Know what I'm not digging so much these days? Japanese wrestling. The Japanese are on our shores so much these days, and are presented as being just as talented as the American guys that they don't have any mystique for me anymore. Kobashi's GHC title run kinda was my swan song. Sorry, but I can't differentiate all of these juniors. I know KENTA, and I LOVE Marufuji, and Dragon Gate guys are SOOOO athletic, but I don't see any stars, like SUPER stars or anything. With that said, I think that Dragon Gate project is a logical evolution of the end of the world, so, if we're going to go for it, they've got a really good shot of burning out crowds even further.

Watched the ROH TV. I'm of the same generation as all of these cats, and, well, try as we might, we can't walk and talk like the guys 20 years before us could walk and talk on small level regional TV, which ROH comes off like. Maybe it's just a matter of experience, but, nobody jumps off the TV as a home run hitter. Some may say it's presentation, I say it's a lack of experience. Guys in the 80s worked three to four times as many dates as the top indy guy does today. That would mean that they evolved three to four times as fast. Of the current ROH roster if that logic holds firm, Danielson, Castagnoli, Albright, Lynn, Jacobs, Aries and Rod Strong would be the guys most ready for consistent prime time viewing. And of that crew, JL is the only one with significant mainstream/territory TV time to fall back on. It's a noble attempt, but flawed.

The fed is better than ever. WWE is consistently awesome. I rather enjoy everyone as presently slotted, and think that the guys who take their craft seriously are being given the ball, and, well, the guys you haven't seen on TV since the middle of Bush's second term, well, that'll probably tell you something. I'm not crazy on the girls, as, there's not much depth, but, yeah. It's a shame nobody likes wrestling anymore. They've got some really deep and multifaceted characters right now (Orton, Edge, Jericho, Cena), and, if you deign to watch ECW, it's the best bell to bell wrestling show on TV in ages. Bourne, Swagger, Finlay, Christian (the best hand in he entire company by far), Mark Henry and a rapidly improving Tyson Kidd are very credible and solid.

TNA is a clusterfuck. It's a shame as they have guys who are really improving (AJ Styles), but, they've gathered a collection of guys who come off as past their prime, or not presented to young fans as refreshed or interesting. Booker T and Jeff Jarrett are awesome still, and Angle is a crazy man, but, I really think that the young guys down there need some sort of reason to have some passion and fire. They all look like they've been berated into believing they're midcard jabronies who are stupid and haven't the intellect or desire to improve, and their momentum is gone, but the TNA diehards still love them, which makes their crowd look like buffoons. It's a fun nostalgia show, but as far as something I watch and feel like I'm seeing the future, I don't know.

Of things WWE should directly jack from their "competition," the concepts of The Beautiful People (Maryse and a crew of chicks), AJ Styles (Evan Bourne as an athletic young babyface posited as a guy who's a blue chipper and winner against any odds), and Beer Money of Harris and Storm, the best fucking tag team anywhere in the entire known universe.

Elsewhere on the indies, Gabe Sapolsky routinely sucks off Chikara, so I won't here, but, Quack's booking is airtight, and the nerds follow along, and he gets that fanbase like Watts understood Negroes in '82 and Dusty understood rednecks in '86, and that's cool. I can't watch lucha unless Jack Evans, Teddy Hart and Konnan are involved, but i read the results, and see the growth, and, well, they have to be applauded. And anywhere where Mitch Ryder can fight Mexicans or ant people, and Eddie Kingston or Claudio Castagnoli can be giant killers of men, well, that's a winner.

As for me, enjoying my time in Maryland. The run there with York and Cobian has been a blast, and once I really get my groove, I wanna hit home runs there. I hit home runs at EWA, and have had some real big time fun with Bravura in the south, but have yet to really get my feet under me somewhere with that type of legend and renown. The responses have been getting larger and larger, and I can't wait to start really pushing some buttons. I have some new tricks up my sleeve I've been itching to use.

Some nincompoop with access to video and Youtube needs to book me and my gang of heels against Brad Stutts and a revamped Fatback Enterprises somewhere down South. Give us the book, and we'll leave you all on the edges of your seats and have David Crockett yelling "Look at 'em Tony!" every five seconds. He's one of the ten people on this planet I have utmost confidence in that I could draw BIG box office with if this was 30 years ago and people gave a fuck about that shit. I had a dream about Stuttsy/Sweeney/Cicero/Edsel/Dollars/Richards v. Dowling/Bravura/Ortiz/Jordane/Legend/Smith, doing a year somewhere, different crews each month, and oh the fun we'd have. But that's a dream because that'd make money, and well, we know that's not the goal of this shit anymore.

I work with and routinely surround myself now with folks who do everything right. They have good bodies, are smart, work hard, don't do anything stupid, are respectful of the history and traditions of the industry, and yet are the guys sitting on the bench when they could be scoring the touchdowns. I admittedly have been somewhat undermotivated as of late (amazing how that works when my work is better than it's ever been), but, I feel the itch coming back. If someone gives me, or any of my crew the ball, we're going to turn you on your ear. We WILL increase your crowds. We WILL  have the most professional presentation of anyone on the show (Legend and Jordane look like they were clipped out of the pages of Muscle and Fitness body wise) We WILL draw heat (Bravura and Ortiz ARE Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez), or in the case of the little black guy with Koko Ware's ass, young Stephon, make little girls and old ladies cry, and be the hero of fat kids that get picked on everywhere.

Wanna make money and have good matches that don't result in anybody dying or getting hurt, holla. I'm here, sharpening my shit, ready to fuckin' roll. These people haven't seen shit like this in 30 years.

Fuck it. We're the best. Plain and simple.

- Me.