I'm not going to sit here and bore you with long, drawn-out introductions on who I am...
I'm not going to spit out curse after curse,
because I feel that looks bad in any columns unless they're highly deserved.

I'm a wrestling fan, simply put.
I'll watch anything if it's wrestling and if I like it, I'll say so.
I've got everything from "The Big 3" to Japanese wrestling,
to the fiasco known as Fox's "American Wrestling Federation: Wrestling The Way It Should Be",
or even indy feds featuring guys like Axl Future.

Do I only like guys whom the fans like? No.
Do I only like the guys the fans hate, simply because it's apparently the cool thing to do? No.
I like wrestlers that impress me or make me laugh, whatever it may be.


My favorite WWF wrestler was and always had been Shawn Michaels ever since I began watching wrestling.
The first time I saw him wrestle was Wrestlemania 7 (w/ Jannetty) against Haku & The Barbarian.
I dunno if Shawn's ability shone that night or whether his less-talented opponents just made him look good,
I just know he was my favorite wrestler from then on.

My favorite match of his would have to be the Wrestlemania 10 ladder match with Scott Hall.
The most over-hyped and boring match I ever watched of his was the Iron Man with Bret Hart.

Now that Michaels is no longer active... that spot goes to Chris Jericho,
whom I've liked ever since he started ripping David Penzer's jackets in WCW.
Originally in WCW he'd run out and lean against the crowd yelling "COME ON, BABY!" and I couldn't stand him. Once he started ripping Penzer's jackets and building his personality and mic skills a little more,
he began to grow on me.

My favorite Jericho moment? Fall Brawl when he took on "Goldberg" (actually a miniature version of him).
The little guy no-sold a suplex and did the spear.... Jericho got right back up and started kicking him.
I couldn't stop laughing.


My favorite WCW wrestler now that "Stunning" Steve Austin is long gone, Chris Benoit.
Unlike all the band-wagoners who now "like" Benoit just because you're not a cool personality
on the internet unless Benoit is one of your favorites, I've liked him since '93 when I first
watched WCW (Benoit was teaming with another of my favorites, Bobby Eaton, at the time)
To steal a line from an ECW star: Benoit is not just the coolest, he's not just the best, he's just incredible.
To anyone who doesn't think he has the ability,
I recommend finding yourself some tapes from his Wild Pegasus days in Japan.
You'll be soundly surprised.


ECW? "Drew, it's Rob Van Dam right? He is god!"
No, Jerry Lynn or Danny Doring actually.
I can't decide which of the two I like better, so there's my answer.
Robbie V. is great to watch, but he's just become a highspot-fiesta...
much like the man with the coolest music in the fed, Sabu.
I don't think I've come across anyone else who's a fan of the "The Dastardly One", but with the 'Dastardly Shuffle' and moves like the 'Panty Drop Elbow' and the 'G-Spot Sweep', how can you not like him?


Now onto the big news regarding Bischoff's sinking ship:

Okay first it's Paul Wight, then the Ayatollah Of Rock N' Rolla is not kept in the company....
and apparently on Monday, Bischoff took back control of the company and said anyone who didn't
like it and wished to be released, would be.

So who's gone now or will be soon?
Raven: not a big loss, but I'm guessing this screws Vampiro over.
Raven is injured, and maybe he's not a big name in the company, but he is a great talent.
Never really liked him but I enjoyed watching him,
sans the god-awful drop toe-hold onto a chair spot.

But the big one.... Kidman
WHAT THE HELL?
They'll give Mr I-Need-To-Limp-To-The-Ring anything his balding self wants,
yet let go a guy who'll do shooting star presses to the floor onto a standing opponent,
or purposely messup a shooting star press by landing on the ropes
(a stunt with the potential of seriously injuring himself)
just so Bischoff can try and get over as a face?
With these two gone and more reportedly wanting out,
it comes down to Bill Goldberg's favorite quote: "WHO's NEXT?"

To make WCW problems even worse,
they book 10 Sid run-ins per show and say he's the millennium man.
Notice how the word "Run-ins" looks a lot like "Ruins" at first glance?
(As in, Sid ruins a lot of great or half-decent matches)
Once softball season starts....
anyone with any recollection of his past knows the patented no-showing will once again start.

It's crap like this that makes me yearn for the old days of The Hollywood Blonds dominating the tag ranks before getting their push cut or Ricky Steamboat and Ric Flair puting on a classic like only they could....
while Hogan or Sid segments are used as the time to get up and go urinate.
The one and only thing that remotely interests me about Sid;
will he ever be able to top the "The Squeegee Incident"?

Hell, I'd rather watch a Johnny Swinger compilation tape at the moment than watch the constant crap WCW is spoon-feeding recently (yes, I do like watching that guy).

On a positive note for WCW though, congrats to Lenny Lane on winning the Cruiserweight belt.
Although with WCW dropping the "Lane" from his ring name, he no longer has a finisher.
(For those who don't keep up with stuff like finishers, it was the "Memory Lane"...
a variation of Jeff Jarrett's current finisher)


In closing, I offer a new song for Hulk Hogan to use as an entrance theme, which fits him better,
a knockoff song of Blink 182 (seeing as WCW likes using knock-off songs):