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Yes I fully endorse that pick, for the reason stated.

There really isn't any real overal prime, It can be different for the wrestler in question. For Flair it was in his mid thirties to early 40's. I would Say Cean and Orton's are right now. It is true that many of the greats are in their prime in their early 30's. The obvious reason for this is they are in the game long enough to be at their best but still young enough to be physically prime.

I really don't recall any of that.

I don't recall any second Matt/Jeff feud. I don't know about your opening match theory, I mean it's well thought out and all, but if the opening match is the pits and the second match on is good then it's still a success story.

I saw that quote before but it is Hogan made Vince a millionaire. Austin made Vince a Billionaire. HHH made him a millionaire again. It doesn't mention Steph. I think it was Meltzer.

Yeah thats what I think also, so I voted for Austin. However do you not think maybe Vince himself has made more than Austin?

I figured that too, but I guess not.

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Goldust will be fired for the 8th time and rehired in 6 months. The push of Paul and Katie has stopped and started so many times, WWE don't care about them. There is zero booking interest in Pushing Funaki or Jimmy WY. These are my 5 picks.

Yeah he looks like a sinker all right.

So I was cleaning up some old files, saving what I want to keep to disks and deleting the rest and I came across a prediction thread I had wrote, and I assume posted somewhere, although can't remember where maybe three years ago. It's intresting how my predictions turned out, I thought it might make for a good laugh how wrong I was in some cases. So here is the original post with updated comments. Let's deal with the last comment first. Carlito a world champion? I don't smoke pot but anybody reading that would assume I must have being. The current SD Champ Dave Batista. Will he still be main eventing in 2008, yes I believe he will. Will he be a title contender or champion probably not. I can’s see Dave succeeding as a champ in his current character & with his current abilities therefore I don’t see another title reign in his future. Mind you Dave has the kind of look WWE loves so he could be a multiple champion. Well I was right about him still main eventing. Couldn't be more wrong about him going into 2009 as a champion or challenger mind. As he was Injured The Raw Champ John Cena. Vince will still be pushing him. Half the world will still hate him and the other half will love him. Likely as not he will go into the event as a top contender if not a champ. I was right here. HHH. Bar H3 & Steph’s marriage having difficulties I see no reason why H3 won’t still be around & dominating Raw in 2008. He will also be a strong contender for main eventing WM 24 possibly as a champ. Expect at least 1 more Title runs in the mean time. He got one more title reign but it only lasted half an hour, or so. Then the longer reign he has now. He is dominating but seems to have toned down the jobbing out people. I do expect him to ME forever Chris Jericho. Jericho has said more than once that he wants to retire young for good & concentrate on his music & I know he is living his dream but I think he will play some part in wm 25 no doubt. I knew he would be back in time for WM 25. He was back well in time Chris Benoit. Benoit will still be doing what he is doing now, putting stars over & main eventing with out actually winning much in the way of titles, I don’t see a second World title run other than a caretaker run before he retires. Yes we all know what happened here. Kane. Can WWE drag much more out of the Kane character? There’s not a whole lot more they can do with this character that wouldn’t be repetitive. I can see major changes to the Kane character & possibly even a name change (to his real name?) before WM 24. They never did anything with him, no changes. He is still repitive. Undertaker: See Kane. Again what more can they do with this character? They can put him in the World title picture and make him look as good as he has ever. I was wrong to assume Taker had nothing left. His stunning match with HBK proved me wrong. Shelton Benjamin. He will no doubt be a champion by wm 24 & probably a successful one as well, Shelton will play a big part in the future of WWE. Now some here may not agree with that but I can see it happening. Some may not agree with that, indeed, and that some includes me. Shelton had his chance and it ain't coming again any time soon. The Divas. First Lita, barring a career ending injury she will be doing something. (which the way she wrestles will be likely.) Mickie will still be around & will be a woman’s champ or top contender. The same goes for Lilian, Melina & probably Maria who I think will stick around. Victoria & Torrie may not be there though. Torrie doesn’t do much so WWE may let her go in one of it’s cost cutting moves or she may request a leave. Victoria will likely suffer the same fate in fact she may be released when the divas of this years diva search contest are hired. (Much like Nidia & Gail were a few years back.) As for the rest of them, who cares. Well Lita did retire, just not from an injury. Mickie is still around and is a top contender. Lilian, Melina and Maria all doing the same thing as predicted. Torrie is where? Victoria managed to avoid the cuts, but retired. I still don't care about the rest of them, Beth aside who at least tries. Randy Orton. Will still be around & could be a two or more time champ by then. Orton is destined to have a great wrestling career. Yep was champ again since and is having a great career, let's hope he doesn't screw it up again. Edge. Like Orton he has a bright future in WWE, he will be a multiple champ. Strange I didn't have much to say about the great Edge. Anyway he has had the titles I assumed he would. As for the Rest. Ric Flair will likely have an office job or will finally have retired. Shawn Michaels will be there still doing the living legend routine. People like Cade and Murdoch, Val Venis & some of the Cruisers who are not used that much are likely to be cut at some stage or other to make way for new signings. Ric Flair have an ofice job or retired? I was right who would have thought it. HBK is still doing the living legend rotuine. Cade and Murdoch finally got over and then DID get cut. Venis and most of the cruisers got cut also Snitsky & Chris Masters are history long ago. Well Masters is gone, eventually but not because of his ring work. Snitsky was still being pushed sadly for longer, not now as he is gone. I can See Daviri around but probably with a gimmick alteration. (Maybe even a face turn after all fans accepted Sgt Slaughter as a face even after his pro Iraq heel turn.) Hopefully Khali will be history. Khali is not history and even won a world title, Davairi um is he even still employeed (by TNA)? Umaga will have got about as far as he can with that gimmick in so many months, he may not even last that long without some major changes. Nitro, Mercury and the Hardy’s will all be upper midcarders if they are still around. ECW will I think last the distance and it’s major stars will be CM Punk, Kevin Thorn and the usual old school ECW guys. (Dreamer, RVD, Sandman.) Was I ever wrong about Umaga, he still hasn't grown stale thanks to his superb work. Mercury is gone and Nitro is Morrison but other than that They are still doing the same thing. ECW will just about last the distance and will almost get cancelled I should have said. Punk aside my predictions about who would be main eventing were askew. As for non WWE talent being on Raw & being there at WM 25. AJ Styles will likely be hired & just as likely be misused by then so he may be on the card. Nope TNA hung on to AJ Hulk Hogan will probably be there doing something as Will Steve Austin. Austin Did, Not Hogan.

Well I would say that is an accurate statement, but Still I was a bit off base.

The Cruiserweight division is a not exactly in tip top shape right now, that's not exactly a secret , how can it be brought back to life? Gregory Helms was great and so is Chavo, but since losing the (now abandoned) title Helms is once again doing nada and Chavo isn’t doing a whole lot either. Just hanging around Edge. Then there is the stalled push of Brian Kendrick. Sorry THE Brian Kendrick Well let's take a look at what WWE could do. First of all how exactly does a smaller man, not named Rey, get a (non Cruiser) push in WWE. Well if you are a WWE road agent you will inform any cruiserweight who asks that the following: You would first tell them to have good matches, but in a WWE style. Then you would tell them to perform the current angle, mic work, feud etc as best they could. Of course a cruiser getting an angle and feud is the hard part. That of course is the predictable answer but no matter how hard they try to do this Cruisers still don’t get the pushes they deserve. Look at Kendrick and London, they were thrown together because the bookers couldn’t think of anything better to do with them. Fair enough they got a long title reign made the most of it and were entertaining, just don’t expect the Kendrick push to start again Look at London’s last Cruiser tag team. Remember Kidman and London? They were thrown together too and giving the tag belts. Then for no reason they split and fought each other. Again fair enough they could have had a great feud. To a point they did, their match at No Mercy in 2004 was a classic. That was it though one match was the feud the next time we saw London he was jobbing on Velocity. Of course the winner of the No Mercy match Billy Kidman got a big push. Well almost he entered into a feud with Chavo Guerrero in late October 2004 over the cruiser title. Then they dropped the feud and crowned Funaki champ in a battle royal. That made one thing clear. WWE decided a surprise win was much more important than hard work and ability. (No offence to Funaki he is talented.) The crowd of course didn’t,and don't give a damn about Funaki, indeed why should they. He went from being a whipping boy to a champ in mere weeks, then back to a whipping boy again. There was no story line reason for the win. This happened a lot in WWE’s cruiser division. (Incidentally Chavo Guerrero had a fit backstage over this and attacked the Big Show. Why because Chavo felt Show who was getting a mega push ill deserved it while he Chavo should be Cruiser champ.) Chavo was after, of course, Cruiser champ, and what has did he do after the win? Not a whole lot, He may be about to fight Edge, that would be a good thing. Everybody knows, or should realise that these Cruisers can and often do have amazing matches. Well as amazing as you can be in the Five minutes or less they usually get. (If they are not called Rey or Bourne who at least get time.) Never mind that though the important question is this. Can Cruisers affect PPV buy rates and WWE numbers? Can they actually draw in WWE in other words. The best, and I would say only, answer to that is yes. Look at ECW’s lucha division (The real ECW I mean) and WCW’s version of the Cruiser division. Why did they succeed because the cruisers were booked right that’s why. Better still look at Japan, and NJPW in particular. Remember Jushin Liger? Liger was used in such a way to hide his weaknesses (assuming he even had any). He was booked against wrestlers that worked a similar style. He was damn sure never jobbed out to the heavyweights. In fact the IWGP Junior title was just as important as the heavyweight version and was often booked in the main event above the HW title. This was accepted for one reason only, the title was respected and never treated like dirt. Now back to WWE can you imagine The SD world champ fighting in the mid card and the Cruiser champ, pretending for a second they still had this title, defending his crown in the main event. Of course you can’t and why would you. IF WWE put their mind to it and set aside Twelve months to book a Division like NJPW did there is no doubt it would succeed. That won’t happen though because cruisers are seldom allowed to perform to the best of their abilities in WWE. (Rey is booked as a heavyweight.) As long as WWE treats it’s cruiser division as something of an afterthought it and any future Cruiser title they might bring back will remain a joke. It tells a lot that the only Two cruisers getting a push, and a good one, right now are never booked as Cruisers, Rey and Bourne Rather Rey is a ME heavyweight wrestler, despite his size, and Bourne is just facing anybody but not being pushed as a Cruiserweight. Nothing wrong there but they should be getting involved with a Cruiser Division as well. Cruisers often complain about the lack of pushes in private, and sometimes even in public online. That’s no solution though so what is? Well it may be a bad idea considering the distinct lack of options these days but I think a stand is in order. What they should do is tell the bookers exactly what they think. A revolution might not get them anywhere but nowhere is still a step up for the likes of Yang, Funaki and yes even the wasted Chavo right now. I had more to say, well sort of, but I can’t think of what right now and anyway this debate / rant / intelligent post* is getting long enough. *Delete as needed

That would be fucking hard, since I don't drive and never did.

HaHa no back in the day, not now I wonder was it ever done. Is Tugboat even alive? Was it Boat/Typhoon or Earthquake who died?

These days they would give them a tribute. In 1993 it wasn't really done.

That's true, never a truer word said. Which is why I married a European man.

Just be yourself. Don't belittle me. Don't praise me either. Just be yourself.

Thats a myth. This thread was never bumped.

Feel free but it won't be your cock. Too small for my taste.

Eat at pizza Hut?

A small problem turned into a big problem and many people left. End of thread.

I am still here mate and enjoying the game. Not doing too bad in the scores actually.

The site isn't going to die, even as slow as it has got it's still busier than 80% of wrestling forums. It may be on the endangered list for a while mind.

I miss the old school squash matches. They need to book people like Brooklyn Brawler and Barry Horriblewitz again. So when a big star needs to go over somebody in a 2 minute squash it looks like a squash. Watching Kendrick and Santino lose on Raw didn't feel like a squash, it just felt like a burial.