Brian

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 06:33 PM) Back in Lakeland they used little tiny razor blades that were slid under their wristbands. Not the brightest tools in the shed back then, but it got the job done when the metal chair didn't bust them up enough. That's pretty much the same method they do it now, or just do it the hard way. One of my buddie was suppose to go over the top turnbuckle during a match and down to the floor, screwed up and his forehead met the top of the turn buckel post and had a nasty gash. Had to get 20 stitches.

I have a buddy who trained at the Monster Factory and 3 buddies who trained with Scott D'Amore in Canada, wrestled for Sin City in Michigan, and are now in Japan. To hear them tell me about the training they had to go through and the condition they must keep themselves in is at just as high a level as any other sport. Not only do you have to be in tip top shape, but you have to have impecable timing or else who could end your career. You put your body through so much 5 days a week, sometimes you have to take a pain killer or something to make it. Not to mention the toll it takes mentally, being on the road so much. If someone is gonna come in this thread and tell me that all it takes to be a wrestler is drugs, is jaded and ignorant.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 04:36 PM) What the f***, man. Now every jackass who knows nothing about wrestling is going to go out and make s*** up about Eddie and Benoit and Crash Holly. Fixed. It's to be expected. Whenever something happens concerning wrestling, it will be ripped apart because pro wrestling isn't excepted socially by most people, and they will bury it whenever they can. So what if it is pre-determined. These guys put their bodies on the line and health every night. I'd love to see some of these jags get in a ring and just try and take basic bumps.

Wasn't Offman taken off the baseball beat a year or so ago, because he reported wrong information?

They talked a little about the Benoit situation on Around the Horn. It is humorous how Mariotti makes up facts to prove his point. Said both Eddie and Hennig died of steroids. WRONG. Eddie had enlarged arteries because of other drugs he used in his past and Hennig died of cocaine overdose. Both guys were probably on roids, but not the reason they passed. Now they are talking on PTI. There is no union for wrestlers, unfortunately. You can't regulate things there.

QUOTE(Shadows @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 02:51 PM) Oh, don't worry.. that is coming back after im done with my Randy Orton tribute

Looks like I missed all the fun today. Damn not being able to use the internet at work.

I would love t o see Douglas getting crapped on by ROH fan. I have ALWAYS hated Douglas and thought he was overrated. It was great when the Radicalz ditched him and went to WWE.

Striker does a good Piper impersonation.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) There is talk that Cena may be doing another movie which means that *gasp* he may lose the strap. And Raw has a nice crop of main event heels from which to pick. Orton will win it, than one month later, lose it to HHH. Sound familiar?

Nitro with a rest hold! He is teh suck!!1!

Vince McMahon opens ECW saying that last night they aired a 3 hour tribute to the career of Chris Benoit but now that the facts are out, the show will go on as normal and there will be no mention of Chris Benoit and the events of the weekend. Than John Cena comes out....on ECW....after a draft....yeah.

From wwe.com

I talk to guys at the gym who do some kind of steroids. Sometimes they show up in better moods than some days, who knows if it is directly. I have been offered to try it for free but declined, because, like Shadows, I hate needles. Ha Ha I would never want to throw money away on it either. Couldn't afford it.

Uribe does something good, than immediately f***s up.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 12:52 PM) From TMZ. I hope this sicko enjoys his stay in hell. Yikes. I never would of guessed this was happening judging by what other people thought of him. 2004 was when he won the World Heavyweight Title, so they were obviously having problems before that.

QUOTE(Shadows @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 12:21 PM) That, just like everything else, is just speculation.. Everything has said its believed that he did such and such.. Like I said, I don't believe it till its all out I'm feel the same way, but it is coming out from investigators and people at the scene. Multiple sources are reporting the same thing. I was watching baseballchannel.tv this morning and they got on the subject of this with a reporter and he said that people have roid rage that goes to extremes. It is possible that is what happened. He just snapped. I won't be surprised if that is what comes out when the autopsies and toxicology reports are public.

Good Cop, Baby Cop

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 12:01 PM) I dont get with all the tributes. USA airing a 3-hour tribute. HE killed a 7 year old and his wife. Why do we tribute that? They didn't know the details at the time. They found out, what, 4 hours before the show that they were dead and that is all they knew. I see why ECW and SD are not tributes now.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 11:55 AM) Rewriting Wrestlemania XX is a slap in the face of all wrestling history. -- What's particularly new about this story? We knew about the murder-suicide. Strangle-smother is a new detail but it doesn't tell me much more. I'd like to know toxicology, suicide note and what else was going on. This new report makes Benoit look like a psychopathic monster. To strangle hsi wife, leave her in the house, while he and his son watched the PPV, than smothered his kid while he was in bed. That is horrific. Can't blame WWE for dropping everything Benoit, but they don't have to re-write history.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 11:46 AM) They are really distancing themselves from this. Especially if the TMZ details are correct, then I can see why. Wow. I'm gonna check out the TMZ stuff now, but I am kind of torn. You can't re-write history. Plenty of wrestlers have done bad stuff in the past, maybe not to this or even near this extent, but are still remembered. I guess I'll wait and see when the facts come out. I just think trying to re-write WM XX main event is impossible.

QUOTE(bschmaranz @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 10:03 AM) Tommie better get signed... I bought his jersey recently! Agreed, I got it for X-mas.

Reyes and Rodriguez are two guys the Cardinals would just be trying to get rid of and put on us...so I'm sure Kenny would pull the trigger.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 01:05 AM) Yeah, and one of their fans ran out on the field barefoot and went after Howry. Too bad this wasn't at the Cell so ESPN and all the channels could show it over and over again.