Tom Byron's been pouring through the Marc Wallice transcripts [geneross.com, March 11] as though they were O.J. testimony.
Byron: "You read one paragraph, and he [Wallice] totally contradicts what he says two paragraphs ago. The fucking lies are just piling on top of each other. I heard that Hardcopy is doing a story on it? I hope they never call me to testify."
Byron describes the current Mike Daniels lawsuit morass as "annoying." "The bottom line is that this isn't going to go much further," says Byron. "We want it to go away. Who wants their personal business plastered all over the Web? The fact that this information is available [through court clerks] is annoying. Post what you want to post, but my thing is with Daniels. This thing could have gone away a long time ago." Byron resents the wording of certain incidents in the suit. "It makes me look like a fucking retard," he says. "I may play icky sometimes, but I'm far from icky."
Rob Black's close to sealing the Brazilian deal that puts him as middleman in the distribution of ECW wrestling tapes in that country.
Black: "I'm trying to work this Brazilian deal to distribute the tapes. Trying to hammer out the final things. The Brazilians like real stuff. They want it to be real. We're trying to put the matches together that look the most realistic - the barbed wire, the scaffolds - it's a fucking nightmare. I'm looking at a bunch of tapes of a scaffold match where the guy falls like 20 feet to the ground. It's back and forth with ECW, trying to watch these tapes, trying to decide if we're going to make a compilation of the best five Extreme matches. We're going to release it, we just don't know what or when. I'm very miserable and tired. Tommy's on the Internet looking at the Mean Gene Ross gossip."
