A number of wrestlers used the piledriver in between Longson and Orndorff. The most notable was Jerry Lawler. Actually one of the biggest old-school trends was how the piledriver was illegal in Memphis rings because of its effects. Lol, in 1982, Lawler even used his piledriver on Andy Kaufman, and Kaufman sold it like he was dead, which was how much respect that man had for wrestling.

At about the same time Orndorff adopted the piledriver in the WWF, Dynamite Kid was using a really brutal version in Japan that a lot of wrestlers were nervous about taking.

And then of course, there was the tombstone variation of the piledriver, which was used by Harley Race and Tiger Mask many years before The Undertaker popularized it. WWE doesn't acknowledge that either. They've never been very big on acknowledging history as far as other promotions, although they've relaxed that stance a bit in recent years.

Problem is, I have a very specific prescription. I have lazy eye...each of my lens is a different strength, so regular glasses won't do.

I guess my crude tape job will suffice until I can find suitable replacements...the scary thing is, taping them would not have occurred to me had Phuque not suggested it.

Man...this is one bad tape job...

You mean, tape my glasses together? Lol, my frame fractured on the side rather than in the middle...Maybe I'll go find some tape and sport the nerd look indoors so I can actually do things on the computer without straining my eyes.

If by seeing, you mean perceive fuzzy objects surrounding me, then yes, I can see, lol.

Actually, it's not as bad as I make it sound. Certain things like staring at a computer screen or typing (I'm relying heavily right now on my memory of where the keys on my computer are, as they tend to blur together when I look at them) are quite awkward though.

Cross your fingers that I can get a new pair within the next week...the optometrists don't like it when I visit them more than once every two years, and my two years isn't up until early June.

For the record, Bill Longson was the first wrestler known to have used the piledriver, way back in the 1930s.

Iron Sheik's WWF tag championship partner in 1985-87 was Nikolai Volkoff.

They just fell apart when I tried to take them off my face to go to bed last night.

I feel so naked without them!

It's like that stupid commercial about the Axe deoderant, the one that says, "If you can't remember the night before," and subtley infers that if you buy their products, it will justify anything you might have done the night before and cure anything you might have contracted the night before.

I hate Axe so much that I think I'm going to have an anal evacuation in their honor.

Yeah, it takes years to catch up...when I started watching Japanese wrestling years back, I only knew about a third of the wrestlers by sight, I had heard of a lot of the other guys, but had no faces to attach to those names. Making it harder for me was the fact that Japanese announcing of the names is sometimes difficult to make out.

Now I know every notable Japan worker as well as I know the local wrestlers.

As for Brooke, I never understood people's attraction...I mean, she's got a bit too much of the Hogan chin in my view, but that's just my opinion.

He was actually obsessed for a time with undermining the Warrior's place in history, and is very resentful of his loss to Warrior at WrestleMania.

I myself never thought too highly of the Warrior for the most part. He has often been criticized as being long on gimmick and short on talent...but I admit I was a huge Warrior fan as a kid.

The control can be tricky, you're right. Even now, as many times as I've finished the game, Altair sometimes hops on a box instead of stealth killing a templar, and inexplicably refuses to climb the rare buggy wall, despite there being obvious handholds. It works beautifully for the most part though.

And once you have the control scheme down, your power is almost god-like.

It's possible to be more offensive as your assassin levels up. With proper timing, one can actually deflect a guard's sword (without having to wait for the guard to strike) and do a cool impalement, or even break his legs (or stab him in the head with the short blade).

With precision and luck, it's possible to win a fight being entirely offensive minded. I can rapidly kill six or seven guards that way. Of course, this isn't possible with the more skilled adversaries, such as the templars or the assassination targets. But remember, Altair is an assassin, so one shouldn't expect him to go Conan the Barbarian all the time. Defense as needed is to be expected.

Sorry to nitpick, but Kerry Von Erich was The Texas Tornado. Fritz was Kerry's dad.

Is anyone playin' it? I'm in the process of playing for the umpteenth time, and this is my best playthrough, with some of my most awesome kills ever. A few of those kills:

-Tamir fell before my hidden blade as easily as ever. I just stood there while blending, and waited for him to come to me.

-Garnier actually figured out my intent a split second before I would have ended his life. Usually I kill him with more stealth. Oh well, grab him, throw him to the ground, hidden blade him, and he's as dead as Tamir.

-Talel stood no chance in our chase, and even less this time. I anticipated his drop from the rooftops before he did, and when he jumped, it put him right in my path. Easy kill.

-Abul Nuquod, the Merchant King, gave me a bit more trouble than he usually does. Took me three tries to get it right. The first try, I jumped from the statue to the structure on the left and was almost upon him before he knew he was in danger, but the guards fought me off. Wanting to do it better (I am a bit of a perfectionist), I reloaded and this time accidentally jumped into the water while trying to take a shortcut to cut the Merchant King off (lol, that was bad). On the third try, I cut around the guards efficiently enough and had Abul before he could escape the palace and run into the streets.

-William of Montferrat didn't take any notice as I fought an angry group of guards just a few feet above where he was lecturing his troops. In order to get on with my work, I threw every guard to the ground and finished him off with the hidden blade. Killing eight or so like this, I dropped onto the platform right above William's head, with William none the wiser, and stealth assassinated him while he *****ed.

-Majd Addin usually proves a bit of a challenge because he's so well guarded. A few times previously, I was exposed when the wandering drunk shoved me while I was trying to get to the scholars, and I'd have to fight my way to him. Or sometimes, when I was crawling over the wall as another way to the scholars, a guard would see me. On this occasion, I managed to get to the scholars by crawling over the wall. It was a simple thing to blend with the scholars as far as the execution platform where Addin was standing, but initially, he wasn't close enough to assure a stealthy kill. So I followed the scholars back to the starting point (they knocked platform's only guard off to join the other guards on the ground, which would help my cause). When the scholars made their rounds back to the platform, Addin was close enough to get at, on the first try. It was a poetic enough victory, given how many times this one has given me problems in the past.

-Jubair was a lot of fun. He had eight or so apostles that look similar to him, and they all went to different parts of the city to burn books. I had killed all the rooftop guards beforehand, so there was none to alert anyone of my presence when I silently ran across the rooftops and picked off every member of Jubair's team from above with throwing knives. Not once were the guards able to so much as locate me after a kill, and it was amusing for me to watch them crowd around each body and yell, "Where are you? I know you must be here somewhere." I'd kill an agent silently and melt into the shadows, like Batman. Incidentally, I happened upon Jubair himself lastly out of chance, and finally revealed myself by jumping out of hiding and slitting his throat. It was like something out of a movie.

-Sibrand was another who used to be difficult because he'd inevitably see me before I reached his ship, and would then lead me on a merry chase throughout the castle ramparts and into the streets. Not this time. This time, I took a more indirect route to the stern of the ship and killed him before he knew I was there, giving him no chance to run away. Funnily enough, it was several minutes before the guards even realized he was dead.

Anyone else a practised killer who would share tales of their deeds in Assassin's Creed?

One other I neglected to mention: Tiger Mask!!!!!!!!!!

In my opinion, Ric Flair was the greatest wrestler to have ever lived...although Kurt Angle has arguably matched his accomplishments.

Big Van Vader, Randy Savage, Arn Anderson, Sabu and Brock Lesnar are a few of my favorites from way back.

Also, does anyone remember the old tag teams such as Demolition, The Road Warriors, the Steiners, etc? Another big part of my early fanhood.

Not a big fan of Jimmy Snuka. Not since I heard that he might have murdered his girlfriend.

Watching random videos all night on youtube.

Searching random historical stuff on wikipedia.

Spyware.