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That was more of an issue of Paul Heyman not wanting to break the lineage of the ECW Title than it was a preferrential treatment of Shane Douglas. Heyman would have let anyone in that situation do that.

The Filthy Animals were heels during the New Blood vs. Millionaire's Club feud, which I guess made Rey a heel by defauly since he did take part in a beating on Hulk Hogan once.

Watch the ECW DVD. Paul Heyman says they were pumping so much power through the little junky ECW Arena, that a transistor blew 13 seconds after the PPV went off the air. I think after that, WWE running any kind of live televised show from there is out of the question.

UTSU, how can anybody say that Backlund as champ didn't draw, since he held the belt for, what, 3 days? -=Mike On the same token, I don't know how anyone could defend putting the belt on Diesel for being crazy over after turning on Shawn, because he won the belt only 3 days after he turned face.

Alex Shelley wrote on his live journal that he has requested a release from TNA, saying, "Speaking of TNA, I'll have an update on that soon, along with some details of why I'm not there. For everyone that's interested, I asked for my release in early January, but for whatever reason, have yet to recieve it." Shelley will be debuting for ZERO-ONE in March. That promotion has certainly become a safe haven of sorts for TNA talents that are underutilized as Simon Diamond and Sonjay Dutt have done quite well since debuting there. Credit: PWInsider

JBL would beat Diesel's reign if he held the title until June 22nd, 2005. That would be 359 days. For the record, I went to the trouble of calculating all the World Title reigns: Triple H -- December 15th, 2002 to September 21st, 2003 = 280 Days Chris Benoit -- March 14th, 2004 to August 15th, 2004 = 154 Days Triple H -- December 14th, 2003 to March 14th, 2004 = 91 Days Triple H -- September 12th, 2004 to December 6th, 2004 = 85 Days Goldberg -- September 21st, 2003 to December 14th, 2003 = 84 Days Triple H -- September 2nd, 2002 to November 17th, 2002 = 76 Days Shawn Michaels -- November 17th, 2002 to December 15th, 2002 = 28 Days Randy Orton -- August 15th, 2004 to September 12th, 2004 = 28 Days

Wrestling in Atlantis? I'd go.

"Clothes don't make the man." -- Gorilla Monsoon

Wasn't Metallica originally supposed to play the National Anthem at WrestleMania 11 but the deal fell through?

He refereed the dark match at WrestleMania 6, Paul Roma vs. The Brooklyn Brawler.

I'll never forget in 2000 when the dog show actually beat Nitro in the ratings. The dog show got a 3.7 and Nitro got a 3.6. Unbelievably hilarious.

I could have sword the scratch logo was used in the corner of the screen at Survivor Series 1997.

Brian Pillman was wrestling Eddie Guerrero at a Clash of the Champions in January 1996, when all of a sudden Pillman goes nuts and runs around and grabs Heenan by his neck and Heenan yells out "What the fuck are you doing?"

I had never seen Grenier messing up the kip-up until now. And boy, that UT chokeslam to Hogan was just as pathetic as I remember it.

Matt and Trey Parker explained the rules of cursing on TV after they did their episode of South Park where the word "Shit" was said 162 times in 24 minutes. They said basically, the FCC has no regulation over basic cable, so anyone could do anything they wanted. The only problem is pissing off advertisers, because that's where majority of the money is made. So, there's no way the government could have come down on Kevin Nash saying "Bullshit" 3 times on Nitro, because they have no control.

Carlito Caribbean Cool is basically the new Razor Ramon.

Are they doing TV down there? If not, why bother with signs?

Wade Keller wrote this addendum to his RAW recap of the Shawn Michaels' interview: More planting of seeds for the Angle-Michaels match at WM, which very well could be Angle's final WWE match. Discuss.

Disregard. I can't read.

This difference between Shawn Michaels' back and Kurt Angle's neck is that Shawn injured his back in one isolated incident. Before he took that bad bump on the casket at Royal Rumble 1998, Michaels really didn't have any back problems despite the normal aches and pains that come with being a professional wrestler. Angle has had lingering neck problems for the past 9 years. That would be remarkably unhealthy for someone in a non-athletic line of work, and it's compounded even worse considering he's been doing pro wrestling since 1998 and the incredibly high workrate he utilizes. Michaels had two back surgeries in April and November 1998 and took an unheard of four years off and now he's back as good as ever. I think almost 24 months after, we can deem Angle's 2003 experimental neck surgery a failure because he is not better. That surgery worked for people like Scott Hall and DDP because they don't have the insane work ethic inside the ring that Kurt Angle has (which is probably a credit to their intelligence). The point I'm trying to make is that Angle could not do what HBK did and take however long off to relax because this has been an exponentially growing problem for 9 years. HBK wrestled only one match after his back injury and immediately got it fixed. The situations are completely different. Michaels bounced back because he knew what had to be done and didn't waste anytime. Angle seems to have a fetish for working through pain, and it's ending up to really screw him professionally, but hopefully not personally.

vs. Michaels at WrestleMania? vs. John Cena at SummerSlam? What a hard choice.

I absolutely forgot about that Cena/Angle feud.

Assuming they're using the same 6-man format... Chris Jericho, Matt Hardy, Randy Orton, The Hurricane, Tajiri, & Kane to Smackdown. John Cena, Big Show, Charlie Haas, Hardcore Holly, Luther Reigns, & The Undertaker to Raw.

Man Vince reminds me more and more of Rob Black every day. WWE films so needs an adult division.

I was at the Saturday Night taping where Badd had his last WCW match, jobbing the TV Title to Luger. We got fucked over hard on that show. They were advertising Ric Flair vs. Sting for the WCW Title in the main event, and instead we got some crappy asshole 8-man tag match and it was like Flair, Arn Anderson, Kevin Sullivan, & Loch Ness vs. Sting, Lex Luger, and The Steiner Brothers.