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No, it didn't, at least not the first half of 2000. It's comical seeing HTQ ignore everyone who disagrees with him. How did this guy become a mod? Not everything you say is a fact. Most of what you say is actually pretty damn stupid. Fancolis is right of course, they should concentrate everything they have on this one show, because if it's great people will tune in next week to watch or tell their friends about it and get them interested in it. Saving things for PPV doesn't do shit when no one is watching Raw or paying attention to wrestling to know about it or care. The first step to get people watching PPVs is to get people watching Raw. Advertising the show as a super legends show is a good way to make that happen.

I just turned it on. What was top 6-10?

Back when I was a little kid playing NES, I used to throw the controller down, hit the machine as hard as I could, yank it out of the wall, and start kicking and throwing it around until I became not mad. Adventure Island got this out of me many times. As I got older, I'd just curse and throw the controller. My N64 controller was in pieces thanks to Blast Corps. You had to put your hand in it and push some sticks inside it to make your character move in a game. Now I just curse and turn it off.

Since Angle/Shawn ironman is in a few days, does anyone happen to have Angle/Shawn from WM on their computer? I see it's on jukebox but I'm stuck on 56k because of the hurricanes and so can't stream.

That's kinda like not tuning in to a football game until the last 5 minutes because it won't end before that. I hope they do it with no falls for 30 minutes, or at most 1 fall each with overtime, otherwise it won't be realistic and will just make them look bad.

Well my neighborhood didn't flood with Katrina. (I live a little to the south of New Orleans) But it's flooding with Rita. My neighbors just called and said they have 3 feet of water in their house. Everyone is being evacuated by boat. My house doesn't have water yet, because it's built it on a hill, the water is rising though. Good news is I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to Geico.

Michaels is slow? You're a horrible troll.

But he was turning into a balding loser before he shaved it. So if Shawn shaves his head, can he get his 6 month world title run?

Yeah, I bet Kurt Angle's does too.

Not really, or not as much of one. Is it unbelievable that Batista could beat Cena? Not at all. What about Austin? He's 40. What happens when Benoit turns 40 in 2 years? Are some of you going to start calling him an old man and say he should never go near the title again? I mean, it's ridiculous. Do you guys really believe the shit that you're typing? When he's having a match, he doesn't look like he's 40, and that's what matters most. He moves just like a 28 year old. Hogan, however, looks like a 52 year old man and wrestles like he's much older than that.

Because there's a big difference between 40 and 52. Someone that wrestles a regular schedule and someone retired (with an artificial hip and knee) who just comes in once or twice a year. His back seems to be fine now. Was Flair described as a 40 year old, old guy that should never get close to the title again in 89? Will people say that about Batista when he turns 40 in a few months?

Indeed. If Shawn had stayed heel, he'd have much more options available to him. As a face, he's stale in the creative department. I still don't think he refused to turn heel for religious reasons. As it's been stated, other religious wrestlers have no problem playing heels. Michaels just wants to be cheered. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, the loss to Hogan as has been pointed out killed his heel character. There's no way he could keep up his arrogant "I know I'm better than everyone" character up if he just got beat by a 52 year old man with an artificial hip, even if he wanted to. (I had this same argument with HTQ before the match happened, and won it btw) His heel character isn't the same one he was in 97. He wasn't a cowardly heel this time. This character claims he's the best, knows he's the best, and backs it up. Yet he couldn't back it up, against the man that's basically opposite everything Shawn is. He showed that he was the one that was all talk, which goes against his character. The ending made all of his shooting as pointless as a Hogan promo. Depending on how the match went, it could have either been the start of something great or the death of heel Shawn and back to old boring Shawn. If he would have beaten Hogan, or at least if it had a DQ ending, I don't have any doubt that he would've stayed heel. Think about it. If he just wanted to be cheered and he's face now, he's getting what he wanted, so why would he be unhappy?

Wow. What point in his career? You're talking like he's as old as Hogan or Flair. When Flair was as old as Shawn, it was 1989. I wouldn't be surprised if Shawn had another 10 years left and was still having good matches when he's 50. Hell, Batista is only a few months younger than Shawn and he's just getting into the title picture. What exactly, other than a bias against Shawn, makes you think he's almost finished and should never go near the title again? Shawn, as a heel this past month, was by far the most entertaining character on Raw. That alone should have been more than enough reason for him to get a title run. Nevermind that at 40 he's also arguably still the best wrestler on Raw, easily better than Cena could ever hope to be. But.. THEN there's the fact that if he's seen as someone at the top level, someone that could beat Hogan, someone that could win a world title instead of a has-been, he'd be in a better position to put over other wrestlers. It's kinda hard to make new stars when you're known as the guy that gets beat by everybody, just look at Foley or Flair. Or when you're the guy that gets his ass handed to him by a 52 year old with an artificial hip. If there's anything Raw needs, it desperately needs someone that can make new stars. Someone that can make main eventers. Right now, HHH is the only one that can do it. Shawn can't. If Masters completely dominates Michaels and pins him clean, he won't be a main eventer. Not even close to one. A win over Hogan and a world title run could have maybe changed that and kept his heel character alive, continuing to make Raw exciting for months. But I guess Cena doing nothing with the title and turning Shawn face and wasting him on Masters is smarter than that.

Haha, why does HTQ put everyone that proves him wrong on ignore? It's not Ray's fault that you had absolutely no clue what you were talking about. Blame yourself for being ignorant.

Who says the mayor didn't? http://nola.live.advance.net/newslogs/brea...es/2005_08.html And if they would have listened and all brought food for 5 days, they would only have went one day without food. He even told people to use it only as a last resort because he couldn't promise electricity or plumbing.

From July Many residents won't evacuate New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, July 22 (UPI) -- A major hurricane, with 130 mph winds and an 18-foot-high storm surge, would not scare 60 percent of southeast Louisiana residents, a survey found. That would be a dangerous decision, said Jesse St. Amant, emergency preparedness director for Plaquemines Parish, because Louisiana's sinking coastline and levees no longer protect residents from a Category 3 storm. The University of New Orleans Survey Research Center and the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Task Force survey, released Thursday, also found many who evacuated during Hurricanes Georges in 1998, Lili in 2002 or last year's Ivan might not have traveled far enough to escape danger, the New Orleans Times-Picayune said Friday. In 2002, an American Red Cross estimate found 25,000 to 100,000 people would be killed if a major hurricane hit the New Orleans area. If people don't evacuate when directed by officials the number of casualties would be "beyond comprehension," according to St. Amant.

I've often wondered how any so-called great is that great when he no-sells everything his opponent has done to him. Shawn did that in 99.99% of his matches; when it came time for his comeback, he'd kip-up, and it would be like the last 20 minutes or so never happened. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is explained every single time the fucking kip-up comes up. There's no reason for anyone here to still not understand it. Kip-up = burst of adrenaline. It's not like the last 20 minutes never happened. It's like Shawn is fighting through the pain and putting up one last ditch effort to stay in the match. Usually it doesn't work and Shawn ends up right where he started, so what's the big deal?

Meanwhile, in Mississippi: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_...ssissippi_hk2_6 George Bush does not care about white people. What do you idiots defending Kayne and bringing the race card out have to say about this?

WWL-TV's Josh McElveen: The stench coming from the Superdome is "indescribable."

Geraldo is happy on Fox News. A stream of helicopters one after the other is emptying the Superdome. A rate of 100 people leaving every 5-10 minutes. "This is the turning point. "The United States Calvalry has arrived."

More bad news. It keeps on coming. Does that mean the people at the Convention Center have to wait until all the people in the Superdome are evacuated? They could all be dead by Sunday.

Boats, helicopters. Buses have been going through the area so supply trucks should be able to find a way. The same way they got supplies into NO today, but it should have been done few days ago. The water hasn't gone down from what it was days ago.

6:26 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): Thousands of people stranded in two swamped parishes south of New Orleans are just as desperate for food, water and supplies as those trapped in the city, but they can't get the attention of federal disaster relief officials, Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., said Friday. And to make matters worse, Melancon said in a telephone interview, he was unable to deliver that message to President Bush during his visit to New Orleans on Friday because the president's security detail couldn't clear him in to meet with Bush on Air Force One. After waiting 90 minutes while a U.S. marshal using a satellite phone repeatedly tried, and failed, to contact Bush's plane -- located just 300 yards away at New Orleans' Armstrong airport -- a disgusted Melancon left. "After an hour and a half of that, and two hours to get down there, I am now back on my way, without seeing the president, not accomplishing anything in my mind today. I've wasted time while people are dying in South Louisiana," he said. "It's not personal to the president. It's just that this whole thing has been handled terribly." Melancon said the communications problems that kept him from meeting with Bush are symptomatic of the problems that have plagued the slow-moving federal response to the devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina.

WWL: 7:03 P.M. - CNN's Barbara Starr reports that there is "no indication" the convention center in New Orleans is secure. She reports there is still much unrest. FNC: 30,000 people about to riot at the Convention Center, still looking for buses that have been promised for 5 days.