Karc

It's LA. We're bored. We are going to sleep through the entire card, because we just don't care. Do the screwy finish so we have reason to throw our plastic beer cups into the ring.

In the WWE, only if they shoot themselves up with enough steroids to look like a 320-pound superman can Afro-Americans have a shot at being in the main event. So Shelton still has a chance, if starts jucing now he might get there in seven years. There's a reason why Ahmed Johnson was the closest to ever getting there (i.e. Vince WANTED him there). And we've seen how they treated the half-black Rock. He was in the main event jobbing to everyone because he's the only one (besides Foley) who could be bothered to put guys over.

WWE has done everything in their power to make money from this. They get no sympathy from me AT ALL. The "tribute show" was a joke. Continuing the PPV was a joke. Seriously, have they EVER mentioned anything that happened on that show since then? Like Undertaker winning the title? Or never using "Breakdown" as a PPV name again because then they'd have to bring up what happened at the last event? They might as well have cancelled the show. No one, except for WWE tools, would blame them for it. What about Raw X, making the tribute show one of the "best" moments in the history of Raw? What about the contiual smearing of the Hart family every chance they get? There's only one thing that the WWE want people to remember from that show, and that is Owen Hart died like a sickly baby in their loving arms, and THEY know how to move on from such a tragedy. So yes, I think this thread is pointless, because anyone who has watched WWE in the last 15 years knows exactly what would happen in the event of a tragedy. The victim (outside of someone championed by McMahon at the time it happens) would be turned into a sad, pathetic joke and anyone who was associated with him can expect the same. Meanwhile, everyone else (out fear of being buried or fired) would slowly back away and go about their business, but adhere to wearing suits and shirts like Vince and not complaining about BS storylines.

I mean the segment early on with Benoit, Jericho, Edge & Shelton teaming up against Luther, Eddy, Rey & Booker. It got lots of heat. Well, that means the interest is there, I guess. But my point is that WWE is either too stupid or too full of ego (most likely both) to do anything with it that would draw money, like the Invasion.

NO interest in this card whatsoever. After Wrestlemania is going to be scary. 2003 scary. They are paying for the letdown that was Wrestlemania 20. Promising new things and then delivering the exact same garbage. There's no reason to care about WM anymore because it will be rendered useless in less than six months. This has been going on for a while now. I'm guessing since X-7, which was only historical because it featured the debut of one of the most disappointing heel turns in history.

I would hope Vince doesn't want to bury Smackdown. Come September that could very well be his only show left. And the Royal Rumble being cross-brand doesn't matter. Benoit last year is a good example. A really good Smackdown feud thrown away for a crappy Raw feud. The Batista thing showed it this year, especially during the contract signing. It wasn't about Smackdown vs. Raw. It was about Batista powerbombing Flair or Triple H.

The brand extension is a failed excuse for artificial competition created by Vince McMahon for Vince McMahon. Micheals vs. Angle isn't a Smackdown vs. Raw match, it's a dream match that was going to happen even if both guys were on the same show. Much like Undertaker vs. Kane was last year (dream in the sense that no one dreamed that WWE would dare try it six years too stale, but they did). The problem with interpromotional matches is that no one believes in cross-brand hatred enough to want one brand to win over the other. McMahon would never allow it. He owns both shows. Name one interpromotional match since the extension where the crowd was clearly rooting for either one brand or the other. More specifically, where there was a real, honest "mixed" reaction for Smackdown or Raw. You can't. The booking would never allow it happen.

The only problems I see with RRR's booking is that CCC would have to be in the main event scene relatively quickly (but far better than Bradshaw in two weeks, this would be about two months), and that he's injury-prone (which I guess you compensated for by having wrestle only during the big shows). Well, there is another problem. Triple H would look at that plan and immediately take it for himself to get himself over again.

Orton getting fired would happen. Stephanie leaving would not. I hate "he said, she said" cases.

Again, why is WWE banking on people remembering stuff that happened 10-20 years ago as a DRAW for a PPV?

Well, if I had a gripe about Triple H, it's that he buries his WM opponents to the point where they don't matter, and thus, he either has an excuse for not jobbing to them, or not really worrying about jobbing to them because they're dead in the water anyway. Jericho in 2002 was made into a joke BEFORE the match, and back to the midcard right after. Booker in 2003 was a joke right after the match where everyone thought he'd win. Benoit was curtain-jerking six months after his win, and after Triple H tried unsuccessfully to book himself as Benoit's greatest rival. And it looks like the same for Batista. Where does he go from here? Fight Edge and not draw? Fight Benoit, Jericho, or any other six-foot midcarder who doesn't stand a chance? Fight everybody over 400 pounds as though the lowcarders are legitimate threats?

And you're not? Come on, at least be funny when bashing the guy. Yeah, this rumor is old. Really old.

Saw her naked, done, move on to the next slut. The only real problem with this is that anybody who watched or viewed it (topic didn't say radio or TV, doesn't matter) had to PAY for it. Sad.

No, I'm pointing out stupidity. That's what TSM is all about. They can do whatever they want, but WWE will fire them in a heartbeat if such activites gets them arrested, because they won't deal with the bad PR. So yes, raping and running over people with cars and hitting them with sledgehammers and jobbing to an airbrushed woman who in a bar would stand no chance against Trish on camera is perfectly okay, because wrestlers on TV have no common sense. Look at Noble, he wasn't fired because he took steroids. Steroids made him look good on camera. He was fired because he lied about it and caused the WWE a headache trying to cover it up.

When did he ever stop being goofy? I must say, like every big match leading up to Wrestlemania in the last 6 years, the buildup for HBK vs. Angle has been sad and silly and actually made me far less willing to see the match. People who care about what they did in the 90s (which is the major selling point of this feud) have long since stopped watching wrestling, and this sure won't bring them back.

But they didn't even mention it. There are alot of Hardy/Lita marks that would know about this. The marks tried, but failed. And WWE can't mention it right now, anyway. Hardy isn't officially back on TV. And they need something to do after Wrestlemania, not a month before when the card's set. This is it.

From what I saw on Raw, this looks to be a work. The marks are into it.

So THIS is the most compelling storyline the WWE has crapped out of its ass in the last 8 years. No wonder business is sinking.

Sadly, Trivia247, your idea is pretty much something WWE would do as opposed to not do. What we are seeing now is a bunch of filler, and with the way business is tanking, they need to stop dicking around and have the WM card pretty much down by now so that they can sell the hell out of it. They didn't have to do that last year because people were buying the show on the "20" name, and that was it.

HHH was getting pops, and Orton was getting almost booed out of the building. "Orton Sucks" chants throughout the whole match Orton's pretty much done. The only way I think he can be saved if he does become the second Rock, which is what they were trying to do with him from the start. But in his fifteen-month push, he hasn't proven a thing.

If they wanted Cena to win, they would have shown the replay. J. Hungerford's theory sounds more plausible to me than the silly notion of a tie. Besides, given the several month build of HHH-Batista against the several week build of JBL-Cena, Batista winning was a foregone conclusion. A bad, unnecessary conclusion, though.

I kinda see it now too....my bad Sorry, I did mean this year. But you can make the same case for last year, too. Benoit was a Smackdown guy, but where was he the night after the Rumble? On Raw. It's become very obvious that Raw is the higer priority, where I thought the two brands were supposed to be equal enough to have seperate PPVs. What I'm getting at is that Cena or Batista winning shouldn't have mattered, but it mattered enough to WWE (and by extention the marks) that Batista win that McMahon comes and literally hurts himself trying to rebook the match. Finkel messed up because he didn't know what to say. When does Finkel ever mess up?

Cena technically won the Rumble (if instant replay was allowed), but there was no way that Vince was going to book a Smackdown guy that strong going into Wrestlemania, thus the on-the-fly booking to make Batista look better than 29 guys. It seems that they are giving Triple H-Batista the whole nine yards. , which I don't get because the "feud" thus far had been great both without the title and without the need for Batista to win the Rumble. Now it's starting to be overkill, and that's usually when "cutting off at the knees" starts.

2002 was when I stopped caring about WWE, because they were never going to change. Realistically I stopped watching altogether, before Wrestlemania. Seeing Benoit pussified week after week was enough.

Maybe Benoit and Jericho are floundering around so that the matches can be watchable.