mysterious_w

Charlie Hass and his "I really love my present endeavours" run is one of the best things on TV.

Obviously their latest Sumo Hall show is not going to do as well as NOAH's Budokan Kobashi return sell-out, but with the card they've already stacked up it'll easily draw 10,000, if not 12,000. With any big show that you are promoting, you have a excellent main event that'll get 75% of the fans in (See Nakamura/Tanahashi or Nagata/Angle), then you thow extra matches in that'll fill some extra seats (See Goto/Muta, for those who love the Muta schtick). The Sumo Hall main event is as appealing as both the Dome shows efforts combined, and the Tag Team title match and Nagata/Goto will get in the extra fans as Muta/Goto did for 1/4. 10k guaranteed.

I know for the majority of last year ECW was got the best ratings of anything on the channel, is that still the case? Because there's no way the new head of the channel is going to drop the highest rated show for 2 years running, that's career suicide.

For god's sake, it's the easiest booking going. Have him win at RR (fans go wayhey and watch RAW), then have him drop it back to Orton at No way Out via screwjob (fans hate Orton even more and will watch RAW and buy WM to see whoever wins the RR depose him). Then have Jeff Hardy win the MITB and fans buy every PPV in the hope that it'll be the time their hero Jeff Hardy cashes it in and gets his title back.

You know while I've been at university, the only time someone's walked in on me watching wrestling has been Morishima vs Danielson or Hashimoto vs Norton. I think I've been pretty lucky.

I know I wasn't watching the Hardys in OMEGA, so maybe I can't really compare, but godamn I loved them as the Hardy Boys (yes, with an s) against Too Much (when Brian Christopher was man-loving, not dancing) on WWF Shotgun back in 1998 when I was 9. If Jeff wins the title at RR (Even I think it's a probable 4/1 shot), I will mark out like no tomorrow. Seriously, it will beat RVD beating Cena, HBK coming back (I started watching wrestling 6 months after WM14, and I knew I'd missed something good), Mankind winning the title, every mark out moment I've ever had.

Think back to July this year, it's unbelievable to think now that 6 months later Santino and Orton are vying for best heel in the company (Santino is still providing gold, while Randy's "I kicked him where his appendix used to be" line makes me <3 him for at least another couple of months).

You're an idiot. Watch the Dome Show main-event matches again. I could maybe buy the opinion that Nakamura performed better than Angle that night (though I personally think the other way round), but if you're telling me that Angle sucked in his match and Nakamura was outstanding, then you're a fool.

I rank her 2nd, sometimes even 1st (she flip flops with Maria).

For those who downloaded RAW (or have a way to look back on it now somehow), look at HBK's *Generic walking down the corridor cause I got a match* bit just after the Flair video package. He doesn't look too good on those legs, how screwed are his knees?

Undertaker being 42 shocked me, was sure he was 50. Oh well, the guy can go for at least 4 more years then.

Davey Richards is 5' 6". The only guys anywhere near that height with ME success are Eddie (5' 8", roided til it killed him, and charisma dripping out of his pores (well, that and nandrolone)), and Rey Mysterio, who got where he did because of one guy dying, and had every Hispanic rooting for him by default. Not a chance.

Inoki? No, he's gonna hang around til his 90's.

Hey, I saw that link on another board, and the uploader asked it not to be shared so as not to get TOS'd removed. Nice. :/

I know RVD's debut was at the supercard House Party 96, which was the 5th Jan 1996

Despite the fact he'd never get a fair shot against them due to how they book things. Eh, Kanemoto and Taguchi would be fun enough.

I watch freaking cel-shaded cartoons in HD, I care about it.

Flicking through his autobiography I think it was that he had surgery some time during the break on his back, he was told it were take away the chronic back pain he had, but reduce a lot of his mobility. Turns out, it took away the pain, but didn't screw up his mobility much.

Anyone got a youtube link to the promo?

Eh, I never thought he was anything special, he had a couple of good triple threats with Shelton and Morrison last year, but that was probably due to the athletic skills of the other 2.

Actually, rethinking it, Williams would have been best with a guy who could bump big, which Austin certainly can't do. Starting him off with Mankind and just showing how he can fuck people up with Doctor Bombs and Backdrop Drivers, then moving him onto Austin in the ME would have worked so well.

Only now? He's been awesome since Genoa.

As I've been watching a lot of Dr. Death, I'm annoyed as hell he didn't get a good run in the WWF. Austin/Williams would have ruled.

But this is old, overweight, broken knees and heart Rey.

I can, but every couple of minutes "Oh yeah, he killed his kid" pops up in my head.