Jason Bryant

Bob’s knowledge is never in question. Guy is super smart, a man who served our country and helped rescue one tournament (Reno) and amp up another (Ironman). I mean divisive in the way people argue on the forums.

Bro, it’s the best I had at midnight from my phone. If I had known how much this last post thing meant to you, I wouldn’t have even posted. It was a separate thread that was dedicated to the OGs. I’m traveling today and might have a chance to pull it up on the plane.

This is the all activity view … seriously I wasn’t reading the last word thread. But if someone wants that title, I didn’t realize there was some competition for it.

If anyone was “there to the end” it was me guys. That board caused a lot of actual arguments in my daily life so you can best believe I was going to be there for d-day. I didn’t have anything to do with the time it was shut down, but I had that last thread in the chamber ready. I got no advance warning but if you guys want to take it, fine with me. I’m here the same way I started there … posting about wrestling with no special access, treatment or assistance and always with my name on it. Tomorrow I will wake up with zero reports in my inbox and no worries about what someone said on that board. Here, I’m just like everyone else - opinionated, sarcastic and sometimes correct.

when I refreshed, I got the notice the site was offline. I then looked in a private window and saw the site was closed messaged.

I was browsing on tapatalk. That access died and i went right to the board and posted. I didn’t have any advance knowledge of the shut off time.

In case you were wondering what the last post was, I got it in. @Viratas will appreciate.

TBF, pretty much everyone in wrestling called him Marty. I made a point to put his full first name when I had him in interviews at the training center and he’s in my phone as Kamarudeen, but it’s hard for a lot of us who met and knew him as such to not catch ourselves calling him Marty. I don’t mean any disrespect by it but it’s sometimes hard to not do it when I covered him in college and when he was at the OTC.

Remember the fax from Peanut?

One benefit to working in hockey now is I do get FloHockey content with my Flo sub. So bonus there.

He's gotta be close.

I always waffled on edit times. On one hand, it's to combat trolls from changing their message entirely or deleting something and them claim they never said it (oh, the battle lines of online arguments). On the other, I agree with @ionelthat editing a message for a missed apostrophe or a (damn you) auto-correct and not being able to quickly fix it is annoying.

Man, I wonder why they never thought of that? Maybe you should ask Myron Roderick about why they would ever do such a thing. Because it was against a post-collegian. They don't count those on official records today.

I'm saying it's not accurate. And I know what the HOF's bio says - most, if not all, of those bios are submitted by the members themselves. I went through Kemp's record three years ago, his bio was sent to the HOF in 1990. You know very well wikipedia isn't an entity that controls the content, it's available to be edited by anyone. There's incorrect or inaccurate information on wikipedia all over the place. And don't take that as an inference there's nefarious intent to deceive. "They" aren't ignoring something because "they" aren't fact-checking every single thing. The inaccuracy on wikipedia likely references the incorrect information in Kemp's HOF bio. Kemp's own record contradicts the bio.

Has a loss during his junior year and a tie during his senior year. The L wouldn't count in today's rules and there are no ties now, and with different rulesets applied, you can't retroactively remove losses based on current eligibility. If you did, you'd also have to remove wins, which would drop streaks the other way, too.

Figured this was fitting.

Because I know how to read Trackwrestling.

Also, win streaks and unbeaten streaks are completely different. Unbeaten streaks included ties, which we no longer have.

Yianni’s streak is 75. Kemp’s wiki applies current rules to results that counted at the time. I have his entire record in a doc after he called me in 2018 wondering why he wasn’t listed in ESPN’s graphic Wrestling records in published reports are almost always suspect in the pre-computerization era due to wrestling’s penchant for absolutely stupid rules on what does and doesn’t count. Also, streaks that bridge the era of divisional splits also adds confusion, such as some athletes that competed in the college division, D2 and D3 included and others who did the same excluded. I’ve been trying to validate win streaks for years and it’s not easy. I’ve got a pretty robust list on my computer (it might also be accessible via a subscriber link but I’d have to double check)

is this forum pager safe?

I think it really had to do with Ohio Bob not posting as much after the board changeover. He was pretty divisive at times and that led to a lot of spirited fun about the Ironman specifically.

And while we're at it, I've redirected thewrestlingboards.com to here as well. It was just a placeholder domain in case something came up - and something came up.