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Well he sure as hell can't play a football player. Not with those knees of his.

I like to see it just because of the time period it took place in. The mid 90s when HBK and friends were all over the booking.

I think they should have tried to write this into the Angle/Eddie feud. Eddie is so mad that he is about to snap at any time because the title meant that much to him. So his best friend Malenko does everything to try and clam Eddie do from doing something and going over the edge so to speak. Like at one point Eddie snaps and is beating Angle to death, all bloodly and Malenko has to come out and pulls him off and Eddie then goes off on Malenko.

http://411mania.com/wrestling/news/newsboa...p?news_id=10034 Former WWE Star Planning To Release New Film And WWE doesn't want you to see it..... Former WWE star Maxx Payne is once again promoting the release of a independent film that will feature a lot of footage he shot with his video camera backstage during his time with the then WWF. Payne had planned to release the film years ago, but never did. Many believe that WWE had something to do with the film not being released and don't want something on the film to be released. This time around, the film is being called "The Real Max Payne" and pre-orders have started on Payne's website. The movie is promising an uncensored look at what really goes on backstage in the WWF. The footage is from the early to mid-1990s. HBO used some of Payne's footage in their Real Sports show on deaths in pro-wrestling. That show is best remembered as the show that got Roddy Piper fired from WWE for his controversial comments. And to get an idea as to why WWE doesn't want this film released, check out the trailer which features Kevin Nash holding up prescription bottles in his hand. The trailer is available here http://www.maxxpayne.com/doc.html

Did Rikishi really think he was that good of a singer on the last WWE CD? First Chyna and now Rikishi are wanting to become singers. What the hell is up with that?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5578574/ Over half of Olympic tickets still unsold Organizers appeal to Greek pride to sell remaining 2 million-plus ATHENS, Greece - The line snaked in front of the marble stadium, moving at a painstakingly slow pace. One woman stood with her dog. Others waited for hours, fanning themselves in the blazing midday sun. This snapshot of people lining up to buy tickets for the Athens Games was encouraging to Olympic organizers. But such scenes have been all too rare until recently. Though ticket sales have picked up in the last week, less than half of the 5.3 million tickets for the Athens Games have been sold. Now, a week before the opening ceremony, officials are appealing to Greek pride as they try to sell the rest. One ad running on local TV shows a Greek guy sitting at home on the couch. An overseas relative calls and leaves a message saying he guesses the guy must be at the Olympics. Feeling guilty, the Greek guy is next shown sitting in the stands at an Olympic venue. “Until now Greeks have shown that they are enthusiastic about the return of the Olympic Games in Greece,” said Seraphim Kotrotsos, an Athens 2004 spokesman. “We are sure that in the days left until the Olympic Games every day they will buy more and more tickets.” Organizers have so far sold about 2.3 million tickets. A one-day Athens record of 53,997 tickets were purchased this Thursday, as compared to an average of just 4,000 per day in June and July. “We never promised 100 percent capacity at the stadiums. In no Olympics organization has there ever been 100 percent,” Kotrotsos said. “We had said we hoped for 60 percent.” More than 80 percent of the 7.6 million tickets were sold at the 2000 Sydney Games. At the marble Panathinaiko stadium — host of the 1896 Olympics and site of the marathon finish this time — people standing in line Thursday said sluggish sales were due to a combination of events leading up to the games — including fears of terrorism, Olympic construction delays and the Greek habit of doing things at the last minute. “It’s the international scene, the whole hysteria has made the games less attractive (and) the construction being completed at the last minute,” said Alexandros Chloros, a management consultant. “The whole Greek mentality, we’re waiting until the last minute.” Others waiting in line angrily denied weak ticket sales were due to construction delays that plagued preparations ever since the games were awarded to Athens in 1997, and defended Greek interest in the upcoming Olympics. “We have a very good percentage of participation for a small country,” said Stratos Stamatis, an engineer. “I think participation is very high. Everyone is talking about them, at work, on TV.” Most of the tickets still unsold are cheaper ones with prices ranging from $12 to $18 for preliminary rounds of competitions, organizers said. Tour operators said Greece also failed to get a rush of Olympic-related tourism, for the same reasons that have hurt ticket sales. Tourism accounts for about 18 percent of Greece’s gross domestic product, but some parts of the country have experienced a 10 percent to 15 percent drop in bookings this season. “Generally, it looks like this year we will have less people,” said George Drakopoulos, head of the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises. There was “a doubt about whether everything would be ready on time and if the games would be successful,” said Aliki Hamosfakidou, who works for Athens-based tour operator Dolphin Travel. Many tour operators also feel the Olympics were not publicized enough and that all of Greece was insufficiently promoted. “I think in the end we’re going to have a good turnout. They are not going to be sold out,” said Chloros, the management consultant who was buying his tickets at the marble stadium. “There is a lot of talk about Greek pride.”

WWE News: Hurricane, Rico, RAW, Jericho, More Lots of WWE news items.... - The Hurricane has announced that he broke his nose in a match against Chuck Palumbo on Monday. He will be having an MRI done this week on it. - Rico is set to return from his hamstring injury at the 8/13 OVW show in a match against Nova. - The highest rated segments on RAW this week were the overrun, and the 10:00PM ET - 10:15PM ET slot that features Diva Search stuff and the Triple H/William Regal angle. Both did a 4.2. - Blabbermouth.net reports that Chris Jericho's band, Fozzy, has finished recording tracks for their third album. The album is due out this fall. Credit: PWInsider.com WWE News: Guerrero Down, Trish's Status, More Malenko keeping an eye on Guerrero.... - Dean Malenko has been put in charge of keeping Eddie Guerrero in good spirits. Guerrero has been down since dropping the WWE Title to John Bradshaw Layfield. Guerrero was very upset that business dropped during his title run, even though management has told him that they do not blame him. Guerrero is also dealing with a variety of injuries after working through so many of them. [PWTorch.com] - Trish Stratus is expected to return to the ring in a few weeks. She is booked against Victoria on house shows following Summerslam. [WrestlingObserver.com] - WWE ran a big ad for their 24/7 service in Multichannel News today, trying to sell it to cable providers. [WrestlingObserver.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/05/...n.ap/index.html McCain condemns anti-Kerry ad Calls on White House to follow suit Thursday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 1:35 PM EDT (1735 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well. "It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me," McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press, referring to his bitter Republican primary fight with President Bush. The 60-second ad features Vietnam veterans who accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his decorated Vietnam War record and betraying his fellow veterans by later opposing the conflict. "When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry," one of the veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the ad. Thurlow didn't serve on Kerry's swiftboat, but says he witnessed the events that led to Kerry winning a Bronze Star and the last of his three Purple Hearts. Kerry's crewmates support the candidate and call him a hero. The ad, scheduled to air in a few markets in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin, was produced by Stevens, Reed, Curcio and Potham, the same team that produced McCain's ads in 2000. "I wish they hadn't done it," McCain said of his former advisers. "I don't know if they knew all the facts." Asked if the White House knew about the ad or helped find financing for it, McCain said, "I hope not, but I don't know. But I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad." (Special Report: America Votes 2004) Later, McCain said the Bush campaign has denied any involvement and added, "I can't believe the president would pull such a cheap stunt." The White House and Bush-Cheney campaign did not address McCain's call that they repudiate the spot, though a Bush spokesman said the campaign does not question Kerry's highly decorated war service. McCain is co-chair of Bush's campaign in Arizona. 'Old wounds' In 2000, Bush's supporters sponsored a rumor campaign against McCain in the South Carolina primary, helping Bush win the primary and the nomination. McCain's supporters have never forgiven the Bush team. McCain said that's all in the past to him, but he's speaking out against the anti-Kerry ad because "it reopens all the old wounds of the Vietnam War, which I spent the last 35 years trying to heal." "I deplore this kind of politics," McCain said. "I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. I think George Bush served honorably in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War." McCain himself spent more than five years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. A bona fide war hero, McCain, like Kerry, used his war record as the foundation of his presidential campaign. The Kerry campaign has denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, saying none of the men in the ad served on the boat that Kerry commanded. Three veterans on Kerry's boat that day -- Jim Rassmann, who says Kerry saved his life, Gene Thorson and Del Sandusky, the driver on Kerry's boat, said the group was lying on all fronts. They say Kerry was injured, and Rassmann called the group's account "pure fabrication." The leader of the group, retired Adm. Roy Hoffmann, said none of the 13 veterans in the commercial served on Kerry's boat but rather were in other swiftboats within 50 yards of Kerry's. The group claims that there was no gunfire on the day Kerry pulled Rassmann from a muddy river in the Mekong Delta and that Kerry's arm was not wounded, as he has claimed. "What we have is a fabrication that led to Kerry getting his Bronze Star and his last Purple Heart," said Thurlow, who said he commanded a swiftboat near Kerry's.

Here's another pic of the Batman costume.

KNIGHT RIDER

http://www.bloodrayne2.com/news/16/ Terminator 3 star Kristanna Loken signs on as lead in film adaptation of BloodRayne Video Game For Immediate Release August 3rd, 2004 Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures to begin shooting in August 2004 (Vancouver, BC) – Kristanna Loken, best known for her role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in T3: Rise of the Machines, has signed on as the title character in the film adaptation of the popular Majesco action-horror video game BloodRayne. Loken will begin work on BloodRayne in August 2004 shooting in locations throughout Romania. As the film’s lead, Loken will play the title character who is half human and half vampire, driven by vengeance to overthrow her father, Kagan, king of all vampires. A former model, Kristanna Loken first caught worldwide attention with her role as the villainous T-X in the highly anticipated T3 sequel. Loken has also appeared in the feature films Academy Boyz (2001) and Panic (2001) and just completed Uli Edel’s feature film Kingdom in Twilight. Of Loken’s casting, Producer Shawn Williamson said, “I loved Kristanna in T3 and am excited to see how she brings the character of Rayne to life.” BloodRayne marks the sixth collaboration between Shawn Williamson, principal and producer of Vancouver-based film production company Brightlight Pictures and German Director/Producer Uwe Boll. Boll directs the picture that is written by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). BloodRayne Director, Uwe Boll, said, “Kristanna Loken is perfect for BloodRayne. She is strong, tall, athletic, sexy – everything that BloodRayne is.” Loken is represented by Eddy Yablans at International Creative Management and managed by Miles Levy. About BloodRayne Majesco’s popular action-horror video game series features the sexy, super-natural BloodRayne, the most deliciously wicked action heroine ever to grace a console game. This October, Rayne is challenged with her most personal battle yet in BloodRayne 2, for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, Sony PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and PC. More information can be found at http://www.bloodrayne2.com. About Majesco Established in 1986 and headquartered in Edison, NJ, with offices in the United Kingdom, Majesco Holdings Inc., operating through its wholly owned subsidiary, Majesco Sales Inc., is a leading developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, Sony PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance systems, as well as the personal computer. The Company’s 2004 lineup includes BloodRayne 2, the sequel to its popular action/horror series, and the launch of its Game Boy® Advance Video product line, which utilizes the Company’s proprietary video compression technology to enable consumers to view commercial-grade video on a standard Nintendo Game Boy Advance system. Advent Rising, the first in a trilogy of action/adventure games, will ship to stores in 2005. More information about our Company can be found online at www.majescogames.com. About Boll KG: With 78 million dollars in production funds raised in the past two years, Boll KG is a fast-growing film production entity based in Frankfurt, Germany under the aegis of Dr. Uwe Boll. With this most recent acquisition, Boll has emerged as a pre-eminent director and producer of films based on video games. Artisan Entertainment released House of the Dead, based on the Sega franchise, in Fall 2003; Boll is in post-production on a film adaptation of Atari’s Alone in the Dark (Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff) in Vancouver. About Brightlight Pictures: A feature film and television production company based in Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Brightlight Pictures develops, finances and produces independent feature films and television projects for the domestic and international marketplace. Company principals and producers, Stephen Hegyes and Shawn Williamson, have produced over 50 productions in the last 10 years, including Bruce Sweeney’s Last Wedding which opened the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and starred Molly Parker and The Long Weekend a Canada / UK co-production between Brightlight Pictures and Gold Circle Films UK starring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr. Brightlight Pictures recently Line Produced Edison for Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films starring Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J and Justin Timberlake. Brightlight is currently producing Bloodrayne, set to shoot in Romania. More information on Brightlight Pictures can be found at www.brightlightpictures.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitnes...m.ap/index.html Fat activists protest diet industry Monday, August 2, 2004 Posted: 10:42 PM EDT (0242 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- Unashamed of their size, fed up with fat jokes, and angry at the national obsession with dieting, overweight activists are mounting a feisty protest movement against what it calls the medical establishment's campaign against obesity. "We're living in the middle of a witch hunt and fat people are the witches," said Marilyn Wann of San Francisco, a militant member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "It's gotten markedly worse in the last few years because of the propaganda that fatness, a natural human characteristic, is somehow a form of disease." The association, known as NAAFA, holds its annual convention starting Wednesday in Newark, New Jersey, bringing together activists for social events and workshops on self-acceptance, political advocacy and the "fat liberation" movement. "I hope we can be a viable force of sanity in the midst of hysteria," said NAAFA spokeswoman Mary Ray Worley of Madison, Wisconsin. "I've found allies in all kinds of unexpected places, but overall there's a lot of animosity. Some people act like obesity is the next worst thing after terrorism." The convention comes as the movement is scrambling to counter federal government pronouncements that obesity is a "critical public health problem" costing more than $100 billion and 300,000 lives per year. Jeannie Moloo, an American Dietetic Association spokeswoman who counsels overweight clients at her nutrition practice in Sacramento, California, empathizes with the activists' fight against bias, but says they should be wary of oversimplifying obesity-related health issues. "Some people can be overweight all their lives and not end up with diabetes or heart disease or hypertension," Moloo said. "But the majority are probably going to develop one of these life-altering conditions." Fat-acceptance groups were dismayed when federal officials announced last month that Medicare was discarding its declaration that obesity isn't a disease. The policy change will likely prompt overweight Americans covered by Medicare to file medical claims for treatments such as stomach surgery and diet programs. "Obesity is not a disease," insisted Allen Steadham, director of the Austin, Texas-based International Size Acceptance Association. "All this does is open the door for the diet and bariatric surgery industries to make a potentially tremendous profit." Most fat-acceptance activists endorse the concept of eating healthy food and exercising regularly, but they oppose any fixation on losing weight and contend that more than 95 percent of diets fail. They also decry the rapid growth of stomach-shrinking surgery; the number of such procedures has quadrupled to 100,000 annually since 1998. Wann depicts bariatric surgery as "stomach amputation" that imposes anorexia on patients and exposes them to long-term risks. Kelly Bliss, a self-described "full-figured fitness instructor" from Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, predicts that future generations will disapprovingly look back on stomach surgery as "comparable to lobotomies." Bliss, who coaches clients by phone and in fitness classes, subscribes to a philosophy called "health at every size" -- preaching that health, fitness and self-esteem can be achieved independent of weight. "There's a war on obese people, and I'm treating the casualties - people whose hearts are being ripped out," Bliss said. NAAFA and others have tried to combat what they see as rampant discrimination against fat people, but progress has been sporadic. Southwest Airlines, for example, resisted protests targeting its policy of requiring large passengers to purchase a second ticket if they can't fit in a single seat. "People want to fight for their rights, but there's a lot of shame involved," Steadham said. "It takes a whole lot of determination to stick through it to the end." A few cities, including San Francisco, explicitly outlaw weight discrimination. Michigan is the only state to do so, but its Civil Rights Department said only five of 1,696 job discrimination complaints filed in 2003 involved weight. Walter Lindstrom, a San Diego attorney specializing in weight-discrimination cases, said overweight plaintiffs usually must prove that acts of bias against them are covered by federal laws prohibiting discrimination against disabled people. "These cases are more difficult from a proof standpoint, and also because you're dealing with a very unpopular class of clients," Lindstrom said. "Juries are generally disgusted with your average size-related plaintiff. You have to get past that, and have them see the plaintiff as someone with a true medical problem." Many fat-acceptance activists were heartened by this year's publication of "The Obesity Myth" by University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, who contends that diet promoters, drug companies and weight-loss surgeons have whipped up an irrational panic over weight. Campos shares many of the activists' views but says their effectiveness has been limited. "The movement has found itself marginalized by drawing its membership and leadership from the far extreme of obesity," he said. "It will be more successful if it can attract the two-thirds of Americans who are being told by the government that they weigh too much -- the I-want-to-lose-20-pounds crowd who are starting to feel a certain amount of resentment from the constant haranguing they're getting."

Knowing his luck he'll get to wrestle on the Heat before the PPV.

Note On WWE Smackdown Taping Tonight Note on one item to expect... - The plan right now is to make the Summerslam Booker T vs. John Cena US Title match tonight at the Smackdown taping. Credit: WrestlingObserver.com

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WWE RAW Rating And other news from RAW.... RAW did a 3.8 rating this week, up from a 3.6 last week. Management viewed the show as the first real heavy push towards Summerslam and came away extremely happy with how it came off. Everyone is happy right now with how talent is stepping up. Credit: PWTorch.com News Notes: Goldberg, Brock, RAW See some very interesting footage from backstage at RAW.... - Goldberg has posted pictures of him, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, and Bob Sapp on the set of Adam Sandler's new movie, The Longest Yard. Goldberg and Sapp play football playing inmates in the movie while Austin and Nash play prison guards. Check out the pictures here http://www.billgoldberg.com/new/news_indexpc.htm. - The St. Cloud Times today has an article about Brock Lesnar's first practice with the Vikings and how he struggled. Check it out here http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?...40803034802+6+7. - WWE.com appears to be trying something new. They have posted four videos of exclusive content from RAW last night. One video is a post-show interview with Evolution about their win, another shows William Regal getting stitches following his brawl with Triple H, another is an interview with Diva hopeful Camille after she was eliminated, and the final is an interview with Rhyno and Tajiri. Head over to WWE.com and check them out. Credit: PWInsider.com

Well it won't be the first time Jean Grey had an incess type thing with her son. At least Madelyne Pryor that is.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/01...n.ap/index.html Vatican warns of sexual blurring Sunday, August 1, 2004 Posted: 6:54 AM EDT (1054 GMT) VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican has denounced feminism, saying it was trying to blur differences between men and women and threatening the institution of the family based on a mother and a father. The drive for equality, the Vatican said, makes "homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality." The concerns, raised in a 37-page document written by one of Pope John Paul II's closest aides and released Saturday, broke no new ground, maintaining the church's ban on women priests, for example. But some observers said they feared how the document might be used. Paul Lakeland, an expert on the Catholic Church, who is a professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, expressed concern that some language in the document could be used by church conservatives to condemn any form of advocacy for women. "The irony is that this document is, in some respect, a feminist document," said Lakeland, pointing to references to fair treatment of women who work. The pamphlet by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog, was published during a Vatican campaign to protect what it terms the Christian family. Earlier salvos have blasted same-sex marriage, appealing to politicians, regardless of their religion, to prevent them from winning legal recognition. Addressed to bishops worldwide, the document contended that new recent approaches to women's issues are marked by a tendency "to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men." Such an attitude, the document said, "has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family." The document also said that, in feminism, "in order to avoid the dominance of one sex or the other, their differences tend to be denied. ... The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences." These consequences, it said, included calling "into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father," giving homosexual and heterosexual couples an equivalent status. The document also took issue with a "certain type of feminist rhetoric" that makes "demands 'for ourselves.'" Throughout his 25 years as pope, John Paul has repeatedly expressed his admiration for women and their talents, and the document reflected that. It said women should not be stigmatized or penalized financially for wanting to be homemakers. It also said women "should be present in the world of work and ... have access to positions of responsibility which allow them to inspire the politics of nations and to promote innovative solutions to economic and social problems." Those who choose to work should be granted an appropriate work schedule and "not have to choose between relinquishing their family life or enduring continual stress," the message to bishops said. The Rev. Thomas Reese, a commentator on the Catholic church, in an e-mailed statement noted that "although most American feminists would express their theology differently from the Vatican, on the practical level, they are on the same page (in terms of equality in education, politics, the workplace) except on abortion and women priests." Catholic teaching forbids abortion. "While most people in the U.S. think in psychological and sociological terms, the Vatican thinks and talks in philosophical and theological terms which most Americans find difficult to understand," said Reese, who is editor of America, a Jesuit magazine. The document also expressed the Vatican's concern that the blurring of differences between sexes could pose a challenge to church teaching, including the belief, in a reference to Christ, that "the Son of God assumed human nature in its male form." "From the first moment of their creation, man and woman are different, and will remain so for eternity," the document said. Many Italian politicians pay close attention to the pronouncements of the Catholic Church, with its headquarters a few minutes away from the Italian parliament. "This document is welcome," said Riccardo Pedrizzi, who deals with family policy in the National Alliance, a right-wing party in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition. "Economic and legal measures that allow women to freely choose if she wants to go to work outside the home or if she wants to carry out her top-level job inside the family are essential," Pedrizzi was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA.

WWE News: Palumbo, RAW Gates, Sammartino, More Is Bruno ready to finally work with Vince? - Chuck Palumbo injured his neck over the weekend. It isn't thought to be too serious since he continued to work following the injury. - The RAW house show in Albuquerque, NM on Friday drew about 4000 fans for a gate over $100,000. The RAW show in Austin, TX on Saturday drew about 3600 fans for a gate of nearly $100,000. The Corpus Christi, TX show yesterday drew 4000 fans as well. - Many wrestlers started to feel the effects of Albuquerque's thin air on Friday. - Steve Austin's ex-wife, Debra, was backstage at the show in Austin on Saturday. - Vince McMahon, Triple H, and Stephanie McMahon all met with Bruno Sammartino last week in Pittsburgh. The reason for the meeting was to discuss whether Bruno will be involved with WWE's upcoming 24/7 on demand service. The meeting was said to have gone very well. Credit: PWInsider.com

More WWE News: Heidenreich, Angle, Long, More Teddy getting love from whitey.... More WWE News: - The Saturday Smackdown show in East Rutherford, NJ drew 6000 fans for a gate of over $200,000. The show in Bridgeport, CT yesterday drew about 3000 fans for a gate below $100,000. - After working the weekend house shows, most feel that John Heidenreich still doesn't have "it" and looked lost in the ring. Heidenreich is still scheduled for a program with the Undertaker following Summerslam and 'Taker has always been vocal about workers who he feels aren't ready for the "big time." - Kurt Angle is said to be feeling OK. He worked the SD! shows this weekend and is getting ready for his Summerslam match against Eddie Guerrero. - Guerrero did not work the weekend shows as he rests his hamstring. - Making Teddy Long the new Smackdown GM was Vince McMahon's idea. McMahon is very high on Long and feels that he is the perfect fit. WWE plans to have Long play a babyface GM. Credit: PWInsider.com

Man did Catwoman ever drop. I bet by the next 2 weeks it will be out of the top 10.

What does drawing as a champ have to do with it? All Flair said about Sting is that he has unlimited potential and one of the great performers which I think is true. That's just what Flair himself thinks about him nothing else.

No, what they're trying to say is that since UT is in the SD main event for Summerslam then he needs to be on TV every week to build up the match. The fact that UT or JBL weren't on the show after what happened last week makes the match and the belt look like nothing.

http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/new...hp?news_id=9974 Ric Flair Speaks On WWE Title, Orton, More Posted By Ashish on 07.29.04 He keeps talking and talking.... Interview with Ric Flair Date: Thursday, July 29, 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Interviewer: Joltin' Joe Credit: Thushyan Nadarajah of www.ringrage.com Joltin' Joe recently had the opportunity to interview RAW superstar, Ric Flair. Unfortunately, I missed part one of this two part interview, so I'll start from part two. The interview continues with Joe asking Flair to compare and contrast Evolution and the Four Horsemen. Flair states that all four of the Horsemen possessed excellent skills when it came to their in-ring ability as well as the microphone. He mentions that the Four Horsemen were veterans who had established themselves over time, but Evolution is a younger stable and currently has only two veterans, Triple H and himself. Flair says that both Randy Orton and Batista have a great future ahead of themselves because they're always working hard and are committed to making the product better. Joe asks Flair for a word association segment. During this segment, Joe will name a few people and Flair has to reply with the first word that comes to his mind. Vince McMahon - "Genius" Jim Ross - "The best" Eric Bischoff - "Untrustworthy" Arn Anderson - "My best friend" Sting - "Unlimited potential, one of the great performers" Ricky Steamboat - "The best" Stone Cold Steve Austin - "Biggest drawer of all-time" Triple H - "The franchise" The Rock - "Most charismatic athlete I've ever met in my life" Randy Orton - "The future" Bret Hart - "Overrated" Mick Foley - "Overrated and overstated" Ric Flair - "Having a good time" Joe states that one of the most memorable feuds in pro-wrestling history involved both Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat back in 1989. Joe compliments Flair on this match and asks Flair for his thoughts on this feud. Flair says he's always had great matches because he has worked with some of the best performers. He says that Ricky Steamboat was a phenomenal performer, similar to the Shawn Michaels of today. He states that both of them are equally gifted athletes with similar wrestling styles, but were from different times. Joe goes on to ask Flair which future wrestlers, he believes will be able to draw "mad money." Flair says he's a huge fan of Kurt Angle because he's good at everything he does. As long as Angle stays healthy, he can accomplish a lot in this business. He continues by naming Randy Orton, Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero. Flair mentions that Randy Orton is praised backstage and the company feels that he is the next big superstar. Joe plugs WWE SummerSlam, which will be here in Toronto, Canada on August 15 and asks if Flair will be in any matches. Flair says at this point, he will not be in any matches but he will be in attendance. Joe questions Flair about his future with the WWE. Flair says he hopes he has another title run, but if not he would still like to be with the company in some capacity. Joe asks Flair if there's anything else he would like to tell the fans in Toronto. Flair thanks the fans of Toronto for their support for not just wrestling, but all sports. He says Toronto's an awesome city with a great audience and that he loves performing here. The interview ends with a couple of "Woo!'s" from both Joe and Flair. Thanks to Joltin' Joe's Wrestling Hotline for contributing. You can call (416) 350-3000 ext. 2049 to listen to the interview. Long distance charges may apply.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...dy_bar_arrest_1 I feel so much safer, knowing that I can now correctly classify the terrorist threat level of this entire ordeal. Candy bars = code orange. Stupid shitty Mounds bars = code fucking RED.