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Reportedly, Larry King wants the "top WWE champion" to join his upcoming panel to discuss the tragedy. Despite initially being booked on the show, The Great Khali will miss next week's Smackdown! taping to appear on King and talk about his feelings with Steve Blackman and Chris Jericho.

Oh man, the news gets worse. 7/17/2007 10:40:00 PM WITCH DOCTOR IMPLICATED IN DISTIBUTION A crawl on Nany Grace is reporting that a witch doctor from the Serengeti has been prescribing certain "jungle medications" for various wrestling personalities, with several initials being leaked including "S.S" and "J.S.". One can only hope that Saba Simba and "Jungle" Jim Steele are not involved, but it's looking bad. - Dave Meltzer

Okay, so... I've been out of the DC Loop big-time for years. What's must-read now? I used to read: JLA, Young Heroes in Love, Green Lantern, Detectice Comics, Nightwing, Batman Adventures, and most of the DC Crossover Events. I loved GL Kyle Rayner and his GF Jade. I saw that Hal Jordan came back as The Spectre or something and is now the GL. And Kyle is something called Ion. JLA looks sharp now. I'm reading #1-10. So what essential stuff should I get between, say 2000 and 2007? I have "Identity Crisis". Great art, good story, ehh ending. What's the deal with Infinite Crisis, One Year Later, 52, etc.? What's happened with Flash? What major heroes are repackaged, dead, reborn, etc.? Who are, say, the "Top 10" heroes of DC, in terms or importance, good books, and being likeable? What's this Amazons Attack stuff? I realize I can wiki this, but I'd rather here "pass over it", etc. from fans and get a brief summary. I'm looking to start reading: Justice League Justice Society Legion of Superheroes Flash Green Lantern Superman Batman All-Star Batman All-Star Superman Robin Teen Titans So tell me, what's up with those books? All good? Reccomend me some shit. I pretty much read every single Marvel book except the "cosmic" stuff. I read a little Wildstorm (Gen 13, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Stormwatch). I read Walking Dead.

"I remember HHH/Cactus Jack @ RR 00 got the MSG crowd chanting it for awhile, and then they both turned it up and produced the best match of 2000." Jerry Lawler: "Listen to these fans! They're chanting 'Foley' !"

Re: 10 month "bomb" by Coach Usually when they acknowledge the length of a title reign, it ends soon. See: "The fourth longest reign in WWE Tag Team Title History! Blah blah months..." for Kendrick and London. See: Shelton's long-ass IC Title reign getting mentioned by exact months by JR and he loses it to Carlito. See: JBL hyping up his long-ass WWE Title reign from Feb-March 05 as the "longest reign in X years..." and dropping it to Cena. Also, they started doing a ton of hype for Gregory Helms breaking the Cruiserweight Title record. Soon after, he dropped it. Coachman: "He is currently in a 10-month reign as WWE Champion..."

Chris Jericho has commented that Monty Brown has never no-showed any of Fozzy's gigs, which makes this all the more harder to believe.

If Monty had competed on ECW tonight he'd have done the one thing people like him do best: Put Smiles on People's Faces.

Sandman's a positive "little thing" for Raw every week, kind of like Come Shee The Baby, Christian's backstage promos, "You'll face...KANE!", Jericho Loves Trish, and Batista's Suits.

Top wrestling superstar Marc Mero claims that there needs to be a serious change in the way Monty Brown approaches his lifestyle.

Here is why it sucks. Raven, in 1995-96, was super over because he was this cult-leader who was down with the grunge culture and had a Jim Morrison rebel vibe. 1. THE ANNOUNCERS AND RAVEN AND ECW DIDN'T NEED TO TELL YOU THIS. You just saw it. Raven didn't call himself "Scott Morrison" or "Scott Keresh" or however the cult leader's last name was spelled. 2. Nitro is athletic, however, he is not a very good professional wrestler yet. He doesn't have the ability as a defending World Champion to carry opponents or bring out the best in him. THUS, EVERYONE WHO FACES NITRO, GIVES YOU A LEGIT REASON TO WANT THE BELT OFF NITRO. And not in the "Oooh, he really butters my bacon!" kind of way. In the "Man, this guy would make a better champion" way. Broken down guys like Dreamer excluded. 3. It's the WWE Marketing Scheme of post-2001. Thus, they have to REINFORCE EVERY LITTLE DETAIL and not let you decide things for yourself. Just wait. Nitro's finisher will be called the "Break On Through" or something ridiculous. Bill Goldberg got over by being mysterious and full of excitement. The announcers, unlike Lashley's hype, didn't ram every fact and tell you: THIS GUY IS FO' REAL! YOU GOTTA LOVE LASHLEY! They let YOU see that Goldberg was sick. 4. Nitro's sounds like he's falling asleep while talking. He also got into sissy boy name calling tonight. 5. Nitro had no build-up to the title. HE NEVER EVEN SAID HE WANTED AN ECW TITLE. He didn't really work to get it. He just...kinda has it. Yay. 6. "Honestly, I just don’t get it. What does CM stand for? Chick master? Definitely not that. Chases men? Definitely getting a little warmer. Cookie Monster. Common man. Completely miserable,” Morrison smugly said. “And Punk… What is a punk? A punk is a disrespectful little kid with lame tattoos that doesn’t know his place.” That sounds like Chris Jericho, WORD FOR WORD, chewing someone out. Not to mention the hair and pants...plus leather rock band shirt. How original.

Lots of comments that he came up awkward after spearing Mardi Gras King.

Taking steroids and adding muscle mass are not the same thing. That's like saying rape and sleeping with your girlfriend are similar. One is an illegal and cheap way to do things. One is the right way. And the "TLC affairs" is not MY theory, bro. No one else in those matches suffers from the string of physical luck that Edge does. I think that a combination of working guys that were stronger and more durable in grueling bouts to elevate his character over and over again, combined with early prescribed steroid use, and lack of proper muscular development have left the 30-something Adam Copeland injury prone. How many titles has he forfeited now? How many extended breaks has he had now?

"Yeah, Edge gets hurt a lot. What do you expect from a guy who specialized for years in falling off ladders?" Christian bumped just as much (both did more spots than bumps in those bouts) in those bouts and has remained healthy. Jeff's been a drug addict and has still suffered from less injuries. Matt Hardy has had, IIRC, one bad injury. The Dudleys were taking repeated crushing shots to the neck area way before they even got into those matches. Don't blame the ladder. Edge is in injury prone. Why? I dunno. Just giving my opinion, but... I tack Edge's shitty luck from 1) Taking Steroids, as it has been proven he has. 2) Working with high-impact wrestlers like Benoit, Angle, and Guerrero in lengthy programs and getting his shit fucked up. 3) Not adding enough muscle mass on.

With Coachman dropping the "10 month" bomb on Raw, I'm pretty sure Bobby Lashley, The Great Khali, and John Morrison are walking out of The Great American Bash as the WWE World Champs. What a sentence.

Scroby, shut the fuck up. I've been hyping Khali for forever and claiming he'd get a World Title run. Go referee your backyard feds. "I want Kane to win the belt. Are there any other Kane fans?" Kane's taking the pin. Khali/Batty at SummerSham.

Does Brown do a lot of text messaging?

Another Edge injury. Don't forget when Edge was doing steroids to "heal his neck" in 2004 when he came back as The Worst Received Babyface Ever and tore his groin in the middle of his shitty comeback IC Title program with Jericho & Batista...and had to...wait for it...vacate the title. "even got bit by a brown recluse spider that turned into a flesh-eating disease – the list goes on." Is this legit or is he alluding to Lita giving him an STD?

"John Morrison" deliberately cuts these mello, moody promos that make him sound worse than the stuttering, all over the place, generic promos of "Johnny Nitro". What an embarassing World Champion character. A direct rip-off of a an overrated stoner singer that most wrestling fans aren't even fans of. "Chases Men" Punk got a laugh.

Nitro steals from Jimmy Jacobs and Chris Hero in this segment.

They need to. The ECW Title looks awful. CHASES MEN PUNK!

Punk's losing again Sunday, obviously.

LMAO. Johnny Nitro picked the only ridiculous name/gimmick worse than Johnny Nitro.

Jimmy Jacobs on ECW!

YES MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!! I TOLD YOU! KHALIDIOTS UNITE! THE GREAT KHALI IS ON TOP OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. LOVE LIVE THE PUNJAB.

"Two world champions in a row that have to forfeit their titles due to injury." Plus, you've got Lashley forfeiting the ECW World Title. And the "title reign" of Vince McMahon. And Johnny Nitro holding a major title, much less a World Title. Plus, Taker's Streak/Batista's Run in a mid-card WM match. Not a good year to be a champion unless you're John Cena the Monster Slayer.