Enigma

Wow, the best name they could come up with for a basketball gimmick was "Slam Dunk"?

Call me crazy, but I don't think RVD would come back just to flounder around in "WWE's fake ECW" again.

He didn't sound drunk or wasted to me. He sounded very legible. Sounds like he just goofed.

The last episode of TNT is up. It's amazing how much fun they were having with Jake Roberts, who was supposed to be a heel. And was Ricky Steamboat roided out or what?

I like the sign at the end of the '97 PPV that's in clear view when Vince is sending the show out that says "VINCE, DON'T RUIN SASUKE".

They're lucky Rob Van Dam emerged in that whole mess and exploded, or else it would have been a total quagmire.

I wonder how hard it was for Vince to say "the sport of professional wrestling".

Eyewitnesses are stating it started when Jericho had to rush out because he was in a hurry and didn't sign any autographs. The male mark, Kalen Johl, started yelling very derogatory things to Jericho. When he was at a stop sign, the female mark, Ashley Levey, approached Jericho's rental car and starting hitting it with her hand. It all snowballed from there. The bottom line is this wouldn't have happened if their security team was worth a damn.

A fan wrote in to ProWrestling.net and apparently these two jackasses were just as obnoxious during the actual show. Apparently, he also wanted to fight Santino Marella during the show. The article states they were both 20 years old. Ashley Levey can be easily seen in the video wearing a John Cena t-shirt.

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It says they were arrested, but released without charge.

HAHA. Fantastic call, sir. I did a search on Facebook and there's only one Kalen Johl on there. And he's from *drumroll* Vancouver, BC. And he's wearing a Tapout hoodie. There's only one Ashley Levey, but it's in New Jersey.

The article ProWrestling.net linked to claim they got arrested actually says they were taken into police custody and released. It says nothing about being charged with assault. And I'm not trolling here, but I think this warrants its own thread. Seems like a pretty hot topic.

Jericho is in the clear because this garbage started when the idiot fan ran out into the road and started hitting his car like an idiot. This can be backed up by witnesses, such as the original report. He was defending himself.

It was Super Calo. After that show, WCW moved back the guardrails about 5 feet.

For the millionth time, they never cancelled. They were never scheduled to be at the event. They've had their European tour planned out for a few months. Linda McMahon meant to say they'd be providing a song for the event, but she accidentally said they'd be perfoming instead.

Seriously. This video is 3 years old. This guy is going overboard with all the topic starting.

The big business crashed really quick once fans realized that Booker T. and Diamond Dallas Page were as big as it was going to get. I don't even want to think about how sick the numbers would have been if they had done this properly and stretched this thing out to WM18 with a show that featured both Steve Austin vs. Bill Goldberg and The Rock vs. Hollywood Hogan. Rock/Hogan was big enough on its own, but within the context of WWF vs. WCW, it would have been even more. I don't think we can even fathom the business they would have done if they had eaten Goldberg's contract and properly built to Austin vs. Goldberg at WM18. It would have been out of this world. Instead we got 3 months of Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle, which meant jackshit because these guys were both WWF guys. They were all good matches, but they were in a ridiculous context with Austin, a WWF guy for almost 6 years at this point, having aligned with WCW/ECW and their historical significance in 2009 in zilch. No one talks about that epic Steve Austin vs. Scott Hall WM18 match either.

I've always insisted that if Vince was deadset on doing WWF vs. WCW and not keeping them separate, he should have bit the bullet on Hogan, Hall, Nash, & Bischoff and had them show up at that Atlanta Raw that took place the week after the Booker/Bagwell disaster. And then have the nWo actually join up with WCW to go against the WWF. The only issue is that WCW's main two guys were still only Booker T. and Diamond Dallas Page. It would have been a lot more of an effective visual to have Hogan et. al together with Flair, Sting, Goldberg, etc. And the idea of Bischoff coming in and leading a unified WCW/nWo against his blood rival Vince McMahon would have given it another great perspective. I know they would have had to eat a ton of money on those contracts, but if this shit was booked properly, they would have made that money back x10. As mentioned, InVasion did an astronomical buyrate with just Book, DDP, a bunch of WCW mid-carders, and WWF guys disguised as wrestlers from ECW, a promotion that had been dead for 6 months. Imagine if they had actually done it right. There probably would have been no limit to the money that could have been made.

WWE.Com DID list Scorpio vs. Benoit in the card listing on the website. So maybe they won't axe him out. It would be a shame if they did. Great match with a great finish that got Scorpio over big time.

Vengeance '02 part 2 showed up for me too.

Hah! I always cringed during that entrance, for fear that somebody would lose their footing or their grip and Mable would topple onto one of the poor slave boys. Or fall into the crowd.

Do you think it'd kill you to not be a troll for one day?

" Steve Austin will attack McMahon, Ross or some other high ranking official to get him back over as a heel (WrestleNet) " Good call.

When I mention magazines, I mean the official WWF mags. I specifically remember an issue of Raw magazine where they had a picture of the Hart Foundation with a silhouette of Yokozuna behind them.