Here here.....a lot of the companies seem to be going to this trend of just giving us a coverstock name, and not a type.  Ebonite's One series, Hammer's latest balls, and even some by other manufacturers are getting into this rather frustrating trend.  Cool names for the covers is great, but a little more info would really help us make good decisions on purchases.

BowlerKid,

The coverstock on the Road Hawg and Pain are both Hammer's Juiced reactive coverstock, while they may have similar characteristics to GB, I wouldn't necessarily say they are variations on it.  Though Ebonite does own Hammer, I'm under the impression that they do use different coverstocks, I wouldn't think there is much material sharing going on as they are, still technically two separate companies.

As for the Black Widow, I belive that one is the Violent Reactive coverstock, which I though was a new formulation for Hammer (with the HawgZilla having Ultra-Violent Reactive if i remember correctly...).  I again wouldn't think there would be any relation to GB or GBV, though it would be easy to assume so.
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This comes up often enough, and usually an official hammer rep gives us the skinny.  Maybe they'll show up this time, too.  
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