Tons of stuff to talk about

Well a lot has gone on in the past couple of weeks and I don't have time to go into a lot of it right now but I plan to go more in depth on things this coming Monday but here's a few of things I plan to talk about on Monday.

Golden Triangle Wrestling- Even though David "Jason Envy" Andrews is the utter drizzlin' shits, I still had a lot of fun at this show. There's a lot more to say about this and I will........


SGWA- Lawler showed up, they had a big crowd,nobody got paid and then they had a revelation that they "wouldn't have a show without the workers", well no shit, good to know your appreciated huh guys? also they tried to have XOW shut down, plenty to talk about there.


Payoffs- The news that the guys didn't get paid at the big SGWA show sparked a days long debate on payoffs. This is a topic I find interesting and I have some things to say on this as well.


Wrestling in Okolona- Looking forward to this, should be a great show and a lot of fun. And knowing who is running the show, one things for sure everyone WILL get paid because he has the good sense to know going in, that a show is only as good as the workers that are on it and this one should be a good one!


All this plus more, come back and check it out on Monday!!


GENE

How to kill your town in one easy step..........

Ok, time to weigh in with my 2 cents on the SGWA/Neil Taylor/Leslie Jones/Chris Rocker controversy. Now let me preface this by saying, this is not meant as an attack on SGWA as a whole. I have a lot of people I consider to be friends that work there. This also is not directed at everyone's favorite internet target Gary Wooldridge, as he was not responsible for it. This is directed at the dumbass who took over the booking and decided what was best for him and his buddies was more important than the show and the fans, and that is what kills 90% of all wrestling promotions. After 2 monthes of building an angle building to a certain match involving certain people you can't just decide to "go another direction". The fans have invested time and money into coming to the shows leading up to this match, they have watched Neil Taylor every week calling himself "the King" all the while being promised by announcers week after week that the real "King" Jerry Lawler will be coming on November 26th to kick his ass. Whether you like Neil Taylor or not, or regardless of whether you think he "talked shit behind your back" that is what you promised the fans and that is what they expect to see. Since your obviously a mark that doesn't understand how business works, let me break it down to you where you might understand.

Say Vince McMahon was promoting an upcoming Pay Per View and the main event was The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels. And for 6 or 8 weeks you watched Shawn Michaels trash the Undertaker and every week they told you that the Undertaker was gonna be at the pay per view to get revenge on HBK. What do you think would happen if Vince got mad at Shawn a few days before the match and decided to "go another direction" with the main event and fired Shawn and put Undertaker in a 6 man match tagging with Heidenreich and Animal against the Mexicools? You would be pissed right, and every WWE fan who had spent the last several weeks watching the buildup to that match would feel cheated and they would shit on it!

Now I'm not just saying this because of who it is. Had you built an angle with Lawler and Ricky Flame and then suddenly pulled out Ricky at the last minute and threw Neil in with no angle I would still say it is bullshit.

But let's get down to the facts, it's all about jealousy. Your one of the pricks that REALLY DID get thrown out of the UPN dressing room that day in Memphis. You see this as your big chance to try to get yourself over and shit on some guys your jealous of(Neil/Rocker) I'm sure you hate the fact these guys get booked all over and you don't. You need to think of what's best for the show, and the other guys and not just yourself. Think back to when you were the mark in the crowd, and not the mark in the ring. If you had went week after week and saw a match built up and then you showed up and it didn't happen, would you go back? Would you feel lied to, cheated?

Now there is also one more aspect of this to consider. Jerry Lawler doesn't need the money you guys are struggling so hard to round up. What the person on the board said is true. Lawler trusts Rocker. Rockers works with him in Memphis. Lawler was very pleased with the way the angle in Selmer played out(a whole other aspect of this by the way) Lawler let Neil and Leslie get heat on him and LAWLER promised the fans he would get revenge in Booneville. What do you think he'll say when his friend Chris Rocker calls him up and tells him they've shitcanned his angle and gotten rid of him, so the booker could work with him instead. I don't think he'll come down there. Hell I wouldn't and I don't get a check from Vince McMahon every week. He will look like an asshole and it will look like he lied to his fans. So, how do you think it will look on SGWA if not only do fans not get the match they were promised, but also don't get to see Jerry Lawler as has been promised for weeks and weeks??

So to sum things up, you've made a very STUPID mistake. One that I think that will be looked back on as one of things that killed off Booneville. Hey, it's only Wednesday, it's not too late to do the right thing. Your call, bookerman.

GENE

A Royal Cheap Heat on the 26th!!

Well it's been confirmed, on November 26th I will be making my debut for SGWA in Booneville, MS and unlike the other writers on HollywoodJimmy.com who do interviews in the back then transcribe them into a column, I will be in Booneville in the middle of the ring live to interview, THE KING!! This should be the greatest Cheap Heat ever! I'm not gonna take it easy on him either, I'm gonna be asking the hard questions and getting his take on all the crap that's been going on around there and I'm sure he's gonna have plenty to say about it. I can't believe what all Neil Taylor and Leslie Jones have been up to in the past couple of monthes. Neil has certainly changed in the past few monthes since the last time I worked with him in XOW and I plan to tell him what I think of his new attitude while I'm in Booneville, not to mention Leslie E(lvis) Jones as well. But the important thing is before the challenge match takes place that was laid out in Selmer, TN. The fans will get to hear the King's take on things before he puts an end to those two once and for all. Should be one hell of a match.

Also, I will be making my wrestling return to the area on December 17th at the National Guard Armory in Fulton, MS! Don't have a lot of details on it yet but I'm looking forward to wrestling in Fulton again. Should be a lot of fun.

Well thanks for reading, be sure to come to Booneville on the 26th to see one of the biggest night of wrestling in North Mississippi in quite some time.

GENE

R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero

I was driving home from work today and decided to call my buddy Mike on my cell phone to tell him about something that's coming up. After I told him, he asked if I had been online today, I told him no that I'd been at work since 7 a.m. He told me that Eddie Guerrero had been found dead in a hotel room in Minneapolis. I couldn't believe it. It seems everytime you turn around another wrestler is dying, and the majority are from heart attacks and heart failure. It's very sad. Eddie was a tremendous wrestler who was one of the few who was equally gifted as both an entertainer as a character on the mic and as a wrestler in the ring. He will be remembered as one of the best. My heart goes out to the family he has left behind.
Much like Chris Candido, it's very sad to see what all he was able to overcome and after celebrating his fourth year of sobriety something like this happens. At least, he was able to overcome his demons and die a happy man who had came back from the lowest lows to reach the top of his chosen profession. I think everyone will always remember the scene at the end of Wrestlemania XX with Eddie and Chris Benoit in the ring celebrating their victories as World Champions after all the years they had put in to get there. God Bless"Latino Heat" and may he rest in peace.

Big Announcement Coming Next Week!

Not to be outdone by David Burcham, next week I will be announcing the long awaited return of the Cheap Heat Interview, and if everything pans out this will be the biggest one I've ever done. So be sure and check back as I will have more details next week!!

A Big Week......

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.



GENE

Things I don't understand...........

This post is dedicated to(as the title implies) 'things I don't understand', such as:

.......Why is their such a reverence for the dead? Why are people treated with more respect after they are dead than when they are alive?? You can call a person anything you want, criticize them, villianize them, slander them, anything you want if they are alive, but if that same person was to die, NOW your a prick and you have to be respectful of them. Of course the reason I mention this is the backlash from readers of the "Award Winning" 'Rants & Raves' by David Burcham. This is the quote that caused the uproar:

"Thinking of Kevin Von Erich reminds me of his brother Kerry’s suicide. Kerry did this being totally inconsiderate of the torture and anguish already suffered by Fritz, Doris, and Kevin due to the deaths of four other Von Erich brothers (two of which were also suicide). Not to mention Kerry’s own children who were depending on him. Fuck Kerry Von Erich. He’s just another dead junkie."


Now is this a nice thing to say? No, it's not. Is it a true statement? For the most part, yes. Yes the Von Erich family had been through countless tragedies, Kerry had seen what it did to him and his family, why would he put them and more importantly his own daughters through that, it was a very selfish thoughtless act. As for him being a junkie if you do some reading and watch some of the shoot interviews of NUMEROUS wrestlers who were asked about him, Kerry was strung out on something nearly all the time. There are tons of stories of his drugged out antics. Now I'm not saying I totally blame him for being a junkie for the majority of his career the man wrestled without a foot.........yes read that again, HE WRESTLED WITHOUT A FUCKING FOOT!! And the thing is no one really knew about it til after he died. But with as many wrestlers with both feet as there has been who did drugs to get by, you have to think wrestling without a foot might require a little something to get through, which leads to more, and more and more. Anyway, regardless of how you feel personally whether he was right or wrong to kill himself, or whether you feel David was right or wrong for what he said, it's his opinion and he's entitled to it. Why would you stop reading his column, or brand him a bad person just because he voiced an opinion about something that people seem to be touchy about for some reason. If wrote in his column, "Fuck Sean Waltman, he's a useless junkie." No one would have a problem with that, BUT if Sean Waltman o.d.'d and died and Burcham, said "Fuck Sean Waltman, he's another dead junkie." Everyone would shit themselves, even though both statements are about the same person and the same aspect of that person. What makes it different when the person is dead?? Oh well........


......why the hell did WWE turn Chavo Guerrero (who had finally somewhat gotten over on Smackdown at one point) into the stupid ass Kerwin White character??? This shit reaks of the Russo/Ferrera "Powers that Be" era of WCW, it totally sucks.


......why doesn't anyone want anyone else to succeed on the indies. Whenever things start to go good for someone(they get booked on a big show, work with a name, get a good payday) everyone starts to shit on them and get jealous. People should realize everytime one of the "locals" gets some recognition, it's good for everyone. If they manage to make a name for themselves, it means that much more when you work with them, and if you have a good match with them and word gets around then maybe YOU will get booked on some of these big shows or television your so jealous of. But that will never happen, you can't change people's nature. I'm sure this one cuts a little to close to the bone for a number of people, and if you think I'm talking about YOU then I probably am.


........why WWE honestly thinks I would buy a PPV to see Steve Austin wrestle the fucking Coach!?!? The Linda McMahon "turn" was pointless and it's really sad that most of the people they are having to bring back to boost ratings are either retired or seim-retired.


...............why Paul Heyman isn't head booker for Raw or Smackdown. I recently got in the Ohio Valley tv, he's been booking since he got there and it's awesome. Nothing against Jim Cornette, I like him, but you can really tell a difference with Heyman booking. The way he took something awful like Matt Cappatelli breaking his leg right as he was about to be called up to the WWE, and did a tremendous angle with his partner Johnny Jeter turning on him creating an angle that kept Cappatelli on tv and in the spotlight the 10 weeks he was out with the broken leg, and turning Jeter into a severly hated OVW Champion, and getting both me over more than they were before. The great thing is, he isn't turning it in to ECW Part 2, but you can see his influence in the promos and angles and using people to their fullest potential. Hopefully, WWE will realize they need him to get the ratings up. I think he could he really get a lot of the guys over that are talented yet floundering with the current writing team



I have a lot more but I'll leave at this for now. Check back soon, thanks for reading.
GENE