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BEST GAME EVER! I can't believe they fucking tied it!

Another miss!

How about this finish? The Bulls still have a shot.

This topic is exactly what it says. Which wrestlers were the biggest marks for themselves in history; getting way too far into their characters and starting to believe their own hype? I'm not sure how long of a shelf life this topic will have, but it popped into my head, so I figured I'd make a post about it. I'll list mine in the first...err....second reply.

Oh, OK, I get that now, but you're still completely ignoring the initial point completely. The point is that he just got destroyed two weeks in a row, but people still think that he's got enough credibility to challenge Cena unless he loses to HHH. There's nothing "magic" about jobbing to HHH that makes you any less over than jobbing to someone like Kane. If anything, jobbing to HHH should hurt you less since he's presented as being so strong.

I'm pretty sure the "losers" are the people who spent all that time screwing with a player that wasn't playing, and putting the video footage together. Talk about a boring waste of time.

Yeah, it does kill credibility if they ship him over to SmackDown! straight after in a World Title match. I don't know if you've watched Raw in the last month or so, but HHH doesn't have the world title. And don't even say that he'd have won it back by then because the proposal was that HHH would face Christian while Batista was busy with the winner of the tournament.

Are you sure that someone wasn't just calling you a stalker?

First of all, you can't do math. If 10 players ponied up $10k, it would equal ten times his pension. Ok, I copied the quote wrong, but he did originally say 20 players. I multiplied properly, I just didn't successfully rewrite a number, which probably has something to do with the fact that I was up all night studying for my Chem final. And also, I think my main point still stands that when making a list of the world's problems, Mikan's medical bills aren't so damn pressing that it's an absolute travesty that no one in the NBA has paid them, which was the original point of the Chris Berman story.

Yeah, you mean the three titles? Geez, Kobe and Shaq were terrible together. Imagine how embarrassed of themselves Stockton and Malone would be if they'd only won three titles together.

Actually, it didn't have anything to do with that. Her contract ran out, and when it was time to renegotiate, she wanted to get paid main event money, because she thought that she was that big of a star that they needed her. They were basically like "this is your offer, take it or leave it", and when she didn't take it, they just let her go. Besides, I swear that we just went over how she got protected in '97 and '98 because of USA's rules on male-on-female violence, not because of her connection to IC Title contender Hunter Hearst Helmsley. At that time, HHH had about as much pull as Christian does now.

Bullshit. Shaq uses a drop step which is very similar to the drop step used by almost every post player in the league. It's just that since Shaq's bigger and stronger than any other post player in the league, his drop step can move someone three times as far as an average person would. Sure, he occasionally clocks someone with the elbow accidentally, and sometimes the refs miss the call, but the only difference between Shaq and any other post player in the league is that he has more force behind his moves because he's bigger and stronger.

First of all, you can't do math. If 10 players ponied up $10k, it would equal ten times his pension. Second of all, why is it that former NBA players with large pensions that are the most needing of charity. That same amount of money could probably feed 500 starving children in Africa for a year. Just because you recognize someone's name and face, doesn't mean you need to go out of your way to help them. A lot of NBA players do a great deal of charity work, and I think most of it's more valuable then doubling the pension of an old man who used to play basketball.

Yeah right. Losing to HHH would kill Christian's credibility. Never mind that he jobbed to Kane in three minutes on Raw, or that he lost to Batista in a glorified handicap match the week before. Never mind that he has 3 wins and 15 losses on Raw this year. He's still a completely legitimate main eventer until he loses to HHH. Some of you people just amaze me.

The original question was what matchup main evented the most PPVs. That would still be Austin vs. Taker with 6, as wrestling sub-main events or highly publicized matches is not the same as wrestling in the main event, and if it's a tag match, or a Triple Threat, it's not the same matchup.

Agreed. That was a great match, and that finish was absolutely crazy. I swear, Shelton Benjamin looked like he should be knocked out legit from that superkick. That was just crazy stiff.

I have to say, it's too bad about Mikan's health problems, but if he's been getting a $20,000 a year pension for the last 40 years, he really doesn't have much to complain about. Show me a pension plan better than that you'd get for a regular job for that long, and I'll be damn surprised.

Boo. I hate it already. It just sounds like such a cheesy damn word.

It's because he didn't just criticize the officials. He criticized the league office, and said he knew for a fact that they were calling fouls on Yao because of what Cuban said. If the referees handed out fines, it might be a different story, but since the league office does it, of course they'll be harsher on something criticizing them.

I just want to say that if this list comes out, and Mario Kart 64 isn't represented, I will categorically refuse to give it any credibility.

If Hogan won the title, I would stop watching the WWE immediately. No joke.

Still though, the worst possible time to book a tournament is when you're giving your champion of the past 9 months a rematch. He's obviously got plenty of reason, storyline-wise to get a rematch, especially given the fact that he's still holding the title. They'd be much better off waiting for the next month, when no one has claim to a title shot to build up someone that actually needs it. After losing in the Royal Rumble, the #1 contender's tournament finishing at No Way Out, and the tourney now, no one else really is a credible challenger on Smackdown. If it wasn't for the draft, Cena wouldn't even have any decent challengers.

This match kinda reminds me of Jericho/Rock from No Mercy and Jericho ended up working as a heel and still getting cheered. At least during Angle/Cena there was a fairly clear heel/face division. If they aren't sending either of them to Smackdown then after Backlash would be the time to fire up the Benoit/Benjamin feud. Actually, Rocky was playing full-on heel the entire match until the finish. That's the part that made it so "shocking" when Jericho used the chair on Rock to turn heel and pick up the win.

Didn't HHH's so-called influence start when he left Chyna for Stephanie anyway. Why would he be helping her in the booking. I think it was just a Russo gimmick that got over (girl can beat up guys), and somewhere along the way, she lost her mind and decided that she really did something important.

I guess you don't realize Smackdown is taped, and they can pipe in all the booing and Eddie Sucks chanting they wish. I guess those people in crowd that you could see chanting "eddie sucks" and booing were holograms. Nope, just planted by the WWE, who haven't sold out an event since '97, and have been planting 1/3-1/2 of the crowd since. I can't tell if you're serious or being sarcastic. Because '97 was actually before the hot period; even if your conspiracy theory was true, it wouldn't make any sense that that was when the sellout was.