Old Boy Network

Ph3n0m

And by that I mean the collective of wrestlers in WWE that think they are the be all and end all of wrestling.

I came across a news report that highlighted just what JBL was saying about ECW - these are direct quotes from the ECW PPV DVD


He keeps on calling Mike Awesome: "Mike Awful."

As Masato Tanaka comes out, JBL yells five or six times: "THATS MY DOORMAN!"

As Tommy Dreamer comes out, he says, "This is the main event??"

As Sandman looks under the ring: "What's he looking for now, a treadmill?" "Or an oxygen tank!"

As the BWO comes out: "And you wonder why they went out of business"

About Blue Meanie: "Fat f--- with blue hair. Go find your porn star wife!"

About Meanie as he's dancing on the middle rope: "It looks like a donkey screwing a basketball, him being up there. Go donate your body to science fiction, you fat lowly lowly (yes, he says it twice) pig. He looks like a blue haired 800 pound Abe Lincoln."

As Big Stevie Cool is giving his speech: "Go home now."

As Kash comes down: "This is a carnival."

On Balls: "They're chanting balls" and then chants along with them saying "balls" approximately 100 times before saying, "You know if you really beat someone, you lick them. Does this mean you lick balls."

On Axl: "Has anyone heard of the Atkins diet"

On Balls & Axl (this is funny because of Johnny Ace's interest in signing them): "Who are the fat guys who came in?"

On the main event: "This could be awful, but it might not be good. I gotta be drunk for this one."

Regarding Mike Awesome: "Someone run in make Awesome use one of his 93 finishers..."

When Lance Storm runs in: "You can hear the paint dry. Here comes the most boring man in the history of boring. Lance Storm couldn't fill an arena if you gave free beer and free tickets. They say he's retiring today, (mumbled) if a tree falls in a forrest, no one cares. National Hockey League. No one cares."

Lance gets thrown out: "Is his career over now? Bye Lance, don't come back."

As the flaming table gets lit: "Now that's heat! Is there not a fire marshall in the New York state watching this?"

I think the above truely show that JBL, HHH and a few others have little or no time for any other wrestling organisation - even one that dared WWE to be different and set them on the path of Attitude (I'm sure Hunter Hearst Hemsley and Justin Hawk Bradshaw would all like to forget the pre-Attitude era)

Mossy Monk

just shows how much of a **** he actually is

Mr.Nice Guy

I can't stand the guy.

Also, apparently when Stevie uses the Stevie kick on Sandman Orlando Jordan says, "He missed the kick." Bradshaw responds, "No wonder he should have gotten fired from us."

And how can Orlando Jordan judge someone? He's absolutely crap.

Brow

It's reading comments like this that makes me sick. Stevie for example is one guy whose wrestled in numerous companies over the years taking whatever storylines given to him and working with them. The guy always gives his all whatever the situation. Examples include Right To Censor, dressing up as a woman and managing Kronik to name a few. This is one guy who I like to think as one who is truelly passionate for the business.

It's typical that Jordan should have to nit pick and find fault that night cause that ppv showed something that Jordan can only dream off. A crowd that gives a damn about the wrestlers in that company by either supplying heat or pops, showing that thyre over, a reaction Jordan would dream of having when he's present on a taping.

Fozzy

Haha! JBL's brilliant! I wouldn't take him that seriously there. If he wasn't so "outspoken" about ECW, he wouldn't have been on the DVD

He's such an old-school heel these days. Gotta love it. Like Triple H, except unable to abuse any power

D-FENS

Fozzy wrote:

Like Triple H, except unable to abuse any power

Wouldn’t be so sure about that, JBL might not eat xmas dinner at Vince's house like HHH, but he's fairly far up his a** too.

He seems to have escaped punishment from WWE regarding the Blue Meanie thing, so I’d call that abusing his power.

I remember thinking he was a kn*b ever since his latter APA days and he started spouting on about "G-Dubya" backstage at a Raw show from Texas.
Then after that, while he was on the injured list, WWE sent him to Iraq and I read a news item from a non wrestling journalist who met him over there and said he was a narrow minded hick.

But, like HHH, I can't fault his on air gimmick as a heel.
I'd prefer the likes of Y2J, Christian, Edge and Angle as the top heels, but JBL and HHH are very funny sometimes.

Plus, although i'm sure JBL has genuine negative views on the ECW guys, i would presume he was in character for his commentary.

Fozzy

He's a very confusing character, I'll give him that. I do believe he is the sort of person the wrestling business needs. I didn't mind him too much back in the APA days, I liked it when he got that push on Raw with Austin before going to SD, but I found myself really disliking him when I read some of his columns on WWE.com. At first it was nice to see someone who has their own principles, and he certainly appears to stick very close to his own. But then I saw how narrow-minded he could be, and I actually wrote him an e-mail going mad at him once, lol. Think he gave me a short reply and all!

I'm under the impression that some of the things he does are purely an image thing. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, it certainly makes things more interesting. But I don't think he's in a situation where he can abuse his power too much. He's not going to beat every guy on the roster and bury anyone who fights him. Only HHH has that kind of power

I just really like Bradshaw now, he makes things a lot more interesting, he gets people talking, I like it