Around the time Mikey was losing his mind, ECW was promoting a...unique new purchase they'd made from WCW. WCW had released Jim Mitchell, who had a very short stint as the manager of Wrath and Mortis (who would become better known as Kanyon), under the name James Vandenburg. Apparently, Paul Heyman liked that character, and he sort of beefed it up, as Mitchell was portraying a Satanic Minister role (or, as it seemed to be suggested at times, that he was actually supposed to be the Devil made flesh or something, but for obvious reasons of credibility stretching, this aspect wasn't really promoted heavily, they just let Mitchell hint at it in his promos) later dubbed "The Sinister Minister" by announcer Joey Styles, Mitchell was just initially a creepy dude opening a lot of ECW shows, but soon made clear he wanted to recruit Raven.

However, that plan was abandoned (not sure why, could have been because of Raven's desire to leave the promotion, and how pissed Paul was that he was promoting a guy pretty heavily, and the dude was not giving his best). Anyway, the Minister was cutting a promo one night, about how he'd found a new disciple...and the camera panned down on Mikey, his hair now dyed red, laughing manically and setting things on fire. From here, Mikey and the Minister did a series of creepy vignettes involving fire, coffins, and various satanic imagery. Mikey also began to win more of his matches as well, but the pay off to this story was still months off, but it began on a fateful night in April.

Justin Credible, in order to win the ECW World Heavyweight title, threw down his half of the ECW World Tag Team Championship, vacating it, and ending the run of the Impact Players (and Lance Storm headed to WCW about a month later anyway). The belts remained vacant until a September super show at The Hammerstein Ballroom. Many teams entered, but perhaps the most surprising, was the newly formed Unholy Alliance of Mikey Whipwreck, and Yoshihiro Tajiri (who had also kind of been spinning his wheels since his ECW TV title reign had been ended by Rhino). Conventional wisdom heading into the tournament was that these guys were filler, and that it was either the team of Nova and Chetti, or Doring and Roadkill who were both good young teams always on the cusp of the tag titles who would walk out with the belts. But in the tournament finals, it would be Whipwreck and Tajiri shocking the world and walking out with the belts (9/1/00). They would lose the belts 14 days later to the Full Blooded Italians, the team of Guido and Mamaluke, and both teams would feud across ECW's remaining shows either for the belts (which the FBI lost to Danny Doring and Roadkill at the Massacre on 34th Street PPV, apparently I've remembered the show incorrectly in my past bios, as The FBI didn't fight Whipwreck and Tajiri that night. Whipwreck and Tajiri actually wrestled and defeated Tajiri's rival Super Crazy and his partner Kid Kash).

Whipwreck and Tajri worked ECW's last PPV, Guilty as Charged, defeating Kid Kash and Super Crazy, and The FBI in a three way dance to make them no. 1 contenders for Doring and Roadkill's tag team titles, the match never took place sadly, as ECW folded shortly after. Whipwreck went on to found his own promotion, and retire for a time, actually, in what was supposed to be his last match, Tajiri sent him a dozen roses, with a card that called Mikey "the best tag team partner I've ever had". That is one of the classiest stories I've ever heard in wrestling, a great ending, to a great tag team.

Or is it? ECW's One Night Stand PPV will almost surely see a reunion of The Unholy Alliance, now that all the players are together. If WWE is smart, they'll take advantage of the fact that Whipwreck and Tajiri were number 1 contenders to the tag titles, I know Danny Doring has worked Heat a few times for WWE, so I don't see why he can't be brought in (and am actually surprised he hasn't been announced yet), I'm sure Roadkill would love the payday as well. It'd certainly be the sort of tag team action we've been craving for quite some time now.

i just thought this was funny,i got the idea from another pic and i saw a pic of simon dean and thought he would fit the part perfectly lol

lol brutal!

so they left off as #1 contenders and never got the match?! That sucks big time. I really hope they bring closeure to that at the PPV.

At 5/12/05 08:24 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: so they left off as #1 contenders and never got the match?! That sucks big time. I really hope they bring closeure to that at the PPV.

I can only assume the idea was to give them the shot at the next PPV. That pic of Nova (I refuse to call him Simon Dean) is great! But I think you should try and pretty up the type, maybe even color it pink. Just make it stand out more then it does now, and it'll be PERFECT!

I read that Luther reigns was released by WWE yesterday. There's not much about his release, But this is what WWE.com said, "Luther Reigns has been released from World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE wishes him the best in his future endeavors."

Eddies gone crazy he was talking to reys mask

Reports from backstage sources leaked on Thursday indicate that Luther Reigns' release was actually the result of a personal request from the superstar. Reigns felt that he was not being utilized to his maximum potential and asked the company to release him from his contract. There is absolutely no heat on Reigns from management, with many praising the wrestler for being upfront about his concerns.

Reigns currently plans to devote more focus to his real estate investments in Arizona. Although he did leave on great terms, the likelihood of a return is unknown as Reigns is very interested in his real estate venture.

hope he does well

Lordkooler's smackdown review
1.Eddie guerrero segment
A bizzare segment which had eddie guerrero talking to rey mysterio's mask. Eddie talks about attacking rey last week and threatens to attack rey's children. Eddie's gone crazy!
2.Heidenreich vs Spike dudley
Before the match, Heidenreich asked spike dudley to be his friend. Spike said no. And Heidenreich was upset because of that. So heidenreich picks a kid named Jordan from the crowd to be his friend. Heidenreich won at the end.
3.MNM & Chavo guerrero vs Paul london & Hardcore holly & Charlie haas
A good six-man tag team match. Chavo guerrero & MNM won the match after chavo used the ropes to pin london.
4.JBL segment
JBL come out and says that he will re-release his book Have more money now. The only thing I saw in the new version of Have more money now is a new cover. The original cover had what JBL looked like during his A.P.A days. Long black hair and a beard. But the new cover has a picture of what JBL looks like now. JBL says that the re-release of Have more money now will do better than John cena's rap album. Then John cena comes out and attacks JBL.
5.Eddie guerrero vs Jobber
Eddie guerrero sent a message to rey mysterio by putting mysterio's mask on the jobber and attacks him. Then it ends with eddie guerrero getting disqualified after doing a brainbuster on the jobber that sees the jobber's head land on a steel chair.
6.Matt morgan vs Funaki
Before the match matt morgan said that funaki talks funny. But the people were laughing at matt morgan because he stutters ever time he talks. Matt morgan won at the end.
7.Carlito's cabana
Carlito's guest for tonight's cabana is the Big show. Carlito says that he needs someone big to escort him since Jesus was released by WWE. Carlito looks at pictures from the big show's match against Akebono from Wrestlemania 21. Then Carlito says that the big show losing to akebono wasn't cool. Then big show rejects carlito's offer and bites an apple and attempts to spit on carlito's face. But Big show got sick after eating the apple. Then Carlito dumps all the apples on the big show.
8.Kurt angle vs Booker T
These guys will face each other at Judgement day. But why have a match between these two before judgement day? After Angle hit the angle slam, Kurt angle goes backstage to Booker T's locker room. Then when booker T enters his locker room, Angle attacks him.

ooooook. Kurt was just a tad creepy saying that. Justa trick, maybe, but still...

hmmm a big show/Carlito fued.... Not sure if that will be a good one or not.

Let me predict next week's Gold Rush's final result.
Edge def Kane to become No.1 contender
As Edge said, if he owned two opportunities to chanllenge the world heavy weight champion Batista, the belt would be "money in the bank". In addition, I think that it is time for him to be the champion once after missing so many chances in his career. So I guess that it is the time for him to be sdatisfied once. By the way, By 12th June, Batista would be the champion for a while. So I believe that Edge will defeat Batista in the next per-per view.

RVD will be back after his knee heals up.

It might be too soon for Edge to get the title. The way WWE is going it seems inevitable that Edge will one day be champ.

in a perfect world edge: world heavyweight champ cristian: wwe champ

which would be kinda cool if they decided to move christian over to SD.

At 5/15/05 03:13 PM, Outlaw88 wrote: which would be kinda cool if they decided to move christian over to SD.

That's absolutely what they're going for I think, that's why Christian keeps busting on Cena, so they'll have a feud there.

RVD will return at ECW: One Night Stand, in what capacity, we don't know, but he has said he will definitely be on the show.

Couple requests:

I need the wbe address of the crews site so I can get some stuff for a friend. Also, I need the contact info of the person running it, the last time I was there, I noticed that my name is not being put on any of the biographies I've done that have been reprinted there, this must change immediately. As a semi-professional writer, trying to go pro, I need to insist that anyone who wishes to reprint my work anywhere needs to contact me, and when they do reprint it, that at least the name "aviewaskewed" appears on it, and an email address, this is so that if someone either for private, or professional reasons (especially for professional reasons), wants to contact me about something I've written, I actually hear from them, and there's no confusion as to who the author is. Thanks for your help in advance, and understanding on why I need to insist on this.

Im in

who thinks that JBL is gonna say I quit to John Cena at Judgement day???

http://newgroundswwe.proboards43.com/index.cgi

thats the site address. I might be able to edit it since he put me as a mod but I'm not sure. Where would you want your name?

I'm in

Well we almost had a ecw style match with Benoit and Tajiri but Bischoff stopped it. I think theres going to be hundreds of ecw signs next week and the weeks to follow.

Edge and Lita screwed Kane over, You can definately hear the chants now the simple minded folks will be chanting You screwed Kane and Matt. Still next week you know Batistas going to win but the touranment may be the best part of the whole thing.

At 5/16/05 11:51 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: http://newgroundswwe.proboards43.com/index.cgi

thats the site address. I might be able to edit it since he put me as a mod but I'm not sure. Where would you want your name?

Top or bottom, dosen't matter, just so long as it shows up and I'm credited for my work. Thanks Outlaw.

RVD confirmed Kid Kash will appear at One Night Stand, I really hope that what Bischoff was saying is not leading to some sort of "invasion" of the PPV. I'd be fine with some type of match on the RAW before hand, but this show is supposed to be about ECW, and the fans getting a chance to say good bye (although I honestly believe the PPV is a trial run to a full-time return of the promotion), so in my mind, this angle with Bischoff has to be finished before the show goes on the air.

Anybody else just completely disgusted by the Lita turn? I'm all for her being a heel, since that's what the fans want anyway, but did they have to have Edge and Lita making out on camera on national television? I mean, it's OBVIOUS they are now trying to take advantage of the publicity around a horribly painful situation for Matt Hardy, and Edge's wife. I hope their's a special place in hell for Vince after the Kurt Angle promo, and this, I couldn't even finish the ending to RAW. I think it would just have been better to pair Lita and Edge up as business associates or something, this to me is just making an angle out of something that shouldn't have an angle made of it. Crap like this makes me wonder why the fuck I'm still watching.

At 5/16/05 01:30 PM, The_Redangleprince wrote:

Ugh, thats ugly. Why not let me create a new board where we actually have access to modify the layout and edit whatever we want? With only 6 or 7 regulras, everyone can be a mod. :O

We can post Koolers SD! reviews and Aviews bio's as well as everyone's elses little bits for archiving purposes.

sure, if you want to give it a shot go right ahead!

ok aveiw, i'll add your name to it asap.

sorry for the double post but:

I just tried to fix it and I discovered that I'm not a mod on that section of the forum. Only the general I'm a mod in. So only darkdevil can change it, all I can do is add something to the general section saying that you did them. but then again you can too since it;s in general...sorry

At 5/17/05 01:59 PM, The_Redangleprince wrote:

When I went wwe.com to read last nights results, I literally choked on my breakfast after reading what they did with Lita. It is by far the most tasteless thing WWE has done, even worse than the Kurt Angle promo. I too often wonder why I'm still watching. What they fail to realize is that Matt's situation is not a scripted story which they can play off of. He's a real human being dealing with real human problems, not acting for any of it. But they seem to think it's okay to play off the entire situation because it's 'edgey', no pun intended.

It's not just Matt Hardy, but Edge's wife involved as well, it's possible still I think that this is all just one big giant angle, designed so as to make Edge replace H as top heel, but if it isn't, then all they've done is reward Edge and Lita for being terrible human beings, and embarrassments to the company.

They managed to do something to make me NOT look forward to One Night Stand now, Bischoff really will be at the show with a cadre of wrestlers, hopefully this is just a short opening bit for the show, and that they get drop kicked out before any of the real wrestling and such begins.

At 5/17/05 01:59 PM, The_Redangleprince wrote: Iscrulz, I'll be getting Unforgiven 99 from the library soon enough. Hell in the Kennel, good choice :O

Hell yeah the commentary is absolutely hilarious dont let the crappy match ruin it for you.

As for the forum, I'll get working on that immediately. I'll also see if there isn't a way to contact Foliac and have that board deleted so that Aviews work isn't displayed without properly being marked.

I signed up and posted at the new NGWC and so should everyone else. Foliac didnt create it it was darkdevil or it maybe deeppurple now I will send him an email if you like.

Did HHH really quite RAW??!?!?!?!?

heh cool. i signed up :)

I've signed up, and am uploading all my currently done bios, and will more then likely try to keep doing fresh one's over there since I don't encounter the same limits as I do here, and it'll be a hook to get people to come. The only complaint I have at current is that the greyish black red used is too dark, and makes it hard to read with the backing of the posts. It either should be changed, or the text needs to be colored as something different that stands out against it better. I can barely read what I typed.

can i join?