Joseph2112

No. He had a hoodie pulled up over his head and didn't look like he wanted to chat, and to be fair, I don't like chatting it up with people on airplanes either.

So I was traveling from Spokane back to Raleigh today, I go to the airport at 6 and there are about 15 WWE guys milling about. When I get on my plane to Minneapolis I sit next to (almost 100% sure) Evan Borne, CM Punk a little behind us, Hornswaggle in first class. I am in row six, window seat, Bourne in the aisle, middle empty. The plane is almost full and I am hoping for the seat to stay empty and I look up and lumbering down the aisle is Mark F'n Henry. And I spend 20 terrorized seconds thinking no way I am I sitting next to that behemoth for 2 and a half hours. He sits in the last seat in first class, crises averted.

A small follow up to this, I heard an interview with Aronofsky today on the Howard Stern Show, and he said he is personally giving VKM a screening tomorrow. Howard said he thinks McMahon will love it but from what I have heard of the movie, I don't know. He also said they had a screening yesterday attended by Flair, Valentine, Piper and Beefcake where Piper apparently cried.

The only thing I would say is on the flip side of this, is that without some of those other names mentioned as overpaid the ratings go from 1.1 to a 1.1. And either these numbers are inflated, or the WWE numbers I have seen on the internet in the past are under-inflated. Otherwise the "go to WWE for a payday thing" are wrong.

What do you think the chances are that the MEM is a vanity project for Jarrett to get over?

This is the part of the angle I don't get, and it's Russo / creative's fault. Why on earth would I support a bad-ass turned whiner, a guy who for reasons I'm not quite sure of was turned into a jobber comedy character with a stupid Karen Angle storyline in late 2007 / early 2008, a lunatic, another lunatic who thinks he's Randy Savage and was the bitch of his crappy relationship with a girl he should have dumped, and a guy who thinks he's Apollo Creed over 5 cool guys who are awesome and always win? So far, this seems to be the Millionaires club redux. If you establish the young guys as no-star weak jobbers, by the time you give them a win they are just no-star weak jobbers who won a fake pro wrestling match. (Then the Nash and Stieners of the world can go to management and say "see, we need more money because we are the only draws you have").

Maybe they thought he read HHH's book.

I would say it is because of this. Nancy Benoit lawsuit story

This is a good question I would like to have answered. I wonder what Raven or any of the others stand to get by winning this lawsuit.

You know, this whole thing with TNA and nobody knowing they exsist, I don't know if I buy that. After all the time that they have been on air, I have to beleive that the majority of wrestling fans have at least checked it out once or twice. I always thought that was a built in excuse for guys with big egos to throw out there when things haven't gone exactly as planned. I say 80-85% of wrestling fans have checked out TNA at one time or another. On the other hand I have nothing at all to back that up, so what the hell do I know. I would be interested in your thoughts.

If the Angle thing is true, it would be the first time ever a real life couple broke up after breaking up in kayfabe. And by "first", I mean around the "485th". Seriously, I have heard IWC folk saying that this storyline will absolutely end badly, and now it may have.

That disgusts me... Quick, somebody hurry and defend Proffesional Wrestling! Fixed.

Employees split the burden for their Social Security taxes evenly with their employers; contractors are responsible for the whole load. Contractors are also responsible for their health insurance and retirement savings. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/...4/bz/bz14a.html This is as simple as I can find it. There is no mythical 15%. I gaurantee you cannot source that claim. Do you own a business? I can tell you, I do. I pay just over 15% per employee just to employ them. Then pay unemployment insurance and workers' comp. You want a source? How about my weekly payroll...will that work for you? Do all of you just read shit online and suddenly you're an expert?! And, no, you don't "split" income taxes evenly. Your source is bunk. 2004? C'mon! What did you do Google it? I can tell you when I sign payroll checks EXACTLY how this works. Then surely you know your 15% is all the taxes you speak of, that are passed on to an independent contractor if you hire them. I googled it, and what came up was www.irs.gov. I am going to go out on a limb and say that thats a pretty reliable source.

Employees split the burden for their Social Security taxes evenly with their employers; contractors are responsible for the whole load. Contractors are also responsible for their health insurance and retirement savings. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/...4/bz/bz14a.html This is as simple as I can find it. There is no mythical 15%. I gaurantee you cannot source that claim.

When paying an employee, it costs an employer an additional 15% in taxes, plus unemployment, plus workers' compensation. Image the money the IRS would have received, if WWE personalities were classified as employees. The only caviat to what you are saying here is that the employer does not pay the tax, the independent contractor does. So it is nearly a wash, but the more I read about it, the more complicated it gets. It's not that simple. Who would have thought I would have spent the last 30 minutes reading up on tax codes. The major point is the WWE doesn't pay the 15% tax an employer would pay. The WWE doesn't pay it you are correct. The worker pays it. It all comes out in the wash and I gaurantee you it is not the "multi-millions" you allude to. The more I read about this the more I think the WWE has very shaky ground to defend here.