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Wasn't there some big mess around Nash not knowing he was wrestling until like 2 hours before the show? I seem to remember he didn't work in his typical gear.

I'll never forget the 2005 Rumble, in which J.R. thought Charlie Haas was Rene Dupree and vice versa. He even said "Au Revoir!" when Haas was eliminated. Quite embarassing.

From WWE.Com: ========= The Juniors are Coming! Oct. 15, 2005 In an unprecedented collaboration, network executive Palmer Canon and SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long announced today the introduction of a new WWE wrestling division exclusive to Friday Night SmackDown: The Juniors. The Juniors Division will be comprised of world-class athletes at or below 5 feet tall. “Midgets, dwarves, the little people; they’re all welcome,” said Long. “We don’t discriminate against anybody on my show, as long as they can bring it.” “The network believes there’s big ratings and big excitement in the new Juniors Division," Canon added. "I think fans will be shocked at what these tiny, but very talented, competitors can add to the already incredibly gifted roster here on Friday Night SmackDown.”

Jim Ross will more than likely be removed from Monday Night RAW's announce team soon. He will be put in to work exclusively on WWE.Com video features. A new play-by-play man will be hired to form a new RAW announce team. Three seperate sources have confirmed it and no one has denied it yet, but the idea is that it's still not 100% confirmed. credit: PWInsider Elite Hotline

Um Spoiler?

Starting to suck? Smackdown has sucked since mid-2003 when Mr. America and Zach Gowen was rolling around.

The video quality on USA Network around here is superb compared to SpikeTV.

Remember when Lita was Christy's trainer? Ha ho, that was rich. That's like wanting to learn how to speed-read by asking Stevie Wonder for help.

I still wish they would have gone through with the planned UT/Kane vs. Heidenreich/Snitsky trainwreck at WM21.

I want to know exactly what Iron Sheik did.

I remember when Eric Bischoff was doing one of the 5,413 Fire-Jim-Ross angles, he threatened J.R. by saying Tony Schiavone was on his speed dial. Heh.

I quit obsessively watching wrestling in 2003. It started with the weekend shows, then I found myself, barely watching Smackdown anymore after the Mr. America bullshit started, and then started barely watching RAW because I was sick of HHH-mania. But overall, it's just the shitty product and it started, as someone said above, when Stephanie McMahon took over the booking. The absolutely blown InVasion angle did a number on me, since that was a dream I had since I started watching wrestling in '87. The InVasion was just like always wanting to see a girl you know naked for years, and when you finally do, she has zits all over the place, veins in her tits, and the lumpiest ass you've ever seen. It's just like I was telling a friend over the weekend when I was watching TNA Impact: WWE now is like a horrible sitcom written by reject sitcom writers featuring wrestlers being forced to be actors instead wrestlers wrestling on a wrestling show with a few angles sprinkled here and there. It's trying to be one big fucking Hollywood production now instead of just being a good wrestling show, and it blows.

I'd love to see Matt Hardy try to pull off a Raven promo. His head would explode.

I want screencaps of Mooney on the double.

I thought it was Kevin Kelly who always said Billy Gunn was the best pure athlete in the WWF.

On WWE's Invitation to Appear on Byte This: "Of course, I do NOT accept this brainless, disgraceful invitation. FUCK NO, I do not. You can rescue yourself, Vince. Do your own damage control. I've no ear for your begging anymore. Only if you were on fire would I help you -- it'd just be too hard to resist pissing on you. Open mic? Then let it truly be open. Let your audience have some fresh air. Flush the toliet bowl once. Let them hear something intelligent, decent and truthful for once. Give them, Vince, what they want -- just like you are always bragging the WWE does. Let them be proud for just a few moments that the energetic, intense and colorful Ultimate Warrior persona they loved when they were little kids didn't become a self-pitying, disappointing, broken-down has-been like all the other brittle-minded skeletons traipsing around your locker rooms or now buried in forgotten about graves. Order the queer (Todd Grisham) and the cripple (Droz) who host the show to read what I have written here, and while they do that have them hold up mirrors looking at themselves so they can know exactly the kind of people in your organization I'm writing about. No apologies -- I don't discriminate for the handicapped who sign on to behave degenerately." On Vince McMahon's Claims That He Couldn't Wait To Fire Warrior: "What I think you meant to say, Vince, was “hire,” not “fire”: “I couldn’t wait to hire his ass.” I worked for the WWF on three separate occasions and you fired me only once and that was in ‘92 using Davey Boy and I as scapegoats in an attempt to throw the feds off your own scandal-brewing steroid trail. And every time I left, you’d track me down and come begging to bring me back. Never once did I call you or anybody else from the WWF to come back -- you ALWAYS came to me. Even one time sending Ed Cohen to hunt me down in the backwoods of NM at 4:30 am -- this was after you suspended me in ‘91. When you found me, you would always show up with two things. One, your stupid, superficial question “Don’t you miss the celebrity and limelight?” and, two, a goodie bag carrying a fat check to assuage your guilt and fault for letting me get out the door to begin with. You were a spoiled little kid even back then. You always had to learn the truth about me the hard way: “Damn, that guy really does do what he says he will do.” On Vince McMahon's claim that Warrior held WWF up for money: "...you got that wrong, too. Of course, it’s a fantasy you’ve created, so that makes it true in your twisted mind. There was an issue about a Wrestlemania 7 payoff, but the strong-arming being done was by you and your conniving financial thug at the time, Doug Sages, not me. Instead of being straightforward with me about what the payoff was going to be, you kept dragging out avoiding any discussion about it while Sages unethically concocted a counterfeit loan to me, which I knew nothing about till much later, say, around Summerslam time. How coincidental. When I called you on it, you duplicitously scribbled down and rushed me a letter praising me for my contributions to the company, my one-of-a-kind work ethic, and that you were proud to have me not just as a talent but know me as a friend -- and, then, Surprise! you pulled a 180 on me and courageously suspended me after the ‘91 Summerslam match by handing me a tough, condescending letter. You expected me to drop to my knees right then and lick one of the three balls you claimed you had, begging you to take me back, right there in that MSG locker room, right there in front of your adulterous ball licker at the time, Mrs. Emily Feinburg, (so you could show her, I guess, how big a man you were), but I told you that Emily was the one good at it and you wouldn’t be seeing me for quite some time. I didn’t lie. I got my bags, went to AZ, moved to NM and left you ill with worry about where I was. “Where’s MY Warrior?’ you boohooed for months. It is a flat-out Wizard of OZ fantasy that I ever held you or WWF up for money." Responding to Triple H's comment that Warrior was the most unprofessional wrestler Triple H was ever in the ring with: "I’m the most unprofessional person you’ve ever stepped into the ring with? Well, now, ain’t that pretty. Because what I remember, Mr. Stephanie McMahon, is that you were only in the ring with me one time -- and for less than 5 minutes. Here all these years since leaving the ring and becoming interested in mentoring young people, I often wonder what kind of impact I am having because I take it seriously and it is important to me do it effectively. Well, it sure sounds like I taught you very well in the 5 minutes you had in the ring with me. Because from what I hear you are the biggest unprofessional asshole the business has ever seen. You are welcome." More On Triple H: "Yes, Paul, sorrily, your whole career has been a mission to outdo Ultimate Warrior. But guess what little, puffy man? You failed. Oh, how you failed. I set an iconic standard none of you could reach. And you are bitter about it. So bitter. You all are. Indeed, it is this bitterness that you most have in common with your father-in-law. In fact, he recognized the depth of it in you and knew if something ever happened to him you would continue the mission to fulfill HIS vendetta. To secure it, he gave you his daughter. But he must be a little concerned, because it seems the only masculinity you can drum up is while you are hanging onto her booking skirt. You know, think about it. If I hadn’t been smitten with my own honey at the time and Vince would have been more sensible, he might have hired me to become his son-in-law. You know, the Original Ultimate Warrior, not a dismal imitation. On second thought, I had strong self confidence and Vince never felt sorry for me as he evidently does for you." On Bobby Heenan: "it’s just too difficult to keep a straight face talking about the pure two-faced bag of shit you are (and have always been), what, with you also actually wearing one as a piece of body jewelry. You are dying, diseased on the inside, and no more time is left to get back any of the integrity that matters the most on death’s bed. Imagine what it will be like, lying there taking in your last breaths, knowing you whored yourself out your whole life, and had to, in your final years, be faced with emptying your own personal shit bag affirming to you the true value of what you achieved in your life. Not even Vince could come up with a better finish than this. Karma is just a beautiful thing to behold." On Jim Ross: "Everyone is asking the same question: “Just when did Jim Ross get to know Warrior so well to have these endless opinions about him that he does?” All anyone can think of, largely because it is so apparent across the board throughout the entire DVD, is that, again, envy alone provides you (and everyone else for that matter) with the enlightenment and answers. You are obviously jealous of both the fact that I never let Vince have his way with me as he has with you and everyone else and, also, that you never had the chance to bend me over either since becoming the Mother Hen over the talent around about ‘96 when I was last there." On Plans to Respond to the WWE's DVD Legally: "Of course, about whether or not there is any legitimate slander, I will hold off and legally find out. But it really is a great cultural illustration of how deviantly dumbed down mentoring and masculinity have become. And, interestingly enough, engaging these serious ideas is what propels me in the career interests I have today." On WWE's Current Stars Ridiculing him on the DVD: "I am always conscious of giving you young guys a break whenever I express criticisms about the storylines and creative direction in the business. I figure you are dumb and naive and still figuring out your philosophy of life, so I am not as hard on you for your youthful behaviors. Maybe one day you'll come around. Maybe not and you’ll just turn out like all the other grown men who are letting you down. We will all see. But you’ll want to keep in mind, that I stand up and defend my integrity in person just as seriously as I do when I write about it. It’s not a work. And it’d be to your misfortune if I was traveling through some airport in this country one day and happened to see you standing there surrounded by little sexpot groupies and adoring fans, and I just took it upon myself to approach you, not to pick a fight but to ask you to explain your ridicule of me, and suddenly you couldn’t speak and started to go to the bathroom all over yourself. Let me tell you from my own life experiences, there’s nothing so intimidating and embarrassing as another human being who can kick your ass with their mind. Take it from a guy who made quite a success out of throwing his muscle around, and learned this lesson the hard way." "Because, you see, I am sorta old-fashioned about many things. One of those things is that a person should never be afraid to defend their integrity, especially when they have it. I do. And another thing is that young people should have both manners and respect for their elders, especially when they are deserving of it. I am. So, when you disrespect me, you leave me with no other choice, being the grown, adult man I am, but to embarrass you like a childish fool if I was to cross paths with you. And if you thought Ultimate Warrior as a physical thing was so intense it made you an awe-struck, speechless kid, you’re not going to be any less awe-struck and speechless when I give you a piece of my mind with the same kind of intensity."

At least Warrior doesn't make human beings kiss his bare ass on national television under the guise of a storyline.

What's crazy to think about is that the Bret Hart DVD was originally supposed to be on this level of burial before he signed on to do it. They already had negative interviews with McMahon, Lawler, J.R., HBK, and Hogan that they trashed when Hart signed on.

Actually, it's from somewhere in early 2000, because it's from an interview used for the Wrestlemania 2000 two-disc. The only visual proof is have is the leather jacket that Helmsley is wearing, which he stopped wearing before the quad injury. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HHH continued to wear the jean/leather jacket until he went back to wearing all the dressy stuff in mid-2002.

Heh. Heh. Simon Dean makes it onto PPV against not-Monty Brown.

The HHH interview they put on the Warrior DVD was taken from shooting of HHH's DVD that came out in early-2002. HHH calling anyone unprofessional in 2005 is mind-exploding.

Meltzer has basically said UFC are retards for doing this Monday show.

Letting a deal expire? You obviously know nothing of the story. In 1994, the United Kingdom-based World Wildlife Fund (a company founded in the early-1960s while the World Wide Wrestling Federation didn't become World Wrestling Federation until the early-1980s) and Vince were having a very civil dispute over the "WWF" initials. In that year, Vince signed a contractual agreement with the Fund. In that agreement, Vince said that he would never market his company as "WWF" anywhere outside North America. Basically, the Fund said, "We don't care what you do in your primary market, just keep it out of everywhere else." Guess how many times Vince followed that agreement and marketed his product as something other than "WWF" outside of North America? Zero. Vince thought he was bigger and more important than signed, contractual, lawful documents, and it finally bit him in the ass in 2002 when that UK judge said, "The Fund can use the initials and you, under any circumstances, may no longer use them."

So RAW's going head to head with Smackdown?

Maybe now that they're back on USA, the girls can actually be shown on television in thongs again. They have to know how ridiculous it looks to see a thong underneath boyshorts.