Scott's Blog of Doom

The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - June 21 1993

- Live from Poughkeepsie, New York.

- Your hosts are Vince, Bobby and Randy.

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I like my wine and I like my wrestling, but I never would have put them together like this: http://www.charitywines.com/Legend%20Cellars.html

I don't know who Camel Clutch Cabernet is supposed to appeal too, and I'm pretty sure if Vince finds out about Razor Ramon Pinot Noir, they're gonna get sued.

And $18 a bottle? Yeesh.

On the other hand, maybe Vince could take this to advertisers as proof that wrestling fans aren't all lowbrow.

Scott Hall making wine?  Doesn’t that just have bad idea written all over it?

UFC #1 - The Beginning (November 1993)

- Response to my review of UFC 4 was pretty good, so I figured I might as well go all the way to the beginning and start from there.

- No Rules! No Judges' Scores! No Time Limits! How times change.

- So we're live from Denver and it's hosted by Bill Wallace and Jim Brown. The "analysis" and introductions are all strictly amateur-hour stuff compared to what they would turn into under Zuffa later on. Wallace can barely pronounce the names of the fighters, in fact.

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hey,
big fan of the blog, you're awesome, and the like. I grew up a big wrestling fan and hadn't been around it much since the WWF became WWE, and you're blog and the community around it have re-invigorated my passion for the business. This is in response to your freshly written article in Pro Wrestling Press.
Ok, so the idea behind the irish whip is hard to explain, but to get to the heart of the psycology, you gotta think of the "whip into the stairs on the outside" spot, and Bret's chest-into-turnbuckle spot.
Let's start by assuming that it is as hard to vertically suplex someone as it is to throw their body forward by pulling one arm while pushing on their back. If someone tried to irish whip you, and you resisted, your shoulder or elbow (on knee or ankle) could easily strain, or worse, dislocate (I have plates and screws in my shoulder to prove it). So, it would be best to follow the momentum and thus travel in the direction of the force (i.e. forward toward the ring ropes, turnbuckle, or dreaded steel stairs). The quickness of the exchange would force you to pretty much sprint out of the whip , or you'll just be thrown to the floor (our steel stairs spot). Ok, so you're heading toward the ropes; if you try to stop cold, you could easily blow out a knee or pull one of the many tendons, ligaments, or muscles in your legs, or break an ankle. So, you run into the ropes or buckles. Now, you wanna hit those with your back, so you don't get clotheslined by the
ropes or hit the turnbuckles chest first. So, now you're hitting those ropes back-first, they absorb your kinetic energy and re-direct the force forward again. So, you're running to protect those legs again, but you don't have time to properly slow down, so you get a face full of Hogan's size 16 (or whatever, Gorilla) boot. Just my attempt to explain it; I didn't invent the spot. But come on, would Bret do it if it didn't make sense?
thanks for your time and the kick-ass ranting.
hugs and kisses,
Josh (aka muggies247)

 

That’s actually not as batshit crazy as some of the other explanations I’ve heard over the years, so thanks!  Now I can sleep at night again.

The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - June 14 1993

- Live from New York.

- Your hosts are Vince, Bobby and Macho.

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Featuring ME.

http://www.thewrestlingpress.com

Kind of in the same area as my work with Fighting Spirit Magazine, but FREE.  Check it out, won’t you?

Any plans to repost/rewatch the 93 King of the Ring like you did with WM9??

I’ve really been loving these recaps.

 

Sure, here you go.  From June 2001…

The SmarK Retro Rant for King of the Ring 93

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The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - June 7 1993

- Live from New York

- Your hosts are Vince, Brain and Macho.

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Michael's Extreme Review #2

(Thought I would take some advice and give the matches a letter grade. I don't want to use the star system, that is already in play. )

We have pyro presented in High Definition coming from Richmond, Virginia.

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Hi everyone,
FYI, we have an opening for a weekly wrestling columnist at Pulse Wrestling, preferably someone who can post every Wed, Thu or Fri.  If you're interested or know someone who might be, please email me. (This doesn't have to be a long, 22-page work of art either. Can be anything from "Wrestling, News, Opinions"-esque to embedding wrestling videos and doing commentary around them.)
Thanks!

 

No problem.