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OK, so sue me, but that was funny. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42767

Doesn't Jimmy Hart work for/with TNA? Couldn't they have him produce some themes that don't all sound the same?

One of my least favorite Nitros was the one where the entire first hour was all interviews and stuff with zero matches. It was mind numbing.

Undertaker suddenly turning heel on Jim Ross a few years ago is one that sticks in my mind. The explanation, of UT saying he'd had to kiss Vince's ass for years, didn't make much sense given UT's past character. The worst were in WCW...pretty much anything after 1999 was terrible. Goldberg turning heel had to be one of the dumbest...I don't remember the exact storyline reason. I just remember the fans wanting to cheer the guy, yet WCW had him be a heel. Ridiculous.

Were Sakura and Ryu ever really together in the SF games, or did the author just kind of make that up?

I think the problem is there's just too many categories and such with the RSPW awards. The thing takes forever to fill out. That's why I usually don't bother. It would be nice if they could make some kind of online ballot, rather than requiring you to copy, paste, and e-mail it as well.

I hope that is what they do (make Benoit the World Heavyweight Champion). I mean, after so much bad news on Smackdown, they need a reliable face to win the title and have a run with it for a while. You can't go and have a heel champion right now.

Well, he did have his semi-regular role on that one TV show, Lonesome Dove. So I wouldn't say he was a "complete unknown." But yeah, him playing Batman probably would've been a huge stretch.

This sucks. Just when I thought we might close out the year without another person in wrestling dying too young. Really feel bad for his family and friends.

I think people are harder on Orton than is justified. His match last night on Smackdown was pretty decent, I thought. That said, I don't think now is the right time to put the World Title back on him. He needs one more big feud to put him into the upper tier of Smackdown. Personally, I'd have Eddie win the title, and then have him feud with Orton. Eddie could make people really care about a feud like that.

The adversity of Sid? You mean breaking his leg on a PPV? I have said before that I think Heidenreich will be a main eventer at some point. He just has that look that WWE likes. I'm not saying I want it to happen, but having your champion go down like Batista has makes it all the more possible.

There's been riots going on in the Paris, France area for over a week now. This in the same country that criticized the US for being unprepared for the hurricanes...take note...this is what happens when you allow 10% of a western nation's population to become Muslim. Unrest Reaches Paris; 13 Cars Torched By ELAINE GANLEY PARIS (AP) - The urban unrest that triggered scores of arson attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris overnight, with police saying early Sunday that 13 cars were burned in the French capital. By 1 a.m., at least 607 vehicles - including those in Paris - were burned during the 10th night of violence, said Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak, he added. The violence - originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large immigrant populations - has spread across France, extending west to the rolling fields of Normandy and south to resort cities on the Mediterranean. Attacks were reported in Cannes and Nice. In the Normandy town of Evreux, arsonists burned at least 50 vehicles, part of a shopping center, a post office and two schools, Hamon said. Five police officers and three firefighters were injured battling the blazes, he said. The unrest is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination, crime and a lack of opportunity. Police deployed a helicopter and tactical teams to chase down youths speeding from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes. Some 2,300 police were brought into the Paris region to bolster security, France-Info said. More than 250 people were arrested. The violence erupted Oct. 27 following the accidental electrocution of two teenagers who hid in a power substation, apparently believing police were chasing them. The anger spread to the Internet, with blogs mourning the youths. Along with messages of condolence and appeals for calm were insults targeting police, threats of more violence and warnings that the unrest will feed support for France's anti-immigration extreme right. "Civil war is declared. There will no doubt be deaths. Unfortunately, we have to prepare," said a posting signed "Rania." "We are going to destroy everything. Rest in peace, guys," wrote "Saint Denis." The unrest reached Paris late Saturday. Hamon had no immediate information on the neighborhoods where the vehicles were torched. Paris police headquarters said three cars were damaged by fire in the Republique section, northeast of City Hall. "It's copycat acts," Hamon said. "All these hoodlums see others setting fires and say they can do it, too." Evreux, 60 miles to the west, appeared to suffer the worst damage Saturday. The burning of the shopping center showed that "there is a will to pillage," Hamon said. "This has been true since the start," referring to grocery stores, video stores and other businesses that have been set afire. The unrest has taken on unprecedented scope and intensity, reaching far-flung corners of France on Saturday, from Rouen in Normandy to Bordeaux in the southwest to Strasbourg near the German border. However, the Paris region has borne the brunt. In quiet Acheres, on the edge of the St. Germain forest west of Paris, arsonists burned a nursery school, where part of the roof caved in, and about a dozen cars in attacks the mayor described as "perfectly organized." Children's photos clung to the blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor. Residents gathered at the school gate, demanding that the army be deployed or suggesting that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods. Mayor Alain Outreman tried to cool tempers. "We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere." Cars were torched in the cultural bastion of Avignon in the south and the resort cities of Nice and Cannes, a police officer said. Arson was reported in Nantes in the southwest, the Lille region in the north and Saint-Dizier in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In the eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight, police said. In one attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks and then torched the waiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said. Most of the overnight arrests occurred near Paris. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy warned that those convicted could face severe sentences for burning cars. "Violence penalizes those who live in the toughest conditions," he said after a government crisis meeting. Most rioting has been in towns with low-income housing projects where unemployment and distrust of police run high. But in a new development, arsonists were moving beyond their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with less security, Hamon said. "They are very mobile, in cars or scooters. ... It is quite hard to combat" he said. "Most are young, very young, we have even seen young minors." There appeared to be no coordination between separate groups in different areas, Hamon said. But within gangs, he added, youths are communicating by cell phones or e-mails. "They organize themselves, arrange meetings, some prepare the Molotov cocktails," he said. In Torcy, close to Disneyland Paris, a youth center and a police station were set ablaze. In Suresnes, on the Seine River west of the capital, 44 cars were burned in a parking lot. "We thought Suresnes was calm," said Naima Mouis, a hospital employee whose car was torched. On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people marched through one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. Local officials wore sashes in the red, white and blue of the French flag as they filed past housing projects and the wrecks of burned cars. One white banner read, "No to violence." Anger was fanned days ago when a tear gas bomb exploded in a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois - the northern suburb where the youths were electrocuted. Sarkozy also has inflamed passions by referring to troublemakers as "scum."

Religion aside, France is an example of what could happen to the US if we don't act now to curb illegal immigration.

What I find even more disturbing is that we have a Republican president, Congress, and mostly conservative supreme court, and they really haven't managed to get jack done for the USA. People are getting pissed about it, between gas prices and the war, and there should be a backlash in the next election.

Probably have HHH rape him in the middle of the ring.

The thing with Cena is that I thought he fit in a lot better on Smackdown, which kind of had this urban/street vibe going for it, which Cena was definitely a big part of, like it or not. He just doesn't fit on RAW, trying to be the new Steve Austin.

The thing about Kennedy is that he's a heel, but he doesn't have the generic "full of himself pretty boy" or "scary big man" gimmick that most of the heels in WWE have right now. The ring intro thing is something that hasn't really been done before in WWE, so it automatically sets him above most of Smackdown right now. Plus he's pretty solid in the ring and has a great, devastating looking, finisher.

Whoops...double post.

OK...stupid question from a relatively new TNA viewer...why is he nicknamed "the Fallen Angel?" I know he's been called that for years...hell, I saw him wrestle in a dark match at a 1998 WWF RAW and he was called that (and he had hair then), but have they ever explained a storyline reason for the nickname? You'd think he'd have some kind of evil priest gimmick or something, but he comes across as basically a normal heel wrestler in his interviews...

You guys are missing the point of what I said earlier...Christian is like Jericho in that if Christian does well in TNA, we could see other guys jumping over when they can. Remember, Y2J coming to WWF set the stage for guys like the Radicalz coming over. It was the first sign of "hey, maybe WWF really _is_ better to work for than WCW." I mean, maybe Christian does well in TNA, and guys like Benoit, Jericho, etc. decide that they'd rather work a light schedule close to home and be in the main event in front of a hot crowd, rather than work almost 300 days a year and have the creative team put them in crappy feuds that go nowhere.

The thing is, with the way the injury occured, they could really use it to play up the whole brand feud going on right now... I like the idea someone had of Eddy winning the title and defending it "in Batista's honor" or something, and then turning on him when he finally gets back. That would be a hot storyline.

I'm pretty convinced it's Christian, given what Meltzer has said. Man, this could be huge for TNA. I mean, this could be akin to Chris Jericho coming to WWF in '99...the kind of signing that leads to other guys coming over and really tipping the balance of this new "wrestling war." I'm not saying that TNA is going to overtake WWE anytime soon, but it could really balance the tables.

Well there you go. So I guess we're all in agreement that Islam is not a religion of peace. I don't know what is taking France so long to deal with this, other than the fact that they're French. I mean, after 12 days don't you start using more than just police to quell the violence?

I actually liked Sid when he had the title in 1997...I thought some of his matches then were pretty good. Of course, look at the guys he was working with...Bret, Shawn, etc.

Exactly, well put, cabbageboy. It is nice for WWE to honor the guys that helped build the company, but there's a huge difference between guys like Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat, Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes...and guys like...Jim Duggan, Koko B Ware, Greg Valentine, Hillbilly Jim, etc. Sure, I might have enjoyed seeing Jim Duggan swing his 2x4 and yell "hooooo!" when I was ten years old, like you said, but the guy never won any major titles in his heyday. A lot of these "legends" WWE is trotting out were basically journeymen or generic stereotype characters used mainly for comedy relief. Not to say some of them weren't decent wrestlers for their day, but the old territory days were loaded with those types of guys. Like I said, it's nice for WWE to honor them once or twice a year, but I don't need to see another one or two every week and have Jerry Lawler scream about what a big deal it is for someone like Jimmy Snuka to be coming down to the ring, so he can take five minutes to get to the top rope and do his obligatory finisher.