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Further, to add to what I just said, why do people always reveal their names? If I ever won, I'd take all the steps I could to make sure no one other than my wife and closest relatives had any idea.

Well, 15 million bucks is still a lot of money, but I always wonder why people take the lump sum pay out. I'd be willing to wait a few years if it meant making double or more what I could get right away. Sure, I couldn't use it all, but if I had kids, they'd be set for the rest of their own lives, too.

If it does degenerate into a full blown civil war, I really hope the US government pulls all our troops out of there...they don't need to be in the middle of that.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, after nearly seventy five years of being the revolutionary force in sports entertainment, I've decided it's time to step down! I'm going down to the Bahamas to be a genetic jackhammer to Linda, and I'm not turning back! And not only that, but since this is my company that I built with my blood and sweat, and I believe in rewarding agression and ruthlessness...I'm closing down the whole shop! Yes, that's right, WWE is dissolving! Now don't worry, I want to reward all of you for your years of hard work and service...so I'm going to let all of you finish out the week and collect your paychecks. After that...YOU'RE FIRED!"

Just watched Maeda/Hogan...really nice Japanese style heavyweight match. Liked the spot where Hogan gets tied up but backdrops Maeda out. Weird seeing him where black trunks and white boots (guess he was going for a "Thunderlips" type look). Also neat to note that this match took place only about 7 months before his first WWF title reign.

I enjoyed the match too. It was kind of weird how much of it took place outside the ring. I thought it was a pretty decent brawl, however, with the bleeding and the table spot, etc.

I think overall WWE just needs to pick a new direction, and then stick to it. I don't care what it is. Do they want to be a serious wrestling company, with lots of competitive matches? Fine, do it. Do they want to have lots of comedy skits and gimmicks? Fine, do it. Do they want to have lots of quick, high spot oriented matches? Fine, do it. Just quit putting guys out there that seem like they will fit into one of those molds, and then cut their legs out from under them after two weeks. They need to quit trying to revive 1998 style WWF, and pick a new direction, and then just stick with it. They need a new formula. They also need to differentiate RAW and Smackdown better. Here's what I'd do: RAW would be the show for lots of storylines and backstage segments. Matches would mostly be relatively short, no more than 15 minutes for a main event. One on one and tag matches would be very spot oriented. Flashy teams like MNM would be on RAW and wrestle quick, spot-style matches. RAW would feature the women's division and any "diva" on Smackdown would be there to be a manager, not wrestle. Since RAW has no GM, I'd have Vince McMahon say he likes not having "an idiot like Bischoff ruining everything" and announce that he's taking a hands off approach to RAW. Have someone like Arn Anderson be a backstage agent who sets the matches, but would be on TV infrequently (like Larry Z in TNA). RAW would feature more in-ring interviews and confrontations, and matches would get set frequently via wrestlers challenging each other. Smackdown would be the show for longer matches and more wrestling. There'd be at least one big Cruiserweight match every week, and frequently there'd be 6, 8, or even 10 man CW tag matches, typically to start the show. I'd move the Juniors to RAW, since they serve no purpose being on the same show as the Cruiserweights, and would fit better with the "entertainment" aspect of RAW. The World Heavyweight Champion would defend his belt almost every week, usually in longer matches. Kurt Angle would fit perfectly in this role. Teddy Long would stay in the GM role, mainly to set World Title matches and the like. Maybe the above formats could be tweaked, but I think they'd work, and at least there'd be a set direction for each show. Right now it seems like it's "generic WWE show A and generic WWE show B."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umeofYSB8E0...ch=Hulk%20Hogan Dunno if this has been linked to yet...Stan Hansen vs Hulk Hogan.

There are aliens...and they live with the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot on Mars. They fly to Earth in black helicopters supplied by the CIA. See, here's a picture of one. http://ufologie.net/pics/vtuav01.jpg. That proves everything right there! And look, a comic book based on Bigfoot: http://www.steveniles.com/gallery/bigfoot/...ot01_001?full=1. This proves his existence. Finally, the famous picture of the Loch Ness Monster. Yes, the guy who took it admitted it was faked on his death bed, but that doesn't mean it's not really the Loch Ness Monster! http://www.castleofspirits.com/ness2.gif See, I could make a documentary just like the one in the original post!

See, basically these people on the fringe are telling everyone else to prove a negative...a classic false argument. "See...the government could have faked everything. I don't have any concrete proof, but you can't prove they didn't do it either!" Oh, btw, I did watch some of the video...it's funny how they try to take all this completely unrelated stuff going back to the '60s and Cuba, and try to tie it in to 9/11. You think people in goverment coming up with a plan to stage attacks on Guantanamo was out there? The government also had a plan to make Castro's beard fall out at the same time. That's how out there things were during the Cold War. It's not some big eye opening surprise. The creator of the video also doesn't cite sources for a lot of their info, or it's just some random website or something. Again, the guy doing the voiceover sounds like some college student who's been brainwashed by his liberal professors. Art...comparing the 9/11 attacks to pro-wrestling is pretty fucking stupid, too, and really trivializes the _real_ deaths that happened on that day. I'm not some conservative who thinks we need to keep talking about that day as if it was the most important day in American history (I didn't even vote for Bush), but your complete lack of reality in your arguments is pretty telling of where you are on the political fence.

The bottom line is, if you think 9/11 was some kind of conspiracy or a lie, you probably hate America anyway so it really doesn't matter what anyone says to dissuade you about this issue either way, because you want to believe what you want. I saw it happen live on TV. So did millions and millions of other people. Arab Muslim terrorist barbarians killed about three thousand people, then took credit for it. Isn't that enough?

Um, I really doubt Sting has ever been gay.

Hopefully we can at least be spared the whole "WWE authority figure trying to kill off ECW once and for all" angle this time.

Yay...let's have another ECW show, only this time most of the real major ECW guys work for TNA so they won't be appearing (Raven, Sabu, Dudleys, Shane Douglas, Rhino...) Let's pretend again that guys like Chris Benoit were major ECW stars, even though they only wrestled there for about a year...

I was on vacation in the Dominican Republic and caught a couple episodes of CMLL on one of the Mexican channels (I think it was Univision). Anyway, I forgot how fun some of this stuff was to watch. Seems like five or six years ago lucha was pretty popular with US wrestling fans, but you hardly hear anyone talk about it anymore. A few things I noticed: Groond XXX is probably the most freakish wrestler I can recall in quite a while. A big red guy with his muscles highlighted in black, wearing a batman mask and vampire fangs. Also, his theme music is a blatant rip off of the Road Warrior's WWF theme. A hillarious segment where Pierroth and Pierroth Jr. (I think) were discussing something in a coffee shop, sitting at a table. Saw a cool triple team move where two guys were held by a third in a sort of double headlock...then one of his partners stood on top of each guy, and stretched their outer arms...sort of a double team abdominal stretch. It looked like a high school cheerleader pyramind, basically. Pretty nifty, if contrived. Atlantis (I think) going to a hospital to cheer up sick kids in full costume was pretty surreal. Perro Aguayo Jr. and Hector Garza seemed pretty popular. Remember when Garza was going to be the top guy in WWF's fledgling Light Heavyweight division before WCW stole him away? Halloween and Damien 666 had cool t-shirts that said "Made in Heaven" on the front, and "Used in Hell" on the back. Then they turned face on Pierroth, IIRC. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Wouldn't mind seeing some more of this recent stuff.

Come on guys, that kid was what? Five? That's a little young to be pulling that kind of prank on. I laughed though.

Maybe he's announcing the next ECW: ONS show?

That brings up a point I was going to make...anyone else think that Team 3D looks really lame and generic with their current ring gear? Brother Ray's flannel shirt really gets to me...it makes him look like he's going down to the local Menard's, not getting ready to wrestle. The current Team 3D shirts are pretty generic, too. I do think the new one above is a little better. They need to work on their overall look though...they should look like a pair of dangerous tag team veterans, not a couple guys from your local backyard fed.

It seems like they need more advertisers, period. You see a Morphoplex ad every single break during Impact.

I think Larry should go back to being "The Cruncher" and start disciplining people by slamming their hands in car doors.

The whole Hogan/Andre thing always pisses me off. Yeah, it was a big match for the time, but it's been turned into the greatest match in the history of pro-wrestling by the WWE and Hulk Hogan's revisionist history. Hogan was already the man at that point. He'd held the title for, what, four years by that point? The whole "Andre passed the torch that night" is a bunch of crap. Add in WWF inflating the attendance rate, and Hogan's storytelling about ripping his back apart bodyslamming Andre, and the story about people not knowing if Andre would do the job, etc. It's all pretty ridiculous. It is also stupid for Hogan to outright lie and make it sound like it was one of Andre's last matches. Andre probably wrestled in hundreds of matches after WM3, in WWF, Japan, and Mexico.

I doubt they'll move Jay Lethal up that quickly. Has he even won a match in TNA yet?

Only bad part is half of those guys haven't been in TNA for quite a while (Shark Boy, Nash, Waltman, Jeff Hardy...)

Looks like a mis-match if he was wrestling Tiger Mask there.

My guess is he's just there to discuss some co-promotional shows in Japan or something basically meaningless to us American fans.