I was just about to say, I am glad Jake Roberts never trained me as a wrestler. As sh*tty as the two jabroni's who trained me were, they never stuck anything in ANY! of my orifices, which I am eternally...VERY thankful for.

I didn't expect that....AT ALL!
I thought it was going to be another tongue-in-cheek metaphor. Yeah yeah, she's hot, shes so hot she's on fire blah blah, yada yada, like every other pretty women in wrestling who the undersexed teenage fans drool for.

Turns out, she's on fire Literally!

Happy Surprise LOL!

It is hard to believe that he was only 58. I remember him when I was just a little kid, before Paul Bearer in WWF. He was so polished and professional in his role, that he just seemed like a much older guy who had been around a long time. Not a guy who was basically in his early 30's and green. That is talent!

All those guys had to be mean to protect their spots. It wasn't like today where you have WWE jobbers making at least 90,000 a year, guaranteed money, and having Vince pay for your injuries. Now granted that isn't much, especially considering travel and all the other expenses, but you can at least get by until you can earn big money. Guys like Harley earned only what they could draw. If they didn't draw that ***ht, they might leave with nothing. If you are Harley Race, you aren't going to let someone like Hogan just waltz in like he owns the place, to your territory that you have built up, because it means taking food out of your mouth. That is why and where Bruno says that somebody like Hogan didn't draw and says that is why Vince asked him to come back because Hogan killed the towns. He literally means that Hogan was one of those guys who went to territories that were drawing, not BUILT territories into draws, and couldn't maintain the draw doing his limited rotations as champion. Hogan probably doesn't even understand why Bruno would say that, because Hogan was one of "those guys", but that is why he said it.

I've been saying this for years. AJ Styles has come to the end of the road with TNA. TNA dropped the ball with him, but even if they hadn't, any success he had, was always going to be on a lesser level. If nothing else, he should have left for the money. Everyone's goal in wrestling should be to get as high on the card and earn the most money as they can on the biggest platform, or they are just spinning their wheels as Bret Hart correctly put it. Reality says, like it or not, WWE is that biggest platform. Comparatively it is like saying if someone has the talent to be a top chef says: " I think I'll just work at McDonalds the rest of my life."

He's lucky to be walking again! That is a positive. I think if I were him, I would have walked out the door as soon as I could get out of the hospital bed. I quit wrestling after 2 stingers. For Brits who maybe don't know what that means (I'm not sure if its just American sports slang), it means when your spine gets briefly compressed from like getting dropped on your head as in my case and you temporarily lose feeling or have pins and needles (For like a few minutes or hours). It is just not worth it to me. Wrestling is short term, the rest of your life is not.

Ehh! I never never saw that talent in either of them to be honest. Wrestlers like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels don't come around that often, which is what makes it more a shame to me the way TNA farted around with them for so long. I kid you not, when TNA first started it's national television deal with Spike, before the bloom was off the rose, the three people I always heard most talked about by fans who were new to TNA were: Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Chris Daniels. Zema Ion is ok, and he might even be a pretty decent X division guy before it is over, and Jesse Sorrensen seemed to have a little but of talent, but was very green. Neither of them seem to be the type of guys who could transition that though into something bigger.

I can see Hogan's point, even though what Punk said is Kayfabe. It is a business, and it is a way for Hogan to take a shot at WWE, but it really doesn't matter because Hogan is not the face of TNA and can't be at his age. It is time to let it go Hogan. Hogan always seems to have a way of making mountains out of molehills. Besides the fact of the truth being somewhere in between. Yes it was tough in the territory days, for sheer amount of work, the atmosphere of the locker-rooms, no guaranteed contracts etc, BUT!! and it is a huge but! The opportunity for top guys to make money was simply better back then. They may have not made as much as today, but you have to take into consideration inflation and that the value of a dollar today is lower than what it was when Hogan was Vince's marquee guy. There is also a matter of there being exactly ONE place to work today in the world of wrestling to really make money. Guys can make some money in TNA, but not like when there were literally a dozen top territories to make a living. You get fired from WWE or to a lesser extent TNA and where are you going to go to make money today? Japan isn't having big tours for Gaijin wrestlers anymore. There is no NWA, No Canadian or European wrestling to speak of. No big Puerto Rico tours, and Mexico has never been a huge place to work for foreign wrestlers. So where are you gonna get a job? ROH? Chikara, PWG or other indies and have to have a job on the side? The economic opportunities are just not there today and you sure as hell have to give a lot more of your body to make it today than you did in the territories.

Anyone who has ever wrestled will tell you it is not necessarily the hour broadways, or working every night that puts the most strain on your body. Often it is the shorter matches today that put more torque on the human body. If you aren't working every night it only makes it worse. It seems like it would be exactly the opposite, but it isn't. Try to go wrestling once a month, or a couple times a month and do things other than rest holds and see what it does to your body. It is brutal. So yes, there is good and bad in both the modern and territory ways. I know that isn't his intention with this, but it really does sound like a "Back in my day", we walked 5 miles to school, up hill both ways, in a foot of snow, kind of thing.

The only thing that would make me choose to be a wrestler today vs yesteryear is the guaranteed contracts. Those are nice. No question about it, but only if you are one of the lucky few to get one. Other than that, wrestling is just not a long-term career for most guys anymore.

Actually I don't, Jackoff! I have never stated that once. Nor do I piss and moan when people talk about other wrestling organizations other than TNA like some people do. It is a discussion board, it is fair game. If wrestlers make political statements or comments, I think that gives more than enough reason for people to talk about it on a wrestling related site if they so choose. Or are you the thought police, here to try to regulate anything that you don't approve of? You could follow your own advice, and if you don't want to read something then go away. Of course, that would be too difficult for a mouth breathing moron like yourself to comprehend. So piss up a rope, you aren't big enough to do anything about it.

The modern Olympics has become highly politicized and monetized, even more than they were during the cold war. The Olympics in the UK and China were arguably much more about propaganda and promotion of the host nations political systems than they were about the spirit of competition (which is what the modern Olympics is supposed to be about). I suspect that we will see massive changes in the Olympic format in the coming decades and most of them probably will not be good. More political and more commercial than they already have become. Somewhere along that line, it was decided that wrestling did not fit into their ideals, which only shows that that the original intention does not remain. Wrestling is the evolution of the ORIGINAL Olympic sport and there is no other sport that more readily signifies the base elements of two athletes competing. I am actually glad I gave up on the Olympics years ago and not just because wrestling was one of my favorite events. The Olympics in their current format, hold absolutely no interest to me whatsoever.