DrVenkman PhD

Don't they normally havea 90 day no complete clause anyway, or does that only apply to TNA?

Holy crap a broken flower pot! Damn Rhyno the hell. Rhyno was teaching a the Can-Am Wrestling School a month or two ago and rumours were flying he'd been looking to work a Border City Wrestling show. I assumed at that point he was actually released but then I saw his name in Heat spoilers.

More spoilers, essentially the same but afew more details (from WO) Good to see Kidman and Chavo getting along so well after their whole deal. Someone at my PPV groups Mania party mentioned that it would be neat if Carlito had a show called "Carlito's Cabana" and now it's happening. Weird.

"Makes mention that much like how the US title was "re-made" that he will do so with the WWE title"

They should have had him pull a Hogan and challenge Batista immediatley after he won the title.

Well they got a 4.2 rating anyway.. possibly by making people wait to see Big Dave.. possibly by being the night after WrestleMania (which everyone knew had Big Dave winning!).

No, he's not working ROH. He appeared at one show and apparently WWE wasn't happy about it, and he probably won't be back. We should get a list for Smackdown too. I guess I'm out of the loop but wasn't there a reported working agreement between WWE and ROH now?

^ beat me to it

IIRC, the ad for WMX-7 (during WM 2000) originally called it WM 2001. I was not pleased about that. WMXX's advertisement for WM21 did contain the logo that ended up being used.

WWE.com is saying that Trish and Christy will have a WrestleMania rematch while Benjamin defends the IC belt in a triple threat match against Jericho and Christian.

Sad trivia note: I marked out when the "XXII" appeared on the screen. It's a very bizarre pattern of things that don't make sense, but it might be a symetrical deal - notice that roman numerals retrned with "XIX" and "XX", then went away when it should have been "XXI".

Meltzer:

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I just watched WMXX again today wrapping up the most sucessful WM countdown in some time... I've found myself skipping tapes or, last year when I wasshort on time, just watching the WM2000 bonus disc and then going 16-19. But this year I gave myself proper time and watched them within a 2 week period. Anyway, never noticed Paul Bearer yelling "You're no son of mine!" at Kane before. I did remember noticing Nunzio doing they "ehhh, we're cousins!" bit with Noble before though. That's two family lineages that the guys acknowledged that the writers ignored / forgot. It was good to see JBL in a pointless tag title match just 1 year ago.

Kane looks bad ass in his sunglasses and tux. Good to see Hogan hug Shiek and end their bitter feud.

The funny thing about that was I just watched WM14 the other day... that show was a 15 team battle royal to open the show plus a tag title match. The tag scene certianly has changed in seven years.

Haven't seen Sabu vs Funk from raw since it's air date... they packed real some good stuff into that 5 minutes. Heyman's commentary was good, especially at the end of the match in regards to a table. A lot of this is stuff I've never seen and heard either very good or very bad things about and thus want to see either way.

While I do agree, the positive here is that every match means something and no meaningless "this could have been done on Raw but here it is on WM just because it's for a title" title matches are on the show (see: last years tag title matches). It's assumed that they were building to a CW title match but Chavo was injured. Benjamin, Eddie, and Rey are all in matches. I wouldn't count out a world tag title match on Heat, but then again there were no matches on Heat at all last year.

That reminds me of JR calling Marty Jannetty a young man a few weeks ago. They must have called him Ricky Steamboat in 1991 because that's when I started watching wrestling and I knew that was his name. I had no prior knowledge of his NWA work. I'm even thinking they announced him to the ring as Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at SummerSlam 91 but I don't feel like verifying this at the moment.

Now, was this thing scripted or partially scripted or was Jarrett actually told to shoot?

Guess I was wrong about the Ahmed thing... he was the "black man that couldn't speak English" that JJ apparently mentioned, not the drug addict (I'll assume Hall for that). Stolen from TOA: Dressed in a jacket with his hair tied back (looking a lot like Curt Hennig) Jarrett delivers the mother of all "shoot" interviews. (How did we know it was a "shoot"? Jarrett told us. Heh). The high points: * He mentions Monday Nitro by name, saying that they tried to bury him last week. He mentions the offer that was made to him and subsequently pulled by WCW. He accuses Bischoff of holding him back, denying him any chance of advancing. * He gripes about being put in the ring with an "ex-football player" and his "dumb blonde" wife. * He trashes McMahon for turning him into a lame country singer. "You booked me with a clown ... a former drug addict ... and a black man who couldn't even speak the English language!" (Yoiks!) "You told me to come out here tonight and 'shoot', and that's exactly what I'm doing ... right between your eyes! You can take 'With My Baby Tonight' and stick it up your BUTT!" He accuses McMahon of trying to finish his career since he couldn't put his father (Jerry Jarrett) out of business. * He says Bret Hart is living off his past accomplishments. * Shawn Michaels can only wrestle once a week. All he can do is point at his crotch and give his little hand signals to his "boys down south". * All Steve Austin does is say "ass" to get noticed. He says Austin will always be the "Ringmaster". He says he's offended by the blasphemous "Austin 3:16". By the end the crowd was chanting for Austin to come out and kill him. Jarrett says this is what McMahon gets for all that money he gave him, and that he better be prepared for a lot of headaches.

I wish they would have done Savage over Steambaot in the tournament and did the face handshake of respect deal, but whatever.

What's they story on Jeff Jarrett returning in 1997 and doing a "shoot" interview and reinvents himself... then shortly before WrestleMania 14 becoming, out of what I remember as being absolutely nowhere, "Double J" again? Of course that was followed by Debra, a woman he spoke poorly of in his 1997 re-debut, becoming his manager. The whole thing seemed very odd. On a similar note, why did Vince even allow Jarrett's 1997 run to exist? I believe it was the first time I had ever heard Vince saw WCW on Raw and I was pretty surprised (Vince, I believe, even commented on this by saying something to the extent of "that's something you probably thought you wouldn't hear on Raw"). Jarrett said something about leaving before and not liking working with drug addicts without naming names, then they follow it up by having him directly say to Ahmed Johnson he was talking about him. My memory of this quickly-abandoned persona / angle is a bit shakey, this seemed to be well before "attitude" took over the Fed and that sort of angle would be normal or accepted.

Austin/HBK won the tag titles and that was pretty much it. A tournament was held to determine the #1 contenders (won by Owen and Bulldog), and they lost to Austin and Dude Love (during the "Pick Me Steve" angle when Michaels was out of the whole deal for reasons I can't remember). They lost the titles by forfeit officially at Ground Zero (Sept 97) due to Austin's injury.

Not so much "wrestling" but things about two Hogan movies (NHB and Sub-Urban commando) "The movie was produced by star Hogan and his boss, World Wrestling Federation head honcho Vince McMahon, only to be distributed by New Line Cinema after completion. When the first-draft of the script was turned in, Hogan and McMahon disapproved of it, so they took a hotel room in Redington Beach, California and stayed up for 72 hours rewriting the script together." " Originally titled "Urban Commando", and intended for Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. When these two opted to make Twins (1988), the script was bought by New Line Cinema as the follow-up to their highly successful Hulk Hogan film, No Holds Barred (1989)"