So Kurt Angle is coming to TNA Wrestling. Thank God he didn't really go into MMA.
I'm not sure this will change wrestling forever or whatever, but it is a good thing for Angle. He'll probably only have to work two or three times a month and I'm sure Spike TV is chipping in on his salary.
Also, I HOPE Vince (McMahon, not that other idiot) found out about this the same time that the rest of us did.
As for the rest of the PPV, it looks like the Styles/Daniels vs. LAX match was just awesome and apart from a few Russo-ised matches and segments, most of the show sounds pretty good.
Now, let's all just pray that Russo doesn't book himself to show up on TV.
Tonight is Vince Russo's first TNA PPV. It's about half way over right now, so I don't know the "big announcement" yet, but I did see the following on PWInsider.com's live results...
Jay Lethal vs. Petey Williams When they introduced Lethal, he was nowhere to be found. They went backstage where Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, and Chris Sabin were goofing around playing videogames and acting like goofs. Jerry Lynn yelled at them to get it together. Dutt said they took care of it and held up a box of laxatives. Lynn told Sabin he should be preparing for his X-Division shot tonight. Sabin offered him a potato chip. Lynn walked off disgusted as Sabin yelled, "Jerry? You forgot your chip!"
In the ring, Williams was looking at the bottle of water he was sipping, worried it was poisoned. Lethal came to the ring, taping his wrists and getting ready as he made his way down the aisle. Williams shoulderblocked him down. Lethal went for a tiltowhirl but Williams evaded it. Lethal went for his cartwheel into the dropkick but again, Williams evaded. Lethal finally hit the dropkick. Lethal hit a springboard dropkick into the ring for a two count. Lethal was on the apron when Williams slid out between his legs to the floor and pulled him off into the guard rail. Williams worked him over on the floor and then continued the assault in the ring. As the match continued, Williams began acting as if he was trying not to go to the bathroom. The referee and Lethal were both acting as if they smelled something. Williams tied Lethal in the tree of woe but couldn't get on the ropes because he had to go so bad. Dutt was at ringside showing off the laxative box. Lethal began nailing Williams with punches to the gut, "making it worse" for Williams. Lethal gave him an atomic drop. Lethal hit a clothesline and a rolling senton splash. He kept striking Williams in the gut. He gave Williams a gutbuster for a two count. Williams made a comeback but was hampered by his condition. The crowd chanted, "Hold it in." Williams went for the Canadian Destroyer but finally couldn't stop holding it. He went to leave the ring but Lethal rolled him up for the pin. Williams ran to the back. Welcome back to wrestling, Vince Russo.
Yes, you read that right. Wrestlers losing matches because they have to poop. Notice that Russo is kind of a unfunny version of R. D. Reynolds?
I'll wait to declare TNA Wrestling dead until after they make the announcment that will rewrite "the history of the professional wrestling industry." (Their words)
While Democratic power houses Charlie Rangel and Nancy Pelosi are out condemning the "president" of Venezuela, apparently a certain senator in Iowa had some nice things to say about the guy's lovely speech to the UN yesterday.
What kind of losers live in Iowa anyhow? :P
Actually, I could care less what Chavez says about Bush. I mean we say some pretty nasty things about the leader of Iran all the time. Not to mention the French. That's how the world works. What I am offended by is that Chavez used some Catholic symbols and prayer postures in his speech. I'm like, "Oh great, that's just the guys I want representing my faith."
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president's foreign policy.
Harkin says Bush came to office saying he wanted a new humility in foreign policy in reaching out to other countries, but Harkin says Bush's actual policy has been heavy handed. Harkin says the anger against Bush is generated from the Iraq war, which Harkin says was "unnecessary."
Harkin says, "We tend to forget that a few days after 9-1-1 thousands, thousands of Iranians marched in a candlelight procession in Teheran in support of the United States. Every Muslim country was basically on our side. Just think, in five years, President Bush has squandered all that." Harkin says the U.S. has put billions of dollars into the Iraq war, when it could be helping poor countries with things like clean water, medical aid and education.
I was too lazy to call my car insurance company and get full coverage so got into an accident. I seriously was planning to call them this week, but I kept forgetting because work was kind of busy (crappy.)
What's that Dave Ramsey always says about Murphy moving in?
PWInsider is reporting that Kurt Angle is now preparing for his MMA debut. This is nuts. The guy's got so many injuries and that is a big part of what lead to his WWE release.
Still, who wouldn't pay to see a Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar shoot fight. Or Kurt Angle vs. Daniel Puder, for that matter.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA mission controllers are tracking a mystery object hovering between the space shuttle Atlantis and Earth, and traveling at roughly the same speed as the orbiter, agency officials said Tuesday.
“Right now they’re just tying to figure out exactly what it is, how far away it is,” NASA spokesperson Kimberly Harle told SPACE.com. “It’s pretty much assessing the whole situation.”
Harle said that at 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 GMT), just after Atlantis completed a check of its reaction control thrusters, the instrumentation and communications officer at NASA’s shuttle Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center noted an object between the orbiter and Earth, and traveling at about the same speed of the spacecraft.
Flight controllers are now using video cameras mounted along Atlantis’ robotic arm and payload bay to survey visible areas of the orbiter, including its wing leading edges and other vital heat shield areas, Harle said.
“Everything is still under assessment,” Harle said.
For now, Atlantis’ STS-115 shuttle crew will not stow their Ku-band antenna – the primary video and data link to Earth – to allow flight controllers to continue to study the object.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about this. Very frustrating.
From Drudge:
BUSH BASHING PIG HITS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Sun Sep 17 2006 18:53:38 ET
ROGER WATERS [PINK FLOYD] CONCERT TOUR HITS NORTH AMERICA AND NYC WITH FLYING PIGS, URGING DEM VOTES IN ELECTION, 'IMPEACH BUSH' WRITTEN ON REAR OF PIG FLOATING OVER AUDIENCE... One concertgoer writes: 'Seeing Bush's name written across the pig's arse made me howl'... The pig had graffiti. 'New Yorkers/Don't be led to the slaughter/Vote November 7'... another attendee played off the hit 'Another Brick in the Wall': ''We don't need no thought control,' even from Mr. Waters'...
Another sends a review: 'I attended the Roger Waters 9/15 show at Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY. At one point during the show Waters juxtaposed pictures of the President, Karl Rove, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher with pictures of Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong, Stalin, and other world tyrants. Rogers asked whether 'these people [Arabs] are really are enemies'. This took place during his anti-Bush/Blair song 'Leaving Beirut' in which he claimed 'that Texas education must have really f*cked you up' and asked why Tony the 'US poodle/pawn' is a warmongerer'...
The seven-foot-three-inch wrestler, whose actual name is Dalip Singh Rana, will star in the title song of Pahari pop singer Suresh Sharma's album "Sawan Ko Aane Do", which is to release next month.
"An Army Soldier was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. One of his courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.
One day he shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.
Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Soldier got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.
The Soldier went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Soldier and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Soldier calmly replied, "God was too busy today taking care of America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. So He sent me."
Harry Simon of WrestleCrap.com brought the funny this week to review a storyline that I had (thankfully) forgotten, involving Raven, Sandman, and Kanyon from 1999 WCW.
