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COMPLETE DR. KEITH REPORT FOR 9/15
  • 09/15/2006 (12:31:44 pm)
  • Keith Lipinski

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Dr. Keith Report - September 15, 2006 - Dr. Keith Lipinski of www.drkeithshow.com
A complete listing of upcoming big shows…and whacky hijinx… 
 
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This weekend:
Friday:  ROH, IWA-MS
Saturday: ROH, JAPW, NWA-Midwest (Chicago), IWC
Sunday:  WWE PPV
 
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UPDATE;  (from ajpw.puroresufan.com) Today Isao "Arashi" Takagi was sentenced to 3 years in prison for his arrest on drug charges back in July. As we all know, Arashi was immediately banished by All Japan upon hearing of his actions, and Arashi apologized to Mr. Muto and All Japan for any inconvience he has caused, and hoped that he could return to All Japan after his time was done. Director Masanobu Fuchi was asked about his thoughts on the situation at yesterday's conference and said that he could not just simply reverse the decision, but wished him luck.
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from http://www.ocweekly.com/film/film/the-longest-yawn/25851/
The Longest Yawn
Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes
By BILL GALLO
Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 3:00 pm
 
“The Rock”—formerly known as “Flex Kavana” and, a bit later, as “Rocky Maivia”—was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started taking down $12 million paychecks. The happily deluded throngs who used to watch him lay signature moves like the People’s Elbow or the ominously named Charging Double-Leg Spinebuster on his old nemesis, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, knew they were witnessing high art. It’s not easy to sell fake violence when the real thing is all around us—and The Rock always made a good show of it. But then, drama is in his blood: His father and his maternal grandfather were also pro wrestlers.
 
Given his training ground—not the Actors Studio, but the World Wrestling Federation—the player who bills himself these days as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sounds a bit, well, bogus, when he makes speeches about the differences between Winning and Losing. But that’s exactly what he does through most of Gridiron Gang, a well-meant trifle about an idealistic corrections officer who starts up a football team at a juvenile detention center in Los Angeles. For those who’ve been living on the non-planet Pluto, here’s the message: “Losers” are guys with low self-esteem who choose to shoot other guys in the head for no good reason; “winners” are guys who put on shoulder pads and helmets and kick the crap out of other guys on the football field for no good reason. That distinction is starkly underlined on Gridiron Gang’s soundtrack: The amplified collisions of pad-on-pad and helmet-on-flesh are actually louder and more percussive than the movie’s drive-by gunshots. Director Phil Joanou’s meaning seems clear enough: societally endorsed rage, governed by the 15-yard personal-foul penalty, is preferable to the freelance rage of the streets.
 
Never mind this overlong film’s obvious parallels—and outright thefts—from Remember the Titans and both versions of The Longest Yard. With Joanou (State of Grace, Final Analysis) at the helm and The Rock blowing the whistle, what we get is one huge, indigestible sports-movie platitude. That it’s based on what Hollywood always likes to call a “true story” makes little difference: true, false, or fudged, Gang massages and manipulates us with a fervor bordering on shamelessness. A disclaimer in the final credits reads: “Some characters and incidents are fictional.” We can just imagine.
 
Johnson’s fictionalized character, Sean Porter, seeks to combine the playbooks of Vince Lombardi, Dirty Harry Callahan, and Mother Teresa—the football coach as tough-love rebel and no-nonsense slavedriver—and if the mixture doesn’t quite come off, at least The Rock boasts some credentials here, too. Before manufacturing his theatrical feud with Steve Austin, Johnson was a 295-pound defensive end for the University of Miami (where he studied criminal justice) and, before a shoulder injury laid him low, Doug Flutie’s teammate in the Canadian Football League.
 
Frustrated in his work as a youth counselor at hard-nosed Camp Kilpatrick—“We’re not even makin’ a dent,” Porter laments—he has the usual suggestion for the warden: “Let’s try the impossible.” In this context, “impossible” means slapping a football team together in just three weeks, forming it from a collection of belligerent gangbangers, lumbering fat boys, and sweetly demented crack dealers. You can hear Coach Porter’s uplifting slogans coming a mile away. Sample: “This is your ’hood now. You’re Mustangs.” Among the variously appealing kids: Jade Yorker’s troubled Willie Weathers, who’s in the joint for shooting his mother’s abusive boyfriend dead in their living room; rapper Xzibit as Malcolm Moore, a member of the rival gang that killed Willie’s cousin; Trever O’Brien as the Mustangs’ token white player, Kenny Bates, who doesn’t get along with his mother; and Brandon Mychal Smith as the cute little waterboy who’s doing time because he stabbed an old lady for her purse.
 
The progress of the Mustangs’ season holds no surprises: raw and disorganized, they lose game one to a sharp high school team 38-0, get over grave doubt and infighting in a 21-14 loss on their second Saturday, then reel off eight straight wins. Because they’ve become a family. Because football builds character (as long as your name is not O.J. Simpson or Maurice Clarett). And because Coach Porter is a great guy. Gridiron Gang doesn’t go so far as to insist that the game transforms these kids into saints—some of them, we are told, are destined to trade their Friday Night Lights back for a Saturday Night Special—but Joanou and screenwriter Jeff Maguire are not big on ambiguity. Here we have inspiration, plain and simple, the Charging Double-Leg Spinebuster of football-coach hero stories. And if you’re not in the mood for that, you can damn well go grab some bench and shut the hell up.
 
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from http://www.wwe.com/shows/ecw/commentary/styles/091406mep
Most Extreme Player for 9/14/06
By Joey Styles
September 14, 2006
 
First of all, words cannot describe what it felt like to debut at the worlds famous arena, Madison Square Garden. As a fan, many times throughout my life, I sat on the other side of the guard rail watching Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, The Knicks, The Rangers, Big East Basketball and of course, WWE.
 
After 13 years in and around the pro wrestling business,  being able to perform at MSG was as important to me as losing my WrestleMania virginity last April and appearing on NBC for Saturday Night's Main Event last July.
 
The list of things I want to achieve before I can call it a career is getting smaller. The items that remain on the list will remain confidential until I cross them all off.
 
After taking time to come back down to Earth after ECW's Madison Suare Garden debut, it was time to take into account all of the following historic debuts when deciding on this week's MEP:
 
Making their in-ring ECW debuts:
 
Rene Dupree
Shannon Moore
 
Making their official Madison Square Garden debuts:
 
Yours truly (I am not eligible to be my own MEP)
CM Punk
Balls Mahoney
Sabu
 
Making their unofficial first appearances at Madison Square Garden:
 
Mike Knox
The Sandman
Kelly Kelly
Kevin Thorn
Ariel
 
After long and careful deliberation, I have decided to name CM Punk this week's MEP. From where I was sitting at ringside, The "King of Chicago" received the loudest MSG reaction of any Extremist (Original or otherwise) and could have renamed himself, "The King of New York" as well. In addition, CM Punk remained undefeated in ECW by making Shannon Moore the latest victim of The Anaconda Vise. I see no reason that CM Punk will not one day be the ECW World Champion.
 
On a separate note, in his WWE blog at www.JRSBARBQ.com, Jim Ross wrote the following:
 
After watching ECW Tuesday night on Sci Fi, it strikes me that the ECW boys may be having a few too many Hardcore Rules matches on their TV shows. If you have one every week, they cease being special.
 
While I agree with changing the rules of the new ECW so that every match is not contested under Extreme Rules as they were in the Original ECW, I must very respectfully disagree with JR's assesment that the new ECW should not have at least one Extreme Rules match every week. Without that single Extreme Rules match, I'm not sure what would make ECW any more Extreme than RAW or SmackDown. Taking into account the weekly guests we have from both RAW and SmackDown, without Extreme Rules, we would indistinguishable from WWE's two other brands and should be renamed WWE Tuesday Night RawDown!
 
I would like to suggest that while Extreme Rules is still defined as anything goes, why not make ECW's standard rules more Extreme than WWE's standard rules. For example, in a standard ECW match:
 
The only ways to be disqualified would be the use of weapons and outside interference. Choking, eye-gouging, biting, low-blows, etc. would all be legal.
 
I also think that every ECW World Title match should be contested under Extreme Rules. If the ECW World Champion not extreme enough to defend the championship under those conditions every time he steps into the ring, then that champion is not extreme enough to represent ECW and should wrestle for RAW or SmackDown.
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from http://www.wwe.com/shows/unforgiven/exclusives/hellinacellunfrgvprev
 
At Hell's gate
By Craig Tello
September 14, 2006
 
This Sunday at Unforgiven, D-Generation X will encounter the McMahons and ECW World Champion Big Show in one of the most feared structures in all of sports-entertainment: Hell in a Cell.
 
Notorious for shortening careers, the Hell in a Cell Match has delivered some of the most atrocious images in WWE history. It was in the very first match of its kind in 1997 when Shawn Michaels waged war with Undertaker in the dreaded Cell. Since then, both HBK and fellow degenerate Triple H have competed in a combined seven Hell in a Cell matches.
 
WWE.com spoke to several Superstars and others who have first-hand experience with the deadly apparatus, and they offered insight on the potential outcome of Sunday’s assuredly violent contest.
 
One individual with ample Hell in a Cell familiarity – including one Cell encounter with Triple H – is Mick Foley. A veritable Hardcore Legend, Foley has experienced pain in all of its many forms and considers the Hell in a Cell Match one of the vilest structures he’s ever endured.
 
“The Hell in a Cell Match at Unforgiven has the potential to be among the best Hell in a Cell Matches ever,” Foley said. “And I think the deal breaker there – or the intangible – is Shane McMahon. Shane is absolutely fearless and I think in the back of his mind, he’d like to live up to the legacy of Hell in a Cell. There’s no telling what he might do.”
 
An innovator of hardcore, Foley believes DX may be in for a long night in front of a sold-out Toronto crowd when they are faced with both a size and number disadvantage.
 
“There’s no substitute for experience and Triple H has been very successful in the Cell, but I’m looking to see Big Show put on a great display of strength, utilizing the Cell in ways that other people have not yet done.”
 
Kane, who held the World Tag Team Championship with Big Show in 2005, also believes the massive Extremist may be the most formidable, truly unstoppable force in the match this Sunday.
 
“You have to use the Cell to your advantage,” said the Big Red Machine. “You’re in an enclosed area…no one can get in or out of the Cell, and depending on your point of view, that’s either a good thing or a really bad thing. Sunday’s match is to [Big Show’s] advantage because the Cell somewhat negates people’s quickness and their ability to stay away from him. You have to bring the match to [the ECW World Champion], and being as big and as dominant as he’s been lately, that’s really not good for DX.”
 
A monster capable of unspeakable evil, Kane has competed in the Cell before as well and is privy to the horrors that exist within its walls.
 
“Hell in a Cell doesn’t have any forgiveness,” stated a grave Kane, “that’s part of the mystique about the match. The physical scars, they heal…but the mental scars sometimes don’t.”
 
One-half of DX, the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels, told WWE.com that he is not intimidated by ECW World Champion Big Show.
 
“Obviously, I’d prefer not to get tossed around by Big Show too much,” said Michaels, “but that’s definitely not going to happen on Sunday. There haven’t been many beatings that I haven’t been able to take. Come Sunday, I’m just going to go out there and do what I always do. After Unforgiven, I’ll be back from the beating like I always am.”
 
As documented, Michaels is no stranger to the Hell in a Cell. Not only was he one of the first of two men to step through the Cell’s doors, but HBK has also faced Triple H in an unforgettable 50-minute Hell in a Cell Match at Bad Blood 2004.
 
“The Cell definitely shortens careers,” he admitted, “but every match you have is one step closer to the end anyway. I’ve been in just about every type of match there is, so either I’m ready after 21 years of experience in this line of work, or I’m not.”
 
Unlike Foley and Kane, others believe that DX’s Hell in a Cell experience may be the only element in their favor going into Unforgiven. Among them is former WWE Superstar Chris Jericho, who collided with The Game in a Hell in a Cell Match at Judgment Day in 2002.
 
“Only the biggest of the big get in the Hell in a Cell,” explained Y2J. “As it is, there are enough risks involved in an ordinary match, but in the clutches of the Cell, the risks multiply. It’s not your garden variety hip-toss, arm-drag type of match; it’s the most brutal situation ever created in the world of sports-entertainment,” he said, “the epitome of a dangerous match.”
 
Though he agreed that the Extreme giant will play a large role in Sunday’s match, Jericho believes the Chairman and his son don’t stand a chance in hell against DX.
 
“You don’t know what it’s like until you’ve been there. There’s nothing DX hasn’t experienced in the Cell; Shawn Michaels practically invented Hell in a Cell and I think the McMahons are in way over their heads. As for the size and numbers advantage, none of it matters a good rat’s ass especially with the level of animosity involved.”
 
Another participant in Jericho’s Hell in a Cell match in 2002 is former WWE official Tim White. During the caged melee between Y2J and the Cerebral Assassin, White’s career as a referee was brought to an end when he was inadvertently slammed into the Cell and sent violently to the floor.
 
“I wish I never entered the Cell that night,” White declared. “Those are really dangerous matches for everyone involved. I was lucky to pull my arm out or I would’ve broken my neck. I lost the use of my right arm for the most part and finished my career as referee and the pain was unbelievable. I enjoyed refereeing for many years and I miss it very badly, but I don’t miss the pain that goes along with being in matches like the Hell in a Cell.”
 
That fateful night in 2002 was White’s second time officiating a Hell in a Cell Match. His first time within its confines was for the legendary match between Mankind and Undertaker, in which Mankind was tossed from the very top of the Cell onto the announce table.
 
“There’s just no way out of the Hell in a Cell,” offered White. “There’s going to be one winner but everyone’s going to get hurt and no one gets out until it’s done. In this match, there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no one to save you,” he added, “It’s the most brutal match WWE has.”
 
Given his experience, White provided a unique perspective – one that comes from someone who has stood in the dead center of the steel entrapment.
 
“It’s obvious the McMahons are at tremendous risk this Sunday. I know the McMahons are the fiercest competitors in the world, but they’re at disadvantage [at Unforgiven] because they’ve never been in a Hell in a Cell Match.”
 
Having stepped into the Cell last December against Undertaker, RAW Superstar Randy Orton described both the mental and physical distress caused by a contest of this nature.
 
“That Hell in a Cell Match really ate me up beforehand,” Orton explained, describing a Superstar’s psychology heading into Hell in a Cell. “Weeks before the match, I just knew it was going to be a tough ordeal. The match itself was grueling with sharp edges and sharp corners of the Cell.”
 
An accomplished and gifted Superstar in his own right, the Legend Killer did not speak favorably of HBK and The Game – two of WWE’s most celebrated veterans. According to Orton, the combined efforts of the Chairman, Shane McMahon and Big Show may be too much for even the DX to overcome.
 
“Though I don’t like Triple H and Shawn Michaels particularly,” said a frank Orton, “I feel sorry for what they’re about to endure because the Hell in a Cell is unforgiving. If I was HBK, I’d hope Triple H hides that sledgehammer of his under the ring this Sunday in Toronto.”
 
Who will emerge from the merciless confines of the Hell in a Cell at Unforgiven? Will DX’s experience give them the edge? Will the Extreme giant and the most powerful family in sports-entertainment overwhelm HBK and The Game?
 
Find out live this Sunday at 8/7 CT, as RAW presents Unforgiven – only on Pay-Per-View.
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Unforgiven - Sunday, September 17, 2006 - Air Canada Center in Toronto, Canada (Raw)
1.       Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match - WWE World Heavyweight Title vs. Cena Goes To Smackdown (for three whole years):  Edge vs. John Cena
2.       Hell in a cell:  Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon & Big Show vs. Degeneration X (Triple H & Shawn Michaels)
3.       WWE Intercontinental Championship:  Johnny Nitro vs. Jeff Hardy
4.       World Tag Team Championship:  Spirit Squad vs. The Highlanders
5.       WWE Women's Title:  Lita vs. Trish Stratus
6.       Carlito vs. Randy Orton
7.       Kane vs. Umaga
 
UFC 63 - Saturday September 23, 2006 - Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
1.       UFC World Welterweight Championship:  Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn (replacement for Georges St. Pierre)
2.       David Loiseau vs. Mike Swick
3.       Jason Lambert vs. Rashad Evans
4.       Jens Pulver vs. Joe Lauzon
5.       Gabe Ruediger vs. Melvin Guillard
6.       Jorge Gurgel vs. Danny Abaddi (dark)
7.       Mario Neto vs. Gabriel Gonzaga (dark)
8.       David Lee vs. Tyson Griffin (dark)
9.       Roger Huerta Vs. Jason Dent (dark)
 
ARENAS De CHICAGO - Sunday September 24th 2006 (5:00 p.m.) - The Congress Theater
1.       El Hijo del Santo y Mistico vs. Averno & Mephisto
2.       Aguila Del America, Rayo Lazer, El Dorado vs. Septembre De Negro, Payaso Coco Verde, Payso Coco Negro
3.       Silueta Azul vs. TBA
 
TNA No Surrender - Sunday, September 24, 2006 - Orlando, FL
1.       Fans Revenge Match (fans lumberjack match):  Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett
2.       NWA World Tag Team Title - Ultimate X match:  Latin American Xchange (Hernandez y Homicide) vs. Christopher Daniels & Phenomenal” AJ Styles
3.       X-Division Title:  Sen She vs. Chris Sabin
4.       Rhino vs. Christian Cage
5.       Triple Chance Tag Team Battle Royal:  AMW, The James Gang, The Naturals, The Paparazzi (Alex Shelly & Johnny Devine), Diamonds In The Rough (David Young & Elix Skipper), Bentley & Kazarian, The Truth & Lance Hoyt, Shark Boy & Norman Smiley (stips to be named in upcoming weeks)
 
No Mercy - 10/8/2006 - RBC Center in Raleigh, NC (Smackdown)
1.       The Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy
(rumored) World Heavyweight Title:  King Booker vs. Bobby Lashley
(rumored) Finley vs. Batista
 
ORTIZ vs. SHAMROCK 3 Final Conflict - Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Hollywood, FL
1.       Ken Shamrock vs. Tito Ortiz
2.       John Alessio vs. Thiago Alves
(rumored) Seth Petruzelli vs. Matt Hamill
(rumored) Kendall Grove vs. Chris Price
(rumored) Ed Herman vs. Jermaine Andre
(rumored) Josh Haynes vs. Rory Singer
(rumored) Josh Burkman vs. TBA
 
UFC 64 - UNSTOPPABLE - Saturday October 14, 2006 - Mandalay Bay Events Center, Nevada
1.       UFC World Middleweight Championship:  Rich Franklin vs. Anderson Silva
2.       UFC World Lightweight Championship:   Sean Sherk vs. Kenny Florian
(rumored) Nathan Marquardt vs. Thales Leites
(rumored) Jon Fitch vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
(rumored) Yves Edwards vs. Justin James
(rumored) Keith Jardine vs. Mike Nickels
 
Pride FC The Real Deal - Saturday, October 21, 2006 - Thomas & Mack Center (Las Vegas, NV)
1.       Mark Coleman vs. Emelianenko Fedor
2.       Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
 
TNA Bound for Glory - Sunday, October 22, 2006 - Detroit, MI
1.       NWA World Title vs. Career:  Jeff Jarrett vs. Sting
Also:  The return of Team 3D (as noted on Borash's update)
 
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