Dead Crow

You know, you shouldn't always hide behind your opinion. Sometimes you just shouldn't say stupid shit.

Yeah, how dare he point out that someone looked like they shouldn't have been on TV. What a jerk. On a scale of awful, there's Charles Manson, Osama bin Laden, the guy who killed people in the cinema, Piers Morgan and Ciaran, right guys?!

The selective outrage machine on this site is as amusing as it ever was.

Watching Vince crying is one of the hardest things to do. Everyone else like HHH, it just seems a little... I dunno. Not entirely sincere? But when Vince starts getting teary, I get the impression that he really does seem a lot of these guys like his children.

The only issue I had with the documentary was when Hogan was apologising to Warrior. Now I get that Hogan wanted to make peace and that's great, but Warrior was a GIGANTIC ***** to Hogan. Saying that someone's kids would be better off if their dad was dead?! That really skeeved me out a lot because if Warrior really wanted to bury the hatchet then he should have been on his hands and knees, licking out Hogan's ***hole. Dead or not, Warrior was a colossal **** sometimes and nothing really put that across in this doc.

But other than that, the sheet scope of footage they had with the book for Vince and the meeting being filmed and even the court footage - to not only put it together but so damn quickly - the WWE production team are the best. THE best. Bar none.

When Austin was hurt, the ratings continues to go UP, the biggest RAW rated segment ever was the Rock and Foley.

Late to the party again, but just to point out: the highest rated quarter in WWE history was Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker (9.5 rating), not Rock/Foley. It's a weird Russo/WWE thing there the This Is Your Life segment is generally thrown out as the highest rated wrestling thing ever, but it's actually not.

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As for Punk, WWE has been significantly better as of late without him.

EDIT: I'm aware that Russo is probably talking about the segment from start to finish when it comes to the This Is Your Life segment, which is fair. But across quarters alone, Austin owns it with the overrun match. However, Rock was part of the two next biggest. Rock was definitely a huge draw, but Austin was definitely THE man.

I'll keep an eye out for these people when I'm looking through TIME Magazine.

Sorry, you guys have probably never heard of that publication, right? Being all mainstream and such, you squares!

I recall Meltzer or Alvarez making a similar statement about his family history, so it sounded like he had mentioned it at some point.

Meltzer also reporting that there will be a death investigation which will be concluded in a few months, to determine - I guess - how he came to be a heart-attack-in-waiting as opposed to how he actually died. Judging by the rant he went on yesterday, sounds like Dave suspects Warrior didn't give up drugs as quickly as he possibly should have.

I never complained about Warrior as a wrestler. He was what he was. As a family man, he was clearly awesome - adored his kids and loved his wife. As a political and social commentator, total ****er. Some of the stuff he came out with was horrific Fred Phelps-esque hate language. People should never forget that, just like Benoit will never be forgotten as a guy who murdered his family.

Doesn't stop me being sad about his death though. He had quietened down in recent years and finally looked like he was finding peace with his life. Yeah, he knocked HHH and Ted Dibiase and such, but he also hugged Vince McMahon, thanked Hunter and seemingly brought his 'feud' with Hogan to an end. Almost as if he was just wanted it all to be laid to rest before things could move forward. To not only have that happen but to actually watch it unfold publicly over three nights and then it all be over just like that... that's sad, no matter who it is.

So Bret is suggesting Warrior may still have been on something?

Given what Warrior said during his life, I don't necessarily think Bret is as wrong as people think.

As for Nancy Grace, I think Meltzer wrote it best in his daily update.

--Some thoughts on the Nancy Gracie segment yesterday with DDP. It was that sensationalistic fake outrage stuff from reporters that are a total turnoff. However, people spreading the word that Nancy Gracie said Owen Hart died of steroids are just as bad (let me clarify this by saying I am going off a YouTube clip that was edited, so I may not have seen the entire segment). There was a list of wrestlers dying young on the screen. She never said one name on that list that I heard, except talked about Warrior. She just said a lot of wrestlers died young because of steroids and drugs, which is true. There was enough of an implication that the people on the list died that way that it was an unfair portrayal, but she never said that. And anyone talking about the nature of Warrior's death for more than 90 seconds in a journalistic capacity who doesn't bring up his admitted use of steroids is a hack. If you really respect the guy, respect the fact that he himself didn't run from the subject, unlike so many.

 

I have no idea if he was or wasn't using during any of the last decade or longer since he left wrestling. But he also was not shy to say that he did for years, and his failed tests and firings are all public record. He had a heart attack at 54 when he's supposed to be a health nut. I'm not saying that's what he died from. There could be plenty of other reasons. But if you don't even ask that question or bring up the possibility, you're trying to run from something.

 

She was obnoxious in her delivery, but she always is. Jim Cornette of all people should know that shows like that live for the reaction, and her show people are likely laughing at all the publicity wrestling fans are giving the show today. You want to get back at Nancy Grace? Don't watch the show. I don't. I watched last night for one minute and realized why I didn't need to, and it wasn't even a wrestling segment, then turned it off. Thinking getting the show trending on Twitter is a negative to her is to not understand how people laugh at people who overreact on shows like that. Worse, all the people who reacted to her saying Owen Hart died from steroids, there's nothing that makes people in that world not listen to people who complain to them, or laugh at those doing so, is claiming they said something they never said in the first place.

 

You want to complain about the segment, go ahead. Just make sure you don't say that Nancy Gracie said Owen Hart died of steroids, because then any letter just strengthens their ability to say all these crazy wrestling fans don't know what they are talking about.

 

To the people at the station she works at, a petition by wrestling fans to cancel Nancy Gracie is probably something they are all laughing at today, and reveling in the publicity. You want to do something constructive, or do a petition, or send letters to HLN, ask her to go on the air and give clarity to those list of wrestlers that say, yes, they died young, but Owen Hart, Mark Curtis (Brian Hildbrand), Brady Boone, etc. did not die from steroids or drugs, that you can reasonably get the idea from that piece that they did. And that is unfair to their memories and to their families.

 

She's not a real reporter--she's a sensationalist looking for ratings--and her ratings aren't even that good. But the inaccuracy of some who claimed Nancy Gracie said Owen Hart died of steroids was no better. I watched it and I didn't even get that there was an implication of that, but I could easily see where people could. It was confusing enough that it should have been clarified. I think she should go on today and clarify it for that reason. It probably won't happen, but that's a different thing that goes back to what they are doing isn't real reporting and they don't care about misinforming the public with their show. Unless they do clarify it tonight.

Looking at Twitter, I almost feel sorry for Nancy - the amount of misogyny that has spewed out from it is ridiculous.

My friend on Facebook posted a story yesterday about how the Lesnar/Undertaker match from Wrestlemania had been a shoot and how Vince was going to fire people, so when he posted a story this morning about The Ultimate Warrior I just figured "god, this guy believes anything." So I hit up TMZ and, sure enough, it's right there! I asked myself if it was April 1st and, when I realised it wasn't, I just felt incredibly sad. He seemed so happy, so at peace with most things in his life, and completely in love with his family. No matter how crazy he was, and how stupid his political and social ideas, he was a man with two young children and an adoring wife who he idolised. Completely out of the blue, but went out at his peak if nothing else.

I dunno, man. RIP to a legend in pro wrestling and all thoughts directed to his family.

Didn't he get drunk last year and tell everyone on Twitter that he was never going back to present Wrestletalk because wrestling is sh*t?! I'm glad he followed through on that.

I hate Wrestletalk and never watch it these days, but I'll always be amused at Joel Ross. He's a good presenter, but *I think* Dara O'Briain told a story to Richard Herring about going into a radio studio and one of JK and Joel had been let go and they told him that new management had come in and everyone is on the chopping block and panicking and worried because more cuts are coming. Then Dara spoke to others at the station who said "nah, it's just them. We've all been told we're fine."