King Cucaracha

Excuse me????Anyone can get over WIHTOUT Bob Holly...hell if your teamed with holly, unless your in ALabama its holding your ass back.Well then again, unless he's making you look like the biggest star wrestler in theworld, which he can do when he compares himself to anyone else. Err...if he wasn't with Hardcore Holly, he wouldn't have got the HardCore Title so wouldn't have gotten over half as quickly. If it wasn't for teaming with Holly, he would have been...Erin O'Grady the Friendly Leprachaun or something.

Ok, as far as Sinn goes...judging from his partners, I imagine he's the Sinn from NWA:UK Hammerlock. Which would make sense I guess. He's kind of a mysterious guy...black leather, face paint...plus he's an NWA employee. Duh. If it's the guy I'm thinking of, he could fit in the X-Division if it's a permanant deal. And I wish we got TNA here in England...Low Ki/Styles should be a decent throw together match, and I dont' agree with endless ladder matches, but it should be good all the same. Oh well...roll on October when we get the Wrestling Channel over here.

Good stuff, Todd Damn it's good stuff. Jeff Hardy in The Flock is a good, smart move. Awful Hardyness is good. I just wish CM Punk were as over in TNA as he is in RoH, so my Raven/Punk feud would have more than 25 heat. But good stuff...keep it up, and read my diary...please.

NEWBIE MATCH Hybrid vs. “Suicidal” Jay Freeman Just because... TV TITLE CONTENDERSHIP MATCH Tommy Nguyen vs. Jay Morrison Good luck to ya both...Jay just wins though IMO. NON-TITLE MATCH English Dragon vs. Tryst English Dragon, because I haven't seen Tryst before. MAIN EVENT BEST FUCKING MATCH EVER SPECIAL CALVINBALL MATCH Manson vs Dominic Korgath vs Jimmy “The Demon” Liston vs Danny Conklin vs Craig McClennan vs The Apostle My head hurts from trying to figure this one out...thank god I'm not writing in it. I'll go for the Memphis Eel though, seeing as nobody's given him a chance.

I'm all for a Flock reformation. Or was. Hell, just get all the misguided gimmicks together and push them. New Dungeon of Doom...Mortis, Doink...I'm sure Tenta would come back with one of his gimmicks. Hey, maybe they could give Kidman back the gimmick he can pull off...weird guy who itches himself a lot. RATINGS~!

The WWE is being a bitch...well, when you think about it. Buff Bagwell getting poached by them isn't exactly going to drive me to tears, but it's the kick up the ass I needed to sign up all the wrestlers not working with other promotions to written contracts. The rest can wait...or they don't want to give up Japanese commitments, so they won't sign for WWE anyway. Meanwhile, good 'ol Chris Harris is still in rehab. I don't know how long rehab usually lasts for, seeing as the only time I've got it before is with Michaels in WWE, and he's still out of action. But when he comes back...will he still have a job? If he soon doesn't get back...the answer to that is probably no. But for now, time to concentrate on those who do have jobs, as it's the...(big build up...) *NEXT WEEK'S PREVIEW* (kayfabe mode on) ~Last week...D'Lo Brown was cheap shotted(is that a word?) by NWA:TNA World Champion A.J Styles after calling him out. Understandably angry, all week D'Lo has been hassling various TNA officials, endlessly requesting a title shot against A.J. But this week, A.J Styles already has an opponent in Paul London. But you can be sure that D'Lo Brown will have something to say about the World Title situation this coming week. ~Also last week, in the main event Shane Douglas was defeated by Jeff Jarrett in a Dream Partners Match, Jarrett getting more than a little help from 'The Truth' Ron Killings. As a result of that, a rematch has been booked with Jeff Jarrett teaming with Killings to take on Douglas and Mike Awesome. Will Douglas be able to get revenge on Ron Killings and Jeff Jarrett this week? ~X-Division Champion Chris Sabin returns to action this week, after missing four weeks through 'personal problems'. His return to action sees him defending his title one on one against Mad Mikey. ~Raven will be in the Asylum, although he's not booked to be in action. This leaves a worrying shadow over Julio Dinero and CM Punk, the Gathering buddies who this week team up to take on the NWA:TNA Tag Team Champions Low Ki and Christopher Daniels. ~All this plus Ekmo, Ikuto Hidaka, Masato Tanaka, Sean Waltman and Elix Skipper all promised to be in action this week on Anarchy in the Asylum week 8.

My VCR's gonna be fucked after this. Apparantly the channel's running from 2 p.m until midnight seven days a week. Which is 70 hours of wrestling a WEEK. On top of Raw, Smackdown, Heat and NWA Worldwide Classics, that's 76 hours a week. Oh well, roll on October!!!

At least Rodman could take wrestling moves. And throw an arm drag. Watch Hogan/Rodman vs Giant/Luger and you'll see Rodman was ok for a celebrity in-ring wrestler.

Dito...congrats to Viktor for the title win, and everyone on putting out a good show.

Ok, Christian's a great bumper, but doesn't have much of a move set. But I enjoy his matches, because he has the charisma to carry the crowd. And the E&C memories are still fond ones. I'm bias, big whoop. You guys have all missed mentioning Booker T vs Big Show at Judgement Day 2002(?). That was a decent match, considering Show doesn't have great matches with many guys. But Christian has had good non TLC/Ladder/E&C matches too. For example... The opening match of Survivor Series 2001 against Al Snow. Judgement Day 1998 versus Taka Michinoku was decent. The matches he had against Diamond Dallas Page for the European Title. Versus Kurt Angle at KOTR 2001. Can't remember when it was, but he had a pretty decent match with Jeff Hardy. Fact is, Christian and Booker are the type of guys who work best as tag team wrestlers. Tracy Smothers, Bobby Eaton, Billy Gunn...some people can just about make it as a singles wrestler, but will always be best as tag wrestlers. Christian and Booker are them.

Angle should beat Lesnar, so they build up to a bigger match with a gimmick on it. And Orton is my pick for the Chamber. I don't care who's shoulders are in front of who's in a photo because that shouldn't mean anything. But it's funny how Goldberg's gone from main event singles spot, to just another guy going for the belt.

The anthroid guy on the Special People's Games one is probably the best one show appearance. But it's gotta be Quagmier for me, although everyone has their moments. Tom: You'll laugh, you'll cry...hell, you may even get a cheap laugh or two. Dianne: I know I will Tom. In fact, there's a good possibility that after tonight we'll all be going straight to hell. Tom: I'll see you there Dianne. ...or... Lois: Together we can do anything: face any foe, overcome any obstacle. Peter: Yeah, climb any mountain, rent any video, dial any phone. And not just our phone, Lois, other people's phones. Decent phones, God-fearing phones, phones that everybody else gave up on, but we knew better because we were a team! Brian: What the hell are you talking about? or better yet... Peter: Gays don't vomit. They're a very clean people. And they have been ever since they first came to this country from France.

Kane works well with The Rock so far for me. Just have Rock cut a load of promos, keep Kane from talking too often and it should work. Edge works well with most of his friends, so check the relationships...Christian might be an idea if you haven't turned either of them yet. If not Lance Storm might do well. As for Lesnar, I don't know because I've only used him against Angle in fueds. I'd go out on a limb and bung him with Benoit if you're not doing anything with him.

Has everyone forgotten the WCW cruiser division all of a sudden? They were pushed. Jericho, Malenko, Eddie, Rey, Kidman, Dragon, Juvi...they were all pushed. Get the Rey 619 DVD, and listen to the crowd reaction during Rey-Psychosis. They put on a great match, and the crowd is dead. Oh, that's because they're new...it happened one hell of a lot. Great matches, tepid crowd reactions. It takes more than just have a few cruisers go out and hit some flashy moves to win over a mark majority crowd like the WWE one is. Sure it's ok in RoH, because it's a smart audience. But WWE is not totally a smart audience. He needs to do something with the cruisers, and he doesn't want to because look at what he has to do. Billy Kidman, great worker but a horrible talker. Ultimo Dragon...does he talk in promos? Dean Malenko...he couldn't get over. I'm not saying Vince isn't wrong. Hell my arguement isn't fool proof. He has good talkers in Nunzio and Spanky going to waste as well. But there's more to it than 'just let them go out and fight.'

NWA:TNA- ANARCHY IN THE ASYLUM, WEEK 7 Announcers: Mike Tenay and Scott Hudson Dark Match Ekmo vs The Blue Meanie vs Simon Diamond Ekmo debuted last week by taking out Hamrick and Nova. And now, it’s payback time. Or not. Diamond does get a HOUSE...EN...FUEGO~! from Dames, but Meanie and Ekmo stop him quickly, and a clothesline pins Diamond. Yep. A clothesline. Big chants for Meanie, but they do little good as Ekmo dominates from there in and nails the Big Splash for three and a debut win for the big man. Crowd: 63% Match: 67% Overall: 65% Dames Rating: * The PPV itself begins with D'Lo Brown in the ring. BIG D'Lo chants as he stands and waits for them to die down a little. Eventually he gets to speak, and his words are 'A.J...GET OUT HERE NOW!!!' He's intense you see. But A.J doesn't come out. This causes D'Lo to use the old manhood trick, and calls A.J yellow. A few more taunts, and A.J finally walks out and we may have a fight on our hands. A.J enters the ring and D'Lo quickly makes a challenge. He wants a World Title shot, and he wants it TONIGHT! Styles takes a microphone and starts explaining how D'Lo doesn't deserve a shot, how he's not prepared...so D'Lo gives him a 'Cut the bullsh*t'. See...we're risque too. Anyway, D'Lo reacts to the crowd trying to start up a 'bullsh*t' chant, which allows Styles to nail a belt shot from behind! The crowd boo loudly, as Styles stands over D'Lo, and raises the belt in the air in triumph. Overall: 69% Four Team Elimination Match Ace In The Hole vs Gettin' Rowdy vs SAT vs Ikudo Hidaka and Masato Tanaka This is the TNA debut for Tanaka and Hidaka. The crowd are a little indifferent, seeing as Hidaka isn't the most well known wrestler in the world. We don't all read SKeith you know. Hidaka and Tanaka show some nice signs of teamwork for a new team, as do Gettin' Rowdy who of course are the reunited Ron Killings and B.G James. Tanaka gets rid of David Young early, eliminating Ace in the Hole. The SAT aren't allowed to hit many high flying moves, and go early as well curteosy of Gettin' Rowdy. It comes down to Gettin' Rowdy and the Japanese Dream Team, and both teams put on a decent match. Tanaka just escapes a debut loss off a spinebuster, and comes back into the match to allow Hidaka to get the win with the 'Shawn Capture' submission. Crowd: 61% Match: 75% Overall: 68% Dames Rating: *3/4 Raven's out from the back soon after, and looks angry. Not his usual solemn look. He grabs a microphone and calls out CM Punk...but it seems CM isn't around. Julio Dinero walks out, and informs Raven that CM isn't here tonight. Boo! But never mind, because Julio wants a fight. He was Raven's lacky for months, and now he's going to show what this lacky can do. Julio Dinero vs Raven Julio storms the ring right after this, and the fight is on. A pretty heated match, Julio showing he's much more than an underdog by taking control of some periods of the match. Raven eventually gains the advantage, the fans not too sure which guy to get behind at some points. Raven nails an Evenflow, but a foot on the ropes from Dinero saves the match much to Raven's disgruntlement. After an arguement with the ref, he gets ref bumped and all hell breaks loose. Raven hits another Evenflow, just as CM Punk runs down the aisle and smashes the steel chair over Raven's head. Julio gets the pin from this, and a cheap win. CM and Julio attack Raven after the match, beating him down mercilessly until referees swarm out to halt them. Crowd: 65% Match: 63% Overall: 64% Dames Rating: 3/4* Notes: Julio Dinero gained overness from this match. Mike Awesome of the New Church Disciples stands backstage, when suddenly Shane Douglas walks by and taps him on the shoulder. Awesome turns around confused, to see the smiling Douglas. James Mitchell steps into view, and seeing the two men together, gives a smile and a laugh...a blood curdling laugh. Well, it was an evil laugh at least. Douglas responds with a smile, and says 'I take it the deal is still on then', before nodding and walking off. Overall: 62% NWA Tag Team Titles Triple X 3© vs James Storm and The Amazing Red James Storm's quest for the Tag Team Belts continued, and what a partner. Red had Triple X 3 reeling from the start with a flurry of big moves which took the champs by surprise. Daniels and Low Ki regrouped like the true champions they are, and took down Red nullifying his high flying style, and also the crowd. Red, ever resiliant, fought back and got the hot tag to Storm, who fought off both Triple Xers until Daniels manages to nail a DDT from the top rope. Legitimatly, Dames called it. Red then came close to getting the win with a buzzsaw kick, only for Daniels to make the save. With Storm hurt on the outside, Triple X managed to capitalise and the Last Rites finished off the US Champion, as Triple X 3 win again. Crowd: 64% Match: 87% Overall: 75% Dames Rating: *** Notes: The NWA Tag Team Titles have gained in image STRAIGHT TALKING with Glenn Gilberti Special guest: Sean Waltman Gilberti and Waltman are in the ring to start things off, and they seem pretty chummy. Waltman is given the microphone by Gilberti, and goes on a rant on how he invented junior heavyweight wrestling in America. If it wasn't for him, all the two bit losers you see in the X-Division wouldn't even be here. Ouch! 'X-Pac sucks' chants greet Waltman, but these only fire him on further...but suddenly the lights go out, and when they come back on Sabu is in the ring! He isn't a talker...so he attacks Waltman! The two battle around the ring, Sabu using the couch to hit the Poetry in Motion style leg lariat. Eventually they brawl to the back, Overall: 66% Tag Team Match Kid Kash and Abyss vs Norman Smiley and Spanky This all stems from last week, when Smiley saves Spanky from a beatdown at the hands of Kash and Abyss. See...more continuity. Kash and Spanky carry the match, and putting in quite the effort. Smiley and Abyss were surprisingly decent also, with the big man showing surprising agility at times. The finish came when Kid Kash went down to Sliced Bread #2, but Network team-mates Simon Diamond and Swinger ran down with chairs. Spanky went to confront Swinger, allowing Diamond to roll in and hit a chair shot to the head of Smiley, and Kash capitalised with the Cha Ching for the three count. Crowd: 64% Match: 78% Overall: 71% Dames Rating: **1/4 It's time for the main event now, and the Dream Partners match. Jarrett and Douglas got their introductions first, as of course this is a Dream Partners match. Douglas chose first, and unsurprisingly Shane chooses Mike Awesome, both men of course managed by James Mitchell. Awesome and Douglas then wait to see who Jarrett's partner could be, and after a few various chants from the crowd with various names Jarrett chooses...Konnan? Yep, Konnan. Konnan storms out, and attacks and we're off and running. 'Dream Partners' Match Shane Douglas and Mike Awesome vs Jeff Jarrett and Konnan Konnan was FIRED up. Surprisingly motivated, not that it impressed Dames of course. Konnan was kept down eventually, with Awesome and Douglas taking turns in beating down Konnan. The crowd were just dieing to see Jarrett get in after Douglas, and eventually the hot tag allowed him in. Mike Awesome did his job, keeping Jarrett away from Douglas, for as long as possible, but a sneaky lowblow eliminated him from proceedings. James Mitchell ran out to help his men, but suddenly Ron Killings came in through the crowd, nailing Douglas with the True Conviction! Jarrett gets the pin from this, and celebrates with the 3 Live Crew as Douglas lays flat out to end the show. Crowd: 76% Match: 63% Overall: 72% Dames Rating: * Overall Rating: 68% Attendance: 3452 Buy rate: 0.20 Best Match: Triple X 3 vs Red/Storm Hottest Match: Jarrett/Konnan vs Awesome/Douglas Worst Match: Jarrett/Konnan vs Awesome/Douglas AND Raven/Dinero Best Segment: Styles nails D'Lo with the World Title Worst Segment: Awesome and Douglas form their team Rating is down from last week sure, but attendance was up so that's a plus. Dinero and Raven 'didn't click' due to their mismatched styles. Oh well, at least they're not feuding. Raven now wants to work with Mike Awesome though. Pity Awesome's the most expensive guy per appearance so I don't use him oftenly. And meanwhile, Abyss is injured. A neck injury puts him out for 8 months, and that screws up my Network stable a little.

What is it with Shane Douglas? From: Sandman Shane Douglas would be a great opponent for me, how about putting us together in some matches? When did Douglas suddenly become everyone's favourite opponent...for that matter, why would Sandman request a match with a guy he dislikes? Oh well, he may get his wish, because my roster's just diminished a little. The WWE have signed Shark Boy, Legend and Mike Sanders to written contracts. And Hulk Hogan signed for them as well. So I may have to bust out a few written contracts myself to save myself from losing my top talents. At least it was only those three...so far. Good news though. On reliable information from SKeith on the grapplefanatics site, Ikudo Hidaka sings up to an open contract. He also works for FLI and has touring commitments with NOAH, and according to SKeith he's the closest modern day worker to the Dynamite Kid. Notice he didn't put Benoit there for some reason. Oh well, it's time for... *NEXT WEEK'S PREVIEW* ~Last week...D'Lo Brown beat A.J Styles cleanly, and finally added a little more heat on their feud in the process. Will A.J grant a title shot to D'Lo this week? Will D'Lo have to earn his shot further? Will we get a little bait and switch from these two? ~Meanwhile, Jeff Jarrett and Shane Douglas' feud continues to rage on, with no end seemingly in sight. This week, the two will do war in a 'Dream Partners Match', meaning both men can choose anyone from the locker room to partner them. But with egos the size of these two men's, neither man has any real allies, so their choices will be interesting to say the least. ~Raven was the victim of an ambush last week from his former Gathering, the Gathering which have deseted him for CM Punk. Raven has challenged Punk to a match this coming week, but will Punk accept. And what are his reasons for going after Raven? ~James Storm's quest to bring back the Tag Team Titles continues on. This week, he has pre-announced his partner as the reigning NWA US Champion The Amazing Red, as they take on the highly impressive Tag Team Champions Christopher Daniels and Low Ki, 'Triple X 3'. ~Former WWE superstar Ekmo debuted last week with a bang, gaining enemies along the way as he destroyed Nova and Chris Hamrick after their match, and now he must face allies of the two men as it will be Ekmo vs The Blue Meanie vs Simon Diamond as the dark match. You've got to be there live to see it! (that'll sell those spare tickets...) ~Also, Norman Smiley teams with Spanky to take on Abyss and Kid Kash. Sean Waltman is the special guest on Straight Talking with Glenn Gilberti. And a four way tag team elimination match will see the NWA:TNA debut of Japanese standouts Masato Tanaka and Ikudo Hidaka.

Ok showtime...but first off, e-mail time... From: Konnan How about booking me against Shane Douglas? I'm sure we could do some pretty entertaining stuff that the fans would like. Konnan and Douglas? Entertaining? That would be funny. But it's not as not as good as Sting requesting to work against Chuck Palumbo in my WWE fed. Ok, I agree with good old Todd in his RoH diary(read it, I've already plugged everyone else). The commentary does get a little repetitive, so I'll write it kind of like he does. Only better. Like I do pole matches. Lol, jk. I'll give Dames' star ratings, just to show him how harsh he can be. Anyway, on wih the show... NWA:TNA- ANARCHY IN THE ASYLUM, WEEK 6 Announcers: Mike Tenay and Scott Hudson Dark Match Nova vs Chris Hamrick Nice way to kick things off for the crowd, with an X-Division Match. But, Nova's only been around TNA for a couple of weeks, and Hamrick just debuted last week. As such, the crowd isn't really into the match, despite the two putting on quite the show for them. That's what you get for being a team-mate with the Blue Meanie and being a Network flunky I guess. Oh yes, Hamrick is part of The Network, and as such there's a Network presence hanging over the match. But funnily enough they don't get involved. Anyway, Nova makes the mistake of trying to get some crowd reaction, and Hamrick uses an exposed steel turnbuckle to his advantage, and to get a win. He'll learn... Crowd: 55% Match: 83% Overall: 69% Dames Rating: **1/2 Notes: Nova lost overness from this match. Chris Hamrick gained overness from this match. Before Hamrick can even begin to celebrate, someone in street clothes hops over the barrier. Well...replace 'street clothes' with 'imitation baseball shirt and leather shorts'. And 'hops' by 'rolls awkwardly'. And 'someone' with '400 pound guy with braids'. Hmm...I wonder who that could be. The guy grabs a steel chair, and takes out Chris Hamrick with a chair shot. Showing he's an 'equal opportunity ass kicker', he then takes the chair to Nova. And we finally get a good shot of him...and it's former WWE star Jamal! Or rather, it's Ekmo. We don't want to annoy those WWE officials and get sued now do we? The PPV kicks off proper, and what a way to do so... NWA Tag Team Titles Triple X 3© vs James Storm and ??? Dames informs us all that Triple X 3 have been NWA Tag Team champions since 24 September 2003. James Storm was one of the former champions, before Russo stripped the belts. Seeing as Chris Harris is in rehab, he did't really have a choice. And last week, Storm recruited Frankie Kazarian to be his partner, but Triple X retained. This week however, Storm has a different partner...and he's Mad Mikey. Obviously he's so mad, he walks into the ring and straight into a Low Ki lariat. Nice back and forth match, Triple X try to stay away from Storm as much as possible. Eventually Triple X get the win with the Last Rites on Mikey, and celebrate their win. Crowd: 61% Match: 81% Overall: 71% Dames Rating: **1/2 because apparantely he didn't mark out. Well he did...I guess he just ignored the Implant DDT mark out. Oh well. Notes: The NWA Tag Team titles have gained in image. JIVE TALKING with Glenn Gilberti Special guest: Commissioner Bret Hart Gilberti's in the ring as we're back, and he's got his couch back. But there's no crazy disco stuff. That's because Glenn's changed. He's not about Jive Talking anymore. It's STRAIGHT talking for him. And he wants some straight talking from Bret Hart! That's the cue as Hart's music hits, and the crowd erupt, Bret walks out. He gives the sunglasses to a kid at ringside, just like the old days, and enters the ring, understandably wary of Gilberti's motives. Anyway Gilberti questions Bret's motives in the TNA, and Bret says he wants someone to challenge the WWE, because if they don't wrestling will slowly crumble. TNA chants for that. Bret wants TNA to challenge the WWE...but they can't, as long as Vince Russo is going around making decisions for his buddies good. Gilberti objects, but is asked how he got his show back and soon shuts up. Anyway, Bret's here to be the troubleshooting commissioner...for the fans. And for wrestling's good. What a nice guy. Overall: 74% Bret's still leaving and playing to the fans, as we have to cut backstage to where Raven is in catering. Well...the catering trolley. This whole open contract business isn't helping our financial status. But anyway, Raven's there and grabs himself some coffee, but suddenly notices Julio Dinero, and calls out to him. Dinero just disappears though, and Raven shrugs his shoulders...but is suddenly attacked from behind! He goes crashing forward into the trolley, as suddenly Dinero and Alexis Laree pounce on Raven! They stomp away on Raven until a voice says 'Stop!'...and they do. They back off, as into the shot walks CM PUNK...and tells Raven 'his time is up', before leaving with his Gathering buddies Overall: 78% NWA US Title The Amazing Red© vs Elix Skipper Red won the title last week from Shane Douglas, but had a bit of help from Jeff Jarrett. Tonight's his first defence. And the crowd are still acting pretty indifferent, even for Amazing Red. Must be an off night in the Asylum. Anyway, pretty short match, but still good enough. Elix keeps the crowd subdued, until from out of nowhere, Red counters a Play of the Day into a sitout powerbomb, and nails the Infra Red for a pretty impressive win. Crowd: 63% Match: 78% Overall: 70% Dames Rating: **1/4 Kid Kash vs Spanky Spanky also debuted last week, and as a nice guy face, he's a perfect opponent for obnoxious Kid Kash. Hopefully. Well it was a decent match. A very decent match. Still the crowd are less into the show than previous weeks, which is worrying me slightly. Oh well, both men hit the usual high impact, high flying moves, including a Frog Splash from Spanky that could rival RVD's. Spanky almost wins with a hurricanrana, but Kash just escapes, and after that the Network's hired gun Abyss runs down, dropping Spanky across the ropes and allowing Kash to hit the Cha Ching for a cheap win. Crowd: 66% Match: 90% Overall: 78% Dames Rating: ***1/2 After the match, it seems The Network want Spanky out of action, as the big man and Kid Kash double team Amazing Red. Finally the crowd get into things, trying to help Red out with chants, but they can't help. Thankfully Norman Smiley can, running down with a chair to save the day and chase off Abyss and Kash. Backstage, it seems Vince Russo has taken offence to something. He's got his ANGRY~! face on. And he suddenly bursts into the commissioner’s office, getting right up in Bret's face. Russo goes into a looong rant about Bret being the new guy, and Russo being the real boss, before taking offence to Bret's claims that Russo is bias. Bret responds by standing up from his desk, and getting back into Russo's face, telling him soon enough Russo'll be forced to change. Russo backs off, and walks off as Bret sits back down. That Hitman...he's so cool. Overall: 75% While this has been going on, Justin Credible has entered the ring, and he looks like he's selling injuries from last week. Pity he didn't sell them last week. Oh well, I guess Rene Dupree would be proud. Back to Justin...he's angry because Jerry Lynn attacked him last week. And he has a challenge for Jerry Lynn. 'Grow some balls and get out here, cause I'm calling you out!' Now that's a challenge! Jerry walks out and eventually attacks Justin. The two exchange heated right hands, in and out of the crowd before finally they brawl all the way to the back. Overall: 51% Notes: Jerry Lynn lost overness from this segment So Lynn loses overness again. Great. I think Jerry may be in need of a charisma transfusion. Or a manager. Whichever's cheaper. Main Event Jeff Jarrett and D'Lo Brown vs A.J Styles and Shane Douglas Styles does not hold an in-ring win in his feud with D'Lo, Jarrett doesn't hold one in his feud with Douglas. Styles is the NWA Champion as well, so this should be interesting. Jarrett is dominated by Styles and Douglas for the majority of the match, the two showing pretty decent teamwork in the process. Eventually D'Lo gets the hot tag, and it is hot as FINALLY the crowd are into a match. D-Lo does the HOUSE EN FUEGO house clearing, before Douglas nails a sneaky lowblow. A 'Franchiser' follows, despite Douglas changing his gimmick. The Franchise Player gimmick is always un-over. Before Douglas can get the win, Jarrett spears him out of the ring and they brawl to the back. Meanwhile, with the crowd behind him D-Lo manages to hit a Rude Awakening, and a Lo Down for a three count on the World Champion! Crowd: 79% Match: 75% Overall: 77% Dames Rating: **1/4 D'Lo celebrates as the show ends, A.J looking on in shock as he retreats to the back. Overall Rating: 72% Attendance: 3390 Buy rate: 0.21 Best Match: Kid Kash vs Spanky Hottest Match: Jarrett/D'Lo vs Styles/Douglas Worst Match: Jarrett/D'Lo vs Styles/Douglas Best Segment: The Gathering ambush Raven Worst Segment: Jerry Lynn and Justin Credible call-out brawl 72% is a decent enough score for me, seeing as my best for TNA is only 73%. Maybe we an improve next week. Maybe the crowd will be into the show a little more. Maybe you'll get a preview later...

Foley shouldn't have been there. It wasn't his fault, but he was made to look like an ass because he hyped up the retirement stuff and then got the Wrestlemania call afterwards. It just made him look bad. Forget the McMahon in every corner. I don't HATE the McMahon like most, but they weren't needed. Leave Show in, because the whole build up was between Rock/Show. Helmsley and Rock only started the feud after NWO, Rock and Show had been feuding since the Rumble. HHH goes over Rock, because Triple H was the right choice. Rock was popular, but Triple H needed a big boost to put him over further, and winning at Mania is just the push he needed. Vince could have turned heel on Raw rather than Mania, because that took away from Triple H.

Dragon's held down, London will be held down, damn Vince, Taker's bad for taking a common move like the Dragon Sleeper even though I've seen Benoit use it plenty of times before but that's alright because it's the ALMIGHTY Chris Benoit, workrate good... *yawn* Heard it all before. And WWE style is to protect the hosses sure. But what if Dragon does start doing great moves, and the Cruisers all start using more innovative and dangerous moves. Eventually that's all the crowd will want to see. And...eventually someone will try so hard to impress the crowd that he'll damn near kill himself. Don't believe me? New Jack has gradually got more and more crazy with his balcony dives through his career, to the point he nearly killed himself at Living Dangerously. Shane McMahon's the same. King of the Ring 2001, he did crazy shit because he had to upstage his Summerslam jump against Blackman and then against Big Show with the elbow. Not to mention Hell in a Cell, which they've had to tone down...'oh no it's not tone down it's make WWE stlye Vince sux!' Sure Dragon should be pushed higher. But he's not. So...meh.

That's the whole reason why Gowen is so valuable. One appearance in person and people remember him. For good reasons. Oh, and if Bret comes back and wrestles in the Rumble or whatever, I lose one SHIT load of respect for him.

This ain't early 90's WCW...although I wouldn't be suprised to see the Black Scorpion story rehashed soon... Back on topic, Triple H will be at Summerslam. The guy doesn't no show the big events through injury regularly. Goldberg will win, WWE might use him well and not have him speak much just win, win, win over everyone, we'll all be unhappy about it, things won't change, but we'll still moan about 'Shit/Green Berg/Turd' being champ.

Good...I'm not the only one who thought that after watching Smackdown. I mean I was fully expecting him to go over to the crowd and lick someone... Notice how had to avoid saying 'licked someone's head', considering how this thread's going. Thanks RRR...

SINGLES MATCH Jay Morrison vs "Canadian Thunder" Chris Trepanier -Trepanier TV TITLE MATCH TODD BLESS US ALL MATCH Todd Royal© vs Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix -You're kidding me right? Todd in a match made for him, against me...Todd should win. TAG TEAM MATCH Two Drink Minimum (Danny Conklin & Tim Dillon) vs Hybrid & Tommy Nguyen -The Two Drink Minimum. EUROPEAN TITLE CONTENDERSHIP FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH Dominic Korgath vs Scott Solomon -Tough one, but I reckon Korgath. EUROPEAN TITLE MATCH SINGLES MATCH Bloodshed© vs English Dragon -Dragon to win it back, this'll be close as well. MAIN EVENT TRIPLE THREAT MATCH Manson vs Viktor Tarakanov vs Aecas -Aecas just.

If I had have known Nguyen wasn't showing, I would have left my match at 3570 words and not tried to edit it down...oh well, pity I win like this but like you say Hoth-Boy, real life happens.

Picking stuff out of this thread. Firstly, compare Angle's time in the business to Eddie's Eddie was born into wrestling, the majority of the male side of his family are wrestlers. Therefore he will be better than Angle. The way I see it, Eddie Guerrero is better than Angle, but he's also had over twice the time in the business that Angle has. People forget Angle's been in the proffesional business about four years The ankle lock is such a devestating move, then ankle does not need to be worked on. It's effective enough on it's own. And name me five moves that work on the ankle, not including 'kick to the ankle' or 'elbow onto ankle'. A chop block isn't gonna hurt the ankle, so what's the point of working on the knee. RVD did pin Show with the Frog Splash during the InVasion yes...but then, who didn't pin the Big Show during the InVasion? Back to the point of this, I like Shane McMahon. I'm a hopeless Attitude/ECW fan, and a hopeless spot monkey fan. I enjoy real wrestling from guys like Eddie and Benoit too, but if someone's going to get thrown through tables and glass then I'll watch it and not worry about 'traditional wrestling'. So, I like Shane and I like RVD for the same reason. The difference is, I have a reason for caring about Shane McMahon. If RVD-Kane is going to work, give me a reason to care about RVD. To do so, RVD will have to stop Kane's momentum, and the MOMENT he does everyone would be up in arms about Kane not being a monster, just like now. I need a reason to care about RVD, because I have seen ECW RVD and InVasion RVD. If it were a choice between the RVD of now and ECW RVD, the majority of people would watch the ECW version because it's more suited to him. So give us a reason for caring about RVD. Bring back Bill Alfonso to manage him, let him do crazy stuff even if it upstages Helmsley, Nash and the rest. Let him swear liberally if it helps. Then I might care. The sad thing is, RVD is not as big of a threat to Kane as Shane McMahon is. Kane squashed RVD on Raw. Shane has proven he can stand up to Kane, and he hasn't been around for months so seeing him back provides something different. And all the arguement here comes down to against Shane is his last name. That's not going to change, so I don't really care to be honest.