----You know sometimes Dustin Starr and I agree. I get a laugh out of his blog sometimes out of the stuff he says about others. Others times he comes off as an immature little prick. He goes for a “shoot shock” and comes off blabbing about things he sometimes has no clue about. He will then post a blog that is so “on the money” that it is scary. All in all, he presents one of the most thought provoking interesting sites in this area. There is not one person that posts more original material on their blog in this area, besides this site, than Starr, so you have to give him the nod in that department. But..as I said, there are times when character when trying to shock is just way off base.
----Let me first tell everyone a little secret about Dustin Starr. No..wait..it probably is not a secret, but let me tell you anyway. He likes only one person in wrestling – Dustin Starr. He might on occasion put over Derrick King or Don Bass or someone else that trained or helped him, but overall Starr likes no one. You don’t know how many conversations I have had with Starr that all he does from “dude” when he answers the phone until he hangs up and says, “Bye fag” where he criticizes EVERYONE. He overall is a very negative person that will only give praise to…huh… Dustin Starr. Anybody that I might praise on this site – well they are not good enough to him or “not as good as you say”. From Greg Anthony to Stan Lee to Eric Wayne – he can go on and on and on. If you are a regular reader of his blog he spent one week hating Lee, liking Lee and then hating Lee again. This is all because it was not going HIS way. And then shows up to work again in TLCW. It all just amazes me.
----Now as I spend an hour writing up this article and “Axeman” Randall Lewis spent a good time writing his last column about Starr, I am really doing only one thing – putting Starr over. Yes, unfortunately that is how it is. Wonder why some people could care less whether you are typing bad things or good things about them?? Because those people believe – no matter what you are talking about them – putting them over. And it is true; Dustin Starr is one of the most talented guys in this area. He runs a web site, works for the Riverkings, has his own line of clothes and is still featured on one or two shows a weekend. As a fan, a promoter, a mark, a kayfabe sheet guy or whatever you want to call me, I enjoy Dustin Starr the wrestler. As I stated in that last Arena Report, Starr had more heat than the whole dressing room – probably in front of the crowd and backstage. LOL Does he draw you extra fans?? Nah, probably not in wrestling today. As we have discussed on this site in depth, it is the storyline that sells unless your name is Austin Lane. [Did I get heat with that one?? LOL] TLCW had a crowd of around 200 this week. Was it because of Starr?? Nah, it was because they got out and told people there still were wrestling in the town.
----Ok, now with all that said and done. I have told you the bad things and the good things about Starr. Let me voice my opinion on his recent post. He was really RIGHT with part of it and YOU HAVE NO CLUE on another part. CLICK HERE to read his latest blog post.
----Starr’s thoughts Brian Thompson were way off base. And believe me; Brian let everyone know how he felt about what Starr said. I don’t have to come on here and go to bat for him. Brian is the most honest and sincere guy I have ever met in this business. He eats and breaths it. I have many times told Brian, “I got to get off here [talking about either the computer or phone] to do something besides wrestling.” He could talk for hours and come up with new idea after new idea. You are wrong about him not paying dues or him being a “gopher”. You have no clue. Kelly Warner may have wanted the world to think he was the “mastermind” of LAW, but it was a three man team. Jeff O’Dell was the money, Brian was the brains and Warner was a hell of a talker. Final thought on this is from Starr’s mention of Brian Christopher ?? Why even mention that sort of thing when for the longest time Starr was referred to as Christopher’s “gopher” ? Starr doesn’t hang out with Christopher anymore; wonder why?? Christopher stiffed him on a payoff and I believe threatened to kill him once. Starr was only featured on one of the top shows of the year?? Wonder why?? Because of things he has said on his blog!!! So, yes, Starr can be way off.
----On the subject that Starr and I agree 100% on and have talked about on the phone about is the assumed cheating that is going on during the awards voting. There really isn’t 100% way to determine who is voting for what. We would have to be sitting at their computer with them. But, along with talking to a few other wrestlers in this area, it seems we have more of popularity contest going on with some of the awards, instead of the actual voting – one time per computer. I mean just take a look at the numbers of votes. Aside from “Wrestler of the Year” that usually gets more votes than any other award, the number of votes are really a bit off from other awards. For example, the “Most Improved” category that I had to beg for people to nominate in, well it has almost as many votes at the “Wrestler”. I have repeated votes coming from Jackson, TN, Cordova, TN and Newport, AR. I have heard this guy is doing this and all kinds of stuff, so I have had to decide to do something different. Voting on the site was declared over for the “popular vote” at 5:06 AM this morning. We will be adding the “popular vote” along with the nominees that each candidate received from our 50+ committee. Third, the post above is the new “E-mail Ballot”. You are to copy and paste the ballot and e-mail it to the below e-mail address. Do not send it to my REGULAR e-mail – send it to that one. I will be able to monitor IP addresses and I will accept 3 Ballots from 3 different e-mail addresses from one IP. That gives you three votes per household. After you copy & paste it and put it in your e-mail software, then just go out to the right of each category and type a 3, 2 or 1. What you are doing is awarding each candidate points per your opinion of them. 3 points to the highest, 2 point to the second best and 1 point for 3rd place.
E-mail to bt@bpsnetworks.com
For example
MVP Performer
Stan Lee 3
Greg Anthony 2
Austin Lane 1
----So you are saying, you want Lee to win, Anthony is second and Lane is third. Some of these categories are real close, so this vote will be very important to put the real winner over. It does not matter whether you have voted in the nominating committee or the “popular vote”, you are encouraged to vote in this special “E-mail Ballot”. If you do not put them a number beside them – 3, 2 or 1 – the candidate you vote for will only receive one vote. So why not give the person you want to win 3 points?? Finally, if you are involved in any way with an award, then that award you are voting in, you will receive 1 vote automatically; just give the 3 and 2 to respective candidates. Award winners will be announced on 1.18.09.
