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Basically, the question was, is Ric a Poochie, yes or no.
Strange that nobody voted for false.
Anyway, simple new question, best of the major October shows. Get to going.
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A revealing site poll has been concluded, asking which of 2 choices for Halloween costume for each staff member would be most appropriate.
I'll bet Art and Euan voted for the first choice and everyone else voted for the other. Oh, and never let it be said I can't take shots at myself...SNM gear demonstrater, baby!
Art, I think the public is giving you a not so subtile hint here.
Why was Ric the most popular person to vote on in the site poll? I guess that proves that internet popularity and real life popularity aren't the same thing.
I guess people do listen to the show.
Euan is buying extra deadbolts right now.
Well, that's it for this. Art and I are the most visible site members in that our names are seen on a vast majority of the buylines but yet Mark, Ric and Euan all got more response than us. I don't want to say there were Florida like happenings to explain this, but for the 3 of you...it doesn't mean shit.
Next up, a pretty straight forward question.
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If any of the Combat Hooligans are reading this, no one will ever like you, but I still expect each of you to get one.
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Memo to the staff, you can't vote for your own costume, only the ones for your fellow co-workers.
Each of 5 staff members has 2 costume choices listed, and you have to pick between the 2 as which is the most appropriate.
Wade, you can take some revenge for the HG poll.
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In my lifelong commitment to ride the coattails of hip, young talent, I break new ground, as for the first time, I demonstrate my ability (well, ability may be a strong word) to host a podcast by myself.
Joining me for a casual, lighthearted, forty-five-minute discussion is Koa-Marie, a late-riser, current trainee at OVW, and WWE hopeful.
We talk about Koa's resemblance to Beulah McGillicutty (well, at least, I think she bears a resemblance) and other wrestlers, the origin of her first name, and how she nearly once got arrested in Hawaii.
She gives free plugs to All-American Wrestling, Derek St. Holmes, and KUBED Fight Gear.
A technical error (yeah, that's what it was) results in her being cutoff before she can officially say good-bye, but that's okay, because it just gives me a built-in excuse to book her as a return guest.
If you're too lazy to click the link on the right (like me), click here to listen.
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On the first edition of 'Sitting In The Front Row,' Ric and Casey are joined by Julie Hart. Julie discusses her book project, and the process of writing it and getting it published.
She also talks about her world travels and work with charitable organizations.
Julie takes time to fend off both Ric and Casey hitting on her, and answers Ric's proposal of marriage.
All of that, and the subject of wrestling even manages to come up. Plus, find out which WWE superstar (here's a hint: Ric is in love with the guy) caused the end of the Ric and Julie union before it started.
It is a little over an hour with a woman that has many great stories to tell. Check out her website at http://www.juliehart.ca/.
You can access the episode on the right-hand side of this page, or by visiting http://sitfr.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=255502. A direct download is available at http://media.libsyn.com/media/sitfr/sitfr1.mp3. At some point, I'll figure out that RSS and iTunes crap.
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I give full credit to Canvas Chronicle's Ric Gillespie for finding this. So give Ric's site a visit. If you don't, I'll have to put up with another late night phone call wherein Ric weeps in to the phone about how nobody likes him as much as they do me. Quite frankly, 8 nights a week of that is about all I can stomach at this point so head over there.
Oh yeah, the story. Tony Atlas is going in to the World Body Building Guild's Hall of Fame
Good to see Atlas is still doing ok for himself. I remember him vividly from that True Life special MTV did a few years ago. He seems like a likeable enough guy.
Oh, and Ric if you didn't think my above plug was great well then its...
and you don't want that...especially not the part where I forget.
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It was one year ago today that I joined the blogging world. You can see my first ever post here and that first month worth of here
As you can see, things have come a long way from that first month, where the site was all mine and covered pretty much everything I had an interest in. Since that time, Euan Taylor came aboard in September, as did Wade and Art. Art started out writing about music on the old site and had most of his wrestling/mma work elsewhere. That went on pretty much until February where I decided to refocus my energy just on things I hoped to make a living covering, I.E. Wrestling and MMA. In February we also debuted our message board. In early March we did our first audio show and in late may, Art closed his other blog and we decided to combine forces for good. This move reduced our workload a bit and brought some sanity back to our lives. Then we saught out a new name, and on July 22, this site officially hit the air.
I would be bitched at by Ric if I did not give him credit for something in this post, so here goes...
I'd also like to thank Karl Stern who first read an email of mine on his show back in March of 2006 and did so for many weeks after that. Karl is back online after a brief retirement and I couldn't be happier, so check out his site. Karl and I have had brief conversations about doing stuff together in the future and we'll discuss it more and when something happens, we'll let you know.
I can't also help but thank Mark Danger who became the sites first regular commenter. It isn't just because Danger and myself both love the Atlanta Braves but we find him funny, and I was glad to see him join our band of merry event predictors in June.
It goes without saying that Art and Euan should get thanked. Euan puts in a lot of hours working on the podcast and basically doing anything and everything I've asked him to do because I've been too lazy to do it myself. Art posts all the news and columns you see with his name on the byline but also does most of the design stuff for the site and all of the banners. I've found that Art and I have a lot in common at least as it relates to the major wrestling companies in the United States.
Wade for writing all of those Raw recaps back in the day and ECW which I'm sure had to suck.
Thanks to Daniel Puder for being our first guest on the Combat Hooligans.com audio show.
Last but definitely most important (though Ric might disagree) is the people who read this.
Really, that's all of you but I kind of split this in to 2 groups. There's group A which is people that came across this site by whatever means and have decided to come back. I hope in the future we can offer you more reasons to come back as my personal belief is that there's never enough that I could do. Once I feel like I've done everything I can, that's when laziness arrives.
Then there's group B which come directly from HTF because of my sometimes overly constant self-promotion in the WWE, TNA and most especially UFC thread.
Here is hoping year 2 is bigger than year one and I'll have more people to thank to kick off year 3.
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