Dave’s Wrestling Rant #1 – Nov. 11, 2002

Welcome to the first edition of Dave’s Wrestling Rant.

RAW 11-4-2002
The good news is that the necrophilia angle has been ditched. Vince McMahon has finally realized that these stupid angles are stripping RAW of the viewership and fan base it is desperately trying to keep. Admittingly, it was a slight improvement over the week before, but it was still too boring and uninteresting. Tonight’s RAW has two matches that have potential: Triple H vs. Booker T and RVD/Kane vs. Christian/Chris Jericho for the tag straps.

SMACKDOWN 11-7-2002
The tag-team match between Rey Misterio/Edge and Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit was the whole F’n show! It more than made up for the stupid proposal angle earlier during the show (the less said the better.) Compared to this, Billy & Chuck’s gay wedding angle seemed like a good thing.

NWA-TNA PPV 11-6-2002
I didn’t catch the show, but I plan on catching the next one. From what I heard, this product is getting a little better.

WWE Confidential 11-9-2002
I didn’t get to see Confidential, but from what I read from 411wrestling.com, I didn’t miss much. I also discovered that the proposed Scott Steiner interview that was supposed to happen didn’t happen. Man, what a crock. I was one of the few people who was actually anxious to watch this show and see what it had to offer.

WWE Heat & Velocity
Who gives a rat’s ass about Heat & Velocity?
That’s all I can think of. The rant will probably be updated every Friday or so.

Classic Bite Commentary #18 – October 31st, 2002

(2014 Update: The following post originally featured Hulk Hogan inadvertently gave away spoilers for taped editions of Impact Wrestling. The video in question has since been removed, so in its place, I posted another Bite commentary, along with a couple additional bits that were posted days later, but weren’t long enough to merit their own individual posts. As per the case, any modern reflections is added in bold.)

Happy Halloween. Have fun with your trick-or-treating. Now to my juicy rants:

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Classic Bite Commentaries #16 – October 22nd, 2002

In honor of Kane’s triumphant victory over Triple H at No Mercy, I have decided to be paint the site red… What’s that? You see no red? Well, that’s because Kane lost on Sunday. Damn Triple H for being Vince’s boy. It is said that when guys reach the top of the wrestling world, they get lazy. But not Triple H, oh no sirree! He busts his way to the top, date the boss’ daughter and THEN gets lazy…
Let me tell you something; I am glad that WWE is pushing their World champions to have long healthy reigns. Unfortunately, one of those champs happens to be a guy who has hogged the spotlight long enough and I am not talking about Brock Lesnar. I am talking about a man whose name consists of three letters.
I’m going to start this commentary off officially with a brief recap of matches that I predicted. The comments in brackets are the actual results, so let’s start this off:

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PPV Predictions – WWE No Mercy 2002

2012 Update: One of the problems with these old PPV predictions, especially the 2002-2003 ones, is the lack of a consistent format. So I’m left having to redo all the formatting so that it somewhat matches up with the current stock.

This is going to be posted as is with little input from me today. Quite frankly, I barely recall the show and I don’t have a copy available to watch. Frankly, if I had, I’d probably redo this whole form from scratch… but since I don’t, you get to enjoy this horrible text. So other than minor format tweaks and minor edits, this is all from 2002. Enjoy.

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Classic Bite Commentaries #15 – October 12th, 2002

(2024 Update: For the first time in a long time, I present the October 12th, 2002 edition of the Classic Bite Commentary. For some reason, the original post that labeled this as October 12th was just a copy of the October 2nd commentary and this was a thing for years. That’s been rectified now and you’ve got the actual commentary… which is something a bit different.)

Hey, kids. Not much to say today… just want to complain about some largely bad wrestling.

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My Conversation With A Man Who Klings On His Honor

Last year, I wrote a fake interview with Superman, who turned out to be a different take from the usual Superman take. No one bit on it and for good reason… well, here we are again with another fictional conversation of sorts… and today’s guest would say that his kind never do these sorts of things… but then again, he’ll say that about a lot of things that he wouldn’t want to do.

There are good Klingons and there are bad Klingons. Good Klingons have high regard for honor. Bad Klingons don’t. Good Klingons are fighters who are willing to die. Bad Klingons are cowards and don’t want to risk their lives for common fights.

And then there’s Worf.

Worf can’t be classified as either a good Klingon or a bad Klingon. In fact, he can’t even be considered the Starfleet Klingon because then you’d have to neglect B’Elanna Torres of Voyager (never mind the fact she’s only half Klingon – it still counts!) So how does one describe Worf?

Well, Worf is a pretty unexcited fellow. He claims Klingons do not laugh, and soon he discovered that Klingons not only laugh, but they go targ-hunting, eat worms, and kill people purely for entertainment sakes. Worf eventually became an ambassador, but that job didn’t last long and was soon an officer with a small role in Nemesis. Worf, now on leave after killing more imaginary cowboys in the holodeck, has decided to grace his presence and grant me some (fake) interview time.

The results are as follows… and was hidden from view for years for a very good reason, I’m afraid…

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PPV Predictions – WWE Unforgiven 2002

Unforgiven 2002… quite honestly, I don’t remember too much about this one, outside of what I can recall and recount from when I wrote the original predictions sheet back in 2002. But the show itself was a total blank for me. It might have been a decent show, all things considered, but not a memorable one, I suppose. Oh well.

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