The Undertaker Vs Spike Dudley WWE RAW 12-10-2001

The Undertaker Vs Spike Dudley  WWE RAW 12-10-2021

The great American poet Tom Kiefer once wrote, "You don't know what you got til it's gone"

While presumably written about a lost love, this is the only hair metal power ballad that truly captures the way I feel about The Biker Taker. The Biker Taker refers to The Undertaker's run from 2000 to 2004, where he let the deadman gimmick...well...die. This Undertaker more closely resembled "Mean" Mark Callous from WCW than The Phenom from WWF.  The debut of this version of The Undertaker was shocking. Last anyone had seen from Taker was the Ministry of Darkness. That version of Undertaker was a satanic cult leader bent of domination. This version rode a motorcycle. It seems at first glance that The Undertaker got confused about what a Hell's Angel was.   There's also the fact WWE never explained how The Undertaker completly changed his gimmick. Just a suggestion, maybe a throwaway line of dialogue next time Vince. When The Undertaker made his return in 2000, I was shocked at what I saw. I didn't know about "Mean" Mark, and I couldn't believe what I saw. This Undertaker was.....a person. A person who rode a motorcycle. That was his main characterization.  I was a big Undertaker fan and I went with it, but the whole time I was waiting for him to become the old Undertaker. We all were. Sure, Biker Taker was fine but I spent those four years just waiting for that gong to hit once more.

Tom Kiefer gets it man

Hall of Fame Squash: George " The Animal" Steele vs Rick Bolton WWF All Star Wrestling 06-13-1981

George Steele vs Rick Bolton  WWF All Star Wrestling 06-13-1981

If you asked me on October 16th 2017 who I thought was going to win the NBA title, I would have said The Boston Celtics.

I'm a Celtics fan and a homer on par with the late Tommy Heinsohn, but I don't throw stuff out there all willy nilly. Some willy nilly ...yeah perhaps...., but I'm always hesitant to crown a team too early. In the fall of 2017 though, I thought we finally had the team that was going to take them back to the promised land. The Celtics had a rookie Jayson Tatum and a sophomore Jaylen Brown as drafted pieces that would take us into the future.  We had finally signed Gordon Hayward, a decision which seemed inevitable from the moment Brad Stevens between coach. To top it all of, we traded for Kyrie Irving in what seemed to be an absolute highway robbery at the time. That's not even accounting for Al Horford, Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier and the rest of our crew. We had a deep bench and two superstars. This was it. This was a title team. Let the good time's roll baby.

The good times lasted six minutes

John Nord vs Adrian Byrd WCW Worldwide 03-07-1998

John Nord vs  Adrian Byrd WCW Worldwide 03-07-1998

I never thought I would have much in common with Bigfoot Hunters

I mean, I assume we would have some similarities. We would both be carbon based lifeforms that breathed air.  We would both either have or had previously had hair. We would both believe in Bigfoot. By that I mean of course the monster truck. What I didn't expect to share in common with Bigfoot hunters, was a fanatical devotion to a single goal. Bigfoot Hunters swear they have seen Bigfoot, and they are going to stick to that story.. In face of overwhelming doubt, Bigfoot Hunters believe in their heart of hearts that what they are doing is legitimate. That they know what they've seen in the Pacific Northwest, is real and is true and one day they will be proven right. Maybe I find it so admirable because they are not alone. I too have a quest I take on in spite of overwhelming evidence. I will not be deterred, I will stay the course and one day be proven right.

Because I swear to god John Nord has a banger WCW match

The Blade Runners vs Sean O'Reilly & Perry Jackson UWF 04-12-1986

The Blade Runners vs Sean O'Reilly & Perry Jackson

It's absolutely crazy Sting and The Ultimate Warrior started as a tag team.

Screw Lennon and McCartney. Get the hell out of here Jordan and Pippen. Eat Shit Loggins and Messina. The Blade Runners are the real iconic duo of the 20th Century. It's hard to fathom how these two guys came together so early in their careers, and continued in separate directions while still mirroring each other. Both of them became the painted face of their company in the early 90s. Both of them were critically derided ( way more Warrior than Sting ), but commercially revered. Both had some of the best wrestling names of all time. 

If there was a Venn Diagram betwixt the two, it'd be pretty close to just being one circle

Jurassic Express vs Jon Cruz and David Ali AEW Dark 09-01-2020

Jurassic Express vs Jon Cruz and David Ali AEW Dark 09-01-2020

I'm fairly confident Jurassic Park was the first movie I ever saw in a theater.

It's either that or the 1991 film, Rock-a-Doodle. Rock-a-Doodle is a movie  about  a rooster that looks like Elvis. For whatever reason that movie scared the shit out of me. Full on childhood trauma. Looking back on it, it may be the origin story on why I always hated Elvis. Now I hate him because, well he sucks.  You can make as many reasoned out arguments about his quality all you want, he sucks.  Back to the silver screen, I'm not entirely sure if I saw Rock-a-Doodle in the theaters or not so I decided to go full EC3. No, I'm not an alt-right shithead who doesn't understand Fight Club.  What I mean is I'm controlling my own narrative. I've just decided seeing Jurassic Park as my first movie is a far better story. Robert Wuhl's Liberty Valance Theory

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Larry Zbyszko vs Larry Winters AWA 10-12-1985

Larry Zbyszko vs Larry Winters 10-12-1985

What even happens in a  Larry Zbyszko Squash match?

That's the only reason I chose to watch and review this match. I was fascinated by what could possible happen when Larry Zbyszko is in charge of squashing a guy. I had to be pretty fascinated, because do you understand how taxing the word  Zbyszko is on my spell-check?  There's more squiggled line in this than in a freedom of information document than  about The Kennedy Assassination. Maybe in another life, I could have been a hard-nosed reporter after the truth of government conspiracies. A real champion for the little guy. Nah, I would have been Kolchack going after werewolves and shit. But of all the multiple realities I am simultaneously living, this is the one where I am an actual journalist.  Because I am going to get the the bottom the question that has plagued this blog for centuries. I mean for sentences

What even happens in a Larry Zbyszko squash match?

Gangrel vs. Mike Hollow WWF Shotgun Saturday Night 01-09-1999

Gangrel vs. Mike Hollow WWF Shotgun Saturday Night 01-09-1999 

I've never been a vampire guy

Just not for me man. Nothing against our vampiric brethren, but they've never done it for me. As a child I was scared of a lot of stuff, but rarely vampires. I say rarely vampires because my anxiety won't eliminate the possibility of a total lack of fear. I think to myself that vampires aren't real and then I think, well wouldn't it be just the worst if a vampire heard you say that and then you got bit by a vampire. I know they need to be let in, but grandma's getting up there so maybe she met one at the store. Better check the locks again just to be safe.  Repeat until sunrise.  As a whole though, I am just pretty meh on the vampiric experience.  I'm a Universal Monsters fan ,but  Dracula has always been way down on the list. How can you be into Dracula when Wolfman and The Creature from the Black Lagoon are right there. I like the standard vampire movies everyone does. Near Dark, Fright Night, Cirque De Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. You know, all the classics. I just find myself unremarked by them.

Which is why I never appreciated how ballsy it was to drop a Vampire into the Attitude Era.

The Boogeyman vs Jessie Guilmette WWE ECW on Sci-Fi 08-07-2007

The Boogeyman vs Jessie Guilmette WWE ECW on Sci-Fi 08-07-2007

The Boogeyman gimmick should have been shit.

On paper, a large jacked man in his forties, HE'S 40, with facepaint and a giant clock shouldn't frighten anyone.  He should concern people, but not frighten. I think when a lot of us first heard about the proposed Boggeyman gimmick, we thought it was destined for Bad Gimmick Heaven. A place where Bad Gimmicks go to die. It's Heaven because I want to go there after I'm worm chow.  I want to sit on Giant Gonzales' shoulders on a cloud.  The Boogeyman was played by Marty Wright, who gained infamy for lying about his age to get on Tough Enough. He crushed a lot of the audition process, but lied about his age. Someone in WWE had a clue though and said, screw it let's take a shot on this guy and so he was hired anyways despite the fact HE'S 40  From the jump it seemed like Boogeyman was cursed, I mean his first appearances got Jim Cornette fired . The initial Boogeyman run was in OVW, where he was booked as an unstoppable monster and Cornette wanted the OVW students in the crowd to show fear. Well, an unknown Santino Marella didn't show the proper amount of fear and Cornette took the rational step of slapping him, which led to Cornette being fired. Strike 1. Then after months of  vignette hyping his arrival, The Boogeyman hyperextended his knee and his debut had to be delayed. Oh great, another injury prone jacked up guy with a bad gimmick. Strike 2.  So now Boogey is down 0-2 in the count and he hasn't appeared on a WWE television screen yet. He'll be in the clouds with you soon Phantasio. Then Boogeyman finally showed up on TV, Stri...

THERE IT GOES! A LONG DRIVE....IF IT STAYS FAIR....HOME RUN!

Hall of Fame Squash: Sheamus vs Jamie Noble WWE Monday Night RAW 11-02-2009

Sheamus vs Jamie  Noble WWE Monday Night RAW 11-02-2009

Everyone came around on Sheamus right?

I'm not as up to date as what the kids are talking about when it comes to wrestling these days. Best evidenced by the fact that I started a blog in 2022. I expect to finally make a tiktok in 2033, when the clock has long struck  midnight on its relevance. Much like the pachyderm who still uses a flip phone, I sometimes feel Irrelephant. So maybe I'm not with it anymore, but it's not my fault they changed what it was. What it used to be, was that Sheamus was not a well-liked wrestler. He ,fairly or not, was someone the fans just hated. Not because of his abilities as a heel, but because they thought he wasn't good in the ring. People thought he was just another muscle boy turned pro wrestler.  Right off the bat he got the dreaded, he's a Triple H guy stink. Before Triple H rebranded with NXT and the genius idea to hire actual wrestlers, his endorsement was a kiss of death for a certain type of wrestling fan.  Somehow word got out Sheamus was "Triple H's workout buddy", so before even seeing a second of him wrestle, we thought he sucked. He also got a incredible push, as within a few weeks of joining RAW from ECW, he wins the world title over John Cena. Holy Crap that was fast. There was also that time he switched to the mohawk and the crowd mocked him for looking stupid. Yikes. Lastly, the incident that I think took years for Sheamus to fully recover. He beat Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania in 7 seconds. Yeah ,Yeah, I know it worked out for Daniel in the end. At the time, I couldn't ever see making chicken salad out of that chicken shit.

Because it wasn't just chicken shit, it was bullshit

Yokozuna vs Rich Myers WWF Superstars 12-19-1992

Yokozuna vs Rich Myers WWF Superstars 12-19-1992

Do you remember the first wrestler you hated?

So much has been written about who the first wrestler you ever loved, but I think that's only part of the equation. All of us have the warm and fuzzies for the wrestler we consider "Our Guy" from when we were a kid. Whether it be Bret Hart or someone who isn't as good, everyone else, there is always someone we associate with our childhood wrestling. But that is just part of the story. Every Kaine needs a D-Rock. Thats the name of the Ying Yang Twins. Jokes work best when you have to explain it. Every hero needs a villain, and so it only makes sense if you love the hero then you will hate the villain.  While Bret Hart had many worthy adversaries in pro wrestling, there is one that stood out in my mind as the most diabolical of them all.

That fucking piece of shit Yokozuna

Hall of Fame Squash: AJ Styles vs Nate Webb TNA Xplosion 11-01-2003

AJ Styles vs Nate Webb TNA Xplosion 11-01-2003

It took me a long time to warm up to AJ Styles

Eventually I got there, but it took a very long time. Weird, right? I write a blog that involves constantly talking about my love of cool moves that look like they hurt, but I didn't like AJ Styles. It's not that I thought he was bad or that he sucked, I just didn't really like him a lot. I could admit he was good at wrestling, I could admit that he was skilled, I just couldn't admit to myself that he was great. On paper, makes no sense.  He checked all the boxes in my, are you a rad wrestler list. Cool Moves? CHECK. That was pretty much the list back then. It's changed now, but all I cared about in the early 2000s were cool moves. So how come AJ Styles, a guy with arguably the best offense of his generation, never did it for me?

Because of the  ROH Second Anniversary Show

Disco Inferno vs. Scott D'Amore WCW Saturday Night 12-06-1997

Disco Inferno vs. Scott D'Amore WCW Saturday Night 12-06-1997

I didn't expect my first thought after waking up from a nap would be,  I gotta do a Disco Inferno entry"

But here we are.

Usually my first thoughts after naps are, "I have to Pee" or " I want to be back asleep" ",but on this Sunday afternoon, visions of Glen Gilberti danced in my head.  I don't know why. I did my usual nap things.  I shut the blinds.  I crawled under the blanket .I put on an episode of Joe Pera Talks with You. For whatever reason my brain decided that it needed to focus on the WCW midcard. So here we are, as I honor a deal with my past self to discuss The Disco Inferno. Where do I begin? Oh yes, by letting people know my opinion of him as a performer.

Disco Inferno gets way too much shit.

Braun Strowman vs CC Bonin, Dusty Wallace, James Stock, and Rob Kelly WWE Monday Night Raw 02-06-2017

Braun Strowman vs CC Bonin, Dusty Wallace, James Stock, & Rob Kelly WWE Monday Night Raw 02-06-2017

Let's start with an unnecessarily complicated analogy

WWE is to Braun Strowman as Obi Toppin, Jalen Green, Cole Anthony, and Juan Toscano Anderson is to a basketball at 2022 NBA All Star Weekend.

Missed Slam Dunks.

Maybe I should have made that a Carnac the Magnificent bit? You are correct sir. Anyways,  much like the ill-fated 2022 Contest, WWE also has it's fair share of missed slam dunks. You look back at their history and the landscape is filled with can't miss prospects that somehow missed. Usually you can pick it apart and gaslight yourself into seeing WWE's side. But, Braun Strowman is their greatest fuck-up of the modern era. He has everything that you would assume Vince McMahon would want in a wrestler. He's big, he's got a look, he's a bootlicker, he's big, he's dumb as fuck, he's big. On top of all that, Braun Strowman was way better than most guys put in that role. He was , dare I say it? I do dare. 

Actually good.

Lord Humongous vs Kory Williams Music City Wrestling Anniversary Show 10-03-1998

Lord Humongous vs Kory Williams Music City Wrestling 10-03-1998

Lord Humongous is the Doctor Who of professional wrestling

It's not like there's stiff competition, it's either Humongous, The Nature Boy or Doink. The Nature Boy gimmick doesn't count, because it's not like they pretended they were all the same person. It's not like Buddy Landell and Ric Flair were supposed to be the same guy. I disqualify Doink because a lot of the Doinks can't even be billed as Doink. They're 'Famous TV Clown" or " The Wrestling Clown" or " The Worst Wrestler on the roster, but he has the promoter's license we're using so what we gonna do". Nope, above a see of recycled gimmicks, Lord Humongous stands tall

Tall and wrapped in leather.

Salvatore Sincere vs Dan Jesser WWF Superstars 07-06-1996

Salvatore Sincere vs Dan Jesser WWF Superstars 07-06-1996

If I was near a radio on a Sunday Night I was putting on the Emerson College radio station

I'm so old I remember when radio was still something people listened too....on purpose. Now the radio only comes on when I can't stream music or podcasts. But back in the 2000s, the radio was a lifeline. I have fond memories of going to bed listening to WFNX, the alternative rock station or WBCN, the.... I guess regular rock station.  By the time everyone started getting their licenses, there was a lot of driving around and fumbling through the radio looking for something to listen to.  Sure we had CDs and some of us even had iPods, but where's the fun in that. I quickly discovered that every Sunday Night, I had to tune into the Emerson College radio station. That was where I would discover new music. That's where I would discover new songs. Because every Sunday Night from 5 to 8, WERS wouldn't be WERS anymore.  WERS would transform from just a simple college radio station to a playground.

It played only kid's music. There isn't a metaphor. It was literally the playground

Eddie Guerrero vs Jimmy Jacobs WWE Smackdown 05-12-2005

Eddie Guerrero vs Jimmy Jacobs WWE Smackdown 05-12-2005

I was a bit embarrassing in High School

I know, I'll give you a minute to process the bombshell of information I dropped on you. I had the fun combination of " I'M FUNNY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME BE FUNNY" mixed with " ON SECOND THOUGHT DONT LOOK AT ME".  The early years of high school were terrible. I was just utterly miserable all the time. I just seemed kind of lost. Things did turn around for me though. A lot of it probably had to do with growing half a foot over a summer, so I became a bit more difficult to bully. I also did what I think every high schooler did should do if they can, I found a sanctuary. My sanctuary became the cable access studio. My junior year I started hanging around there and working on "The Morning Show", a monthly show about the school. It was about as riveting as it sounds. I actually became a host, and by senior year I got an internship there and was running the whole thing. It's pretty cringe to look back on, so I don't. But it's pretty much a reflection of everything I thought was cool and funny in 2006. Family Guy jokes, 80's hair metal, and trying really really hard. Ugh. For the record, still into hair metal. I did have one problem though ( other than crippling social anxiety), I needed a signature signoff. I needed a hook. I needed something to signal the show was over

Huss

Ken Kennedy vs. Jacus Plisken WWE Smackdown 09-16-2005

Ken Kennedy vs. Jacus Plisken WWE Smackdown 09-16-2005 

Ken Kennedy might be the most snakebit wrestler of all time.

Alright, technically Randy Savage is the most snakebit wrestler of all time. He was literally bitten by a snake. I feel weird that I need to remind you. It's a traumatic moment for a lot of us.  What I mean by snakebit is Ken Kennedy is really high up there in terms of unlucky pro wrestlers.  He is someone that seemed poised for a top guy run, but was constantly derailed. Some of those derailments were outside his hands, like if a train derails because there are cows on it. Other derailments were self-inflicted, like if Mr. Kennedy was conducting a train and then claimed he never put cows on the tracks, but then Cows Illustrated released a list of 10 guys who put cows on the track. 

Sometimes I worry my analogies are too simple for my readers. 

The Skyscrapers (Sid Vicious & Dan Spivey) vs The Ding Dongs NWA World Wide 08-26-1989

The Skyscrapers (Sid Vicious & Dan Spivey) vs  NWA World Wide The Ding Dongs 08-26-1989

Positive Mental Attitude is a load of horseshit

Can you tell I watched the George Carlin documentary recently? There are only seven words you can't say in this blog. Jerry Lynn is the Best Wrestler Ever. Look, I don't think people should live their life in negativity. There isn't anything wrong with trying to put a positive spin on things. There isn't anything wrong with looking at the glass as half full. The problem I have is when people try to say the glass is half full when the glass is full of shit. It's a shit glass. It's half full of shit. Sometimes things just aren't good and it's ok to say something sucked. As long as you aren't too big a jerk about it. You can be a little jerk about it, like a Mickey Rooney level of jerk. Not in personality, but in size. I went through this whole spiel to get to this point.

God is it satisfying when everyone else realizes something sucks.

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan vs Super Calo WCW Pro 07-13-1997

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan vs Super Calo WCW Pro 07-13-1997

I really wanted to find a Super Calo squash match.

I searched through YouTube, but the results that I yielded were not promising. Super Calo did get some enhancement matches, but they were far too competitive to be covered in this blog.  Wimpies can get offense in and it's still considered a squash, but Super Calo matches were too 50/50 for my taste. It's a damn shame though because Super Calo is my favorite of the WCW luchadores. After all he had that great match with....ummmmm. There was also that angle with ....ummmmm. Oh remember when he....uhhhh. I guess it's time to be honest with myself

Its because he wears a backwards hat and sunglasses

Texas Tornado vs Pat Tanaka WWF Wrestling Challenge 02-09-1992

Texas Tornado vs Pat Tanaka WWF Wrestling Challenge 02-09-1992

How did every child believe their were two Ultimate Warriors?

You talk to anyone who was alive during the early 90s and pretty much all of them have the story of hearing that Ultimate Warrior died and was replaced. It was the "Paul is Dead" of pro wrestling. From schoolyards to schoolyard across the country, always a rumor that there was two Ultimate Warriors. Hell, even I believed there were two Ultimate Warriors. The craziest part? Warrior was gone by the time I have any recollection of him wrestling. All I had to go on with Warrior was a Colliseum video I watched a lot, and the comforting fact that that Ultimate Warrior was dead and had been replaced. Now everyone has their own spin on the story, but my recollection was simply that the New Ultimate Warrior was under our noses the whole time

Texas Tornado.

Hall of Fame Squash:“Ravishing” Rick Rude vs. Mark Starr WCW Saturday Night 05-14-1994

“Ravishing” Rick Rude vs. Mark Starr WCW Saturday Night 05-14-1994

Until last month, I hadn't cut my hair in three years

That's not the first time I went a long time without a haircut either. That was kind of my modis operandi for a while. Grow my hair out, wait until it gets too hot, cut my hair, awkwardly explain to people everything is OK but I just wanted it cut. I had never gone this long though. I had cut my hair for a wedding in 2019 with the intention of not letting it get too long again. I liked having it long, but I hated the time period in between where it looked dumb. I had become a manbun person without becoming a manbun person. By that, I mean I had a manbun but not the personality to match. I didn't have any strong opinions on craft beer other than the fact it exists. So, I decided damnit I was going to keep on this. Then Covid hit and the world shutdown and I was sent home to work.  Now that I didn't have to worry about looking like an asshole, I just let my hair grow out.  I got to skip the part where it looked like shit and jump right to the part where it's long. I'm going grey, so my ultimate hope is that before I go bald I will be able to get grey enough to look like Sam Elliot in Roadhouse.  Now as riveting as reading a wrestling blogger discuss his follicle aspirations can be , I promise I'm going to land the plane.  With summer on the horizon, I said it was time to cut it all off again. As I sat in the barber chair and watched my luscious locks fall to the floor, I took a look in the mirror and thought. 

Where the fuck has this guy been?

M'Badu vs Eddie Kingston AEW Dark 10-06-2020

M'Badu vs Eddie Kingston AEW Dark 10-06-2020

For a lot of us Eddie Kingston debuting in AEW felt like a win 

When you follow independent wrestling at a consistent level, you develop a parasocial relationship with the wrestlers.  There are few things that make you feel as cool, as discovering something before other people. It doesn't mean you  necessarily have to be the first, but in general it's about getting on the bandwagon early. I've never been anyone who's ahead of the trends.  I don't watch college sports. Most of my favorite musicians were either irrelevant or dead by the time I was born.  I never start a TV show until I'm convinced it's not going to be cancelled. Wresting is the only place I ever felt I could do it. In 2004 I started following independent wrestling. I fell in love with it. I know everyone thinks their era of wrestling was the glory days, but I think that era truly was. I saw an absurd amount of WWE/AEW superstars in front of hundreds of people before they ever wrestled in front of thousands. Daniel Bryan, Kevin Steen, CM Punk, Sami Zayn, Samoa Joe, Cesaro, Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, the list goes on and on and on. When they debuted on television and achieved success, I got to feel like I was part of that journey. I got to feel like, man I was there when this didn't seem possible. You just develop a natural affinity for certain performers, and you get happy for their success. You want them to succeed

I don't know if I ever wanted anyone to succeed more than Eddie Kingston

3 Minute Warning vs Bobby Roode and Mark Maraculi WWE Sunday Night Heat 11-03-2002

3 Minute Warning vs Bobby Roode and Mark Maraculi WWE Sunday Night Heat 11-03-2002

It took a lot for me to miss an episode of Monday Night Raw.

For every Monday from when it aired until I went off to college, I saw pretty much every single Monday Night Raw live. It  was just part of the routine, and a way I built my weeks around. I'd go to school, which I never liked, and my rewards for getting through the worst day of the week was getting to watch guys in tights fight each other. I so rarely missed an episode. The only show I was more hardcore about watching was The Simpsons. I remember being so nervous on vacation that the news coverage of Princess Diana's death would mean I couldn't see the new Simpsons. I was so hardcore about wrestling and The Simpsons, that when a PPV was on the same night as a new Simpsons....I became obsessed with  flipping channels real quick between matches  to get as much info about the episode as possible. That way I could track it down easier in syndication. I know I missed more RAWs, than Simpsons but not by much. It'd take a big deal for me to miss one. Like someone had to die...like an uncle or an aunt or

Ted Williams

Glacier vs Big Bubba Rogers WCW Monday Nitro 09-16-1996

Glacier vs Big Bubba Rogers WCW Monday Nitro 09-16-1996 

Did Karate peak in 1996?

God, I really am a wannabe Bill Simmons sometimes, just asking if a hundreds year old martial art peaked in the same year Tom Dolan won a Olympic Gold medal in swimming. I'm sort of joking when I ask, but I'm sort of not.  I've been doing this blog for a little while, and when I started this entry I had to ask myself ....Why are there so many entries about karate? That last sentence is meant to be sung to the tune of Rainbow Connection by the way. I'm serious though, Glacier is the third or forth guy to be on this blog whos gimmick was "Guy who does Karate". I looked back and all those entries were from the 90s, which led me to wonder if it was a 1996. I can't speak to kids today, but in 1996 we all wanted to learn Karate. On multiple occasions I rented the VHS Tape where Tommy from the Power Rangers teaches you karate. On multiple occasions, I took books from the library that teached you Karate. On multiple occasions I asked my parents if I could take Karate only to be rebuffed. They probably, correctly, assumed that I would use my powers for evil and not good. I wasn't a bad kid, but that's probably because I didn't think I had the power to superkick someone. If I thought I was trained properly, I would have Sweet Chin Music'd a lot of kids in my grade.  I'm sure it happened in the 80s, I'm sure it happened in the 2000s but it couldn't have possibly been a bigger karate craze than in 1986. We had Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Beetleborgs,  WMAC Masters, Karate Fighters, Street Fighter, Killer Instinct and of course

Mortal Kombat

Jimmy Rave vs. Pelle Primeau ROH Best in The World 03-25-2006

Jimmy Rave vs. Pelle Primeau ROH Best in The World 03-25-2006

Finally a chance to talk about Ring of Honor

I must have somehow shoehorned ROH into my other reviews, but I''ll sum my feelings on Ring of Honor up pretty simply anyways. I never loved, and will probably never love, a pro wrestling company like I did ROH from 2004 to 2008. It was not only my favorite wrestling company, it was probably my favorite thing. My girlfriend makes fun of me a lot for the next sentence, which is a real sentence I said out loud to her. " I didn't go to many concerts, Ring of Honor were my concerts". It sounds insane because well, it is. But at a time in my life everyone was going to their first concerts, I was far more interested in going to gyms and armories and wherever else ROH was running. The only time I ever went to NYC  by myself, was to see Ring of Honor at Hammerstein. I've been to more ROH shows than Red Sox and Patriot games put together. I fucking loved it man, and I'm excited to talk about it on the blog. Because of the format of ROH, I didn't know if I would get to cover much of the early years. I am very excited to talk about ROH on HDNet squashes ( If they ever get online...hint hint...), but the glory days of ROH aren't very conducive to squash matches. There is some stuff here and there, but ROH's YouTube presence was well...always lacking

IT'S A DVD PRODUCT