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Rey, Booker T, and Batista (a Fillipino-Greek guy from Virginia with the Hispanic last name).

Truth. And I've noticed, at least to me, that Lawler kind of stepped up his game abit and is more bearable since Styles joined. I think Lawler's a full blown face now. That might make him a little more tolerable without him fellating the heels all of the time.

Are you nuts? If Benoit had been champion on Smackdown, then we wouldn't have had the aborted Eddie run with JBL becoming cham--- Er, hum. Yes, you seem to have made a good point.

Having Benoit go over Triple H one month, then the next month have him go over HBK (in Canada, by submisson) fits a little different definition of "suck" than I'm used to using. And Eddie/Brock probably would have resumed had Brock not quit.

Great news.

Must...avoid...temptation...to restart...argument...from last...week...

They gave Holly the title shot because they wanted Benoit to win the Rumble. Didn't Brock go over Holly clean? On the one hand, it blew one great angle (Benoit/Lesnar), but created 2 good ones (HHH/Benoit/HBK and Eddie/Lesnar) from the ashes. If I remember the rumors correctly, Benoit was originally going to beat Brock at No Way Out until they decided HHH needed a fresh opponent for WM20. I think they worked the original Rumble finish (the one they used on the 15 man SD Royal Rumble before NWO) in because of the way Eddie was getting over HUGE at the time.

Exhibit 34553B in the "Reasons to Turn Cena Heel" case.

I'm beginning to question if 4 championships per show is really necessary. Inevitably, at least one on each show doesn't get used at any given time.

Still to this day, I don't understand why Triple H couldn't steal Eddie over to make him look better. Eddie wasn't really doing anything at time except starting that horrid program with Angle. Benoit going over Brock @ Rumble and taking the WWE Title was neccesary. Brock and Goldberg was penciled in months before they even started the Brock and Benoit deal. So of course, Benoit looks like an uber idiot for changing his mind after spending a month chasing Lesnar and Heyman for the WWE title only to go "hmm, you know what, I'll go for the World title instead". The whole purpose of that move was to make Triple H look good. Benoit got a gold watch run with the title while it was still all about the game. We should have at least gotten Benoit and Lesnar @ the Rumble. I thought it was pretty smart actually, from a kayfabe standpoint, Benoit had the deck stacked against him on Smackdown, with the GM and his army of monster heels (wasn't this the same time as the Big Show/Matt Morgan/Lesnar/Nathan Jones alliance? not sure how much further that ran past survivor series. BUt yeah, he knew he was going to get screwed around, screwed around, screwed around, so he jumped to RAW, screwing Heyman out of a big title match, and being able to claim he had the rumble winner, at the same time, getting a new start on RAW. The jump would've made more sense if it'd been Heyman trading him to Raw so he wouldn't get his WWE title shot, instead of jumping of his own accord. Hell, trading him for Goldberg would've worked perfectly in the storylines.

I, for one, do not feel at all guilty for being mildly amused by a midcard guy that seems to have fun being a heel.

Does Blanco want to run for reelection?

Whu????

Doesn't this count? Dude's clearly saying Booker T should've been offended, and hypocritically using another racial slur to back up his point.

*ding-ding-ding-ding*

"That was uncalled for, Senator."

I thought they were promoting themselves as "where the minorities are".

Ah...the last bastion of internet intelligenica.

What's this "we" shit?

I think what a lot of people don't realzie about the brand split is that not all the same people watch both shows. I think I read that only about 1/3 of the audience watches both Raw AND Smackdown every week. Thus, the WWE is reaching more fans than the ratings suggest because probably about 2 1/2 million people are watching on Friday that weren't watching on Monday.

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." -Bill Clinton 1/20/93

I'd have stopped watching Raw altogether, since I was officially fed up with the Orton super-push and the HBK/HHH feud that wouldn't die. Benoit's title chase kept me interested in Raw at a time when Smackdown was better. I quit watching Smackdown altogether (or, at least, until the 2005 Royal Rumble) when it became "the JBL Show", but Benoit as champ kept me interested in Raw.

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but: Do you win any unlockables if you win 1 year of GM mode?