I'm so out of the "wretling" circle....thank god. Who is RVD? By the way, I'm stylin and profilin all over Clutch City baby!! Woooooooooo!!!!
Taker has been doing his one-man top rope thing forever. Pretty much since he came into the WWF in Nov of 1990.
He never has had any mike skills, and until the last few years, he never needed them. Benoit is awesome, and perhaps the best thing about him is that he is one of those rare wrestlers who never had to rely on mike skills to get a good pop and be a huge fan-favorite. His intensity and his skills are what made him (and kept him) so popular for so many years. I do like the story lines, but when I actually quit caring about the actual wrestling matches themselves, I knew something was wrong, for me at least. The over-emphasis on the story line has really hurt once-popular wrestlers like Benoit. Too bad, imo.
Last I heard, WCW was going to have their own show on Saturday night, with the bulk of interpromotional matches coming in PPV's. One huge thing I would love to see could be the Goldberg and Scott Steiner v. the returning Benoit and HHH. That would rule.
Definatley a big change this Monday with the arrival of Flair and King as well as the face-heel changes that took place. It will be interesting to see Austin a face and Angle and Jericho heel's again after their short stints on the other side. The WWF no doubt did not take full advantage of the merger angle, and by simply getting Golberg, Nash etc. in there instead of just some transplanted WWF stars with Booker T and RVD (who have both been awesome) would have made a big difference. The arrival of HHH and Benoit is needed right now to spice things up. I hope things pick up in a big way, and since I invested quite a bit of cash down for this March's WrestleMania at Skydome, I will be keenly watching what goes on. BTW, did anyone go to the Astrodome last year for Wrestlemania in Houston? How was it? Azim da Dream
gr8-1- What do you expect? Stone Cold's from Texas! I thought they both got about the same amount of love from the crowd(at least where I was)...
I went to WWF Live in Austin back in September. Rock got a lot of applause as expected. Debra read a letter from Stone Cold saying something like "I'm ashamed to be from Texas cause yall stink". She got booed, but when Stone Cold came out he got cheers. Some people gave him the bird, but the boos were drowned out. btw, the way the ring was set up, one lucky guy in the front row missed a lot of The Hurricane's match. I don't think he cared. Stacy Keibler was blocking his view. She was standing/bent over 2 feet in front of him. He didn't stand at all.
Fun. Just fun. Wrestlemania kicked some serious ass. I'm not really the biggest wrestling fan but I did start watching wcw right around the beginning of NWO and switced to wwf somewhere along the line and thanks to my roommate really loving wrestling I was able to be up to date with it up through wrestlemania. Wrestlemania XVII was so much better than I expected and I got way more caught up in it than I would've thought. The last 4 matches--shane v vince, TLC II, HHH v Undertaker, Stone Cold v Rock--were some of the best I've ever seen, PPV or otherwise (probably just the intensity you get from being there but maybe not). HHH v Undertaker was great b/c of the Undertaker from Houston angle obviously and Stone Cold v Rock is the greatest match I have ever seen. I guess I do remember the crowd being more anit-Rock than I would've thought but wasn't it still pretty even (maybe it was all SCSA but my memory of it is fading). Anyway, they both got up from a stunner and rock bottom and the electricity in the place was absolutely unbelievable. If it was like that for Rockets home games we would be 41-0 at Compaq. About heels/faces. Is this some generic term that's always been used in wrestling for good guys/bad guys and I've just missed it all these years (I don't remember it from any of the old time matches or the early Wrestlemania tapes I've seen) or are they terms currently being used in WWF for whatever two groups they have right now. Also, who the hell is RVD. It better not be someone obvious because I've been trying to figure that out for like 10 minutes. Apparently 4 months of not watching RAW is taking more of a toll than I thought.
RVD=Rob Van Dam, the former ECW guy. RVD is my favorite wrestler, he has a lot of moves I've never seen.
Sorry to chime in on this one so late, but I grew up in Shreveport Louisiana, which used to be a wrestling mecca. My childhood consisted of wrestling and church. When I was really young my father always had the tube on MidSouth Wrestling during the weekends. I think at the time MidSouth covered Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Occassionally my father took me to see the show live, where I saw (forgive the spellings) Ted Dibiase, Tony "Wildfire" Rich, Mr. Wrestling, Paxsun, Olin Anderson, the von Erics...even Ric Flair was there. I think later that franchise became WCW at its earliest stages. Now that I'm an adult I'm sure that there were theatrics going on way back then, but boy it seemed much more believable than it does now. I associate wrestling today with Jerry Springer! PS: The boobage is nice, though. Yeaheah! ;-)
