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They are. And it's not working. RAW has the "big names" like Trips and Austin, and to a lesser extent, Jericho and Flair. Sure does make for some rousing 20-minute promos, but not much else. SD! has the majority of great workers like Angle, Benoit, and Guerrero, yet doesn't quite have the star power to keep casual viewers interested. So you have to inject the "larger-than-life" McMahon brigade into the mix, and look how much good that's doing. Wrestling is at a financial and creative low, just when the finest workers in the business are finally getting in the spotlight. Time to just accept it and wait for better days. What a fucking shame.

You RACIST~? I don't even know where to start with that assertion... If you're referring to the "ham 'n' eggers" line, that's an old Bobby Heenan line. It's an abbreviation of "ham-and-eggers" and it means "average Joes". Besides, how would dropping the N-bomb apply to JinCade?

Correction: it's the "Push talented people" argument, and those two ham 'n' eggers aren't even close. And I'd love to hear how those two vanilla extracts measure up to, let alone surpass, Orton and Batista. While the latter don't exactly light up my dance card, they at least look the part of wrestlers. JinCade look like dime-a-dozen frat boys without a party to go to. Bottom line: RAW is a lost cause. The majority of the new blood is worth shit, and the only push they deserve is off a cliff. Spike dropkick my ass. And no, that wasn't a request.

Re: The Critic on DVD Well, it's about fucking time. Achim!!!

Miscommunication. RVD was going for the "missed enzugiri/connected reverse thrust kick", but Jericho sold the enzugiri and RVD was unprepared for it, so the rest of the spot ended up botched. They covered up as best as they could, but it still came off as a little awkward. No big loss.

Just to touch on how Hawk could have died, any time you put stress on the body, you reduce the longevity of it. Both steroid and narcotic drug abuse, though not a direct cause, probably had a fair hand in paving the road toward his early death. Regardless, RIP. One more legend in the book.

It was more of a joke than an actual comment about the show. I often find it more enjoyable than SD!... definitely better than RAW. And I think the best part of the show is the commentary team. Tazz and Josh go balls out with the stuff they say. It seems like they pretty much have carte blanche to say anything they want, so you get a lot of extemporaneous bantering, a little bit of smark commentary, and a lot of background stuff on the actual wrestlers. Good stuff.

Plus, the "Widowmaker" is the unofficial name of Sean O'Haire's reverse DVD finisher. Not that anyone watches Velocity enough to notice...

Mindless is right. That's the Spider's Web. Personally I think she should switch that with the Whiplash move that Ivory used to use (fireman's carry into Michinoku Driver).

Except during his matches, where they really matter. And I hate to sound like a broken record, but I still fail to see what's so fuckin' special about Jindrak and Cade. They're generic-looking uncharismatic muscleheads who can do dropkicks. How revolutionary. And look... their finisher is a dropkick... but one guy holds the other one up. Gee, he really jumps up high to barely kick the guy in the tit. Boy, is that a convincing finisher. I'd take Spanky getting his ass kicked by Brock every day of the week before I'd settle for one second of boring vanilla Jindrak and Cade. Fuck them. And fuck Maven too. Rico not only had a great match against Rey Rey, but also pinned Flair on TV not even a year ago, and now he's reduced to selling for this wannabe. Maven brings nothing to the table. His "promo" with Flair was pathetic. I'm glad Naitch pulled the "more gold than you've had (pussy)" line out of mothballs. Made him look like a complete loser. Which he is.

Two words: "Rene Goulet" JR needs to be put to pasture immediately.

Not to insult the mentally challenged or anything, but when Shane was in there for that hot tag with Jericho, he looked like Corky from Life Goes On. The shitty punches, his retarded "shuffle", the paltry attempts to get the crowd behind his pathetic offense... I was so embarassed for the rest of the wrestlers out there. Especially Jericho, who had to sell all that shit. And that stupid look he had on his face after Kane attacked the "hospital workers" was beyone "bad McMahon acting". I mean, what exactly was he trying to convey? What a retard.

Solution: stop listening to the radio. At least mainstream radio. That stuff will rot your brain. Like good women, good music will find you. I always seem to encounter great bands through college stations, recommendations from friends, or as opening acts for bands I see live. In fact, the bands I mentioned in this thread were all opening acts from recent shows.

Which WR should I start: Donte Stallworth against Chicago, or Drew Bennett against Houston? Or, since Plummer is questionable with that shoulder injury, should I bench Ashley Lelie and start the other two? Which RB should I start: Brian Westbrook against Dallas (2nd against the run in the NFC) or Garrison Hearst against Seattle (7th against the run in the NFC)? These are the questions that keep me up at night.

Actual footage from the tiger attack: Seriously folks, I think this was an accident. From the latest accounts I've read, Roy apparently fell while on stage, and the tiger tried to carry him offstage, unfortunately doing so by his neck and shoulder. Tigers (and most other cats) instinctually grab other tigers by the neck to move them or help them out. However, if you train a tiger to respect you like another tiger, and you fall, and that tiger tries to help you like it would help another tiger... well, it's gonna fuck you up. The tiger never really snapped. It simply tried to help Roy; however Roy has the skin of a "flamboyant" Vegas magician, not a tiger.

Just to crack Pandora's Box open a tad... EDDY~! and RVD are getting pushed as the top stars in the "lesser belt" category, while Cena and Orton are rubbing elbows with the Main Eventers. I guess it depends on how you look at things, but anytime you're feuding with the Big Show and the image you leave audiences with is a fecal hosedown, you've really gotta stand back and reevaluate your position in life.

Interesting that this thread should fall just above the "Lowered Expectations thread"... And yes, you are the only person who liked the end of last night's SD!. Here's a gold star: Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Just kidding. You get nothing. Good day, sir.

From SI.com: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Chris Hanson swung and missed. No, not at a ball he was trying to kick, but at the wood he was trying to chop. The Jaguars punter needed surgery to close up a gash on his right, non-kicking, leg Thursday after he miscalibrated while using an ax to hack at the massive tree stump that coach Jack Del Rio placed in the locker room a few weeks ago. Del Rio used the stump as a symbol for the mantra he has adopted for the Jaguars (1-4) this season: "Keep chopping wood." Hanson took the message literally, and wound up being rushed to the hospital, where he received several stitches, team spokesman Dan Edwards said. Hanson's leg will be in a boot for four to six weeks, and the team hasn't decided whether to place him on injured reserve, Edwards said. Beginning with Sunday's game against Miami, Jacksonville's only Pro Bowl player from last season will be replaced by Mark Royals, who was cut earlier this year by the Dolphins. The accident happened while position players were in meetings. "Specialists have more free time on their hands," Del Rio explained. After the team fell to 0-3, Del Rio had the tree stump placed in the middle of the locker room, set atop a plastic tarp, and equipped with an ax planted in the base of the log. The stump and ax remained in the room over the last two weeks, and every now and then, players would hack away, spraying wood chips all about the teal carpeting. On Thursday, when the media was allowed into the locker room, the stump was still there, albeit much worse for wear. The ax, meanwhile, was gone. Asked what happened to the ax, several players just shook their heads and smiled. Del Rio opened his daily news conference by saying Hanson suffered an accident. Asked what kind of accident, he said it was "a locker room accident." Pressed further, Del Rio acknowledged it was with the ax. Thus marked a bad ending to a pretty decent motivational idea. After Jacksonville's bad start, the first-year coach insisted to the team to "keep chopping wood," telling the players that hard work was the only way to solve their problems. "The message was understood," he said. The log, he said, "was symbolic more than anything else. The thing was on its way out, but just not soon enough." This isn't the first time Hanson has been injured in an unconventional manner. In June 2002, Hanson, his wife and former Jaguars kicker Jaret Holmes were severely burned while they were making fondue at Hanson's house, and the fondue pot overturned.

I think this "deterioration" definitely has to do with the current product, but also with the general laws of entropy. SKeith seems to be branching out into different areas to write about, and wrestling just isn't holding his interest the way it used to. Sure, his rants were enjoyable to some even when the product was shitty, but he was also much younger, and it's easier to bash stuff with glee when you're younger. Now, the passion's gone, so either you go through the motions hoping for a glimpse of greatness (like he did with TNA for a while), or stop talking about it altogether, like other recappers have done (CRZ, John Petrie, etc.) Other than that, I still like his stuff, simply because he's more or less consistent. And his stuff is still entertaining to me, even though the wrestling has been co-opted by all this McMahon-o-mania, so it's not always easy to write an entertaining piece about shit. And JacK (if your serious), Scott Keith is a long-time Internet wrestling recapper, having done reports for almost all the major wrestling TV shows and PPVs for the 18 years or so. He's pretty much polarized the IWC regarding his reputation... you either love him or hate him. Go to 411mania.com under the wrestling section, and look for the TV Reports for his RAW and SD! recaps. Then check out the archives for his PPV rants... they're pretty easy to find.

Kid with Man Head Oh wait, that one's already taken. How about... REO Speeddealer No, that one's taken, too. How about Taken? You can say that all the best band names are taken, so... No wait, that's terrible. I like Your Sister's Tit myself. (Please don't punch me.)

Most of the tracks from the Twin Peaks soundtrack, especially the stuff performed by Julee Cruise. Pretty much all the soulful or orchestral stuff from Tori Amos, like Winter", "Icicle", "Jackie's Strength", and "Northern Lad". And I've recently been digging "Hello" by Evanescence.

Not to play the name-dropping loser, but my friend Jessica married Tyler their guitarist last year. We used to go to his family's produce farm in NJ to pick pumpkins for Halloween. Really nice guy. And Saturn, if you want to get into old Killing Joke, definitely pick up Night Time and Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. Great stuff.

If last night was any indication, Chavo still isn't there yet. His little exchange with Big Show went over like a lead balloon with the audience. He may be very talented in the ring, but he just doesn't have the charisma to match Uncle EDDY~! He'd be better off playing the rudo heel in the Cruiserweight division, where more emphasis is (historically) put on the athletics than the extracurriculars.

Damone Hey Mercedes Hot Water Music

If by gold you mean "the colour of rancid hobo piss,", you'd be right. I'll never understand this misguided nostalgia for failed wCw gimmicks (how's that for redundant) and their constant calls for unearthing. Nothing entertaining, interesting, or profitable would come from any of it. Dead is dead.