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Yeah, because apparantly in the WWE universe, you're the bad guy if you try to have good morals. Also see: Bret Hart and Right To Censor. And Kurt Angle I can't recall the Molly Holly angle, but as far as RTC, Angle and to a lesser extent Hart, you can be right, but you don't have to be such an arrogant dickhead about it. It's more the attitude than the message that makes you a heel (and of course they're a heel because WWE tells you so). Edit: okay Viciousfish already said it, I'll go sit at the back of the class now.

That one doublely makes no sense. a) Flair's now in the submission hold so he should get the rope break, and b) assuming the ref is too dumb to realize that the move has been reversed, he caught Flair using the ropes to cheat, should be an instant 5-count to break the hold

Orton: I have something inside of me... Guy in crowd: HERPES! Tell me I wasn't the only one who heard that.

As soon as I saw the title Undertaker / DDP came to mind. I loved Page's opening promo when he revealed himself and said that the whole stalker angle was just a way to get to Taker and make a name. I can't remember how long this lasted but then for no reason they resurrected it. DDP was back to worshipping the horseface Sara Taker which was unbelievable on it's own, but absolutely ludicrous when you think of what he had at home. But the matches themselves were what really killed this series. It was bad enough that Taker won every single match, but the fact that he sold nothing throughout the entire series was the worst thing. Even a nut shot was only partially sold and that wasa only after Taker realized that he had to sell it or it would bring his manhood into question.

This is brilliant. You're Welcome. Oh man, you just reminded me of how pissed I was with where they went with that. I envisioned a badass mf'er who would beat the living hell out of someone and then say "you're welcome" to the broken unconscious body. Instead he plays a retard and we get moppy, which got the comedy pop for a month or two before dying.

I think it's that it looks like Bossman is reaching down into Studd's pants. and he looks quite horrified at what he's found Thanks for the explanation, I didn't see that at first either.

Saturn was in a match with some jobber who refused to co-operate because he didn't want to lose in his hometown. The story was that Saturn had to stiff him a bit then lock in a legit submission to get him to give it up. Parry Saturn is not the guy you want to get into a shoot match with.

I disagree. WWE makes absurd profits every quarter, they could easily afford health insurance for the roster, and help cover expenses. In fact, the non-wrestlers get these perks. It's fucked up that the road agents get things covered, but the actual wrestlers do not. Sure WWE could afford it, easily. It is totally fucked up that the greedy pigs take so much and don't fairly share it, without a doubt. But that's the way it is, that's the way it's always been, it's not a hidden fact that is sprung upon the wrestlers after signing the contract. It's all there to be seen, if they don't like it, McDonald's is hiring. Things will never change so long as there's a mile long line up of wrestlers willing to be screwed by Vince and Co.

Thompson was certainly rocked and on dream street, but no worse than he was in the second round when Kimbo tagged him with a couple. He recovered then, he could have recovered again because Kimbo was so gassed, I don't think he could have thrown another punch. I watched the end of that and couldn't help but think the ref was told to stop it at his first opportunity. It looked to me like Kimbo got too caught up in his own hype. On the ground in the first and part of the second he was muscling his way out, picking up Thompson and whatnot. You can't do that with someone in the 250 lb range. He expended so much energy doing this, believing that he is this unstoppable monster that he had nothing left towards the end.

Every once in a while you'll hear something in a promo that isn't meant to be a catchphrase but it starts up like wild fire. The top three that come to mind for me: 1. Austin 3:16 - without question number 1. Austin just blurted it out because of Jake Roberts bible thumping gimmick that was going at the time and it became probably the biggest money making line in wrestling history. 2. The 4 Horsemen - second only because of 3:16's success. Arn made a reference to the biblical horsemen of the apocolypse saying "Not since that 4 Horsemen have 4 men reaked more havoc. It wasn't meant to be a stable name, but by god was it an awesome one. The name was given and turned a great stable into a decades lasting legendary one. 3. What? - not a line that was just thrown in, but probably not something that was expected to catch on like it did. Austin just wanted to berate and belittle Hugh Morrus, but the line was so simple and fun that quickly whole arenas were shouting it at every opportunity.

He said that? Interesting, as the biblical horsemen are supposed to be in the future, negating his "since" qualifier. I probably quoted it wrong but if you check out the recent Horsemen dvd, he talks about the promo where that line came about.

Angle's is a rip off of Tom Cochrane's "Lunatic Fringe". (Unless of course it's been recently changed, I haven't watched for a while).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MftWtwQC8Bc At about 1:46 if you want to see it.

I think the theme that's going here is "so bad it was good" ie: laughibly bad. Rock/Hogan was bad in terms of technical wrestling (I think a grand total of 2 wrestling moves were used through the whole match), but the match itself was wonderfully put together and the two of them performed perfectly. The crowd becoming the third performer in the match made it that much better.

The Palumbo/O'Haire tag team was great but it buried Stasiak and Jindrak, (personally I liked O'Haire with Jindrak over Palumbo). If I'm remembering it right, they broke up O'Haire/Jindrak and Palumbo/Stasiak by saying that they're taking the stars of those two teams to make a mega-team. Great for Chuck and Sean, but the other two looked like shit for being the lesser talents that were sinking their respective teams. O'Haire looked to be in line for a major push with his Devil's Advocate gimmick, but all parties totally dropped the ball on it. It looked like a hit in the promos because he talked about some interesting subjects and the performance was excellent. Once it hit live though, O'Haire's timing and delivery were atrocious and production gave him horrible ideas to work with. All I remember was seeing him convince Kendrick to run around naked and I knew that was the end of that run.

I'm going to start my own company and I'd like to make the initials FTW. I'm still going to be working at my current job but instead of being an employee, I'm going to be an independent contractor working for myself. There's tax benefits this way. Anyways, Taz's Fuck The World is my daily motto and I would constantly get a Russo-esque laugh out of answering my phone "good morning, FTW", proudly handing out FTW cards, having FTW on my shirt, and so on. But I can't think of anything that would be workable with those initials. The industry I'm working in is commercial moving and furniture installations, but I'll probably register as a general contractor. Any ideas on what would work?

Never even saw that run you're talking about. Fuck the world is just my attitude for anybody out there who wants anything from me. Charity? Fuck you. I've busted my ass to get where I am and continue busting it to put food on the table. Taxman already takes more than half of it and you want more? Like fuck. Kindness? Blow me. Who holds a door open for me, nobody, instead you force your way through the door I was at and sue me when their clumsy ass trips over the thing that I had in there. Who gave me their seat when I hobbled on the bus with a busted up knee? Nobody. Now I'm supposed to give up my seat because you're a bitch? Don't hold your fucking breath. Once upon a time I was a nice guy. I was idealistic and believed in the goodness of people and that giving it would see it returned. The world showed me the error of that ideal. Now I've got to remind myself to fuck the world and look out for the person that matters.

I hate when any established finisher is no-sold. It makes the worker doing it and every other person whose sold it look like pussies. The only exception is when there's a special and/or specific reason to do it (ie: Warriors SS return, no selling HHH's Pedigree). However, Norton was one of my guilty pleasures. A huge guy with a believable power offence. Used properly, he could have been a great monster. It was played off perfectly. The whole match was "Benoit is getting thrown around by Norton. At least he has the Crossface! There it is! The Crippler Crossface! It's all over, not even Norton can get out of...oh wait, he just got out of it. Shoulderbreaker and its over. What a monster." True, it did make for a good story in the match, but seeing how Norton went nowhere, why pussify the finisher for a mid-carder in a mid-card match. They did the same routine with Batista, but seeing how Batista went on to become a dominant main-eventer, those were acceptable circumstances.

Mick Foley's barbie promo prior to his match with Orton at Backlash 04 (??). Foley's delivery was simply chilling, from the words he used, to how he said them, and all the while, calmly rocking back and forth in that chair. It was the first and only time that a promo alone took my interest from zero to a PPV buy. I simply had to see what this madman would do in the ring.

I hate when any established finisher is no-sold. It makes the worker doing it and every other person whose sold it look like pussies. The only exception is when there's a special and/or specific reason to do it (ie: Warriors SS return, no selling HHH's Pedigree). However, Norton was one of my guilty pleasures. A huge guy with a believable power offence. Used properly, he could have been a great monster.

That really just pisses me off more about the ankle lock. As in - Why the flying fuck doesn't he do it all the time?!? This is a question that could easily be alleviated through better selling by the victim and the announcers; victim selling pain to his whole leg, announcers selling the same. But instead it's the exact opposite, victim sells horrible extra pain when he drops down and announcers go on about how nobody ever breaks out when he grapevines the leg. I'll ask again, if this is so, and it is constantly countered from the standing position - why is the dumb motherfucker using the less painful, more counterable variation?

I was pretty disappointed with the segment overall but the thing that pissed me off the most was the initial camera work. The most awesome part of his 99 debut was "JERICHO" taking up the whole screen. You knew it was him, you knew it was coming, but it wasn't until you saw the name that you could exhale. This time, on top of blowing it by showing him beforehand, they couldn't even get the angle right and wound up showing "ERICH" from off to the side. It's a small detail, they could never have duplicated the total perfection of 99, but the least they could have done is get the entrance right.