* The early buzz on the internet as it pertains to LARIAT has been overwhelmingly positive. It’s not often that a brawling product gets any respect outside of the deathmatch circles on the notoriously workrate-starved internet forums, but LARIAT seems to be the exception as of late! It’s not as if the roster is full of guys who’d rather stab someone than suplex them, but it’s still great to be accepted by a notoriously picky crowd.
* Dusty Griffith was asked today upon exiting a local Gold’s Gym what he thought about the E-Wrestling Torch’s Wrestler of the Week segment that was recently released on the internet. Smiling, the face of pro-wrestling spoke easily:
“It’s great to know that there are people out there going out of their way to make sure that all of the great promotions out there get the coverage they deserve! With that said, it’s an honor to be mentioned in the company of a group of great wrestlers from all over the World.”
In a follow-up question the former PNW Heavyweight Champion was asked about his former partner and friend Frank Dylan James. His notoriously chipper mood seemed to drop a bit at the mention of Frank:
“You know, I’m really starting to get tired of answering the same questions about him over and over again. No, I don’t blame myself for his change in attitude, and no, I’m not going to apologize for taking some much needed time off to heal some nagging injuries that I picked up while running back and forth across the Pacific Ocean twice a week for two years. Frank’s a grown man, and I’m not going to babysit him forever. If he can’t understand that, then I’ll just have give him a good ol’ fashioned ass-whippin’ like he’s been handing out to everyone he’s ‘wrestled’ for the last two years!”
* “The Love Machine” Rich Mahogany debuted his internet show “Fifteen Minutes and Out the Back Door” on youtube yesterday, and among taking calls from all of The Ladies of Austin he said a few words about Wyatt Bronson:
“I don’t know why that big gorilla thinks he’s gonna get his peter-pullers on the my Lonestar TV Title! Pay attention, brother, the big lout hasn’t done anything in years!”
On the rest of the LARIAT roster:
“The Rich-Man just ain’t impressed! We got Dusty “I got scared of success after I won forty-zillion matches in a Row” Griffith running around like he’s still in Portland where he mattered! Pah! And don’t even get me started on those silly little yellow dudes, I can’t understand anything any of them even say! Pfft, past me LARIAT’s nothin’ but a bunch of rednecks and foreigners, it’s no wonder there’s so many of The Ladies at our shows, daddy, because all the fat retarded ‘wrestling fans’ are too busy with ACW and NFW to bother with a bunch of Texas rasslin’!”
* The once highly-touted rookie Erik Ledger can’t seem to catch a break! He’s been a glorified job-guy since making a splash on the indy scene a few years ago all the way through the entire run of Wrestle Coast: Cascadia. LARIAT is probably Ledger’s last chance at “making it” somewhere before he just gives it all up, and fans at the last TV taping said that he seemed a bit dejected after both being eliminated from the Pride of Texas Tournament and then getting just beaten up by Wyatt Bronson in the Main Event Flag Match. He’d better do something soon, there’s too many young hungry wrestlers in Texas who’d love to take the spot that “The Epitome” thinks he deserves!
* In today’s last bit of news, the semi-final bracket to the PoT tournament has been posted along with the current Points Table for the Texas Heritage Tag League:
Pride of Texas Tournament
Semi-Final Brackets
1. Dusty Griffith
5. Wyatt Bronson
6. Kazuo Akamatsu
2. Frank Dylan James
Texas Heritage Tag League
Standings after Week 3
1. Osaka Hate Crime (15)
2. The Firebirds (8)
3. Superior FT (6)
4. Pine Street Posse (5)
- Dirty Rydas (5)
6. Hell Riders (3)
