As for my creative writing outlet: I have found a new resource which is different, yet somehow contains a link to the Grudge. Planetsocks.com is one of the in places to visit for reality TV haters. I have been lurking for a very long time, but started posting a few months ago. I obviously made an impression, as they asked me to write a Survivor summary. How does this relate to the Grudge, you might ask: well we were mocking Survivor in the second TOC before making fun of Survivor was cool. Check it out!

Cheers!

- Hotbranch!

Okay, time to scare myself. It was mid-1996 when I first discovered this site. That is nine years ago - where does the time go? - and that still makes me a latecomer among the commentators, perhaps the latest of them. I made up for lost time, winning a Response of the Week™ for my very first match. (No hints. This is your impetus to search our voluminous archives.) One thing led to another, and Grudge Match became a big part of my life.

This site contains just about everything Grudge Match ever did, but I want to spend a moment to reminisce about a part most of you never saw. In 2002 and 2003, other commentators and I performed a trio of Live Grudge Matches at science fiction conventions across the country. It was kinda my idea: I am a science fiction writer, and I knew that con audiences would probably appreciate our off-center humor. And, yeah, they did.

The format was familiar, though with substantial modifications. The host (always me) would give the match scenario, accompanied by Powerpoint slides (and occasional music and sound effects) chosen to establish the scene and to be just plain silly. The two commentators would trade arguments, backed up by more silly images, some created but mostly ripped off from the Internet (and occasionally Photoshopped). Then came the responses, from three brave volunteers from the SF community, ad-libbing for all they were worth. Finally, audience voting would determine a match winner, as well as the best commentator. We always adapted classic matches, though with plenty of new material, and we could get in three matches in just over an hour.

Paul Golba was always one of the commentators, and handled putting together the Powerpoint slides. The second commentator slot rotated. Thinkmaster handled it at Boskone (Boston area con) in February 2002; Brian winged from Georgia to San Jose in August 2002 for ConJose, which was the World Science Fiction Convention that year; Dave Nelson assumed the mantle for Boskone in 2003.

There is no way to recreate what we did in mere words. You truly had to be there. I can just share a few high points:

*During one response vote, the instant of absolute silence when we called for votes for responder Dave Howell. Then came the laughter; then came Dave storming out of the room in high dudgeon. He was, of course, playing the moment for laughs. Darn good sport.

*Our desperate pre-show search for a replacement responder at Con Jose when someone dropped out late. We found Adam-Troy Castro at almost the last minute, and he promptly won the commentator's prize. (He also suggested our Pac-Man/Tribbles match, and still gets the giggles whenever he thinks about us.)

*Time managed to ripen one of our greatest matches, John McClane vs. the Death Star. Die Hard 3 and a pair of Star Wars prequels gave us the chance to weave in Samuel L. Jackson on McClane's side, with the classic admonishment, "Do not mess with the brother with the extra-long light-sabre." And we had the slightly retouched picture of Mace Windu to match. Of course, Paul then had to note that Mace almost got beaten by battle droids, a group even Jar-Jar Binks could defeat, meaning Mace was likely to come up, ahem, a little bit short. And we had the slightly retouched... oh, you get the idea.

*But the ultimate climax to Live Grudge Match came in the commentary for that very match, our last at Boskone 2003. In his turn, responder Michael Burstein got up an began declaiming the virtues of his man: the long Senate tenure, the near-miss at a Presidential nomination ... until Ian Randal Strock reminded him that we were talking about John McClane, not John McCain. Michael gave a perfect "Never mind," and brought the house down. And our audience promptly voted the senior senator from Arizona the match over both Bruce Willis and the Death Star. We could never top that, so we didn't try.

I'm grateful to Paul, Thinkmaster, Brian, and Dave for being part of all that. I also gratefully acknowledge our crack response teams: Esther Friesner, Bob Eggleton, Dave Howell, Adam-Troy Castro, Ian Randal Strock, Michael A. Burstein (who really was kidding about the mix-up), and especially Keith DeCandido, who was a commentator for all three Live Grudge Matches ... and came in second in the overall voting each time. Well, he's consistent.

As for Grudge Match, Da Original Web Site™, thanks go out to ... well, everybody. To all the commentators, starting with Brian and Steve, without whose inspiration none of this would have been possible. (I still want a miniature golf rematch, Steve.) Paul Golba kept Grudge alive during the Great Hiatus, so extra kudos to him for never saying die - and for being a great friend.

And a special thank-you to everyone who responded to our matches over the years. Many names became almost as familiar as our fellow commentators (most of whom, of course, rose from those ranks.). I can't possibly be comprehensive, but special mention to Rosencrantz, Mr. Silverback, Charge Man, Devin the Mental Hospital Escapee, Captain Corcoran (whose musical ROTW to Solo/Kirk is an all-time great), The Genius Formerly (and Still) Known as Eddie, The Demented Astronomer, The Infraggable Krunk, Chris "Jedi" Knight, paTRICK heSTER, Vermin Boy, Data-Kun, Dusty Sayers, Darth Brooks, Peanuts Pat, Rainwoman, and everyone I've forgotten. Just go read all of our matches, find out who I missed.

Darn. I already miss Grudge Match.

Well, who knows? We've pulled comebacks before ... but until then, remember to call me ...

- Shane (Tourtellotte)

Please forgive me, but for once in Grudge Match (TM) history, I am going to be serious here (for the most part, at least). There is something I need to say.

Thank you.

That's the short version. Here comes the long version. You've been warned.

I first encountered WWWF Grudge Match (TM) in college when some friends found the site during the famous Death Star v. Enterprise massacre. It hooked me in right away, but I never really considered writing anything for the site. If you read my prose during that time, you'd understand why. I would say I had fairly good writing skills for your average computer geek. All the facts would be there, but typically it was boring, repetitive, and far too long (I would turn five page papers into ten pages, somehow). This is not exactly the ideal style for comedy, as I had learned the hard way. (Fun Fact: Crickets only happen in cartoons and bad sitcoms.)

But for some reason, I was inspired and sent in a short response for the first Addams Family v. Munsters match. I figured if I was lucky, it might get included in the response file. It won Response of the Week (TM). Despite the Roger Maris-ish caveat that "This received ROTW (tm) honors not because it was the funniest, but because it was the most accurate", I was in shock that either Brian (TM) or Steve (TM) even liked it. So I tried something longer and more comedic for the match's sequel, and I won the ROTW (TM) again, this time with no caveat. My addiction was complete.

So, first, I want to thank Brian (TM) and Steve (TM) for liking my writing. And I must also thank them for improving my writing skills - each response challenged me to improve. It was better than Hooked on Phonics.

(For the record, my writing deficiencies are all my own. I had very good English teachers. For instance, my high school sophomore professor was a brilliant man who taught me a great deal. He was also very big and looked like he could crush my head with his bare hands. Did I mention he was brilliant?)

Let's fast forward a few years, before this starts resembling my old writing style. Brian (TM) notified me that the site was shutting down and (out of character for me) I became obsessed with saving it. The result was the Save the Grudge Foundation (TM), made up of Steve and Brian's seven hand-picked favorite responders and myself. Back then, I had a goal of keeping the Grudge Match (TM) concept alive for a total of five years from its inception. (Darn, there goes my lucrative career as a psychic friend.) The result was WWWF Ground Zero.

So I want to thank Shane, Jeff, HotBranch!, Thinkmaster, Some Dork, Brendan and Mark for indulging me and supporting me in the Ground Zero endeavor. Without them, it never would have happened.

Ground Zero proved to be more difficult than I imagined. There was a lot of work involved running the site: updating, graphics, scheduling, commentary, web hosting. Fortunately, I did have help - I can never thank Shane enough from taking the scheduling job, which was driving me bonkers - but even then it was tough. For all of you out there that think cutting down a response file is all fun, it isn't easy. Unlike that ruthless bastard Brian (TM), I am easily amused and the darn Iron Fist (TM) didn't come in my size! I felt guilty cutting out someone's response. If the Ritalin Reading Room (TM) wasn't the result of me giving up after hours of cutting, then it should have been. But I think we did a pretty good job. It wasn't perfect mind you. With what I know now, I would have chosen a more exciting 100th match, a better web hosting company (CI Host - phfffft!) and a former Baywatch "actress" as a commentator (though that last one may just be me). There were people who complained and you know who you are. But IMHO the good far outweighed the bad. There were some great matches. Our innovations of The Final Word (TM) and especially the Tournament of Champions seemed to work pretty well, don't you think? And if that doesn't convince you, remember we kept the Grudge alive until Brian (TM) and Steve (TM) got back to their senses (or lost them, as the case may be).

For all of you that supported WWWF Ground Zero and made it a success, thank you. I appreciate you tolerating our stumbles and sticking around. Hopefully, we were a productive waste of your time.

Before this gets too long, let me wrap this up. I want to thank everyone who laughed at my jokes at the Live Grudge Matches we did at various science fiction conventions. And I especially would like to thank the people who contributed material, as I am certain it was the jokes getting the laughs and not my great delivery. Special thanks go to Shane for making it all possible.

Thanks to all those that have voted or sent in responses or suggested match ideas. There was no Grudge Match (TM) without you.

Thanks to Dave 1/2 Nelson, who I somehow managed to ignore up to this point.

I would like to thank Mr. T. I pity the fool that don't thank Mr. T.

And finally, I want to thank Shane who, as well as being a great commentator, has become my best friend.

It's time for me to say goodbye. It's been a good run. I hope you had fun.

Grudge Match (TM): Where useless knowledge breeds champions. I resemble that remark.

- Paul Golba

[A big public thank you to all of our commentators that have helped keep the site going for the past, oh, seven years or so. We probably would have folded up tent a lot sooner without you. Heck, we did. -- Brian & Steve]

Cellophane was an invention that created completely by accident. It was supposed to be a stain resistant tablecloth, but didn't come out quite as planned.

Stainless steel was discovered by a scientist looking though a pile of discarded junk steel samples. Teflon (tm) was a complete mishap in the labs at DuPont.

It is truly amazing how some great things just "kind of happen". Grudge Match was one of these things. It was originally meant to solve a argument of Gary Coleman vs. Webster, one of the great philosophical debates of all time. But like the accidents above, there was something else lurking there, and it reared its head as Grudge Match.

But what happens to the cellophane covering your slice of Velveeta (tm)? It gets wadded up and thrown into the trash. And then, and your Teflon (tm) pans eventually wear away to the stainless steel underneath, which then gets caked with burnt grilled cheese goo, and is then also thrown away.

Likewise, we've scoured Grudge Match down to the point where there's not much left of the great thing it once was. Whereas it used to be an endless source of entertainment, for me it has eroded over the years to more of a chore than a joy. At that point, it's time to move on. But I know that I will still from time to time peruse the archives, because there is some truly great humor in there, and you can never have enough of that.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go to the store and buy a new pan...

- Steve

When we started this on a whim oh-so-long ago (DID YOU KNOW: we were on the web 2 months before ESPN?), I don't think we envisioned much of anything coming out of it, other than a few chuckles amongst ourselves. Looking back, it's amazing how many great things have happened, in two areas in particular: 1.) What we've gotten to do, and 2.) the positive impact we've had on people.

It's been a great ride for us. Steve and I got to put together a book with a major publishing house (we got pretty punch drunk picking out the pictures), we recorded a radio commercial for our own book signing, did several live interviews on morning radio shows, got a lot of great print press including the Chicago Tribune and Entertainment Weekly, and even got to have a few meals with television executives in places like Manhattan. Personally, my highlight was probably the trip to Montreal for the Just For Laughs comedy festival in 2000, where I got to go behind the scenes and up front, and got to meet Louie Anderson and Eric Idle. That Live Grudge Match in San Jose was pretty good, too.

Equally amazing, though, are the stories we get from people that tell us our site has had a direct and meaningfully positive impact on their lives. Several of those can be found on this page. Career guidance, forged friendships, and assistance through some very rough spots in life -- we've heard many stories. All I can say is that makes it all worthwhile, even if nothing else came from it. But something else did come from it: I got my own career guidance! When I took the plunge to pursue Grudge Match professionally, it was a bit of a risk for someone with a PhD. But I had a great time and I learned a lot, particularly about marketing, licensing, and negotiating contracts. Well, low and behold, I ended up landing a job that combined both of those avenues: marketing and licensing technologies invented at, of all places, my and my wife's alma mater, Auburn University. It couldn't be a better fit professionally, and I had no idea the field even existed six months before I had the job. There's a lesson there for everyone: find what you're passionate about and go for it. You never know where it might lead. "'Tis better to fail while daring greatly than to live with those cold timid souls that know neither victory nor defeat." -- Teddy Roosevelt (paraphrased)

Now with the serious part out of the way, it's time to reveal my Deepest, Darkest Grudge Match Secret™. Not long after Steve and I rejoined the site after a few years off, I had to wonder: did I still "have it" comedically? I still wrote commentary, but was it still fresh and funny? It was hard to tell. And, sure, I could send in comments like a lot our writers did, but I figured I would make the cut regardless (at least I better!!) and by rule I was ineligible for ROTWs. So where's the feedback in that? So every now and again, I'd send in a response under an alias.

I only did it three times, all under the name "Shaggy", an obscure nickname I had very briefly in college. To my pleasure, all 3 got posted, and two of them garnered Gold Grudge ROTWs, one for Nostradamus v. Dionne Warwick (my personal favorite) and another for M&Ms v. California Raisins, good enough to land me on the all-time responders list.

Of course, some of you may thinking, "But that's not fair!", to which I humbly reply, "PBBBBHHTTT!!" Hey, I was jumbled in the mix along with everybody else, so if you wanted to rise to the top, you should have been funnier. This site is run by Darwinism, not Socialism. But for anyone that may still hold a Grudge (tm) over that, you'll be happy to know that I got royally screwed on my third submission for Rock v. Paper v. Scissors. My essay on physcial laws and the complex intellectual dynamics of a three-way stand-off beaten out by potty humor?! Who edited that response file, anyway? I may have to garnish their wages and give it to the others. OK... maybe there is a little Socialism.

- Brian

For this final response file, we retired the Iron Fist™ and let you speak your mind, so these comments are largely unedited. There was that one guy that wrote a rap song that was a little too vulgar and way too personal, but other than that, it's mostly here. And while we hadn't planned on doing ROTWs for this section, one particularly funny response, not to mention our undying love of irony, changed that. We also did several Final Words.

Also, to clarify, the archives will stay up indefinitely.

Thanks for your kind words and your participation. We wouldn't have gotten very far without fans. Although we might have finished grad school a year sooner.

RESPONSE OF THE WEEK GRUDGIETM

Excerpted from 'O Harley Night: The Rise of 'Comic Book Universe Battles', @2083:

"...And so, by the early 2000s, C.B.U.B. had established a presence on the 'World Wide Web', but had yet to dominate its niche, let alone break out into a wider audience or other markets. Before expanding, it had to overcome 'WWWF,' a rival that aimed for a higher-brow audience. Despite initial vigor, this competitor folded due to exhaustion, but how did this exhaustion come about?

"The more obvious cause was the computer virus unleashed by the Braveheart Jihad (THERE IS NO JIHAD) in the last days of 1999, in the hopes of going undetected amidst the Y2K chaos; although WWWF creators Brian Wright and Steve Levine succeeded in saving the world from this menace, the price of their victory was the destruction of their own media provider (the CI Host), without which their primitive turn-of-the-millenium technology was cut off.

"Documents later recovered suggest that WWWF was thereafter the subject of persistent, if less spectacular, harassment from the vengeful Jihad(TINJ) in the form of mindless fanboy responses by the tens of thousands. This avalanche of banality took its toll upon the editors, making them more lethargic and addle-minded. The first obvious decline was the end of the monthly newsletter in 2003, followed by a shift to a monthly format for the whole site.

"If a peak to the WWWF's quality could be pinpointed, an arbitrary cut-off might be 2/26/01, as this was the last time that they gave a bi-weekly award to Matt Bricker, a regular contributor of exceptional insight, wit, and, above all, modesty. Bricker's ramblinglengthy responses were invariably the result of thorough and painstaking analysis, requiring the entire 2-4 weeks to complete, and this author rarely settled for a half-hearted job. Unfortunately, the worn-out WWWF commentators rarely had enough energy to fully appreciate his last-moment submissions, and he was never to again receive Grudgie-level recognition. In fact, there was a marked decline in his writings even being posted. The Final Word (tm), if one were needed, came in the omission of his brilliant treatise on Care Bears, the id, nihilism, and the nature of evil.

"This final disturbance in The Grudge Continuum even spread into the larger pop-culture media, resulting in a settling of Grudges worldwide. There were free and somewhat-bloodless elections in Iraq, Osama bin Laden made his fateful decision to head the charitable Kumbaya Foundation in the coming spring, British soccer audiences grew as sedate as field mice, and even nemeses Mr. Peanut and the Pillsbury Doughboy had dinner together in harmony.

"And what of the principals? Brian later went on to dismantle the Braveheart Jihad(TINJ) from his post as United-States-Canada Secretary of (Mis)Information under the Jenna Bush administration. Steve began his slow climb up the hierarchy of Exxon-Time-Warner- Microsoft-Honda-Mattel. Paul ruled his local PTA chapter with The Iron Fist(tm). And Mr. Bricker? His remaining years were spent on a never-ending statistics dissertation predicting the outcome of Big Bird vs. his weight in emus, reminiscing of the heady times of WWWF when he 'got published.'"

- Matt Bricker (So long, and thanks for all the fish.)

ROTW Silver Medal GrudgieTM

Sure, people may think this is the true and final end of our beloved Grudge Match. Mr. T pities you fools. Nothing as wildly popular as the Grudge Match ™ goes entirely into the Night™ folks. Consider successful franchises, and you will know what's coming:

Spin off shows, crappy and otherwise.
Hotbranch! will go on to star in Branch, a wildly successful website based in Seattle that has the same basic structure as the current Grudge Match, but will feature only sophisticated and specialized topics, such as a match between Pavel and Bazarov from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Future Grudge Match, which comes up with hypothetical Grudge Matches of the future (Brainiac 5 vs. the Britney Spears Bot version 2.0!) will enjoy moderate success on DVD. Unfortunately, AfterGrudge, a monthly comic book that holds Grudge Matches, will find any battleground different than the Internet would not be able to capture the Grudge Magic. But none of these options will be available to Brian and Steve. Instead, they will engage in

Prequels!
Yes, Brian and Steve will eventually return to the Internet to give their Legions of Fans™ Minor Disagreements, a website which challenges voters to tell them what rhetoric they think will be used in civilized debate between Grudge competitors before they engaged in all out Grudge Match. The chronicles will get increasingly popular as it tells the tale of how Mr. T came to be the Grudge Match mascot, but will hit a temporary snag in The Phantom Deliberator, which forces on us a dopey CGI commentator named Har Bar Hijinks, a blatant attempt to create a marketable persona for the youngsters. Minor Disagreements, seeing as it takes place in the Future™ with Futuristic technology, will include a fully functioning VR simulator. This may make the original Grudge Match look quaint and old. Indeed, many fans will wonder how Dragon Hamster expects us to believe Grudge Match took place after Minor Disagreements, but that will be solved with

Retooling of the original franchise!
Grudge Match will be remade, once we have the technology, to make it bigger, faster, flashier, with consistent appearances by Ian McDiarmid! Rumors have it that Peter Jackson has the rights to Grudge Match, the Movie™, after he is finished with his Totally Necessary Remake™ of King Kong. But don't get too excited, fanboys. Jackson has dropped hints he will make some artistic changes in order to satisfy his personal vision of the Grudge Match. Webster's going to win, kids.

- B. Katos

ROTW Bronze Medal GrudgieTM (tie)

So. This is it. The final one. The Disney and Microsoft lawyers have shut their briefcases and slithered home. The remaining Hotbranch! 3:16 shirts have been taken to a hole in the Arizona desert and buried. Devin has escaped through his last water-fountain-shaped hole in the mental hospital window. Brian and Steve have closed the doors of the stately Grudge Towers, and entrusted the key to Mr. T.

I never thought I would see the day. You'd expect something like this, through all the ups and downs of internet culture, would hold out forever. Now... it's gone.

For a while, we spoke as gods among men. We took on all targets, all manner of contenders, and we decided for ourselves, "Yes! Gary Coleman would beat Webster! Star Trek must lose! There is no Jihad! And here is the proof!"

All things must pass, my friends. But, I'm not worried. No, so long as there is an Internet, and people have opinions, this site will go on.

For we will have been trained by fire, by the Iron Fist and all its progeny. We will strip our sleeves and show our scars and say "These Grudgies I earned, by sweat and blood and toilet humor", and we will count ourselves among the fortunate, who stood on the digital landscape and claimed this corner for our own.

Grudge Match, end? Maybe, in this form. But we will always keep it alive in our hearts, and keep the mission going. Wherever there's a fight over who would win, Picard or Kirk, we'll be there.

We'll be there wherever people argue over which is the worst movie, "Gigli", "From Justin to Kelly", or "You Got Served".

We'll be there wherever people cite the Babe Factor™, or the Rage™, or punctuate with those little ™'s.

And wherever people engage in imaginative, complex situations to solve simple arguments - we'll be there, too.

Godspeed, Grudgies. Requiescat in Pace, WWWF.

- Tracer "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Malone

ROTW Bronze Medal GrudgieTM (tie)

Grudge Match, you will be missed. As you ride off into the sunset, courtesy of Mr. T's custom 1982 GMC van, know that you've entertained my friends and I for a long time. Also, thanks for finally giving me a Final Word (tm), amidst all of my inane ramblings.

Don't worry about coming back; some retirements are meant to be. But just as everyone tried to be the Next Michael Jordan, someone on the Internet will try to be the Next Grudge Match. Here's to those crazy guys, and hope they'll make it just as much fun as you guys.

And finally, a bow for avoiding a match you couldn't care about to hit a meaningless numerical milestone.

- 32_Footsteps, finally beholding the destruction

Jesus. I tried to come up with a funny, amusing response, but it just sounds hollow. I'm gonna miss you guys. This has been one of the funniest sites I've ever been to, and it just won't be the same without my new Grudge Match fix. Peace.

- mtk1701

While I cast my vote for the Seinfeld-like send-off, in reality, you guys, every single one of you, is more like Futurama. A great site, that's going out with so many matches left untold. So much more potential to be earned. At least FOX wasn't involved in your going out. No, you are going out the honorable way.

So many new things are arriving in the world, many with great Grudge Match potential. How they will fare, I never will know. MEGAS of MEGAS XLR will never show his blue build in the ring to throw down with the Mega-Maid, a.ka. Spaceball One. The Teen Titans will never get a chance for Robin to be...cool at the Grudge Match. Many fighters left, their tales yet untold.

For every time the Iron Fist#&153 threw down, for every All Mangled and Killed&$153, for every #&153(#&153) that ever was placed on each contestant of Mentos-level Coolness#&153, for every Jihad#&153 (There was no Jihads)#&153 that came into play, I leave you with this.

May your legacy be known to the denizens of the Internet, Grudge Match. Your intelligence and wit beating every ad-riddled, typo- filled, piece-of-junk net site that is so prevalent today. I honor you and salute you. You truly are one of the best...

- GreenNinja, throwin' all the losers helluva far!

I regret not the time I spent pondering the matches, writing up responses, shecking the polls, and writing in suggestions for one of the finest web sites in the young history of the world wide web. I regret not one vote, nor reply I submitted in my quest for ultimate Grudge Glory(TM).

I've no regrets save one:

THE FACT THAT YOU MOTHERF***ERS CLOSED UP SHOP BEFORE I COULD COMPLETE THE "GRANDSLAM O' GRUDGE"(TM)!

I COPPED A GOLD, A BRONZE, AND SNAGGED A FINAL WORD! ALL I NEEDED WAS THAT GODD***ED SILVER AND I COULD FEEL AS THOUGH I'D REALLY ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING AS A POP-CULTURE WONK... BUT NOOOOOOOOO, YOU B*STARDS HAD TO SHUT IT DOWN(TM) BEFORE I COULD NAB THE SILVER!

DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

(I'm presently shaking with a RAGE(TM) on par with Kirk in Star Trek II when Kahn burries him, his son, and his away-team alive on the Genesis asteroid, as we speak... GRUUUUUUUUUUUDGE!!!!!!!!!!)

I'm as disillusioned as Brian was when he found out Colonel Sanders wasn't a real Colonel.

Nothing seems real...

- Walker: Plexus Ranger (He could've been one of the greats...)

IT CAN'T BE!!! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO US!?!?! HOW CAN IT END!?!?! If you don't want to do this anymore, why can't you just pass the torch to some new group of devoted grudge-match fans with new ideas and a lot of free time?!? Why does this have to happen?!? WHY?!? Don't end it forever!

Grudge-Match is like SNL, The Simpsons, American Democracy, and the Energizer Bunny. It keeps going and going and going and going, or at least I thought. So much for that.

Thanks for all the matches you did do. We'll miss you.

...

Seriously. If none of you want to continue on, find younger, more pop-culture knowledgable replacements. You know, like on SNL. Just because some of those people went on didn't mean that they had to cancel the whole show! Why must you take away our Grudge- Match just because some/all of you don't want to continue!

- Dr. B

- Smooth Jimmy Apollo - It's from Bill Simmons, dammit!

- Cap'n Freed

- BIGMRG74 - Click the link my friends and together, we can save the Grudge-Match from those Losers who have to start living in the Real World now.

- Adam Seaton (AKA Adam S, Jaken, Miles Prower)

- Weird Mark

Grudge Match (tm)... marvellous... blah blah... changed my life... blah blah... how will I cope... why god why... blah blah... must be a scheme of the undead Carrot Top (tm)... blah blah... please don't go... ppppppppppppppppppplllllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... blah blah (tm)... Simpsons wins here, you guys were always fantastic... Simpsons cannot lose (tm)... duh! (tm)... blah blah (tm)... the escape from the Death Star match and the Skywalker vs Potter match were the best... blah blah (tm)... and that kicking ass match was a long time coming... blah blah... thanks for everything... blah blah (tm)... can you not at least create a message board for Christsakes?!... come on... come ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnn... come on, Star Wars is ending soon, do you really want to doom us all to the horror of going outside??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... blah blah (tm)

- Jonathan Milne

And now you walkin' out on me. If I didn't love you all so much, I'd hate you passionately. Now I'm just going to have to break out the chihuahuas and let them eat you just for old times sake.

You guys are the best. Have a nice meal!

- Kryptonite - Bye HotBranch! Canada loves you...

- Rainwoman

I guess now CBUB is going to be my main waste of time now. Well at least you had Ash win the last fight. I was hoping that a Crocodile Dundee match would be made, but oh well.

Good luck in your your future tasks

(Bagpipes now playing Taps and Amazing Grace)
Yes I am a bagpiper

- Kilt-Man

(Cut to the Grave of the Legends (tm). The funeral for Grudge Match is set. A sign says "Today: Grudge Match. Tommorow: The rest of Marlon Brando." Steve & Brian prepare their notes, while all the Grudgies make their seats set. The 8 winners of the TOCs come first, with MST3K knowing NOT to riff a funeral. Next comes the 2nd placers in the TOCs (not Death. he was busy looking for Osama); the Tick, MacGyver, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Han Solo, John McClane, Calvin & Hobbes. Next comes Homer Simpson, who other than Mr. T, is Grudge Match's idol. Then all the others, except for the "Mangled & Killed" ones, Dale Earnhardt, & Carrot Top. A young Grudgemeister-in- the-making; one "J Dog, God of Dogs", reads his eulogy before the 11 Commontators meet up. Here it is...)

J Dog: Sniff, it has come to this... you are now gone. I just got here during the Gunnery Sgt. Hartman vs. John Winger match only to see two more. I just have this to say as we lay the toothy bald guy & the website to rest...

"Ah, Grudge Match.

You finally are leaving us after entertaining us mindless boobs for nine years.

After we saw that Mike Nelson, Crow, & Tom Servo can defeat Death & prove to the world that the favorite CAN'T win everything.

After Yoda became your "Uber-Champion", but in his TOC, it showed that Dilbert can defeat a tough man like Duke Nukem.

After Mr. T became your mascot. After Homer Simpson out-ate Norm Peterson. After we learned what happened to Dr. Clayton Forrester. After Willie defied the Braveheart Jihad & crushed William Wallace. After Bart & Calvin both went to TOCs even though Bart won. After Odie survived Bill T. Cat. After... aw heck! I can't go on with this part!

You survived Barney the Purple Dinosaur, Wesley Crusher, the Braveheart Jihad, AOL, Albert Gore, a server crash, Carrot Top, vote stuffs, & all the like. (Cut to Mr. T sobbing & grabbing his gold hankie).

(deep breath) 248 matches. Every last one better than the previous.

Gary Coleman: Whactya talkin' bout, J Dog. My fight was the least important?
J Dog: No. It was the first, so it was one of the best.
Tom Servo: I give that eulogy so far a 8.5.
Mike: SERVO!
Crow: He's right you know.
Mike: CROW!!!
J Dog: Aw crap. I lost my place. I just want you all to know that ...
Homer: (sobs) This isn't happening! THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!!! (he's at the buffet line & they are out of tenderloin, but you get the drift.)
J Dog: I just want you all to know that Steve & Brian did a great job with this site from the 95 Windows software at Cornell University (Go Big Reds!). Here they come. Everyone, Steve Levine & Brian Wright (solumn clapping).
(After a while)
Steve: ... and this is why I will miss all you guys.
(Cut to Devin the Mental House Escapee, Oxymoron, Vlad the Wonder Hamster & all the others huddling each other, trying to comfort each other.)
Brian: Let's put the guy to rest.
(The casket lowers as Willie plays his bagpipe. Everybody starts crying a river so large, it puts the Nile to shame.)

... 5 Hours Later...

(A giant intergalactic ship is launching from Cape Canaveral, with help from Carrot Top's father, a not-so-wicked-like-his-son guy. Inside the ship includes every character (not the guys who couldn't go to the funeral. They were left for dead) from Grudge Match & some from every request that couldn't be get to now, meaning 5,000 robots, animated characters, pop culture icons, idiots, brutes, fans of the website, & commontators.)

(The front of the ship, GM1)
Steve: Who knew Grudge Match's end would doom mankind?
Brian: Beat's me, as well. At least we got all of these guys who wanted to come live with us as we would go from galaxy to galaxy for a new place to live.
J Dog: (walking up) How was that eulogy?
Steve: Good, but about one of those people you chose to come with us.
J Dog: Yeah, the girl from that "Kirby" show (Tiff), well?
Brian: She is fine, but some moron from FightFantasy.com (Deven711) tried to get her. Of course, he got blasted out of an airlock (recall the Ripley & Alien scene from 'Alien' at the end, with the airlock thing.) That fool.
J Dog: (sneers) The guy was fine, but since he called her a "stupid retard", hell with him. Plus, he's a Red Sox fan.
(elsewhere)
Peter Griffin: Thanks for getting me here, Homer.
Homer: It's alright. Besides, what are guys who look like me for?

(Watch as the giant ship fades out of the moving camera, as every Grudgie bids goodbye to a zombie Dale Earnhardt-infested world)

- J Dog- Ah, I am SO going to miss you guys!

I have been an internet user for nearly 10 years, and in all that time I have been more loyal to and more addicted to the Grudge Match than anything else that exists. There is nothing else that captures our love affair with pop culture, celebrities and geekiness nearly as well.

I don't know if anyone else shares my sentiments, but I think that GrudgeMatch is probably the single greatest internet site of all- time.

- Adam B. (no, this is not my shameless attempt at earning that elusive Gold-Medal ROTW Grudgie)

- Siphai

- Lizard-Man: Still a virgin

My God.... I remember two very distinct moments from my several times of sending in comments:

1) My first time getting my response used: Letterman Vs Leno. After viewing so many Grudge Match matches, I figured: "hey, why not try out a response yourself" so I did... and lo and behold you guys picked mine to be used. That was truly an honor.

2) My first (and sadly only) ROTW medal: Picture it "Lethal Weapon Vs Pulp Fiction", I am reading the results, when who's name do I see as a Silver Grudge Medal winner? Me! I was just stunned and floored! I never thought I would be able to get up that high, but it happened, and for that I thank you guys!

well.... what else is there left to say but simply this....

*Brian is closing up the Grudge Match HQ for the last time when Mr. T knocks on the front door of it. Brian sadly looks out and answers loud enough for T to hear him*

Brian: Sorry.... we're closed......

- Dane "The New Prodigy"

- Morning Wood

Mr. T.

Because he never cries.

- Grudge-Pops™: Giving new meaning to "The Final Word," huh guys?

- ShadowHunter (I was hoping you would do Stitch vs. Terminator...)

- Aaron

- Shawn a.k.a. KOR

- CaptainFlash

- Dom, sad that it's all over.

- A bitter&sad Noman

- Joey Gallagher

- Lose Weight Now Ask Me... I seriously am too sad I can't do it.

- Cuthroat McGee

- The Admiral

For example, the greatest US vs. Canada bout (Red Green and the Possum Lodge gang vs. Tim and the Tool Time crew) will not happen. I would have given you a darn good commentary supporting Team Possum.

Then there is the ultimate test of a TV law: Senior citizen crimefighters never lose. It would have had Jessica Fletcher vs. Father Dowling vs. Dr. Sloan vs. Ben Matlock vs. Barnaby Jones. It would have been an interesting match.

Also, we will never see any matches featuring the "Stargate SG-1" gang. Those could have been fun.

Another amusing match-up, one with a tropical theme, would have been "Hawaii 5-0" vs. "Baywatch Hawaii". I would have supported McGarrett and his bunch.

A match I would have personally enjoyed would have been a retro-TV match pitting "Real People" against "That's Incredible". I would have had a most interesting response for that one.

Though I wish the webmasters great success in whatever they do next, there is still sadness at the loss of one of the web's best humor sites. Perhaps others may take up the mantle, or at least direct me to another site where such comical combats can take place.

Goodbye and Farewell.

- The Demented Astronomer

HECK! I'LL TAKE OVER FOR YOU! GIVE ME THE JOB! GIVE IT TO SOMEONE! JUST DON'T LET WWWF DIE! I MEAN, look at all the good things that have ended recently (or will end soon): Everybody loves Raymond, Star Trek, the NHL (wait, that's not a good thing).

YOU CAN'T LEAVE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE! LET SOMEONE ELSE TAKE OVER! I'LL DO IT, heck HALF OF EVERYONE WILL DO IT!

At the very least put up a message board where people can put up matches and such...

- Gamingboy (who, by the way, will take over for you if you offer him the job)

- Danikat

- Bob Stitt

God have mercy on us all...

- Tuck- super pissed.

I have for years been a fan of the WWWF. For the entire decade spanning your life, I have eagerly gone to the site, reading archived matches, voting, commenting (And never being accepted!), and overall, enjoying the experience of this creative idea. Now that the dynasty comes to an end, it seems as if an era is halting.

So I say this: Even though the site comes to a close, although all the sly social, political, and media-based commentary comes to an end, I have but one thing to say to you, my friends, who have never betrayed me.

I salute you. You have lived life like a soldier, battling through the desparity of near-defeat, running rampant in your prime time, and screaming in agonizing pain when shot at by the Hollywood Fat-Cat lawyers. So for this reason, WWWF, I shall never forget you and your intuitive ideas. Be it Indiana Jones kicking the ass of James Bond, or a Temptation Island involving sitcom families, I will always look back on this site

And shed a single Ben Affleck tear. *saLUEtes*

- Matthew Brown

- Bush Speakication Grammar-doohickey

Are you guys going to still keep the archives up so that future generations can read about all your adventures? I'm going to miss you guys. I hope you decide to change your minds in the future when new cannon fodder comes your way. For now, thank you for helping to bring a little joy into all our hearts.

Holy crap, I need a girlfriend...

- The Brain Gremlin

You know the Barney match? You could take down the Dino picture and put up a real Barney picture. What are the Barney lawyers gonna do, shut you down? Heh heh.
Man, that's terrible.

I think the Rumble in DC match mentioned something about .4 blood alchohol content being lethal. That's true, but one guy had a level of .9, and he was still living. I saw it on the Internet, so it must be true. That was the funniest match I've ever read.

Sorry to see you go. Maybe with this site gone, we can all get a life, have kids, and die in a few decades.

- Jay "Well, there goes my weekend" Rizzle

- Pareeha

While I am upset that i never got to see Link vs. Peter Pan, or what i considered would have been the perfect election-day grudge match (The Hardy Boys vs. Encyclopedia Brown in the Case of the Missing WoMD), The matches that were conceived in concept made my day, and moreso, the commentary on the matches contained some of the funniest crap I've read in my life--not just the ROTW and the Final Word™ responses, but ALL of them.

So let's look at what the past 5 years have taught us--let's go to the map:

Star trek will always lose, except for the bad guys, Scotty, or against each other.
There is no Jihad™.
Star Trek fanboys refuse to bathe.
The french will always get folded like lawn furniture.
We still want a link to the "Barroom brawling your way across Europe" thesis.
Anything can be ™'ed after being used twice.
The Rage™ always helps.
The Simpsons *can* lose.
WB > Disney any day of the week and thrice on Sunday.
There is no Jihad™.
Beastmaster references always help.
Monty Python references are always an ace in the hole.
Ditto for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references.
And lastly, arcane knowledge helps.

So, a big thank you to Steve, Brian, all of the cast of Ground Zero, and most impiortantly the fellow grudgsters, you turned this site into one of the best places to go on the web for a laugh :).

- Keeper of the Light™

- Fun_for_All (I hope it has been)

He was halfway out the front door of the Grudge Foundation Building when Mister T stopped, fighting hard to choke back the tears. It would be the last time he left and he knew he had to be stronger than this... but it couldn't come.

"Please God, give me strength!" T prayed.

Almost providentially, an old Life section from USA Today blew across the ground and came to rest at Mister T's feet. He looked down and saw the headline:

"Enterprise"... cancelled? Star Trek lost? Without a fair fight?! No Grudge Match at all? What the...?!?

And like fire from Prometheus, it thus came down upon T: the last iota of the once-vast power-cosmic known to men as The Rage™.

T knew what he had to do.

He must take The Rage™ into the wilderness. Keep it safe. Guard it with all his might until the day came when the Grudge Match would be resurrected. He knew not how many long years of toil and sacrifice this would demand of him, but he vowed to stay faithful and true to Steve, and Brian, and HotBranch!, and Paul Golba, and Vlad, and Devin, and Silverback, and all the rest. Scattered to the four winds though they may be, someday T would set the sacred fire of The Rage™ to the beacon.

Someday, far away in the night, they would see the distant light... and they would be coming home.

But that was yet to come. A time of rest was called for. And heartened by renewed vigor, Mister T performed the final duty of his office. He turned his mohawked pate toward the bowels of the Grudge Match Building and yelled aloud:

"The last Red-Shirted Ensign, or English Soccer Hooligan, or Simpsons character, or Batman, or Sith, or Rottweiler and/or Rottweiler's Weight in Chihuahuas, or Amish, or James Bond, or Keebler Elf, or French-anything sucker, or King Arthur's Knight, or Village Person, or whatever... HAD BETTER TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, FOOL!!"

A lone T-800 Terminator in Sacramento, California later swore he heard these final words bellow across the realm...

- Chris 'Jedi' Knight weeps, ignites a lightsaber and burns a candle in church for WWWF.

Click on the link above for one heck of a tome to Grudge Match. -Eds

- RK_Striker_JK_5

- ShadowHunter

- long live Mr. T!

Find some new keepers of the Grudge, so the beast is not loosed from the archives.

- Darth Board-Lord of the Darts

Today at work I started laughing thinking about your site and the many responses I've read. I thought "brain attached to this body, I wonder if that site(yours) still exsists. I just finished a two year remolded of my house 6 days ago proceded by the rearin' of two children proceded by lots of other things. I haven't been to your site for years. I just hooked up my computer tonight. Damn. I hope to see something come out of the ashes. It sounds like you guys are watching too many "Leave It to Beaver" episodes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah kids, marrige, jobs, tivo. It seems soooo insurmountable(sp) now. But Trust me. You won't make 12 months. One of you fruit cakes is going to get trigger happy. It starts with the emails.

(1st month) " Hey, how's it going?".
(2nd month)" We're using Pampers(tm) how about you?".
(4th month)" My IN-LAWS were here last week, and the only thing that stopped me from biting my tounge off was the thought of who would win a wrestling match between Shelly Winters(alive) and Don Knotts vs. my in in-laws. Winner gets celebrity judge spot on American Idol selection show."
(week before)"We should start the site up again."

See. See how that works.

I hope the best for all of you. Thank you for all your work. Your sites memories will always bring a smile to my face. Thanks

p.s. please excuse the poor grammar and spelling.

p.p.s. please put me on any mailing list to new sites from the ashes.

- Bill , Mpls. (Kitt vs. Herbie)

Ted.McGinley v7.015 has been installed. Would you like to shut down?

Did John call it or what?

- Uncle Batman

- D

- Alek (Ninja) MN

- Affy

- BF

- stroud40

- dan hilbert

- I. Phill Kuntz

(No, seriously, when 90% of your diet consists of coffee, circus peanuts and Cup Noodles, you get some serious mutant avantages. Plus, all that computer radiation)

So remember, when you hear that cry in the sky, ("Shut up with the Star Trek Must Lose(TM) already!") you'll know that the WWWF is alive. And seeking fresh brains.

- Leftomaniac

- will

- Droopy

W-what? You're leaving?? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

- A disappointed fan (sigh!)

- the dude

The thing that made WWWF Grudge Match truly great is that it elevated the age-old custom of sitting around and debating "Who'd win in a fight between _____ and ______?" into a true art form. If Grudge Match had gotten even a tenth of the mainstream exposure it really deserved, it could well have permanently silenced those who insist that arguing over who'd win in a fight between Geordi LaForge and Daredevil while hopped up on Mountain Dew(tm) is somehow any less productive or meaningful of a pastime than drunkenly arguing over whether or not the Packers will beat the "point spread" against the Cowboys.

In conclusion, I'd just like thank Steve, Brian, and everyone else who created and fed the strange beast known as WWWF Grudge Match for a decade of wonderfully hilarious utter weirdness.

- TV's Grady

- Christopher Wayne

p.s. PLEASE put this one up! I've never had a comment posted and this is my last chance to live that dream...

- the amazing potato (no I don't want to be a french frie...)

Thanks for providing so much entertainment for so long. Happy retirement.

- Galahad

How it was found: Searched on yahoo for "Star Trek vs. Star Wars" and found Red Shirts vs. Stormtroppers
First Match voted on: Coneheads vs. Solomons
First Match posted response on : M&Ms vs. California Raisins
Number of responses posted: 1
Where?: Wile E. Coyote vs. Kenny McCormick
and knowing my luck this won't be posted as well.

I will miss this website as it is on of the few constantly funny websites out there.

- I'm Spartacus!

(A discussion between myself and The Lady Seahorse, circa December 2004. Just think of what Grudge Match can do for YOU!)

I sure hope this isn't handled like the real Jump the Shark website. You'd get one or two thoughtful comments about what really matters, and then a bunch of lunatics ranting about Steve and Brian being "totally gay" and a list of painful deaths they wish to inflict on Brendan or whoever. Most of which would be in ALL CAPS. But, I diverge.

You guys had a great thing going here. Sure, I showed up relatively late, but I was around for some of the all-time great matches. Despite the diversity of opinion, style, age and location of the many Grudge Fans, there's a real tight-knit feel to this place. You feel like you're hanging around in the basement on a Friday night, chatting about outlandish matchups with some close friends. It was time worth wasting. I'll really miss this, but I fully understand your decision to quit, and I'm glad that I'll still be able to read the old matches in the years to come. The spirit of the WWWF will live on. And no, I don't think you ever jumped. Most sites would have after the TOTOCC, but the monthly matches were still a riot. Literally and figuratively.

And the irony is, I'll likely get Iron Fisted one last time. Oh well. Keep the faith, guys! You deserve a big hand for 10 years of excellent service. Goodnight, and God bless.

Oh, wait. I'm supposed to be funny. Shoot. Uh... Gary Coleman, Mr. T and Ash Williams walk into a bar... *microphone shorts out*

- Oxymoron - The WWWF knows my real name, which makes them cooler than the CIA

- SuperDan The Magnificent

Unfortunately, I was unable to visit the site starting a month ago, due to a computer meltdown, and the first thing I did when I hooked up my new computer five minutes ago was go onto Grudge-Match. I hoped to see that my man Ash won the huge battle. He did, but another thing caught my eye. The Grudge-Match was closing shop. I couldn't believe it at first, but a thought dawned on me. No matter how funny, or awesome you all are, commentators, visitors and all, you are all only human, and all good things must end. Realizing this, I fought back my tears of sadness and did what any good Grudge-fan would do. I voted (and by the way, you guys NEVER JUMPED THE SHARK!)

So I would like to say, because of you guys, I developed a sense of humor. I discovered new movies, TV shows, and other things I never even heard of (believe it or not, I found out about Johnny #5, Spaceballs, Keyser Soze, and Pulp Fiction, among other things from you guys.) For the past four years, this site has been a staple of my day, and it always has had fresh new ideas and hilarious comments that would always leave me laughing. It saddens me that I will be going off to college without new stuff from you guys, but you've made me laugh through high school, and that's no easy task. I don't care if you post this or not, I just wanted to say thank you.

So thank you all for everything. You will be sorely missed.

- N. James, a loyal fan to the very end.

- Richard Corey (yes it does, pz out)

- Dom

- Snowmizer

Though WWWF may shuffle off it's earthly bonds, it will always live on in our hearts.

Can I have your stereo?

- Some Guy

- The Amazing Fat Man

- Ceryl Kasshu

Nevertheless, I am gonna miss you guys. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

- Potman the Predator (WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS)

- paperwarior

Not that I always voted for Star Trek, I actually won a Bronze Grudgie for a Star Trek parody that sort of was a victory for Galactica against Voyager. But, that was kind of like the '75 Reds versus the '75 Red Sox. Those Reds were one of the best ever, so it wasn't that painful when Voyager came close, they weren't supposed to. And, Spock and Data almost battled to a tie so nobody could win even an all Star-Trek match, and even he finished DEAD LAST in the tournament of champions! Talk about a jinx! It's as if he shouldn't even be declared a winner! Les than 4% of the vote! Even a Star Trek bad guy (which is sort of like saying the Yankees anyway), the Borg, didn't do anything special in their Tournament of Champions.

And, talk about a jinx - they lost to Barney? May as well change his name to Barney Dent, after the infamous Bucky, who broke Sox hearts in '78 with a homer for a Yankee team down 14.5 in July that spelled disaster. Oh, Wesley, how could you lose to Barney, man? Why didn't you walk him? Or Q, how on Earth, or Pluto, or anywhere else could a being who can do anything have lost to My Darling Palpatine? (Ron Darling, that is, starter of Game 7 in '86.) Q must be able to do anything except hold a two run lead in the bottom of the 10th inning of game 6 of a World Series, and he must have some clay hands at first that make him muff ground balls like crazy. Let's face it, Q should never be allowed near a major league bullpen.

But finally, after defeat after defeat, Scotty came along. And, the jinx was broken. Just as a great engineer of talent would do for the Red Sox soon after. And now, on that red engineer's shirt, you can just picture a little white circle with a Red Sox logo on it, and a spot in Star Trek history as the man who beat the jinx.

I didn't always like the swearing at times, I prefer something more wholesome, but it was worth it follow bit by bit, to see if that jinx could finally be stopped. And it was, by perhaps the best man for the job.

- Red Sox and Red Shirts

- Jesse aka Mr. Smith

Look, I'll give you two now.

Paris Hilton + Tinkerbell vs. Britney Spears + Bi Bi
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
All of the Tabloid kings and Queens in a battle royale (with a mangled and killed button, of course).

Or just do 2 Mr T matches. I'll be happy either way.

- Eoin 'My life won't be the same without ya' Mason

Top 10 reasons why The WWWF Grudge Match is coming to an end:

10. Knights Templar Steve and Brain have returned from their Crusade to reclaim the Grudge Match throne.
9. The U.S. government has shut down the site because the RAGE (tm) has become too powerful, and now threatens all of mankind.
8. Ran out of red-shirted ensigns.
7. Gambino crime family has learned the whereabouts of Steve and Brain, or as they're now known, Apple Paltrow and Admiral Takeshi Nakamura.
6. Steroids have ruined all the Grudge-Match records.
5. The epic Grudge-Match apocalypse of Viking legend and Marvel comic lore, Grudgenarok, has come to pass. Hotbranch loses an eye fighting Loki.
4. Things just haven't been the same since Martha Stewart tried to sell off all those Grudge Match (GRM) shares.
3. Buying all those chihuahuas to fight at their oppenent's weight class just got too damn expensive.
2. Instead of Wesley Crusher or Barney, Budo accidentally clicked the "Cancel all future Grudge Matches" button.
1. Because like Bruce Lee, the dotcom market boom, Sinatra, Brando, the original Star Wars and Godfather movies, and the first Matrix movie, all cool things must come to an end.

Thanks for getting me through grad school, guys. I know I'm not the only one who looked forward to every match, and couldn't wait to see the hilarious responses from all the other Grudge-Match nut jobs. It's reassuring to know on this island of misfit toys some people call "Earth," there are a few loons out there just like me. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into the sight. We all appreciated it.

- Budo

- THE MAN

- Bye bye WWWF

We make sure we update every friday so heres another fight sight added to the web. I am very sorry to here that Grudge-Match is closing so me and my friend made this site.

- Riley

THE FINAL WORDS...

*sigh*

- sPeciAL eD

- Potman the Predator(good luck, and god bless)

- Danikat

- Wolverine

- Mij

- TV's Grady

- Snomizer

- A New Cynic

- Some Guy

- Budo

- Celtcath

- Sir Exal

- Dave C

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