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Also, everything from Hogan's initial face run in WCW after the Flair feud is completely ignored. I'm kind of shocked they skipped Hollywood Hogan beating The Giant at Hog Wild '96 and spraypainting "NWO" over the WCW Title belt.

Excuse me? What does that have to do with Hulk Hogan? Hogan said he absolutely hated every part of the Mr. America angle, so I'm not surprised that it was ignored on here. And in my opinion, that time was when Smackdown (and wrestling as a whole) started getting skippable for me.

This was the funniest thing I've read all day. Good show.

Meltzer said on the LAW Sunday that Bret was softening his stance against the Hall of Fame and was seriously considering accepting it, so this looks totally legit.

WWE.Com World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of "Cowboy" Bob Orton. We wish him the best in all future endeavors.

Two words. In. Vasion. I think my at-the-time 7-year-old autistic nephew could have booked a better invasion angle.

Meltzer says there is a lot of heat on the creative team for not checking up on whether or not she would need to be gone during the middle of the angle when they hired her.

Sting said he'd never do another ceiling entrance after what happened to Owen Hart.

To make a bad angle even worse, Vickie Guerrero and her daughters will be stationed at ringside during the Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton match at No Way Out on 2/19. To say there is a lot of heat on this decision is this week's major understatement. -- Dave Meltzer/WrestlingObserver.com

They wrestled on Heat in a 3-Way for the #1 contender spot to the World Tag Team Championship against Val Venis & Viscera and Gene Snitsky & Tyson Tomko. They were eliminated pretty quickly, probably within the first two minutes. Wasn't it a month ago that WWE.Com posted a story on Romeo's road to his dream of being in WWE? Heh.

Somewhere, Bob Holly is saying, "What a pussy" I bet.

But Edge was just telling the truth. In Foley's 3 WWF Title reigns, he only had the belt a combined 46 days. 1st title teign = 26 days 2nd title reign = 19 days 3rd title reign = 1 day

While appearing on Bubba the Love Sponge's Sirius radio show this afternoon, former WCW and WWE World champion Bill Goldberg commented on TNA saying that if Spike TV wanted to invest their money and effort to go against WWE, he would be interested in discussing it. He also noted that he's had conversations recently with Sting about TNA. The only other wrestling-related notes were Goldberg commenting that WWE "blew it" with his Wrestlemania XX match against Brock Lesnar, and praised Hulk Hogan for helping him get his agent ("wrestling agent" Barry Bloom, who also represents Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Mick Foley).

Orton needs to ball-up and refuse to do this shit.

Chris Cruise sounds like he wrote that article in hopes that someone high-up from WWE would read it, fire Styles, and hire him. As far as my opinion of Joey Styles in WWE, he's done a great job. The only one thing that annoys me about Joey in WWE is when he tries to sell Ashley Massaro's pathetic "punches" as devastating.

"No one cares about women's wrestling." -- Eric Bischoff on Raw, July 2002

Nope. Austin never had an issue with Flair. In fact, Flair was going to book Austin to win the WCW Title from him in 1994 before Hulkamania ran wild.

This week's Raw kept alive the company's recent string of strong numbers doing what I believe will round up to a 4.5 cable rating, with a 6.5 share. The show did a 4.5 first hour and a 4.4 second hour, so on the whole the number has remained strong over the last few weeks and as of right now it doesn't appear that there is any viewer backlash over Edge losing the WWE Title back to John Cena. The one bad thing about the number is that the show trended downward in the second hour, but the tenth of a point difference is within the margin of error so I wouldn't get too upset about that if I worked for WWE. AM Raw did a 0.6 cable rating, with a 1.6 share. credit: PWInsider

I think the only person who ever accused Ric Flair of holding them down was Shane Douglas.

Isn't that the old WCW Hotline number? What's on that number now?

No Way Out is a Smackdown-only PPV.

Because with Edge as champ, the RAW rating consistently went back up to levels that they hadn't reached consistently since 2001. The casual crowd seemed to dig Edge as champ. That alone is enough for me to feel sorry for the guy. He could have been the most successful heel in WWE in a long time. But alas, we can't have a bigger heel than HHH.

JBL would disagree.

I'd rather listen to this radio show than watch Raw, actually.

Ok, possible bad choice of words. But I think anyone who goes after HHH is wasting their time. Criticise Creative if you want, criticise Vince (for giving him a job in the first place, i suppose), but criticising HHH? For what? Hunter is on creative. He has control of his own programs and is one of the most powerful people in WWE, probably only behind Vince. If you believe that sort of thing. And besides, if if he did have political power (again, I doubt it) - why would HHH care about the Dudley's - a MID-CARD pseudo nostalgia act that'd been reduced to a series of idiot spots in crappy matches against better teams. When the brand extension started they split the Dudleys up, putting Bubba Ray on Raw and D-Von on Smackdown (with a new gimmick, Reverend D-Von). In the middle of 2002 right when his singles push was starting to take to the fans, Bubba Ray was placed in a mini-feud of sorts with HHH. They would verbally snipe each other backstage here and there, to the point where it finally culminated into a physical confrontation on a Raw right after HHH was awarded the new World Heavyweight Title by Eric Bischoff, where Bubba Ray damn near killed HHH powerbombing him through a table (he lost his leverage and HHH went through the side of the table, almost impaling him). The next week, HHH promptly squashed Bubba Ray in a World Title match in about 6 minutes that thoroughly killed his singles push to the point they had to ship D-Von, who was doing well breaking out on his own on Smackdown, to Raw. That's probably where all this bitterness for HHH from Bubba Ray comes in. I doubt D-Von would have any strong words about HHH like that, unless he feels sympathetic for Bubba Ray and all the other people who were victims of HHH's political power.