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This means another run in OVW for Kennedy with Heyman around booking, which will be quite awesome.

I liked this show a lot... Shelley got put over pretty big in that opening tag match and looked really good. The Abyss squash served its point and we got a Sabu/Abyss brawl. I loved the Rhino Promo --> Don West Schill ---> Jarrett run-in ---> Christian interruption ---> Jarrett/Christian brawl, Christian/Roode brawl, Gayda/Jarrett stuff. The Rhino promo was excellent I thought and Jarrett cut his best promo in a long time. Really, really effective use of a segment. I don't think they should hype a big surprise and then deliver the Diamonds in the Rough, but the match worked as a garbage brawl. And Larry Z, like most of the lame "GM" characters is a tweener depending on who's he's interacting with. And Joe kicking the absolute crap out of AJ and ACTUALLY TALKING at the end of the show was so awesome.

Man, what a terrible year for wrestling.

That one needs to be YTMNDed

Wait a sec I thought Vince and Lorne had some heat with each other from something back in the XFL days. Or maybe it was with someone else. Dick Ebersol is with NBC Sports and is who Vince has heat with over the XFL.

I'd say it's Foley or Jericho.

Well, it's the principle of doing the thing 16 days after Eddie died, and basically exploiting his memory super blatantly to get cheap heat (there's a difference between what they did tonight and giving Chavo a big push, for instance). On top of that, it looked fucking retarded.

I was a RSPW regular, so I vote. Just so you know, you don't have to fill out the whole ballot.

It was TWO WEEKS AGO

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Most tasteless angle ever... nothing like "killing" Taker in "Eddie's car". Not to mention the flat-out exploitation of Eddie's death in that match in a non-tasteful manner. Or that the pyro looked fucking retarded.

I thought this was a good angle-driven show. Styles/Sabin was fun for what it was. I'm far beyond the point of expecting every X-Division match on Impact to be as good as the PPV stuff. The big problem is, people who want TNA to be ROH Lite will be pissed at watching it, and the casual fan who wants TNA to be a WWE-type product as far as having storylines and angles and characters will be pissed if TNA is ROH Lite.

From what I can gather from google searching, we're talking a few months in jail, maybe a year at worst in jail for Flair if this all pans out.

Okay, fixed now.

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- Earlier today, Senior OVW Official Robert Brisko informed Johnny Jeter that Danny Davis wasn't going to fire him, but he is now "not welcome" in the locker room. Jeter throws a fit as he'll have to change in his car out in the parking lot. - LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! This intro is recut yet again with the events of the past few weeks Your Announcers are still Dean Hill and Al Snow OVW Southern Tag Team Championship: The Riggs Brothers v.s. Seth Skyfire and Chet the Jet (Champions) The Riggs Brothers were "TEAM PUDER" a couple months ago. This is the first time I can remember seeing them wrestling on TV and they're pretty good, not to mention they have the height WWE likes. They can still wrestle at a fast pace even though they're probably both 6'4". Tremendously timed Race to Tag in this match, one of the best I've ever seen. Anyway Skyfire gets the pin with the Alabama Jam after a fun match. - OVW TV Champion CM Punk recaps the events of the past two weeks. We see highlights of the last two weeks (black and white, letterboxed) intercut together with black and white letterboxed footage of Punk. He makes some facial expressions occasionally to go along with his voiceover promo. Essentially, the angle is t hat Punk won the belt and beat Albright to retain the belt last week due to Albright and Doane interfering in the matches. So next week, it won't be a triple threat, it'll be a THREE WAY DANCE (YES!). Really, I can't describe how much that package ruled... just amazing promo from Punk and incredible style from Heyman. - Johnny Jeter v.s. Chris Cage This is the first of our "two main events". Jeter sells that he's cold from having to be out in the parking lot which leads to 4 minutes of Dean Hill attempted jokes on the subject. Seriously it was some boringass shit and I was changing the channel. Thankfully it picks up a bit after the break. Jeter wins in 15 minutes with the superkick. Pretty meh. I was scared they were going to go Broadway with as slow as the first seven minutes were. OVW Heavyweight Championship: Champion Matt Cappotelli v.s. Aaron "The Idol" Stevens (w/ Beth and Shelley) Beth and Shelley are dressed in country dresses tonight. They keep trying to top Melina's entrance but it'll be hard. They're getting closer though. Hill and Snow have Lawlergasms over the girls. Stevens cuts a 2-3 minute long, Rick Rude style promo about how every man wants to be him, every women wants to be with him, "go ask your wife if she'd leave you for Aaron Stevens and they'd say yes", etc. Matt finally comes out, and he's over like crazy with the women and the ringrats in the crowd like his last name is "Hardy". Anyway, this was much better than the last match, which is a shock to me since Stevens sucks pretty hard. Matt does a great job carrying Stevens here. Before the last commerical break, Johnny Jeter comes in through the side door. A bunch of officials try to kick him out of the building but he comes back with MARK HENRY and all the refs are too scared of him to try to force the two out of the building. Apparently all the skinny security guys who suspiciously look like trainees have the night off or something. Matt wins with a superkick in 18 minutes... probably *** 1/2 match. Looks like "Tough Enough" has officially produced a good worker! Good show this week, although they need to cut out this "every match is 15 minutes long" stuff as some of the guys can't handle it.

DVDs/Tapes are available at ovwrestling.com and ROH's web site.

I think using some stuff from OVW or DSW would be great on TV and a better investment than a lot of things they can do. It wouldn't be breaking kayfabe as long as they mention it as a "minor league" system and not as a "training school". However, WWE wants to control all these guys' gimmicks. Even MNM and the Heart Throbs are significantly different from their OVW gimmicks. Heck, the Heart Throbs aren't even the same act. MNM had all three guys on equal footing getting mic time, whereas you'd think Nitro and Matthews are mutes in WWE. "The Boogeyman" is a WWE-created gimmick. Ken Kennedy is the same character, but again, he rarely gets any time to be in a backstage skit or interview... he just gets to do his announcer spiel (and there is so much more to his character). It's just inexcusable with a guy who's got as much charisma and mic skills as he has. The big thing is that Cornette and Heyman book to guys' strengths and weaknesses and WWE is booked by a group of people who don't know wrestling, by and large. Beyond the top guys who have enough political clout to protect themselves, or hosses, Vince and Stephanie book people to entertain themselves instead of producing a good wrestling product. They want to fit everyone in a round hole instead of letting guys do what they do best. I do agree that the training regime guys do is too one-dimensional, but a lot of that is the fault of what WWE wants. OVW was teaching Lesnar and Benjamin SSPes and 450 splashes back in the day. Snow seems to be doing a better job than whoever was in the position in making sure guys learn at least a couple different moves. Even with a real good training school, you're going to get a lot of guys with a very similar style. And to whoever asked "Da Beast" is still terrible and shouldn't touch the WWE with a 10-foot pole. Mike Mondo would be great with his "little brother" in OVW storyline terms, Gene Snitsky. (He was "Mean" Gene Mondo in his 3 weeks on OVW TV. The whole Snitsky look was Mondo's OVW look). In fact, he'd be an ideal manager... he was really good doing the Fonzie deal with Blaster Lasheley.

AJ is one of the better catchers in MLB for his career... probably top 6 or 7, although he's not a huge star like a Piazza or Pudge yet. He had an off year with the White Sox as he usually hits over .300. It's not like he's wrestling and whatever he's involved in will advance an angle and perhaps get some publicity for TNA. I think the real money in "sports" crossovers right now would be if someone could get Terell Owens for an angle, although that would still be nowhere near WWF using Tyson for WM 14.

The rating for the replay is pretty good. Shows at least some of the audience decided to watch on Monday Night instead of Saturday this week (perhaps because of a certain Fresno State v.s. USC barnburner that was on late).

Up until 1991, The Rockers were just seen as jobbers. It'd be the same if Benjamin was wrestling Cena and Angle interfered. Benjamin would be quietly fazed out so the heat would remain on Cena and Angle. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not to mention, the whole idea of a "triple threat" or "triangle match" wasn't popular until ECW started doing them. I won't say they were the absolute first company to do it, but it wasn't done in the national companies before 1994 or so when ECW started doing them regularly. Bizarre to think about now that there's a billion of these matches and variants in all the feds, but ECW pretty much invented that match.

Here's what I think is an accurate list. The first thing is, pretty much everyone who came out of OVW is on roids. I see them when they first come on TV. I see them when they get called up and they always get HUGE in about 6-8 months. JUICED TO THE GILLS Bobby Lashley Chris Masters HHH Kurt Angle Batista Chris Benoit Matt Hardy Booker T Val Venis Snitsky Randy Orton The Boogeyman Hardcore Holly Rene Dupree Orlando Jordan Rob Conway Doug Basham Damaja Tyson Tomko Sylvan Grenier Paul Burchill Johnny Parisi M & M (Nitro is *HUGE* compared to a couple years ago) Heidenreich Edge Kane John Cena (although not taking nearly as much stuff as when he was freakish) Eugene (not tan != not roided) Ken Kennedy Rey Misterio Ric Flair (hence, why he doesn't look flabby anymore like in WCW) Heart Throbs The Dicks Daivari Chavo Guerrero Matt Striker Michael Cole Vince McMahon Psicosis Vito Mark Henry Jamie Noble Simon Dean (was downright chubby in ECW, ripped to the gills in OVW) COULD BE ON THE JUICE Lance Cade (probably, he was in OVW) Shelton Benjamin (was on something in OVW while teaming with Lesnar, may be clean now) Gregory Helms JBL (definitely seemed to be on them in the past when he was Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw) RVD Shawn Michaels (definitely was on them before 1998 and in the Rockers) Big Show Carlito (skinny when he first came into OVW) Juvy Tajiri Scotty 2 Hotty (maybe not anymore, definitely during "Too Cool" though) Undertaker (hard to say, looks like he's been on it at times in the past. Also hard to tell with all his tats) Nunzio Paul London (significantly bigger in WWE than he was in ROH/TNA) DEFINITELY NOT ON THE JUICE Trevor Murdoch Mick Foley Rosey Viscera William Regal Steven Richards Funaki Brian Kendrick Super Crazy Kid Kash