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I can't believe that they would actually try something like this.

*my typical, push Regal, comment* I can't wait for the next dose of HBK/Batista.

I liked the match and all, but it wasn't even the best match of the night, much less the best this year, or in the last 5 years. In terms of actual quality, you're right. However, once you add in the history of the two guys, the build to the match, everything leading up to the match tonight, the way they put the entire thing over...well, adding everything together it is indeed quite hard to beat it as a total package. Or at least anything too recent that is.

Had the match ended with the rear naked choke instead of what we got, I wouldn't have complained one bit. I loved that entire little sequence. Great match, the right guy won, and apparently Vince Russo took the night off.

I have no clue why so many of you are having problems with the stream. I'm using the exact same one and I'm not having any of the problems mentioned. Anyway, how long do TNA PPVs usually go? Right at 11? I haven't watched one all the way through in a while.

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Holy shit. That spot just now, I've always imagined a ladder on top of a cage with someone going through a table, but wow. That was the most worried I've just about ever been in seeing a spot about to happen.

This is truly insane. I'm loving this match.

I'll be in the chat room to see if anyone else cares enough to do the same. I'll look around and post what I can find in there. This could be a great show or an absolute failure, and it all depends on very simple booking decisions. I guess it just depends on what mood the kooks are in tonight.

How can so much good (HBK/Batista, the tag match) be on the same show with so much bad (TBS/Khali, Edge/Vickie, Koslov)?

I don't know, but I love it. DOUBLE DOUBLE E! He sorta looks like a retarded Chris Masters.

I haven't read much on it, but do some of you guys think this HBK/Batista feud is really shaping up to be something next to great? I've loved it so far, from the moment that Batista first gave HBK an evil eye look to their segment just now on SD.

Nothing major. Miz was beting up Moore and looked over to Wang on the apron and said that this is why he's still a virgin. Something like that, unless there was more. Nattie!!! When Finlay pulled the apron link I loved Coach saying he's never seen that before, and then Cole biting back telling him that if he'd ever seen Smackdown before he would have seen since Finlay does it every match. I also find it weird, always have, that Finlay is stuck with the angle aimed towards kids. I mean, it's Fit f'n Finlay. It's never made much sense to me. Almost like he was too badass without the midget, so they had to do something to even it out.

Hey, if you're going to bust out the wrestlecrap then go all the fucking way with it. Next week don't have Khali try to attack TBS. No, instead have him have another ceremony. This time he has "the Dalai Lama" with him, and TDL goes on to say that he's made it a point to make the TBS/Khali situation his top priority, even over the Chinese conflict that's going on. Then have TBS chokeslam him through a table. And have Khali openly cry at the sight. BOOK IT.

Ok, now just give Khali some sort of crazy supernatural Indian powers and this is the best feud ever.

Oh my God, the best segment ever is starting.

I don't always watch Impact, I only saw the main event on this show, but my favorite example of DW and Tenay talking out everything is when Dustin and Abyss were fighting, and one took the other and put their head in some sort of vice thing. Just the way they talked it out, it was so ridiculous.

I'm sure that my love of the industry 10-15 years ago has a lot to do with what I'm about to say, but I'm really enjoying this main event tag match. I know what people say about Nash, but I still like to see him in there to this very day, and Sting, well, he's Sting. I can't believe how he is still going at such a consistent quality. Then with the Dudleyz, again, I don't mind them at all right now. It's only when they're trying to be mega-faces that I really have a problem with them. Again, maybe I just want it to be 10-15 years ago again.

I predict the match ends when they both get beat down by Senator McKANE

Justin "The Ox" LaRouche I approve of this stable, as well as a badass Chavo.

I don't have a link at the moment, but I just saw that he did indeed get nailed with life in prison. Pimpin' ain't easy...

Dusty is no longer working on ECW and Smackdown, and instead is now in charge of all aspects of creative for FCW.

I know this was mentioned in the other thread, but what the hell. We'll need a thread for all of this for the upcoming year anyway. The Four Horsemen DVD is the one set that I've been looking forward to more than anything else that WWE can possibly put together. There is a lot of good stuff here: http://www.wwe.com/shop/dvd/upcomingdvds Armageddon 2006 1/16/07 ECW Extreme Rules (2-disc DVD) 1/30/07 New Year's Revolution 2007 2/06/07 The New and Improved DX (3-disc DVD) 2/20/06 Royal Rumble 2007 2/27/07 Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology 3/13/07 No Way Out 2007 3/20/07 Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen 4/10/07 WrestleMania 23 5/22/07 Backlash 2007 5/29/07 Great Families of Wrestling 6/05/07 Judgment Day 2007 6/19/07 ECW One Night Stand 2007 7/10/07 Vengeance 2007 7/24/07 The Great American Bash 2007 8/21/07 The Ladder Match 8/28/07 The Triumph & Tragedy of WCCW 9/18/07 SummerSlam 2007 9/25/07 Unforgiven 2007 10/16/07 Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man 10/23/07 No Mercy 2007 11/06/07 John Cena: My Life 11/06/07 Stond Cold Steve Austin's Life & Legacy 11/20/07 WWE Cyber Sunday 12/04/07 Survivor Series 2007 12/26/07 ECW December to Dismember 01/01/08

Looks like they changed their plan at the last minute. JBL/Finlay starts the show.

Light rain has started at the arena.