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Scrooge, if you want to pin this, that would be awesome.

RE: ECW from Dec, 18 -

How did Jimmy Yang and the Miz win the first match. I'm guessing that's a typo?

As far as the review itself, it's very good. Actually makes the show sound worth watching, which I haven't watched ECW in a long time. Think I'll set the DVR to start taping it.

You questioned the main event booking at the end - CM Punk wasn't actually booked to be champ, right? Wasn't it kind of a last minute thing? If so, that's not an excuse for bad booking, but it makes sense. Is that one young black guy still heavily involved. Can't think of his name. So, it's pretty obvious that Chavo is stepping right into a Main Event program? Do you think the main event scene is so weak that Chavo in the Main event makes sense?

Yeah, that was a typo, oops.

The show has been quite watchable lately. They are building talent and it's catching. If you don't want to DVR it, you can do what I've been doing, and watch the entire show on WWE.com.

Good point about how Punk wasn't originally going to be champion, therefore his reign has been lackluster. I would hope they would make the best of the situation, but sometimes I expect too much from them.

Chavo/Punk isn't a bad idea for the main event feud at all, it's just the way they went about setting it up. It would have been more effective if Chavo had just jumped a victorious CM Punk, not just after Punk had his ass handed to him by MVP. The message I get from this feud starter is that both Chavo and Punk are inferior to MVP anyhow, so only MVP gets put over and why care about a feud between a loser and the guy who is only brave enough to attack a loser? Also, it's interrupting a running angle where Punk is fighting off both Mark Henry and Big Daddy V. While those two aren't exactly the best main event choices, it already had momentum (and Punk just did a big old job to V at Armageddon anyhow, so it needs follow-up) so I don't see why a new feud needed to start there anyhow.

Elijah Burke is the young black guy you're thinking of. He's been depushed heavily. He was last seen jobbing to Batista. They really need to start rebuilding Burke, though it seems that Shelton Benjamin is taking his spot for the time being.

I didn't expect ECW to be a show this week, since i was Christmas Day. Doesn't look like I missed too much, though.

Well, this week was a "Best of 2007" episode. It wasn't too bad. It included CM Punk defending the belt against John Morrison and The Miz from Survivor Series, and it was a good little triple threat match that helped get everyone over.

... whoops! You reviewed the 12/18 show. My bad!

You asked for it Samoa Rowe, so here's a critique of your NWA Wrestling Showcase Feb. 27 review:

It was easy to follow and you voiced your opinions -- which I prefer to the writer building up matches that are horrible -- and it was presented in a way that wrestling fans should enjoy. You make me want to see NWA matches but to be prepared for the slow spots.

I didn't get any of the comedy that I read in your Dinsmore match :P

Since Pepper Parks was in the first match and you indicated the match wasn't that good, do you have an opinion of his ring work? I have never seen him in a match but his name is everywhere. I was thinking perhaps I'd come across a DVD with him in action and pick it up just to see what he was like.

Pepper Parks came across as being decent-ish in the match. The match wasn't bad, it just wasn't good either. I think he probably does much better with different opponents and better booking, the match I saw him in was just very cookie-cutter.

I think Parks must work around the Indy circuit because I see his name out there all the time. It's the same with Josh Abercrombie -- I've never seen him in a match either.

I may look around and see if I can find a match with Parks. I'd like to know how well he does in the ring.

That's not knocking your review. I appreciate the honesty. I'm just curious about Pepper Parks.

NWA Showcase archive.

Pepper Parks is in the first match on Episode 6.

Thank you. I bookmarked it but it was taking forever to load. If I don't get the cable people out here soon so I can get rid of this dial up! :angry:

No problem. Sometimes that page takes forever to load regardless, as my internet is typically top speed and that site still is sluggish at times.

ROH Joe vs. Punk II

I just read your review of the above ROH show. Again a great honest review. I try not to do play by plays of ROH shows. I can't keep up with it all! I think I'd better be reading other reviews soon or everyone will think I'm playing favorites :rolleyes:

I was going to ask if any ROH fans can tell me:

Has Jimmy Jacobs has always been a heel?

What really happened between Dann Maff and Homicide?

No, Jacobs hasn't always been heel. From 2004 - 2005 he was a plucky underdog face while playing his Bruiser Brody gimmick with teh HUSS!!!

Well, from what I understand, Maff had relations with someone close to 'Cide. I was looking this up the other day and that's about all I found out.

Thanks, Sassy. I really do appreciate the feedback. I generally don't review many ROH shows, simply because it takes a lot of work, but lately I've switched to watching a show while taking notes and then typing up a review afterwards. I don't do this often, because it means sitting through a 3-4 hour show, and then spending another 1-2 hours writing my notes into something.

And to your questions...

Jimmy Jacobs used to be a plucky babyface. He'd wear fuzzy boots and get the fans to chant "Huss" as he marched around the ring. He was a face in the feud against Alex Shelley and he was a face in an odd-ball team with BJ Whitmer, until they split up and Jacobs switched to playing an emo-ish character who was hopelessly in love with Lacey. From there, Jacobs became more and more disturbing, until his feud with Whitmer became violent and he formed the Age of the Fall. He's one of the most compelling characters in all of wrestling right now, if you ask me.

There is no official word on what went down between Maff and Homicide. The rumor I hear the most is that Maff did something bad with Homicide's underage daughter. Again, that's just gossip, I don't really know exactly what happened. It's a shame, Maff was a good talent.

I think the first time I remember seeing Jacobs was when he was hung up on Lacey. I liked what I have seen of Jacobs and Tyler Black but I haven't seen enough of them to make a judgement call on how great they might be.

SIDE NOTE: There will NEVER be another Bruiser Brody!

I agree that what I have seen of Dan Maff was pretty good and I just happened to run across the Homicide/Maff personal issue(s) when I was putting together info on the wrestlers involved in an earlier ROH DVD.

If it was an "underage daughter" of Homicide, she must be REALLY underage. Isn't Homicide in his early 30's? If that's the reason, I'm surprised Homicide didn't commit murder (I'd call it justifiable homicide, no pun intended) -- for real.

Whatever it was, it appears Maff just walked away from wrestling and never looked back.

See, that's the thing about the whole "Homicide's daughter" thing. I suppose it's possible that Homicide had a child when he was really young himself, but I have a feeling it probably had to do with a sister of his instead. And you're right, whatever it was had to be serious enough to get him blackballed from wrestling but not thrown in jail.

It gave me the impresssion that Homicide pulls a lot of weight in the wrestling world.

Not that you could tell it by the way he gets shortchanged in TNA.

Yeah, you don't pull weight in TNA unless you worked in WCW or the WWE before you got there.

Or your last name's "Jarrett".

I just noticed something. According to the NWA Tag Team title lineage page on Wikipedia, Los Luchas won the titles on February 10th of this year. The episode of NWA Showcase where they won the belts just aired this past week. That gives you an idea of how far in advance they are taping that show.

Perhaps with Dinsmore stepping up in OVW as himself again, I can cross my fingers and hope for the end of "Special E" in the Showcase.

I finally managed to watch the Pepper Parks/Sampson match from the link you provided.

I have some questions:

Does anyone know what the ring size for NWA happens to be? It looked much smaller than a WWE ring.

I was not impressed with Sampson. Does anyone have a diferent opinion?

Parks seemed to be very knowledgeable in wrestling. He was much larger than I thought he would be. I had it in my head that he was a smaller wrestler.

Because of the size of the ring, I thought moves were limited.

I also noticed that when they showed the rules at the beginning of the show, a toss over the top rope was an automatic DQ. It used to always be an auto DQ no matter which organization you were watching. Does anyone know when it became a non-rule in other organizations?

I know, I know, it's the old broad asking questions again. :huh:

Sorry :o

Hmm, I haven't noticed anything strange or different about the NWA rings, but I'll pay closer attention the next time I watch the Showcase.

I've seen Sampson in a few Showcase matches, and he's yet to impress me as well.

Yeah, toss overs are illegal, but the heels usually get away with it by having a manager or team mate distract the ref.

But in TNA, WWE and even ROH (I think, I may have to go back and watch some shows), over the top rope tosses are the norm, not DQ material.

Yeah, that's true. To be honest, I'm not sure when WWE/WCW started adopting that practice.

So now it's official :( .

I wonder how well he will do after being out of the ring for so long?

Wasn't he always a heel?

He can't do any worse than the last time I saw him in a ring (with one of his legs snapped into two).

I didn't really follow his career, but I remember he was a face in the dying days of WCW.

RE: The IC Title series

Don Muraco's officially climbed into my list of Most Favoritest Rasslers Ever. Man, I dig that guy.

Yeah, he did a lot of good work in that series against Morales. I must mention, my stock in Morales has gone up quite a bit after part two.

I'm looking forward to seeing The Magnificent One drop the title in the next episode.

WCW adopted the over the top rope DQ in for a brief time around 1992, when "Cowboy" Bill Watts came to power. I don't remember the WWF ever adopting it.

I'm pretty sure the over-the-top rope DQ was already in play before Watts' reign.

It lasted until late 1997, when JJ Dillon made the annoucement that the rule was going away. For some reason, I remember it centering around a match between Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger.