MillenniumMan831

There were MUCH worse gimmicks out there than being the "King of Wrestling".

I got a feeling they'll get a title shot on next week's Velocity and neither match will be mentioned on SD.

He actually had a WWF Title Match vs. Bret Hart at that taping that aired on Mania.

Here's an alternate report from LOP: Dark Match Shannon Moore defeated Carly Colon with a corkscrew moonsault. Fayetteville isn’t far from Raleigh, Moore’s hometown, so he got a good pop to start the night. Several “Shannon” chants during the match (which was nothing to write home about). Velocity Tapings FBI defeated The Basham Brothers when Nunzio and Stamboli hit their tag team-finishing maneuver and got the three count. The crowd was into the FBI, as they played the role of the good guys in this contest. Did they turn babyface on Velocity or something? This was a pretty solid match. Nunzio was very entertaining, as usual, and he and the Bull did some solid tag team work. They should be challengers to the Dudley’s tag titles on SD ppv’s rather than having 4 throwaway matches instead. Charlie Haas defeated Mark Jindrak when Haas hit a German suplex pin to score the pinfall. Before the match, Teddy Long hyped the Reflection of Perfection and Jindrak stared at himself in the mirror. Haas was also pretty over (hot-crowd). Jindrak is quite the athlete, but still needs some work in terms of wrestling. Decent match… Paul London and Billy Kidman defeated the Dudley Boyz via DQ (non-title match) when Brian Hebner was pulled from the ring while counting a pin attempt following a Billy Kidman Shooting Star Press on D’von. The lady next to me mentioned how small both Kidman and London were and shouldn’t be in the ring with those bigger guys (I told her size shouldn’t matter in pro-wrestling…she laughed). Anyhow, Kidman and London were impressive as usual, but the match still wasn’t that entertaining. There were a lot of “Tables” chants and Bubba mouthed off to the crowd quite a bit to ensure he got the heat he wanted. Just before the SD tapings, several officials came out and set-up red, white, and blue banners all around the ring. (It’s funny…I seemed to be the only one in listening distance that didn’t say, “Are they going to do the Great American Bash again?”) SMACKDOWN TAPINGS The show opened Kurt Angle on the Titantron. He said that at the Great American Bash, as true travesty had taken place in the Texas Bullrope Match. He continued by saying that the travesty was that Nick Patrick had declared Eddie Guerrero the winner when, in fact, he hadn’t won. Luckily, said Angle, the GM had gone down to the ring and made the right decision in giving JBL the title…Kurt then introduced the new WWE Champion, JBL… JBL came to the ring and cut a promo on winning the WWE title and being a champion that we could all be proud of. I can only remember bits and pieces of this promo because the two hardcore JBL fans in front of me kept desperately trying to start a JBL chant (obviously no one cared that much)…The basic gist of this segment was to get across that the JBL-Eddie feud isn’t quite over and that tonight, JBL would defend the WWE title against someone who was at the GAB (I immediately thought of Spike Dudley). He also mentioned that Eddie wasn’t here tonight. Entertaining stuff from the new champ…also of note were the number of Eddie chants during this segment… Booker T defeated RVD and Rene Dupree in Triple Threat match to determine the number one contender for the US title. This was a good triple threat match that was given the proper time to develop and turned out with no blown spots. Should come across well on TV. The crowd was really into Rob Van Dam, as there were numerous chants of “RVD.” Backstage, JBL was visiting in the locker room with Cena, Book, the Dudleys, and Rey Mysterio. Basically, he announced that despite the fact that all the above were good performers, he had chosen Spike Dudley to be his opponent tonight with the WWE title on the line. Rey Mysterio defeated Mordecai when Mysterio countered the Crucifix powerbomb into a hurricarana pin. Yes, you read that right; the cruiserweight champion defeated the second coming of the Undertaker. When Mysterio was on the offensive, this was a good match…when he wasn’t, the match wasn’t so good anymore…decent overall effort, but nice to see Rey get the win. Backstage, Luther Reigns was talking to referee Charles Robinson about the mistake he made in the Torrie-Sable match at the GAB. Apparently, Robinson made the three count on Torrie despite her shoulders not even touching the mat. I figured, so what? Kurt Angle says- Re-match with Robinson as ref again… Paul Heyman made his way to the ring and showed as all what happened at the Great American Bash again…Paul Bearer is dead and the Undertaker apparently did do the right thing because he got rid of his conscience on his own. Heyman said that Taker was now unleashed and would be a more dominant force than ever…and he owed it all to the brilliant mind of the former Paul E. Dangerously. Heyman went on to say that he expects to be repaid. Suddenly, lightning bolts strike the post and the Undertaker appears on the tron. Taker said that he had felt he had to get rid of Paul Bearer because he was his only weakness. He then said that since he had killed the only person who meant anything to him; just imagine what he was going to do to Heyman. Heyman looked stunned… Torrie defeated Sable…crap match…waste of time…crowd was alive when the ladies came out, then died during the match, then came alive when it was over. Get this, Charles Robinson and Luther Reigns wrestled to a no-contest when Charlie Haas interfered and the match was stopped. Can you believe that? Well, at the conclusion of the Torrie vs. Sable match, Angle though that Robinson needed more punishment for screwing up on PPV, so he booked him in a match (sounds like RAW 2003 Eric Bischoff stuff to me…I hated that…) against Luther Reigns. Reigns came down, I went to the bathroom and apparently while I was gone Charlie Haas came down and made the save. But wait! Apparently, knowing I chose to take a potty break during this segment, they taped it again later…and the guy next to me said they didn’t change a damn thing from the first time… Kenzo Suzuki made his way to the ring and cut a promo that was entirely down in Japanese…he got the “WHAT!?” chant after everything he said. Then John Cena came out and proceeded to “translate” everything Suzuki had just said. It was a very fun segment, as even though Cena got a little corny at times, he still managed to make something entertaining of the horrible Kenzo Suzuki. BTW, they kept showing a Cena vs. Booker T match for the US title on the screen…I ASSUME that’s going to happen next week, which is sweet… Backstage, JBL was making his was toward the arena, shaking hands and acting all political on everyone, when he walked past Eddie Guerrero’s car. After getting conformation that it was indeed Latino Heat’s low-rider, he continued his way to the arena with a far-off look. JBL defeated Spike Dudley when Layfield connected with a powerbomb to pick up the pinfall victory. The crowd was all over Bradshaw and he received more “Bradshaw sucks” chants than I can recall. Several “Eddie” chants, as well. This was the main-event and it stunk. I teased the two Bradshaw lovers in front of me with comments such as, “this is a five-star match, guys…JBL is great.” Afterward, though, Eddie Guerrero came out (about a split second after the bell signaling the end of JBL’s first title defense was rung) to MASSIVE POP…He brawled with JBL, gave the champ a low blow, and then nailed a DDT before ascending to the top rope for Frog Splash. Unfortunately for us, Layfield slid away at the last second. He then got on the microphone and told us that before Angle had become GM, he had managed to secure a re-match clause in his contract. The interesting part was that the re-match clause specifically stated that Latino Heat could choose the type of match in the re-match. So, in two weeks, Eddie will challenge JBL for the title in a STEEL CAGE MATCH! Sweet… That’s likely where the TV taping ends…Afterward; JBL came back to the ring and did the routine he does after every TV taping with the Undertaker. Not that great of a show, but it did have its bright spots. Watch it and form your own opinion, though. The crowd was awesome tonight, as we were red hot for everything. Not a single match went without some sort of massive chant, but it was clear who drew the biggest pops and the most heat… Biggest Pops- 1) Eddie Guerrero (by far…unreal how over he was with the NC crowd) 2) Cena 3) Taker Most Heat- 1) John Bradshaw Layfield (by far…see Eddie comments above) 2) Paul Heyman 3) Kurt Angle

Savage/Duggan from MSG late 1989 . . . on CV's Mega Matches. Extremely fun match w/ a hot crowd and blows away the 1/90 SNME match.

Boy, this can't miss.

From the Wrestling Information Archive: Event: WCW The Great American Bash 1999 Date: June 13, 1999 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Arena: Balltimore Arena Attendence: 11,672 Hardcore Match: Hak pinned Brian Knobbs (5:41) in a "hardcore" match....Van Hammer pinned Mikey Whipwreck (8:35)....Buff Bagwell pinned Disco Inferno (10:33)....No Limit Soldiers (Konnan and Rey Misterio, Jr.) defeated West Texas Rednecks (Curt Hennig and Bobby Duncum, Jr.) (10:44) when Misterio pinned Duncum....Ernest Miller pinned Horace Hogan (5:10)....Ric Flair defeated Roddy Piper (8:16) by Disqualification....World Television Title Match (Falls Count Anywhere Match): Rick Steiner defeated Sting (10:35) in a "falls count anywhere" match to retain the title....World Tag Team Title Match: The Triad (Diamond Dallas Page and Kanyon) defeated Chris Benoit and Perry Saturn (19:13) when Page pinned Benoit to win the tag team titles....World Heavyweight Title Match: Kevin Nash defeated Randy Savage (7:29) by Disqualification.

I want to say it was as simple as HBK being named #1 Contender but I'm probably off.

Mordecai wants Holly to go to hell. Which is something alot of smarks have been telling Holly for years. Them be the words of truth. However, I think Holly will get the win and get beatdown afterwards.

Probably because it was being held at Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000+ fans and the fact that there were two face vs. face matches and a heel vs. heel match on the same card.

If you only knew What I'm gonna do to you You'd be runnin outta here as fast as two feet can carry you Your destiny Belongs to me If you only knew!!!!! Youre welcome.

Did Spivey turn heel in 1987? I saw the If You Only Knew video from Piledriver and I swear I saw a glimpse of him singing w/ the heels.

If Mr. Hole in One Barry Darsow pops up on my screen, I will never miss Smackdown again.

Yeah, the commentary is a lot better than I'd thought it'd be. Not as much repitition as most wrestling games. Considering I have it for X-Box, it's the best wrestling game for the system.

Those damn figures always fell forward.

Jindrak dropkicking someone who is on the top rope. That's quite a leap.

Actually, nWo Savage (w/ 6 or 7 members w/ him) challenged Iaukea for the TV Title on Nitro but it ended in a shmozz, probably w/ DDP running in . . . I don't remember.

People mark for the word 'Nitro'.

Shamalamalama . . . Dolla Dolla Bills!!!

HHH: Dude, I don't have your tooth.

Awww dude, who gives a shit what your friends say. If the little man inside you tells you to get the dvd, get it. If you really don't want it, don't get it. But don't let your buddies discourage you from getting it just cause they're not into rasslin.

In storyline terms, Hakushi had a busy day the day of SummerSlam 1995. That afternoon on the Action Zone, Skip cost him a match against Horowitz. Then, in the opening match of SS, he (as a heel) gets a hard fought win over the 1-2-3 Kid. Then, later on makes a full fledged face turn and helps Horowitz beat Skip again . . . only to become a JTTS in no time flat. Speaking of above, did Candido ever have any problem putting Horowitz over so many times? I'd figure the gimmick had to be irritating enough for him, but did he ever give his thoughts on the Horowitz feud? I mean for all I know, he stepped up and wanted to put him over. Another question, how did Jake The Snake Roberts' face turn come about? Did he just insult Honky one week and get whacked w/ the guitar or was there more to it than that?

Classic stuff there! Plus, Jericho talking Dillon into keeping it a No DQ Match was icing on the cake. Another funny scenario happened on a Nitro after Slamboree when Jericho was making his initial plea for his belt back. He starts berating Dillon demanding he come to the ring. Fat, balding, goof, imbecilic, and moronic were just some of the insults Jericho mouthed off. All the while, Dillon was making his way to the ring in total disbelief that CJ would put his foot in his mouth so deep. So, as he enters the ring: Jericho: . . . Waddle on down here you son of a . . . (notices Dillon standing in the ring) . . . Mr. Dillon, is this mic working? You're looking beautiful today, your suit is immaculate. Did you get a haricut? You're looking good! Needless to say, he didn't get his belt back that night.

http://schmoblog.spiketv.com/ What's the Difference? Hey guys, I didn’t intend to write another entry until after the premiere aired, but people keep asking me how season two differs from season one. Some of the key differences: The network wanted to fool two people instead of one, which meant twice the chance of someone catching onto us mid-show. Also, casting was twice the effort, and we had to make some serious decisions about which scenes would play out in front of Joe vs. Jane. When either Joe or Jane was absent from a scene, we had to ensure that he/she heard about it afterwards. The trick was to keep both marks in the loop for all the major story points, whether they had actually been present for them or not. The network pushed us to get crazier, especially early in the shoot. On Joe Schmo 1, we began at a very lazy, realistic pace, because we wanted to make sure that Matt was falling for the joke before we got too insane. On Joe Schmo 2, by contrast, we came out with guns blazing. We designed one of our most absurd story points to take place within ten minutes of the show’s beginning. From there, we took chance after chance after chance. Two words. Acid. And reflux. We packed more material into ten hours of television. The original Joe Schmo was shot in nine days. It was intended to be a six hour show, but we got so much good stuff, it quickly grew to nine (an hour-long interview with Matt made it ultimately become ten). This year, we shot for thirteen days, planning for ten total hours. The audience will get a little more bang for their buck. We ended up with ten and a half hours, not including any interview sit-downs. And we had to slit our wrists to get it to time. Unlike your average reality show, there is virtually no ‘filler.’ We explored a new genre. Prepare yourselves for all the hallmarks of the big ‘relationship show’: romantic off-site dates, bitter struggles for alone time, harrowing visits from family members (both fake and real), hair-raising sessions hooked up to a lie detector, and the ‘promise ceremony’ from hell. Love is truly a battlefield! Of course, there are a ton of smaller differences, but I hope this tides everyone over until we can start talking about individual episodes! Rhett ----------------------------- Blog Entry #2

I was surprised no one made an attempt to chuck him off the stage (esp Juvy). Seemed liked everyone ignored him.