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I've been looking for an excuse to cut the cord for years, but the only thing that kept us subscribed to DirecTV was my love of Sunday Ticket. It's just too convenient. I was always able to call in and get the package for 50% or more off just by haggling. We haven't had TV since February and the time is approaching where I'm really going to miss Sunday Ticket, but it's not hard to find streams for games. They're a pain in the ass sometimes, but I'd rather save money. We were paying $1600/yr+ for TV/Sunday Ticket, and that was without any other premium subscriptions.

Yes sir.

Santino is money every Monday night.

Nice definition for extortion. Again, that is what Hellwig did. He threatened McMahon that if he didn't pay, he wouldn't show up to wrestle. According to the definition, that would cause reputational harm as the company was building up this match for months.

Before his match at Summerslam 1991, Hellwig demanded that McMahon give him a large amount of money or he would not participate in the match. Being the business man that McMahon was, he ended up paying him the sum of money. Now, Hellwig claims the money he was asking for were bonuses from Wrestlemania VII. I don't believe it for the simple fact that the WWF wasn't choking on the nut by any means at the time. If they owed him money, considering the fact he was their #1 draw, he would've paid him. McMahon is not that stupid. So in that one instance to me, Hellwig was an extortionist.

I wonder how much that promotion is paying Hellwig to wrestle. Considering the fact that he's an extortionist and has always been WAY overpaid.

Every week when I watch wrestling I am constantly ****ing out loud about how the champions don't wear the belts. It's not a trophy to be waved around in your hand nor something to throw over your shoulder. You wear belts around your waist. I wish that the WWE and TNA would make it mandatory to wear them. I think that it would help to even the smallest degree to bring validity to the non-World Title belts because they aren't really cared about anymore, especially in the WWE. Wear the belts, douchebags.

I've had my eyes on Cherry for quite a while. What a hottie.

To the WWE, web traffic hits are more important than having the best solo PBP announcer in wrestling history try to keep a show interesting and afloat. Mike Adamle is garbage. 300K a year to SUCK.

Grrr... spoiler...

By the mid-80s, you could see the WWF on many cable networks across the country. Vince was sending tapes of his product to hundreds of local television stations to increase his exposure as well as investing money in TV time all over the US. By doing this, he could run shows anywhere in the country, draw good crowds and make money. The NWA/Georgia product ran from Florida up to WV & Ohio up until the mid-80s. What you saw on TBS on Saturday evening at 605pm post-1984 was the Georgia product. Vince couldn't draw near the amount he was accustomed to when booking shows along the East coast as this was Crockett territory. Crockett trying to make money and run their biggest yearly event in Chicago, clearly a Vince town was a terrible decision. Starrcade 1987 was a financial death-knell for Crockett as they lost a considerable amount of money. They also lost money on the UWF buyout which really did nothing more than bring in about a dozen guys that were over in the Mid-South to Crockett. By 1988, Crockett was about bust and that is when Billionaire Ted came in to save my beloved NWA and turn it into WCW.

Starrcade 1987 was doomed from the get go. 1987 was a big push year for Crockett as they really wanted to try and make a presence in Vince-run areas. Crockett purchased the fledgling UWF and thought that running Starrcade 1987 in a non-NWA town would be a good move. Most of the cable systems were strong-armed into showing Survivor Series and not Starrcade which doomed Crockett when it came to making any money on the show. Vince did such an incredible job at marketing his product across the US and globally. By late 1987-1988, the damage was done.

Magnum TA was so over. There were so many big plans for him. It was supposed to Magnum TA vs. Ric Flair for the NWA World Title at Starrcade 1986 and Magnum was going to get the strap. It would've been so huge.

I currently own about 1100 wrestling DVDs going back to the 60s. I probably have 200-300 hours of GCW and NWA TV from the late 70s through the 80s. All really nice quality from low gen VHS/film as well. However, getting these shows in a digitally remastered format would be epic.

I watched the announcement of Gordon into the HoF on ECW last night. They showed so many great clips of him in the territory days and the footage looked so good and crisp. I was thinking to myself that when Blu-Ray really hits and the cost to produce them come down, the WWE has to start releasing runs of TV. With the amount of data that a Blu-Ray disc can hold, you could put the entire 1980 run of Georgia Championship Wrestling TV onto 5-6 discs. People would eat that up and the WWE would make mad money. The only real issue that I could see would be if every wrestler shown (jobbers included) would have to be compensated.

This is what can happen if you run your mouth to the wrong person.

According to internet reports, Jeff didn't have any insurance on his home either. If that's true, what was he thinking? I can't imagine how hard it would be to lose all of your possessions and your pet in that manner. I'd lose it.

WWE's viewership jumped huge when they announced that. Even though it was taped, everyone wanted to see Mankind win the WWF World Title. Dumb move by WCW.

I was always a much bigger WCW/NWA fan than WWF/E. WCW became so bad near the end. I was a huge mark for the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles that were around for a day or two though. Their light-heavyweight division was tearing the house down in 2001.

Isn't Russo a born-again Christian now? I know that Dixie Carter, the head of TNA along with Jarrett don't want their product to become too trashy.

The ODB vs. Gail Kim vs. Kong match was awesome. ODB! ODB! ODB! She's so over it's hilarious.

I was at the arena in Wheeling, WV when Demolition beat Arn & Tully for the WWF World Tag Team Titles on 10/2/89. It was a house show with no cameras in sight. I believe that Arn & Tully were on their way out of the WWF at the time but still. It's so rare for a title to just change hands at a house show. It was awesome.

In a time where pro-wrestling's legitimacy is always questioned, for years up until the late 90s, the title belts almost always had significance. In the late 90s, WWE and WCW killed the validity of championships by them changing hands just way too often. The direction that TNA has taken with their championships is true to the old style of the business. The world title doesn't change nearly as often as it did ten years ago. Granted a belt may change hands 4-5 times a year in TNA but that is so much better than a dozen like in the WWE back when. Yeah, pro-wrestling is fake and not a real competition and blah blah blah. I've enjoyed watching it since I was three years old back in 1982. I have watched the business grow as well as change but I am still a fan. Even the roided up guys throughout the years have spilled blood for the business so that they can make a buck and the fans get their money's worth. I'm just an old-time fan watching the sport in a new-time fashion.

Credit: PWInsider.com - To follow up on Candice's injury status, it seems that she has suffered a reoccurrence of injury to her clavicle. The full extent of the injury is not known right now and the former WWE Women's Champion went to hospital in Lafayette, LA for shoulder tests yesterday. Test results have not been released for the moment and whether this puts her WrestleMania spot in jeopardy remains to seen. I really think that it's a shame that the women don't get put over more than just sex symbols. There IS a belt for the women but it hardly ever gets any recognition or is pushed. What TNA is doing right now with their women's division is top notch. They have a monster heel as a world champion. There are two top babyfaces in Gail Kim and ODB. ODB being the biggest surprise because I don't think the original plan was to push her so quickly but the fans loved her and went nuts for her all of the time. Plus, their womens matches are actually good. Not to say that with the right talent in the ring, a good women's match can't be produced in WWE. Phoenix is awesome and can truly go. A physical presence both in great looks and a phenomenal athletic body. Mickie James, Victoria and Melina can also go in the ring. Why we don't have a WWE Women's Championship match at Wrestlemania is really dumb to me. If the WWE were to give Phoenix/James 12-15 minutes, they could tear the house down. All in all, I'm just venting because I like seeing the women actually earn a paycheck by working in the ring and not solely because they're hot. Two thumbs down for the BunnyMania match.

Victoria - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Varon 5'8" 155. She rocks hard for being 37.