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[klunderbunker]

Dude the other day I did New Blood Rising and I've done Heroes of Wrestling. Hardcore Justice will be easy. If nothing else I'll have a ton of potential jokes to make from it.

 

[Барбоса]

I'm sure your ECW reviews will have armed with plenty of ammunition

 

[klunderbunker]

I still have 3 of those to go.

 

[Барбоса]

I've enjoyed your series so far. I have a couple of the last PPVs on VHS somewhere and while there were some highlights like the building of Rhino as the ultimate monster, the rest was mostly pretty aimless or too late. The best wrestling was from the tag teams at the beginning of the shows but had little or no direction although I enjoyed much of Corino's "King of Old School" gimmick.

Did you enjoy being cast in the Sid Justice role in KvK?

 

[klunderbunker]

I didn't read it.

As for ECW, the problem I had with it was there was no direction from show to show. It was just random collection of matches with few angles. Also, the lack of an RVD push hurt it a lot.

 

[Барбоса]

It was like Heyman didn't want to pull the trigger on RVD almost because it was too obvious for ECW's smarky fans.

 

[klunderbunker]

My issue was you had guys like Corino and Lynn and Credible getting reigns but not RVD. He was too busy fighting Scotty Riggs.

 

[Барбоса]

Yeah, everything with the Scotty Anton feud was just wrong. I mean why unveil the Van Terminator against such an unworthy opponent? Why not use it to take the World title from someone like Corino or later Rhino?

Yes, RVD breaking his ankle at an inopportune time as before the potential "Champion vs Champion" match with Mike Awesome did not help but that does not make up or excuse months of ill-timed and shoddy booking

 

[klunderbunker]

He should have been world champion 18 months before that.

 

[Барбоса]

Yeah, he could easily have stepped into a feud with Taz over the title following Douglas' injury

 

[Vincent Michaels]

Hey KB, was wondering if you could review some ICW shows. It's a small promotion in Queens, NY that did some shows from 01-03, went out of business, and came back this year.

 

[klunderbunker]

The problem is that I'd have to be able to find the shows. Small companies like that aren't easy.

 

[Vincent Michaels]

I planned for this, so I found out that since RF Video makes their DVDs, they have the newest ones and some old school ones, but not all of the old school. See for yourself - http://www.rfvideo.com/impactchampionshipwrestling.aspx

 

[SuperSteve16]

Hey KB fantastic reviews as usual, I was just wondering if you are ever going to finish the taboo tuesday/ cyber sunday PPV. Also wondering what you are going to do next

 

[klunderbunker]

Well I plan on getting to those soon but I just wanted to do some random shows for awhile. After that as far as WWE goes I'll likely do one of the shows that was around for awhile, maybe No Mercy or something like that.

 

[klunderbunker]

Saturday Night's Main Event is DONE.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

How about No Way Out

 

[klunderbunker]

I might swap that for No Mercy. That could work as if nothing else I could get to do Austin vs. HHH.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

I've been waiting forever for you to do No Way Out 2001.

There have been quite a few great matches at No Way Out

 

[klunderbunker]

There have indeed. I might not do another series but I likely will. WIth so few WWE shows left it makes sense.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

For some reason I liked Mysterio vs. Orton better than Taker vs. Angle. Maybe it was because I loved Tazz and Cole's commentary.

 

[klunderbunker]

The Mysterio push from around that time is one of my least favorite periods in wrestling. It just isn't interesting at all because the whole let's milk Eddie's corpse for everything it's worth got REALLY old.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

I didn't like what they did either and that's pretty much where the Mysterio hate started. He may have gotten that first reign because of it but I guarantee if that didn't happen, he would still have become a world champion.

 

[klunderbunker]

Perhaps but the size just gets ridiculous after awhile. There comes a point where HEART becomes relied on too much, like the Swagger match at the last PPV for example.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

I like to think his size isn't that much of a hinderance but when it comes to his promos and such, it is. People criticize Mysterio for the HEART thing when they use the same thing for HBK.

It's a shame they followed NWO 2006 with the absolute pile of shit that was No Way Out 2007.