Adam Copeland a.k.a. Edge
This week one of the guys that I’ve followed since the very beginning of his career retired from professional wrestling, and in a lot of ways it kind of closed the chapter on a period of my life. WWE’s Edge has retired from active duty as a WWE wrestler after an amazing 14 year career.
There was a time where I was TSN.ca’s defacto wrestling guy, and my columns “Tales from the Darkside” regularly brought in a couple hundred thousand page views.
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Wow. The new Bret Hart.com redesign is just as craptastic as the old design…just even more craptacular. You would think that the site would be semi-decent, I could throw a dart and hit a half dozen fanatical web freaks who would LOVE to build the guy a site (hell, I could toss the dart straight up, and still hit a guy who would do the site for free).
The site’s built in ASP, but I don’t see any server side technology being used…yet the site is PAINFULLY slow!
Damn. Maybe it’s time to revitalize WrestlingSites.com too! SquaredCircleSites.com is available. Too bad that wrestlers are some of the hardest people to get cash out of.
I got a lot done this weekend, in addition to working on the big idea that Ryan and I are working on, I managed to get a little bit of re-design for HeadsDown done, and managed to figure out a layout, content schematic, and roughly work on the style sheet. With a little persistance, I could probably pull it off by the end of the week…but a more reasonable expectation is the middle of March.
Char and I bought a new DVD player this weekend. It’s a Panasonic, nice and silver, and the best news is that my reciever actually decodes Dolby Digital with it! For some reason my PS2 stopped working in conjunction with the reciever. We watched !gby Goes Down last night, and I watched some of Star Wars Episode II just to experience the awesome surround sound.
We saw Daredevil on Saturday night with Tim, it was a pretty solid movie, one of the better Super Hero films, but not as good as The Matrix, Superman or Spider-man. Better than all four Batman’s though.
Saturday morning I wrote a piece on Curt “Mr. Perfect” Hennig’s passing called “A Perfect Tribute“. It’s probably my best recieved article I’ve written this year. I’ve recieved a lot of positive feedback on it, and it’s nice to see that I wasn’t the only one who appreciated what Hennig did.
That’s it for now. Only six days to go until Vegas. Woo Hoo!
It’s come to my attention that Jeff is STILL debating the fact that his team didn’t win the award for “most jobbers” in this year’s Royal Rumble. I thought it best to break down Jeff’s Team in order for him to see that it was a pretty frickin’ decent bunch of guys (oh, and Jeff has the nerve to argue this despite the fact that he won the award for guy who lasts the longest in RVD).
Bill DeMott – Former U.S. Champion in WCW. The U.S. Title was the equivalent of the Inter-Continental title. This guy loses his first match since his re-intro TONIGHT! That’s two months of squashing guys…jobber my @$$!
RVD – Multiple InterContinental champion in WWE, ECW TV champion, ECW Tag Team Champion
Rosey – Former Tag Team Champion WWE
Rikishi – Former Inter-Continental champion WWE, former Tag Team Champion WWE.
Kane – Former multi-time inter-continental champion. Multi-time tag team champion. WWE Heavyweight Champion for 24 hours in 1999.
So just to recap, every single member of Jeff’s team has held gold.
Team Darkside however had exactly two guys who have ever tasted gold in WWE (Booker T, the 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time WCW Champion, and who held all the gold in WCW at one time or another, who was tag champ with GoldDust, and Tommy Dreamer who won the now defunct Hardcore belt, and had a couple of belts in ECW). Nowinski, Cena, and Maven are rookies who haven’t even SNIFFED gold yet, and who won’t for at least another year.
Hell, a better case could be made for Team Josh, who had two guys untouched by gold in WWE, and who’s other players have held; Rey: Tag Gold, Matt Hardy: Tag gold, Inter-continental, Jeff Hardy: Tag gold, Hardcore, European.
So once and for all, Team Darkside held the most classically defined “Jobbers”, guys who have not held a belt, and who are regularly beaten on TV to get other guys over.
I was named to 411Wrestling.com’s 100 most influential wrestling writers list, and I’m number 95! My TSN.ca/Wrestling co-writer Josh Shiaman was named number 60 on the list.
Doesn’t mean a whole lot, I mean I’m not going to get a raise for it or anything, but it’s pretty cool anyway!
The Royal Rumble is by far my favourite WWE PPV of the year, I love the whole concept of the Rumble.
For the last couple of years, my friends and I have got together and made a few bets on the outcome. We all throw in five bucks, and draw numbers from a hat, the numbers correspond to a guy. This year there were four prizes.
1st prize: The Winner of the Rumble
2nd prize: The guy who lasts longest
3rd prize: The guy who eliminates the most wrestlers
4th prize: The team with the most jobbers.
Larry Woo won the first and third prizes by having Brock Lesnar, the winner of the Rumble, and third prize for guy who eliminates the most wrestlers by having Chris Jericho.
Jeff Styga won the guy who lasts longest with RVD who came in 12th, and left 26th, 14 spots later. The closest guy was Chris Jericho who came in at number 2, and left at number 14.
Yours truly won the crappiest team, with the stellar grouping of Nowinski, Dreamer, Cena, Booker T, and Maven. I managed exactly 1 elimination when Booker T managed to eliminate Eddie Guerrerro. Jeff had the nerve to argue that his team was worse, but the stats back up my argument, come on, tell me how a team could be crappier than mine?!?
Here’s all the Rumble stats:
Order of entry: 1: Shawn Michaels, 2: Chris Jericho, 3: Chris Nowinski, 4: Rey Mysterio, 5: Edge, 6: Christian, 7: Chavo, 8: Tajiri, 9: Bill Demott, 10: Tommy Dreamer, 11: RVD, 13: Matt Hardy, 14: Eddie Guerrerro, 15: Jeff Hardy, 16: Rosey, 17: Test, 18: Cena, 19: Charlie Haas, 20: Rikishi, 21: Jamal, 22: Kane, 23: Sheldon Benjamin, 24: Booker T, 25: A-Train, 26: Maven, 27: Goldust, 28: Batista, 29: Lesnar, 30: Taker.
Order of elimination: 1: Shawn Michaels (by Jericho), 2: Christopher Nowinski (by Mysterio), 3: Mysterio (by Jericho), 4: Demott (by Edge), 5: Dreamer (by Jericho and Christian), 6: Tajiri (by Jericho), 7: B2 (by Edge), 8: Chavo (by Edge), 9: Christian (by Jericho), 10: Edge (by Edge), 11: Jeff Hardy (by RVD), 12: Rosey (by Kane), 13: Eddie (by Booker T), 14: Jericho (by Test), 15: Goldust (by Charlie Haas), 16: Booker T (by Benjamin), 17: Test (by Batista), 18: Rikishi (by Batista), 19: Haas (by Lesnar), 20: Benjamin (by Lesnar), 21: Matt Hardy (by Lesnar), 22: Cena (by Taker), 23: Jamal (by Taker), 24: Maven (by Taker), 25: A-Train (by Kane and RVD), 26: RVD (by Kane), 27 Batista (by Taker), 28: Kane (by Taker), 29: Taker (by Lesnar).
Most Outs:
Jericho: 6
Taker: 5
Lesnar: 4
Kane: 3
Batista: 3
Edge: 3
RVD: 2
Booker T: 1
Test: 1
Haas: 1
Benjamin: 1
Rey: 1
Christian 1
Teams:
Team Benson: Chavo, Test, Jamal, Benjamin, Taker
Eliminations: 7
Team Curtis: Edge, Christian, Tajiri, Eddie G, A-Train
Eliminations: 4
Team Darkside: Chris Nowinski, Tommy Dreamer, John Cena, Booker T, Maven
Eliminations: 1
Team Josh: Rey Mysterio, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Charlie Haas, Batista
Eliminations: 5
Team Jeffro: Bill Demott, RVD, Rosey, Rikishi, Kane
Eliminations: 5
Team Woo Tang: Michaels, Jericho, B2, Goldust, Lesnar
Eliminations: 10
This week I picked up my new motherboard, a KT3 Ultra. I’ve been basing everything on buying the MSI K7T266a, because I didn’t think I’d be able to find the KT3 at retail for another few months since it was only officially released at the end of February. However, on Friday before Axxess, I popped in to Canada Computers, saw that they had the K7T266a for $193, and checked out a new store called PC Periphrials. They are the only store I’ve seen with the KT3, so I picked it up. However since I hadn’t read enough on RAM and stuff like that for the KT3, I figured I’d hold off on buying the processor and ram until I figure out a little more. So I’ve read most of the manual (which is really well written), placed everything in my case by eye, and am almost ready to commit to my processor (an AMD 1700+ XP) and some RAM, my only confusion is do I go with the 266, or the 333? I can only find one type of 333, and it’s the same price as the 266…but I don’t know the company, so I don’t know how good it will be.
The worst part about all of this is how long my computer could be out of commision for…it could be a very scary process indeed!
Tonight is WrestleMania at the Skydome. Joachim, Jeff and I are going to the Paramount to watch the show, which means we’ll get to see it with commentary and the like. Should be way fun. Hopefully a lot more fun than Axxess was ($40.00 to go and stand in lines to possibly see wrestlers…wooo, what fun that was! At least we got to see Funaki and The Hurricane wrestle a short match, and got to listen to William Regal berate the crowd a bit).
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