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There were Y2J chants too. Because Corpus Christi is dumb as hell, apparently.

I don't know man, parts of South Texas have fucking lame crowds. My sister saw Def Leppard in Laredo and the band got pissed that the fans were sitting down. The band specifically said they had NEVER seen that before and were insulted. That would never happen in say San Antonio...or Houston.
 
I don't know man, parts of South Texas have fucking lame crowds. My sister saw Def Leppard in Laredo and the band got pissed that the fans were sitting down. The band specifically said they had NEVER seen that before and were insulted. That would never happen in say San Antonio...or Houston.

I dunno, I think I would sit down at a Def Leppard show.
 
I dunno, I think I would sit down at a Def Leppard show.

HAH. 100% Predicted-this post! What Wit!

Well I saw the same band in San Antonio and the fans were into it. Good show.

Smackdown is in Laredo today, so it won't matter. They'll just mix in some cheers.
 
I don't know man, parts of South Texas have fucking lame crowds. My sister saw Def Leppard in Laredo and the band got pissed that the fans were sitting down. The band specifically said they had NEVER seen that before and were insulted. That would never happen in say San Antonio...or Houston.

To be honest Joe Elliot sounds like shit these days, I might be inclined to sit too...just saying.
 
I come to you guys for advice. Currently reading through Hulk Hogans "My Life Outside the Ring" (it was a gift) and I'm nearing the end, and I can really only think of one other book I want to read which is Foleys "Countdown To Lockdown." I was very tempted by Flair's book but I heard he rips on Foley a whole lot, and with Foley being one of my all time favourites I'm not sure if I wanna read it if that's true. I've already read Foleys first three books, both of Jerichos, and Bret Harts book to give you guys an idea of what I haven't read.
 
I come to you guys for advice. Currently reading through Hulk Hogans "My Life Outside the Ring" (it was a gift) and I'm nearing the end, and I can really only think of one other book I want to read which is Foleys "Countdown To Lockdown." I was very tempted by Flair's book but I heard he rips on Foley a whole lot, and with Foley being one of my all time favourites I'm not sure if I wanna read it if that's true. I've already read Foleys first three books, both of Jerichos, and Bret Harts book to give you guys an idea of what I haven't read.

I'm reading Eric Bishoffs book right now and I think it's pretty good. Definitely goes into detail of what it takes to make a TV show. I like it.

Eddie's book was not bad. The beginning is a lot more interesting. I thought he took it a bit too easy on WWE once it got to that point in the story, but they published it so maybe that's why.
 
I come to you guys for advice. Currently reading through Hulk Hogans "My Life Outside the Ring" (it was a gift) and I'm nearing the end, and I can really only think of one other book I want to read which is Foleys "Countdown To Lockdown." I was very tempted by Flair's book but I heard he rips on Foley a whole lot, and with Foley being one of my all time favourites I'm not sure if I wanna read it if that's true. I've already read Foleys first three books, both of Jerichos, and Bret Harts book to give you guys an idea of what I haven't read.

Whats the advice you need?
 
I'm reading Eric Bishoffs book right now and I think it's pretty good. Definitely goes into detail of what it takes to make a TV show. I like it.
Eddie's book was not bad. The beginning is a lot more interesting. I thought he took it a bit too easy on WWE once it got to that point in the story, but they published so maybe that's why.
Thanks, I will definitely look into those. :)

Whats the advice you need?
Oh, sorry if I made that unclear. Just other good wrestling books to read really, preferably biographical stuff, but I can be persuaded to try other stuff.
 
I come to you guys for advice. Currently reading through Hulk Hogans "My Life Outside the Ring" (it was a gift) and I'm nearing the end, and I can really only think of one other book I want to read which is Foleys "Countdown To Lockdown." I was very tempted by Flair's book but I heard he rips on Foley a whole lot, and with Foley being one of my all time favourites I'm not sure if I wanna read it if that's true. I've already read Foleys first three books, both of Jerichos, and Bret Harts book to give you guys an idea of what I haven't read.

Edge's is light reading but pretty fun, he has a few good stories from the indie circuit.

It was written just before he became a main event guy, though, so it's missing the biggest years of his career.
 
I don't know man, parts of South Texas have fucking lame crowds. My sister saw Def Leppard in Laredo and the band got pissed that the fans were sitting down. The band specifically said they had NEVER seen that before and were insulted. That would never happen in say San Antonio...or Houston.

San Antonio was pretty much dead for Vengeance though. At least until the ring collapse during Henry/Show.
 
Dragon Gate/Ring of Honor/WWE shows:

Friday, March 30
Dragon Gate USA - part of WrestleReunion I think? - 8 PM
Ring of Honor - Showdown in the Sun Day 1 - 8 PM

Saturday, March 31
Ring of Honor - Showdown in the Sun Day 2 - 1 PM
Dragon Gate USA - a part of WrestleReunion - 8 PM
WWE - Hall of Fame - 8 PM

Sunday, April 1
WWE - Wrestlemania - 6:30 PM

Edit: djsandman, Perspicacity, etc. -- I seem to remember someone asking me to help get the wrassleGAFfers together as it seems I'm the only native South FL guy going. I might have missed it somewhere in the last 4 threads, but it might be nice to know who's going to what/when.

Thanks for this. I'm going with a couple of buddies so we'll need to work out what we want to go to or do all weekend, but at a guess I'd say we'll likely just be barhopping on Friday, hitting Saturday's ROH, Dragon Gate and $5 Wrestling, Mania, potentially Raw on Monday, then the Panthers/Jets game on Tuesday.
 
Edge's is light reading but pretty fun, he has a few good stories from the indie circuit. It was written just before he became a main event guy, though, so it's missing the biggest years of his career.
Thanks, somehow I had completely missed this one despite being a fan of Edges, maybe now he's retired from wrestling he will start writing a second book covering his time in the WWE.


I should start reading again, I'd love to read Hart and Jericho's books.
Jericho's were OK, solid reads but not among the best. I would say his first book covering his indie career was better then the second, simply because I really didn't know much about his time in the indies. The second book is worth a read just to get his reactions about you know who's incident. Bret Hart's book is very good, and a pretty long read, but by the end he had really made me hate him with some his story's and the way he would write about certain things as if they didn't really matter, despite them being huge deals to me at least. I wasn't really a Bret fan going into it though, so it was probably easier to sway me. Still a very good book though.
 
I come to you guys for advice. Currently reading through Hulk Hogans "My Life Outside the Ring" (it was a gift) and I'm nearing the end, and I can really only think of one other book I want to read which is Foleys "Countdown To Lockdown." I was very tempted by Flair's book but I heard he rips on Foley a whole lot, and with Foley being one of my all time favourites I'm not sure if I wanna read it if that's true. I've already read Foleys first three books, both of Jerichos, and Bret Harts book to give you guys an idea of what I haven't read.

There is really only one spot where he lays into Foley. It's worth reading, some of the stories are hilarious and very interesting. Probably my favorite wrestling book after Jericho's.
Foley annoys me because parts of his books are so great, while in others he just goes on and on and on and on and on about the stupidest shit. The whole thing about Tori Amos (it was her right? I can't recall correctly) was absurd. Just endless pages of repetitive nonsense about her.

Bischoff's book was also quite good. He spends a little too much time trying to defend himself but some of the back stage behind the scenes stuff is very interesting.


edit: actually scratch that, I'd put Flairs book ahead of Jericho's just because of all the Fozzy stuff. The road stories are truly amazing in Ric's book.

Oh and the Rock's book is garbage, don't bother with it. Stone Cold's isn't much better either.
 
Also, Jericho spends wayyyyyyyyyyy to much time talking about Fozzy

I'm a Metal fan, and like Fozzy.. so I thought that stuff was great. Understood all the references etc. I've been to a bunch of shit holes to see shows. I could relate to it all. I could vividly visualize all in my head.
 
I liked the Fozzy sections on the first read through, but on the re-read I skipped them all. It probably doesn't help that I think Fozzy is awful and I'm not a fan of that genre of music at all.
 
That's a shame. Crowd was great when I saw the Rumble there, and RAW always comes off well.

And the Houston crowd is usually hot for PPVs too.

It probably didn't help that the Raw and Smackdown episodes leading up to it did nothing to hype the PPV. The only match that really had any build up was Henry vs. Show.
 
I liked the Fozzy sections on the first read through, but on the re-read I skipped them all. It probably doesn't help that I think Fozzy is awful and I'm not a fan of that genre of music at all.

Pretty much this. one thing i do love about his book is that he realizes some people don't care for Fozzy and just devotes chapters to it so you can skip it. His Axl story is great though
 
Cena's a good man for doing that , I think the only people we should really be mad at is WWE creative. I'm sure Cena is a cool guy in real life.

I don't think (or I would hope not), that anyone hates "Cena the person." It really just is his on character persona.
 
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Also, Jericho spends wayyyyyyyyyyy to much time talking about Fozzy

Whilst the Fozzy stuff was a little bothersome by the end, it did lead to me searching for the "Fozzy: Unleashed, Uncensored, Unknown" documentary they made, it was very entertaining and very This Is Spinal-Tap, and considering that it's one of my favourite movies I loved it from start to finish.


There is really only one spot where he lays into Foley. It's worth reading, some of the stories are hilarious and very interesting. Probably my favorite wrestling book after Jericho's.
Foley annoys me because parts of his books are so great, while in others he just goes on and on and on and on and on about the stupidest shit. The whole thing about Tori Amos (it was her right? I can't recall correctly) was absurd. Just endless pages of repetitive nonsense about her.

edit: actually scratch that, I'd put Flairs book ahead of Jericho's just because of all the Fozzy stuff. The road stories are truly amazing in Ric's book.

Oh and the Rock's book is garbage, don't bother with it. Stone Cold's isn't much better either.

Good to know about Flair's book, I think I'll pick that one up after I get Countdown to Lockdown, always like to have a book ready to go straight after I finish one. I know exactly what you mean about Foleys babbling on about Tori Amos though, and having pretty much already read his thoughts on her when made a blog post about her during his RAINN campaign, I was tired of hearing about her before the first sentence was over. Thanks for the warning on Austin and Rock's books, I'll be sure to stay away.
 
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