ChrisMWaters

He "ran for president" in 1996. He ran for Congress, IIRC, in Connecticut in 2000, as mentioned when he came out for the 2000 Royal Rumble.

Yeah, but that was before weekly TV became more than just a string of squashes with the occasional angle development. SNME today isn't anything more special than the average TV show. Judging from the first two they've done, I'd say it actually means less. Well, that's because the past two SNME's have been just lead in shows for WrestleMania 22 and I believe it was SummerSlam this past year. With my formula, SNME would be replacing shows like Backlash, Judgment Day, and the like, and while building to the future PPVs would have PPV quality matches fit into two hours. In other words...it'd be like the old school "In Your House" events...except on free TV and with commercials. ...we have 16 PPVs in 12 months. SIXTEEN And one of those months, one of the major PPVs (Royal Rumble) has a PPV mostly nobody cares about, New Year's Revolution. That's a bit excessive to me. My view on this is...if you make PPVs rarer, and don't give them major, non commercial interrupted matches that often, more people will be willing to buy the things, and we wouldn't have PPVs that are under 100,000 in buys. In simpler terms...you build a higher demand for them. But that's just how I view things.

Updated for the ladder match main.

What was with the zipper around the chin stubble? Oh, and a chain-mail headbutt WOULD hurt.

I'm sorry, but the red Abyss mask just doesn't work for me. Abyss...steal back your black mask.

Yep. And is it me, or does Ray look thinner than in the past few months?

"Heeeres Edgy!"

I wish that they'd just cancel all PPVs except Mania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, the Rumble...and maybe two more...then have the other months just have a SNME in it. Isn't that pretty much how they did it from 85-92?

This past Monday on Raw.

How many people in the WWE fanbase were familiar with Verne Gagne?

Minor note of something: Apparently, they droped Estrada's middle name. He's just Armando Estrada on the webpage.

Bruno probably will not be inducted until he's dead. Backlund may have a harder time getting inducted now due to the fact he's in TNA. But then again, Jimmy Hart was in TNA for a while and he got inducted

I don't think last year had a theme. Look at the group: Bret Hart Eddie Guerrero Mean Gene Okerlund Tony Atlas Sensational Sherri Verne Gagne The Blackjacks And celeb William Perry

Least they got rid of the stupid extra designs on Lashley's tights. It worked for Lesnar, Lashley. It won't work for you.

I can't tell.. Which combo of La Res was that? EDIT: N/m. SNITSKY IN DA HOUSE!

He grew a set?

I'd like for Terry Funk to be inducted. And have either Dreamer or Foley do the inducting

Who else will be added, is the question. After Piper and Rhodes were attacked last week, I could have sworn that The Wild Samoans would have been inducted, and tried to beat up Umaga.

Wll, if the Wii's Virtual Console starts releasing games that were never released on American shores over here, then the Virtual Console will REALLY be interesting.

Agreed. On a separate note, I was thinking of something for the X-Division, let me know your thoughts: Give the X Title to a worker who uses a slow, methodical style. Maybe Bobby Roode. Have him use a bunch of holds and power moves, and in his promos he bashes the fast paced X-style, a la Steve Corino's anti-hardcore movement. Then you have direction for not just the champion and the horribly wasted Roode, but you give the X faces some kind of direction. And that direction would be down. Well, if they weren't there already. The point of the X-Division is to have fast paced matches with big spots. Why not, I don't know, have a champion who can wrestle fast paced matches and do big spots? The idea of having an X-Division champion who doesn't wrestle the typical X-Division style isn't a bad one, but having that guy bury the X-Division wrestlers is. Plus, didn't we have that already with Sonny Siaki back in the weekly PPV days? Oh, and we ALMOST had it with Kevin Nash too.

Maybe they'll make it title for title, Umaga's IC title verses Lashley's ECW title

Cena vs. HBK in a shill fest.

SHH! They might actually do that!

So..Umaga is Vince's person.. Least Umaga is better than Khali

No. The Wrestlemania thread can be opened shortly before Wrestlemania, not almost six weeks out. All right, even though it was for discussion as well, ala the ECW December to Dismember thread. But I won't fight it.