Well a lot's gone on in wrestling in the last week or two so let's just skim through some of it shall we.......
"Hollywood" Jimmy returns to Memphis TV, as a babyface!?!?!? -Never thought I'd live to see it. As a result he splits with the Clique, and he and Death Wish bury each other on the message board. Some funny stuff during that exchange. I hope everyone votes for Jimmy to win the "Jerry for a Day" Contest. If he wins he could book a helluva show just bringing in indy wrestlers from Mississippi with all their soap opera shit from outside the ring. I won't name names but I guarantee anyone reading this could name at least three people with some fucked up stuff to go on there with. Anyways, get to the Springer site and vote.
Christian Quits the WWE!- Well good for him. Can you blame him? In spite of there shitty booking he has gotten over time and time again, and shown the entertainment value he brings to the table and they've dropped the ball EVERYTIME!! Not to mention in recent reports they were offering him very low end pay for renewing his contract. I hope he goes to TNA, where maybe he will be given a chance to reach his main event potential.
Jerry Jarrett has a meeting with Vince - I read Dave Burcham's speculation about Jeff turning up in WWE and judging by the fact he won back the NWA title last night I don't think it will happen but Jeff would have to be RETARDED to go to WWE. Given the fact he's spent the last two years developing there competition not to mention his bad history with Vince (holding him up for $250,000 to drop the IC title to Chyna) he would be totally buried then cut loose, and if he shit on TNA and then got fired by WWE he would be forced to join Buff Bagwell in indy oblivion forever more. As for Jerry Jarrett, I don't understand why people are feeling sorry for him for losing power in TNA, the company was losing money and waning in popularity untill the new backers came in and handed the power over to someone else, had Jarrett remained in control there might not even still be a TNA.
Joey Styles debuts at Taboo Tuesday - I really hope he sticks around to be the new announcer for RAW, at least untill JR returns. Coach is the drizzlin' shits and Styles adds a lot to the show. We'll see.
Stone Cold takes his ball and goes home........AGAIN! - When will the McMahons learn that they can't depend on Austin to do what they need him to do. He doesn't believe ANYONE should ever get any heat on him. I guess he thinks everyone is content to just watch him stun everyone week after week, and never EVER have anyone get one up on him. Besides J.R. is not able to come back anytime soon, so what good would it do them for him to win?? I hope they learned their lesson this time and just trot him out every few years for Wrestlemania and leave it at that.
VADER and Goldust return to WWE!! - HOLY SHIT! Now granted the day I heard that Dusty had been hired, I knew Dustin wouldn't be far behind. Especially after watching a recent shoot with Dustin were he was talking about the fact his house was being foreclosed on and his truck was about to be repo'ed in a few days if he didn't get an indy booking. He said he had recently applied for some "regular jobs" but wasn't having any luck. As for Vader, he' s the last person I ever thought you'd see back in the WWE. Quite shocking.
Bound for Glory A.K.A. Total Nonstop Rhino, RHINO WINS THE NWA TITLE - Well Bound for Glory wasn't the best PPV offering from TNA in a while but it wasn't bad. However it was certainly Rhino's night as he won the Monster's Ball match, a #1 Contenders 10 Man Gauntlet for the World title shot, and defeated Jeff Jarrett for the NWA title due to Kevin Nash being in the hospital. However in other news...........
JEFF JARRETT REGAINS THE NWA TITLE - In a move that made even Triple H roll his eyes, Jarrett wins back the NWA title in a little over a week after losing it. Next.
WHY BRET WHY? - A lot of people are criticizing Bret Hart for compromising his principles and agreeing to work with the WWE on a dvd of his career and taking that picture of he and Vince shaking hands. But, look at it from his point of view. Everyone knows how much his character and legacy means to him. The original title for the dvd was "Screwed" The Bret Hart Story. It was basically gonna be a burial like the 'Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior' dvd. Now many might not think that's a big deal, but think of the younger fans who have come along in the past few years or who will come along in the future, the only thing they may ever see of Bret and his career might be that dvd, so I can see why he would not want "the Hitman" portrayed as a winer, and sore loser, and completely gloss over his great career for years in the WWE. Video is an important part of preserving a wrestler's legacy. For instance, I first started following wrestling regularly in 1985. For years the only thing I knew of Harley Race was his years as "King" in the WWF. I could never see what was so great about him. But years later I got ahold of tapes of his heyday in St Louis, Kansas City, and in Mid Atlantic and saw why he's a legend. In other words, I think it would be more damaging to Bret's image to let that dvd trashing him be made than the people who are calling him a sellout for shaking Vince's hand.
This isn't news, but I just read 'Shooting from the Hip' and.... - Why does J.D. always use local wrestler's real names in his column. Had I not just read the interview with Pure Destuction(which is very good by the way) I wouldn't know who 'Robert Bruner' was. Why not just say Cody Hawk, or at the very least 'Bruno'(as he is widely known by most workers) JD has always done this in his column and it's always puzzled me. It's like the marks on message boards who refers to Triple H and Shawn Michaels as "Paul" and "Mike" to try to seem like an "insider". I also find it amusing went points out things like in a previous column where he mentions a guy is a "manager at Wal-Mart." That shit is funny to me. Maybe I'm the only one this annoys, I always figured if these guys wanted everyone to know their real name they would use it, and if not then leave it up to them if they want it known to everyone. Oh well, I guess now this will probably get mentioned everytime he puts someone's name in his column. I don't think JD actually knows my real last name, most people assume it's really Jackson. Anyway, just my 2 cents, who am I to question a "legend"? (On a side note from his column, with all the damn worker there are in Mississippi why do they keep ending up with all these shows with only 4 or 5 workers there?)
David Burcham 'somewhat' retracts his Kerry Von Erich statements - I too, can comment on this as I had a half brother who commited suicide and I've seen what it does to families. Here's why I have no sympathy or respect for Kerry Von Erich. In an interview with his brother Kevin, Kevin said that he spoke with Kerry just a couple of hours before Kerry shot himself. Kerry did not kill himself because he was in tremedous pain or anything of the sort. He told Kevin he was going to kill himself because he couldn't take the embarassment of being sentenced to jail time for drugs. Because of his celebrity status around Dallas, he couldn't face people and own up to what he had done. Everyone makes mistakes, and had he came out publically and admitted them, and changed his ways I'm sure everyone would have forgiven him. Instead, he didn't consider his brother, his father, and mother and more importantly he didn't consider his two young girls who would be left without a father. Rather than doing what was best for them, he did what was easy and took the coward's way out. I'm sorry but no amount of wrestling credentials or anything else can make up for that. So because of that I stand by what I said, I have no respect for Kerry Von Erich and anyone who has a problem with that can trash me from now til I'm dead. Of course then you'll have to stop and say nice things about me cause I'll be dead and demand your respect.
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