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I hope that Austin comes back for WM...and gets squashed mercilessly by Randy Orton. And I don't like Randy Orton.

I don't mind a little pause to show off, especially if it's an arrogant heel type. But certain moves are just too contrived and take way too long. Like the Spinaroonie.

Yeah. There have been many occasions when Booker has stopped to do it mid-match and ended up losing, making him look like an idiot. It should be used post-match only.

Count me in. I hate finishers with too much showboating beforehand. Someone should get up on S2H when he's halfway through the move, doing the ground humping thing and then step on his head.

Rick's not senile, and he's not high. He just knows who married the daughter of the guy who signs his paycheque.

Edge should be using the spear as a takedown, not as a finisher. And yes, I can't think of a worse finisher in use by WWE today.

My feeling is that Vyce is right here. I don't think that Vince, Stephanie JR, etc. sit around a boardroom table saying things like "Let's not push Booker T, because he's black." It's a more subtle form of ignorance and idiocy that they suffer from. They might go so far as to say "We try to push black people and visible minorities, but they just don't seem to get over." And as evidence they cite the "FANTASTIC" gimmicks given to Saba Simba and Los Boriquas. They should rent a copy of Def Jam Vendetta. A D-Mob like wrestler would be SO over.

Too bad. I didn't get to see his WCW or ECW stuff so I never got to see his real highlights. When Steve Austin tells a crowd to chant "boring" at you, your in-ring career is done anyway. Moving on was pretty much his only option.

Never mind Eugene, do they really think "Radio" and "I Am Sam" are among the greatest movies ever made?!

I wonder if HHH has been pressuring Kazaa to cough up the names of people who have been downloading his matches. ROIDS GOOD! KAZAA BAD!

I think an Orndorf/Hogan approach to a Benoit/Edge feud would work. Let them be pals for awhile, then one day Benoit takes the mother of all beatdowns from a gang of heels. Out comes Edge, drives them off. Holds Benoit's hand hi, then wham, cheapshots him. Then, as Chrono suggested, Edge could blame Benoit for him being injured for so long.

Edge looks like HHH's alcoholic brother.

Kinda like the default model when you go to make a CAW in a video game...only with less personality. Coach valiantly trying to get him over...

Since they;'re mentioning HBK trained him, a student vs teacher feud might work. What is the crowd chanting?

Well, I saw about two fans giving Cade thumbs down. That's about as much heat as he got.

Could you imagine the board reaction if that happened? Pinned: The OAO Taking up a collection to put a bounty on HBK/HHH thread

This is a little like arguing whether it's better to get cancer in the left testicle or the right testicle, but.... ....I have to go with Holly. Bradshaw at least got a character transplant. Bradshaw might threaten to sodomize people, but Holly actually BEAT SOMEONE UP just to show that rookies are so much worse than bitter old guys whose career hasn't moved. And they gave Holly the shot because of his history with Brock...mainly, Holly being a little bitch and sandbagging Brock, and then getting injured as a result. You know, many companies fire employees that deliberately sabotage other employees.

They probably won't bother. He hasn't been on tv in two weeks and no one's made a peep about his whereabouts. They're just going to go on as if he never existed. Good point. I doubt they'll have Bischoff brag about firing him, because then the marks will think its a work and expect Austin to show up that night. This is exactly what they should do. Don't explain a thing, or mention his name at all, just like they did with Hogan when he left the first time. If they try the "Austin took his ball and went home" shit the marks will boo because Austin can do no wrong. If they say Bishoff/Vince/Johnny Nitro/Fifi fired Austin, they'll expect him to be back next week,

Booker T pinned HHH in a six man tag match right before Wrestlemania XIX, IIRC.

Kurt will come back as the NEW DEAD MAN and feud with the Undertaker. And he will job in every single match despite the constant interference against Taker by a team of Navy SEALs.

Ever heard those "USA" chants? Yeah. No kidding. If nationality and city doesn't matter, I guess nobody in New York would have a problem if the Yankees moved to Los Angeles, as long as they could still see the games. Dallas wouldn't mind if the Cowboys moved to Rhode Island either.

If Billy Kidman was competing in something where he was one of the few Americans, in an environment which Americans were clearly viewed as exceptions and outsiders, wouldn't you be more inclined to cheer for him? I am a Canadian and I *like* Bret Hart, I don't idolize him. Wrestlers have to be more than Canadian for me to like them. I don't go around worshipping Test (to say the least), and I think that some of the Lance Storm supporters are way over the top. Trust me, Gail Kim will not become a national sensation simply because she's Canadian. Most of us aren't that shallow. She has no personality that we've seen and she sucks in the ring. Now, if she suddenly became that female Mysterio she was supposed to be and could cut wicked promos, Canadians would love her, because she's fun and a winner, and the fact that she's one of us would be a great bonus.

Eddie's problem is that he has no good heels to play off of. If there was a good and hot main-event level heel on Smackdown, then it woud be so much more watchable. Diabiase Lite just doesn't cut it.

It's funny, WWE has a habit of making heels that are hard to boo, because they're speaking the truth, though WWE doesn't realize it. Examples: 1. Booker claiming Smackdown is inferior to Raw. 2. HHH going on about how stupid the Sheriff Austin thing is. 3. Coach and Eric Bischoff mocking the Raw announce crew for only being able to say "STONECOLDSTONECOLDSTONECOLD!" and "PUPPIES!" Sometimes I think Vince needs to pick up a wrestling primer again and learn what heels and faces are.

See, the problem is that Orton is so generic that you can't even hang a good insulting nickname on him. The HHHaters and Taker haters have all sorts of perfect nicknames for the guys they hate: Underseller, Cripple H, HGH, etc. Because as even as much as they hate them, they are at least distinctive personalities. If you replaced Orton with Jindrak tomorrow, or OVW Dropkick Machine #5, would anything really be lost? Gained? Probably not. You might as well call him "suckbag" as anything else. I thought of a nickname that I think is perfect for Orton, but I don't think it will catch on: Randy Ordinary