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Don Frye v. Mark Coleman?  FUCK YEAH.

I decided to do this first since Ortiz and Forrest Griffin are on this card and they will be returning to the Octagon to headline UFC 108 this weekend.

If you didn't read the other thread. Big Lots is selling the old UFC PPVs on DVD for $3. Someone even found the Liddell-Couture trilogy set at that price and it includes all three ENTIRE shows from those cards and a bonus disc. Eventually that package will find me.

Meanwhile I believe the Big Lots is the greatest junk store on earth and I've yet to enter that store and leave without buying stuff I don't need at 40 cents on the dollar.

I am popping my UFC ranting cherry so here we go.

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Hey Scott,
Longtime reader. I own all your books. I started a humorous site that is sort of like the Onion but for MMA news. Hope you like it and can give it a plug. Thanks and keep up the good work!
http://elbowsandwich.blogspot.com/

Indeed, Randy Couture IS old.

Hey guys. I'm still not able to commit back to my SmackDown reviews. I've tried to watch the last two or three shows and everything seems slower than it was before. And oddly enough the show misses JR really putting over the younger guys.

I'm not ready to give up and I fully anticipate on going back to Smackdown after Sunday's PPV.

But I still want to do reviews again and after a trip to the bargain bin DVD rack I hit the motherlode of UFC fights. So I wanted to give you, the Princess supporters, the choice of which one to do and I'll pound it out sometime this evening or tomorrow morning.

We have UFC 62: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2; Griffin vs. Jardine along with Michael Bisping, Andrei Arlovsky, etc.

UFC 65: Matt Hughes vs. GSP 2; Tim Slyvia vs. Jeff Monson; Frank Mir, James Irvin, etc. etc.

UFC 71: Jackson vs. Liddell; Alexander vs. Jardine; Kalib Starns, etc. etc.

Have a great day guys!

The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - December 6 1993

- Taped from the same place as last week. White Plains, NY?

- Your hosts are Vince & Bobby.

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Classics on demand has the nitro up where Steven Regal fought Goldberg in the infamous stiff match. Was there something so controversial about the match because it looked like a really different match than Goldberg was having up until that point. He didn’t look lost or anything but they were doing reversals and stuff that nowadays would be considered a good match but I remember that Regal got into trouble over this. Why?

Short story:  Regal made their soon-to-be top guy look like a human being, but actually got fired for worse stuff. 

Long story:  There’s actually two versions of this but I tend to believe Regal’s.  He told the whole story on an episode of Wrestling Observer Live a couple of years after the incident occurred, and it was interesting stuff.  The backstory for the match controversy was that Regal was discovered while working county fairs in England, basically doing real old school carny wrestling shows.  He was a ringer who would challenge big guys in the audience to “rasslin'” matches and offer X amount of money if they could beat him in a “real” fight.  So he’d get these tough-looking rubes and would basically carry a worked wrestling match against them, doing all the work and leading them through old-style reversals and mat wrestling without giving them any leeway to actually do anything back to him.  Then he’d either win or lose depending on what the outcome was supposed to be.  It was an elaborate con game, in other words.  So anyway, back to 1997, and they send him out there with Goldberg and tell him to give him a good match and make him look good.  Regal interprets this as “Carry him through an old style carny match” and he goes out there and leads Goldberg by the hand through this mat-based match, which was 100% different than the total squash that WCW actually wanted.  However, it’s a misconception that Regal got in trouble over that.  The actual trouble was for the drugs and pissing on stewardesses, and the match was in fact the least of the problems he got fired for.  It just happened that he got fired right after that match, so people put 2 and 2 together and assumed there was something funny going on. 

In his book, Goldberg offhandedly mentions that Regal “made him look bad”, but doesn’t seem to harbor much grudge otherwise. 

Michael's Extreme Review #19

November 17, 2009

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

-  Well, we could have the makings of a huge mega-feud brewing if all the stars are aligned tonight.  CM Punk downgrading?  It would be a step in the right way forECW.  Plus, I'll try to be a good boy and curse less tonight, but there will be swearing.  Onto the show!!!

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http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/11/16/comics-you-should-own-jljlijla-1-45-ancillary-comics/

This is an awesome overview of the “Bwahahaha” years of the Justice League, which is one of my favorite runs of any comic ever.  Really makes me wish for a Showcase Presents version of the series, or at least decently priced paperbacks. 

Really?  Sean Mooney?  Have we gotten to the point where announcing is so bad that Vince is getting nostalgic for announcers who were even shittier than Michael Cole?  Mooney was terrible, he didn’t understand the product or how to get it over on commentary, and he’s been out of the business for 15 years.  He probably even calls referees by name and talks about people winning “belts”, too.  What’s next, bringing back Bruce Pritchard as Rio Rogers?  Turning Michael Hayes back into Dok Hendrix?  Pardon me for being Captain Obvious here, but they have FUCKING JOEY STYLES under contract, working on the WEBSITE.  They could always hire Tony Schiavone back to really bring the bitchslap of irony around full-circle, I suppose.

Hi there, hope you are well. Here is one for the blog.

As a wrestling DVD afficianado, would you say 2009 has been the best year for the classic retrospectives? Think of these WWE releases:

Best of SNME

Best of the 90s

Randy Savage Collection

Allied Powers: Tag Team Collection (people had expectations which could not be met, but there is some good stuff on there)

Rise and Fall of WCW (see above)

Summerslam and Survivor Series anthologies

World Title set (not out for a couple more weeks, but looks like it has some good stuff)

I have been collecting them for a number of years, and I can not think of a year which had more great sets released. Is this the last year of the large number of great releases? Or do we have more awesomeness to come? If not this year, which would you say was the best?

 

It’s been a good year for them, certainly.  I can’t say as I generally can remember what year stuff was released in, but I recall that there was also a good run of stuff one year with the Mick Foley set, the Bret Hart collection and the original Flair collection all released fairly close together.  But yeah, for history sets, this has been a pretty boffo year, and I’m all over the World title set when it comes out.