Belt Sander Rental

Hi everyone, We sanded our hardwood floors today using a rented 8” belt sander along with an edger, progressing through 36, 60, and 100 grit. The floors are looking very clean and even at this stage. My question is: would you still recommend buffing or screening with 120 grit using a random orbital (or buffer), as many people suggest? Visually, the floors already look great to me, so I’m wondering if the additional screening step is truly necessary. In your experience, does the benefit justify the extra rental cost and time, or is it mainly precautionary? Will be applying 1 coat of Bona NaturalSeal and 2 coats of Traffic HD Satin. Thanks in advance for your advice! submitted by /u/thatorgasmtho to r/HardWoodFloors [link] [comments]

Family cabin original wood floors need sanded and refinished badly . Back story , wood flooring in kitchen is worn the finish to raw wood . In the early 60s some one decided to cover wood floor in kitchen into pantry and into bathroom with linoleum sheet. Rather than up keep the floors with a clear coat. So I volunteered to remove linoleum not a big deal came right up luckily it was not glued down to wood , just some seams were . Planning to sand floors in kitchen into pantry, pantry , bathroom, 130sq’ , 70sq’, 60sq’. Existing floors are in decent shape level etc . I was not planning on using a rental drum sander , was going to use belt sanders , orbital sanders and possibly rent edge sander if need be . There will be 3 people sanding at the same time. Should go quick. What would be the best verithane product that is durable and holds up to freeing temp in winters . I appreciate any info . Thank you !! Scott and sawtooth cabin submitted by /u/tboneareno to r/HardWoodFloors [link] [comments]

After years of renting I finally bought my first own pair of skis. Got them for 290€ with Marker Griffon 13 binding’s. submitted by /u/Ok_Cap3588 to r/skiing [link] [comments]

link to show on The Traders Den: http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218420 (.flac files, not .wav....I use VLC media player to play mine) my EQ 'guess' really cleaned up the low end...clear vocals you can understand, guitars that cut thru the rhythm section, and a prominent audience that is not overbearing. taped 'em one other time in the early '10's at Pop's in Sauget....I think DEP and some other band opened (seems like it was a triple bill) anyhow, enjoy! if someone wants to make a swisstransfer link for the less technical savvy here, feel free. --------------------------- Mastodon Alaska State Fair ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre Palmer, AK August 22, 2025 ** 24 BIT ** Source: Sonic Studios DSM-6P w/3-way lo-cut filter (@ 80hz, middle setting) > Tascam DR-2d @ 24 bit/48 kHz Mastering: .WAV's > iZotope RX11 Advanced v11.0.1.3871 (De-Click) > Sound Forge Pro 14.0 Build 140 [minor edits, normalize, & fades, WAVES GEQ Classis Stereo plug-in (EQ - see settings below)] > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.1.20 (tagging) Recorded by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar Mastered by: Dennis Orr Setlist: (1:23:38) 01 Tread Lightly 02 Ghost Of Karelia 03 The Motherload 04 Chat 05 Pushing The Tides 06 Crystal Skull 07 Black Tongue 08 Chat 09 I Am Ahab 10 Megalodon 11 Chat & Band Intros 12 Ember City 13 More Than I Could Chew > 14 All The Heavy Lifting > 15 Spectrelight 16 Mother Puncher 17 Steambreather 18 Chat 19 Blood And Thunder 20 Supernaut (with Drum Solo) 21 Tribute To Brent Hinds (1) (1) Brann Dailor gave a tribute to ex-bandmate Brent Hinds who passed away on 8/20/25. Brann Dailor – lead vocals, drums, & percussion Bill Kelliher – rhythm guitar & backing vocals Troy Sanders – bass & vocals Nick Johnston – lead guitar & backing vocals João "Rasta" Nogueira – keyboards & synthesizers Mastering Notes: EQ settings (suggested by Steve) 40 hz - minus 2 dB 63 hz - minus 4 dB 100 hz - minus 10 dB 160 hz - minus 4 dB 250 hz - minus 2 dB Show Notes: Chapter 2 of the Great Alaska State Fair Taping Experience...collect all SIX (or more)!!! (Weird Al x2, Puddles Pity Party x2, Mastodon, "Foreigner", Ken Peltier Band and Dwight Yoakam) This one was the 'thorn in my side', that being a drive down for one show, then head back home at 6 AM, so the vehicle got booked, and then... Yeah, Receiving the news that Brent Hinds passed away in a motorcycle accident, most likely when Mastodon was flying to Alaska (if they weren't already here) was a thought that was much heavier than any anticipated onstage product. With all the things that were said...will that affect the performance? Will they be able to play? All kinds of questions with no real answers... Rental vehicle 2 was a full size 4-door Dodge 1500 Ram shortbed...and I gotta say any apprehensions about taking a truck, or poor gas mileage, were alleviated when I arrived in Palmer with a full quarter tank (while driving at a 70-72 mph clip). Would recommend!!! Checked into the Valley Hotel, which is a pretty unique facility in that it has a hotel, a restaurant, a *liquor store* AND a bar all under one roof! While I haven't drank in 16 years, that unique combination always makes people watching quite fun...so of course had to get a chicken fried steak, eggs scrambled, hash browns, sourdough toast, and kick back and just soak up small town Palmer while filling thy gullet (trying to get into Mastodon-verbiage here) The following morning was solid weather, so that wasn't going to be an issue, went to a local farmers market and grabbed 40 bucks worth of purple (and orange) cauliflower, peanut potatoes, spaghetti squash, sugar snap peas, and a couple other thaaaangs...(their rhubarb lemonade is GOOD shit!) This was the only show of the 4 that I actually stood in line for (my contact was busy, and I had an actual ticket), so the deck and whatnot went in the basket (walk thru metal detectors, even in Alaska! it's 2025 and all, they brought them in about 5 years ago), the battery in the box near my junk set it off, they wanded me, blamed the belt-buckle, and I was in like Flynn. The band made, hands down, one of the coolest if not coolest shirt *for* Alaska (not just a mention of "Palmer" on the back of a shirt, though they had those too) that I've ever seen, and my lucky ass was there in time to grab the last 2 XL's (one for me, one for a friend). Will see if I can get Dennis to make it the screen pic for playback (PLENTY of other decent pics, for my shit phone, included as well) I usually try to buy a shirt if they mention Alaska on there somewhere, but Mastodon went above and beyond with the shirt. And as for the show itself...gotta hand it to them, they plowed through their 16 song set with ease, yet power and fury. The show kept building, and they saved the 'catchiest' songs for near the end. One minor gripe: the 'new guy' just looked too damn happy. He played fine, but he looked like a kid in a candy store, big shit-eating grin, all show long. Doesn't look like a "Mastodon member" (i.e. 'rough and tumble') AT ALL!!! They need to take him backstage and drag him thru the dirt a few times...give him some tats, a couple scars and shit. And of course the final Sabbath song was a nice treat as well...and I knew the show was over...or was it? (as there'd been nary a mention of Brent to that point). Well, instead of leaving the stage, a huge b/w pic of Brent went up on the video screens, and Brann came to the lip of the stage with a handful of drumsticks, and let us know how much we meant to them at that moment in time. (you can easily find a transcript of it on Google, it was reported on numerous music sites the following day) Not a true eulogy, but you could hear his voice crack a few times. Again, definitely the heaviest moment of a very heavy show. RIP Brent. Be sure to say THANK YOU Dennis!!!! (as I'm sure this was painful for you to track and master) FUCK YOU Hagar! is optional, yet smiled-upon submitted by /u/sonikreducer69 to r/mastodonband [link] [comments]

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Recently posted about needing some help with reducing the sheen on recently shellac'd floors. If any of you find yourself in a similar situation in the future here are my notes and conclusion: I have never used shellac or done a floor before, but used it at the recommendation of a local HW floor supplier who's got a great reputation and is very familiar with the history of these tract homes. He helped me color match a test board to a sample ripped out of the old floor and it looked great. One coat of amber shellac and several coats of clear shellac. But just like comparing paint splotches to the finished product, juxtaposing two rooms with different finishes right next to each other builds emphasis on their differences -Most of the advice was to remove it all and poly the floors instead. I totally get why poly is the standard finish for floors, way more durable. Reasons why I didn't go back and use matte poly on the floor: 1. Zinsser bull's eye shellac specifically says not to apply poly over it. As I understand it this shellac comes with wax or other sealants mixed into it which will make it a very poor substrate for the poly to adhere to. This would require removing the entire coating down to the bare wood. 2. I budgeted enough money for the wood, tool rentals, and shellac for this project. Going back for another sander rental, sand paper, poly and applicator pads would blow my budget for this project. 3. Time. I am leaving on orders soon. I need to start building cabinets and finishing the counter top so she has a working kitchen. It's a kitchen not a showroom, don't let perfect get in the way of good enough. What I tried: - already had 4 coats of shellac down. Lightly sanded down the floor with 320g. Cleaned. Applied two more coats thinned with about 3:1 shellac to denatured alcohol, lightly sanded with 400 between the coats. This really helped with the graininess of the gloss and smooth the surface. - 0000 steel wool sanding diagonally down the length of the boards then a second pass diagonally in the perpendicular direction. -sweep, vacuum, light mop with microfiber. First pic is where it's at now. Less gloss and smoother appearance. It'll wear in time too. What I should've done from the start: - bought up a bunch of Manhattan and Brooklyn rental properties in the 80s instead of lying around in my crib all day as an infant. - worked about 30 years in 6 different trades each to get some experience under my belt to before taking on this project. - used water based matte poly to finish. Conclusion: - shellac smells good and is imo easier to use than poly, looks great, but probably not the best finish for a floor, but I'm gonna refinish the entire floor in about a year or so, so I guess it's all gonna be fine. submitted by /u/Any-Thought3548 to r/HardWoodFloors [link] [comments]

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A while back, I asked whether I should replace my engineered wood flooring or try sanding it. Now I want to share how it actually went. https://www.reddit.com/r/Flooring/comments/1mpcun5/should_i_replace_my_engineered_wood_flooring_or/ The process: Everyone online said not to use the big drum sander—it would destroy my type of flooring. So I started with an orbital sander… but it barely did anything. The wood is insanely hard. I gave up at first, thinking I’d just return it and replace the whole floor. Then I asked GPT, and it suggested trying paint remover. Tried it… didn’t work either. Finally, I said, “Screw it, let’s get the big one.” Either I’d destroy the floor or it would finally work. Turns out, it worked great. I rented a drum sander, and only needed 4 sanding belts for the job (40 m²). Steps I followed: 60 grit with drum sander – removed the old varnish (i would do 80 but didnt have that at that time and didnt have energy to go and buy that!) (4) 80 grit with orbital sander (2) 120 grit orbital sander (2) 180 grit orbital sander (2) Cleaned with a degreaser and water After a day of drying, I did the first coat of finish. The next day, I lightly sanded the surface with a 320-grit small orbital sander. at this point sanding is very important, as it makes the surface extremely smooth. The next day, second coat of finish Following day, third coat of finish Mistakes I made: With the drum sander, you should start from one end of the room to the other. I started from the middle and went to each end, which left some marks that are hard to see but still there. I should have used 80 grit first with the drum sander, but I used 60 and think I removed a bit too much material. With engineered floors, you’ll usually have small cracks and holes. I was too lazy to patch all of them—did some but not all. Hopefully, it won’t be a problem in the future. things i used https://www.gamma.nl/assortiment/parketschuurmachine/r/B018401 2days for 40 m² https://www.gamma.nl/assortiment/boen-schuurmachine/r/B018101 2days for 40 m² https://www.glitsa.nl/nl/producten/parketlak-pt-eiglans?size=250ML 5L for 40 m² https://www.gamma.nl/assortiment/rambo-ontvetter-kleurloos-500-ml/p/B607998?store=HELPA&gclsrc=aw.ds&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Leveranciers%20PPG%20-%20Rambo%20-%20Shopping%20-%20NB&utm_id=22127222139&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22127222139&gbraid=0AAAAADqUGn9lVp61OK0XU38TzXV-d5-mI&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9JLHBhC-ARIsAK4PhcoJw-OkH-_KBtTvWqrlo9v8iQdN_woV5o-Ao2A7pYxojZJpVVKaEFAaAuXcEALw_wcB Result: The floor looks amazing. Even though my engineered floor only had 2 mm of wear layer, and I wasn’t super careful, the final result is very good.(hard to see actual resu,t in the pictures but im happy with it) Cost: About €300 for 40 m², including sander rental and materials. I’m sharing this in case anyone else is hesitant about sanding engineered floors—sometimes the “big scary drum sander” is actually what you need! submitted by /u/Fun_Visual2819 to r/Flooring [link] [comments]

This is the sad tale of an inexperienced and very rough handy person attempting a hardwood floor with minimal experience and poor attention to detail. it’s me. im the problem, it’s me. My daughter her two kids her two dogs and an incontinent cat moved into my house last December. says she’ll move back home once her floors are refinished. I try and be a good dad. So I say I’ll do them. I got to the rental store and rented the only sander they had on hand that day. It’s something called a buffer/sander, I’ve learned it’s also called a plate sander a large random orbital flat bottom. Weigh about 80 pounds. The first time I lifted, I thought this is not too bad. It got heavier as the project continued miraculously. So I didn’t know that this flat sander was more of finishing tool. But using this tool at 20 grit, 60 grit, and 100 grit I was able to get the finish off the old floor. However, even at 20 grit, I probably did a dozen passes, I wasn’t digging up much wood, but I was still going through finish everywhere… thought the dark marks were features of the wood. I tried to do some edging with my small power tools. So after one and a half days with this buffer/sander, I get to a place where I think OK I’m gonna try and go for it. I put down sanding sealer with a 7 inch wide applicator. Then i applied then I applied a layer of men wax super fast drying polyurethane for floors. I applied that with a roller, and no concept of what feathering was. and left it for a day. so far about 3 1/2 days pretty steady work. I came back to find overlap marks, patchy, dark spots, the width of the room, gouges at every edge, showing through the finish, old scratches, old cat piss, and this recurring pattern of darkness on the floor. it looked like absolute shit. I realized the finished floor i ended up with is clearly identified on r hardwood floors. it is clearly identified by it looking shitty,,patchy and poorly done. I dig more into the videos and this subs’ advice. I went looking for all the fails, because my project was failing. So I rented the buffer sander again for a day. Got twice as many 20 grit pads. I think I brought FIVE 20 grip pads home with me that time. at the end of another day on the buffer sander, I still wasn’t satisfied. I got the finish all off again, but it was still dark and patchy everywhere. So I went at some of the dark patches with small hand tools and started discovering the patterns. The patterns were chatter marks left by Nick, who worked on the house previously, the previous owner. That’s not his real name of course. So as I got further down with the heavy grit and the buffer sander, I realized I was working over top of someone else’s fail with a drum sander. I I shouldn’t say fail. I should say challenge. I didn’t want to rent a drum sander, cause I don’t think I could handle it at my age. I’m in my 60s, working alone. I go back to the shop the rental place and rented the buffer sander for another three days and another 10 sheets of each grit so I think that’s in total about six or 6 1/2 days of work with the buffer sander, various hand, tools and hand power tools. I realized in order to clean up next chatter marks, I’d have to rent a belt sander. my wife’s been gone for 10 fays and it suppoed to be done. Oh, I should also say that during the 6 days working with the buffer sander, I keep going back to Reddit, our hardwood floors and looking up the fails and the advice. My friend Dennis, he is a carpenter from a family of Dutch carpenters. He came to look and says “flaws can become features”. So what I’ve got right now I think, is a real pretty maple floor that the previous DI wire chewed up with a drum sander. Anyway, these pics are from my sanded floor ready to try again. I have two jugs of men wax, super fast drying polyurethane, one high gloss and one satin. Gloss for the bottom, satin for top coats. My research says that those two products are shitty, and I might end up with a shitty floor again. The advice I’m seeing says I should go and get a better product but I’m in a pretty small Canadian town with not a lot of options. So I’m gonna stop at this point and go look for better product and then come again tomorrow. some fella said “anyone can sand a floor- putting down the finish is the hard part.” add link to hoover’s video: youngsters’ video: submitted by /u/piper63-c137 to r/HardWoodFloors [link] [comments]

I've done a fair amount of drywall work remodeling our house and rentals. By this point I'm pretty confident in getting things to a level 4 finish, and on my last project I actually felt pretty efficient. (Not having to sand and skim coat 10 times) I'd rather pay someone to do this but with everything else we've got to do, I'm not sure we'll have the money. Our basement is roughly 1200sqft, and will have a bedroom, bathroom, storage room (finished walls and ceiling) and unfinished utility closet. I'll also have a few low-hanging ducts and a beam to frame around. I figure hiring someone for a job like this would be thousands, so I'm not opposed to spending a bit of money on tools that will make things easier. I've got a good set of knives, pan, tape-reel-belt-thing, and even a trowel/hawk after watching Vancouver Carpenter make it look so nice. I've also got a few good corded and cordless lights. I'm not too worried about the hanging. I've got a drywall drill and a cutout-router-thing. Honestly I think most of my past drywall hanging problems just stem from lazy/sloppy framing on my part. For additional context, I tend to lean towards "buy once cry once" when it comes to tools, and figure I'm young enough that quality tools are a worthy investment. My main ideas are: Power sander/light/vac combo - I do woodworking on the side so I may get the Festool dust extractor anyway. The Planex would be nice, and I've been impressed with all the Festool woodworking products I have, but I'm not sure I'll be able to justify it to my wife. Is there something between Harbor Freight and Festool that you'd recommend? I'd like something I can use in the future, and loan to family since we all do a fair amount of remodeling, so ideally it lasts longer then this job. And if Festool is the way to go, so be it. Just please explain why so I can convince my wife. :D Something for mudding inside corners - I've seen people on youtube use tools to apply mud on inside corners, but I'm not sure if they're really worth it. I feel like by the time I got the hang of it, I'd be done with the project. Any recommendations there? Up until now I've used an inside-corner knife and not really liked it. Usually use that first to make sure the corner itself is nice and smooth, then grab a normal knife to cleanup the edges. Something for sanding inside corners - Not even sure if something like this exists or if you'd want to use it. In my experience the corners are always a bit finicky and seem like they'd always require hand-sanding. Though that could just be more framing/drywalling/taping/mudding. Something for taping - I saw a banjo on clearance at HD after my last project, so I picked it up but haven't used it yet. The tape reel you clip on your belt was definitely a step up from grabbing the roll off the ground. From what I remember the slowest part was just getting the mud on the wall for a long joint before taping. Is the banjo the way to go, or is there something else worth getting? Anything else I'm not thinking about? It's been about a year since my last drywall project so maybe I'm blocking out some painful memory. submitted by /u/helliax11 to r/drywall [link] [comments]

I have a large deck (750 ft2). 6" boards. The surface is now rough, and I want to send and paint. What works better, a rental drum (belt) sander or the flat/oscillating one? Also: when I 'flipped' the boards last time and put back on (replaced bad/broken boards), I did NOT leave a large enough gap in some areas, water not draining well. I thought about 're cutting' using a circular hand saw to open up the gap. Doable? ​ ​ ​ submitted by /u/KraftwerkTurbo to r/Decks [link] [comments]

Last time I rented power tools (a hammer drill and a belt sander), the daily rental price was about 10% of the purchase price of the tool. I've seen similar ratios for expensive electronics like professional camera equipment, where renting a RED or Blackmagic camera system for 2-3 weeks will cost about the same as buying the whole thing outright. But on Vast.ai, an RTX 3090, which retails for $1300, can be rented for $0.23 per hour. So for the price of purchase, you can rent the card for 235 days straight. And that includes the rest of the server, and network bandwidth, and electricity, and rack space! Why does this market work so radically differently from other rental markets? With the AI craze in full swing, lack of demand surely cannot be the problem, right? submitted by /u/-p-e-w- to r/LocalLLaMA [link] [comments]

I was in a completely different subreddit and saw a link to this subreddit and since I plan to start sanding an Oak hardwood floor literally tomorrow, I thought, hey why not, let me check this out. The shear number of "don't do it yourself" comments is overwhelming. When I say I am DIY what I mean is, I have completely gutted to the studs and remodeled a laundry, three bathrooms, and a kitchen, including structural wall removal and new beam placement. I also built a bedroom addition from the concrete footers to the ridge vent. I have done all of this literally by myself in a years time...no helpers. I also have a decent amount of furniture refinishing experience. Working alone and with family living in the house I tend to go room by room to minimize disruption. So far, all of the wet rooms have been floored with tile and the addition has new, pre-finished hardwood installed. I have 2 bedrooms and a living room to complete yet (left the easy rooms for last) and they all have original 1956 Oak that has been previously refinished at least once. The first of the bedrooms is all done except the floor. I do not shy away from work or try to make anything easier. I literally dug my entire foundation for the addition with a shovel and wheelbarrow. I poured a 10'x10' concrete pad for a shed with a single bag mixer and 120+ bags of concrete. I once dug out the stump of a 28" pecan tree (the entire stump and 10' of surrounding roots) with a shovel, water hose and chainsaw. My plan was to use a hand held belt sander with a bunch of belts to do just the single 12'x12' room. The rental fees for the big equipment just seemed dumb to do repeatedly for one room at a time. The other option to rent and do the whole floor at once seems insurmountable based on still needing to do demo on the other rooms and, again, dealing with family living in the space. We are playing musical bedrooms while the work gets done. With my experience and level of commitment displayed above, am I out of my mind to think I can do this by myself with a belt sander and get reasonable results? I am not a perfectionist, I can live with some imperfections if it saves me thousands of dollars over a pro. I know the rental sander would be faster, but also could be more risky as far as doing damage to the floors because it IS more aggressive. I have read it can be done this way but so many nay-sayers are making me second guess the approach and I am to begin tomorrow. submitted by /u/LuapYllier to r/HardWoodFloors [link] [comments]

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I'm sanding my hardwood floors with a handheld belt sander (rental floor sanders are not available within 100 miles of where I live) and I keep having belts melt and rubber chunks build up and fuze to the front roller on the sander, followed by belt failure shortly after. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or can I just not run the sander for this amount of time and it gets too hot and the belt inevitably fails? I've tried cheap belts, Diablo belts (went through 6 just today), and they all do it. I'm just holding it steady and letting the weight of the tool work without pushing it down and it starts melting and chunking up within minutes. I'm going to run out of belts before I even finish the first pass on the floor and I bought over a dozen. submitted by /u/seatcord to r/Tools [link] [comments]

Ive got a ig heavy commercial drum sander for the main sections of the floor but thinking I can feather in the edges with my 4” sander. Just curious if anyone has tried this su substitution. submitted by /u/knucklekneck to r/HomeImprovement [link] [comments]

Bought a house right before my state went on lockdown. No access to rentals and have resorted to using a handheld belt sander for about 650 sq. ft or so. Never done this before. Just looking for any advice, guidance, or knowledge anyone might be able to offer. More info in album below. Thanks so much. https://imgur.com/gallery/LlVg9yS submitted by /u/andrewdidthat to r/finishing [link] [comments]

Bought a house right before my state went on lockdown. No access to rentals and have resorted to using a handheld belt sander for about 650 sq. ft or so. Just looking for any advice, guidance, or knowledge anyone might be able to offer. More info in album below. Thanks so much. https://imgur.com/gallery/LlVg9yS submitted by /u/andrewdidthat to r/HomeImprovement [link] [comments]

Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives. PREVIOUSLY: Observer Rewind - 1987 by /u/SaintRidley The Complete Wrestling Observer Rewind 1991-2001 1-7-2002 1-14-2002 1-21-2002 1-28-2002 2-4-2002 2-11-2002 2-18-2002 2-25-2002 3-4-2002 3-11-2002 3-18-2002 3-25-2002 4-1-2002 Buckle in everybody, it's business analysis time! Fuck yeah, math and percentages! The WWF is still stronger than any other promotion in wrestling history, but they've still seen some declines. 2001 live attendance was down over 20% from the the year prior. Even with increased ticket prices, gate revenue was down 12%. Sellouts were down 53%. And even though Wrestlemania 17 and the Invasion show did huge numbers, 2001 PPV buyrates were still down 20% from the year before, though some of that decline can be attributed to the DirecTV conflict during the final months of the year. Raw's TV ratings are down about 21% from last year. Dave weirdly doesn't mention Smackdown's ratings, but I looked it up and they were also down 16% from the year prior. Needless to say, 2001 was a tough year for the WWF. But they're still riding the momentum of the Attitude Era and even though all these numbers are significantly down from only a year ago, they're still in strong shape. Just as things were starting to finally go right for AJPW, disaster struck as Triple Crown champion Toshiaki Kawada suffered a serious knee injury this week when Steve Williams landed on his leg in a match. Kawada is expected to need reconstructive surgery to repair several torn ligaments and will likely be out about 6 months (ends up being out for over a year). The match was stopped immediately (which is how you know it's serious in AJPW, because "working through injury" is practically the foundation of that company) and he had to be carried out of the ring and taken to the hospital. The timing is terrible, as Kawada just won the title about a month ago, after chasing it for nearly 2 years and the long-term storyline with he, Muto, and Genichiro Tenryu. As expected, it was announced that Kawada will vacate the title, which is expected to set up a Muto vs. Tenryu match to crown a new champion. Muto vs. Tenryu was the 2000 Observer Match of the Year so...should be a barn burner! To make things even worse, Kawada's injury took place during the Champion Carnival tournament and because of the way the tournament is laid out, with wins and losses and point totals being carefully booked to get the desired result in the finals, an injury to the top guy completely destroys those plans (it's the same round robin format as NJPW's G-1). So who knows how they'll work their way around this. But AJPW was just starting to gain some momentum for the first time in 2 years, so this couldn't have come at a worse time. Dave talks about the big story in Japan with K-1 promoter Kazuyoshi Ishii being investigated for tax evasion and writes about what it would mean for K-1 and MMA in general if Ishii were to go to prison and how the business could be affected. In the overall "sports entertainment" landscape, K-1 is the biggest thing going in Japan and the second biggest in the world, behind WWF (in 2003, Ishii does indeed get found guilty on tax evasion charges and goes to prison for almost 2 years). More questions and details regarding recent WWF pay cuts. First, Dave mostly talks about how the loss of WCW completely destroyed all negotiating leverage for wrestlers in the U.S. and how dire the industry is for the workers. Now you're pretty much forced to accept whatever Vince wants to pay you or hey, fuck off and go find a new career if you don't like it. Up until 1996, WWF offered very minimal guarantees. As late as into the mid-90s, many guys were only paid a guarantee of $50 for TV tapings. Of course, with gate money and all the other streams of revenue, most guys made plenty more depending on their position on the card. But $50 was the only thing you were promised. There were always exceptions of course. Don't think for a second Hulk Hogan left AWA in 1983 for a $50 guarantee, for instance. But for the most part, that's how it worked. Then in 1996, Nash, Hall, and Piper all jumped ship to WCW for big guaranteed money and Vince was forced to start offering the same in order to keep everyone from leaving. And then there's the comparison to major sports. WWF pulls in double the money that most pro sports franchises do annually and in many cases, draw better TV ratings, larger crowds, sell more merch, and do bigger PPV numbers than any of those sports franchises do. And yet Rock and Austin aren't making even a fraction of the money as guys like Michael Jordan, Mario Lemieux, Randy Johnson, Lennox Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, etc. In fact, Austin and Rock don't even make the same amount of money as guys lower than them in other sports. Many of the lowest paid pro athletes make more than all but the highest paid WWF guys, even though in many cases, WWF generates far, faaaar more money. And then, add to that the fact that WWF stars still pay their own road expenses (rental cars, hotels, meals, etc.) WWF pays for air transportation but that's usually it. That's unheard of in any real pro sport. Other pro sports also offer a pension plan and post-career medical insurance. Wrestling? Nope. (It's now 2020 and to this day, almost all of this is still true). Wrestlers get none of these benefits from the money they generate. This just goes on and on but TL;DR - unionize already. God, this section isn't even close to done. Pay cuts. Anyway, Dave talks about how, with the split rosters, more guys will be working more shows, which is good. But the real money is in TV revenue based on ratings, and the ratings are declining already. The brand split is likely to cause them to fall even further, at least in the short-term, since they're diluting the star power of both shows. PPVs are still going to be dual-branded for now, which means more guys fighting for less spots on PPVs to share in that money. Long story short, the undercard people in WWF are really going to feel these pay cuts hard. A $25k-per-year pay cut might not affect Rock or Austin at all, but 25k less per year definitely hurts, say, Hugh Morrus or Mike Sanders in developmental. Seriously, none of this is news and it just keeeeeeps going... And now, Dave writes—I shit you not—over 7,000 words about the crossover history between pro wrestling and shoot fighting. You know, the lifelong question in wrestling: if it was real, who would actually win? There must have been NO news this week. Jesus. In the end, this is an analysis of NJPW's failures in recent years that have come from Inoki trying to steer the company in an MMA direction, which has resulted in some of NJPW's top stars getting humiliated by PRIDE prelim guys and is a big reason why NJPW business is struggling so much right now. The whole history is here. From guys in the early days like Strangler Lewis and Frank Gotch, who had to be legitimate tough guys to keep from being double-crossed by promoters, to Bill Watts firing any wrestler that lost a real out-of-the-ring fight. Territories in the 70s and 80s bringing in real amateur wrestlers to take on all-comers in shoots. Things like that. But then MMA came along in Japan, and Brazillian jiu-jitsu, then UFC, and then everyone realized how much of an art form there is to real fighting. It became a major part of the training for pro wrestlers in Japan, since Inoki wanted guys who could do both, and of course, Inoki made a career out of having shoot matches with athletes from other combat sports, most famously with Muhammad Ali. Guys like Haku had the tough guy bar fight reputation as being the toughest guy in the business, and to this day, he has that rep. But put Haku in there with a skilled MMA fighter, and he'd get eaten alive. WWF's Brawl For All exposed just how easily untrained "tough guys" can be dismantled in a shoot. This just keeps going. UWF in 80s Japan, Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada, PRIDE, Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, K-1, Cro Cop, Tank Abbott, Naoya Ogawa, Don Frye, RINGS, the Gracies, Kazushi Sakuraba, Pancrase, Kendo Kashin, Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar....you name it, Dave touches on it. It's a great history lesson on how these 2 sports are so intertwined and how they have affected each other. AJPW is planning to give Tenryu some time off on the upcoming tour because he's old and has been working a lot of singles matches and he's beat up. And now, with Kawada's injury, the pressure is on Muto to carry the load. Muto hasn't worked a full schedule in years and his knees can't handle it over the long haul, but it's all on his shoulders for the time being. Mitsuharu Misawa reportedly tore some ligaments in his knee at the latest NOAH show, in what is probably the worst possible news for the company. Misawa worked through it and even did a short match the next night and an angle after (he ended up taking no time off at all). Naomichi Marufuji is also in need of knee surgery but is working through it (he works one match to drop his title and gets surgery and is out for a loooong time). NJPW's 30th anniversary Tokyo Dome show will be airing live in prime time on TV-Asahi in Japan, going head-to-head with the World Cup, which is the biggest sporting event in Japan in decades and, on a global basis, is the biggest sporting event in the world. The World Cup is being broadcast by rival network NTV, which is the television network NOAH is signed with. NJPW had planned for several NOAH wrestlers to work the show but that may not happen now because of this (it happens, Misawa works the show but there's more to the story, we'll get there). NJPW opened a dojo in Los Angeles and most of the roster flew out for the grand opening. They also had several matches, including one featuring a young Rocky Romero. Chyna was there as well, took photos with Inoki, and talked about wanting to face male wrestlers in NJPW. "Oh dear God," Dave writes. Just wait. PHOTO: Chyna working out at the Los Angeles NJPW Dojo in 2002 One of NJPW's big problems in recent years has been the failure to create new stars, which is what made them so successful in the 80s and 90s. But they're finally getting aggressive on that again and have recently brought in a new batch of trainees. Their names are Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Naofumi Yamamoto, Ryusuke Taguchi, and Yasuke Moriakaku. Dave runs down their athletic backgrounds (mostly all accomplished amateur wrestlers). A big show in Japan featuring Japanese shoot fighters against Mexican luchadores in legit shoot fights went....about as you'd expect. In the undercard, Pancrase founder Minoru Suzuki ("who is now a beaten up shell of a fighter") defeated wrestler Solar in just 2 minutes by DQ when Solar twice kneed him in the groin. The main event saw Pancrase fighter KENGO defeat Dos Caras Jr. (Alberto Del Rio) by submission in the second round, avenging his loss from last year when he suffered a broken arm in a fight with Caras Jr. Latest on the old WCW racial discrimination lawsuit. Turner Broadcasting has been added as a defendant in the case. There are 10 wrestlers involved in filing the lawsuit and they're seeking $2 million each. There was a recent story about the case in the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Dave spends most of this paragraph talking about all the obvious things the article got blatantly wrong about WCW and the business in general. Otherwise, the article featured quotes from some of the wrestlers (Sonny Onoo, Hard Body Harrison, etc.) about how they weren't pushed, were paid less than white stars, or were told to do offensive racial stereotypes (Onoo in particular talks about how WCW had him do the broken English Japanese stereotype, leading Dave to point out that Onoo kept doing that gimmick on the indies long after he left WCW. And for what it's worth, Onoo's boss who allegedly forced him to do this was his close friend, Eric Bischoff, who he remains friends with to this day). The lawsuit also claims wrestlers shouldn't be classified as independent contractors and should be given the same retirement and health benefits that other Turner employees got. Notes from the latest Ring of Honor show: despite all the rave reviews of their debut show, the attendance was down for this one. The show was build around Christopher Daniels, Low-Ki, and American Dragon all working separate matches against each other. All those matches ended in submissions, with them clearly trying to get that style over. Dragon vs. Low-Ki in the main event was reported to Dave as a possible 5-star match but he hasn't seen it yet. Ken Shamrock was the referee for it. So once again, this ROH company is getting rave reviews for putting on another excellent indie show. A wrestler named Chris Marvel suffered a broken ankle that was said to be as bad as the Sid Vicious injury. There's talk that Jerry Jarrett's new promotion will be affiliated with the NWA, which would allow Jeff Jarrett to, inevitably, become the NWA champion. Dave says that's a big win for the NWA because Jeff would be a better champ than Dan Severn and if this promotion has any level of success, it'll be the biggest thing to happen for the NWA in years (indeed, that's what we eventually get). Steve Wilkos, the big bald security guard from the Jerry Springer Show, made his pro wrestling debut at a show for Maryland Championship Wrestling. Wilkos teamed with Gillberg against some local guys. He was awful and the match was clearly comical and Wilkos' only offense was clotheslines. But the crowd of 1,600+ was the biggest in the history of the promotion and were there specifically to see him. ABC World News Tonight was there filming it as well. WATCH: Steve Wilkos & Gillberg vs. some dudes Various news and notes: Nicole Bass is back to bodybuilding after a recent health scare and she still has a sexual harassment lawsuit pending against WWF. Dusty Rhodes is in a TV commercial for Northwest Title Loans. K-Kwik is not working indies right now because he's still got a non-compete in his WWF contract, so he still gets paid and can't work anywhere else until that runs out. WATCH: Northwest Title Loans commercial. Tell 'em Dusty Rhodes sent ya. XPW is claiming promoter Rob Black (who also produces porn) suffered a stroke while editing a porn movie and is in critical condition. But Dave says there's no record of him at the hospital they claim he went to and this is apparently yet another of XPW's stupid hoax publicity stunts (yup. Rob Black is garbage). If you recall, Eddie Guerrero won the WWA cruiserweight title on their last PPV. But just like Curt Hennig with XWF, Guerrero wasn't signed to a contract. Now he's heading back to the WWF and won't be around to drop the belt. Once again, Dave says if you're serious about starting a company right now, you have to lock your key guys into contracts or else Vince McMahon will pick you apart before you can get off the ground. Especially if you're gonna put a belt on a guy. Notes from Raw: the show was built around Austin deciding which show he's going to sign with since he's a free agent. But Raw had a new opening video, featuring only the Raw stars that were drafted last week and Austin was heavily featured in that video, so they pretty much gave away the answer to the storyline from the second the show went on the air. They also had a new Raw stage setup for the arena. Eddie Guerrero made his return to the company, attacking RVD and getting a huge pop. So naturally, WWF capitalized by never once acknowledging his return for the rest of the show. Dave talks about how Jeff Hardy's physical decline over the last year is scary for only being 23 years old (drugs are bad mmm'kay). Trish took on Terri Runnels, while wearing bikinis, in a paddle-on-a-pole match, which is just about the most Russo sentence ever. Bubba Ray Dudley, Spike Dudley, and Bradshaw seemed to be the new guys getting a little bit of a push in this new split roster era. They presented Triple H with a new undisputed title belt to replace the 2 (WWF and WCW) that he was carrying around. And of course, it ended with Austin signing to Raw and giving everyone stunners. Speaking of Austin, he and Vince apparently worked out all their issues which is why he was back on Raw. It was his first show back though, as he continued to no-show all his scheduled house show appearances last week. WWF knew in advance he wouldn't be there but never tried to make that clear to the public for any of those shows. Dave says it's one thing if a guy misses the show because of unforeseen circumstances, but if you know in advance he's not going to be there, to continue advertising them up until the doors open is bullshit. Especially a star like Austin who, let's be honest, is the guy most of the fans are there to see. And when they did announce it, even that was shady. At one house show, they announced Austin wouldn't be there and offered refunds. But then Undertaker cut a promo and commented that Austin was probably in the back hiding because he's scared of him. Naturally, fans then assumed he was there and would probably come out later in the show since a comment like that from a heel is an obvious tease. But....nope. Random WWF notes: former WCW wrestler The Wall worked a dark match at the Smackdown tapings. Rock is hosting Saturday Night Live next week. The plans to have completely separate writing teams for both Raw and Smackdown seems to have already been dropped and looks like it'll mostly be the same people writing both shows. Former ECW performers Nova and Dawn Marie were both signed to WWF deals this week. Bill O'Reilly on Fox News had a show that featured Linda McMahon among several other guests. The hook of the show was O'Reilly confronting all of these random people from different forms of entertainment (wrestling, music, movies, etc.) and accusing them of marketing to children and corrupting the youth. Along with Linda McMahon was Insane Clown Posse, Opie & Anthony, Russell Simmons, and others (in different segments, not all sitting together because holy shit, what a group that would be). Naturally, they all defended themselves and said it's up to the parents and yada yada. Linda came off better than everyone else on the show, but it was a low bar. WWF has sent Rey Mysterio his contract. Dave doesn't give exact numbers but says it's in line with the baseline that they're trying to get everyone to sign for after the pay cuts (so figure in the $100-125K range per year). Dave also says Eddie Guerrero is rumored to have signed a similar contract, but he's also heard rumors that Guerrero's deal is possibly as low as $75,000 per year. Dave is skeptical, but then again, given how he left last time (rehab, DUI as soon as he got out, fired), it's possible WWF is hesitant to make a big commitment to him until he proves himself again. Here's a quote from Big Show in a recent issue of the UK tabloid The Sun, presented without context: "Married life is good. Bess (his wife) is a good friend and my teammate. She is good looking and has one hell of a figure. Before this interview, I was looking at your Page 3 girls, and one of the guys said that one of the girls (Jordan) had Double F breasts, but they were just Double D. I told him: 'Trust me, mamma at home has got bigger.'" Several of the wrestlers who had tryouts recently have been offered contracts. Dave isn't 100% sure on the names but he thinks it was Matt Stryker, Race Steele, Chad Collyer, Rene Dupree, Kevin Fertig, Doug Basham, and AJ Styles. The contracts are said to only be for $500 per week. Dave expects most of them to take it because, well, it's WWF and it's a steady paycheck. But AJ Styles is said to be leaning against it actually, because he knows he can make more money as a major star for one of these new start-up companies (WWA, XWF, or hey....maybe he could make a name for himself in this Jarrett promotion that's starting soon). Plus, he would have to move to Cincinnati and that's not much money to uproot your entire life (I think Styles has said in years since that his wife would have had to give up her job to move there and the WWF offer just wasn't enough money to make it worth it, so he turned it down). FRIDAY: A look at Rock's rising movie career and what it means for his wrestling future, Kodo Fuyuki diagnosed with cancer, Yuji Nagata wins IWGP title, and more... submitted by /u/daprice82 to r/SquaredCircle [link] [comments]

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