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WHOO~! BATTLE OF THE OFFENSIVE STEREOTYPES~! I can just imagine... (due to the graphic language, the offending word is starred out) Eddie: Odale Vato Esse! You gonna eat some fried chicken homes? Booker T: (jumps on his low rider) Fuck your car ******! Fuck your car! I laughed so hard I gave myself hiccups. If they did that, I would watch every week. ... Well, I watch every week as it is but I would enjoy it a lot more.

I second that

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Eddie's title was safe anyway. No way the WWE would have him drop the belt so soon when they're going all out to bring in a hispanic crowd - and even if he did drop it, he would have won it back. I'm a lot more concerned about Benoit's future than Eddie's. The coast was clear for an enjoyable long uninterrupted reign and now I don't know what we're getting. Triple H just needs to die or tear another quad. Can that be arranged?

He used both during his title run but the atomic drop came first.

Raw is 10 times better off now that we don't have KEVIN FREAKING NASH as the top contender for 3 months straight. No Nash ... no Triple H. I'm happy. Major thumbs up for putting the strap on Benoit. When the belt is on an underdog face (and when pitted against HBK, Triple H, Kane, etc he IS the underdog), that puts just about everyone in the title picture. And Benoit is the type of wrestler who can make everyone look like credible contenders - even better. I'm much more an optimist this year than I was last year at this time.

Jericho's staying on Raw. No way they would split him from Trish and Christian right when this feud is starting up. I don't know if it's much proof but Fozzy is working shows in the same cities as the Raw brand in the coming weeks.

I'm lukewarm to Orton but even I'll admit he's over. You can thank Foley for that.

If we get a Triple H / Eddie feud then I think that ultimately helps Eddie far more than it does Triple H. Getting a few wins over Trips - even if it's on house shows - further establishes Eddie as THE top guy. I don't think that belt is going anywhere anytime soon nor is Eddie's push. And so what if Triple H EVENTUALLY takes the belt? Eddie can always win it back. There's a PPV in Los Angeles this summer and there's WrestleMania XXI next year ... you think Eddie won't be main eventing with the belt or challenging for the belt at those shows?

If that happened, it would make what happened last night mean nothing. I'm not jaded enough to think they would pull that.

To send the crowd home happy? It was the first match, IIRC. The last was Bret going over Vader clean.

2. I can't see Vince HONESTLY thinking about putting the belt on Mabel. At least Nash was over when the belt was first put on him. I can't remember Mabel ever being THAT over - as a face or heel. MOM turned right before WrestleMania XI. They lost a title match to the Smoking Gunns on the Action Zone, dropped them after the match ... then the next week after their squash they invited the Gunns out to apologize ... dropped them again, and laid our their own manager Oscar. Oscar was gone after that. MOM were OK as title contenders but you had a dumb big fat guy and a dumb little fat guy ... and they had a rapping manager. Thank god they didn't get a title run worth talking about. The Headshrinkers were so much better. 3. It was a huge surprise to me. Not too many people were on the net at the time, certainly not me. 5. I think Severn continued getting paid into early 99, even though he wasn't on TV hardly at all. 6. Because no one cared about the feud at that point and it wasn't going to draw people to order the PPV. Maybe if they had structured the WrestleMania buildup better, it could have been a drawing bout but the WWF was consistantly dropping the ball at that time. So instead of Luger and Davey in singles matches, they're paired together to open the show against a practically brand new tag team. Smell the payoff to that one. Hell, putting them against the Million $ Corporation (featuring Tatanka) in a tag match would have been a much better move.

His last match was the previously mentioned tag bout. I don't think he suffered the injury in the ring but rather it was the result of neck surgery that put him out of action. He was barely working around the time of the Nitro match and his last major contest was probably the previous November against Luger in the US title tourney.

I think the sheets were picking Yoko, at least Meltzer was IIRC. Other top picks were initially Flair and Savage - obviously Flair wasn't winning due to his contract issues.

Not sure if I buy that as fact or PR wishful thinking.

It had little to do with the day of the week it aired, it had more to do with the fact it was the 2nd WWF pay-per-view event in that 7-day span. I don't know if I agree with "competing" pay-per-views. You're basically splitting the buyrates and forcing people to choose which show they want - making both events less profitable than they would be if they ran unopposed.

I'm pretty sure that happend AFTER Summerslam, which set up the Ramon/IRS feud that lasted until the RR94 blowoff. It did. It was after Summer Slam but a few weeks prior to Razor winning the IC title.

Taker never jobbed to HHH? Wait, didn't HHH beat Taker in a "number one contender match" before SummerSlam 02, leading to what would be the formation of the Raw title or something like that? That's correct. He also beat Taker on Smackdown weeks after King of the Ring 2000 when Kurt Angle interfered (this was build up to the Taker / Angle match at Fully Loaded 00).

3. I believe that was October 1991. 5. Pretty sure he was either injured or working overseas. He didn't return as a regular until December 1991. 7. I don't think he was off TV for that long. He wasn't managing but he did appear on the Prime Time panel while under the Reverand gimmick. This was before he started having vignettes aired around the time of Survivor Series 92.

He lost to Mr. Hughes and Doink the Clown in earlier Raws under different names. I think IRS beating the Kid at Summer Slam laid the foundation for the Razor / IRS feud. Since Dibiase was leaving, IRS could gain revenge for his tag partner and say he beat the Kid while Razor couldn't get the job done.

That's correct. Actually, a lot of people don't realize that the Loser Leaves Town match was taped. It aired the day after the Rumble but took place the previous Monday. Had it been live, that would have been a killer day - fly from Sacramento to NYC then fly back to CA to do the syndie tapings.

I just got back in town from Spring Break yesterday and thought I would pass along a few of these shots taken last weekend while in NYC. I have more coming soon (and video from Mania and Raw) but here's a quick sampling. By the way, I had the pyro directly behind me. When Eddie came out and slapped hands, that's where I was - only those people stole my rightful standing position behind my chair. Toys R Us window Toys R Us inside WrestleMania trash can Madison Square Garden Inside MSG The Rock & Ric Flair HoF Inductees Taker's mist Taker's Entrance Benoit's Entrance Confetti Benoit with the Belt The security at the Garden was awful. I would say 1 out of every 20 people (without bags) was checked with the hand wand. I saw more than a few people with actual camcorders taping the show.

It wasn't that bad but at times, yeah, I did rely on the big screen right behind me or I stood on my chair.

It was pretty cool. They had Angle's singlet from when he beat Big Show for the title (as seen in the picture), Andre's hand print, Show's hand print, and a lot of (apparently) exclusive action figures. I thought about picking up one of the Classic or Times Square exclusive figs but the most abundant one was Triple H and I wasn't THAT desperate. No Bret, no Shawn, no Warrior, no Taker but PLENTY of Triple H.

I could see whoever was in the ring but usually not the ring itself. What made things more difficult were the rows of people in front of me who felt the need to stand or throw their signs in the air (even though the camera was aimed in the opposite direction ... they never caught on to that).

No, I mean him making the then-champion Brock Lesnar tap at Survivor Series ... having he and Brock put on a hell of a match last winter ... earning a spot in the Rumble ... breaking all previous records in the Royal Rumble and dumping the Big Show to win it ... and then making Triple H tap at WrestleMania. We can gripe and complain about how he was used on Raw prior to Mania but the end result is the same - he has the belt. He could have been booked to be the modern day Virgil for all I care - he still has the belt.