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I am currently watching ECW, and just got a good close look at Kevin Thorne, he had his hair back in a ponytail, and it just hit me... he looks a lot like Robert Roode in TNA, is there any chance that they're related in some way?
The two aren't related.
When were Arn Anderson and Low Ki ever in the old ECW?
Low Ki never worked the original ECW but was scheduled to start with the company during the period it went out of business. He was actually backstage at the final ECW PPV, Guilty as Charged 2001. Arn Anderson made two appearances. He did a run-in saving Terry Funk from Sabu and Bobby Eaton in April 1994 at the ECW Arena. Anderson and Funk did promos on the next several weeks of ECW TV and teamed the next month at "ECW When Worlds Collide" losing to Sabu and Bobby Eaton after Anderson turned on Funk and left him laying in the ring. Funk then submitted to a half Boston Crab applied by Sabu.
What did Rick "The Model" Martel put in his Arrogance bottle? Was it real cologne or just water?
It was water, although the announcers and performers would act as if it was cologne.
Do you think WWE will ever do Tough Enough again? Sure, John Morrison is the only succesful person to ever come out of it (not counting Boogeyman) but I really enjoyed it (especially the first one) and thought it was great for the business. Even during that Attitude era, people still disrespected this worked business and called it fake and I thought the show showed that wrestlers are athletes and do get hurt.
I don't foresee the company bringing it back anytime in the future. The company sees it as something of a failed experiment in that it didn't create any names beyond Morrison, although the reality is that they never really got behind any of the characters once they "graduated" to the main roster. Although UFC has shown that you can create stars with their similar "Ultimate Fighter" series, WWE never really utilized the concept to its fullest, which also partially due to the MTV influence pushing the more t&a and dramatic aspects of the series, as opposed to the athletics.
I am assuming that like me, you guys have been wrestling fans your entire lives. I was wondering, how did you deal with people telling you wrestling is fake growing up? I went to high school during the attitude era, so most people liked it then and I did not hear the words "fake" for a long time. But, when I was younger, a lot of people would tease me for watching it and preferred football instead. I was always and still am bored during football. And today, people are starting the fake word up again. How do you defend it?
Since I lived in New York City, my response would usually be, "So is Broadway." I never really felt a need to defend it though. It was what it was and if people didn't like it, I usually wouldn't discuss it with them.
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