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If he's in the middle of a huge push, I can see being reluctant to go on the shelf for surgery (being one half of the Smackdown mix and match tag champs doesn't count) but really, he's already in the doghouse for not going on the Iraq trip, he might as well heal on the company's dime and then come back fresh in a few months...

Please, I want this PPV to be succesful. The last thing TNA needs to be associated with is a bunch of overpayed, overrated chokers. I wouldn't want it to rub off or something.

Hey, the Torch reported that Hardy's New Year's resolution was to show up on time for the tapings and he apparently arrived several hours early for iMPACT! even before catering arrived, so maybe he's turning a new leaf.

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Say what you will about Watts as a wrestler, but he needs to take the night off, and clear his head and get well before stepping back in a ring. Raven can easily be moved in to the 3 way match to make it a 4 way (since the feud with DDP is already there), or something similar (i.e. put the 3 way on early, have Raven run in and cost DDP the match and then DDP can challenge Raven to a one on one later), whatever.

Care to share your plan? Maybe for the sake of others?

Laz, you are entitled to your opinion and I thank you for sharing it (this is to clarify I have no intention of starting any arguments in this thread.) I would just like to clarify that Styles personally requested last year to be moved back into the X division so he could work with faster opponents and have more innovative matches. I also disagree with the sentiment that AMW don't have good matches and your assements of Petey Williams, Sonjay Dutt and Elix Skipper as nothing special. I will also say the buzz for a while has been than Jarrett is fully aware that it's time for him to lose the belt (maybe even out of a selfish attempt not to be the champion if the company goes down), but it more likely than ever to happen this Sunday and Brown is the most likely to take it. In fact that reason they promoted a 3 way with Nash and DDP is because even though they wanted Brown in the title match they were afraid it wouldn't sell to the mainstream and thus added DDP and Nash who have name value to reach the same ends. Again, everyone's entitled to share their opinions.

Yeah, this sucks. When I'm at home between semesters, I meet a friend or 2 at the local Hooters to watch the show (since even with ordering food its cheaper than splitting the PPV at home) and when we walked up to the door for NYR, we were discourgaed to see a notice that said they would no longer be showing WWE PPVs. I had no intentions of wanting to order this show but we were pretty bummed so I agreed to split the show with my buddy and we watched it at my place. Don't know why they would make this decision though as WWE nights definitely garnered huge crowds (thats a lot of ordered wings and beer that wouldn't be there otherwise), but I guess it has something to do with WWE raising their rates. Oh well. Its getting less and less easier to legally watch WWE PPVs between this and the raising of the webcast price...

Updated with new extensive Ultimate X match preview!

Monty Brown (to win the 3 way and the title) Chris Sabin (for Ultimate X in the match of the night that steals the show) AMW (wins the tag titles in the sleeper second best match over Team Canada) Jeff Hardy (over Hall with help from Piper, will probably be a trainwreck but who knows what Piper will do live) Raven (over Watts if Watts doesn't OD before the show, in the DUD of the night) Dustin Rhodes (over Kash in the sleeper suprisingly entertaining match of the night) Skipper (over Dutt in an entertaining X division bout with an insane move or 2) Daniels/Shane/Kazarian (over 3LK in what should be the hot opener.) I predict at least one suprise appearence. From who? I can't say, but I'm guessing it comes out of left field.

I suppose that could put a monkey wrench in things. (Imagine how Raven must feel, he'd rather die than be in a match with him!) Anyway I will update this as things are changed or posted.

Hey, it made the front page of the New York Post! If that can't be considered news than what can!?

You would think he'd be surrounded by advisors and security personal at all times and that one of them might have suggested that it wasn't the best idea before he went out in public like a moron...

OK, I'm pretty annoyed right now. I just opened Firefox like normal but instead of opening the browser a box came up that said I needed to select a profile to use or something. The one avaliable in the list was "default", so I tried choosing that but it says that it hasn't been created yet or something. I really don't know what all this is about and just want to get on the WWW, so I just clikc "create a profile" which is called default user or something and the box that says "don't show this window when starting" or something is checked. I'm enraged to find out all my settings have disappeared. My bookmarks, icon preferences, installed plugins, everything is back to as it would be at default. What the hell is going on here? I didn't think much when the box came up and just wanted to ignore it so I could get on Firefox but what the hell did I just do? And most importantly how do I get my settings back? Please help!

n/m, I think. I restarted my computer (should have done that to begin with) got the box again and selected "default" and this time all my settings came back as they were. Still pretty weird...

THIS FRIDAY ON IMPACT - THE COUNTDOWN TO SUNDAY'S FINAL RESOLUTION BEGINS WITH SABIN VS. DANIELS! This Friday on Impact, the third competitor in the Ultimate X Match at Final Resolution will be determined when The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels faces Chris Sabin! Who will advance to take on Petey Williams and AJ Styles in the Ultimate X on January 16? Tune into Impact to find out! Also on Impact, one-half of the NWA World Tag Team Champions, Team Canada's Eric Young, will take on one-half of America's Most Wanted in James Storm! Team Canada and AMW clash before their huge title match at Sunday's Victory Road! In addition, The Phenomenal AJ Styles, Primetime Elix Skipper and Dustin Rhodes will all be in action on Friday's Impact as we count down the hours until the Sunday Pay-Per-View!

Oh, now you've done it.

Yankees and Red Sox. It's tough for the O's to compete in a division with the equivalent of the US and USSR having an arms race during the Cold War...

I'm a conservative living in Montgomery County, MD, the suburbs of Washington DC. That's pretty much all that needs to be said. Thanks to the more rural Eastearn Shore and Appalachian plains areas of the state we do have a Republican governor in Robert Ehrlich (god bless him) but everything he tries either gets blocked or overturned by the Democratic senate. As for my district I agreed with pretty much every policy point of the Republican candidate Chuck Floyd, who was of course clobbered like 80% to 20% by the freshman liberal trial lawyer Chris Van Hollen who "represents" us.

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I really like Shadow's idea for the booking of the EC match. This PPV is no doubt a one match show, but it's a BIG match. If some of you are like me and think a crowd can really help bring up a PPV (ala shows in Canada) then this should be one to get since the Puerto Rican crowd should be really into things. The undercard is shitty but since there aren't many it looks like the EC will be a long match. Kane, Hassan, Lita, Eugene/Regal and Benjamin are easy picks. As for the EC: Triple H is the easy pick to win and the one I'm going with. I'm curious to see how they protect everyone in this match. How will Batista be eliminated? How will Orton? What will happen to Edge? Who will get into it with HBK? Could Benoit have a better shot than we think? Could someone other than HHH win? How would HHH be eliminated? How will his feuds with Batista and Orton be furthered? It's a match filled with intrigue and 6 of the top workers on RAW. I think it's a must see. I would be hesitant to pay $35 to watch the show but I'll be headed to a local Hooters to watch the show and expect to enjoy it.

Victory Road did about 35,000 and Turning Point about 25,000 by most reports, so the truth is somewhere in the middle!

Full story from Wade Keller's insider report (bolded mine): Sounds like TNA has the right to be pissed. He got the raised he wanted and was still stubborn about it. Hopefully he lands in WWE or else he screwed himself here...

They may not need to be "liberated," but they sure are hell need to be enlightened a whole lot. Enlightened Thanks, I didn't know what "enlightened" meant until now..... That suprises no one...

Why am I not suprised? Rush was speculating today that Kerry wants to disassociate himself from this whole fiasco because he seriously wants to run again in '08. Yeah, like that will put butts in the voters booth. I guess Gore went through the same thing before coming to his senses (sort of).