1wrestling.com

[tafkaga]

Why is this site such utter crap? It's supposed to be the top wrestling news site on the net... and yet half the time it doesn't load properly and has about 5 popups every time I go to it.

[MrMDK]

I've never gotten internet news sites like 1wrestling. It's a mess.

Whatever happened to scoops and micasa...

[tafkaga]

I loved SCOOPS. I think people stopped going there after they posted the story that Bam Bam Bigelow was dead.

[Byght]

Scoops was the only site I ever gave a crap about. Chris Hyatt's Monday night recaps were almost as much fun as the Monday night war itself.

I gave up on internet wrestling news just because it's so uninformed--both the opinions and the news itself. American pro wrestling will never have an equivalent to a sports media--they just don't have the culture of granting "reporters" (or whatever you want to call them) official access. Holdover from the days of everything being kayfabe, I guess. The result is rumor-based reporting and an echo-chamber of meaningless opinions where people come to accept it as a given fact that, for example, the Undertaker sucks, even though he's one of the most respected wrestlers ever AMONG WRESTLERS. I think what made me the angriest was when there was a confluence of these two factors, i.e., rumors that were clearly spawned out of unfounded spite towards a popular wrestler or promotion.

I've got a buddy that watches the sites. When there's a rumor worth knowing (or not worth knowing), he always lets me know about it. Good enough for me.

[bobhoffnee]

Amen to that Byght

[MichaelPayne]

pwinsider.com is the only site for news .. bleve dat playa

[orochigeese]

Yeah,

pwinsider.com is my main place for wrestling news too.


In fact, the people now at pwinsider.com used to be at 1wrestling.com and were mainly responsible for making that site as awesome as it used to be. So check out pwinsider.com

And onlineonslaught.com is good for commentary and overall some REALLY funny stuff .Especially Canadian Bulldog's weekly columns, Matt Hocking's funky Raw recaps, and the occasional article comparing wrestlers to japanese foods (im not kidding).

http://www.onlineonslaught.com/features/20030306.shtml

[JoeyFNK]

That's a pretty good site.

[kaktus316]

i know

ahoy hoy

[Mr1000Cent]

So, what do you guys think about "Big Dave"?

[irwin r shiester]

mr 1000cent

hows south scituate pal

[kaktus316]

snort swish poof whiff pow

[Mr1000Cent]

mr 1000cent

hows south scituate pal

About the same, full of angry, bitter, working class people. Even when things go right, they still seem pissed.

[kaktus316]

Sounds great

[Mr1000Cent]

Oh, it is, it's like a live-action version of "Squidbillies".

[JBRAVOS]

Who would win a fight between Bill Apter & Dave Meltzer?

[JoeyFNK]

Your mother. Except it isn't a fight, it's a train. Whoot whoot! All aboard.

[Mr1000Cent]

Back on topic, this video brings back memories, and if you look at me as "Early" in this video, now you know why I never went into the "dirt sheet" business, or go to Indy wrestling shows regularly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ZKJ278 ... r_embedded

Oh, and btw, my money is on Big Dave, he was actually a power lifter for a while, what has Bill Apter did for training? combine that with age, and I see Dave taking that fight down. Although, I have heard stories Apter did have a vicious figure-four leg lock.