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    http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/h...t.asp?aID=21158

     

    --We are told Kelly Kelly did not get new implants as it appeared from the PPV last night, and she was just wearing a very good push-up bra
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    Meanwhile, according to today's WON, either Vince McMahon or Kevin Dunn freaked out and was afraid that the name "Birmingham" sounded terrible, thus the tapings 2 weeks ago were only referred to as being from "the United Kingdom."

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    http://www.loserleavestown.net/

     

    Lance Russell returns for another great interview. Lots of ground covered, including his departure from Memphis/the CWA for WCW in 1989, producing the WCW Hotline 900 number (as well as Jim Herd’s post-WCW hotline venture), Jerry Jarrett’s accusations against him and Jerry Lawler, the various Memphis bookers, random thoughts on various personalities that came through Memphis, and much more. Over 70 minutes long and well worth listening to.

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    The LeDuc clip was short enough to probably fall completely under the radar, Lawler-Hennig was just the post-match interview on the WWE DVD which I'm sure aired on AWA TV, and Lawler-Funk aired in other territories including Florida.

     

    There is plenty of master stuff that looks great. Lawler has some, I believe Jimmy Hart & WMC TV have some, PM Film has some via ICW, Jeff Osborne has some he got at a garage sale (really), Cornette might have some (and has a lot of off-air recordings that could be restored like the St. Louis was), and there may be a little more I'm forgetting. It might not be as much as other libraries, but it's out there.

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    They don't have Memphis (muddy ownership, they get to use some footage that exists via other libraries), St. Louis (owned by The Fight Network), or Portland (no actual master library, rights owned by Barry Owen and licensed to WWE for the Piper DVD set).

     

    Gotcha.

     

    I thought they had St. Louis since Crockett had bought that promotion out and was part of the purchase Turner initially made.

    I have been wondering about this lately, as it didn't really make sense that Larry Matysik had the rights unless he accquired them later on from Muchnick or KPLR. As far as Crockett, keep in mind that they didn't get the video libraries of any of the territories they bought out other than GCW.

     

    As for Memphis, I guess the pre-AWA/WCCW/USWA involvement footage they've used is owned directly by Lawler or something along those lines.

    The belief is that technically, the Selker brothers (the guys conned by Lawler into overpaying for the USWA) own the rights, but either don't know or don't care. Lawler & Hart have used Memphis footage on the Opening The Vault show, segments on current Memphis TV, etc w/o repurcussions, but whatever rights they may or may not have isn't good enough for WWE to try to buy it.

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    Their numbers are strong enough that there is zero chance of USA cancelling them

     

    So, did 83% of the posters in this thread stop reading the original post before this part of the story?

     

    I think the discussion is revolving along the lines of what happens when USA come back to renew the deal in 2008 and offer Vince far below what he's prepared to take, he takes his ball and leaves (or tries to), rather than an out-and-out cancelling.

     

    I suggested two ways (Wrestling Network, Internet only) as ways Vince could combat USA lowballing him and having no other network to go to.

    Both of which would kill the company.

     

    A wrestling only network would bring way more exposure than 2 hours on USA/CW and 1 hour on Sci Fi so I dont see how it would kill the WWF.

    I hope you understand that you're the dumbest person on internet wrestling boards this week.

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    As for the Sapolsky/ECW argument, c'mon Bix, anything would've been better than what actually happened at December To Dismember. Gabe even talks about how he didn't want it to seem like ECW would be a demotion for Orton, more like he was being punished by being sent to the crazy land of extreme hardcore.

    I wasn't talking about just December To Dismember, which was all obvious Heyman booking except for the first half of the Elimination Chamber match, anyway.

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    That doesn't mean that going on TV and saying "Randy Orton was punished for acting up and thus sent the the shitty brand" is not a terrible idea. Plus, the booking ideas were for the first year of the brand.

    It's just good to remember that the Guest Booker thing was a Gabecentric best case scenario based totally on what he would like to see. The unlikelyhood of anything he mapped out of actually happening is just too great. I mean RIC FLAIR in ECW? Please, I doubt Flair would ever go for that.

    That's really not the point at all.

     

    That being said I enjoyed his ideas.

    How was the Orton gets OMGDEMOTED!!!~~!111 angle not a bunch of ridiculous Russo-esque smarky bullshit that also buried ECW completely out of the gate?

     

    Where were these "Gabe ECW ideas" actually reported? The RoH message board?

    He did a "Guest Booker" DVD w/ Kayfabe Commentaries.

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    So what are you saying? That this current writing team would do better than something Gabe would book? Are you saying that the ideas he played out in the Guest Booker thing are worse than what actually happened?

    Yes. A thousand times yes.

     

    HIS MAIN ANGLE BURIED THE BRAND AND HE IS TOO DUMB TO REALIZE THIS.

     

    I doubt Kreski was given control who went over in matches. So you can't fault him for booking decisions.

    That and I'm pretty sure that Stephanie took over starting with the HHH-Angle "blowoff."

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    Their numbers are strong enough that there is zero chance of USA cancelling them

     

    So, did 83% of the posters in this thread stop reading the original post before this part of the story?

     

    I think the discussion is revolving along the lines of what happens when USA come back to renew the deal in 2008 and offer Vince far below what he's prepared to take, he takes his ball and leaves (or tries to), rather than an out-and-out cancelling.

     

    I suggested two ways (Wrestling Network, Internet only) as ways Vince could combat USA lowballing him and having no other network to go to.

    Both of which would kill the company.

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    Guest Booker with Gabe Sapolsky

     

    and full of retarded rehashed ideas from the original ECW, like Orton as a Raven/Credible hybrid, London & Kendrick as Sabu, MNM as Taz, and Melina as Bill Alfonso.

     

    Even if the ideas are rehashed from ECW, and something being 'rehashed' isn't always a bad thing, they'd be fresh to the WWE audience. I'm not a major fan of Gabe's, but I also recognize that he seems to have a good idea of what does or doesn't have a chance to get over well. And even if he tries something and the audience rejects it, Gabe is more willing than most bookers to react accordingly and change things rather than push back and try and force something on his audience.

    1. They're still bad ideas.

    2. Everything is undermined by his unwitting burial of the brand with the Orton angle.

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    What the fuck..."too classical"?!?! Have any of you watched any pre-1998 wrestling?

     

    The ECW Guest Booker plans were fucking terrible, built around a ridiculous SH00T!11 angle in Orton being "punished" by being sent to the lesser brand and full of retarded rehashed ideas from the original ECW, like Orton as a Raven/Credible hybrid, London & Kendrick as Sabu, MNM as Taz, and Melina as Bill Alfonso.

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    Jamie Keller was the exec. He left TBS in '03. He's now more famous for his comments about DVRs:

     

    "Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming."

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