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Post by thecaptain15 on Mar 5, 2009 18:26:24 GMT -5
James that sitcom was even before Hogan's time........I think he was playing bass in a bar band then..LOL
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Post by 4dogg on Mar 5, 2009 18:42:00 GMT -5
before hulk hogan.....after hogans heroes
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Post by thecaptain15 on Mar 6, 2009 6:49:48 GMT -5
4 Dogg
Chuck Mai-Chin from Korea would be a great legends opponent for Jericho........
Perhaps after the match they could share some Chow - Yuk or some great Italian food like Bagels and Rox and Chopped River.........
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 6, 2009 11:18:52 GMT -5
Alright i was hoping it didn't come to this, but I'm going to need admin powers for this thread only. I'm not delusional and asking for super powers for the entire board, I don't want MY thread tainted by these speedbumps. I intended this to be about intelligent wrestling discussion, I even have Balls doing a good job, he hasn't said one asinine thing in this entire thread and I have to believe it's because of me and this thread.
Tom, Balls, if I can't have the power to delete the crap that doesn't belong in this thread, can I at least have some backing? This type of mularkey should not be tolerated in a thread meant for much more intelligent discussion. Chuck Mai-Chin? Hogan's Heroes? Korea? It's too much. And unless talking about TNA Knockout Roxxi, rocks should never be spelled Rox. This is absurd.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 6, 2009 11:29:30 GMT -5
James, even I dont do editing / deleting in my Scorecard and column threads. Part of running your section is sparking discussion and comments. You should be happy people are reacting to what you are writing, and rightfully so. You are entertaining, keep it up.
Trust me, if you start deleting peoples posts in here, they will stop coming in here.
A suggestion? Post all your "Columns / blogs" after the fact in one thread, which we can lock for you after you add stuff. This way all of them are in one place, they are archived, and no one is commenting silly. But for this actual thread, allow the chatter.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 6, 2009 12:11:43 GMT -5
I wouldn't start that just yet, since the thread is too new, but maybe once every few months, we can archive your stuff like Tom suggested. We can open up the thread, you do your thing, and when you say lock, we lock. In THAT thread, any post you want gone, is gone.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 6, 2009 12:18:05 GMT -5
I don't mind the chatter, trust me, it was more a joke in character, the pompous, I'm better than you 'cause this is my thread Cactus.
But I love the idea of a thread strictly for my blogs. I'm just a little worried if it's still in this thread with me being an ass, it won't be seen by as many people if it had it's own thread, afterall its on the first page and we're already on the second. Though I'm not sure if I picked the right day, Friday would be best and as a plus I have TNA fresh in my mind, there's enough blog material there for a year without mentioning WWE. I think in any event Smackdown will be more an after thought with the other shows fresher in my mind. I can't decide which day is best, so I'll leave that all up to you, doesn't matter to me I just wanna riff.
I really do deserve some mad hot dope shit props though for sparking a conversation in which Balls made good points and wasn't bringing it down. I don't think anyone on any board has ever gotten that out of him, and I did with my blogs. I swear it's not easy being me.
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Post by 4dogg on Mar 6, 2009 18:14:35 GMT -5
Captain......
Remember...."its hip to eat nip"
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Post by thecaptain15 on Mar 6, 2009 18:44:07 GMT -5
James remember who gave you this thread!!!!!!
Relax and have some fun..Good column by the way..keep them coming........
Click Click!!!!!
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 12:00:00 GMT -5
Hey James--it's been a week since your first blog. I have high hopes for this thread. Is it going to be a weekly thing?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 12, 2009 12:06:51 GMT -5
I think he said the original run was going to be a new blog per month.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 12, 2009 13:15:39 GMT -5
No no, it's a weekly thing. Few different things I'm thinking about, I'd expect one in about an hour. Is it still being posted here or am I putting this in a blog only thread yet?
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 13:17:23 GMT -5
So I guess we can consider Thursday to be Cactus James Blog Day?
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 12, 2009 13:18:46 GMT -5
Fine by me, all I need to know is where to post it, in it's own thread or in this one.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 13:19:43 GMT -5
I would say here for now, and when we get a decent collection of them, we'll archive it.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 12, 2009 14:15:21 GMT -5
Welcome to the 2nd installation of my blog type thing.....I need to come up with a name for this. If you'd like to email me some suggestions feel free to send it to CactusJamesAhole@Hecklehouse.com. This week I talk about the Mania hype, a little TNA, a little UFC and some other shit. So in the words of the great Kenny Powers, who is a fucking power house by the way, hold on to your dick.
We will start over at TNA, they got the big Destination X ppv this sunday and on paper looks to be an excellent card. Of course this card is known for the Ultimate X matche, one the few gimmick matches TNA has gotten over. The way they got that match over was the people they put in it, the X Division. And they have a bunch of good guys in the match this go round. Of course the Motor City Machine Guns are in, they're carrying the division right now as Alex Shelley defends the belt almost weekly. They have a cool little tweener role going on right mow where they're "Front Line" members, but get along with none of them. Even going so far as to attack fellow members Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal. Now while not all the participants have been announced, and still more matches need to be announced, this is shaping up to be the highlight of the night. In any event, I have the feeling Sabin wins the match and goes on to challenge his tag partner for the X Division Title. If TNA gives them another 20 minutes for a one on one like they did two months ago, I'm all for it.
The Guns have been tearing it up, the promos, the matches, all top notch, WWE should take note when trying to establish the IC title. The X Division Title was nothing, and they put it on Shelley and then POOF, like some sort of fucking magic it's instantly good TV. In many ways WWE is better, retaining the importance of the mid card titles, not so much.
Another match is the new and "improved" Samoa Joe vs Scott Steiner. Joe has committed attempted manslaughter by holding a Rambo looking knife to Steiner's throat several times, but hasn't been arrested, fined or fired by TNA, and Steiner hasn't back out of a match. If someones coming at me with a knife, last thing I'm going to do is wait for them in a ring where they know exactly where I am. This reeks of Vince Russo 90's attitude era crap. I don't expect this to be good since Steiner sucks and Joe is known as not being able to get more out of the people he's in the ring with. I mean he made Sting look worse than Sting is, that's impressive.
Speaking of the world champ, he's facing Kurt Angle in a MEM main event, where they're battling for respect of each other. Interesting match, they've worked good the few brawls they've had past weeks, but I expect this to be where they get the belt of Sting, but in the MEM. Sting just can't go anymore, in big or small spurts. Not to say that's what's wrong with the whole angle, if the whole point is to make the original TNA guys as good as the MEM, not good, but it's not's Sting's fault for being Sting. But a title change could help that, open up some things and maybe lead to some compelling TV when it comes to the TNA title.
Also there is the Tag Title off the wagon match, where a team challenges for the gold, and if they're team loses, whoever takes the pin is fired. Roode and Storm defend against 3D, and while I'm a fan of Beer Money, I don't see someone from 3D being fired.
Also there's Sojo vs Kong but that's eh. Without much else to go on, since more has to be announced, that will do for the TNA part of this.Next week I'll recap the PPV and have more to go on.
Now for our main story, the Mania hype. Both WWE and TNA have seen jumps in ratings, due to this hype, yet WWE has nothing to be happy about in my intoxicating brown eyes. First off, Cena and Edge should be one on one, it could have been a classic match, the classic they should have had when they feuded on Raw years back. But they have to throw Show a bone, the size of a dinosaurs tailbone. Worst yet, is they made it a love triangle, and Vickie and Show have ZERO chemistry together. I have more chem notes than they have chemistry and I never took the fucking class. Bad move on WWE's part. However, the WWE Title hype has been good. Yes, the beatdown in Orton's house was predictable, but they have to try new things keeping it fresh, and while some of the segment was too over-produced for something that was suppose to be shocking and something thy weren't prepared for. The funniest thing of the whole thing was Orton's wife, she looks too nice to be with such an asshole like him. He's talking about beating up the McMahons with no remorse, and she just sits there all ho hum.
But the hype for the rest of the show has been good. Taker has had more mic time for any of his matches, let alone Mania, than he has in a while, and he's not doing bad. And HBK is responding to him, instead of instigating, so Shawn's promo haven't been bad except for the one line at the end of the segment on Raw. The way he gave away the line you've never beaten me and never will was a giveaway. It would have been better to let the announcers take care of it and let him just stand toe to toe with Taker.
I don't even think I need to get into Jericho's thing, he's money right now, period. What I find nice about the entire card, is the uncertainty of the outcomes for the title matches. Unless they wait for the draft, I expect Mania to be where they get one world title back on Raw and one on SD. But how do they do that having a face win to close the show? If HHH wins, Orton gets nothing and SD keeps the belt, which them means Cena wins and we get two faces. But it just seems to me that Orton or Edge HAVE to win, one of them has to walk out as champ. It would kill all the steam have. My thinking is HHH wins, because it's unlikely he loses and doesn't defend the honor of his wife. Which them means Cena wins so Raw has a belt. Edge though is the favorite, but that would just screw up everything. And who knows, maybe they throw a curveball this year and draft a champ to Raw when they do the lottery draft. But the fact there are so many possibilities makes it up in the air, which Mania hasn't had recently.
But it is a good sign for the business that WM season comes around and ratings for BOTH shows go up. Hopefully both companies are able to hook new fans now, and deliver good programming after to keep them. It's also good news that ROH is starting on HDNet soon or whatever it is, it's nice an indy promotion is doing as good as it's doing, maybe they can really have an effect on the business and rival the other two companies. Competition always breeds creativity, hopefully this is a new time for that and hopefully ROH can do just that.
I also read that WWE has contacted Bret Hart about someday inducting both Stu and Owen, and he said he'd be up for that. I'm all for it, as I think he deserves to be in and it's a shame his wife won't let him in. I think it's a good move by Vince to cut out the middle (wo)man and go straight to Bret, who wants Owen in and I'm sure realizes how much fans and peers want Owen in too. Plus how do you let Bret in and not Owen, Bret could never touch how good Owen was but he's still in.
Now for UFC, great card over the weekend, and the main event lived up to the hype. I won't do a recap since I sort of already did that, instead, address the notion that the altercation between Rampage and Rashad Evans was not the MMA thing, that it was a pro wrestling type thing. Nose to nose encounters have been going on since weigh ins for boxing fights. Any real fight fan, who knows the fighters and the current state of MMA knows that's a dream match up and any hype before the fight is good for business. It was something you'd see if these guys were going brawl in a bar, it was intense and it was real. You felt the pressure of the situation just watching it on TV. If that drives people away, fuck them, I'll take their seat bitches.
And in closing, I'm going to give big ups to Evan "Air" Bourne who returns to ECW next week, he's one of the best up and comers anywhere, it'll be nice to have that change of tempo back, here's hoping he and Christian can work together is some way, shape or form.
This has been Cactus James, hell I like you, you can come over my house and fuck my sister.
Cactus James recommends watching: Eddie Guerreo vs JBL for the WWE Championship from Judgment Day May 16th 2004
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 15:56:00 GMT -5
Thing is, Vicki is terrible--she needs a GREAT wrestler to carry her to give her ANY chemistry. Show is fine, but he's not on the level of an Edge or Cena. But I think that plotline is about the only thing that will make Show any relevant in the match.
Why is The Big Show at the TOP of the card. And WHY do they have to throw him THAT kind of bone? And why DO Edge or Orton have to win? While I would PREFER a heel to win one of the matches, I don't know if it's a requirement. And when IS the draft?
I agree 1000000 percent on Owen. I'll even agree that Owen was the better wrestler in every facet. Yet Bret got in first clearly because of the bigger push as world champ. I wish Owen had his chance to wear the big belt.
Bummed about Rampage not being able to go.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Mar 12, 2009 16:29:59 GMT -5
And who knows, maybe they throw a curveball this year and draft a champ to Raw when they do the lottery draft.
I could see them doing a few weeks of "OMG we have no champ on RAW, what are we going to do" routine. Defintiely would be an interesting curveball.
Also great job James keep them coming a very interesting read and I must give myself a pat on the back as if I did not start this thread you never would have started this.....LOL
Balls, I disagree with you, I actually like Vicki and she makes me laugh..I guess I am an "Excuse Me" mark.......We all have our "bad" likes..I have Vicki, you have Bastian Booger....
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 12, 2009 16:56:13 GMT -5
Balls, you are SO in the minority. Vicki is highly regarded amongst the fanbase. And I am more than a little annoyed that you dont watch Smackdown, yet feel the need to comment on Vicki Guerrero like you have any friggin' idea of what she is doing. Vicki rightfully won all kinds of kudos in the year-end online polls, newsletters, you name it. She is TREMENDOUS in her role.
I dont mind Show in the mix.
Draft is like, 2 weeks after Mania.
Sorry guys, Owen was NOT as good as Bret. I mean, wow, thats just ridiculous. He was able to do flippity flips and moonsaults, but that makes an acrobat, not necessarily a wrestler. Bret kicked his ass in terms of ring psychology. Balls, in all due respect, your fanboy devotion to Owen makes me think you simply a "blonde fan."
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 16:56:46 GMT -5
In any contest between Vicki and Bastion Booger, Booger is the one you have to pick.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 12, 2009 20:59:58 GMT -5
First off, Cap, I said there should be a thread for me, and you made it, but it was my idea as well as my idea to take my opinions and blog them. I'm the brain child, you get honorable mention.
Secondly, Vickie is great in her role, she has earned everything she has. She would always listen and take in things she talked about with Eddie, she's no dummy. If ahe sucked she would get no reaction, none. She arguably gets more heat than anyone. It's neither Show or Vickie's fault, there is just nothing between them, Edge and Vickie are great. Vickie bitching around Chavo is really good, just the Show and her don't click. Hopefully it won't last longer than Mania.
And I disagree about Bret being better, he was one mode, boring. His matches never went past first gear and it's no secret when Owen wasn't goofing off and had to work 20 minutes he was great. He was far more versatile in the ring, so you call it flopping and flipping all you want, Owen sold better, was better on the stick, could do more and adapted better to other peoples style. But I forget, title reigns are the most important things to Tom, what's next Sheriff, are you going to bring up wrestlers win/loss records? Do intangibles mean nothing now?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 12, 2009 21:15:57 GMT -5
First off, as to Vickie and Show, their facial reactions to one another have been great. Vickie slapping Show in the ass was fansastic. They are playing the silly soap opera stuff given to them quite well.
James, we get it, you hate Bret cause HBK hated Bret, and Bret hated HBK. Good for you. Now, get back to reality. Bret was 100 times the STAR his brother ever was. FACT. Bret has a legacy, a 3 disc DVD set, a book people actually WANT to read. That sold, by last I read, FIVE TIMES AS MANY COPIES AS MICHAELS' BOOK. 5 times!!!!!
Wow, you are losing credibility by the minute. Sad, really, in a thread where you are trying to play genius. You can start by getting into the world of reality when it comes to Bret and Owen.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 12, 2009 21:19:52 GMT -5
I've seen enough Vicki Guererro that my opinion of her is unchanged. She didn't earn a thing. She is there because of Eddie, and that's it. She is a big reason I rarely see Smackdown.
And I think James is right about Owen. Bret's matches were fairly routine. Many of the things he criticizes Hogan for, Bret did. Obviously, James doesn't hate Bret like he does Hogan, but Bret really tended to do the same moves, in the same order, almost every match.
And I agree that Owen was MUCH better on the stick. Bret basically portrayed one persona on the mic. But Owen could do it all. He could be serious one minute, and make you laugh the next. I don't think Bret ever INTENTIONALLY made anyone laugh.
I think Owen was capable of doing more in the ring. He had more moves than Bret and more variety. And let's not forget, he won two Slammies.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Mar 13, 2009 7:35:17 GMT -5
I like Owen better and thought Owen was better but there is no question that Bret was bigger.
Balls your loss, though I understand why you don't watch Smackdown as there is actually more and better WRESTLING then there is on RAW.
James you are correct it was your idea but you know you couldn't start the thread yourself or else you would have been viewed as the second coming of The Narcissist. Now keep up the good work and make me proud.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 13, 2009 7:44:15 GMT -5
Raw is the better show for me, and I have watched it enough to still get a feel for it. I like the roster better on Raw and the way that Raw is run.
I think it's fair to say that yes, Bret was the bigger star. I don't get it, but that's the way the push was done. Owen to me was superior at every aspect of the business.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 13, 2009 13:52:39 GMT -5
Tom you really pick and choose don't you. When people are on here saying Owen should go in the Hall your quick to tell us won't happen because of Martha.. Then you mention DVD legacy like there won't be one because Owen sucked. You know as well as I do there is no DVD because of the widow.
And dingus, I liked Owen before I like Shawn and before I hated Bret. So forget HBK old hat routine. I've said many times Owen was my first favorite and made me love heels more than faces.
And I won't argue push, yes Bret was pushed more, for whatever reason. Just because Bret headlined some Mania's and Owen didn't doesn't make him better. And what does a discussion abou t Bret and Owen have to do with how HBK's books sold? Who gives a flying fuck? I won't name reasons why Owen was really the King of Harts, I did that and so have others.
I don't get it though, I thought you were always about the grappling, Tom. Now it's all about star power when you're assessing someone? Maybe it's me, but that's unlike you.
And in this thread I am a genius, you're the only one who disagrees with anything I've written. The masses agree with me.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 13, 2009 13:58:24 GMT -5
And as for Vickie and Show, besides the ass slap, there's nothing.It's too forced, it looks to unnatural, and you'll say that's the fun in it, but I think it's just uncomfortable.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 13, 2009 14:12:07 GMT -5
When Owen turned heel, it was incredible. I'm trying to think if he ever turned face again after that. I think I actually would get an Owen Hart comprehensive DVD, assuming they can do it justice.
This thread makes me think of Bret turning heel in the Canada v. USA angle, and the way Owen reacted when Bret came to him to reconcile. He was crying tears of joy. That was just hysterical.
Ok, so this inspired me to do a youtube search, and I found it. Notice how the more Bret talks, the more slowly Owen starts to get emotional, until he finally cries at the end. The group hug is gold.
And keeping with not only the theme of this thread, but with Cactus James' favorite faction, here is DX making fun of the Nation of Domination, which revisionist historians will say was led by Owen Hart.
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Post by cactusjames on Mar 18, 2009 21:04:37 GMT -5
Wanted to shoot this blog out there a little ahead of schedule. Not too many jokes or my typical goofing off, the topic this week isn't a hard one to think of. With the passing of another wrestler at a young age, it'd be a dumb move to not have a blog about Andrew "Test" Martin. But this is more of a commentary regarding certain aspects surrounding his death, and not a retrospective of his career.
First off, it's never good news hearing of someone dying so young, not just being a wrestler. I won't sit here and say it isn't a tragic thing that happened, but it couldn't have happened to a dumber person. Today on my Myspace page Blue Meanie posted an interview of Test from 17 months ago, he had just recently turned 32. And he talks about his love of wrestling, to the grind of being on the road and the toll the lifestyle takes on you.
Which is why I'm very thrown by the news of his passing. Here's a guy who is very adamant about not being "a statistic". He made a point to say he didn't want to be like the guys who's funerals he had to go to. He talked about making the choice of the habits that can be detrimental or helpful to maintaining your mental grasp on reality. Well, you blew it.
Yes, it's very respectable he went on record saying he wanted to be different. But then when you skip ahead 17 months and he ends up EXACTLY how he didn't want to, it begs the question how sincere was it? How can you openly speak out about the harmful activities wrestlers can partake in, then partake in it? Why bother at all? Now up and comers can see this interview, which is very insightful and educational, but how are they to embrace it when the guy who was against all the bad stigmas in wrestling succumbs to it? Where is the learning experience for people who may not be as aware to the hardships such as Test was?
So while it is sad, I can't and won't feel bad knowing he spoke strongly about a touchy subject and was on the other side of the fence than his own words. It's hypocritical and it's almost as harmful as the actual drugs themselves. What lesson is to be learned? Realize your demons, admit you've had them and are fighting them, just to fall right back into it? Most people who quit a vice that's harmful, and then speak about it so to make sure others don't follow the same path usually don't die from it. If someone is an unhealthy eater, they lose weight and speak out to those who have the same problem, they're not doing it with a BLT next to them. Someone at AA isn't saying drinking is bad carrying a sixer.
It would have been an easier situation to grasp if Test didn't come across as being very opposed to the very same thing that led to his death. He very well may have been against it, so I won't sit here and call him a liar, it still didn't stop him from taking the substances he was against. For that, and that alone, I can sympathize with a guy who came across genuine and was anything but. It's another black mark on the world of wrestling, and it's hard to sit here and say it wasn't the wrestling's fault, but this is one case where responsibility does not fall solely on wrestling as a whole. This is more an individual hurting himself than his a lifestyle that he accepted.
It's sad someone is dead, but this was more a self induced tragedy than many of the other cases. And seeing how Test played both sides of the fence, spoke badly of it and still embraced it, it's hard to take to pity.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 19, 2009 8:54:22 GMT -5
I think this is your best blog to date. Good points, though I'm a little unclear as to the second to last paragraph where you say, "and it's hard to sit here and say it wasn't the wrestling's fault, but this is one case where responsibility does not fall solely on wrestling as a whole. "
Is there a typo there? I think you're trying to say that you can't blame the industry, you have to blame the wrestler.
I can't disagree with that thought. While I do think the pressures of the industry and the injuries do push wrestlers toward drugs, I also think the WWE does try to help its talent when it can, and ultimately, the responsibility falls on the wrestler.
Good commentary on Test's hypocrisy, though I don't even think it matters. It does make HIM look worse, but whether he spoke out on it or not, he still brought this on himself, and while sad, I wouldn't consider it as tragic as someone who dies in a simple accident, like say, Natasha Richardson earlier this week.
There aren't too many wrestling deaths that are the fault of the industry. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Owen Hart, which to me remains the worst wrestling death since I've followed the sport.
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