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That was retconned into him being sick, right?

TWO months later, thank you very much. According to a piece of business I saw on 24/7, Guido and Mamaluke lost a "losers can't team up again" match to Doring and Roadkill in December 2000. I assume that stipulation was kept until 2006 since ECW closed a month later. Austin (or Bret, the "rightful" winner of the 97 Rumble) also did not receive a Mania title match. That one is a bit iffy due to the title match at IYH Final Four. I could be wrong, but I don't believe Lex Luger ever received a world title shot after SummerSlam 93 until earning one last shot at WrestleMania X, then again never getting one.

I like how the show does flash forward into the future to set things up for later. Remember, Season 3 = Ted's birthday goat story.

I must be the only person that liked The Simpsons. At this point, if I'm laughing at a joke or gag in the show, that's all that matters because it's not worth my time to look for great plots in an 18th season. American Dad was good and I thought Family Guy was ok, although the animated sprite used by Peter to get rid of Joe's wheelchair was the funniest thing all night. Haven't watched War yet.

So adjusting the AI sliders all the way to the left made clearing the Superstar and Legend challenges fairly easy, but Mexicools vs BoD still required a lot of luck. I got lucky with Foley vs Foley's as I had one of them outside of the ring while the other two watched from in the ring. I used a UCM to walk around and extend the count, then went into the ring before 10. I felt like I got screwed out of the MITB trophy. I won a match on Legend difficulty, but I guess because I had a friend as a helpful second player, the win meant nothing.

Has anyone made the joke about how on Team DX, there was a guy that loves Pepsi teaming with a guy that loves coke? I made that joke at last night and it got a good pop. Reading all the WO.com feedback, it's seems very diverse. There are people calling the show downright awful and people saying it was spectacular. I think it all depends what your view was going in. I was pretty pumped for a 25+ minute 10 man elimination tag between Team RKO and Team DX and I didn't get it, but I still thought it was a mildly entertaining show with some odd booking choices.

Too bad this forum doesn't have a Gaming folder, eh?

Sunsoft Batman was too difficult for my blood, but I remember it fondly. I seem to remember AoB&R for the Genesis being fun.

I'm pretty sure they said who he was with a chyron right away.

I saw this on ECW.com and thought it was a good read (and Dreamer claimed yesterday he "got in trouble" for writing it): "I know that in my last Diary I said that I would write many things about ECW. I am still putting it all down, but something else has come up that needs to be addressed. This Diary is directly addressed to the next generation of WWE Superstars, independent wrestlers and anyone that wants to be in sports-entertainment. There are many things that have been lost and forever changed in today's industry. One thing that cannot be lost is RESPECT. This includes respect for people that opened the door for you to be doing something that you love. The first-ever closed circuit telecast was something called Starrcade. This was before pay-per-view. Ric Flair was in the main event. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper was in the main event of the first-ever WrestleMania. Respect is something that is earned and these guys have done that. Recently, I watched Ric Flair and Roddy Piper wait last on line to go through customs to board an airplane. Nobody thought of saying, "Hey guys, wanna go in front of me?" This was the same occurrence at hotels, food lines and then again at the end of the tour going back through customs. If you are a 25-year-old wrestler and your body is sore, how sore do you think a guy's body is that has been wrestling for 25 years? It wasn't done purposely, but you need show respect all the time. I know the idea of respect is taught in both developmental systems. Jim Cornette taught it, Nightmare Danny Davis teaches it, The Assassin Joe Hamilton teaches and so does Bill DeMott. I do not know what makes someone think that once they make it to the main roster in any brand that they are on the same level as the people who have been there. Again, nobody does things deliberately, but you cannot let yourself forget what respect is. There is a hierarchy in the developmental systems, just like there is in the real work place. If you worked at McDonalds for a couple of weeks, bumped a couple of garbage bags on the floor and said to your manager, "you throw this out," how long do you think you'd last? Nine times out of ten when you offer a common courtesy to a Superstar, they decline, but you have shown that you have respect. If you do not know what some people have done in the past, go to the internet or watch WWE 24/7. Here is a quick wrestling lesson. I am also not kissing anybody's ass here. Many people do not remember the whole attitude era in WWE and think that these people just have political stroke. I say bullshit. The people I am about to mention earned their respect in the ring. HBK. He carried WWE on his back, eventually breaking it. He is one of the greatest performers of all time. When the Monday Night Wars were going on, he performed night after night until WWE eventually took back over in the ratings and never looked back. If you think that HBK was always the company poster boy, he was not. HBK was a true rebel. He is open with his past demons and often fought with management. He deserves respect. Dean Malenko. Anyone that is less than six feet tall should thank him. Without Dean, Chris Benoit or Eddie Guerrero, smaller wrestlers would not be given a shot in the business. Tim White. You may think that the former referee that you saw committing suicide every week on WWE.com was just a referee. Tim White was responsible for getting every pay-per-view supplier to carry WrestleMania III. He did this by calling every cable company in America. It took him 4 months, but he made it possible for you to watch that and every other pay-per-view that comes into your home. Triple H. During the Monday Night Wars, his friends Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had their last match in Madison Square Garden. They all toasted each other in the ring. Triple H was in the doghouse for sometime after that. Nobody should ever forget the classic pigpen matches with the Godwins. He went on, though, to become the greatest Superstars this business has ever seen. Edge, Matt and Jeff Hardy. These young talents were all being groomed to be the next generation of stars. Without them, who even knows if there would even be a WWE. These guys, along with the Dudley Boys, Christian and the APA all took tag team wrestling to the next level. How can you wait in a line and not let any of these people ahead of you? The list goes on and on. Kane, Hardcore Holly, Steve Keirn, Ricky Steamboat. I will offer a common courtesy to John Cena and Randy Orton because I enjoy watching them perform. They have carried the company already, and will carry it into the future. Please do not ever let RESPECT for the industry die. If it does, so does the business. One day, when you are on top of the world and someone does not recognize your accomplishments, you will know what I am talking about. This business is spitting out wrestlers rapidly. Many people can claim that they were a wrestler or were in the business, but few people can claim that they made a career out of wrestling. And those who can, all have RESPECT."

Congrats, enjoy Zelda.

Petey Williams being, as Mike Tenay annoying called him, "a true (American) hero" really bothered me. I mean, I got really mad. It's stupid, I know, but it just wasn't sitting well with me.

You mean like, in an entrance? Yes and I ment while playing season mode, not in regular matches. I haven't seen my CAW wear the title in season mode at all. Did Yukes just leave that out? Is he wearing a jacket or anything? That does seem like a rather odd glitch/error, but this game does seem to have a lot of (non-gameplay affecting) things like that.

I'm not using a CAW but, just to clarify, is the problem that you won the world title (the only belt you can win in Season, AFAIK - although I did have a chance to fight Kane and Snitsky for the tag titles but elected to teach spotlight hogging Masters a lesson) or that people are winning exhibition mode titles and wondering where they are in season or vice versa?

I believe it's in the magazine, actually (and thanks, in reference to the sig). I think I found my favourite piece of commentary during an IC title bout between Mr. Perfect and Paul Burchill with the Raw commentary team: Ross: "Backflip YER-NAGGY!" Come on now, Jim. I'm sure I've heard you say it right before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3X5Sip_BH0 Macho Man as Space Ghost's grandfather Edit: bah, repost.

..... It is just a dream. No kidding eh, they clearly state so at the end of the angle. Pay attention, Downhome. The angle is great if only for lines like "Edge sounds like he should be coming to work on a flying carpet" from Lawler and Boogeyman stating he is coming to get you, but in the voice and language of Daivari.

I also like the fact that Herc is rocking out (bobbing his head) to "Hard Time" during Bossman's entrance.

I remember when he did a missile dropkick in his WWE title defense against Viscera. He also leaped over the top rope to enter the ring that night too, IIRC.

"Even with all the screwing around smashing cars, picking up their drivers, and dropping them down smokestacks (complete with their "Thank you, Superman! You saved me!")..." Hilarious. I'm in no way shocked the game sucks, and I don't think anyone else is either.

Well, I was all set to say "when Meltzer doesn't have wrestling news or articles to write, it becomes MMA heavy", but that doesn't seem to be an issue to you. It's not as if there is a timetable to say "this is when big stories will break out, be a subscriber then" but he does usually make the best with what is available. With so many PPVs these days, almost every other issue (or more at the moment - next week will be Genesis, then Survivor Series, and then ECW, then the December TNA PPV, etc.) has a good in depth review of one.

This week marked the first time since mid 2005 I received the Monday issue on Monday. I was quite happy as History of WCW Part 2 was a good read (and part 1 was still fresh in my head as that did not arrive until last Friday)..

I'm out for the season. My difficulty getting WWE.com to load properly was what caused me to make this 'poor sport' announcement, but I had been thinking of giving it up due to the Fantasy Board's stupidity this year (allowing spoiler readers to win, the way a lot of people went up in price) for a few weeks now. See you in Season 9.

Yes, sort of, though I only recently found this out myself. During a Nitro in September/October 96 where the nWo had taken over, Hall asks Giant "was Andre really your dad?". Giant doesn't really answer and kind of shrugs it all off.

Failed, but pretty close to success. My plan of using a Future Shop near a Best Buy, EB, TRU, and Zellers almost paid off, but I put too much stock into people going to those areas to get the Wii and didn't get to FS until 9:15 (store opens at 10). There was a line that I counted to be more than 40 before I waited in it, but there was that small chance they had more and/or the people in line were groups buying one and/or families. A lot of people at were talking about how Best Buy (which opened 2 hours earlier), Wal-Mart, and others were sold out. The teenagers that arrived after me were particularly angry that the Wal-Mart they went to apparently gave late night / early morning campers vouchers to come back in the morning. They arrived thinking there was not much of a line, only to find out they would be asked for a voucher that they did not have. FS started letting 5 people in at a time to buy the system. There was a lot of talk about how cold out it was this morning as well. Me and the random guy behind me kept getting all excited when we counted 2 people leaving the store with one Wii, but alas, as we were 9 people (and at least 3 of those people were a family just buying 1) away from the door, an employee came out to announce the sell out. Really, I only wanted to go to have the "waiting outside in a line complaining about how cold it is with fellow gamers excited about a system launch" experience. Most of the people around me (save for the old people who were probably trying to get a Christmas present) agreed it's all god because we know Nintendo will keep up with shipments that we can get online. It was fun discussing the Virtual Console and things of that nature. There was some light Dreamcast / Marvel vs Capcom 2 talk as well. There was also a guy that drove by around 9:30 with 4 Wiis looking to sell them (with Zelda) for $650. No takers.