DrVenkman PhD

Lest we forget his 3 in a row streak against Chris Masters! I think it was 3 matches, anyway.

My God that's an ugly theme.

Another Wellness reference by HHH! What a jerk. Why did they even call this Ryan Braddack character up if he's jobbing to SUPER CRAZY?

Spoilers are available elsewhere here, but come on, the show airs in 11 hours (eastern), just pretend it's live!

Thanks bob! Maria vs. Maryse sounds like a scary pairing. Hopefully Hardy vs. Kendrick got some time. I guess plans for the Undertaker appeasement match (where he would face the Scramble winner) got dropped too. For the best.

It's going to be a TSM Original - a fantasy booking folder, but instead of about wrestling, about how you would book The Universe. Do you have the creativity to be an omnipotent being? What colour is your sky? Let the world know in forum 108.

ZZ Top performed a concert in Hill Valley in 1885 for God's sake! This thread will also be locked, closed, and replaced by a Venkman Original (not really but I'll try and think of something) when I get up tomorrow morning, so pay homage to my reference while you all still have the chance.

It's not commercial free now... (but I know what you mean )

This is the best summer ever. I agree.

I suppose there's no reason they can't do both ala movie channels. The idea is to have a vehicle for their first run TV if and when the time comes they need to do so (I think that will be a disastrous day, but we'll see). I suspect they would cycle the weeks programming the same way cable channels now cycle programming in a loop, but your Raw and SmackDown would air first run on a Monday and Thursday/Friday and show up OD later.

Multi-man matches seem to be No-DQ by default (though sometimes they make a big deal out of announcing a triple threat to be no DQ). I do recall a DQ in a Rock/HHH/X-Pac match though. Probably best not to consider that possibility, though I could totally see them not saying a word about it at all and then making it a cheap out. In fact, I now see the ECW scramble ending with Matt Hardy wining a fall by DQ, thinking he's the champion when 20 minutes is up, then having Tony Chimmel announce "STILL ECW champion... Heel Wrestler!" (I don't think Henry will retain).

No and yes.

WWE.com SmackDown preview: I'm going to try something different though I don't imagine it will have a huge effect on things. For whatever reason, a lot of small things annoy me that really shouldn't annoy people at all - one of them is when I click on the WWE folder on, say, a Saturday afternoon and the SmackDown Spoiler thread has a new post. What the hell, the show already aired! Of course, this is often because some sort of conversation was going on in there that was continued, so here's the deal: At some point on Saturday, I'll be merging the two threads to form the SmackDown discussion thread. Like I said, I expect this change to have minimal ramifications on anything since SD! is often not a hot button topic, but it's an experiment of sorts.

So where is "College"?

You're missing a letter there, Smues.

Summer birthdays also don't get recognized via a school certificate or PA announcement. This sort of thing doesn't matter in real life but I also recall people with September - December birthdays were, well, not "looked down" on but kidded in some way about the fact they were technically younger than those of us with January-June birthdays for the school year.

Timely.

Not to mention I was trying to point out I would have been a terrible booker.

Nope. With the exception of every single person to ever write a house show or TV taping dark match report, Dave Meltzer, Bryan Alvarez, and probably every website that had someone review the show, you are the first to point this out. To be a bit more educational and a bit less sarcastic, I believe Mr. Killings owns the rights to the song.

Happy Birthday to MillenniumMan! I totally blame him for that Hedberg debacle, but it's because of him I allowed them to have their fun.

I think I was a few years ahead of my time at Mania XII because I had thought a "great idea" would be since "everyone" (the people who knew Nash was leaving) knew Diesel had no chance of beating Undertaker on his way out, he SHOULD win just to fool everyone. Undertaker could then beat him on free TV to pop a good rating against Nitro. So yes, apparently in 1996 I thought exactly the same way Vince Russo would years later.

It was like that on the DVD, but I agree.

Regarding that plan I had to merge the spoiler and real show threads, I realize I can't start that this week due to ECW spoilers for this coming Tuesday existing in the spoiler thread. It's a minor plan anyway.

A broadcast channel may work fine (I have a DVR so no problem) but I like the VOD format right now. I don't want them to change it anytime soon, especially if they had to re-clear all the licencing agreements with cable companies. I can't believe I missed that Observer note, although I haven't read it in depth yet. Just the contract stuff and some small notes. Or is it from this week's second issue?

On the subject of tag teams in 1995, I was watching SummerSlam 95 the other day and for the life of me could not figure out why they putt Gunns vs Blus on the card. Was it to showcase the hot new heel duo of Eli and Jacob? No, they already jobbed in the WrestleMania XI opener. Was it to give the Smoking Gunns a big win? Not really, they'd been on the roster since 1992 and were always pushed. Was it to settle a score? I don't believe these teams had any issue before or after this match. So, really, why not just book Owen/Yokozuna vs The Smoking Gunns in the Gunns big rematch from Mania XI? Instead, it was a pointless tag match that went nowhere and Owen's only appearance was getting giddy over the prospect of being in a World/IC title match the next month on PPV (which Todd Pettengill interpreted as "the tag champs being unhappy" - good work, Todd). I also caught that Fatu thing and was quite amused by it.