Ready To Ramble #2

I'm pretty sure this is going to be a regular thing on my blog now.

Later this week however, I'm going to try something different. I'm going to do an audio version of it. We'll see how that goes, I look forward to your feedback, and also if you have any questions or thoughts about what's going on in Wrestling/Entertainment, send 'em along to brad.m.legere@gmail.com and I'll answer, or just read what you have to say.

Anyway, I'm Ready To Ramble.

How insane was the pop for Alex Riley on Raw last week? I loved it. I'm all for young guys getting the push and the rub. A program with Miz would work wonders for him. Sure he's still green in the ring but he's been in the ring with the top dogs, and The Miz is a prime example of a guy willing to work his ass off, and he'll be a great help to A-Ri. His mic skills are pretty good, so half the battle is won. This is going to get interesting.

R-Truth. I hope he disappoints little kids in the audience. That was priceless. As many have said, Miz had Miz girl, that kid can be Truth boy.
R-Truth get's better each week.

I've watched the Randy Savage tribute video from Raw over and over. Great job by WWE.
Also, I read Vince's article in TIME magazine. Very well done.

I love that Jerry Lawler said no matter what, he's a Hall of Famer.

Go watch some Lawler/Savage matches on youTube. Great stuff.

I'm still not watching a whole lot of TNA..or Impact..whatever they want to call it. You can call a turd a rose, but it's still that smelly turd.

So happy for Ring Of Honor being purchased by Sinclair Broadcasting and acquiring TV time. I really hope it works out well for them. I just hope also that somewhere on my Satellite network that I can get a channel. If not rohwrestling.com is the place to view.

I just started following Jay Briscoe on Twitter. You should too @jaybriscoe84 He's hilarious.

I almost wish I purchased Over The Limit to see what is being touted as a Match of The Year candidate between Randy Orton and Christian.

Then I heard about the Cena and Miz match...I'm glad I didn't order it.

Sheamus is said to get his title shot next Smackdown taping...Ugh, please don't tell me they're "saving" a Orton/Mark Henry match for PPV.

Daniel Bryan and Cody Rhodes. I want to see more of this. The only thing that would make it better is if the IC title were involved.

Ezekiel Jackson makes the crowd pop from a body slam? Hey, whatever works. Go get 'em Big Zeke. Although I miss the pairing of him and The Brian Kendrick.

This has been my rambling for now.
I'll be sure to update on the audio one, which should be later this week.
Drop me a line, questions, comments or feedback at brad.m.legere@gmail.com, down below in the comment section or on twitter @bradfordml

Until next time, keep it rockin'

Savage vs. The Snake

Sadly, as we all know by now, yesterday morning, Macho Man Randy Savage died after suffering a heart attack while driving and crashed head on into a tree. He was 58 years old.

His wife suffered minor injuries, thankfully. As of writing this, she has been released from the hospital. My thoughts and prayers are with her and the rest of the Poffo family.

I had just heard an interview with Randy's brother, Lanny. He talked about how two people should be in the Hall of Fame that aren't, those two being Bruno Sammartino and Randy Savage. So true.

He also spoke of how Randy was happy in life, and very happy with where he is after living with some anger for many years. It was so good to hear.

Then yesterday happened.

I could sit here and ramble through his amazing career, but I know a hundred thousand other people and blogs will do a way better job than I could ever do.
I suggest checking out the following sites:

thepowerbomb.com
my123cents.blogspot.com
wrestlingdigest.wordpress.com
henchmanforhire.com

All fantastic sites for reading about professional wrestling.

I just wanted to share a few highlights. We all remember the Savage/Steamboat classic and when the Mega Powers exploded.

But for me, my favorite Savage feud was with Jake The Snake Roberts.

Two guys who made every feud they were in memorable. Put then together and you've got a classic.


Who can forget "the bite"?


Here's their match from Saturday Nights Main Event


Great times with two should be Hall of Famers.

RIP Randy, you gave me and all fans hundreds of great memories. There will never be another Macho Man.

A classic promo


Share your Randy Savage memories with me on here, or on twitter @bradfordml

Until next time, keep it rockin'

Draft Idea

At my current place of employment, I have been subjected to working the over night shift as of late.

The sleep pattern sucks and it has ruined what little I have of a social life, but it allows me freedom of management, customers, a uniform and the best part of all, I get to listen to music and podcasts.

It's no secret (I say that a lot on here) that wrestling podcasts are my favorite and just last night I through on the first three episodes of the recently revamped Voice of Wrestling, hosted by Chris Cash and Nick Paglino of wrestlezone dot com.

They were talking about the WWE draft in one of the episodes and I got thinking of an idea, which was actually later presented by Nick.

It made me happy to know I wasn't the only one thinking this, and I doubt me and him are the only two who thought of this.

Any other professional sports draft consists of guys from the minor leagues being drafted to the major league, so why wouldn't WWE do the same sort of thing for at least two guys and girls from FCW?

I say take a handful of the top prospects there and make them eligible for the draft. Weeks leading up to the draft they could keep showing hype videos to give people an idea of what they're all about and let them build some sort of attachment. Maybe have a match between two of them for a spot on RAW or Smackdown, or the winner gets to pull a brand out of a hat and the loser goes to the other brand.

It's a fresh face that has some momentum built up behind them and actually feels like a real draft.

Imagine hype videos being show for Seth Rollins and Richie Steamboat being shown for about four weeks, showing us who they are and what they're about. Then we get a match on draft night. We see what they bring to the table and feel like we know both of them now rather than it just being two guys who we read about on the wrestling news sites.

Just an idea that popped in my head, and I don't doubt many others heads too.

Do you have any draft ideas? Does mine sound completely ricockulous? Or do you think something like that could work?

Drop me a line here, or on twitter @bradfordml

Andre The Giant would be 65 today. Go watch The Princess Bride.



Until next time, keep it rockin'

California Dreams

I don't see a whole lot of late night TV, okay, in fact I haven't been up on it for a long time, but I hear of things.

I remember when Jimmy Fallon was launching the Saved By The Bell Reunion campaign and even had the one and only Zack Morris on his show.


Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) 2009 : Late... by bonny_louise

But this one I came across, well, I don't know how I didn't hear of it. I think I was almost more excited for it, maybe because it actually happened.

California Dreams



Holy shit!, Sly still looks the exact same, maybe even younger.



Jimmy Fallon may not be my favorite actor, but he damn sure has brought a lot of memorable moments to late night TV.

Any other moments that you loved that I should check out? Pass it along.

Until next time, keep it rockin'

Ready to Ramble

Well, blogger has gone through some system problems and as a result my last post has been lost and I can't remember what I said exactly, so I may repeat some things on here for it.

In Canada it's hard to watch WWE Superstars since there's no TV Deal on any networks here and apparently we can't get the videos on wwe.com ....what the hell? Anyway, I caught it on youtube, and Tyson Kidd vs. Trent Barreta is a match I would love to see a couple more times. They were incredible. Get them on Smackdown TV, WWE!

How great is it that Michael "PS" Hayes is managing Tyson Kidd? I love it! Kidd is great in the ring, and just needed that one more thing and Hayes is that missing element. It'll be interesting to see if they pair Hayes with another Superstar who is missing that one thing.

I can't get over how much I love R Truth's character. A lot of people think his promos are god awful, but I think he makes the bad material work.
Think about this for a second, you've got this "angry black man" character, and his promos are written by a bunch of white nerdy guys...Truth is making it work for what he's got

I heard reviews from the ROH show in Toronto last weekend. I wish I lived in Toronto to get to see top notch shows from top notch professional wrestlers.
Come to Halifax ROH! Please, I must see a Davey Richards match in person before I die.

Have you checked out MVP's interview with Dave Lagana or the one he did with Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas of Right After Wrestling? Do yourself a favor if you haven't and go download them now.
Check out Laganas 'I Want Wrestling' podcast and Arda and Jimmys 'Right After Wrestling' podcast.

Speaking of podcasts, The Art of Wrestling is a great listen. I don't think Colt Cabana realizes how much of a natural interviewer he is and how good he is at it. No matter the guest, the stories are awesome, funny, emotional and inspirational.

Bobby Roode is a reason to tune into TNA.

James Storm is as well, even if they're not a tag team much longer. Those guys can/should be pushed to the top in the next year or two.

Can't wait to see where the Christian/Orton storyline goes. What a kick ass TV match they had. I almost want to purchase Over The Limit to see their match...we'll see how that goes.

I wish John Morrison a speedy recovery from his neck surgery. Get well and get back fast.

A speedy recovery is wished to Shane Helms and his girlfriend who suffered a brutal motorcycle accident. I guess they're both doing a lot better, but from what they went through, still have a long way to go. Hope for all to be well with them asap.

Why isn't Daniel Bryan the Intercontinental Champion yet?

Happy Birthday Zack Ryder, well, in two days.
Have you watched episode 13 of Z !True Long Island Story! yet? Why not?? Go do it bro!

That's enough rambling for now.
Comment below if you've got something on your mind, or drop me a line on twitter, @bradfordml

Until next time, keep it rockin'


"If you kick my dog, I'ma kick yo' cat!" - R Truth with the quote of the week.

You've been warned Cobra Commander

The Fortunate Jobber

*This was something I wrote before in another blog of mine that I have ignored for a long time, thought I'd re-post it here*

I'm going to jump right to it, what the hell has happened to Ted DiBiase?

This guy has been getting shit on so bad, to the point of working dark matches and Superstars.

I think he is very talented, can work the mic and has great potential.

What happened to him?

Was it Maryse? Maybe, but don't think so

Is it the lack of mic time to really help him define who he is? That's a bigger role in it.

In my opinion, I think he made a decent start separating from Maryse, and he needs to cut a good, solid promo stating who he is. Get angry, show that there's a fire lit under his ass and that he is not to be taken lightly.

Maybe have a subtle face turn and get something going with Wade Barrett for the IC Championship, and have his character become the obsessed, tweener underdog constantly attacking Barrett. In the ring during his matches, backstage, in the parking lot, etc.

Of course, for this to happen, instead of DiBiase just randomly attacking Barrett and getting an assault charge, the idea would have to be pitched and Mr. McMahon would have to be cool with it. (I'm not THAT stupid.)

The Smackdown move is a great start, where will it go from here? I hope nowhere but up.

I would be down for that, but, again, what would you do? what will it take to get this underused, and currently buried talent over with the fans?
I'm very curious to hear your thoughts.

Comment below, drop me an email brad.m.legere@gmail.com or twitter @bradfordml

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Oh, the IWC

The Internet Wrestling Community. Where to start?

I am a member of it, obviously, but so many times I am left with my hand on my forehead, quoting the Miz, "Really!?"

Everyone is easily entitled to their opinion but in some forums, I read ridiculous accusations, and far fetched booking ideas.

How many times have you seen someone say, "Wrestler A should be champion, because they are the best and Wrestler B annoys me."

Fair enough, but the follow up usually is where it goes even more into a joke. "Wrestler A should put wrestler B on the table, and have a Legend come out and beat up Wrestler B, then Wrestler A should get a ladder, and do a 1080 spin flip on them. Oh and there should be barbed wire everywhere."

Okay, so maybe there hasn't been that exact idea thrown out there, but there's been pretty damn close.

We look into things too much, think we know everything from time to time, and know how it should all be.

But we are so wrong when it comes to that.

The clear example is last Friday on Smackdown. The whole Orton and Christian thing. I was mad, yea I wanted Christian to hold it longer, but I watched it, and enjoyed the match and am really excited to see where they take this. I didn't boycott the show, nor send a hate tweet to Randy Orton nor Joey Styles (really? why pick on poor Joey) because it's scripted television, and Christian and the rest of them know where it's leading.

I asked my 7 year old nephew if he watched Smackdown and he said "Yea, Randy Orton is the new World Heavyweight Champion." I asked what he thought of that. His response was, "Well, I was cheering for them both, so it was good. I really liked the match."

Kids may cheer John Cena, but they know best. They're a clean slate who hasn't been brain washed or manipulated by a smart mark stating an opinion as if they're a vet to the business, when really all they have is a computer, internet access and a log in name.

We need to skip over the conspiracies, get over the disappointments and story lines we don't agree with, and just enjoy a great product. Be it, WWE, TNA (ugh) ROH or any other organization. Cheer who you like, boo who you don't, and just sit back, relax and be a pro wrestling fan.

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Until next time, keep it rockin'