DrVenkman PhD

I'm almost certain that only video announcing the 8 finalists is airing tonight... if that. I don't think any of them will be in house tonight.

Apparently you were supposed to make your picks by 7pm so Venkman's Victors got screwed for this week. Antonio Carlito Charlie Haas Daivari John Cena Johnny Nitro Kane Maven Paul London And of course Shelton Benjamin Took some from column A (on TV and win) and column B (make appearances on TV, win on B shows from time to time) Daivari is only $2M and he's on TV every week and has been wrestling more often.

THere's also that whole thing about the N64 not having "N64 Live" support, but I see what you're saying Drew. Edit: But you were answering the question of someone without an Xbox.

The AIDS song was so wrong... and I could not stop laughing. I'll join in with the camp that loved the episode... Andre the Giant and Randy Savage references, the AIDS song, the transformers deal, Popeye reference, Brian in general, Peter's modes of transport and Joe's punchline about them... good stuff.

After the show I totally forgot one of my huge mark-outs of the night... Seeing VLADIMIR the superfan alive and well after vanishing from WWE crowds.

Hold the phone I can sell my DVD for high high prices? Pioneer put no copy protection on it so I could just transfer the show to a VHS tape (yes kids, that's the extent of my copying skills... no DVD burners for me). Interesting stuff

From PWI: Chris Benoit Thoughts?

I'm currently playing through KOTOR for the first time (just recently got the Xbox) - man, those Wookies get screwed over anytime they let outsiders on Kashyyyk don't they?

I believe Heyman said he assumed Vince would have wanted a larger venue (the Spectru mwas brought up because Dreamer mentioned it earlier)

Forgot all about it, caught it 45 minutes in but it's been great so far. I'll be watching it when it's done to see what I missed. http://www.wwe.com/common/video/bytethis_live.jsp?speed=300 or http://media.wwe.com/bytethis/livefeed/bytethis300.wvx

Well if you're all so open for entire show spoilers (since the damn tags don't work), Benoit vs JBL was announced for the show this week and was in my original post before I realized the tags had no effect.

Well that was quick... spoiler tags because people here aren't necessarily wanting to know full spoilers, I suppose: Nevermind I apparently can't get the tag to work

Well we will have to see how it all plays out.. trades, other picks, etc. Who knows, maybe Benjamin is SmackDown bound with the IC title? That would be something eh? US and IC title on SmackDown and the WWE and Wolrd on Raw.

Well if you go by the Superstars page on WWE.com Orlando Jordan is the top champ on SmackDown. He's in the opening Velocity match this week.

Benoit becomes the first person since the brand split to be signed to a brand 3 seperate times... impressive. He also managed to go his entire stay on Raw without having to give HHH back a PPV job and won their last encounter... also impressive. Until more names are announced though it's just more of the same things from before he went to Raw... yeah he can have more matches with Eddie or Rey or Kurt... wait I'm making that into a complaint? I do want to see a Benoit/JBL match.

There was some funny stuff in Season 5 and I would pick it up to complete the series. If I could "wrestlingize" it, it's like people saying , let's use 2004 (or any year since 2000, really) as en example, was bad when in reality it was just a bad year in the grand scheme of history compared to past years of greatness, managing to have some really good moments but mess up a lot of things along the way.

Was there any particular reason for Jerry Lawler to not only be in the 1997 KOTR but make it to the PPV semi-finals? I was rooting for him to finally win the thing and all but it seemed 4 years too late. Also I recall rumours at the time that he was going to appoint "Prince Rob Van Dam" to take his spot in the tournament but after this speculation RVD was gone from Federation television. Was this just fan speculation or was there anything to back that rumour up?

The idea of IRS making his opponent go to the back on a stretcher seems like a bit of a stretch (no pun intended) for his character. Taker I can see though. I also seem to recall reading in a WWE magazine sometime in 2002 that Steamboat mentioned he had hoped he would be able to work with Flair but was dissapointed he was not given that opportunity.

They're doing that match in South Korea, too. Another interesting one from Satima Japan is Taker/Kane/Mysterio vs Edge/Angle/Eddie. While this is off topic, the South Korea and two Satima house shows look pretty good (the 2nd Satima show is even has a match marketed as "WRESTLEMANIA 19 REMATCH!" - HBK vs Jericho).

Yeah, in one commentary (I forget the episode but I believe it was on the 3rd disc) Rogan makes mention that Fear Factor is the equivalent of wasting time until you get your cheque. Dave Foley was clearly the star of these commentaries and very enjoyable to listen to. I was cracking up when they were discussing character catchphrases and he figured his was "Matthew!" "Joe!" and repeated it a few more times.

According to the reviewer whose name must not be spoken, the DVD was seen available in a HMV store in Edmonton.

According to the WM21 Battle Royal, Booker T won the challenge on April 3rd, 2005.

That's what I thought too but nobody else said anything off the bat so I just kept my mouth shut or whatever you would label the finger to keyboard equivalent of keeping a mouth shut... keeping your fingers locked?

What the hell is SMDN? Saturday's Main Dynamic eveNt? Please don't respond to this and say it means SmackDown as I am well aware... it's just perhaps the worst abbreviation for the show I've ever seen and the fact it shares 3 of SNME's letters makes it worse.

The idea of it being possible for the bWo confronting Bischoff's Army at some point to announce "We're Takin Over!" has me intrigued. Admittedly I was never a big ECW fan in it's day and have become more of a fan after it's death so the idea of Eric Bischoff invading the show (assuming he's dealt with) isn't something that I find sacreligious and pisses me off like it does many others. My only concern is that while I can easily see Hollywood Nova taking out Maven, I can't see someone taking out guys like Snitsky or General Edge without WWE having to swallow some pride.