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    Why wasn't Barry Windham at Survivor Series 1989? I know he was booked on Macho Man's team but instead they had Earthquake take his place. Was this just a case of wanting to get Earthquake on the card to begin his push or was there a reason real life reason Windham wasn't there?

     

    Windham jumped back to the NWA.

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    According to Russo, there was some special Friday Night Raw or something in September 1996 that only drew like a 1.8 rating. At the time, he says he went to McMahon and said, "A 1.8? Things need to change. Your direction is stale and sucks." Russo thought he was going to get fired for what he said, but he ended up getting put on the booking team. They also pulled in Ed Ferrera, who had previously been writing for "Duckman" on USA. By the time WM13 rolled around, Russo was fully in charge with Ferrera as his right-hand man.

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    Yeah I got the RAW 15th Anniversary DVD. When Vader kills Gorilla Monsoon they looked like they were in a bigger version of the Manhattan Center.

     

    That venue was the Civic Center in Lowell, MA. It was also the arena where HBK did his "lost my smile" speech, The Rock beat HHH for his first I-C Title, and the one where HHH and HBK did the fake European Title match.

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    Sting never once came close to going to the WWF while WCW was still around. But he admitted that he was very, very close to going a few times after WCW died.

     

    In fact, he was so close to going in 2003, Vince told the creative team to start coming up with ideas for a HHH/Sting feud. But he backed out and they went after Goldberg instead. He also said that before he agreed to go to TNA full-time, Vince was practically begging him to come in and face The Undertaker at WM22. Sting ultimately declined and he ended up facing Mark Henry in a shitty casket match.

     

    He said all the times he's talked to Vince, Vince has always been really nice to him.

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    The fact you'd promote a section to be the 'Ass end of the Internet' speaks a lot about your projected direction.

    Sir, may I suggest not posting when you have no clue how a board works. It would help a lot for you here.

     

    Encouraging members not to post now? Nice way to increase board traffic and drive discussions. Have fun with that, see you later everyone else.

     

    Shut the fuck up. You seem to have no problem bitching about anything I post.

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    MTV.com interviewed John Cena yesterday and instead of focusing on Cena's movie "12 Rounds," they spent the whole piece talking about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, as both have ventured into acting.

     

    Cena did the usual "I love wrestling and will never leave it no matter what stuff" that he has been doing for a while now. He said that the fans are hold it against Johnson that he left them behind for Hollywood.

     

    Then, he finally swung for the fences when he said, "I've been trying to wrestle him. It's not that I don't think he'll accept the challenge; he truly has a full plate. I think our fans would like to see him come back to the ring. Dwayne Johnson or the Rock or whatever he wants call himself vs. John Cena. Let's say 'WrestleMania 26' in Phoenix."

     

    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1607906/2...326/story.jhtml

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    So I just watched a promo to build to the Orton-Edge Vengence IC match, and Edge something about going through evolution one by one. Was that the original booking plan until Toronto turned on him, and he became a whining heel?

     

    Yeah. The original plan for Edge when he came back in 2004 was to eventually go head-to-head with Triple H in a feud that, I presume, HHH would have come out on top in. I say that mainly because I never heard of any plans for Edge to actually beat HHH, just feud with him.

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    Here's the thing that makes it hard to judge Kreski's booking. Do we know exactly what he did and did not write for the shows? There isn't this textbook "Kreski style" of TV like there is with Russo. Some of the stuff that Kreski was credited with like the HHH/Steph/Angle storyline to me shows that the guy in the end didn't know what he was doing, since he apparently never thought of a decent ending to it. Austin was run down by the limo in Nov. 1999, when Kreski was first writing TV and you're telling me he couldn't think up something better than a Rikishi heel turn in the 9 months that Austin was out?

     

    Kreski had the good fortune of having a ton of major names on the roster while he was writing TV. Hell, take a look at that WWF roster of 2000. It was unbelievably loaded. Any of us on this board could say take HHH and The Rock and have them wrestle for 4 straight PPVs, or let Jericho and Benoit hammer each other a bunch of times. Kreski basically was given the keys to a sports car and told not to wreck it. He changed the oil on time, did the maintenance, but by Oct. 2000 he got in a fender bender and Vince took the car away and let daddy's little girl drive.

     

    Um, no. Kreski left the company voluntarily because he got a lucaritive job offer from MTV in September 2000. Despite what the topic subtitle says, Stephanie was in charge by the time Unforgiven 2000 rolled around. Vince needed someone to replace him and he thought the time was now to start using Stephanie in an important position. She took control of her angle with HHH and Angle while it was still red hot and totally derailed it. As many said earlier, it was probably derailed with influence by HHH because he doesn't like being a babyface.

     

    Kreski was nowhere near the company anymore when the love triangle abruptly ended. That was 100% Stephanie McMahon.

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