If you’re a fan of old school ECW, this is a pretty freakin’ cool piece of memorabilia: a giant sign that hung at the original home of ECW, the ECW Arena in South Philly. The sign is autographed by a bunch of ECW wrestlers, including The Blue Meanie, Sabu, 2 Cold Scorpio, Tammy Sytch, Axl Rotten, and Francine Fournier.

Of course, you’d have to be a huge fan of ECW or a serious collector to pick up this piece of wrestling history - the eBay “Buy It Now” price is $20,000. Check out the auction on eBay. I can’t wait to see how much it sells for.

found via The Blue Meanie

We’re getting used to seeing Shelly Martinez as Salinas on TNA iMPACT! but she’s got another gig that’s more reminiscent of the Ariel shtick from her ECW days. Meet Shelly Martinez, vampire vixen (again):

Look familiar? This time Shelly’s sporting the bloodthirsty vamp look for a new horror-themed Web show called The Scream. “The show opens every week with a ‘Scream Babe’ original horror short featuring a hot babe with blood and gore,” according to the show’s Web site.

“The Scream” is hosted by actress Melissa Bacelar and includes interview segments with horror writer Heidi Martinuzzi of Pretty/Scary. The promo material says the show combines the four Bs: blood, boobs, babes and bodies. One of the upcoming guests is Christa Campbell, who we profiled in our Sci-Fi Starlet Saturday feature in August 2007.

Shelly Martinez and Melissa Bacelar

Shelly Martinez bares her fangs in the trailer for “The Scream,” so presumably she appears in at least one episode. No word yet on whether she’ll be vamping it up as a regular on the show. Check out the trailer:

With the upcoming election no longer a shoo-in for Hillary Clinton, she and Bill are setting their sights on a new prize: the WWE Tag Team Championship belt. Hillary explains her newfound affinity for wrestling entertainment:

Although politics used to be the preeminent arena for deception, dishonesty, and slanderous personal attacks, this is no longer the case. Because of this shift in political values, Bill and I felt it was best if we competed in an arena that rewarded deception, falsities, and character attacks.

So, does this mean Hillary no longer has her heart set on the American presidency?

If I happen to win the Democratic presidential nomination, great. As of right now, Bad Ass Slick Willy and I, the Road Dog Hillary Rodham, the New Age Patriots, are dedicated to wining the WWE tag team title at Wrestlemania XXIV.

I bet Hillary’s finishing move would be The Nutcracker. Any ideas for Bill’s finishing move?

The full article is good for a few laughs. Read the whole piece at The Sentinel, an Ohio State University publication.

Ask a “hardcore” fan to judge how good a match was and you’re likely to get some arcane reference to the “Muta Scale” with particularly gruesome matches getting “a full one” on the scale. The scale is of course named after legendary Japanese wrestler The Great Muta who bladed himself so deeply in a 1992 match against Hiroshi Hase that his face became unrecognizable under the sheer quantity of blood.

Since that legendary match, the Muta Scale has provided we “smart marks” with a handy measurement for just how bloody a match really was. It goes from 0.0 to 1.0.

You can watch the bloody birth of the concept below. If you’re in a rush the blood starts flowing around 14:25

The sad thing is that today’s ECW has to be scored in negative numbers on the Muta Scale. Old school ECW averaged about a 0.4.

Caught this on YouTube, had to share.

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Yes, I’m a gorehound/nerd, and proud of it (sort of).