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Agreed. Isn't that kick illegal during a match anyways? I seem to remember hearing somewhere that using the points of your boots was against the rules which is why wrestlers stomp with the bottom of their foot. That's funny. My girlfriend and I where thinking the kitten thing too.

The lack of Jeff Hardy after last week is strange. Any specific reason why or is he just doing Heat duty?

I've been download quite a bit with my crappy 56k connection and transferring my tape collection to DVD's so I've watched quite a bit or wrestling lately. Here's some recent stuff. Lou Thesz vs. Rikidozan for the NWA World Title 10-13-57 This is my first time seeing either guy actually wrestle and I absolutely loved it. I've always imagined Thesz as this stoic figure so watching him play coward heel in Japan was fun. The style difference compared to now is huge. I counted three full bumps in the match and each one involved the end of one of the three falls. I don't want to give away the ending just in case someone wants to watch this but I'll just say that Thesz's selling of Rikidozan's headlock that built to the finish was so awesome. I've never seen anything quite like it. According to the guy I downloaded this from, these two had a 60 minute draw the week before. I'd love to see that. Oh yeah, the video starts with clips of Rikidozan jogging with his students behind him (including one who's a head taller than the rest...), visiting America, and meeting Thesz and his wife at their home. The Funks vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy 8-31-83 First of all let me start by saying that I adore Terry Funk and worship Hansen but I very literally can't stand Dory Funk Jr. I've never seen a match involving him that he didn't drag down someway and this is no exception. This is Terry's first retirement match so he's all riled up and awesome, Hansen just wants to beat the shit out of someone, Gordy's the cocky punk gaijin who wants to make a name for himself by beating the legendary Funk brothers, and Dory just wants to no sell everything and twist somebody's knee--slowly. Sadly, Dory spends most of the time in the ring for his team since they obviously want to build to the big Terry's retirement match hot tag. Hansen and Terry Funk are so awesome that nothing can drag this down. Crowd just goes apeshit for pretty much anything in this match, too. The Great Sasuke vs. Ultimo Dragon for the 8 Crown Titles 10-11-96 This is a rematch of the J Crown tournament final where Sasuke won the titles. I hate how almost all NJPW-style junior matches start. There's a bunch of random mat work that's obviously only there to fill time. You throw in a "Ultimo stands on his head and Sasuke is scared" comedy spot and one of those "run the ropes and miss a bunch of moves" indy respect standoff spot and I figured I'd hate this. Then Ultimo hits a brainbuster out of nowhere and shit gets serious. Sasuke is so great as the underdog champion facing against the more skilled Dragon. Ultimo outwits and beats on Sasuke for a minute or two until he gets caught with a few big shots himself. Ultimo finally says screw this and murders the champion with a top rope hurancanrana and a running powerbomb for the finish. And hey! There's Rey Misterio in the ring for some celebratory hugs. Actually this kind of reminds me of the 8 Crown match betwen Dragon and Rey except Sasuke got in more offense and Dragon had to work harder to keep Rey down.

By the way. That WWE game does have the high scores posted. Link's here: http://wwegame.kp9.net/game_personalize.asp For the hell of it: 14038 JWZ CHICAGO , IL 10635 KB BROOKLYN , NY 9065 CEA CAGUAS , PR 8277 CC FORT WAYNE , IN 6849 KAB BROOKLYN , NY 6732 JB LYNCHBURG , VA 6119 JM CONNELLSVILLE , PA 6063 CEA CAGUAS , PR 5570 JLR RICHMOND , IN 5566 CC FORT WAYNE , IN My highest is about 400...

Haas as the straight guy teaming with Rico because he wanted to fuck Jackie? Entertaining outside of the vomiting on camera. Shelton telling Haas he's going to kiss him on the lips if he loses his upcoming match all done to set up Ron Simmons Damn of the week? Forgettable comedy segment. This? Career ender.

Tiger bomb doesn't exist. And why would WWE call it a tiger driver instead of a double underhook powerbomb anyways?

They should hire that Brody lookalike.

Hey, remember when stuff like this was still funny? Yeah, those were fun times... But in all seriousness, I'm happy everything fell apart. I don't hate the Jackass crew but I had no interest in seeing them wrestle Umaga or anyone else for that matter.

Wins. Goldust and Vis have always been talented and Mark Henry has been since about '04. Anyways. Bid Daddy V needs to start splashing motherfuckers through tables with fork in hand like now.

Batista looks way too old to be wearing that. The hat more so than the shirt.

Has anyone else said this? Because I wouldn't believe her if she told me I had a dick.

Is this show always this funny? They ran Mero's list and Finlay tried to rebut all the ones that had little to nothing to do with the WWE or drugs and so on and Nancy interrupted him to ask this scathing question: "Mr Finlay! Are these men pro wrestlers?!" "...yes."

I thought Finlay came off more as someone who was pissed he couldn't argue straight and started attacking the other person instead.

So... right now is my first time watching Nancy Grace. She completely clueless. I can't see how she's respected by anyone with at least a double digit IQ.

It'd probably be in his best interest if it was Rey.

Didn't Holly & Rey both have surgery recently? Is there no way they could have gotten legal prescription drugs for that?

You know, I've always wanted a Viscera push, but never at the loss of his shirt. Either way, this could still rule as long as they change the name. Big Daddy anything just sounds horrible.

The real question is "Why don't you?"

Teddy's great. He's athletic, charismatic, and an ass. What's not to like? Besides, it doesn't really matter, he'll be gone before they ever put him on TV anyways.

Outside of the occasional quickie month-long tag or cruiser runs I never book anything but long reigns for my champions. Looking at that link posted on the first page made me want to start an old WCW game from around '96 or so. I was going to try the '98 one but a few minutes of looking at the roster and seeing the PPV's I was coming off of via Wikipedia I figured it'd be more work than fun to get things to where I would consider decent.

You should have seen my old game where Batista held the World Heavyweight Title for two years before losing it via a fake injury. He also beat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania and made him retire at Judgement Day. See... it can always be so much worse.

I play TEW '05. I can't imagine playing EWR anymore. I've gotten so used to the newer games. I've played the demo for '07 a couple of times, and dude's not lying about the difficulty. You have to book smarter and bad, unover wrestlers are more likely to have bad matches and angles. There are a few bugs here and there with '05 but it's not anything that's kept me away from playing it. As for '07, I have no idea.

That's weird. I just found this thread via search about an our ago.

Since it seems that I spend all of my free time these days playing TEW on my notebook, I've decided to try and start a thread. I know there have been a few started here and there in the past but I don't feel like dredging up an old thread when I can make a shiny new one. I sometimes lurk around EWR Battleground and the official TEW board but I generally find the stupidity here at TSM to be a little easier to swallow then that of most boards. So! TSMers! Discuss with me all the random thoughts you have about your current EWR and/or TEW games! As for me, I'm currently playing a WWE game that started the night after SummerSlam '06 (sort of, but we'll get to that in a minute) and is now building up to RAW's Bad Blood (instead of Cyber Sunday) and Survivor Series of '07. I've shamelessly stolen quite a bit of talent from TNA since I figure they'd be happier and better used with me instead of jobbing to Team 3-D and The Honky Tonk Man. Am I right? I'm right. In my alternate universe, even though the ECW brand started before the real world part ends and my part begins it never existed. This isn't because I dislike the new ECW, I'm actually a fan, it's because I just didn't want to book a third brand like that. The ironic part is that I have started a third brand since then staring young up-and-comers like CM Punk, Alex Shelley, Lance Cade, Samoa Joe, and AJ Styles. The WSF is in the middle of a tournament to crown their new champion right now. The tentative plan is for Ken Doane to come out the suprise winner. Oh, and at the Great American Bash, Lashley wrestled and retained his title but Khali was still replaced by The Big Show. My current champions: WWE Champion - Christian Cage. Christian, with the help of his new Coalition (Ken Kennedy and Matt Morgan) defeated the Rocky Balboa-ish Ric Flair at SummerSlam '07 to win his first World Championship in the WWE. He's currently being chased by John Cena, Ric Flair, and Finlay. World Heavyweight Champion - Carlito. A long, blood-filled fued with crazy old man Flair (post freaking out and attempting to attack Melina at SummerSlam '06 in the real world) showed everyone Carlito's serious side. He was one of the final four at the Royal Rumble along with Ric Flair, John Cena, and Austin Aries but was thrown out along with Cena by Aries while the two were fighting against the ropes. The night after Flair won the Rumble, both world champs (RAW's Edge and SD's Orton) fought over who would get the easy win over the old man at Wrestlemania but Carlito showed respect to his former nemesis and challenged to two to a tag team matchup for later that night. RAW's main event that night ended with Carlito pinning Orton and Flair announcing he'd face Edge at Wrestlemania. This led to Carlito showing up on SmackDown! and challenging Orton for the available title shot, pointing out his pinfall victory over the champion earlier that week. Locker room leaders Batista and Chris Benoit were not happy with a RAW guy coming over suddenly and challenging for SmackDown's World Title and offered a challenge to Carlito: If he could survive five minutes each in an eight man gauntlet, Carlito would get his chance. The next week's SmackDown started with Carlito defeating Mark Henry cleanly in just under five minutes, getting a count out victory over The Great Khali in about two, getting his ass beat then rolling up Benoit once again just under five minutes, getting destroyed by Batista for five minutes straight but not losing, until finally his battered and broken body could take no more and he fell to a brainbuster and a 450 from Austin Aries. Aries and his valet Lollipop celebrated in the ring but were suprised when Batista and Benoit ran back to the ring to help their fallen former opponent. Carlito had earned his shot by earning their respect. In the upcoming weeks Aries protested the decision, believing he had the right to the Wrestlemania title shot against Orton. Not one to back down from a challenge, Carlito faced Aries at No Way Out in a number one contendership match and won. Carlito went on to defeat Randy Orton at Wrestlemania and has had a number of title defenses against top guys from Batista, The Undertaker, and Brock Lesnar to lesser proven superstars like Orlando Jordan and Paul London. He is currently fueding with Kurt Angle and being chased by Batista, Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, The Great Khali, and Bobby Lashley. Intercontinental Champion - Rene Dupree. Soon after returning from his near career ending injury, Dupree joined with Test to create one of the most dominating tag teams on the RAW brand. Their top accomplishments included a Wrestlemania tag title defense and a PPV bout against Degeneration X. It wasn't long before the French Phenom wanted to strike it big on his own and he made sure everyone new this when he interfered in RAW's main event pitting Edge against John Cena for the first time in almost a year. Dupree attacked both men and challenged them to a triple threat at Vengeance. Dupree's plan didn't quite work out as he imagined when he fell to a match-ending FU that night, but he was not to be deterred. The following RAW's saw wrestler after wrestler fall in the wake of the French superstar. Dupree didn't make it on the SummerSlam card that year but won a four-man number one contendership match at Unforgiven to face CM Punk for the Intercontinental Title on RAW if Shawn Michaels didn't win it that night (For a long story short, The Coach blackmailed HBK into facing Punk for the title to try and keep the Straight Edge superstar from leaving RAW with the title). Dupree's intelligence shined through later that night when he interfered in the Intercontinental Championship match and caused CM Punk to win. Dupree lost any ire he might have gained from The Coach when he defeated Punk for the title on Punk's last night on RAW. Since then, newcomers to RAW Jeff Hardy and Orlando Jordan have both showed interest in being Dupree's first challenger. Only time will tell what's next in store for the originator of the French Tickler. United States Champion - Bobby Lashley. Like most superstars, Bobby Lashley's journey to his second US championship was a long and arduous one. Lashley showed WWE audiences what a champion should be with his sportsmanship and willingness to take on all challenges. Survivor Series 2006 seemed like just another title defense for the soft spoken, hard hitting grappler as Lashley was all set to take on Joey Mercury. Little did our champion know, but his opponent that night had a plan. This plan was an MNM reunion ending with Mercury and Nitro holding their US and IC titles high in the air over an unconscious Bobby Lashley. The now former champ seemed prepped to win back the title many felt was stolen from him but he always seemed to get thrown off track by his new close friend Batista. The two power houses teamed together a number of times to take on the likes of King Booker, Randy Orton, and The Great Khali as well a number of other superstars, culminating in the almost modern day Super Powers taking on King Booker and The Duke of Jordan for the WWE Tag Titles. The dominating duo came out the winners via DQ but didn't leave that night with the straps around their waists. Lashley was once again hyped about getting a rematch but the team was thrown off track by Teddy Long announcing he had already booked Batista against a dream opponent for Judgement Day. A seemingly more intense Bobby then we'd seen before easily destroyed his opponent the next week on SmackDown before calling out Long and demanding he tell everyone who Batista would be facing at Judgement Day. SmackDown's General Manager agreed it was time and called out Batista and his opponent Brock Lesnar. While WWE fans at the event that night and all over the world were jumping for joy over this true dream match up, Lashley seemed a little less than impressed. The SmackDown saw a cocky Bobby Lashley issue an open challenge. Even though the still unpinned or submitted Great Khali answered Lashley just smiled and nodded. The night of the PPV, Lashley and Batista met up backstage, but Lashley blew off Batista and his wishes of luck. Lashley match with Khali ended after a incredible powerslam drove Khali to the mat. Lashley had beat the unbeatable. Batista's match with Lesnar, however, didn't have quite the same ending as The Animal fell to an F-5 in the night's main event. SmackDown's main event the two weeks later was a six-pack challenge for the Great American Bash World Heavyweight Championship shot. After Chris Benoit and Matt Hardy had been eliminated it seemed we would see the four challengers take sides but Lashley just slid out the ring and left Randy Orton and King Booker have their way with Batista. This plan's major hole was Batista's will as The Animal made a comeback and threw both men out of the ring. Lashley was shocked as he saw Batista standing in the ring daring him to face him one on one. Not to be outshown, Lashley ran back into the ring only to be double teamed and pinned by Booker and Orton while Batista watched. Batista ended up winning the match after some miscommunication between the faux-partners but a surprise from Mr. Money in the Bank Austin Aries meant that Batista would face Carlito the next week on SmackDown with the winner of that match going on against Aries in a TLC match at The Great American Bash. The Carlito/Batista match the next week was hot. With two huge fan favorites in the ring, the crowd was decidedly split -- and it didn't help much that the special commentator Austin Aries had gotten up from his seat and was ringside agging on both superstars and grabbing the referee's attention on more than a few pinfall attempts. It was during one of these times that Bobby Lashley made his move. Batista had just hit Carlito with his pop-up spinebuster and gotten a shocking kick out. The signal for the Batista Bomb caused Aries to jump onto the apron and tug at the referee's shirt collar; with this, Lashley ran in from the crowd and hit Batista with the chairshot heard round the world. A confused Carlito crawled over onto Batista's lifeless body to retain the title. Bobby Lashley had done the unthinkable, he had shed his goodie-two-shoes image. Instead of explaining his action next week, Lashley introduced his new manager in the form of the returning Armando Alejandro Estrada. The next couple of months saw the two former friends trade win in multiple matches before both decided it was time to change gears and go back after the World Championship. The debut of Kurt Angle earlier that month had shocked the SmackDown world and Angle was ready to wrestle his first match in a WWE ring in over a year. After receiving multiple challenges, Angle accepted all of them and faced Brock Lesnar, Batista, and Bobby Lashley in a fatal fourway. Angle's first victory in over a year came via a Bobby Lashley tap out that night. Not willing to let one loss affect them, Lashley had Estrada challenge Matt Hardy for his United States Championship for No Mercy--a match Lashley later won with a devestating top-rope Dominator. As a new champion Lashley hasn't had any challengers for his title yet, but you can expect Matt Hardy to be gunning for a rematch. World Tag Team Titles - Triple H and Charlie Haas. (I'll do the rest later.) WWE Tag Team Titles - Doomsday: Heidenreich & Da Beast. WWE Television Title - Austin Aries. WWE Cruiserweight Title - KENTA. WWE Women's Title - Mickey James.

"We want Benoit." chants?