[chrisfromct]

Who brought you here or how did everyone find the hammer?

For me Holly was responsible for telling me about this place. I met her for the first time in line at a HHH book signing in Madison. Waiting in long lines you tend to make friends with your surroundings. I asked her if she knew of any website for info on upcoming indy shows and she suggested this place

[GrayGhost]

I think it was Kaz. He mentioned he was thinking of joining it, and did a day or two after me I think.

[Tauron Nox]

GG & FF pointed me toward it after the NEI board went to shit.

[Joshua B]

While reading one of Sheldon's blog posts. He mentioned it's the place to talk about New England independent wrestling.

[Adam]

I honestly don't remember.

[InfamousTIM]

OH OH RACH.

[superstarml]

I was on a site that had a link to here because of a match posted in the media section.
I wanted to watch the match, and you couldn't gain access to the pages unless you had made 10 posts. That seemed like too much work. I think I read the board for a couple months before making my first post.
2 years and 1000+ post's later, I think I'm a bit addicted.

[Skip McGee]

i signed up because i was offered $100 to register. didnt the rest of you guys get the memo?

[FlairFanatic]

If i got you on here GG, a lot of people will hate me....

Honestly, I dont think I did. I have no idea how I found it either. I remember the NEI and then this and I really didnt think this was better then the NEI till the NEI started sucking wind and becoming a joke. This was less of a joke, and, here we are today!

[GrayGhost]

Oh..I said u did because it was all I could think of. someone at a show may have mentioned it then, if it wasnt you.

NEI was fun for a while, but Winger and Guru..man, theres a pair for ya..

to be fair tho, they did give us two good NEI events.

[jd]

They were shilling this site over on the NEI site. That's how I found out about it. I was one of the last holdouts over there.

[Itchy Stevenson]

I saw a sticker on a chair in Rutland.

[superstarml]

I would like to know who started this board and why?

[Fox Mulder]

superstarml wrote:

I would like to know who started this board and why?

Do you really think you are ready to handle the truth? You may never look at your place in this world again. Sometimes, the truth may be out there, but its under a stone better left unturned.

The Truth is Out There,

Fox Mulder
Special Agent

[Randy Orton]

Snitsky was mentioning something about a Burning Ham when we were passing needles around. And here we are.

[enforcer]

Someone hyped it over on the NEI as a better forum than theirs, which got deleted I think.

[jaydofct]

I saw a sticker on the ring barrier at Ring of Honor at a Phili show.

[Funk III]

My other screen name told me.

[EricNero]

chrisfromct wrote:

Who brought you here or how did everyone find the hammer? For me Holly was responsible for telling me about this place. I met her for the first time in line at a HHH book signing in Madison. Waiting in long lines you tend to make friends with your surroundings. I asked her if she knew of any website for info on upcoming indy shows and she suggested this place

I went to that signing too. HHH was really cool but aside from that my friend Dan told me about it a while ago and I put it off for a while but decided I would join and here I am.

[FRW Fall Guy]

GrayGhost wrote:

Oh..I said u did because it was all I could think of. someone at a show may have mentioned it then, if it wasnt you. NEI was fun for a while, but Winger and Guru..man, theres a pair for ya.. to be fair tho, they did give us two good NEI events.

I forget how I got here...which is a common theme in my life.

J & J were good guys, but very opinionated (esp. Guru). Everybody's allowed an opinion, but I think the fact they were both moderators and so partisan towards certain things put a lot of people off.

The NEI events were kind of neat. I remember on the second one, they and even Dr. Heresy and myself got a some heat. The event was held in Southbridge, where we were running EWA shows and we "lent" the building out to the NEI. People cried foul when the then EWA champion Cueball went over in the finals, basically saying some sort of funny business or a deal of sorts went on between the NEI guys and the EWA (at the time, Dr. Heresy and myself). While I was pretty cozy with those guys, that isn't what happened, and I think enough time has passed for people to know what really happened.

What actually happened was Louis Ortiz was supposed to go over in the finals, but during his 2nd round match w/ Cueball (who I had put over in the first round) he rolled his ankle bad. Louis, figuring he probably couldn't do the whole tournament at that point, called it in the ring and had Cueball pin him. That brought it to Cueball and Alex Arion in the finals, and at that point a coin got flipped.

Me...I think Arion should have gone over. Watching Ghost throw his notebook on the ground when he pinned John Walters was damn funny! I suspect him coming out on top at the end would have brought on a stroke.

[Volture]

I think I saw it mentioned on the NEI but I don't remember for sure

[superstarml]

FRW Fall Guy wrote:

GrayGhost wrote: Oh..I said u did because it was all I could think of. someone at a show may have mentioned it then, if it wasnt you. NEI was fun for a while, but Winger and Guru..man, theres a pair for ya.. to be fair tho, they did give us two good NEI events. I forget how I got here...which is a common theme in my life. J & J were good guys, but very opinionated (esp. Guru). Everybody's allowed an opinion, but I think the fact they were both moderators and so partisan towards certain things put a lot of people off. The NEI events were kind of neat. I remember on the second one, they and even Dr. Heresy and myself got a some heat. The event was held in Southbridge, where we were running EWA shows and we "lent" the building out to the NEI. People cried foul when the then EWA champion Cueball went over in the finals, basically saying some sort of funny business or a deal of sorts went on between the NEI guys and the EWA (at the time, Dr. Heresy and myself). While I was pretty cozy with those guys, that isn't what happened, and I think enough time has passed for people to know what really happened. What actually happened was Louis Ortiz was supposed to go over in the finals, but during his 2nd round match w/ Cueball (who I had put over in the first round) he rolled his ankle bad. Louis, figuring he probably couldn't do the whole tournament at that point, called it in the ring and had Cueball pin him. That brought it to Cueball and Alex Arion in the finals, and at that point a coin got flipped. Me...I think Arion should have gone over. Watching Ghost throw his notebook on the ground when he pinned John Walters was damn funny! I suspect him coming out on top at the end would have brought on a stroke.

I never posted on the forum, but I used the site a lot to find indy shows...that's how I found out about Terry Funk being at XoBuKo in Danbury, CT...and subsequently re-arranged my 5th wedding annivesary vacation trip to attend the show...and almost 5 years later I'm still hearing about it. From the near fatal beating one kid took at the show, to the bloodstained comfort inn we stayed at...shit you not!
We check in, go to the room, I'm looking at the bathroom door and there is blood spatter on the door at face level...I tell me wife not to sit on or touch anything. I found more blood splatter in the entryway of the room, and in the hallway. There is a what appears to be a bloody fingerprints streaming down the wall near the floor...like someone was being dragged down the hallway....we went down to the front desk and inquired about it. They clerk new nothing of the sort.
We went to a different hotel...I'm a police dispatcher, I stopped in at the local PD, traded patches and was told of the actual near fatal domestic assault that happened at said hotel 2 weeks ago. And yes that was a bloody finger streaks from her being dragged back into the room.

Back on track...
Although I never got to know the NEI guys well, I did sit with them at the much talk about (by me) AAW show in Augusta back in 2004. We had a great time.

[Brian]

I was looking for Sex-Machineguns' Burning Hammer on Google (Because you can never have too much of either)
Then my arm caught fire and looked like their album cover and the wrestling gods directed me here!
or someone told me about it.
I can't remember which!

[#1SpiderFan]

chrisfromct wrote:

Who brought you here or how did everyone find the hammer? For me Holly was responsible for telling me about this place. I met her for the first time in line at a HHH book signing in Madison. Waiting in long lines you tend to make friends with your surroundings. I asked her if she knew of any website for info on upcoming indy shows and she suggested this place

Now if I could only remember how I found out about it lol. I can't remember. I think maybe Ghost, but I'm not sure. Yeah, talking to fellow wrestling fans in line always makes time go quicker. And I'm always glad to talk to other fans. Last night at the deli I saw a lady with a Ric Flair shirt on and I just did a WOOOOOO!!!!!! She looked at me and smiled and I did a You Can't See me gesture lol. Only time I smiled all night - that place SUCKS!

[El Kabong]

I was a victim in one of the ban-waves on the NEI and ended up here one way or another..