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February 2005

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Great column (WWE Streetfighter). I love things like this. These are who I think should win the next fights:

Mabel/Flair: Mabel. Because Flair is old and Mabel is big and fat. 

Rhyno/Conway: Rhyno. He just seems tougher than Conway to me. 

Hardy/Kane: Kane. Do I really need to explain why? 

Christian/Benjamin: Shelton. He trained with Brock Lesnar. He must be tough. 

Hassan/Orton: Orton. Can't really explain why I think that. 

Guerrero/Cena: Guerrero. Cena seems like a pretty calm guy. 

Dupree/Reigns: Reigns. Dupree only advanced because he fought someone smaller than him. 

Puder/D-Von: Puder. I'm pretty sure he can handle himself. 

RVD/London: I don't know. RVD I guess. 

Taker/Angle: Angle. He has a good reason to go nuts on him. (Taker choked him out on a plane I guess)

Can't wait for the next round.        

Tim

hi there

i am from south africa and we are about 4 weeks behind in the WWF scene.  what has happened to bill goldberg

bernard

Armpit: Wow, news travels slow to South Africa.  Bill Goldberg left WWE after WrestleMania 20, and has spent the past year filming "The Longest Yard" with Adam Sandler, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, and Bob Sapp.  Don't expect to see him in WWE anytime soon, though he keeps talking about wrestling independently and trying to convince Ted Turner to compete with WWE (not gonna happen).

Do you know how to get in touch with Captain Lou? Or what he is doing?  Finders Fee.

Ileen Levine

Armpit:  Hmm, finders fee.  Anyone wanna help out?

I have been trying to reach Lou.  Is there a website where he can be contacted?  His cousin Frank from Chicago lives here in the Sun Cities of Arizona and we wanted to see him again.  I grew up in Mount Vernon.

Dick Light

Armpit: Damn, Capt. Lou is in hot demand.  Sorry guys, no idea how to get in touch with him.

I just wanted to give you and everyone else involved with the site a big "thankyou".  After browsing through the web last week, I came across your site and thought I'd take a look and boy did I fall in love with your site.

Some of your articles and such brought back lot of memories from childhood. What I mean is that seeing some articles from wrestlers of the past such as your "25 Wrestlers Who Knew How To Party" and all those lists you guys come up with are great and keep em coming, cause a trip down memory lane is something I always cherish, especially stuff from the 80's and early 90's, why? well because my sister, who passed away in the early 90's, was alive back then and it always brings back memories. Some painful, including a year or 2 after she died, but before that good memories. So Thanks guys, keep it up.

Hey, wrestling, along with movies, kept me going to an extent.

Also would like to add, the Australian wrestler Mace, we went to the same high school together and we're pretty much obsessed with wrestling. I was surprised that he was involved in something like that but then the correction came through.

Cheers guys,

MaTTy

I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH RIC FOR YEARS BUT HAVE LOST TOUCH.    HAVE YOU SEEN HIM IS HE OK   I SEE HIM ON WRESTLING.  HOW IS HE HEALTH WISE . AND IN GENERAL I MISS OUR CONVERSATIONS HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND

ROSEBUD

Armpit: Sorry to hear Ric hasn't kept in touch with you.  Health wise, he's injured pretty badly but continues to wrestle because he is Ric Flair.  He will never retire.

Hey WP, I was reading my Wrestling 365 newsletter and I saw that they gave you a shout in today's letter.  That's pretty cool. Of course I would like to think some of the "great wrestling-related parodies" that they read were mine, but I doubt that...

Anyways good work, the site is looking great. The Man-boobs was a good article because even though we (men) don't like to admit it, we do notice man boobage.

-premiumcream

Armpit: It's okay to admit noticing man boobage.  Thanks for the letter and you're free to write an article for us again any time.  

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR AND THE ROCK'N'ROLL EXPRESS?

No name given

Armpit:  Ultimate Warrior is a hardcore conservative and goes around the country giving speeches.  Rock N Roll Express are still around the indie scene, and did a few high profile matches with the Midnight Express last year on the reunion circuit.

Did you know that during the finishing minutes of the Rumble last night, the cable feed went on the fritz and WWE showed the ending from the '94 rumble instead, oh wait sadly, that was a re-enactment and not a repeat, what do they go on an angle cycle? no need to respond, just laughing about booking.

This is more or less JBL on Smackdown this past Thursday........

"look at this arena teddy long....SOLD OUT thanks to JBL (or RAW).....I sell out arenas.....I sell pay per views, etc.........."

My question is, have I been living under a rock???!?!?!  Since when the fuck did JBL start selling ppv and arenas out???

Tony Notsay

Armpit: Never.  He never did.  But Vince likes him, so he's our champ.

So, I install the latest edition of a search engine in my latest PC, give it a spin via the traditional "look up your own name" deal, and note the moniker is linked not only to a mat site I was unaware of, but also a reference to Dave Meltzer therein.

I was flattered to see "Ernie Santilli" among the Where Are They Now names...though I think you may be confused a bit.  I don't recall writing a poem about Dusty, but definitely did a Year In Review rap, appearing on the Readers' Pages in early '91.  Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

So, now, I read only the WON, and my contributions are way less frequent than in "the old days," and more subtle, e.g. I occasionally drop Dave an e‑mail thought, and he sometimes will run the latter as text within, as opposed to when my stuff was meant strictly for the Reader's Page. 

Ernie Santilli

Armpit: Yes, it was the Year in Review rap I read, sorry.  That was great stuff.

Hi,

My name is Steve Gandy and I went to Leto High School with Ray "Hercules" Fernandez and his wife.  I remember Ray being in my Home room and being a tall skinny guy. He was a quiet guy who got along with everyone. I also remember that we were both on the wrestling team and it was doubtful that he would continue because his Mom did not want to sign the papers to allow him to wrestle because she was afraid that he would get hurt, which was kind of funny later on because he did become a pro wrestler. After High School the next time I saw him was at a Tampa Mall. I recognized him even though it had been years and his body had become very muscular.

I was very proud to say that I went to High School with Hercules Hernandez and also proud to have known him in High School. I wish that I would have stayed in touch but life some how gets away from all of us and we lose touch with those that we have known. I just recently found out about Rays passing through my 24 year old daughter who is also a wrestling fan. I showed my daughter Rays picture in my High School yearbook.

I was saddened to hear the news of his death. I was hoping one day to get to see Ray again and talk about some old times at Leto, maybe in the next life we will have a good ol time.

Anyway if Rays family gets to read this, have them look me up in his High School year book and his wife may remember me and it may take her back to some memories of the teenage years when we all were at Leto.

So I will close by saying a Fond Farewell to Hercules Hernandez ( Ray Fernandez ) My High School friend.

Steve Gandy

Armpit: We were so touched to get this email.  Hercules will always have a special place on this page, ever since his daughter Nichole Rae did a Pick My Brain with us after her father passed away.  Unfortunately, Nichole doesn't answer our email any more, so I can't help you get back in touch with Hercules' family.  Thanks for sending this.

Hey Professor, with all the success of the ECW DVD maybe you should repost your backstage at ECW '95 article, I remember it was a great read. The story about Styles not going in the elevator was gold!

Paul Kennett

Armpit: Yes, we posted it shortly after you asked us.  We have another old ECW article coming up soon, which was also from our old site.  Stay tuned.

I have just learned of your new Web, and it is fucking hilarious. I am reading the back articles and the Feinstein chat is off the charts funny. Good job guys.

I appreciate your website, I love your sense of humor, but what you did with Keller was way out of line. He might not be Meltzer, but he is not Ryder either. I don't care if Wade did not answer you right back, he deserves better than that.

Josh Marino

Armpit: As you know, we took down the Keller article.  Also, the guy who wrote this letter, Josh Marino, was the first ever winner of our old wrestling quiz (if not the first, he was one of the first) in 2002.  He also wrote a guest column for us back then. 

Loved your old site. Love your new site.

Don't know if he counts, considering he's in a Women's league, or more of a cross-gender league. But the name is "Papa Mae" from WEW. Women's Extreme Wrestling.

( use to be women's erotic wresting)

Anyway I just saw a "Loser has to show their BooBs" match.  He lost, & had to expose his Man Boobs!. (& then we all lost. (it)

Just throwing it your way.  Keep up the good work!

Sven Hozz

Armpit: I don't know why, but the word "Manboobs" never fails to make us laugh.

YOU OUTDID YOURSELVES AGAIN I MUST'VE DID 15 SURVEYS TRYING TO GET YOU GUYS TO DO SOME E –C-W ARTICLES  THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO YOUR WEB-HEADS AND LIKE I STATED IN ONE OF MY SURVEYS WHEN I SAW THE ARTICLE OF E-C-W I SHIT MY PANTS “LITERALLY”

YOUR DEVOTED MARK

SUICIDAL ANGEL

Armpit: So THAT was you.  Glad you enjoyed it.  More to come.  The following are various message board comments on our Manboobs article:

I'm not sure why the Rock made it to #9 on the list, though number's #1 and 2 are pretty much a given.

I feel a little weird reading this detailed analysis of sagging flapjackity man cans, but's it's a pretty amusing light hearted read none the less. Black Sun Death 

Anybody else feel like they stumbled into some weird fetish site? Loutish popoff actor

quote:

Abby is a legend in Japan and Puerto Rico, where he still remains a novelty due to his unique look and business acumen. After all, according to Kamala, Abby went out of his way to make sure he was the only African American in the Japanese wrestling business worth a damn. Kamala has a good point, because up until the Bob Sapp phenomenon, I never saw too many African American in Japan's ranks. Hmm, I wonder how that happened.

What'd Kamala mean by this? Did Abby "blackball" (for lack of better words) other black workers in Japan? It kind of makes sense now that I think about, because there's no other blacks on the level of Abdullah in Japan, unless I'm forgetting someone.

When I saw the thread title, I knew Abby had to win by miles, only because he has the one burn-scarred manboob. He'll always be one of my favorites. Road Warrior Dissdain 

That's funny stuff! Rollo Nickels 

These guys never saw One Man Gang prior to 1984, I guess. He had some pretty bad man boobs, so I suppose that's why he started covering them up back then. MongolianStomperBBQ 

I am stunned by the exclusion of Mr. Gannosuke, the only man with the chutzpah to call himself Mr. Manbreasts.The Rock's mammoplasty definitely earns him a spot. Bafflewit

Armpit: The following are various message board comments on our 25 Wrestlers who Love to Party article.

Ric Flair should be closer. I'm reading his book at the moment, its very good by the way, and Ric partied every night after matches. He even admits he did it to much and drunk to much. What a champ Ric is. C.J. 

Hogan really shoulda been on that list.

- He always partied
- He always had the chicks
- He drank (at parties)
- Hell, he even did Steroids (Which counts as a drug) Paul Burns 

The list could feature so many guys/gals from the 80s don't forget at this time the United States was going through huge faze of working class, upper middle class and celebrities and the rich using cocaine..
In the wrestling business (in the 1980s) nearly 90% of people were doing something its just the way the society was then heck even Vince Mc Mahon and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat admitted to snorting coke...

I would have added Dark Journey to that list she was known as a huge cokehead and was known as the fuck toy for the Midsouth locker room..

He should have done a list of 50 instead of 25 still a very good read.. natholy 

I'm gonna have to watch Royal Rumble 93 now just to see Marty Jannetty out of it, I've never noticed it before. Dragon’s Fire