AntiTradition's Very Own Wrestling Thread!

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Zach Morris should be flying in any second to throw her pills away.

[erickman]

Originally Posted by DaveBrawl Zach Morris should be flying in any second to throw her pills away.

i wonder if she is cm punks druged up sister that y2j talked about.

[Droford]

smiling too much

[Evil Vito]

lol this is awful

[Droford]

lol what the hell is happening

[DaveBrawl]

Excellent powerbomb

[DaveBrawl]

So wait she was just some random friend of Dixie's?

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Lol I recently started watching TNA again for the first time in over 2 years and I was actually impressed with the product they are currently putting out there besides the terrible acting after the rvd hardy fight where that ugly prego girl came out and started crying. IMO they are better than the WWE atm.

[erickman]

odb was the best part of last night, what you want us to wait here, an wheres your daddys ofice, she pulled out her inner steiner.

[Rollermacka]

Cartoon Wars Part II
Get More: SOUTH
PARKmore...

Sometimes I think this is TNA's writting staff

Friend, Dixie, AJ, Secret, Drug Addict, Kaz, Daniels

"Brilliant! We can mke a major storyline between AJ and Dixie secretly helping a drug addicted friend, then Kaz and Daniels find out about it"

[taker707]

Read this on the front page.

It is believed that the woman revealed last night in the main event angle is a local actress hired by TNA. No one backstage seemed to know whether she was going to become a regular or not. The tease was that Christopher Daniels knew who she was and the storyline may be that he took advantage of her and was the one who fathered her child.

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This whole forum award thing is dumb,,, take my name off the list I don't want on a poll where ppl are using extra accts to vote,,,

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God I hate reading u all trying to be funny UR not funny so quit trying to be,,,,

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Nobody vote for me I don't want this award I've realized how dumb it is just take me out,,,,Thx

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Well take me out,,,

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This whole thing is dumb,,, owenbrown has like 20 accounts on this forum,,, the only real people who voted voted for me,,, so just take me out of this i want to part in this dumb poll,,, im better then every single person in this poll and u all know it but the nazis and owenbrown accts will keep cheating to keep the legend the icon TNARICK down,,,,

TAKE ME OUT OF THE POLL,,,,

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Originally Posted by owenbrown Where the fuck does TNAPRICK get the idea I have 20 accounts here?

TNARICK* get it right,,,, and because nobody would vote for u if this was a fair poll,,,, you are not a good poster here and do more to make ppl leave the contribute to the community like i do,,,

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ME IN FANTASY LAND,,, owen brown ur talking about yourself,,, all u do is worship wwe and roh bots and meltzer and ur just a sheep,,,, DUDE get your mind straight,,, listen to this interview and then tell me that RUSSO IS NOT GOD,,, because ur the one in the fantasy land,, and you had to cheat to get votes in this poll,,, cmon dude get real,,, is this your life,, TNARICK THE LEGEND TNARICK THE ICON ,,,

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Dale JR won finally after 4 years,,,, !!!!!!!! THE RETURN OF THE ICON THE LEGEND,,,,,,, The earnharts are back and taking over again,,,, 2nd in points and going to win the sprint cup this year,,

DISCUSS

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I was WATCHING LIVE ON TV WHEN IT HAPPENED,,, i noticed there wasnt a topic about it so quit crying,,, some nascar fans didnt know JR is on fire again,,, ZIP UR MOUTH

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THE NEXT RACE IS COMING UP NOW U DUMB ____ ARE YOU THAT ______ STUPID I SWEAR TO _____ GOD OWENBROWN IS THE ______ POSTER HERE HE HAS NO _____ BRAINS GO BACK TO SUCKING MELTZERS __ YOU STUPID _____ U DONT KNOW ____ ABOUT NASCAR,,,,,,, GTFO MY THREAD BEFORE I WHOOP UR STUPID LITTLE ___

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Originally Posted by DaveBrawl Earnhardt

Dude,,, i know how to spell his name,,, his loyal fans call him EarnHART because he is part of our hearts,,, we loved his father

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DUDE,,, i know how the loyal fans post it,,, we have been doing it since he first started driving,,,,, its EARNHART learn your nascar or stick to roh and wwe for kidz,,,,

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JR is going to win the cup,,, wether u like it or not your little BK is gonna lose and JR IS GONNA BE THE CHAMP GO DALE GO #88 and yes u dont know nascar ur not a real fan ur brainwashed by the media in the sport u another jimmy spencer sheep,,,,,

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Originally Posted by James Steele Dale Jr. is a sack of shit pretty boy who isn't an 1/8th of the man or racer his father was.

Ok why is he 2nd in points only -4 ,,,,?

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YOU RACE TO WIN THE CUP,, ANY NASCAR FAN KNOWS,,,,,, LOOK AT MARK MARTIN,,, look at Ricky Rudd,,, nothing without the cup,,, and JR WILL WIN the cup

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-4 POINTS FROM THE LEAD,,,,,, jr the man go #88,,, JUNIOR NATION IS HERE GOGOGO green flag,,,, ladys and gentleman start ur engines

Rick Hendrick broke the news to Steve Letarte at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon in late November of 2010. About 15 minutes after being told that he would henceforth be overseeing the No. 88 team of NASCAR's most popular driver, Letarte was in his car, on his way to Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s house. Even though they had worked under the same roof for three years to that point, the crew chief introduced himself as if they had never met.
"We started with a blank sheet of paper," Letarte remembered. "We didn't take any preconceived notions of what Dale's strengths or weaknesses were. I personally didn't listen to anybody else's opinions on Dale. I learned a lot from Mr. Hendrick on how to deal with people and with relationships, and the most important thing is to create your own relationship firsthand. Dale and I did that."

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When you go to the shop and watch him kind of work, you can see how this team is as good as it is.

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-- DALE EARNARDT JR.


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Not everyone could have gone up there and sat down with Dale and said, 'Look, this is the way it's going to be.'

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-- RICK HENDRICK


And so began the relationship that would help transform Earnhardt, slowly at first, from the black sheep of a dominant Hendrick Motorsports franchise to arguably the organization's top championship contender this season. Make no mistake, it was Earnhardt's name attached to that epic 143-race winless streak, which saddled him for more than four years. It was Earnhardt's name on the trophy that ultimately snapped the skid this past Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. But the road to that moment began in late 2010, directly on the heels of a second consecutive rotten season for the No. 88 team, when Hendrick shuffled his personnel and paired Earnhardt with a crew chief who proved capable of turning everything around.
Sunday was Earnhardt's moment and Earnhardt's triumph, clearly. But it was made possible in large part because of Letarte, who took plenty of grief as Jeff Gordon's crew chief during that near-miss championship season of 2007, who even a week earlier at Pocono had drawn some raised eyebrows with an unpopular but necessary call to pit for fuel in the waning laps. For crew chiefs, that kind of second-guessing comes with waking up in the morning. None of that changes the indisputable fact that Letarte has been perhaps the singular catalyst in the rebuilding of both a program and a driver, that he instilled confidence, belief and professionalism within Earnhardt from almost the moment of his arrival, that over time he built cars capable of dominating a race just like they did at Michigan.
"He's hard to compliment, because he doesn't take it very well. But him and that team, they can have all the credit -- my engineers and Steve sit in that lounge every weekend and make the car go. You know, they make it turn. They make it whatever I want it to do. If I ask them, you know, this is my problem and this is where we are hurting, they get together and they fix it," Earnhardt said after the drought-buster in the Irish Hills.
"I just trust that he's looking out for, not for the best interests of just me. He looks out for the entire team and puts great people around himself to be able to do the job right. We have a good group. ... When you go to the shop and watch him kind of work, you can see how this team is as good as it is just by being in the shop and watching him sort of dictate and move pieces around like on a chessboard. He's really sharp."
Letarte brought with him so many things Earnhardt needed. The cars have been solid from almost day one, turning a variable into a constant, even if it took until Sunday to burst through the dam. He came in with a reputation for being able to keep his driver focused and upbeat in the car, able to head off episodes like the one Earnhardt suffered at New Hampshire in 2008, when he nearly melted down over a set of poorly matched tires and required Hendrick to come over the radio to talk him off the ledge. At the same time, Letarte began to demand things of Earnhardt that no other crew chief ever had. Fill out post-race reports. Attend meetings. Be ready to get to the track early, and stay there late.
That's the way the great Ray Evernham did it at Hendrick, the way Letarte and colleague Chad Knaus learned it. For all the support he offers over the radio, Letarte has a stern side to him, too. "Stevie, he can be extremely funny, and in a nanosecond he's very serious," Hendrick said. Earnhardt needed a little of a taskmaster; his first crew chief at Hendrick, Tony Eury Jr., was also his cousin, and it was difficult for the two to see each other as anything else. Earnhardt never really responded to Eury's successor, Lance McGrew. Enter Letarte, who brought with him a track record of winning races a certain way. Earnhardt bought into it.
"This is how this building has always operated," Letarte said, referring to the Hendrick organization. "It operated that way when Ray was here. I think Chad and I learned a lot from him, how he ran his race team. There are expectations set forth for every employee whether you're the tire man, engineer, engine man or the driver. The driver isn't a subcontractor, he's a team member. When you become a team member of the 88, you're expected to carry your end of the ship. That is not only the hard work you put in, but there's certain expectations and certain things needed. For the engineers to do their jobs as needed, certain times be available, certain expectations to come post race. I can't say enough about it. I think those expectations were laid out. They've been met 110 percent."
"Not everyone could have gone up there and sat down with Dale and said, 'Look, this is the way it's going to be, this is the way you have to show up,' " Hendrick added. "Stevie has a unique way of putting his arm around him and saying, 'Look, Bubba, we're in this together. Together we're going to do this. This is what I'm going to do, this is what I need you to do.' Dale felt comfortable and trusted Stevie. I don't think Stevie gets near the credit he deserves for getting Dale to feel all the things that Dale has to feel to be successful and be comfortable with the guys. To go from doubting what he had to feeling like he has the best in the garage, that's a tremendous job. I think it's probably the hardest job out there. So I just don't think Stevie gets near enough credit for what he's accomplished."
It was all made through much more than just meetings and tough love, though. Hendrick said Letarte worked hard to create a bond with Earnhardt, who doesn't let everyone in. The two traveled to test sessions together, flew to Las Vegas together to pick up Earnhardt's Most Popular Driver award a week after they were paired up. They took a methodical approach, one of improvement by degrees rather than leaps and bounds, and they became frustrated at times when they wanted it to happen more quickly than it did. But eventually it did happen, and now Earnhardt has a victory and is second in the championship standings, thanks in large part to a crew chief who figured out how to make NASCAR's most popular driver a winner once again.
"We use that word a lot, 'trust.' But Dale does not trust everybody," Hendrick said. "He doesn't think sometimes that he's taken in the right light. You see that more when his confidence isn't there. But when his confidence is switched on, I mean, he's convinced and he knows he's got the best in the garage. He believes that. He believes he's got the best crew chief and the best team. He believes this is what he's needed. Chemistry is so important. Sometimes, you never hit the right combination. But, man, I look back and I think we're very fortunate. Didn't have any idea it was going to be this good. But I think that the chemistry between these two guys, and I've been doing this for 30 years, is as good as or better than any I've ever seen."

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NASCAR IS A REAL SPORT,,,, unlike wrestling

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Yo supreme,,, wat up bro,,, ignore these guys they are just trolling I dont pay no attention to them,,, keep up the good work and lets clean these guys off the board!

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Whos ready to go racin,,,,,,,,,, SONOMA GO #88

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We will getem next week boyz,,,, GO JR GO GORDON,,, Go Harvick GO Edwards

#88 ,,,, #24 ,,,, #29 ,,,,,, #99 !!!!!!!

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LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW AND U WILL BE A FAN,,,, you are brainwashed by meltzer wether u admit it or not he has used his dirtsheets to make his opinions take over everybodys minds,,, wether u read them directly or not he brainwashed u by reading other peoples topics and opinons who were directly reading the dirt sheets,,, ur blind if u cant see this,, sry that im REAL ,,, and dont fall for the tradition crap thats taken over,,, and yes you have made 20+ accts since 2005 to cheat in polls,,, GJ

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So owenbrown and stjimmy are gonna clean up themselves,,,, LMFAO

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Originally Posted by owenbrown Go eat another 25 ham sandwiches in one sitting like you do for 4 meals a day

HAHAHAHA,,, IM LAUGHING SO HARD,,,, not

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When wrestling was good,,,,

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Originally Posted by owenbrown

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Former writer for WWE, WCW and TNA, Vince Russo, was interviewed by torch Torch and discussed a number of things. However, one of the more interesting things of note was Vince Russo's defense of his much-criticized writing style. Here is a transcript of how Russo feels his writing style came to fruition:

"This is why I'm hated by the internet community and I completely understand it but there's nothing I could have or would have done differently. When I started writing at the beginning of the 'Attitude Era' -- I'll never forget it -- the Raw show that broke the camel's back did a 1.9. The next morning, I got called into Vince's office (and) the rest is history. A 1.9. At some point, that 1.9 turned into a 7.0. Now, that 7.0 is once again at a 3.0.


"You have to understand something; I don't have a wrestling philosophy. The way I've always written a show is, 'Whatever is hot and whatever is drawing eye balls, we're going to go with it. And if something wasn't hot and if something wasn't drawing, we're going to get this off the show.' So, at WWE, we literally looked at the minute-by-minute ratings. We knew -- every minute -- what the people were watching (and) what the people were turning off. We just kept going with what they were watching. What they were watching. What they were watching.


"That 1.9 fan-base they had was the wrestling fans]. When we grew it to a 7.0, that was really the non-wrestling, casual fan that was now tuning into the show because the show was now cool and hip. They could talk about Steve Austin and The Rock. You know, the blue collar workers with Austin and McMahon. It became hip to the non-traditional wrestling crowd.
"Well, they're non-traditional and they're not the wrestling crowd because they weren't watching it for the wrestling. They were watching it for the stories, the characters, the soap opera. That's what drew the casual fans in.


"Now, my job is based on bringing in the highest rating to the company. That type of wrestling was not the type of wrestling that the internet community was into. The internet community wants to see wrestling and I understood that. I knew that. But I also knew that I was getting paid to draw the highest number. That's my job.


"I had this conversation with someone the other day. If an A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels 20 minute match drew a high rating, wouldn't Vince put it on every show? If the casual fan -- and I mean the masses -- really loved the wrestling aspect of the show -- 20-30 minute matches -- and that's what they were watching for, do you know how easy that would have made my job? To just book matches on the show? My job would have been a piece of cake.


"But, the reality is that the difference between that 1.9 and that 7.0 -- they're not technical, wrestling-on-the-mat fans. They're casual fans that like the entertainment aspect. So, my job was to feed those fans and not cater to that internet crowd that really liked those 30 minute, 5 star matches. The frustrating thing is that I'm a wrestling fan. As a wrestling fan, at the end of the day, I want as many people as possible to watch the product. Because the more people that watch it, the more that everybody related to the business thrives. That's all I tried to do."