The Ghost of bps21

I had figured that they changed the finish because the odds of Goldberg coming back soon are greater than the odds of Brock coming back soon.

"The reason for this was because WWE was apparently "angrier at Brock." " Brilliant.

I will say that I like what they are doing to try and make the titles seem important again. All three titles have been shit on for the past few months. Jarrett's heading towards FIVE months as champion...and I don't think he's had FIVE title defenses... Sabin is the X champion...and hasn't defended in forever because of the X Cup stuff. And the tag team titles are in the garbage after the Styles/Abyss/Luger/no Luger stuff. That needs to be fixed. With the XCups taking up a week out of the month...I'm glad they've finally decided to try and fix the OTHER weeks too...with longer matches and more emphasis placed on the titles and contenders.

Well...there are puro fans in the thread...thus adding at least **

Screw Florida. Go Buffalo! We pulled within 4 points and our best defenseman is done for the year...and our captain has to be concussion free for a week before he can practice... Um...crap...

This thread has too much talk about chops in it. **1/2

Yeah...that didn't last long the last time they tried it. One thing they did do a good job of establishing tonight is the main players in the title picture. Abyss, Truth (YES!), Harris, Raven and Styles were all shown to be at the level of quality contender.

This week's IWA show featured an Ultimate X match with Chris Sabin in it (annoyingly pronounced SABON by the terrible announcers).

Here ya go... Here's the Torch report for Kanyon's release...dated February 11: http://www.pwtorch.com/artman/publish/article_7116.shtml And here's the report from Rajah about Spanky...dated January 14th...although Spanky's last day would have been the 13th. http://rajah.com/wwf/headlines/7279.php That gives Spanky about 24 days left (unless he got out early as he was trying to)

Well...Spanky was released/quit in mid January (I think)...so he's got under a month to go. Kanyon was released a month after Spanky (again...I think) so he would have a while still.

Maybe at one time they could have...but I can't see them going out and begging for change after almost 2 years of letting them in free. It would, however, be a funny thing to watch.

It was a good choice for the opener...I just thought it was funny.

HA...It just occured to me that after spending a long time saying he'd "Main Event WrestleMania XX"...John Cena actually curtain jerked the show.

There isn't even a tree for that...let alone a limb.

You better recognize! The Benjamites are taking over!! ... Anyway...yeah...that happens every match. Look at the Benoit/Angle matches. Both guys can take the first two...and then reverse into a German of their own...but that third one keeps you down.

"one of the tribe of Benjamin" BADASS That's definitely the name now.

*votes for Benjamites too* I'm in

I agree 100%

I've watched it again...I didn't notice the chops right away (not being in the habit of judging every moment of the match until now). WOW. What was I thinking with that 1/4* rating. CLEARLY I overrated again. DUD.

No. Apparently the 99% of us who thought that were wrong. 1/4*

I thought Meltzer said that the Backlash main event had been changed to HHH vs. Benoit

Mike is right. Tis better to have a crowd that doesn't pay than no crowd at all. If they weren't putting it on TV it would be different...but you need an audience for TV.

Thinking about matches for the DVD reminded me that HHH is the storyline reason that Benoit is even in the WWE. Eddie too for that matter

I'm sticking with 1/4*

I have it taped on my DVR. I only caught the end of it. I watched last weeks show and noticed the Ultimate X rig was up...so I taped this week to see if they would show the match. I'll go back and watch it...but I think it was pretty short.