Be Excellent To Each Other

Ok I'm going to do one of my favorite things and make some lists.

Most favorite wrestlers Attitude era to present day.

1. Shawn Michaels
2. Mankind/cactus Jack/Dude Love (you see the rumble when he entered as all three?)
3. Y2J
4. The Rock
5. Jeff Hardy
6. HHH (much prefer him as a face)
7. Trish Stratus
8. The undertaker
9. eddie guerrero
10. Road dogg
11. Ray mysterio
12. CM punk
13. Al Snow
14. Batista
15. Shane McMahon
16. Ron simmons
17. Paul Bearer
18. Hornswaggle, ok I friggin like him I'll admit it, when he first came on I was like "what the fuck is this" but then I saw him do his rasslin' thing and couldn't help but be impressed.
19 . Tazz
20. Tommy Dreamer

Least favorite wrestlers.
1. X-pac
2. Mr Ass
3. Stone cold Steve Austin (he has 2? years of being good then many many many more of shouting his couple of catchprases, doing the stunner and then heading home to beat his wife)
4. Hulk hogan
5. Chyna
6. Kevin nash (for general wankery and job refusal when the NWA were in the WWF after the invasion)
7. Booker T
8. Any one of those crusty old "legends" who took valuable air time from much younger more talented wrestlers in there prime such as Jeff Hardy, I'm looking at you rick flair
9. viscera sans shirt gimmick (whyyyy did they decide to remove his shirt)
10. Bret Hart
11. Brock Lesnar
12. JBL
13. Rick Rude
14. British Bulldog
15. That ribby bint who's married to taker
16. Edge/Leeeta
17. Big Boss Man
18. Mark Henry
19. Vladimir Kozlov
20. K-Fed

Please note there are people I enjoy watching but have never really hooked me in enough to go on the list Angle, kane, orton, cena (I do love his promos though) are a few of them.

Did I ever tell you lot about the time I used to referee wrestling matches?

I legitimately got knocked out in a match between Al Snow and Steve Corino. I tell that story to anyone that'll listen!

Did you screw bret hart?

No, but I did do a show with him. He was a very, very nice guy... didn't have the heart to screw him.

I did steal some of Blue Meanie's pizza though.. does that count as screwing a wrestler?

Story please!


I really didn't used to like John Cena but over time I've really fallen for the way he whips the crowd up. The orange & blue Cenation-wear is like the modern day yellow & red Hulkamania-wear.

Speaking of John Cena, if you listen very carefuly during his match at Wrestlemania last year against Batista (who incidently I haven't missed since he left WWE!), you hear Cena say "Knee me in the back", then moments later Batista knees him in the back. Funny that!

Doncaster was home to 1pw for quite a while. When the bottom fell out of it they sold off a load of their stock of DVDs to me at three for a pound. Or possibly less. I know 1pw are still going but they don't seem to be around here these days.

I've still got most of that stock left. It doesn't sell very well.

Well, I was working on a show for 1PW. A wrestling organisation based in Doncaster that used to bring over loads of American stars... Anyway, Al Snow and Steve Corino were working out there match backstage. I wasn't supposed to be involved in it but they called me over and told me to do a run in when the regular ref got knocked out.

After this, Steve Corino was going to try to hit Al Snow with a clothesline but Al was to move and Steve would hit me and send me over the top rope to the outside.

This happened as planned except I wasn't aware of how hard Steve would hit me... It was like being hit by a car to the chest! All I remember is a dull thud noise and then I ended up outside the ring.

I thought I was on the floor for about 30 seconds but it was actually the remaining 10 minutes or so of the match.

When I came to I recall looking up at the ring and thinking "Oh, there's Al Snow... what are all these people shouting about?"

Amazing... there was also the time that Doug Williams kicked me in the knackers by mistake but that's not as amusing as the Steve Corino story.

Here's me.. on the floor...

That's a brilliant story I often wonder how when the refs get "knocked out" they manage to lie so still for the rest of the match, if it was me I'd be trying to sneak a peek at the action. It never occurred to me they might actually be knocked out for real

I'm watching TNA lockdown 2010 right now (The lockdowns always seem quite enjoyable) and I'm disappointed to see the return of the square ring. I liked TNA' s funny ring. I hear Hogan is to blame for this.

The first match of RVD vs James Storm was boring.

What channel is TNA on now? It used to be on Bravo but I understand that has gone boom.

Is it on TWC? I don't really know as I got it from the Usenet channel.

Also mr thevision, OOF!

Wasn't some of it on Extreme Sports Channel and some on bravo - I know sky have bought out all the old shows and they are trying to find new homes for them - they put sparticus on sky HD already.

The word is that TNA will return but they don't know when, or which channel.

It's ok for stuff like Sparticus and Dog the bounty hunter as they are normal series and can just pick up where they left off. TNA, being shown weekly, means the longer Sky take.. the more the fans will miss the weeks of wrestling..

I liked Scotty 2 Hotty and Grandmaster Sexay. Possibly to the amazement of BeeX.

The Vision is my new best Beexer ever.

Decca's list starts off really well, but plumments downhill just after she says "present day".

Road Dogg?
Paul Bearer?
Hornswaggle?

I'm struggling to comprehend the awesome of this.

I also enjoyed some of the silly novelty acts, like when Kaientai were 'evil', and The Hurricane during the invasion.

Kurt Angle was probably my favourite of what I think of as 'recent' times, but then I stopped watching very shortly after the post-invasion split between raw and smackdown.

What Malia said. Fantastic story, TheVision.

I love you all too.

I'll see if I can get the clip of me being hit to put on YouTube... Just to extend my new found fame a little longer.

*Quiet hero worship*



Cool story.

DX era Road dogg with his "ladies and gentlemen boys and girls..." bit was nothing but awesome
Go back and watch Paul Bearer's promos with the undertaker and tell me he wasn't awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTxmjud_IwM
Take the gimmick away and Hornswaggle can actually wrestle - you got to admire a midget who frog splashes off the top rope.

Jeff Hardy has to be one of the most overrated wrestlers ever. Dude can only tell one story in the ring, and that is 'watch Jeff fly around the ring'. His work seems to lack physicality too, half his repertoire seems to barely brush his opponent. And that's not because of his size. I always thought Matt was the worker of the Hardy Boyz. If you told me back in 2000 that Jeff would be a multiple World Champ, I'd have laughed in your face.

I think the best promos and crowd work has been done by Vince himself. The man's incredible.

Here you go... back when I had hair and was about 2 stone lighter. Good times!

POTW!

OMFG EPIC

Yeah, he is. The programme has really suffered without him over the last year or so.

Did everyone see the video of him taking the piss out of himself after the Mrs failed to get elected? It was brilliant.

Good sell too. What actually knocked you out? I imagine it was the floor, right?

The new brood Vs Edge and christian was utterly sublime. I like Jeff because he's utterly bat shit insane, go watch his 2002 matches with taker.
The storyline was that Matt got put on smackdown, Jeff on raw and Jeff decided to make a name for himself by dropping the taker into HUUUUUMAN VOMET! HUUUUUUUUman VOMET!!! which led on to the ladder match - "go on kid climb the ladder!!! make yourself famous!!!!" and these awesome moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXKkDXN9bvM


edit: 2:10 is quite probably one of the most awesome moments ever in this very ring

I wish I knew...

Just got more awesome.

Wait, what?

PLANNED?

We should probably do this over a PM... I would hate to spoil it for anyone.

:confused:

Here have some youtube funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzwhAYy ... re=related check out the stone faced hate on the kid's faces.

Impressive stuff The Vision. I doubt it was the floor that caused the lack of consciousness. I think it was just a particularly vicious clothesline. That was nasty the way it had your head bending over the rope. Could have been much much worse. With a hit like that I wouldn't have been surprised at a broken neck.

I quite enjoyed some of TNA Lockdown last night. The Kurt Angle match was pretty intense. Nice to see a decent bit of womens wrestling. The X Division stuff wasn't as fun as I'd hoped though. And there was a match involving the Dudleys.

I've now decided to have a look at Shimmer womens wrestling. Proper (super low budget) wrestling but with women.

http://shimmerwrestling.blogspot.com/

They'd be amazing if they had some money. They have Daffney after all which is always a good thing.

What the hell is occurring in this thread?

I don't know. But here's a picture of me and a workmate as wrestlers that someone made.

The Vision!!! Awesome!

Curiosity, I and two others went to see WWF up in Manchester (too long ago). The Rock vs Stone Cold was probably the highlight.
Personally my fave bit is a steel cage match Rikishi vs (?) and it is first out wins. Rikisihi climbs to the top of the cage, then instead of climbing down sees his opponent lying on the floor, looks down, looks up (All this time Jerry Lawler is shouting, "no Rikishi, don't do it, NOO! Look at his eyes!") and jumps off the steel cage back onto his opponent! Brilliant entertainment!

Santino Marella has been the best thing about WWE over the last couple of years, without a doubt. Can't wrestle for toffee, but is hilarious.

I do love a bit of women's wrestling, just a real shame they don't have more cash for it as you say. TNA used to be aces for good gal-on-gal stuff until their (last I saw at least, post-Hulk/Bischoff fucking AUGH) continuing attempt to sideline everything interesting the franchise had going for it. I really, really hate what they're doing to themselves now, I used to fucking enjoy most of a show ferchrissakes.

There's an ace low-budget Japanese promotion called Ice Ribbon you should check out. One of their shows had a bash between two preteen girls and an in-ring showdown between a rubber-suited lobster monster and his nemesis, alongside plenty of decent women's matches. Maybe I was a little out of it at the time, but I recall it playing out like some fever dream of the best wrestling thing ever.

Chloroformed armpit.

I've just youtube'd him. Excellent.

Vladimir Koslov makes a surprisingly excellent straight guy for his antics, too.

Didn't think there were any in American Wrestling.

FEAR THE COBRA!!!

Totally booked the 31st off work so I can watch the Royal Rumble. Result!

So... tempting...

I've got holiday to use up, so I'll probably do that.

Come to Grim...Acres. It'll really piss off the wife!

I'm catching up on WWE Experience from the weekend (curse not having Sky Sports anymore!). How stupid does Cody Rhodes look without any knee protectors? He reminds me of a ken doll.

OMG Shawn Michaels was on Raw last week! And he gave that Alberto tit sweet chin music

Everytime I hear Rey Mysterio talk I think of Cartman. Is it just me?