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Every so often, I venture down the hallow halls of the original DTM Blog… and every so often, I’ll post quick updates from current days. It’s an interesting little side project that sometimes makes it worth revisiting the old site. Here are some quick examples and observations.

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According to PWinsider.com, actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is no longer working in WWE. For those who didn’t know, Prinze was part of the Smackdown creative team under Michael Hayes since July of last year. Amazing that he even lasted that long, but the same article says that he was well liked by the company, so I don’t know.

Clicking on this link from PWPIX.NET will show screencaps of a clean-shaven Stone Cold walking around a street corner or something. Yes, he looks old. That’s what happens when you’re old. You look old. Either that or you look like plastic.

Apparently, Stone Cold shaving his beard is such major news that it has made the headlines on rajah.com. Unfortunately, wwe.com failed to mention that bit, as they try to avoid mentioning that Stone Cold died with the shaving of the beard or some stupid shit like that. Apparently, people will have to settle for Stunning Steve instead. Whatever.

Found this at someone’s blog and thought to share them here. Can you guess all the champions in the allotted time?

Guess the IC Champions – Click hereGuess the WWE Champions – Click here
Guess the Kings of the Ring – Click here

I had written a nice post yesterday about the Irate Gamer’s latest episode (half a review of the SNES Aladdin game and half cheesy variety show), but alas the post didn’t upload. Rather than repost the whole spiel, I’ll just say this:

Mr. Bores, your production is fairly impressive by YouTube standards, but your actual reviewing skills leave much to be desired. It seems obvious to me that this show of yours is becoming more and more gimmicky each time (and to be fair, some could say the same about AVGN). Your NEO episodes are fairly close to the review style that is respectable, so try applying that type of effort into your original show and I’ll be happy. Thanks.

A couple other quick comments:

– WWE has signed former NWA/TNA World champion Christian (Cage) for a second stint in the company; a guy who was poised to be in the main event picture with a run-in at the Royal Rumble before things changed; a guy who has pretty much done it all and left the company because he wasn’t getting the treatment he felt he deserved; a guy whose talent and drive was overlooked the first time around… and they dump him on the third-rate television show to feud with some guy named Jack Swagger, who happens to be champion on the show?

Wow… just wow. I don’t know whether this is supposed to be a step up or not. Certainly not the type of return I was expecting Christian (Cage) to make. But whatever makes him happy, I guess.

– Brett Rattner, the guy responsible for three Rush Hour flicks and one shitty X-Men movie, has been tapped to bring the Image Comics comic Youngblood to the big screen. Apparently, I missed the entire demand for a Youngblood movie… what, were the rights to Doom’s IV too expensive for the producers?

– Chris Jericho got into an altercation with some stupid fans who wouldn’t leave him alone and ended up punching one of them after being provoked and pushed around. Kids, when wrestlers go home, LET THEM GO HOME. You have nothing to gain by being a complete douche to the other guy. If a wrestler or anyone else knocks you out, it’s because you’re the one being the asshole and not the other guy. Props to Jericho for standing up to the Confederacy of Dunces in Victoria, BC.

– Just to comment on the GSP Vasoline situation going on after his last fight… apparently, Vasoline is the new steroid in UFC. Wouldn’t surprise me if most guys are using Vasoline. Seriously, who cares?

That’s it for now. Later.

Some random bits…

Continue reading “DTM BLOG Classics #44 – Random Wrestling Quibbles”

A collection of really short blog posts combined into a single compilation post, covering a week’s worth of stuff.

Continue reading “DTM BLOG Classics #43 – Random Blurbs”

According to any wrestling news site worth reading, Vince McMahon has been talking about his wrestlers needing to be better actors. The idea is that WWE programming should have the same top-notch acting as a regular television show.

Only problem with this scenario is that wrestlers aren’t good actors… if they were, every film WWE has churned out would have been a success. Let’s be honest here – not everyone can Dwayne Johnson, who was the only wrestler to be a good actor… and look where he ended up. Maybe if the wrestler becomes a good actor, he might actually want to act in a better show…

Might want to reconsider that better actor thing, Vince. Aim a little lower… try convincing wrestlers they should be better than Santa With Muscles or Mr. Nanny, but not much farther than that and you’ll be OK.

Speaking of better acting, Pinkie turned 30 some time ago and so I offer belated birthday wishes.

Finally, I’d like to offer a friendly reminder to all those modern gaming console owners to head on over to their digital shop of choice and pick up 9… because 140,000+ clearly isn’t a big enough sales number. It is a nice throwback to the days when video games were awesome, except it’s made today and that’s fun.

(2019 Update: This compilation features two posts regarding WWE’s Unforgiven PPV, which featured three things of note; the end of CM Punk’s first World title reign without him ever doing the job, the debut of the “Championship Scramble” gimmick match that hurts my brain, and the sad realization that I didn’t really missed the PPV; I just skipped it. Oh well…)

BEFORE (September 6th, 2008)
For sixty minutes, fifteen men will compete in three matches. We’ll see if anyone cares for that amount of time. In any case… the Unforgiven PPV introduces WWE audiences to the Scramble match. The rules are… too headache-inducing for me to repeat, so I’ll just copy and paste them from WWE.com:

The rules for the Championship Scramble are simple: Two randomly selected ring warriors will start the match, with a new challenger stepping in every five minutes. If a man scores a pinfall or submission on any other in the match, he is declared the “interim” champion – though he will not be historically recognized as such. The title can change hands as many times as necessary throughout the bout, and the Superstar to earn the final pinfall or submission within the 20-minute time limit will be officially declared the Champion.

So did you get all that? Good, because I sure as hell didn’t. But that’s okay, because WWE is willing to push this type of match as something new and innovative instead of just time-filler to give a shitload of guys something to do for the PPV so hard that they’re giving you not ONE Scramble match… but NOT TWO Scramble matches… but THREE Scramble matches! All in one night! Unbelievable!

It’s like puking on a pile of shit in a puddle of piss.

So anyway, let’s just forget about the predictions because I honestly don’t give ten shits about HHH’s title match that he’s obviously going to win or the end of the CM Punk title reign or the continuation of Mark Henry’s charity title reign as well as the continued burial of Matt Hardy. I don’t particularly care for Dibiase/Rhodes retaining their titles against Cryme Tyme nor do I care about the Divas championship. You know what? Who gives a shit about all that?

Because in the end, it’s about one match.

Now yes, I’ll be the first to admit that I get a little pissy when two guys have been having matches on a monthly basis and it gets to a point where they should really move on… but truth be told, I’m digging this Chris Jericho/Shawn Michaels feud. It’s actually the only reason I tune in to RAW these days. It’s actually a genuinely good story filled with bitterness and what is sold as legitimate hatred between the two (but we all know these guys love each other). There hasn’t been a more compelling storyline in WWE in fucking years than what these guys are doing together.

So yeah, let these guys kill each other. They do such a great job at it and it makes us happy. Good enough that it could very well work outside of a wrestling environment (not recommended). Congrats to Chris and Shawn for a good show… keep up the good work.

So yeah, I was supposed to do predictions… maybe next time. I think I’ll sit back and enjoy the kick-ass feud… and cook some scrambled eggs.

G’night.

AFTER (September 8th, 2008)
For those who care, here are the results of the Unforgiven PPV from last night. No witty comments because I missed the PPV.

Matt Hardy wins the ECW Scramble to become ECW Champion.

Ted Dibiase/Cody Rhodes defeat Cryme Tyme to retain the Tag Titles.

Chris Jericho defeats Shawn Michaels when Shawn wouldn’t stop beating on Jericho.

Michelle McCool beats… random ho to retain the Butterfly Belt.

Triple H wins… again.

CM Punk… doesn’t even wrestle in the main event. Wow, that’s harsh. It’s bad enough he lost the title, but they don’t even let him compete on top of that. Bullshit.

So your new world champ is… replacement Chris Jericho.

Wow.

Must check out PPV.