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Nice opener. Melina's dress left something to be desired.

When referencing Cena "squashing" Masters and making Sabu submit, I meant that it had added to the credibility of both his finish and his status as Raw's top "unbeatable" star. It's always better to not have "Can Cena Retain?!?!?!" everyweek from JR, and instead have "He has to go THROUGH John Cena" when billing your top dog.

Scroby, I agree, that WAS Cena's MO up 'til '06. Vs. Masters and Vs. RVD, Cena dominated most of the bout. Vs. Edge and HHH, he got in a decent amount of offense. Vs. HHH, it was closer than I expected. Here we go.

The last two times I was 100% sure that the champ was dropping the title on Raw were: World Champ Triple H being forced to "wrestle in a battle royal" with the title on the line. World Champ Goldberg Vs. Triple H, late 2003 First one never happened. Second one had a dissapointing result, although Trips got it weeks later. _________ It's all over for Cena tonight, though.

He had the same "ice cold, focused" look at Mania after he removed the gangster outfit.

"you mean a lot of internet fans have an irrational hatred of Orton? Never!" Hey 12 posts, keep it down. Fans hate Orton because he is a plodding, boring worker, filled with restholds, a minimal moveset, a shitty finisher, a stupid father, the need to call women "cunts" repeatedly, and for ending Benoit's title reign and then having his own flop. Orton has shown absolutely ZERO consistency as a main eventer, be it as a heel or a face. He's like a junior high kid that desperately is trying to hang out with the senior from high school (Triple H), who finds him amusing. Orton is kind of Screech to H's Zack Morris. Irrational, I think not.

Has anyone else noticed that, despite still having really corny, unoriginal "disses" and mic skills, John Cena has become a consistent main eventer, being game for really good matches and looking like a credible champion? It is because of this that I hope John Cena kicks the shit out of Van Dam tonight and wins back the title. I'm a Cena workrate mark. No one expected HHH/Cena to be good at Mania, yet Cena not only delivered a good match (which HHH shined in), he had his finish put over, and really got "made" into a top player. At Backlash, the 3 wrestlers had an awesome bout, and despite "Cena is definately losing", he won again, cleanly. On Raw, Cena squashed the shit out of Masters, someone it took him 12-15 minutes to beat last Fall. At One Night Stand, Cena did the best with who he had to work with, and delivered a memorable PPV appearence to a shitty crowd and opponent. Haven't seen Vengeance. But in kayfabe mode...he made fucking SABU **submit**. ________ Cena's been rock solid in the ring, IMO, ever since his program with Edge the day after New Year's Revolution.

Don't buy into the "One Night Only" hype. Taker/Bret is kinda slow with a shitty (but unavoidable) finish, Bulldog/HBK is OK. At least don't expect to see some blowaway show.

Umaga sucks. JBL repeats his lame commentary for every match and is very corny. "ECW" sucks. It's new fans and anyone who WAS a fan that still watches are all tools. Chris Benoit needs to retire. Booker T needs to retire. William Regal & Finlay need to retire. Bobby Lashley needs to stop doing the spear. Randy Orton is a horrible worker and terrible interview. Triple H is a great worker. John Cena, despite still being very corny, has become a red-hot worker during March-June 2006. Rob Van Dam's "big title win" was one of the worst botches I've ever seen.

Anyone putting over 2004 as a killer year is an idiot. Seriously. Other than some great multi-man tags on Raw, the year SUCKED. The World Champion Chris Benoit worked PPV matches that weren't the main event, was made to look "lucky" during a PPV match with Triple H, couldn't even defeat EUGENE in a Raw match, lost to shitty Orton in CANADA in the SummerSlam main, went to tagging with Regal in the ultimate de-push, and finally just played second or third banana to new babyface (HA!) Randy Orton. Eddie Guerrero's title reign was even worse. Grandma Guerrero heart attack angle? Illegal mexicans "chased back to Mexico?" Getting beat by the then ultra lame JBL? Jesus. Then he resumed a steady string of mediocre matches with JBL (Smackdown cage), Angle (SummerSlam), and faced such great workers as...Luther Reigns, on PPV. The tag team division, as always, was a joke. Booker T & RVD, literally, went from tag champs to enemies overnight. Such other ridiculous teams as heel Edge & face Chris Benoit and the horrible La Resistance added to the even more tainted belts. What's the ultimate sign of lazyness and lack of creativity? No no, it's not booking a 45 minute snoozer of Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a non-title-related PPV match (though they of course did THAT!)...it's booking the challenger for the main event of SummerSlam...by HAVING A BATTLE ROYAL. Lame. Smackdown featured a good No Way Out main with Eddie taking the title. But then it lost Lesnar. Not good. Survivor Series was horrible. SummerSlam was pretty mediocre with a shitty Canadian crowd. 2004 was just as bad as the other years. Except the internet darlings (Benoit, Eddie) were seen as "players", when in fact, they were really transitional champions for the next batch of BIG TIME PLAYERS (Orton and JBL), both who failed.

Favorite ECW "jobber" ? I go with: The Broad Street Bully

Smackdown! fixed the Velocity problem by sending several stars to ECW, Raw, or unemployment. _____ wwe.com poll Will RVD defeat Edge and retain his Championship? 50% to 49.99% closest vote they've ever had easily.

Cena finalls goes back at #1 due to Benoit's injury and Lashley's DQ. All updated to the day before Vengeance, check it out.

Bagwell never worked ECW. He was under WCW contract from '91-'01.

"McMahon didn't even acknowledge the WWE Title situation." In kayfabe world, Vince McMahon has absolutely NOTHING he *can* say about the WWE Title. He did mention it, and said that Paul E.'s claim that ECW now has the title is valid. Ross said it himself, "For the first time since 1963 the WWE Title is not in the WWE."

HAHAHAHA. How old are you, btw?

Since when is Rene Dupree on Raw? Just saw the Superstars page.

Here comes The Alliance to bother those WWF Superstars!

Quote on Flair: "he hasn't done a single different match in 10 years." He worked a great match with Edge on Raw that saw him bumping off of ladders from the ring to the floor. Oh, he does that EVERY MATCH. It was dramatic and exciting. He worked a long, different bout with Angle last summer. His cage match with Hogan at Uncensored 99 was different, and saw him change from face to heel during the course of it, plus it was well paced and their second best match ever against each other. His match against Mysterio on Nitro in March 1999 was worked differently from what he does today. That's just off the top of my head. Basically, shut up.

This Raw feels like a 3 hour and 15 minute Nitro.

That's at Vengeance.

So it seems the fans actually ruined RVD's moment to themselves...by assuming they'd strip rob of the title and not marking out.

"how do you top beating Hogan for the belt back then? They were pretty screwed from the get-go)." Have Earthquake brutalize Hogan and deliver an Earthquake Vertical Splash at some point to Miss Elizabeth. Put over how Warrior can't press slam him and have Quake pin Warrior clean in a tag and lead into SSlam with that.

Change your sig, ChrisMWaters.

Yes, as a Rhyno/Christian PPV match the following month would blow due to both Christian and Rhyno being booked horribly, with terrible promos and Rhyno's recent "parade of jobs" act.