The Real VOTD : “Clash Of The Century”

Shawn Michaels vs. Scott Hall Wrestlemania X

Austin vs. Rock Wrestlemania X7

F. Daddy Roosevelt W/ Harry St. Truman vs. Adolf Hitler World War II( No Affiliation To WCW)

There are some matches in history that will forever be etched in history.

The Internet Is Running Wild Brotha’

In 2002 Eric Bischoff stunned smarks and marks worldwide by taking to the WWE Raw set, and who doesn’t remember calling all their friends and telling them to change to Raw when Shawn Michaels made his return and was introduced as the newest member of the nWo?

Fast forward to November 19th, 2007 the date that had all the potential of being one the biggest surprises of all time in sports entertainment. Bigger than Hogan going heel, bigger than Vince screwing Bret, and even bigger than Rikishi running down Steve Austin. The return of Chris Jericho was just what the WWE needed up their sleeves to surprise it’s fans who have been tortured by a stale predictable product for GodKhali knows how long.

Instead though a month of an amazingly fresh viral campaign went to waste as the internet ran rampant with spoilers of Chris Jericho’s return.

This is only the most recent attack that the internet has thrown towards wrestling. Check Google every Tuesday afternoon and you’ll already have the complete lineup for that upcoming Friday’s Smackdown!

Do you guys remember that time when Eric Bischoff went on air and gave away the lineup to Raw? Remember how dastardly of a move it was back then?

Wrestling like Soap Operas used to be a program you watched because it was so unpredictable, to quote Jim Ross “anything can happen in the WWE”, however lately nothing is unpredictable and if it is it won’t stay that way for long as it’ll be over the blogsphere within minutes. Even the WWE themselves have given away World Title changes right on their front page days before the event is televised.

I don’t hate the internet, I love it but it’s hard to be a wrestling fan in this day and age with an internet connection and still enjoy it with as much interest as I did when all I had was the rumor mill in the back of WWF Magazine.

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A Real SAVE_US.222 UPDATE

The interwebs are running wild with rampant rumors that the viral video that aired during Raw signaled the return of Chris Jericho to WWE television, however yours truly is wise enough to see through the WWE’s counterintelligence scheme. Just ask yourself a few questions and the answer to what is really going on here becomes all too clear.

• Who’s the only man on the WWE roster whose charisma alone is enough to put all his competition into deep comatose states

• Who’s the only man (besides Gillberg) that can make a spear look less convincing than a McMahon taking a stunner

And as if that wasn’t enough it always helps to have photographic evidence.

Oh Noes!!!

Andrew “Test” Martin is already gone from TNA Wrestling. Martin was brought in last month and was immediately pushed into a top match at TNA’s last PPV. The reason for his firing is his unreasonably muscular physique. At a time when TNA is being investigated by the United States Congress, Martin stuck out like a sore thumb and management was convinced he could not pass a drug test.

Source

Maybe now he’ll get the time to learn how to fucking use myspace, so I can stop trying to read through his cryptic ass about me section that serves as a blog for some reason.

What’s up all? I haven’t written on here in a while because I have looked up my name on here and found at least ten people with a “Test” or Andrew Martin Myspace page pretending to be me.

I don’t know why, there really is nothing exciting about my life, it’s actually pretty normal with the exception of having the hottest and coolest girl on the planet to wake up to every day. I read on some wrestling internet site where I was quoted a saying that “steroids re like getting a tattoo” and “that steroids are ok because wrestling is not a competitive sport”.

Let’s get it straight, I NEVER said steroids where ok and I sure as hell never said they were like getting a tattoo!!! I got one tattoo ten years ago and I couldn’t even tell you what it felt like, because it was ten years ago. I don’t condone the use of steroids, drugs or alcohol. I’m not saying throughout my life I was an angel, in fact during my twenties as most people do, you feel invincible, like nothing could ever hurt you. You catch yourself saying that will never happen to me…..well that all changes when you grow up and see your friends dieing around you and you know what?…It can and does happen to you!

I have buried six friends in the last year and I am way to young to be going to all these funerals! I don’t drink, do drugs and no I don’t do steroids! Like I said I was no angel in the past but that has all changed! There’s something about staying above ground that I like! It’s not nearly time for me to check out and yes I would pass a drug test! People see you and think”wow that guy is big he’s on the gas!” Do steroids give you an edge? Sure a little one like ten pounds but as someone who considers himself an expert in training, if you were to make a graph of how you got in shape, training in the gym, genetics and diet would consist of 90% of that graph with steroids maybe taking 10%. I was lucky and blessed with good genetics and I’m very strict with my diet and training.

Anyone who knows me, knows when I’m in the gym it’s balls to the wall training for an hour and a half. I don’t like to socialice when I’m working out, it’s my job and I treat it as such. Stretching is a huge part of my regimen as is rest. You need to rest or you don’t grow. I eat about 8 meals a day this gives me plenty of nutriton as well as keeping my metabolism high to burn fat. The 80’s and 90’s are gone, people don’t want to look like the guys who are gased to the gills. People want to see a nice lean muscular physique. i think people are more interested in seeing a body that they could have instead of these mass monsters you see in the magazines.

Look at Arnold, probably the greatest physique ever! Why? Yes Arnold did admitt to taking steroids but stopped after competing. Look at him in his early movies and you say with the right diet training and rest I could have that body. Arnold was only 235 lbs but his tiny waist and big chest made him look so much bigger. It’s all about illusions. I look way better and bigger at 265 then I did at 290.

So just to clear things up once and for all, I don’t take steroids or do drugs and I sure don’t condone doing them. Nutrition has come so far that eating right and training hard for no more than an hour and a half {including cardio} that you can be well on your way to looking great and trust me it doesn’t matter how much you weigh, it’s all about how you look in the mirror.

Take care and stay clean,
Andrew

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Jason Sensation "Raped In Wrestling" Literally

Are you fucking kidding me?

http://www.gerweck.net/news/1188882484.shtml

Jason Sensation appeared on the August 24th edition of The Shoot. He came on to discuss his career and share some impersonations. Host Gary Cantrell welcomes him to the show and asks him how he got into doing voices. He explains that he and his family grew up on a farm in Canada, and they didn’t have much options of anything to do. Jason talks about how he and his brother having wrestling matches in the backyard and doing the post match promos. He mentioned that Macho Man was one of the first voices that he had ever done, and his parents would talk him into doing the voice at parties. Gary asked how he became a wrestling fan. Jason said “I don’t have a first memory of it, it’s just a feeling of it always been there”.

Gary and Jason begin discussing his first night meeting Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith in Ottawa. He talks about how he did the voices in front of them. (In Owen’s voice)”I’m a Slammy Award winner, and Bret you’ll never be as good as me” he tells Owen. Owen tells him, “You can’t do Bulldog”. In Davey Boy’s voice, “C’mon British Bulldog, have a bite of my dog food”. Jason says they were both laughing hysterically. He said that Owen brought him backstage to meet with WWE’s Canadian President Carl DeMarco whom he did voices for. After the meeting he explained how he’d go anywhere a camera was at for attention to attempt to get into the WWE. He also sent numerous videos to Carl and continued to not get any responses.

He talks about his first gig for WWE which was selling merchandise on the Canadian Home Shopping Network. He mentioned that not too long after he got another call from Carl who informed him that Vince McMahon was going to be at TSN’s Off the Record to discuss Bret Hart and the Montreal Screw Job. He was then introduced to McMahon during the commercial breaks. Jason did impersonations of both Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon. Vince laughed hard and said “We gotta get you on TV kid”. It wasn’t until 98 that Jason got a call from DeMarco to appear in Boston for WrestleMania 14 weekend. He then talks of a meeting he was involved in with Vince McMahon, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chyna, Steve Austin, and Mike Tyson. He gives Tyson credit for getting him the job after laughing uncontrollably over a Steve Austin impersonation. He says Mike Tyson put him over big time in that meeting.

Jason goes on discussing his first few skits on RAW, but says that the story between him and Owen was dropped after he got stopped at the border. He didn’t have a green card, and he had been crossing illegally all that time. The week after he got beat up by Owen, he wasn’t able to make it to the next RAW due to being stopped at the border. Once WWE realized that they couldn’t get him, they rushed a contract to him. He said that he signed a 3 yr deal, and spent most of it at home collecting a check. He noted that he sent several script ideas to Russo and it went to no reply. During the last 6 months of his contract he was sent to Memphis, TN to train as a heel manager for a future main roster spot. He said Memphis was run wrong and all the wrong guys were in charge. He said that the main trainer was Terry Golden and said “He was one of the dirtiest guys in the business”. He said they went through a lot of wrestlers down there.

He then began to shoot on Kevin Kelly. He said that Kelly put him through a lot of hell in Memphis. “Kevin Kelly was Bullsh*t” says Sensation. He said there was talk of him doing the Slam Jams for the WWF and said that was Kelly’s job at the time. He said at that point Kelly began to bury him to the office and reduced him to the job of a ring announcer. He said that Kelly even ridiculed him at position, and didn’t want him to get over in any way. “He (Kevin Kelly) made my life a living hell”.

He talked about having a rib pulled on him by Kevin Fertig (ECW’s Kevin Thorn). He said that he pulled a rib on Fertig and was choked and thrown through a wall for his efforts. He called to file a complaint and Bruce Pritchard told him that “You were lucky that it wasn’t Steve Blackman or The Undertaker, because they might have not stopped” He also brought up an instance of Fertig sexually assaulting him in a hotel. “He ripped my clothes off, he ripped my underwear off, and I was like what’s this guy doing to me?” He then plugs the book that he’s putting out titled “Raped in Wrestling”. He mentioned that wasn’t the only occurrence of sexual assault. He tells the story of his first weekend in Boston. He was invited up to a Road Agent’s (whom he left nameless) hotel room with another wrestler to smoke Marijuana. After finishing the Marijuana, the agent began to grab him and pull him closer to molest him. He said the wrestler in the room was almost like he was standing there as a guard. He mentioned that he tried to squirm and get away and the agent said “Buddy if you don’t this, you’ll never gonna get into this business if you don’t fu*k somebody”. Jason said “It was the sickest moment in my life”, he went on to say that another wrestler came to the door and it was his out and he left. He made a complaint to management and said that telling just worked against him. He said he wouldn’t be surprised if things like that were still going on to this day.

Jason said the reason why he’s waited so long to come out was that he was actually hoping for things to change and to possibly be rehired by WWE. He said after the death of his mother he realized that he would never be rehired and that he was ready to come out and speak. He said that to this day he still emails Jim Ross for a reason to his dismissal. He said he was going to tell all in his new book. He said that in that in WWE the good was good, but the bad was very bad. When asked for an example, he shared the story of a young wrestler by the name of Russ Haas. He talked about how Russ and his brother, current WWE wrestler Charlie Haas were in developmental prepping for a call up to the main roster. Jason said every single time they would come back from a dark match from TVs, Russ Haas was so depressed because “Quote Jim Ross and Quote Bruce Prichard” kept telling Russ: You guys are ready to go, you guys will be on tv but Russ you got to get bigger, Russ you got to get bigger, sorry Russ you got to get bigger.” Russ finally gave in and began taking steroids and it was one occasion in which there was air in the needle and it got to his heart and killed him.

Nick Hogan Update : Complete Bullshit

CLEARWATER — Nick Bollea, son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, was racing against a Dodge Viper moments before a high-speed crash that left his passenger in critical condition, witnesses say.

Frances Vitalis, a Plant City registered nurse, was riding home from Clearwater Beach on a motorcycle with a friend Sunday when she saw Bollea’s yellow Toyota Supra and the silver Viper speeding between traffic lights.

“We knew something was going to happen,” Vitalis said Tuesday. “You know that this is a bad situation and these guys are hotdogging.”

The roads were slick from scattered summer showers. One car would speed away, then the next would catch up, she said.

The cat-and-mouse game ended when the Supra fish-tailed and crashed into a palm tree, Vitalis said. She ran to the car and tried to open the driver’s door and then the passenger’s door. The car was so mangled they wouldn’t open, she said.

A 2006 silver Dodge Viper coupe, a distinctive and uncommon vehicle, is registered to Terry Bollea, Nick Bollea’s father, who is also known as Hulk Hogan. It’s unclear whether it’s the same Dodge Viper spotted by witnesses, who also could not tell who was driving the car.

On Tuesday, passenger John J. Graziano, 22, remained in critical condition at Bayfront Medical Center. Nick Bollea, 17, who is also known as Nick Hogan, was treated for minor injuries and discharged Monday.

Clearwater police did not release any new information Tuesday about the investigation into the accident at 1290 Court St. No charges have been filed. Police spokesman Wayne Shelor said there was no obvious evidence Bollea was racing.

But witnesses say otherwise.

Rabih Cheaib, 20, of Dunedin said he was in a car with three other friends at Rita’s Italian Ice on Court Street when he also saw the yellow Toyota and the silver Dodge Viper speed by.

Cheaib, who builds race cars for fun, estimated the cars were traveling faster than 60 mph in the 40 mph zone. As a former street racer, he wasn’t shocked by the speed.

“It’s nothing new to me, so I didn’t think, ‘Oh, those crazy kids,'” Cheaib said. “I thought it was pretty sweet.”

As Cheaib and his friends left Rita’s, they noticed Court Street was blocked. They walked to the crash site, where Cheaib learned the passenger was Graziano, the brother of his best friend, Mike Graziano.

Cheaib said John Graziano attended local Toyota Supra meets and videotaped auto races. He described Graziano as quiet but outgoing and into skydiving, jet skiing, surfing and “anything that gives an adrenaline rush.”

He said Graziano has two brothers and a sister and had been friends with Bollea for several years.

Graziano, a 2003 graduate of Dunedin High School, is a Marine and served two tours of duty in Iraq. He returned home in October.

Sgt. Maj. Edgardo Guzman served with Graziano in Fallujah and Ramadi. He said the young Dunedin man had a good attitude and got along well with others.

When they first met, Graziano was serving as a truck driver, transporting Marines and equipment. Guzman said Graziano then joined a Tampa reserve unit.

“He could have just went home and got a civilian job and went to college,” Guzman said. “He decided to join the local reserve unit and continue to be a Marine and serve his country.”

A prayer vigil will be held for Graziano today at 7 p.m. at 1345 Court St. Cards or care packages can be sent to Bayfront Medical Center in Graziano’s name.

–Source

What The Fuck : Inaugural Edition

There comes a time in wrestling where you must throw your hands up and say What The Fuck!?

Because there can never be enough Youtube videos, here are some of those times.

Since When Were World Championships Defended In Backyards?

Fantasy Booking : Samoa Joe

So it’s a stolen idea, but who cares? I am sure Samoa Joe doesn’t appreciate being the top guy on TNA one week only to get completely buried by “the new guy”. After seeing the TNA taping spoilers I can see TNA is officially Total Nonstop Angle. So let’s say Joe jumped to WWE, how would you book him? Would he keep his Samoa Joe gimmick? Maybe he’ll team with Umaga, or become Sir Joe Samoa.

Dicuss

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TNA News & Notes : Will You Still Watch?

From Gerweck.net

TNA’s You Tube Page Removed?

For some Reason all official TNA Youtube videos have been pulled off the Youtube site. I just noticed this. If you had any TNA posted videos in your Youtube favorites,they are gone now. If you manage to find any official TNA videos on Youtube and click on them, you’ll notice each link sends you to a message that reads “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.” TNA Today was the most watched daily internet show in the world and TNA was the number one (partner) channel on Youtube. I have no clue whats going on. It should be interesting to get more news about this in the next couple of days.

X Division title to be Phased out?

There were rumors last week that the X Division Title would soon be phased out. With the recent addition of Andrew Martin and Matt Morgan along with reports of signing Rikishi and A-Train, it would appear that the X Division is going by the way side.

Current story lines right now only focus on the heavyweights such as Angle, Cage, Sting, Jarrett, Abyss, Tomko, and Steiner.

At this time, it is believed that Kurt Angle will defeat Samoa Joe in the Winner Takes All Match and Angle will form an alliance with a yet to be named partner and carry the TNA Tag titles while the World Title and X Division Title will then be unified there by phasing out the X Division title. This is similar to what WWE did years ago when for a short time they phased out the IC title by unifying the World Title and the IC Title.

Drug Testing In TNA

It is being discussed right now in TNA to begin Random Drug Testing Effective in September. It is believed that the wrestlers will be notified of this new policy at the Hard Justice PPV to give the wrestlers 30 days notice. There are concerns how this will effect the talent. Some believe that while TNA is not under investigation at this time, it would present them in a good light despite no allegations of substance abuse in there company specifically.

While the recent news of WWE’s Wellness Policy has been being accused of being to relaxed and not as stringent as it could be, TNA is making this move because it affects the Wrestling Business as a whole.

Others share concerns with how the drug testing will effect big name talent within TNA. WWE has been accused of favoring talent such as Triple H and Batista while rumors run rampant about the possibility of similar actions being taken on stars such as Kurt Angle.

While it’s abundantly clear many within TNA’s roster are not taking anabolic steroids given the size and stature of many of it’s talent, there are still concerns of recreational drug use among those in the locker room.

Looking at the bigger picture of TNA, Dixie Carter herself stated months back that there is no problems with Drugs in TNA. She did however state that the only problem or run she had with substance abuse was with Raven but she later stated that the situation was under control.

McMahon Strikes Back

Apparently the WWE’s plan to get ratings back up is to bring back Mr.McMahon.

So, how are they going to explain this? And what is he going to strike back at? Will this be the return of Vince McMahon or Mr. McMahon?

This Monday night, live on Raw, Mr. McMahon strikes back. Find out what this means by tuning in to Raw at 9/8 CT on USA Network.

When Raw went off the air last week, an infuriated WWE Champion John Cena was wiping apple and spit off his face and staring lasers into Carlito, who thanks to Randy Orton, got a pinfall victory over The Champ. The Caribbean Superstar, who had argued that he deserved to be the No. 1 contender to the WWE Championship, now seems to have further ammunition to his claim. But, will he have to feel the wrath of Cena, who could look for revenge for his humiliating defeat?

Will Cena have something in mind for Orton, who has taken pleasure in sending messages to the champion in the weeks before their SummerSlam showdown? Last week, Orton added another legend to his casualty list when he took Sgt. Slaughter to boot camp and hospitalized him with a punt to his cranium. What is Sarge’s medical update? And will yet another legend challenge Orton?

Another Superstar who made a powerful statement was Mr. Kennedy, who also wants to be recognized as the No. 1 contender to the WWE Championship. Kennedy did the nearly-impossible – put Bobby Lashley on the sidelines with a shoulder injury. How much will the loudmouth from Green Bay, Wis., boast about his latest conquest? And what is Lashley’s condition?

You can find out the answers to these questions and more by tuning in to Raw on Monday night at 9/8 CT on USA Network.

EDIT – There are meetings set for today and tomorrow within WWE to determine what to do about the RAW rating on Monday.

Vince McMahon is encouraging ideas that are out of the box, in an attempt to turn things around. The WWE creative team is said to be under major stress.

As previously posted, Vince McMahon will make his TV return at the beginning of RAW on Monday, hoping to boost RAW’s ratings.

Source: Wrestling Observer

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The King Of Kings Triple H

We’re all pretty damn excited about Triple H’s return eh? Let’s list some of our favorite Trips moments.

Batista Unleashed Book Preview

To buy or not to buy? If it’s anything like Hogan’s it could be quite amusing. I would love to hear his take on the infamous Summerslam commercial. And isn’t it too soon for him to be writing a book? This would be like The Miz writing a book

People around the world know Dave Batista as World Wrestling Entertainment’s “the Animal,” the rope-shaking, spine-busting World Heavyweight Champion, one of the most popular Superstars in recent years.The crowd turned Batista from heel to babyface after they were electrified by his awesome physique and physical wrestling style.

Few fans, however, know that Batista didn’t join the profession until he was thirty years old — an age at which many wrestlers are thinking about hanging up their boots. Nor do most fans know the tremendous toll the climb to the top has taken on Batista’s personal life. While successfully staying away from hard drugs and — usually — liquor, he found sex too tempting to resist.

“Women were my drug of choice,” the Animal confesses. That addiction cost him his marriage, destroying a relationship that had helped him climb from poverty to the pinnacle of sports entertainment in less than two years.

Now, in Batista Unleashed, the WWE Superstar comes clean about the choices he made and the devastating effects they had on his family. He talks about the injury that stripped him of his title — an injury he blames on Mark Henry’s carelessness. While being sidelined cost Batista untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income, it also set the stage for a tremendous comeback that cemented the Animal’s reputation as a true champion.

Batista talks about growing up in the worst part of Washington, D.C., where three murders occurred in his front yard before he was nine. He speaks lovingly about his mother — a lesbian — and how hard she worked to keep the family not just together but alive. He talks candidly about his own criminal past: a conviction on a drug charge and another, since overturned, on assault. He speaks of his days as a bouncer and a lifeguard, and tells how bodybuilding may have saved his life.

Once he made it to the WWE, Batista realized he wasn’t really ready for the big time. His career seemed headed for a fall until Fit Finlay took him under his wing. But his real education came when he joined Evolution and rode with Triple H and Ric Flair, two of sports entertainment’s all-time greats. Batista talks about what they taught him, and details some of their wild times on the road.

But the champ also reveals a kinder, gentler side. While his soft-spoken manner in the locker room has sometimes been misinterpreted as arrogance, in truth Batista’s always been somewhat shy and quiet. Emotional by nature, he reveals for the first time that the tears fans saw at WrestleMania 21, when he won the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, were very real. And he speaks movingly about his problems with his ex-wives and teenage daughters, and how it felt to become a grandfather.

While his straight-shooting mouth has occasionally gotten him into trouble — most notably in a backstage confrontation with Undertaker after some remarks about SmackDown! — Batista is his own harshest critic. He explains his early limitations as a wrestler and the work he has done to overcome them. Interspersing his memoir with accounts from life on the road, Batista lightens the narrative with a surprising sense of humor. An Animal in the ring, he reveals himself as an honest and even humble man in everyday life.

TNA Impact Dicussion

Well TNA has been putting on a very solid show lately and this one is already off to a good start.

• Solid match from Sting and Robert Roode (I was actually impressed)
• Dustin Rhodes. One word – Fucking fantastic, yep I lied that’s two words.
• Kurt Angle..LOSERS(Maybe Eric can finally get on tv without coming from under the ring)

Glenn Beck

Yes I realized I said I would never make another Benoit post but this is necessary. Glenn Beck’s program from tonight disrespected every single wrestling fan and wrestler ever to walk this Earth. I urge you all to take 5 minutes out of your time just to email him me@glennbeck.com and tell him how you are tired of the media tying the blame of the Benoit tragedy to wrestling and not holding Chris responsible for his actions.

Here’s my email to him.

Mr. Beck,

I used to listen and watch your show for your unbiased spin on many of the events occurring around the world, after tonight I will no longer even acknowledge you as a credible journalist. You and many of the other reporters on the cable news circuit have placed the blame in the Chris Benoit tragedy on everyone besides the man responsible. You so called journalists have neglected to fact check any of your leads, and instead opted to conduct interviews with biased disgruntled ex-wives and former wrestlers. Tonight you didn’t even bother to get the name of the WWE’s most recent Pay Per View correctly, it’s The Great American Bash for the record and not The All American Bash as your show suggested.

Throughout your lengthy take on professional wrestling tonight you made a mockery out of one of America’s oldest past-times. You refused to acknowledge it as a sport and you said there was absolutely no athletic ability to participate. Mr. Beck until you step into a ring you have no right to discredit the hard work the men and women of professional wrestling put in night after night on the road. While in fact the match outcomes of pro wrestling are staged they are largely improvised and not only require extreme training to prevent injury but they also require quick on the fly decisions to keep the fans entertained and to further lower the risk of injuries.

Another glaring problem I had with tonight’s broadcast was when you stated that wrestling has no place on television due to it’s promotion of violence. This is entirely untrue. Never has the WWE or any other wrestling promotion to my knowledge promoted the use of violence in any form. Mr. Beck it saddens me that your dislike for sports entertainment has led you to fabricate stories about it, or just ignore the facts. WWE airs a segment before, after, or during shows stating never to try any of the actions performed on their events. What I don’t understand is how you are so quick to jump on the WWE’s case about violence and such yet you won’t dare to speak out about the hugest promotion of violence there is on our airwaves. I can’t get through an hour of television without seeing an advertisement to join some branch of the US Military. Each ad is the same, “these men and women get paid and have honor for killing, you can too”, that seems like blatant promotion of violence to me. When it all boils down to it wrestling while it might appear violent on the outside is really just a year long sports soap opera. WWE has gone on record most recently in the light of the Benoit tragedy and admitted to being a worked program and downplayed the death of one of it’s “characters” Mr. McMahon. Has a violent show such as CSI, Law and Order, or 24 ever done the same?

Mr. Beck, wrestling is not responsible for any deaths or violent acts. Wrestling doesn’t go up to criminals and tell them to commit crimes, and it didn’t put drugs and the thoughts of murder into Chris Benoit’s mind. While all of you pundits run around trying to raise your ratings by trying to attach this tragedy to wrestling and steroids you have undoubtedly been the best defense team Mr. Benoit could have had if he were still alive. How dare you guys take the blame off this sick, twisted, cold-hearted man to satisfy your own selfish needs. There’s a bigger story here than Wrestler’s Roid Rage Results In Double-Murder Suicide and I know you’re dying to find it out so I will let you in on the secret. The bigger story is how the media rather take the blame off a man that murdered his freaking family and place it on a substance or a company. While some of those suppossed 104 wrestlers dead in this decade may have ultimately died due to drug use in the end no one forced them to take them, it was always their decision and the case is the exact same for Benoit, he didn’t have to do this, he always had a choice.

Mr. Beck you have a choice as well. You can either keep on ignoring the facts of the professional wrestling business and be like your other tasteless peers, or you can step up and be a credible journalist and present the full story and not just the story that tastes better to your advertisers and network executives.

Stephen Daniels
Tampa, Florida

John Kronus (George Caiazo) Found Dead

Before Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Hass were the World’s Greatest Tag Team Perry Saturn and John Kronus were “The Best Tag Team In The World”. Sadly we’ve lost another wrestler.

John Kronus was found dead today, July 18th, 2007 at his girlfriend’s apartment in New Hampshire. At this point, no other details are available.

Kronus & Perry Saturn, as The Eliminators, were pushed by Paul Heyman as “The Best Tag Team in the World,” during much of 1996 and 1997, as multiple-time ECW tag champions. New Jack & Kronus also held the title.