfish on Jul 25, 2011 22:45:40 GMT -5
I wasn't attacking Noah Antwiler the man...I was criticizing his online "persona" which he never ever seems to turn off. I have no ill will towards Noah, I'm sure he's a wonderful person with a sparkling personality, and a kind heart. But his wrestling reviews are getting in my nerves, so I unfollowed him.
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Post by devilfish on Jul 25, 2011 22:37:50 GMT -5
Spoony, is an online reviewer, his real name is Noah Antwiler and he works for that guy with the glasses. He is at www.spoonyexperiment.com He's also a wrestling reviewer and he does a show called "Wrestle! Wrestle!" Sorry, I should have been clearer from the outset.
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Post by devilfish on Jul 25, 2011 22:30:52 GMT -5
Okay people, I have had it. Seriously, I am f***ing DONE with Spoony and his ultra-snarky, super-smark, hater of everything persona, and tonight, I finally had my fill.
Tonight Raw had a very good show IMHO, with an exceptional main event, and a KILLER of an ending. So how does Spoony respond on his @wrestlewrestle twitter?
"Cena wins clean, Punk is back already, and the status quo is restored. F*** this company."
I can't take it anymore. We have been given several good, highly entertaining Raws, and a PPV that may have been the best all year, and Spoony just can't bring to pull his head out of his @$$ long enough to appreciate something good once and a while?
Well I'm done, I simply unfollowed him on Twitter, and I am done with him. Sorry Spoony, you're funny and everything, but if you can't see the forest for the trees, Then you're done with me.
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Jul 17, 2011 20:58:47 GMT -5
Did they import these tables from All-Japan Women's Wrestling?
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Post by devilfish on Jun 28, 2011 0:58:38 GMT -5
I have one.
I went to an indy show with my dad about ten years ago and we saw this arrogant jerk-ass sitting in front of us who looked exactly like the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. Anyway he was being the ULTRA smark, calling every wrestler by their real names, saying things like "Come ON! Let's see some SELLING! PLEASE!" and stuff like that. basically, he made it his mission to ruin everyone's good time. I often wonder why people act that way in public...I mean life is WAY to short to waste it at some Gym in eastern TN on a Friday night making snide comments about indy wrestlers, trying to get started in the business. Then I realize that this is probably the only time an a-hole like that gets out, he's probably highly depressed with his lot in life and figures, if he can't be happy, why should anyone else.
The other kind of smark I run into is the "elitist". These are the ones who constantly act snobbish about wrestling. They say that they ONLY watch Puro, and the occasional ROH event, and say that they "grew up" from WWE. (Heck, I knew one fan from years ago, who went out and learned Japanese ONLY so he could watch All Japan shows without fandubs) Meanwhile they also know every single storyline, angle, and event from EVERY WWE Show. I have this image of them sitting around in smoking jackets, wearing monocles, and enjoying a snifter of brandy before enjoying an NJPW show ;D
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Jun 14, 2011 14:36:02 GMT -5
reminds of that scene in Ghostbusters 2 where the woman in a mink coat walks through the pink slime, and her coat comes to life and tries to kill her.
good trick!
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Post by devilfish on Jun 14, 2011 5:28:26 GMT -5
Hey guys, I wanted to know if you could help me out.
I am getting back into dieting and exercising and I need to know a good workout program.
Thing is, I don;t have the money to join a gym, so I need to know a good home workout program for overall fitness.
What I have: A dumbbell set, resistance band set, eliptical machine.
Any advice you could give me would be most appreciated.
Thank you
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Jun 13, 2011 14:09:25 GMT -5
Hey guys, I don't know if you can post the clip on the site, but I am trying to find the infamous XPW footage of the 2-ring cage match where the cage began to fall apart during the match itself. If anyone can help me find it, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks
Brian~
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Post by devilfish on Jun 12, 2011 1:59:57 GMT -5
Hey, what exactly was the "Hall Indy Meltdown"?
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Post by devilfish on Jun 9, 2011 5:07:11 GMT -5
Rene Descartes walked into a bar, he sits down and orders a beer, after he finishes the beer, the barmaid asks him "Another beer Mr. Descartes?" Rene replies "I Think Not" and POOF! he vanishes!
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Post by devilfish on Jun 9, 2011 4:36:20 GMT -5
Actually, everything is being blown way out of proportion. What happened was one of the people, "Elisa" I believe, was in a scene where she was duct taped to a wall with her hands over her head while a plan is being hatched. According to Rob Walker, She began to feel lightheaded, so they took her down, gave her some Gatorade, and a little bit later she was fine. They reshot the scene with a much safer set up.
The controversy is coming from someone who (according to Obscurus Lupa) wasn't even there, and by an online "reviewer of reviewers" who seemingly has a vendetta against Channel Awesome.
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