Seriously, wow. When Brock hit that F5 within the first 30 seconds, I knew this would be a massacre. Hope Cena's alright, because medics jumping in like that is legit never good news.

That match was amazing. I've seen a few people complain about the 17+ German suplexes, but that just drove the point home really well for me. Lesnar toyed with John Cena for the entire match. Cena even made what looked like the Big John Cena Comeback...and while Cena was lying there selling exhaustion, Brock just got up and laughed.

Hell yes.

Let's see

Stephanie beats Brie following Nikki's interference on the Stephanie's behalf.

Miz proved to be a transitional champion when after losing the IC title to Ziggler about a month after winning it.

Paige defeats AJ Lee for the Divas title

Rusev beats Swagger by KO

Bray defeated Y 2 J after kicking out of the Codebreaker and escaping the Wo J and delivering two Sister Abigails

Seth defeated Dean after hitting him with the briefcase during a typical Lumberjack brawl.

Roman Reigns supreme as he defeated Orton with the Spear after kicking out of the RKO.

Lesnar defeats Cena in a glorified squash match for the WWE WHC

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I'm confused.

WWE does indeed acknowledge Y 2 J as the first ever Unified/Undisputed Champion, but that they also acknowledge Orton as the first ever WWE WHC, which for all intents and purposes is the same thing: A Unified World Champion.

Is it simply a matter of the titles involved? (Y 2 J unified the WWF and WCW titles while Orton unified the WWE and WH titles)

What was in your right hand is hope; And in another hand is something else to fade.

Basically, yeah.

My various fanfics.

I'm glad Lesnar actually won. Not just because I am not a fan of Cena, but because if he hadn't, then him breaking the Streak wouldn't mean shit (granted, I DO NOT like the fact that he broke the streak, but that's another story). Furthermore, if Cena had crushed Lesnar again like in 2012, it would have utterly diminished his box office draw. And to those who think Lesnar will be a bad Champion because he doesn't appear often:that used to be how pro wrestling champions worked. Back in the day, you would be lucky if you got to see Hogan wrestle ten times.

Good. After almost two years of teasing us with a bone being thrown to Ziggler, only for that bone to not be thrown, it's good that he won it from that fluctuating placeholder Miz. Hopefully he'll be able to restore the IC belts glory even more than Barrett did in his short tenure.

I think AJ should have retained, because if this is going to be an ongoing Divas feud, then there's no sense in the title getting switched back and forth every two months (at the least).

But hey, now that Cena is no longer champion and has gotten his ass squashed, at least I can end my boycott of WWE...for now.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."

I agree wholeheartedly.

When Lesnar beat the Undertaker, it did suck in a sense knowing that you couldn't do much with it since Brock Lesnar is a part-timer, but if you had Cena beating Lesnar for the title, then that iconic Wrestle Mania moment would've been for naught.

That said, I wholeheartedly was anticipating this kind of outcome... and never thought the WWE would do it as they rarely, if ever, present Cena as "weak" or vulnerable. That, and I relish the fact that ol' Bork Laser is now our overlord.

edited 18th Aug '14 7:56:15 AM by JDogindy

I got some bad newz to tell you.

So does this make Lesnar the Doomsday to Cena's Superman?

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.

No, because the best Doomsday could do was a draw. He died killing Superman.

So yes, that means Bork Laser > Doomsday.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

Brock Lesnar was Doomsday to Goldberg, because both of their careers died at the same time, only for them both to pop back up as part timers. Where have you all been the last decade?

I will admit, WWE's pay per view was promoted well. Bray Wyat-Chris Jericho had me considering even. My internet had been crap, making me doubt I'd have the ability to stream any IPPVs, but just yesterday it started working again. Back to the WWN!

...And Impact, which apparently is on Wednesdays now? Since Samoa Joe is X Division Champion, I think this one is appropriate. This is not their most famous match but it is the one people were paying to see when he and Punk set that record breaking ticket gross in Europe.

I love the commentary.

edited 18th Aug '14 10:48:48 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes

Speaking of TNA, and this really sucks for them, but Bully Ray has left the company. His contact expired recently and neither side was able to make agreements.

This sucks for them because TNA was responsible for making Bubba Ray Dudley into a worthy main-event talent by utilizing him as a beatdown kind of heel.

There is a joke about the TNA Hall of Fame somehow driving its inductees away from the company.

I got some bad newz to tell you.

All I have to say about this:

"Punk was right."

That's all you have to say Magnum? Cause now you got me interested. What was Punk right about? Not pursuing further work with TNA because they violated his contract?

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes

Before leaving sometime around Royal Rumble IIRC, Punk said something about part timers taking over, possibly including the belt as well.

Come Wrestlemania, we have Brock Lesner taking Undertaker's streak. Seven months after CM Punk left, we have Brock Lesner as champion at Summer Slam.

Whether this is Hilarious in Hindsight or Harsher In Hind Sight is YMMV.

Thus I wouldn't be surprised if we start getting crowd chants of "Punk was Right" in response to Summer Slam.

Well, part of me sees why Brock Lesnar wants WWE to be more like MMA. I think the 300 day a year schedule is ridiculous, WWE's not a company like TNA that needs to make money anyway it can and pretty much every other financially stable company that I know of, be it Mexico, Japan, Canada or USA gets by on a lighter schedule. Yet I totally get the resentment from him just disappearing and coming back as the same bland promo in the same spot.

I was really excited when Brock Lesnar came back. There was CM Punk, Ryback, Sheamus, all these new guys for him to fight...and he goes after John Cena, seen it! In my opinion the previous one was better but what do I know, people loved it. So, Brock goes on to two boring matches with Triple H and is hardly around between them. By time Lesnar-Punk actually came around I didn't care. Punk had changed so much from the time I was interested in the encounter, the roster had changed so much, it was just hard to care. But they did it, they made me care, they crew put together a great video package, Punk and Lesnar had a great match and then Brock vanished without a word. When he came back to fight the Undertaker, I wasn't even watching WWE by then so did not care...until he beat the Undertaker.

Of course I thought I was thinking of Undertaker's 2014 Wrestlemania opponents since before the 2013 Mania (I was thinking tag team or triple threat, for variety) and the obvious lack of build up annoyed me when I realized when all three members of the Shield practically jobbed to John Cena that WWE's bookerswriters had no long term plan. I also thought Undertaker should lose his last match, but not at Wrestlemania. I don't see why killing what had become the biggest part of his gimmick was necessary. Yes, Taker was injured in the match but suppose he wasn't and had one more in him? Would anyone really be interested in seeing more of him? I'd have retired him at Backlash, Vengeance, Hell In A Cell or something thanks to the premeditated actions of an asshole and built it immediately after Wrestlemania. I'm not sure my plans would work but WWE didn't have a plan. For a company that is so dead set on being a soap opera/variety show/action adventure series/sports entertainment and not "wrasslin", I'd like to think their "writing" would be better than so many no budget "wrasslin" companies whose "writing" basically comes down to putting names in a book and telling the wrestlers to make it interesting when theirs comes up.

In spite of a schedule I find suicidal, quite a few WWE wrestlers do consistently put on good matches. They've got innovative agents, often have awesome video packages, a great guy doing music in Jim Johnston but beyond that the program is a crap shoot at best. The Rock wasn't around either, but his presence could be felt. He image was around, his voice was heard, he was referenced when none of that took place and we knew when his matches were coming. Honestly, that was more UFC than anything I remember WWE doing with Brock Lesnar. I think if Brock Lesnar had been handled more like the Rock was, people would be far more tolerating. Oh, and it's taken them nine years to lay off John Cena, assuming WWE finally has found a new role for him.

edited 29th Jan '15 2:37:22 PM by IndirectActiveTransport

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes

Okay, so I'm reading this article, and there are a bunch of morons saying, "DON'T YOU TEN YEAR OLDS KNOW IT'S SCRIPTED?!" Yeah, it's scripted. No fucking shit, captain obvious. There isn't a person in the world who doesn't know it's scripted.

Anyone else just plain sick and tired of hearing people mock and bash pro wrestling and its fans just because it's scripted?

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."

The Real Story of Why Undertaker Lost

My schedule worked out differently than expected, so I will be able to make it to Caged Fury after all. Frustratingly, Chuck has not posted which match he's booking Haught in... (I suppose that might be no match at all, but if so, that would be a loss, and not just of momentum from the push with RJ City).

Yes, yes, oh God yes.

The problem is that us "nerds" (I have three levels of wrestling fandom in mind... the Marks who think it's real, the Smarks who think they know everything about the business and take into account every piece of Rajah or Bleacher Report newz as fast... and the Nerds who don't buy into that bullplop and love wrestling for what it is) aren't as big of a crowd as the marks and smarks, and you know that you cannot speak to a person who is so inclined in their view.

I got some bad newz to tell you.

As much as a stroke of genius as it was, I do still curse how Vince McMahon so heavily blurred the lines of kayfabe and intraoffice politics where it comes to wrestling. Used to be, when you heard that a booker didn't like a wrestler's style, or was snubbing him due to an embarrassing incident involving a washroom sink and a size comparison, you could accept that it was an internal thing. Now, you never know if that's just part of the smokescreen and it's all part of a storyline.

Uh, no? I didn't even see the comments and hit back as soon as I found a loading bar. What I find far more annoying is marks calling each other marks, as if it is an insult. You're all marks unless you work in the business. Even among people who do work in the business, I really hate the term "smark". What is a "smart" mark? A mark who knows they're getting played? Well the smart mark still gets played so how smart is one really?

Dislike the term "internet wrestling community" too. Is every wrestling fan who ever looked up something wrestling related online part of this community? Do you have to actually "contribute" to this community? Are there any standards that bind and govern us?

You know, we (rightfully) mock Vince for his engineered and forced "WWE Universe" but the rest of us don't seem to be able to call fans what they are either. I can buy "Mutant" and "ROHbot" because those are obviously playful terms, otherwise fans are fans and workers are workers.

edited 19th Aug '14 11:05:02 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes

I hate it even more when they tell us wrestling fans to "grow up." Hate it because it's fake:fine, your problem for not bothering to enjoy the showmanship and appreciate these athletes for putting their bodies and lives on the line up to 300 nights a year. But to say that only ten year olds or people living in their parents' basements watch pro wrestling? There are 50+ year olds still watching wrestling. There are grandparents who have watched wrestling since they were kids, and are now bringing their grandchildren to live shows.

Perhaps the biggest problem with WWE's thinking and the Network is that WWE itself really does think wrestling fans are overweight slobs constantly staring at the Network in their moms basement. Most wrestling fans have actual lives, and $120 a year for a subscription based streaming network which primarily consists of content that can be illegally streamed for the most part can be used for many things that can actually help you get by in life.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."

John Cena was, in the words of Paul Heyman, 'beaten, victimized and conquered'.

Considering that my country is 3 weeks behind on WWE episodes, the episode (the second Raw episode after Battleground) when Heyman said those words (which for us was this past Sunday) occurred on the very day the Summerslam happened. It was hilarious when I checked wikipedia the next day and saw that Lesnar squashed Cena.

What was in your right hand is hope; And in another hand is something else to fade.

ECIII fires Rhino for being a failure. Rhino cuts a boring promo but the New Yawkas eat it up. ECIII destroys Rhino against Spud's wishes. Dixie's bedridden and confirms she's done getting in the ring but states a Carter never forgets.

Remember when people used to be afraid of Abyss? Kind of getting hard to remember as he loses again. Bram has Janice. Maybe Abyss can go back to Puerto Rico and Bram can be the new garbage wrestler of TNA? I'm sure the WWL has plenty of jobbers to feed him, to build up toward a match between Abyss and Monster Pain. I will say this ladder match was pretty good. Bram basically charged into a barbed wire board almost totally of his own volition headfirst. That was just sickening and I actually thought he might lose after that self inflicted mutilation.

Joe and Low Ki delivered, as expected but damn I thought Joe was killing Low Ki for a little while. It's been a long while since Impact has shown one of those kinds of Joe beat downs his theme music mentions. Hell, Low Ki didn't even do his usual stretch stomping and Goldberg stalking bit, like he knew he was gonna get it, but he took his beating like only he can and gave back what he could, which was awesome. Though the title is not main event as much anymore, TNA do seem really dedicated to building it back up. Except the upcoming "Great Sanada" to be Samoa Joe's next challenger.

Anderson and Shaw, Anderson is an asshole, Shaw's slightly better, Gunner's slightly better than Shaw. Fans seem to love Mr. Anderson the most and are the most ambivalent toward Samuel Shaw. This has been his best match in recent memory but Samuel hasn't shown us much, at least not that I know of. Shaw is forced to say I quit, Anderson refuses to break his seated armbar thing till Gunner forces him off.

Angelina Love jumps Gail Kim backstage, Kurt Angle finally acknowledged Love's a dick. Kim demands a last knockout standing match. Don't mind yes chants, celebrate great wrestlers, but the "Better Than The Divas" chant annoyed me. I've been watching Angelina Love have better matches at less budget PWS shows and the flimsy legged NWA remnants so I don't care about the divas. Hell, I've seen better from her in this TNA run. This wasn't too bad, but it was basically Velvet Sky vs Gail Kim. Angelina pulled off two moves and was dead weight for the rest of the "contest". Gail vs Velvet was okay but Velvet herself only took two moves. It was really disturbing no knockout came to Gail's aid and in the end, the Beautiful People just looked weak.

Cheap plug. Florida Rumble's a great place to start watching FIP if TNA goes under and Shine's coming back tomorrow, featuring a preview of TNA's near future.]

Bully Ray, Matt Hardy, Eddie Edwards say stuff. Triple Threat Match Tag Team match coming. Glad TNA is putting over tag teams. MVP says Lashley is not afraid of anyone because Lashley is invincible and will easily defeat whoever wins the upcoming six sides of steel match.

Now I know none of these guys are Spike Dudley sized but this cage has hole in it I'm sure Austin Aries could have fit through. He never tries, how unlike him. Maybe he did during the commercial break, I don't know. Crowd loved this match though. Bobby Roode is now the number one contender, if it is not Eric Young.

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes

Two things. First, I've been reading Robert "Bobby Blaze" Smedley's autobiography, "Pin me! Pay me! Have Boots Will Travel". It's an alright read. He rambles a lot, and repeats himself, but it's nice to get more of a spotlight on the independent circuit and some of the mechanics of calling a match inside the ring. Secondly, I'm off to see Caged Fury 2014 tonight for the International Wrestling Cartel. I don't really have a match I'm terrible excited about tonight, although I do plan on wearing my Dalton Castle shirt in, since he'll be having a match. No word on whether they're booking Keith Haught. If they don't, they're missing a huge chance to keep pushing him. The masked guy, Dravako, is billed to be there, at least on the Facebook page. I'm holding out hopes that he'll have a better night. Last time, he was kind of clumsy to the point that I was worried that he was going to hurt himself or his opponent.

edited 23rd Aug '14 8:00:08 AM by FuzzyBoots

Right. Back from Caged Fury. It was an excellent experience overall. A rundown of results.

Colin Delaney vs. Low Rider

Delaney and Haught entered to their signature music, dancing like the lovable dorks that they are. Low Rider entered to his song, based off of his name. The match was overall quite good. Delaney knows his stuff. Low Rider had lots of neat acrobatic maneuvers including a nice front-flip escape from a snapmare. There was a lot of chain wrestling with one maneuver transitioning smoothly into the next. Shortly into the match, Delaney was on the outside and Low Rider pulled some sort of complicated twisting flip kick which overshot Delaney and nearly clocked a little kid at ringside. Eventually, Delaney landed a turnbuckle assisted DDT on Low Rider and rolled him up for the pin.

Flex Appeal vs. KnightRiders

First off, Remy LaVey of the KnightRiders has improved immensely. When I first saw him in the ring at Proving Grounds last year, he was a little pokey and had some sloppy execution. The only thing I found commendable about him was that he had good strikes with the blows looking convincing, something which the IWC has long had trouble with. And, surprisingly enough, Cassidy made it through the match without developing huge welts on his back. The match itself didn't have a lot that stuck out in my mind. A lot of back-and-forth tagging. Both teams were smart about tags, using them to set up team attacks and preventing the other side from getting to the corner for some time. Eventually, Flex Appeal landed some sort of complicated team maneuver which required Cassidy to be in a full nelson and voluntarily draw his legs up so that the other guy could jump up and pull him down for the pin. I don't know if that move was how things were supposed to work... after the match, Bronco McBride and Jock Samson rushed the ring and began beating the KnightRiders down with a cowbell, complete with an [[Saturday Night Live/SNL]] quip about the match needing "more cowbell". Haught and Delaney rushed in to help, which led to the next match.

Keith Haught vs. Jock Samson

I'm a Haught fan. You guys know that. Unfortunately, he came off badly in this match. Both of them did really, but Samson came out a bit better with more agility in his moves and how he sold results. Part of the problem was that both guys are large and a little bit slower, which meant that there were very few interesting maneuvers going on, just a lot of punching, slapping, back rakes (from Samson), and the occasional turnbuckle splash. Eventually, McBride tried to interfere and, in the course of him running through the ring, he disrupted Haught's splash attempt on Samson, leading to Samson landing a bulldog, stunning Haught long enough for a pin. Delaney consoled Haught on the loss with Haught seeming rather disgruntled with Delaney over the results.

Matt Cross vs. RJ City

Matt Cross was amusingly athletic. Lots of acrobatics. True to his general premise, RJ City ridiculed the acrobatics and several times made a point of how impractical they were by countering or following up on an athletic move or escape. For example, at one point, Cross was up on the turnbuckle and RJ City rushed him. Cross landed on his feet and rolled, only to turn and get pasted by RJ City who'd simply turned around and attacked. Ultimately, LaBar interfered by splashing cross in the eyes with something from a bottle, giving RJ City the chance to get Cross into his "Goodnight Everybody" sleeper hold. I enjoy RJ City's matches. He has charisma and I kind of like his pragmatic style. It does lean a little hard on the fourth wall, though, in how he openly ridicules how ineffective most pro wrestling moves are.

Team STD vs. The Founding Fathers

Vega$ was not medically cleared for the match due to Faces of Change breaking his arm. He still showed up at ringside. When Ginger, of Team STD, entered in a skintight plastic outfit, my initial visceral enjoyment of it was spoiled when I remembered that she does her costumes as part of a team theme. Sure enough, Chest Flexor was similarly in skintight PVC-ish material. Fortunately, Brian McDowell, as usual, only had elements of the costume in his vest. The match was pretty much the typical. Team STD frequently capitalized on the three on two tag situation, but The Founding Fathers were overall much stronger. Eventually, Team STD began to get the upper hand after they got Gregory to smash his head into a small table they'd set up on one corner. Idol pulled out an axehandle they'd brought stageside. Gregory tried to wrest it out of his hands whereupon Flexor had the bright idea to smash Corey Futuristic's head into the handle while the referee's head was turned, leading to a disqualification when the referee turned to see Corey down and The Founding Fathers apparently carrying the weapon.

Joe "VIP" Rosa had made a big deal about how his bodyguards weren't with him due to them interfering last event and complained that Chuck was trying to make him a target and during this match, he sat in various parts outside the ring to try to rattle The Founding Fathers. After Team STD had vacated the ring, while The Founding Fathers were arguing the ending, Joe Rosa went up to the ring and started hassling them. Chuck came out with three members of security to part the fray before anything started. Then, the viewscreen lighted up with a message from Faces of Change talking about how they were ready to reveal themselves. Video ends, I look back to the ring. The three security guys had donned the balaclavas of the Faces of Change and began to beat The Founding Fathers from one end of the ring to the next while Joe Rosa put Chuck into a sleeper hold. At the end, Rosa revealed that he had been backing them the whole time, that he'd been saying all this time that he was going to bring "change" to the IWC. They vacated the ring, leaving Chuck and The Founding Fathers to pick themselves up. Yes, that meant that the free booze in the VIP corner quickly dried up. On a side note, one of the guys keeping people out of the arena before they opened it to the public was recognizable as one of the bodyguards. When I'd first noticed, I figured it was a continuity glitch, the result of Chuck using the students in the Iron City Wrestling Academy as ring security to get them involved with the matches early on. This made the whole thing Fridge Brilliance in that it was foreshadowing that Rosa had long since infiltrated the ranks of Security.

Dalton Castle vs. "DJ" Zema Ion

I swear that Ion's gimmick these days is simply that he can't settle on a gimmick. He had a brief interview where he established his new persona and got some Cheap Heat by indicating that he was only there at IWC, where he started, because he had a weekend off from TNA and Chuck was throwing money at him. It was a good match. There was a lot of invocation of the "my head is not in the ring" rule for getting people to back off which just plain confuses me. Zema twice got tossed out of the ring by Castle and avoided a follow-up by virtue of creeping under the rind and emerging on the other side. I thing this was the other match where that one front row got hit by a wrestler when Zema Ion did an off-the-ropes maneuver at Castle. There was an amusing bit where Castle taunted Ion by messing with the discarded headphones including a bit where he put them on and requested music to be played for him to dance to. Later, Ion got the earphones back and made a similar request, resulting in Castle pantsing him, revealing pink underwear. Ultimately, after several deadlift suplexes (Castle's trademark maneuver), Castle dodged a 450 splash by Zema Ion and landed one more deadlift suplex for the pin.

Intermission

It was a long intermission as they had to assemble the cage around the ring. After the house doctor was called out to the locker room, Chuck came out and thanked everyone for being out there before stopping and clutching his head. Norm Connors, former owner of IWC, came out and talked quietly with Chuck after which he announced that he'd recommended that Chuck get his head and neck checked after the sleeper hold and that he'd be helping run things tonight. The last time Chuck put Norm in charge in an emergency, it did not end well.

Façade vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Andrew Palace vs. Matt Taven — Steel cage match

It was a staggered entry thing. Taven and Guevara started things out. Then Andrew Palace came in. Then Façade. When Guevara entered, he made a bit of a mockery of the situation by striding into the ring, jumping onto the ringpost, and going up to straddling the top in a few seconds, making one wonder why more wrestlers don't simply do that. The match was alright overall. Palace and Façade teamed up a few times despite them having feuded a bit in prior Aftershock videos with Façade feeling that Palace is a Johnny-come-lately whining about not getting enough opportunities. Near the end, Facade scrambled to the top and had only his head, held by the dreadlocks by Palace, inside the cage. Team STD came out and tried to interfere on the behalf of Palace, who used to run with them, but were knocked away. Facade decided to skip going over the top and instead tightroped along the edge of the cage and jumped on top of the other three. Somehow, right afterwards, he busted through the door on the side and immediately started running around the ring to celebrate. Guevara tumbled out shortly thereafter. Jake Clemons, the referee, rushed out, saw Guevara, and proclaimed him the winner. Cue Façade come running around the side, freaking out, beating up Jake including busting a chair over him. Justin Plummer came out with a handheld camera to ask Façade's reaction. The camera wound up spiked off of the entrance ramp and caroming off of the side of my head. Way for me to be a part of the action...

Team Big League and Matthew Justice vs. Jimmy DeMarco, Aiden Vale, and Marshall Gambino — Six man match inside the steel cage

This was the climactic match of the night. It was a "War Game" setup where participants got added every 90 seconds. Of course, the heels won the coin toss and got their guys in first. Early on, chairs were added to the ring and tables set suspiciously adjacent. The match itself was good overall, lots of action happening. McChesney went in way before his cue, making one wonder why Gambino honored his side of things by waiting. Ultimately, Joseph Brooks exited early and started laughing at everyone still inside the cage. Shortly thereafter, Gambino broke through the door and chased both Justice and Brooks out. Aiden Vail managed to wipe out somewhere outside of the cage... I don't remember exactly how, but he was down for probably the last half of the match. Later, Justice and Gambino came back. Justice managed to get Gambino laid out across the tables. Gambino revived and headed up with Justice, both of them fighting all of the way up and rather ineffectually scaling it. Eventually, they both fell, smashing the tables and keeping them out of the rest of the match, leaving the in-ring match as one-on-one. Eventually, McChesney won cleanly with a series of suplexes, something he hasn't done in some time. Afterwards, LaBar came in to kick at the fallen DeMarco. Jimmy Nutts makes a ringside appearance with Norm Connors. Norm announces that the new minority stakeholder is Jimmy. Jimmy DeMarco, that is. LaBar gets tossed around a bit inside the cage. Norm announces that the IWC wouldn't be what it was without DeMarco and McChesney and the men share a manly handshake. End of show.

You know, there was another time when Chuck left, leaving Norm in charge with DeMarco to police things. Oh right... that was when Norm tricked his way into owning IWC less than two years ago...

I had a good time. The VIP section isn't worth it, unfortunately. $10 extra for free drinks doesn't pan out when you get fairly lousy seats (it's right by the entrance ramp, so the wrestlers never shake your hand to and from, and the the corner ringpost is in the way of the action). There were some really good matches. Only one lackluster one. Only botches I spotted involved wrestlers overshooting into the audience.

edited 24th Aug '14 6:51:45 AM by FuzzyBoots

Blame Zema Ion's gimmick fluctuation on TNA. Anyway, for all you naysayers, I agree that dropping Rycklon was a bad move on TNA's part but I have the utmost confidence they will not be going out of business. Whether they deserve to or not is something I'm conflicted on but Spike TV has worked with WWE first hand. After doing that they cannot drop TNA in good conscious until a viable USA wrestling company rises to take its place. The WWN is nice, but I think its still a ways off, ROH, CZW and Chikara are kind of niche products for people who are already hardcore fans (old school wrestling, garbage wrestling, cartoon wrestling). Its not that I don't want them to do well, just that when the niche product becomes #2, it is a sign an industry has become insular.

So thank you to whoever helped along my two launched pages. Fuzzy boots, you thought about launching a wrestler page? Maybe someone from the International Wrestling Cartel or anyone else you think a lot of tropes could apply too? We'd all be willing to help it along...right?

Modified Ura-nage, Torture Rack