Category: DTM Archives

Stuff from the archives. Long lost material or behind the scenes stuff.

DTM BLOG Classics #34 – The Weather And Other Stories

The string of bad weather began this past Wednesday, which started off nicely with some rain and wind (yeah right) and then when I get out of work, everything is frozen over and windier. Only the roads were ice-free, but the sidewalks were death-traps waiting to happen.

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PPV Predictions: WWE No Mercy 2007

So a couple days ago, during his match with the returning Mr. Ken Kennedy Kennedy, John Cena hurt himself and will be out of action for six months… thus forcing him to vacate the WWE Heavyweight Title. All I got to say is…

GEE WHIZ! THANKS, MR. KENNEDY KENNEDY!

So there’s a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this show: what is the purpose behind the mysterious Save_us.222 and Savior_Self promos that have been airing for the past couple of weeks? Who will be involved in the makeshift WWE championship match? Will there be a WWE championship match? Will CM Punk overcome the odds and trumph Big Daddy V, only to drop the belt back to the man he beat for it? Will I give a shit about any of this? All of this and more on the No Mercy PPV. Let’s get started.

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DTM BLOG Classics #33 – WWE Signature Pharms

Comprising a collection of posts regarding the WWE/Signature Pharmacy controversy that took place during this time. The next Bite commentary will touch on this a bit further, but for now, here’s a compilation of posts for posterity.

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PPV Predictions – WWE Summerslam 2007

2007 Introduction

Haven’t done one of these predictions in quite some time, so excuse me for dusting off the cobwebs. Anyway, you should know the drill by now: I list all the advertised matches and give my thoughts on who wins and what the actual match might entail. My only gripe seems to be that a lot of the matches here have been seen before in some form, but nonetheless, it looks fairly decent and it’ll be interesting to see how they handle the two returns.

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DTM BLOG Classics #32 – Birthday Gifts And Wrestling Bits

For anyone wondering what I got for gifts…

– Money. Yay.
– Another free PPV.
– A bunch of shirts.
– Shoes.
– That adidas cologne spray thingie.
– Fight Night Round 2 for PS2 (because Round 3 is missing).

That’s about it.

Who wants some rassling bits?

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DTM BLOG Classics #31 – Some Random Rantings

Got a couple quick things I gotta get off my chest.

– So there’s a random poster at Trekweb who started a poll asking who would boycott the upcoming Star Trek movie if it doesn’t include Shatner. The poster is a deluded fool to think that Shatner will make the movie good and that Shatner needs to be here. I don’t think Shatner needs to be in Trek. His time has passed, he did his bit, and now he’s getting a career revival as Denny Crane. And as for Trek, it’s done fine without Shatner. People like to say that Shatner is Trek, but last time I checked, Shatner only lasted seventy-nine episodes, a short animated series, and seven movies. Most modern (or formerly modern, I suppose) incarnations of Trek have lasted longer. So yeah, Trek is doing fine and will continue to do fine without Shatner.

– For those who missed it, the first Power Rangers convention was held this past week-end. From what I’ve heard, it was a pretty good time had by all, as some old faces from the MMPR days showed as well as the recent new blood. I’m almost sorry I couldn’t make it, but then, I’m not much of a convention-type person.

– I’m digging the current Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness miniseries currently going on. For those who don’t know, this series is a crossover between Marvel Zombies (zombified versions of classic Marvel heroes) and the idiot Ash from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness flicks. This is a great, somewhat hilarious mini that’s worth the read if you’re into AoD or Zombies.

So that’s it on my part…

Wait… am I forgetting something?

Oh right. That.

I’ll have my thoughts on the matter posted in a Bite commentary in a couple days.

PPV Predictions – WWE Vengeance 2007

2007 Introduction

Let me get some negative energy out of the way: WWE is billing Vengeance as a Night of Champions. You know what? I don’t care. I just don’t care. After witnessing three tri-branded PPVs that ranged from “less than stellar” to shitacular levels only James Rolfe’s Angry Video Game Nerd would dwell into, why should I care about this one? So all the titles being defended on this one show. Who cares? It’s not that special anymore.

With that bit of negativity out of the way, however, I have to admit that this looks to be a pretty decent card… well, somewhat. With all the titles being on the line, it’s a chance for all the champions to showcase their abilities and an opportunity for the challengers to really step up their game. My biggest concern is how much of the fake death of Vince is going to dominate this show. Hopefully, it won’t be that much because people don’t feel like paying for footage that has been shown repeatedly on free TV. But I digress. Let’s look at the card.

2012 Introduction

Yeah, I want you to digest that opening spiel. It was written for a show that seemed like a throwaway show. Every match on the card being a title match isn’t a big deal; it should be, but when you have fifty titles and none of them mean anything, such a declaration has no weight. So for all intents and purposes, this should have been a typical B-level PPV.

Except there’s one little detail that became apparent during the week… this was the weekend Chris Benoit killed his wife and son before committing suicide. One of the most notorious and controversial moments in the history of professional wrestling, this was one of the contributing factors – if not THE main factor – that prompted WWE to drastically tweak and re-structure their product to the current form you see today. It was the event that had caused everyone to analyse the business and bring up the ages-old arguments of steroid and drug use. Whether you want to admit it or not, this was a big deal… and a very big problem.

I am not going to dwell on this matter, because this is supposed to be about the PPV… but the fact is that you simply cannot bring up Vengeance 2007 without bringing up the Benoit double murder/suicide travesty. WWE can certainly try – they’ve been deleting Benoit from their history as much as possible – but when you get right down to it, the Night of Champions concept got its start the same weekend as that tragedy. There’s no way around it. It’s simply the way it is.

I could have saved that rant for the end, but I felt it necessary to bring this up now.

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DTM BLOG Classic #30 – Vince’s “death” brings out the stupid in people

So apparently, some non-wrestling sites picked up on the Vince McMahon whacking and the amount of user comments for this story is almost mind-boggling.  Not so much the frequency, but the message contained therein. People complaining about how they were offended by such a hoax and believe WWE has gone too far. This is something that has been mentioned several times on my part, but let’s get this out there just one more time.

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