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  1. David Blazenwing

    Eddie vs. Rey at Summerslam...

    Credit: WWE.com The stakes don’t get much higher than this. After weeks of harassing and tormenting Rey Mysterio with his disturbing bedtime story, it has come to this. Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio will face each other in a Ladder Match at SummerSlam. The first Superstar to climb the ladder and grab the custody papers hanging from the arena ceiling will be declared the winner and receive sole custody of Dominick. Several weeks ago on SmackDown!, Guerrero revealed to the world that Dominick is actually his biological son and then demanded Mysterio hand him over. After eight years of Rey and his wife Angie raising Dominick as their own, Latino Heat was on the verge of tearing apart his family. That’s when Rey decided to appeal to Eddie’s sense of pride, noting that Guerrero had never defeated Mysterio. In fact, Rey has beaten Eddie six straight times. As a result, Eddie agreed to this match with the ultimate stakes. In the meantime, Dominick is in foster care until these two Superstars and former friends and tag team partners settle their differences.
  2. David Blazenwing

    Smackdown VS Raw 2006

    I concur. Ah I miss the days of revenge/wm 2000/no mercy when they had pretty much every wrestler on the roster in the game <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but OMG BIG BLOCKY BODIES!?~ Isn't it much better now that we have somewhat accurate depictions of Randy Orton's nipples, Bob Holly's buckteeth and Eddy's bacne? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because that's what I buy a wrestling game for... man nipples.
  3. David Blazenwing

    TNA going all out for Bound for Glory

    The ONLY way they should do that match is if Raven goes over, and I don't see Jarrett jobbing clean on TNA's biggest PPV of the year.
  4. David Blazenwing

    Sid and released WWE talent heading in?

    It might be interesting seeing him against Abyss or even Raven. Sid wasn't bad as far as big men go, IMO anyways... it'd still be better than seeing Jarrett in the main event anyhow.
  5. David Blazenwing

    National Lampoon rips on Futurama

    The Jetsons episode of Harvey Birdman was awesome too.
  6. David Blazenwing

    National Lampoon rips on Futurama

    Damn, are you the guy who wrote the unfunny NL movie? I've been an AS fan since it's debut in 2001, and I've always liked what they've put on, with the possible exception of TGTTM (the second season is just... wow... and not a good wow) so don't mess with AS, bitch! Lol... but seriously, if you can do better, go buy a network and show that AS how to run a 10 pm to 5 am block of animation!
  7. David Blazenwing

    Unexpected title changes

    Jacqueline beating Chavo for the Cruiserweight title last year.
  8. David Blazenwing

    Over wrestlers who get little respect

    I was at the SD after Judgment Day 2005, and Holly got probably one of the top four pops of the night, right in there with Cena and Mysterio and, oddly enough, Heidenreich.
  9. David Blazenwing

    Those Koreans really hate Japan don't they?

    Some of the captions to the pics were funny, as was the last pic of the happy giraffes. At least one of the kids remembered that they were kids.
  10. David Blazenwing

    Peter Jennings dead at 67

    CREDIT: Yahoo.com News NEW YORK - Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died Sunday. He was 67. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said late Sunday. "Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said. With Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Jennings was part of a triumvirate that dominated network news for more than two decades, through the birth of cable news and the Internet. His smooth delivery and years of international reporting experience made Jennings particularly popular among urban dwellers. Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke. He logged more than 60 hours on the air during the week of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, offering a soothing sense of continuity during a troubled time. "There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe," he told author Jeff Alan. "I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially — sorry it's a cliche — a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive." Jennings' announcement four months ago that the longtime would begin treatment for lung cancer came as a shock. "I will continue to do the broadcast," he said, his voice husky, in a taped message that night. "On good days, my voice will not always be like this." But although Jennings occasionally came to the office between chemotherapy treatments, he never again appeared on the air. "He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones," Westin said. "In the end, he was not." Broadcasting was the family business for Jennings. His father, Charles Jennings, was the first person to anchor a nightly national news program in Canada and later became head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s news division. A picture of his father was displayed prominently in Jennings' office off ABC's newsroom. Charles Jennings' son had a Saturday morning radio show in Ottawa at age 9. Jennings never completed high school or college, and began his career as a news reporter at a radio station in Brockton, Ontario. He quickly earned an anchor job at Canadian Television. Sent south to cover the Democratic national convention in 1964, the handsome, dashing correspondent was noticed by ABC's news president. Jennings was offered a reporting job and left Canada for New York. As the third-place news network, ABC figured its only chance was to go after young viewers. Jennings was picked to anchor the evening news and debuted on Feb. 1, 1965. He was 26. "It was a little ridiculous when you think about it," Jennings told author Barbara Matusow. "A twenty-six-year-old trying to compete with Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley. I was simply unqualified." Critics savaged him as a pretty face unfit for the promotion. Using the Canadian pronunciations for some words and once misidentifying the Marine Corps' anthem as "Anchors Aweigh" didn't help his reputation. The experiment ended three years later. He later described the humbling experience as an opportunity, "because I was obliged to figure out who I was and what I really wanted to be." Assigned as a foreign correspondent, Jennings thrived. He established an ABC News bureau in Beirut, and became an expert on the Middle East. He won a Peabody Award for a 1974 profile of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On the scene at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Jennings was perfectly placed to cover the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes by an Arab terrorist group. He and a crew hid in the athletes' quarters for a close-in view of the drama. Jennings returned to the evening news a decade after his unceremonious departure. In 1978, ABC renamed its broadcast "World News Tonight," and instituted a three-person anchor team: Frank Reynolds based in Washington, Max Robinson from Chicago and Jennings, by then ABC's chief foreign correspondent, from London. Following Reynolds' death from cancer, ABC abandoned the multi-anchor format and Jennings became sole anchor on Sept. 5, 1983. Starting in 1986, Jennings began a decade on top of the ratings. His international experience served him well explaining stories like the collapse of European communism, the first Gulf War and the terrorist bombing of an airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland. He took pride that "World News Tonight," as its name suggested, took a more worldly view than its rivals. Fans responded to his smart, controlled style. "When it's clearly an emotional experience for the audience, the anchor should not add his or her emotional layers," Jennings said in an interview with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Two-thirds of local broadcasters responding to a 1993 survey by Broadcasting & Cable magazine said Jennings was the best network news anchor. Washington Journalism Review named him anchor of the year three straight years. With Americans looking more inward in the mid to late-1990s, NBC's Tom Brokaw surpassed Jennings in the ratings. ABC was still a close No. 2, however. When Brokaw stepped down in November 2004, followed shortly by Rather, ABC began an advertising campaign stressing Jennings' experience — an ironic twist given how his ABC News career began. But ABC was never able to learn whether Jennings could take advantage of his role as an elder statesman; his cancer diagnosis came only a month after Rather left the anchor chair. Jennings was proud of his Canadian citizenship, although it was occasionally a sore point with some critics. When Jennings spoke at the dedication of a museum celebrating the U.S. Constitution in 2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told him, "not bad for a Canadian." Jennings whispered back his secret: He had just passed a test earning him dual citizenship in the United States. "My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics," Jennings told The Associated Press at the time. "It has nothing to do with my profession. It has everything to do with my family." Restlessly curious, Jennings pushed ABC News to use the turn of the century for a massive historical study. He co-wrote a book, "The Century," with Todd Brewster and anchored a marathon 25-hour special ending Jan. 1, 2000. Jennings and Brewster also traveled the backroads to write "In Search of America." Jennings also led a documentary team at ABC News, which struck a chord in 2000 with the high-rated spiritual special "The Search for Jesus." "I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something," Jennings told the Saturday Evening Post. "And if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it." Like Rather and Brokaw, Jennings wasn't entirely comfortable stuck to a studio. He traveled around the world to cover stories and, when he didn't journey to Asia to cover the aftermath of the tsunami less than four months before his cancer diagnosis, it was noticed. He is survived by his wife, Kayce Freed, and his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23.
  11. David Blazenwing

    Jeff Hardy coming back; plus Internet DREAM match

    The fact that it's non title on PPV catches my attention... this could mean whoever wins the voting might be winning at the PPV? It'd be quite a debut for Moore or Kidman should it be them, and Daniels could certainly make a new X division star with a great match.
  12. David Blazenwing

    Paul Londons Promo On Velocity *spoilers*

    What's the deal? Did he lose the Cruiserweight title and I didn't notice, or...?
  13. David Blazenwing

    WWE Magazine

    I had a subscription from mid/late 2002 to about that time a year later in 2003... after that, I quit buying and just read them at work (Walgreens) on my lunch break. We get PWI there too, though, and that's a million times better read. I still marked out for the Hurricane cover in I think it was March 2003. Still have that issue too. Awesome cover, awesome article. <-- Hurricane Mark
  14. David Blazenwing

    Favourite

    RVD/Eddie ladder match for the IC title right after Judgment Day 2002. Awesome match, fan participation excluded. The Jeff/Taker ladder match a few months later was awesome too. Three guesses what my favorite gimmick match is.
  15. David Blazenwing

    Michael Jordan on WWF magazine?

    Maybe they realized that people wouldn't believe that his birth name is THE UNDERTAKER.
  16. David Blazenwing

    Predict the WWE a year from now...

    The Hurricane will once again not be on the card, and the Undertaker will win again.
  17. David Blazenwing

    Anybody else growing weary...

    They can't keep one show good without making the other bad. It's your basic yin yang or feug shui or something else Japanese that sounds cool.
  18. David Blazenwing

    Anybody else growing weary...

    I never watched any wrestling until March 2002, the night after WM 18... my friend called me and made me tune in to see Hogan and Rock in a staredown.., and I never turned it off. ;P
  19. David Blazenwing

    Another greenhorn injures Stevie Richards

    Let's start a "Stop Making Stevie Fight Rookie Losers and get Injured" petition.
  20. 96. Because if he comes back, people will stop posting "Arm-BAR", thinking that they're being funny!
  21. 84. Because none of us will have lived until we have seen the inevitable Muhammad Hassan vs. Blue Meanie match.
  22. David Blazenwing

    What Do You Think Eddie's Secret Is ?

    Ha ha ha... just want to say I called that.
  23. David Blazenwing

    What Do You Think Eddie's Secret Is ?

    Does anybody else think that Rey might go over tonight and we'll just never learn the secret? It'd be a handy way of not having to think of anything for the writers...
  24. David Blazenwing

    New WWE DVD's

    Ooh, finally all 21 WrestleManias on DVD (and it better be DVD!)? Fucking sweet. Question... will they have to blur ALL the scratch WWF logos from WM 14 through 18? I'm sure they will... but that'll suck. Won't it also be the first time a full attitude-era show will be released after the switch to WWE?
  25. David Blazenwing

    Triple H Update

    They had one hell of a match in 2003 though... it's even on the Flair 3-disc. I wouldn't mind seeing this match at WM again, especially since I'm actually hoping to go to this one, though I agree that HHH would be going over (no way he's losing 3 WM's in a row).
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