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Here's my thought on the ideas of PPVs...No Mercy and Taboo Tuesday did 2 of the lowest PPVs buyrates of all time. But if you put them together, they did over 300,000, and that's DAMN good for October. So you're losing way too much money to stop with the extras PPVs as of right now. If the buyrates start to go under 100,000 for these PPVs...then you start thinking about it. But I'd say you are good for a few more months with the extras PPVs.

I wish his Judgment Day 2002 got released on Anthology. Simple, but bad ass.

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These would be some of my ideas (off the top of my head): I changed my thoughts...these are all ideas WITHOUT the brand extentsion ending and working with what we got right now, as of November 2004. Yes, there is rumors of the brand extentsion ending...but there was rumors of that 3 years ago when it started. There is STILL money left to be made is this extentsion... -Heavyweight Titles, Tag Titles will be unified. Titles are meaningless and they need to have credible champions with less belts floating around. When was the last time we've cared about the Tag Division? Late 2002. That needs to be fixed. I can't even remember who the tag champs are on either brands. I've a proposed Tag Title feud as well...read that below. -Too many new guys have been developed on both shows and it's too much for the audience to handle. Look all the ones that have been this year: Johnny Nitro, Mordecai, Nathan Jones, Matt Morgan, Carlito, Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak, Heindirench, Eugene, Christy, Garrison Cade, Gene Snitsky, Simon Dean (Soon To Come), The Arab guy (Soon to Come), Tyson Tomko, Akio, Sokada, Doug Basham, Danny Basham, and probably more I've forgotten. I mean...seriously. That's fucking insane. How do they expect the audience to actually care about these guys? It's too overwhelming. Most of them failed, too. They need to cut on making new stars and focus on the stars that are established right now. -Have Booker win the Smackdown title from JBL at Survivor Series to start a feud with Kurt Angle that will end shortly before Wrestlemania. They had great matches in the summer of 2001, and this feud never really got jumpstarted. JBL's a failure at a main eventer player, and needs to be in a more realistic position: the midcard. Booker also may not be around for so such a long time, so it would be nice to give him one more big run. -Build to a Shawn Michaels vs. the Rock program. Michaels has a few good matches left and I believe these are two of them. The Rock is good for a short term program going into Wrestlemania, and the odds are that HBK/Rock is only going to be able to happen for so long until it's no longer a dream match for the fans. -Have Edge and Christian join Evolution, and build to a Benoit/Jericho vs. E&C feud going into Wrestlemania. It will immediately gain intrest into that brands title going into Backlash. Edge and Christian are both heels, and the idea has been foreshadowed to the fans. Evolution is short on members, and this would gain new intrest in that stable as well. You'd have the possibility of Evolution vs. Benoit/Jericho/Orton/Tajiri/Benjamin feud going into Wrestlemania. -Have an Elimination Chamber on Raw. This is the type of match that people only expect on Pay Per View, but do you realize what it would be like to have on a live Raw? Instant fan interest. Have Bischoff announce it the night after Armageddon or something so it gives enough time to promote it and slow build to it. Prehaps the first Raw of 2005...and use the Elimination Chamber to promote the Evolution vs. RAW feud. This would also be a good time to promote the Pay Per View in P.R. -Make Smackdown become live. It's at it's worst for ratings, the interest is in the shitter, it's treated as the 2nd tier show to Raw. That can't happen...they need to be on the same level if both are going to succeed. It's more money to produce live, but it's more intrest that could be created. -Bring Shane McMahon back to manage any newer superstar on Raw. Shane's got a lot to offer, but not as a wrestler trying to defend his mother's honor like last year. When he was paired up with Benoit and a few other guys in 2000, it was kind of cool to watch. Maybe even have Shane join up with Evolution, but that might be a tad too much. His efforts could go towards someone who needs it, but make sure the guy deserves it. Example...Heyman (great manager) going with someone like Heidirench. He's no Brock Lesnar, as the fans can tell. More to come...if I get time. But for now, that's all I got...in about a 15 minute time span, lol.

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You're right. He changed into Jericho-lite. Pretty much. Ever since late 2002, you could tell that's what Christian seemingly became.

It's not. The real one he uses is on the Smackdown vs. Raw game...you can clearly tell the difference.

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Eugene is actually using this version as of last Monday night. Oh, I missed it. I take back what I said...the version Eugene used up til last Monday night wasn't the one released.

Thanks Brian for all your advice...I've saved it onto computer and will definately use most of it.

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In the previews it looks like they go after Sawyer cause he's stashing Shannon's asmah inhaler and wouldn't give it back when she has an attack. ...that too.

That was a pretty cool extended preview. I'm looking forward to the next show with the possibility of new characters. And knowing more about Sawyer is definately worth it. I think the last two episodes weren't as good as the others, but I think Confidence Man will be one of, if not, the best so far.

I think that the reason Sawyer is going to get the shit kicked out of him because they believe he's the one who knocked out Sayid. I agree that it was kind of weird Sayid looked fine in the next episode in the previews (maybe what they previewed was at the end of it, thus giving him enough time to recover?) Then Kate will come to Sawyer's rescue...thus leaving the question of who knocked out Sayid. I can see the guy's complaint of losing intrest but it's all about development and slow build. Hopefully we won't be let down. Check out ABC right now...they are showing replays of the last 2 episodes.

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Wal-Mart doesn't do it. If it's open, it's yours. Same with Best Buy, Target, FYE, etc. If you open a video game, you can't return it unless it's defective...and only then you can just get the same game that you bought for. Your best bets are E-Bay (which I actually broke even on NHL 2k5 which I bought for $20.00 and hated it, sold it for $20.00), Gamestop (Expect half the price you paid for it.), or EB (Same deal as Gamestop).

Honestly, Kurt's only excuse (which is kind of weak) is that he probably wasn't expecting a real fight. I was going to say that too. I think the last thing Angle expected was a keylock from Puder.

I think one thing everyone has forgotten to mention in the defense of Kurt Angle is that he's a lot older than Puder is, and Puder is much more healthly. We don't have to over Angle's injuries the past few years, because it's obvious. Not saying this should give Angle a pass because he still has a reputation of being the best, but it's the truth.

Seems like Mozilla is pretty popular these days and a lot of people are telling me they use it. I'm not that fimiliar with it, but all I know is that Internet Explorer has a few loopholes in it that Mozilla patches up...but what is better about this than IE? Thanks for any help.

And I'm not saying Raw is the greatest wrestling they have ever produced, either. By far it's not. But compared to Smackdown, it's obvious where the effort is put into it that is what really bugs me.

Ya know, that's a pretty good point.

I thought it was intresting that Puder owned up to losing to Angle and immediately went for a handshake, but Angle was having none of that (playing a character or not.) As I've said in other threads, Puder's my pick.

Nowinski and Holly are my guesses.

I like Puder because of his background and he's got a wrestler look to him...similiar of a Benoit or Angle. Justice is a bigger guy who looks pretty athletic. The guy everyone in WWE likes is pretty cocky, but I really don't see anything that great about him yet. I think if Puder can show more chrisma and contiune improving, then you've got to go with him.