Diamonddust

Very entertaining show overall... -As much as I would have liked to have seen Bisping win, Henderson's knockout combo was a thing of beauty. -GSP is a fighter on another realm. Seriously... the man is a machine. -I absolutely LOVED watching Lesnar destroy Mir. It would have been nice to get a knockout or even a submission, but seeing Lesnar destroy him with the ground and pound was fitting. The subsequent heel tactics at the end were great as well, and thankfully, the UFC has a dominant champion that people will pay good money to see in the hopes that he will lose. Lesnar knows this and he plays the role perfectly. It makes me wonder if they eventually do Lesnar/Mir III or start building Shane Carwin as a potential challenger.

Achilles

I just want to see Lesnar get revenge. I really do not care for Frank Mir so I hope Brock unloads on him and puts him away pretty convincingly.

(Back from an extended hiatus here...) A friend of mine in Birmingham actually got to be on the crew to video Edge's surgery. Here is what he wrote in his facebook status about it: "just got back from St. Vincent's. I just watched a pro wrestler's achilles tendon get yanked out, stuck back together, and stuffed back in...neat."

Who managed Vader for a while...

Yup... every Saturday, I'd turn it to TBS and catch the very end of that program.

Slightly off-topic, but after watching this episode last night I was reminded how much I loved those US and TV title belts. I wasn't a big fan of Valiant when I was a kid, but enjoy him now if only for the fact that he reminds me of my 50-something-year-old REO-Speedwagon-listening in-laws. At what point do they move from one to two hours? I assume '87 as this is when I really started watching and remember it being two hours. They were always two hours with commercials... the short shows came if they were being pre-empted for some reason (Braves baseball or some other sport commitment TBS used to have, such as college football).

Who once managed Michael Hayes...

Agreed. The worst thing the Nuggets owner did was let this go public and into the media. McMahon is having a field day with it, and the Lakers jersey was an awesome touch.

The Miz has definitely taken this angle and ran with it. Using Lawler as a "block" was a great cowardly heel move as well.

Yes it has. Jericho vs. Batista. My mistake... forgot about that and remembered the stat going into that match.

John Cena just made one of my favorite movie lines of all time look completely obvious and sound unfunny.

Flair is forgetting his history... No World Title in the WWE has ever changed hands in a steel cage. I kind of wish someone would play up that stat a little bit more.

As for the Raw issue, I wonder if they'd cancel the Raw house show that Sunday and tape Raw that night instead? As for the submission PPV, the only name that sounds remotely decent is Breaking Point (But that sounds too much like a TNA PPV name).

The Bash sounds ridiculous Agreed... although I was shocked they kept a WCW branded PPV name around for as long as they did. With the WWE going for a global market, as bad as it sounds, the name "The Great American Bash" would be counterproductive. Even Vince has said it himself in the past... 'The Great American Bash' was just a fantastic sounding name for a PPV that happened right around the 4th of July. Dusty Rhodes sure could come up with some catchy names for events... I honestly wished they would have adopted the Starrcade and Fall Brawl names alongside GAB Yeah... a while back ago, I remember there was a rumor they were going to use Halloween Havoc, but nothing ever came of it.

Who was once managed by Terri Runnels.

The Bash sounds ridiculous Agreed... although I was shocked they kept a WCW branded PPV name around for as long as they did. With the WWE going for a global market, as bad as it sounds, the name "The Great American Bash" would be counterproductive.

Count me in the apparent minority that thinks Punk cashing in the MITB briefcase tonight wouldn't be wise. Why waste a title change like that when you know it won't guarantee any further buys? If they are going to do Edge vs. Punk or any other match, they should promote the hell out of it... not just throw it out there. With that in mind, I see Umaga winning this one but the feud continuing... possibly to the point where Punk has to put up the MITB as collateral for a rematch.

What was so great about Jake Roberts is that he never (or very rarely) ever raised his voice in a promo. He got it over without screaming, unlike a lot of other people.

There have been a ton of great talkers in the business... some of the elite: -Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, The Rock, Steve Austin, Jim Cornette, Bobby Heenan, Shawn Michaels, Ted DiBiase, Randy Savage, Jake Roberts, Michael Hayes

I was just thinking of the 2/3 falls match between Flair and Bobby Eaton. It was on either WCW Saturday Night or one of the clashes. Bobby Eaton was a pretty good worker and Flair made him look evee better that night. I was a 10 year old mark who honestly thought that Eaton had the chance to win the title. That kind of match could really elevate someone while maintining the heat of the winner/champ. Yeah... the traditional approach in a 2/3 falls match was, if the challenger won the 1st or 2nd fall... he was technically but not officially the champion at that point since he had pinned the title-holder. It allowed them to save face in the instance where the heel champion would be winning it all in the end. An even better, cliff-hanger style (Even though it'd probably tick off some fans in the process) would be the heel champ to win the first fall, the babyface wins the second, and then either a draw or DQ for the third. I know it's a cheap ending, but it allows for a mega-blow-off match because the face can go around saying he technically scored the last fall of the match, and the heel can deny as much as possible. The same principle applied for the matches that were designed to go to 60 minute draws (And it can be applied in a 2/3 context as well): The champion doesn't have to be pinned and can coast his way through the match, but like the Bockwinkel/Hennig match, for instance, it turns into an example of the champion not being able to beat his opponent... thus the face leaves with major heat, even though he didn't get a win. He can brag that he took the best wrestler in the world to the limit, and the best still couldn't pin his shoulders to the mat. Simple, but effective.

War Games the top match on my list. Loser-Leaves town matches worked well in the territory days because a guy could go to another territory and work there for a while, while the guy that won the match would get the beneficial heat. Then, when the loser would return for "revenge", there would be an instant money feud. It'd be kind of hard to pull that off today, unfortunately.

The WWE 24/7 Classics On-Demand channel. They show the old WCW episodes in sequence. They are up to November 1986 right now.

-Throw the Powers of Pain in there as well... they were even closer to the Road Warriors than Demolition was. -Buddy Rogers, Nick Bockwinkel, and Ric Flair were all pretty much the same character. Then you had Buddy Landel, thus making three wrestlers that used "The Nature Boy" as a nickname. -The Rock and Roll Express were a junior version of The Fabulous Ones, as were The Fantastics -The Midnight Rockers (Later just The Rockers) were a knock-off of The Midnight Express and Rock 'N Roll Express -Prince Iaukea was a knock off of Rocky Maivia

Yeah... at Uncensored '98