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What the hell were they chanting?

Thank god we have ECW.

So fucking stupid.

Austin's road to Wrestlemania video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qkEzRswFjs Warning: After watching this, you may not be able to enjoy the current wrestling product anymore.

Hulk Hogan is still making Mania appearances and he's 12 years older than Taker. Flair is 16 years older. So he's probably got some time left.

Taken from SA. This says it all.

Sounds like a great match!

I'm calling it now. A rocker dropper on Shane from the top of the cell to the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob2ZkgJcJdE Joel Gertner on Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck http://youtube.com/watch?v=9VO_IWJcrII 10 minutes of Joel Gertner

Awesome. But the overrun was the highest-rated with a 4.0. Go figure. The overrun is always going to be the highest rated because people are tuning in to the channel to see the next show. I've never been able to figure out why anyone cares about the overrun rating. You're cutting into another show's time, of course you're going to get some of their viewers. All the new viewers they get are probably saying "Goddamnit, when the fuck is this wrestling crap ever going to be over"

Get DQ8, you won't be disappointed. Like I said in the PS2 games thread, it's probably my favorite game since Xenogears.

I think Marty would be a good fit in ECW. They're in a dire need for faces and he would probably be insanely over at any ECW only arena. We know from the Rockers reunion Raw that fans still remember him and he would be over in Raw/Smackdown crowds as well. They could give him the Al Snow in 1997 push. Talented wrestler that never got his due, made to be a jobber for years. Well, in Marty's case, it's also because he's a huge fuck up, but finally, here's his chance to put it all behind him.

I think that's the first time I've ever seen FF8 and Saga Frontier being referred to as the good old days.

Dragon Quest 8 (My favorite game of the last 5 years. I haven't played a RPG with this much charm since Chrono Trigger. Or this much humor since Earthbound. Beautiful orchestrated music score. Giant immesive 3-D world. It's an absolute must buy for any RPG fan) Final Fantasy X (Another must buy) Some other great games: Shadow of the Colossus Resident Evil 4 God of War Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Well then who was responsible for the huge change of direction in Raw in late 96, with everything becoming edgy? The Pillman/Austin gun angle. Bret Hart shoving Vince down and swearing on live TV unbleeped which caused Raw to have a 7 second delay. One of the most brilliant wrestling storylines ever done.... in the Austin/Bret feud, Bret's slow realistic heel turn on US fans, and the reformation of the Hart Foundation. Who came up with all of that?

Now is a great time to get WWE 24/7. They're up to showing Raws from September 96. If you remember, this is month that Russo started writing the shows and the product became good. Pretty much the beginning of the attitude era. Russo didn't become head writer until the spring of 1997. He was only contributing ideas in late 96. Are you sure? In Russo's shoots, he says that he started writing shows with Vince in late 96. "The meeting where he asked to take on more responsibility- He felt the WWF product sucked and was hard to watch because of crap like TL Hopper and Who. He was watching the nWo angle around that time, so he started trying to bring them up to the times, as he felt that the company was stuck in 1986 while the rest of the world was in 1996. He went up to Linda and Vince McMahon and told them that he was thinking of going to WCW and that, if they thought he was only capable of writing the magazine, they should tell him that. They didn’t think that, so he stayed and the door was open for further opportunities. The next Monday, there was a memorably bad RAW where the matches were shot on one continent and the announcers were on another one. When the rating came in abysmally low, Vince McMahon had him brought to a big meeting and he was thinking “I’m in deep shit” until Vince threw a copy of the WWF magazine down on the table and said that the magazine was everything the show should be. It shocked him and probably wasn’t the best thing for him since Vince did it in that way, as it made people hate him. However, that did mean that he and McMahon were now writing the TV shows together." http://thesmartmarks.com/article_1294.shtml

Now is a great time to get WWE 24/7. They're up to showing Raws from September 96. If you remember, this is month that Russo started writing the shows and the product became good. Pretty much the beginning of the attitude era.

Of course Foley said the same thing. A quote from his book: "The next day, one of the guys asked for my impression of Rocky. "Hey, he's a nice guy," I said, "but he just doesn't have it. The office should probably just cut their losses and get rid of the guy." I had no idea that I was talking about the future "People's and Corporate Champion." Everyone thought the Rock was nothing and would never be anything in 96-97.

Ariel is much hotter with short hair. I approve of the hair cut.

Wait until you get to after the 6 man tag. You can hear a pin drop for the whole rest of the show. BTW, why do you guys hate Trish?

It was? What was so awesome about it? The only parts I didn't find boring or annoying were the two minute Super Crazy match, the chants during the 6 man tag, and seeing Piper. The dead crowd ruined Trish's match and good bye. She should have told them to go fuck themselves rather than "Thank you"

And the crowd is fucking silent for Trish.

If you had to grind in DQ8, you must be awful at playing RPGs. It's the easiest game in the series. Very fun, though.

Bret/Shawn - WMXII Flair/Steamboat - Clash

Well I was enjoying the whole show up until the boring predictable shitty WWE main event.