DrVenkman PhD

Yeah I checked today and they changed it on the listings. They put up a very generic description (which states one team has The Road Warriors and the other team has Road Warrior Hawk) and just put "WCW" instead of a show name. Good stuff, though.

Yeah, but it was released right before WWF had to switch to WWE, so it was kind of fucked and couldn't sell it as long. You're wrong. It came out after the name switch. This comment has already been explained and defended twice by two people (myself and S_D) but hey, why not a 3rd time? The DVD came out a mere 3-4 months after the switch to WWE. As such, they were allowed to release videos that didn't blur logos (this woud effect Hogan's 2002 return) or mute the intials "WWF" (this effects everything else). By 2003, just 4 months after the DVDs release, everything had to be blurred and muted.

Yeah, but it was released right before WWF had to switch to WWE, so it was kind of fucked and couldn't sell it as long. I don't think so. It came out in August 2002 and thus was under the WWE banner, but at that point they were still allowed to say the initials "WWF" and show clips from Hogan's 2002 return wthout blurring everything. Once they could no longer get away with that, that was it for that DVD.

Another winner. This show is so good.

WWE.com also lists two more now: The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story (2-disc) The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers Where is Flair II in all of this? I would also enjoy it of the Pillman/Liger match from Superbrawl II made it's way to DVD.

http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/1121/marioandluigi9zm.jpg Found these in a hidden jar under a sink today. Any idea where they are from (they are too good to be from McDonalds)?

Well consider my Fantasy money wasted this week. Have Helms not appear on TV on either show this week and I'll really have mad bad purchases.

Now I hear Lawler making weird noises but my video feed is frozen at a still of the Royal Rumble. Is this normal fare for Unlimited?

So I decide to try and watch Raw on the TV near my computer and Unlimited doesn't even have audio... super. Oh there it is.

Shaq is in the Rumble now I think. "Last night at the AmericanAirlines Arena, RAW Superstar Carlito verbally abused Jason Williams after the Miami Heat suffered a disappointing 107-98 loss to the Phoenix Suns. While the cocky Superstar was berating Williams, Shaquille O'Neal walked up behind Carlito and smashed him with a chair. WWE.com has retrieved footage of the incident and will post the video later today."

Thank God someone came to their senses and realized doing drawings on WWE.com (especially if they revealed the numbers) was a terrible idea. It's also good they are showing some drawings on PPV. Last year's segments were pretty good.

Not anytime soon, seeing as how there is a new publishing URL that I don't know. Speaking of old columns, you know what I always liked, never had a chance to be a part of, and would be worth bringing back now that we have a stable of writers again? The Crossface.

Snitskymark, Scherer's operatives are about to track your IP and cancel your account... unless you just took this from somewhere else. Ask spman, he can tell you all about their copyright news policy.

I hope Benoit lasts all the way from 1 to 30 again this year. They kinda disregarded it when it happened last year but it was cool to see.

Should be fun.

Guess it was just a non-title match, which makes sense since Booker is cleared to go I guess. Typical Rumble cards are four matches of varying quality, and since four matches have already been announced, I think we're stuck with them. Cena/Edge might be a good title match and I think Angle might carry Henry to something watchable, but this undercard is straight out of a 90s Rumble. The flip side of that is this is the first time since 1992 (my first Rumble, when I didn't quite realize that Ric Flair was winning) I have no idea who is winning the Rumble, and I'm happy about that. I guess most of this comment is more suited for the Rumble thread though.

Benoit and Angle winning specialty matches = good times for The Real Ghostbusters (WWE Fantasy team). I guess I'll need to re-read the SD! preview but I had thought Orton/Benoit was for the US title.

I love the fact that something I wrote 3 years ago and is buried under years of articles actually has a lot of hits AND four votes. I may not have known it at the time, but making fun of those crappy sites that used to / possibly still do things like ***TORRIE PLAYBOY PICTURE CLICK HERE*** sure worked in my favour.

This is a minor nitpick which you can feel free to ignore, but why do you date the news as the day you post it as opposed to the date the Observer has? It really threw me off the first week you started this as I expected a 2nd Observer due to the date you said it was from.

I may be in last now (not counting the people with zero, who I assume didn't bother making a roster) but I think I'll pick up some good SmackDown points this week and some more from the Rumble. Surprised how few people picked Angle when he'll most likely be getting PPV appearance, match, win, and title retain points.

Anyone watching the online press conference? Coach got a good pop coming out, then people did the C O A C H Spirit Squad thing.

"Off the air" means won't be on TV until a new season, as opposed to straight up gone forever, right?

It's sparkling peach, you're going to hate it.

Where is Hardcore Holly these days?

Woah, I called this thing a few days ago. I scooped everyone and no one believed me! The signs were all over the place... the power 25 page made a vage mention of Animal's potential singles run, he's teaming with Hardy in Japan... it was on the wall. Does anyone recall if the Ice Nazi was supposed to still be managed by Paul Heyman in some sort of "hilarious irony" deal?