Corey_Lazarus

Rebuttal: It's not THE most important, but since the addition of theme music, it has been AN imporant aspect. How many wrestlers have been identified by their themes? Degeneration X would not have been the same if they came out to some generic rock riffs. Steve Austin would not be the same if he came out to "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. Theme music is an integral part to a wrestler's character, as it reflects their personality. Using generic themes for the wrestlers of TNA means that TNA considers their talent generic.

Okay. Do a headstand. Fall backwards and don't break your fall with your knees or your hands. Or, better yet, stand up straight and fall forwards without using your hands to break the fall. Same effect either way.

Predator II had the better plot, but the execution was poor. The chemistry between Arnold and Carl "Apollo Creed" Weathers was what made Predator (notice how the movie gets kinda boring when Dillon, Weathers' character, bites it). Glover and Busey had their thing, and the ending was sweet as hell, but overall it's just an inferior movie. But I do love the scene on the subway when the three street punks are trying to mug some guy, and he pulls out a revolver, so one of the punks pulls out a .357 Magnum, and then every other person in the car pulls out a handgun.

Rebuttal for Simon: Correct. His work has deteriorated from upper-midcard quality in ECW to jobber-level in TNA, and this "Irish" Pat Kenney gimmick has killed all chances of him getting over. They very easily could have pushed him as an Irishman but have kept the Simon Diamond name, and kept the Simon Diamond persona, but no: TNA is too stupid. Statement: TNA needs somebody in the music department that knows how to write a fucking song. Every single entrance theme (besides those of AJ Styles, Raven, and Jeff Jarrett) are the most generic themes imaginable.

Styles Clash WOULD hurt. You're being smashed stomach and chest-first into the floor. Knock the wind right out of you.

Ah, Keenan Thompson. What became of him after the Good Burger movie?

Definitely a show I'm proud to miss. Although how's the main event coming? Should be finished up either by now or real soon.

Funny thing about that? I just bought the new edition DVD of Predator on Tuesday.

Rebuttal: And, it seems, Cena will never be good, it seems, unless he becomes what will, it seems, be classified as a "good wrestler." ...it seems.

Fuck Vermont, and fuck Wal-Mart.

Send it to me and I'll make sure never to mention Metallica or Shadows Fall ever again.

Yeah. He Perkisized all day.

The day Dreamer goes back to the ECW Arena is the day I buy a plane ticket to Philly and go see a 3PW show. It would be worth it just to see Tommy so overcome with emotion as he comes back to the place he helped make important.

Give Kidman the Kid Krusher, or maybe go back to the Kidmikaze (I think that was the sit-out swinging neckbreaker thing, where it started as a front facelock, and then he swung them around and sat down into an almost Michinoku Driver position).

STATEMENT: WWE should go back to hiring some real bands/rappers/singers to perform songs for the WWE talent (I mean WWE-exclusive songs, with rights owned by WWE). I say this because most of the entrance themes blend together for undercarders, and hiring some real bands to play the wrestlers' songs might help differentiate them. Mostly, I just REALLY want to hear some Black Label Society song written exclusively for, say, Undertaker. Motörhead has performed two of the better WWE/WWF themes of the past 5 years (HHH's "The Game," Evolution's theme), and instead of generic rock riffs, actual themes could help. I'd like to see Kid Rock do some of his country/rap/rock stuff for Jamie Noble, and maybe have Fozzy do the theme for Chris Jericho (they should really have done this right from the get-go).

Dress up like a plastic surgery victim. Wrap your face in blood-soaked gauze, give yourself terrible looking boobs, and always have a smile on your face.

I say the only time clean finishes aren't used are for pure angle advancement. However, if it's a transition from one feud to the next, a clean finish is a must to cap off the prior feud. Now, this doesn't mean that the blowoff is without interference. I'm saying that all interference must be negated. In other words, say Petey Williams is blowing off a feud with Chris Sabin. Boby Roode, Johnny Devine, Scott D'Amore, and Eric Young can interfere to their heart's content as long as Sabin's allies (in this case, it wouldn't be a stretch to make his allies America's Most Wanted, Dusty Rhodes, and Jerry Lynn) come in to even the score. And the actual finish MUST be clean. No "manager comes in with a chair and knocks face out, heel covers for pin" every match. Keep that shit to a minimum so that it means something again.

...I have a homemade proton pack built out of styrofoam and wood...it sucks balls...and if you hold the pack upside down, it looks like an evil rabbit...

I love the intro to White Zombie's "I, Zombie." Classical choir music as played through an old record, then a woman screams as the record screeches, and BAM! The groove-happy industrial metal assault of Sean and J, with the heavy drumming of John motherfucking Tempesta, and then the raspy voice of Rob himself entering when the verse starts 30 seconds later.

Actually...Mad Dog pretty much hit the nail on the head. Have Russo there as the writer/booker, with Douglas and Raven contributing heavily, and Mantel to filter him out.

TNA's problem lies in the constant chaos of the booking committee. Russo, who is the only one on the team that has any idea what he's doing (say what you will, about how he books crap that is idiotic and insulting, but at least he knows what he's doing, and knows the general reaction to what he'll do), is the one with the smallest voice, as Jarrett is purposefully booking himself to be the heel champion that nobody can defeat, and his only contenders - Monty Brown and Jeff Hardy - are pieces of shit that no fan in their right mind would give two fucks about. Dutch...Dutch is a fucking idiot. Here's how to help out the X-Division: -Give the workers more than 5 minutes in a match on Impact, and about 12 minutes on PPV. -Get workers that display both CHARISMA and the ability to WORK. There's nothing I can't stand more about the X-Division than some generic indy flyer that we're supposed to cheer because he can do a backflip (see: Kazarian, Frankie). -MAKE SURE THE WORKERS IN THE X-DIVISION CAN GO X-DIVISION. Pierre Carl Oulette (Mr. X from later 2003) is a big man that DID work X-Division, but just had a terrible gimmick. Michael Shane and Frankie Kazarian are cruisers that CAN'T work X-Division, but are both former X-Division champions. Ditto Sonny Siaki. -Have angles in the X-Division besides "champion vs. challenger." The Lynn/Styles feud (the one that MADE TNA, mind you) started not about titles, but because of the "hatred" between the two. The title entered the fray when Lynn realized the way to win the feud would be to take everything AJ cherishes, which was, at the time, solely the title. -Dedicate exactly 1/3 of the show to the X-Division. Half of the roster is X-Division talent, so give them their fair share. -MAKE SABIN INTERESTING AGAIN. This shouldn't be hard, as he displays that he has the beginning of "it," that special x-factor that makes a wrestler successful, so take advantage of it. Aside from Kash/Styles, it really doesn't seem as if anything X-Division has been any quality above "poor."

I'm comparing it to both Raw and SmackDown, and Raw was absolutely dreadful.

Mike does hate ECW. But hey, like the shirt said: "It's not for everyone." Mike also hates liberals, fat people, Jeff Jarrett, Dutch Mantel, and Vince Russo. Yet he likes me, and I just hate Dutch Mantel and Jeff Jarrett. Go figure.

Rebuttal: TNA was hotter from October 2002 until April 30th, 2003 than WWE was, and the summer of 2003 is when it started becoming dreck.

Do you mean AA or group programs designed to help you? Because AA is basically just a way to get drunks to become Christians (read the 12 Steps and you'll see where I'm coming from), but group therapy definitely does help a lot.