King Cucaracha

I was just waiting for Vince to grab the chair, miss and nail Tazz. They've got a former ECW Champion at the announce booth, and they nail the spanish annoucner with a chair? Lol, actually that's a good thing otherwise Tazz would have been goen from the rest of the show. Tazz rocks.

Yep...can you dig Hogan versus Piper at Backlash? Piper hates Hogan...Hogan hates Piper...19 years in the making blah blah blah, conveniently forgetting that they had a match in WCW not so long ago, and it sucked. Damn, if Piper's back as a wrestler he needs to get more into shape. And what was the point of his run in? A 'shocking heel turn on Hogan?' Why was everyone so shocked he hit Hogan? He'd already spat on the guy!

The Hogan Retirement Match-I thought he only retired if McMahon beat him... WWE Title Match Kurt Angle © vs. Brock Lesnar $300 on Lesnar World Title Match HHH vs. Booker T. $50 on HHH The Rock vs. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin $50 on Rocky Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Micheals $50 on Y2J Hulk Hogan Retirement Match Hollywood Hulk Hogan vs. Vince McMahon $50 on McMahon WWE Tag Team Titles Match Team Angle © vs. Los Guerreros vs. Chris Benoit & Rhyno $100 on Team Angle WWE Cruiserweight Title Match Matt Hardy, Version 1 © vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. $50 on Mattitude Undertaker and Nathan Jones vs. A-Train and The Big Show $100 on Taker and Jones WWE Women's Title Match Victoria © vs. Trish Stratus vs. Jazz $50 on Victoria

It was just hypothetical...I'm sure Hayes would jump at the chance to be a Freebird again, and why not get someone under the mask of Badstreet. Anyway, just hypothetical...

Maybe Rock will learn a new tune this week. Something with 3MW/Rico and Maven would end up on the show probably, Hurricane probably won't be there to 'sell his injury'. More Goldust hilarity(no, that wasn't sarcasm...I find his gimmick crappily funny.) Another Dudleyz segment...basically your typical Raw. Hopefully the crowd is as hot as last week, really helps the show out. I'm sure nothing special will happen to big up Mania though.

Hell, they brought back the Moondog guy...and Duggan...what about THE FREEBIRDS! Seriously, that'd be one of my biggest TNA mark-outs ever. Right up there with D-Lo and Raven. Hell, sign Diamond Dallas Page to be their manager again...that way you'd have a former WCW Champion to use on the mic too. The Freebirds would rule again! Seriously though, it'll be someone like the Road Warriors, or the Duggan/Moondog connection...or Kronik as previously suggested.

Yes, that is true. That big ass car couldn't pull The Big Show! And the original plan was for THE UNDERTAKER to creamte the ashes and flush them...but for some reason they put The Bossman in. I mean, Show beating Taker may have helped his title reign...but Bossman? I know it isn't WWF, but I HAVE to mention The Shockmaster aka Tugboat, Typhoon, Fred Ottman. I saw that recently, and it is the funniest thing ever. Bulldog, Sting and Flair I think it was were just laughing their heads off, and Jesse on commentary didn't try to cover it up...the only one who kept a straight face was Sid. How I don't know, cause even if he didn't fall over...it was still shockingly crapily funny. HHH and Flair was damn funny, but Viscera slipping over on the beer, and Mankind putting the glasses back on Rock were hilarious. Or Owen at Rumble 98 chasing after HHH and falling down behind the ramp as Farrooq breezes past him.

1) Yes to Kato/whoever his name is from the Orient Express at Mania. If it wasn't Kato, I'm sure one of the two at Mania was masked. 9)Clue 2...his tag team partners with this belt were also at the time the WCW US Tag Champs.

Hint for Question 1- He was part of a tag team. Hint for Question 9- Also part of a tag team, only it was a 6 man team(BIG CLUE!)

How about Lance Storm as 'The Smark'. He could be regularly seen on a laptop in the background, and would appear in every other segment. Vince could then make him seem like the stereotypical 'bitter Smark' by complaining about everything. Whenever someone messes up in the ring, Storm can be seen on his computer typing rapidly, muttering to himself 'Wow, that was gold...this'll get me some friends for sure'. Give him an equivilent of the HHHonk to make him seem more geeky. Have people eventually join him...like Chris Nowinski. They could cut short long promos and complain about the lack of wrestling...teach Scott Steiner that muscles don't equal stamina...keep asking Jeff if he's really gay...bow down to Mattitude or Sean O'Haire whenever they are in shot...be sat at ringside with 'typical Smark signs'...and start abusing HHH mentally and physically whenever he's around. First major storyline...climing that Ric Flair is actually being held prisoner by HHH. HHH comes out to cut a promo. Whenever he goes to speak, for some reason a loud 'WHOOOOO!' rings around the arena. HHH gets angry and eventually turns on Flair. Smarks rejoice...both here and there. They ask Flair to go back to his roots, until Flair introduces them to his son...David Flair! The Smarks drop to their knees tearing their hair out. Or, they could do JR impressions, and hire a Cruiserweight to be 'The Hoss Machine'. Leading to an inevitable feud with JR and King. Upsides:Could actually be a funny angle if they got an intelligent Smark to book it. Punblicity for us. Downsides: The Marks wouldn't understand a thing about it, and Vince would use it for his own personal pleasure.

If the WWE went under...how many guys do you actually expect to go into the indies? Japan...maybe. NWA:TNA...possibly. the indies don't pay as well as WWE, most will lose the will to wrestle because of poorer payoffs and more critical fans. Also, what do the indie guys have to aspire to? They all have the possible dream of one day maybe making it to the WWE. Maybe not ALL I understand, but most. And how are these feds supposed to support all these WWE guys. If they had the budget for WWE guys, wouldn't they try and sign some now? Hell yeah...but they haven't. Secondly...the WWE isn't the be all and end all of wrestling, but it made wrestling mainstream. Like him or not, without Vince McMahon we wouldn't have Wrestlemania. We wouldn't have the good stuff we have now like competitive matches on T.V, we'd have a mountain of squashes. Vince put on the first PPV's. Without WWE wrestling would have never made it here to us in Britain. And if WWE does go under, what are us Brits gonna get? We only get WWE programming. No TNA, no Japan or Mexican wrestling, no indies. Nothing. All we'd get are the indies...territroies are Ok for you Americans, you can see the shows. Here in Britain...Australia too...if WWE is gone so is wrestling. I hope WWE doesn't go under...it shouldn't do. Not for a while. I've grown up with WCW, WWE and eventually ECW. WCW and ECW have gone...for WWE to go, then a piece of history has gone. No matter how 'badly WWE treats us', if the WWE dies then we'll all be lost in some way. WWE dying would be a BAD thing to me...and you'd eventually get over I guess, but not for a long while. And could you imagine Stephanie using her millions to create her own fed...AAAAAHHH!!!

Rude is right, as is number 10. I don't know what title Mr Wrestling won, if any...if he did please tell me, but he isn't who I has in mind.

3)Yes 4)Yes...what's ridiculous they made it obvious it was Pillman...but they had to unmask him to see if it was him? 5)Yes 6)Yes 7)Yes 8)Yes 9)Vader counts for question 10 as one, but he wasn't the first to win a title in America.

These all have a 'mask' theme, and are probably too easy, but hell... 1) Who was the first masked man to win a match at a Wrestlemania? 2) Which former NWA World Champion debuted for his breif stint in ECW under a mask? 3) Who caused Rey Mysterio to lose his mask in WCW? 4) Who was the under the mask of the 'Yellow Dog', and for what reason did he use the mask? 5) Who wrestled under the mask of Aguila?(Easy One!) 6) Who was originally set to play Max Moon? 7) Who was under the mask of the Black Scorpion?(Easy One!) 8) Under what mask did Dean Malenko win a cruiserweight battle royal, and subsequently go on to beat Chris Jericho for the Cruiserweight Title? 9) Which masked legend was the first to win any championship in America? 10) How many wrestlers have held either ECW, WCW or WWF World Titles under a mask?

1)Taker? 2) Martel, Hercules, Roma, Akeem, Bossman, Warlord, Nikolai Volkoff and 'The Natural' Butch Reed 3) Ole Anderson 4) Shinja(can't remember the spelling) 5) Dog handler suit 6)Chavo Guerrero and Hugh Morrus 7)Who played the role of Peggy Sue during the 1988 for the Honky Tonk Man 8) Owen Hart? 9) BUNDY!

This chooses itself...'Hot Shit' Tony Stetson...'Hot Shit Title'...AND A GUY WITH THE SECOND NAME COLON!?! It writes itself! Just rename him 'The Colon' or something. " 'Hot Shit' escapes from The Colon's tight grip." "The Colon shoots Hot Shit into the ropes." "Hot Shit is all over The Colon now! This is not pretty!" It's classic XPW innuendo at it's best. Plus, when you're choosing an XPW wrestler, you've got to consider Colon's only credential is entering the 1993 Rumble...and nobody gave a toss. Perfect XPW. People might actually care to much about the others...well, maybe not...

I kind of agree with it, in that we should just relax a little and try and find the pros in everything. Although if we did that with some thigns, we'd miss the rest of the show thinking. Anyway, I think I might be 'part mark' cause I don't have any hate for any wrestler or match particularly. Hell whenever anyone mentions the Kennel From Hell, I remember...no wait, bad example. I can find the positive in most things. 'Mr Positive'...hmm, maybe I could use that as a 'gimmick'. Anyway, I know come Wrestlemania it's mark time. I always 'mark' for a PPV by not reading any internet stuff for a while if possible. Worked for NWO, worked for Survivor Series, definatly worked for Rumble. Come Mania, I'm gonna have forgotten most of my pro-Jerichoness and as this guy put remember the old times. The old HBK. Same goes for Hogan. I'm looking forward to Vince-Hogan, and plan to mark like a bitch, even though the match itself will blow. Unless they make it No DQ(If they have already, please ingnore my ignorance!) Hell the only PPV match I've fastforwarded in like the past half year to a year was Steiner and HHH at NWO. I'll be watching Jones and Taker vs Show and A-Train. Basically, I'll remember when PPV's actually felt special. And hope to enjoy WM more If I'm gonna watch it 'as a smark', then a HHH win would sour my whole watching of the show. I can see what he's saying about Mania, because I grew up on Hulk-a-Mania, on D-X, on Austin 3:16, on the HBK era, on the Deadman era. But if you're a guy bitching about guy's bitching...doesn't that make you a guy bitching yourself? I don't agree with the smark bashing...and the fact he's bashing the very people who'll read this. We can choose to like and hate what we want to. If I choose to mark for Goldberg when he coems back because I remember his good days from WCW, then I will. No smark or internet columnist is going to stop me from doing it nor making me do it. Oh, and the problem with Rikishi is his act is O-L-D OLD! Hell when someone like Van Dam comes in in 2001 with his style, he got over very quickly. Now, it's the same stuff. Like Rikishi, it's over...but it's been seen too many times. The new stuff needs to keep coming through, and the breakout stuff isn't happening. And when it does (Mattitude, O'Haire, Jericho and Christian's double act to a smaller extent) it's not being used. WWE is about entertainment. We watch the wrestling to be entertained. Same for the gimmicks. Things can only entertain us so many times before we need a change. That's why The Rock and Austin are so highly thoguht of, and Rikishi and HBK aren't. If it's old, time for a change.

The best thing is, if you get bored of playing as your guy all the time, or you have time on your hands, you can play almost EVERY match before yours by cliking Play instead of Skip or whatever. Makes up for the fact it's the same story every time, and even if you're Kidman Vince/Flair thinks you're important for his brand's success. And the fact Raw guys are on Smackdown and vice versa. And some things don't make sense...but hey, it's only a game

We probably shouldn't be laughing at such a serious event...but that's pretty damn funny! But seriously, it doesn't bare thinking about what'd happen. The whole thing doesn't bare thinking about. Most probably won't happen, here's hoping it won't

2) Mens Teioh? Think that's his name.

4-Rey was actually part of the lWo, he was forced to be in it. 7-Hugh Morrus?

Speaking of Dustin Runnels, what's up with him only 'fitting' when he's in control of a match. Coincidence or what! Lol, I thought these 'fits' were random. Oh, and Seven will probably make a return if this new Goldust doesn't get over enough...they won't say it's Dustin as Seven of course...that'd just be stupid.

It had bowling shoe tendancies BAH GAWD! Austin isn't a hoss, I wouldn't count Floey as a hoss, Shamrock isn't a hoss...and you missed out Test, one of JR's faves.

It was Vince's way of saying 'Yoko, you're too fat.' Basically it was supposed to embarass Yoko, probably to the point of him leaving, as Vince has tried unsuccessfuly with Mark Henry recently. As for Summerslam, I like it. HBK and Vader's matchw as a bit of a let down with all the restarts. The Boiler Room Brawl is one of my favourite gimmick matches, cause it has the historic feel to it. Plus it was funny when they had the camera cut out a couple of times, and the fans boo the hell out of them till it comes back. The end of it is typical surreal Taker stuff. Other than that it's pretty much Ok.

Trish Torrie