Well, I find myself in a rare state. Hanging out at home on a Saturday night, just me and THE DUDE~! This isn’t a rare occurrence during the daytime on weekdays, but not so common on the weekends. He’s too cool to actually hang out with me, however, he’s in the next room watching his favourite channel, Teletoon Retro. He’s become a big fan of Spiderman and the Super Friends.

So, like I promised, I watched the ROH DVD “Best in the World” the other day. It was a good thing, too. The weather here got downright miserable for a couple days (although it’s back to being sunny and fantastic today). The switch in weather and staying up too late gave me a cold, which, with the exception of a little fatigue, I’ve handilly beaten already.

So the DVD gave me something to pass the time. I had editing work to do, but in my weakened state, I couldn’t concentrate for long periods, and I was into a very detail-oriented, meticulous portion of my project. I know many in recent years (more specifically the last two) consider ROH’s quality to have taken a bit of a slide, but that’s what makes these compilation DVDs so fun. (more…)

I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I picked up the Ring of Honor DVD “Best in the World” today.

I feel ROH have really scored a coup in mainstream distrbution for their series of “Best Of” style DVDs, this being one in the series. About a month ago, I tried out “Blood Stained Honor” which is a compilation of some of the more violent and bloody matches in the history of the company. I really enjoyed it, as a good brawl is always appreciated every-so-often by yours truly.

I’ll let you know how I like the new DVD. These discs are not my introduction to ROH, but I certainly haven’t seen as much of the product as I would have liked to over the past 6 or so years. So I am not one of those ROH uberfans you hear so much about. But what I do enjoy is good wrestling, and ROH delivers plenty of that.

These DVDs being priced very attractively at $10 or less makes them a safe gamble for fans who have never seen ROH before, and was certainly a factor in me buying them, too.

Then again, this disc features everyone from A.J. Styles to Samoa Joe to Terry Funk to Lance Storm to Kenta Freaking Kobashi, so in many ways it was a no brainer.

My only complaint is the bomus trading cards that come with each DVD. They are way cool, and remind me of the old Topps/O Pee Chee WWF trading cards I got when I was a kid. The only thing is, there’s supposed to be 6 in the set. I figured each DVD would have a different card. No such luck…I now have two Bryan Danielson’s.

Do you know what that does for my ego?  Having not one, but TWO trading cards of a guy that beat me in the ring in one of my few ECCW title bids?

Oh, wait, we later teamed up in Portland, so we are supposed to be friends, I think.

Nah, Bryan’s a good dude, and truly one of the best in the world.

Adam

Don’t worry, everyone, I haven’t forgotten you, and I still love you all.

The weather out here has been fantastic. Even though I don’t have much to show for this season besides moving into a brand new Firestorm Family Compound, this has been one of my more enjoyable Summer’s in recent memory.

Been busy lately, between being a husband, Dad, and self-employed genius. I have been working on my exciting TV pilot project, and despite being easily distracted, I’ve been enjoying the work (as I always do), and getting a lot of personal satisfaction out of it.

This past Friday afternoon/evening saw Ringside Live mark our first anniversary.  We did a special two-hour show (which can be heard on the main page) during which on top of the latest wrestling and MMA news and retrospection, we crowned the Worst Wrestler Ever.

Rocky Mountain Thunder, please step forward.

RMT seems to be an enigmatic fellow. It seems outside his short AWA stint in the 1980’s, nobody can recall anything else he ever did, or where he went. Deep in the bowels of my mind, where I house useless facts such as the last time a wrestler was seen tripping over the ring steps on a live broadcast (listen to Friday’s show for the answer!) I pulled up a tidbit of unsubstantiated information.

“Gorgeous” Michelle Starr, the man who trained me, wrestled Rocky Mountain Thunder. Did he? I swear I heard him mention it once, and the timeframe seemed right, as Starr wrestled several AWA TV matches early in his career, and the timeframe matches up. Starr’s trainer, Billy Anderson certainly wrestled him, as seen on recently aired AWA reruns on ESPN Classic.

So I fired off an email to Mr. Starr. “Did you wrestle Rocky Mountain Thunder?” I asked.

The lengthy and detailed response is pasted below in it’s entirety…

“yes i think so”

That’s it. Not even any punctuation. And Starr is actually a very capable writer. Maybe he was in a hurry? Maybe he wanted me to stop asking silly questions and update the All Star Wrestling website?

Sadly, I didn’t have enough time to prod him for more information before the radio show. Hmmm…perhaps the word “prod” was a poor choice when discussing a man who wears pink spandex, uses “It’s Raining Men” as his entrance theme, and wears makeup? Just a little humour there. Don’t get me wrong, I love Starr to death, if not grievous bodily harm. He’s done a lot for me and my family, and I truly consider him a big brother.

Mark my words, I’ll do my best to find out more, and get to the “bottom” of this!

Adam