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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.

I wish they'd do Benoit vs. Snow.

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=77251 Already being discussed there.

Tazz and Cole took a call from "Bubba" on night two of their Sirius trial and no, it was not Bubba The Love Sponge but ... Bubba Ray Dudley. Bubba said anybody could be a ten time World champion if they married the boss' daughter. He said his last name was "Dudley" and did not care if WWE legal heard him. Tazz commented that they were listening for sure to the show. They talked for about ten minutes and kidded about Cole being on the "gas." Bubba asked if WWE started testing yet. Bubba said there is something really good on TV on Saturday Nights on Spike and to check it out. Tazz then invited Bubba to call back "anytime" and to call again for their Sunday pre-Super Bowl Show. Bubba said he has both XM and Sirius, but put over Sirius as the better of the two satellite radio providers. He congratulated Tazz and Cole on the show and hoped they get the gig full-time. Tazz and Cole keep alluding to being on TV (Smackdown) at the same time they were on Sirius.

I had to see this show to believe what I read on the spoilers. I've been looking for a good reason to stop watching WWE for good, and I think this horrible exploitation of Eddie Guerrero is good enough for me. Adios, WWE.

If I want to read what people thought back then, I'll fucking search for it in the archives myself.

Yeah, but it was released right before WWF had to switch to WWE, so it was kind of fucked and couldn't sell it as long. I don't think so. Watch the DVD. None of the logos are blurred and all mentions of "WWF" are still in there, so they only had 6 months to be able to distribute it.

Yeah, but it was released right before WWF had to switch to WWE, so it was kind of fucked and couldn't sell it as long.

I always thought it was ridiculous that they released a John Cena DVD way back in 2003.

So, where is it?

Meh, it's their first show. 99% of the time, no one can nail it on the first try.

The theme for this month is "Midget Mania" On the plus side, they've officially reached the nWo era on Nitro, with Scott Hall's first apperance. Still pretty surreal watching it today. I was at that Nitro. Imagine how surreal it was to me!

Let's attempt to bring back Scott Hall too!

Numerous sources have told us that Vince McMahon is not happy with the job that Joey Styles has been doing of late on Raw. Sources have told me that McMahon gave Styles a long talking to at last week's Raw on 01/02, telling him what he thinks Styles is doing wrong (from a WWE perspective) and what he expects from the lead announcer of Raw. From what I have been told, Styles will have to realize that he is no longer "calling ECW matches for the internet fans" if he wants to stay on Raw long-term. It should also be noted that when Styles first interviewed with WWE, after ECW went out of business in 2001, WWE had the same concerns about him. It's not a knock against Styles either, but rather a further indication of how WWE sees their way of doing business as the right and only way. They see it as they make movies and tell stories. They don't "call wrestling". credit: PWInsider Elite Also, in the recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer says that it took Joey Styles 6 hours to do the voice-over work for the Raw in Afghanistan, which was only about 1 hour and 40 minutes without commercials. They reportedly had to do a ton of re-dos. Paul Heyman recently contacted WWE and claimed that he had to do a lot of "producing" to make Joey sound as good as he did in ECW.

I'm with the other people. If Mysterio doesn't make it to Mania, I'm not ordering it and will probably watch WWE a lot less and TNA a lot more.

Good 'ol Paul, always putting the family business before himself. Who needed 4+ ratings anyways as long as HHH is the top heel, right?

I honestly don't see how they can do another ECW PPV considering how many people that were on that show that they can't use now.

Yeah, acting like Eddie is suddenly God now and controls everything. And it looks even more stupid since Chavo was eliminated in like 50 seconds.

I love how Palmer Canon and the midgets suddenly came back after disappearing for no reason. WWE really needs to chill out on the Eddie references. Having Orton go out there and say, "Eddie's in hell" and "You have as much of a chance of beating me as Eddie does of coming back to life" is really offensive and tasteless. I wouldn't be surprised if Vickie Guerrero goes to Vince McMahon and asks him to cool it. I would. I understand Orton is just doing what he's told, but he really needs to put his foot down on some of this stuff. And Rey should be totally ashamed of himself for taking part in this crap. I can live with Rey mentioning Eddie often because they were best friends, but when you have wrestlers suddenly insulting Eddie when they were crying their eyes out over him 2 months ago, it looks incredibly stupid. I have no idea what the fuck WWE is thinking going forward with Angle vs. Orton. Orton is a heatless wonder now. No one gives a fuck about him anymore, especially since UT obliterated him and Benoit kicked the shit out of him the past two months. The crowd is red hot for Rey, always has been. Even more now that he's getting the Eddie sympathy heat going. Orton vs. Angle may be the lamest WM main event since UT vs. Sid. If Rey ends up losing his title shot, WWE can forget me ordering WM22 and me ever ordering another Royal Rumble. HHH vs. Cena and Orton vs. Angle = me keeping my $50. And how stupid is Rey for even putting his title shot up anyways?

Hopefully Meltzer is wrong about Orton vs. Angle at WM22 like he was about WM20 being a ladder match. Nobody gives a fuck about Randy Orton.

According to several sources, plans for a live TNA special on Spike TV for Monday 2/13 are off. Spike TV made the decision to not move forward about a week ago. I was told that TNA was willing and ready to produce the special as they saw what a major opportunity it would have been. The proposed special, which would have been live the day after TNA's February PPV, would have fallen on the same evening WWE's Monday Night Raw will be preempted by the USA Network for the Westminster Dog Show. It now appears 2/13 will be the first Monday evening since August 1995 with no professional wrestling programming on cable television. According to a source at Spike TV, the decision not to produce the special was due to "logistical reasons" and future TNA specials (live or taped) are still being discussed for the future. credit: PWInsider

"Edge was said to be very upset backstage at the Royal Rumble when he found out he would be dropping the WWE Title back to John Cena. Upset in the sense of being distraught, not angry. Edge was said to be in such bad shape over it that Vince McMahon pulled Edge into his office privately to assure him that they weren't going to give up on him. Edge was upset that his lifelong dream lasted only 3 weeks."