Diamonddust

I also loved it when Jesse ranted that Savage, as the World Champion, came out first and that was wrong.

63. Lashley never no-sold a car door slamming on his hand because it happened in front of a group of fans.

Taker casually telling the referee to get Batista out of the ring after the WM23 match is priceless as well.

59. Lashley can't crash a funeral like the Bossman can.

Yeah, while he might not have been on Hogan and Savage's level in terms of populartiy, Mr. Perfect was still one of their premiere talents in the early 90's and pushed as such. Hell, he was basically the top heel at one point.

23. Lashley didn't get his job by showing that as a 6'9 300+ man with little wrestling experience, he could still sell a mean slingshot suplex from Tully Blanchard.

But the thing is - no matter how many writers he employs, no matter what he calls Stephanie, and no matter how great an idea someone else might come up with - Vince has the final say. The WWE writers are basically there to structure a general script out of the ideas given to them.

Last year's Money in the Bank was highly entertaining. JBL's commentary when Booker saves Sharmell is priceless. Hornswoggle, who got a great pop from the crowd, taking Kennedy's move off the ladder was great as well.

My previous quote is paraphrasing what Jim Cornette said in his description of how Russo operated in the WWE as compared to what he was doing in WCW.

15. Lashley didn't have the mean streak inside of him to serve an opponent his own dog.

12. Lashley never won a Jailhouse Match.

Or Vader's face turn at the end of his WCW run.

Wasn't IX where Taker basically had a live raven or crow as part of his entrance? I remember that being such a cool touch to an already awesome entrance.

That's what he had in the WWE. McMahon would reign in the bulk of his crappy ideas but allow for the couple of good ones to take place. When he went to WCW and TNA, he had no one above him to say, "This is 100% garbage".

It might not have been as big a draw, but Mr. Perfect was pretty much the top heel in the company at that point.

Same here. I marked big time with Finlay wore him out during Hornswaggle's "mini-Royal Rumble". I was talking to a co-worker about it, who turned it off shortly before Khali came down. When I told them about Finlay using the shilleleigh, he was like "What is that?" I thought for a minute, and I said, "Basically, it's Irish for whoop-ass stick."

Hate to nitpick but I'm 90% sure Andre was in The Big Bossman's corner against Mr. Perfect the next year at WrestleMania VII. Well, last Wrestlemania as an active competitor.

I love the mini-carts and wish they would use them again. Other moments - -Butterbean, a fellow Alabama native, DESTROYING Bart Gunn in the same match that saw Gorilla Monsoon get a hero's response in his last appearence. -Whenever they would say "We have people from (fill in the number) different countries here tonight", and then they would show some of them in the crowd. Things like that always gave an impression of how big the event actually was. -Andre the Giant getting to leave his last Wrestlemania to the cheers of the fans in Skydome. -Having Bobby Hennan and Gene Okerlund do the Gimmick Battle Royale. -During said Battle Royale, Michael Hayes coming out in full Freebirds garb to the sound of "Badstreet USA" and the cheers of the Houston crowd. -A recent thing they've done is the Hall of Fame class segment. I love hearing the fans give props to the legends. The one I most remember is how big a pop Greg Valentine got at Wrestlemania XX. You could tell it kind of took him off guard.

He had a line about mustard, if I recall, that always cracked me up.

The new NWA/WCW show is pretty historic as it's the debut of "The Big Gold Belt".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he getting the equivalent of face reactions even as a heel? I mean Taker always had the crowd giving the "Holy shit... this guy is way different" vibe.

Best Rumble comedy spot ever was '91 when one of the Bushwhackers enters doing the whole Bushwhacker arm motion... Greg Valentine watches him enter, grabs him, chunks him over the rope, and the Bushwhacker keeps doing the arm motion back to the locker room as if nothing happened. I remember my parents pointing out that a cameraman could be seen cracking up at that spot. I thought it was Earthquake that did that to Luke. It was. I could have sworn it was Greg Valentine.

Heck, they had to have some reason for Taker to absolutely destroy Roberts a few months later at Wrestlemania.

Rumble qualifying matches on house shows exist. Actually, I'm glad they're finally putting emphasis back on house shows since, you know, people actually pay money to attend the events.

Best Rumble comedy spot ever was '91 when one of the Bushwhackers enters doing the whole Bushwhacker arm motion... Greg Valentine watches him enter, grabs him, chunks him over the rope, and the Bushwhacker keeps doing the arm motion back to the locker room as if nothing happened. I remember my parents pointing out that a cameraman could be seen cracking up at that spot.