The Unknown Poster

they have Parise and Suter with those lifetime contracts. But they have talent. Should be able to make some moves and compete. Can’t rebuild with those two there

This guy is a hell of a hero https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting-hero-tennessee/index.html Has Trump not uttered one word about this? In an unrelated note, the hero is black and the guy with the AR-15 killing people is white.

That’s one victory for the ladies!

This is worth watching. Especially since the Freep was so upset that the premier threatened to sue them. Libel chill sucks when they are on the receiving end but a great tool when they use it to get a radio show cancelled.

A little local history: AWE's first show was November 19th 2003 at Coyotes Nightclub featuring Buff Bagwell & Shane Madison vs Adam Knight & Chi Chi Cruz in the main event. They also had an "MMA Exhibition" between Dan Severn and Donny Dicaprio. What's funny is, a rival promoter, Ernie Todd of the Canadian Wrestling Federation (which was a local affiliate of the NWA), apparently reported the Severn/Dicaprio match to the Boxing Commission and wanted people arrested illegally promoting a prize fight. That show was promoted by my former partner Mike and while Jeff Dyck might have been involved I do not believe he was involved financially. I think his initial relationship with Mike was providing promotion through his magazine "Heat". Coyotes sort of became a battle ground in 2003. A long-time promoter named Bobby Jay (he appeared on WWE TV a few times in the "jobber" role when they ran locally), had closed down his promotion, TRCW. This was basically the end of the war of '02 between TRCW and our promotion. My partner Mike used to be booker for TRCW and thats how we met. Mike got fired and he and I joined forces to start our own thing. When TRCW closed down, Bobby came and worked for us. In 2003 he came to use and said Coyotes was interested in running a big show with imports and Bobby wanted to do it, but would do it friendly using our talent. It was delicate because our main venue was the LID which was a competitor of Coyotes. So we agreed. But as it turns out, Bobby was actually talking to Coyotes about running weekly shows and wanting to "get back" at us. He went to our roster members to gauge interest in screwing us. One of them tipped us off. So Bobby decided it wasnt worth the hassle. But since Coyotes was interested and everyone knew it, everyone wanted to get in there. the aforementioned CWF, owned by Ernie Todd, actually got in there on a weekly deal paying a very strong fee per show. But the CWF sucked at the time. That was October 2003, I believe. In August, my partner Mike had quit our promotion in somewhat of a powerplay (basically we were not going to continue as partners and one of us had to go - Mike quit, assuming most of the roster would quit with him, and thus, I'd be forced out, which didnt happen). Mike then pursued the Coyotes deal but since they had a contract with CWF, there was nothing they could do other then go down to the bar every week and point out all the flaws in the CWF. So after about three weeks, Coyotes kicks CWF out (there was a threat of a lawsuit) and AWE was born. But Coyotes was burned on the idea of paying for wrestling. AWE ran their November debut off the gate (ie. they financed it themselves and sold tickets to recoup costs). Coyotes provided advertising. That first show was fairly busy but lost money. Money was borrowed to meet payroll. Coyotes was happy with their end though and offered AWE to run weekly, but off the gate. AWE didn't want any part of losing money and declined. By January, Mike and the AWE crew were all back in my promotion (Mike and I had been co-defendants in a wrestling-related lawsuit and thats what got us friendly again). We worked together for all of 2004. Mike had been vocal to me about his desire to run more AWE shows and now Dyck was involved as a partner. Mike explained their plan as running quarterly big shows with big import talent and he'd want to use some of my talent roster and that it would all be friendly and win-win. They planned their second show for Nov 2004 featuring Sid Vicious among others. But it didnt come together in time. This plan was to tape the show and air it as a Pay Per View (on delay). In January 2005, Mike called me asking if I'd consider investing. He said Dyck did not have his half of the seed money. I declined. The plan presented was that the show would cost X amount (like $20,000-$30,000) but only about $5000 up front (airfare, deposits etc). So they only needed $5000 and would hope the show was so successful, it covered the expenses on the back end. I wanted no part of that (we ran a show in 2002 in a similar way and it was idiotic and a disaster). According to Mike, he had his half of the $5000 (I believe he said his gf lent it to him) but Dyck didnt have his, but was considering borrowing it from "bikers". However he got it, Dyck ended up with his half and they planned the big event for March (no Sid this time). Throughout the process, Mike had included me on group emails to talent. But in December, he sent a group email to his key people but *not* me. Unfortunately for him, he accidentally added the wrong person (same first name and similar last night) and that person anonymously sent it to me. It detailed the plan for AWE to pretend we were all working together but to screw us with talent jumping ship and them securing a weekly show deal with Canad Inns (which never happened). When I confronted Mike, he denied it. I then read him the email...and he was silent. So AWE did go forward in March 2005 at the IGAC (and we were competitors until spring 2006 when AWE went on hiatus). Their March event had Jamie Noble, Rikishi, Billy Gunn & Jim Duggan. As I recall, they drew really well, like probably in the 1200 range (Unless Im confusing that with a WFX show). But they were back there in October and I see a result online listing 298 fans. And that was at IGAC so it would have looked horrendous. That had Bagwell, Rikishi, Gunn, Brian Christopher, Dan Severn (vs Omega in a "shoot fight") & Lex Luger. They ran again in December at IGAC with the Steiner Bros etc. They ran several shows in small towns but they werent big and didnt draw well. If I recall correctly, Dyck's business at the time was a bottled water company (I think they sued him over their money being misappropriated to fund wrestling). I recall another show at IGAC that I was backstage at but cant find any results. It featured Beefcake, Sunny among others and I remember it didnt draw well and Sunny was unhappy because they didnt have the right music. AWE then folded (the word was, they owed a lot of money so went bankrupt). And in 2007, WFX began. Their first show was at the Convention Centre and drew flies. I was backstage (Mike and I were friendly again). Show featured Ultimo Dragon, Joey Mercury, Brian Christopher, Buff Bagwell, Angel Williams, Orlando Jordan, Jon Heidenreich, and Rikishi. Oh and Kishi's cousin....I cant remember which Samoan, Tonga Kid maybe? Doing a Umaga impersonation. The height of WFX success was their next show, at Marlborough Hotel with Jerry Lawler, Billy Gunn, Ultimo Dragon vs Kenny Omega, Chris Masters, Virgil etc. It was super packed. I was backstage producing segments and running Gorilla for the Rumble main event. Funny stories from that show: The ring announcer almost walked off half way through the show because Mike yelled at him too much. And since the ball room is on an upper floor, you need to get the ring up there. It was too large for the service elevator so these poor kids carried the ring up the stairs. Only one problem, Marlborough is so old, the stair case actually gets narrower as you rise. Half way up, the ring posts became wedged between the floor and the ceiling. Mike looks at the situation and orders the crew to smash a hole in the ceiling! (I believe there was a lawsuit over that). In the end, I think the posts had to be cut and then welded back together. By the following month, Dyck had bought the Church and thats where they taped the rest of their shows. I dont remember when their last show was, but it was a weird ECW thing with Shane Douglas. I remember because we had a show the same night at Dylan's and we out drew them. One of the many problems with the vision was them taping TV at these events, so they'd have 6 half hour episodes to tape which means fans saw the same guys over and over and over again. And they were TV matches (not balls to the walls, short time limits). I recall a story where the boys perceived the show as not being very good so in the main event Johnny Devine decided to have a really good match. Can't recall his opponent, might have been local by Shawn Houston. Anyway, he disregards the 10 minute time limit and goes like 30 minutes, feeling they can edit it down later but he wants to give the local fans in attendance a good match. Mike is radio'ing the ref to tell them to end it and they disregard. Devine walks backstage and Mike is ready to kill him. They stepped into a private office and "settled" it (with contrasting outcomes depending who tells the story). Dyck ended up leaving town and going to Vegas. He and Mike had a falling out. And that's the story of AWE/WFX.

$10,000 doesn’t seem like nearly enough.

Deserving yes. But Conners goals total was too much to be left off.

I like that being a raging ******* to the legitimate media and pretending he’s not a part of trumps admin has led to the uncovering of his web of entanglements. Oh and remember when he said Cohen was not his lawyer but gave him advice on “real estate”? i think I saw this HUD storyline on the Sopranos.

Crazy!

Ridiculous

Geez 8-5 Pens. They were down 4-2 at one point. Hat trick for Couturier. 4 goals for Guentzel. 3 points each for Crosby and Letang (I’ve got all three Pens players in my pool)

Sounds like WPS has been great too. Everyone in Winnipeg in a great mood.

Richest man in Canada chillin with jets fans on the street.

We want Nashville yes. Funny bryan little even said in a post game interview that they were getting ready for Nashville then he caught himself and said well whomever wins. Lol

Face palm

Almost!!