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The RAW World Title, the big gold belt, HAS NO TIES TO TO THE WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE. World Championship Wrestling was stripped of any notoriety on WWE program following the loss at Survivor Series 2001. Current WCW World Champiopn, The Rock, now held a title that was refused to be listed as the WCW title. It was referred to as "THE WORLD TITLE", the SAME FUCKING BELT THAT BENOIT HOLDS. Post Survivor Series 01, anything having to do with WCW became null and void. Thus, the title became a World Title representing NO COMPANY. Until Vengeance, it united with the stronger title of the two, the WWE Heavyweight Title. The World Championship is Raw's premier title. The Rock is the first ever World Champion. Chris Jericho is the second ever World Champion. During Jericho's reign, the World Championship was absorbed into a stronger championship, until Lesnar's jump to Smackdown! seperated the WWE/World Titles again. Triple H is the third ever World Champion. HBK 4th, HHH 5th, Goldberg 6th, HHH 7th, and Benoit is the current and 8th World Heavyweight Champion of the WWE.

You guys are nuts. The WCW U.S. Title has no lineage with the WWE U.S. Title. They're two seperate championships. They advertised previous WCW U.S. Champions to show the importance of a secondary title for Smackdown! Eddie Guerrero has held two different U.S. titles. He is a two time U.S. Champion. Just not two reigns of the same company.

CHRIS BENOIT WAS NEVER THE WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. Storyline wise: Benoit "won" the title by defeating Sid Vicious via submission. Special referee Arn Anderson immediately, upon viewing the footage, stripped Benoit of the title. He said the decision should have never been rendered. It's not like Benoit had a reign and then was stripped due to actions, winning another title, whatever. Storyline-wise, Anderson said the decision should never have taken place. Thus, the PWI Almanac and various websites should have the following for the ME of Souled Out '00: "Chris Benoit defeated Sid Vicious by submission to win the vacant WCW World Title. Special referee Arn Anderson reversed the decision due to an illegal submission, however, nullifying the title win. The title remained vacated". Just my take on it. Benoit's WM XX victory is his 1st World Title.

Czech Republic, how quick you are to write off the much more playoff-experienced Flyers team against say, Tampa Bay. I want so badly to say "Tampa's a fluke", "Tampa is a joke", but honestly, they've looked AWESOME this playoff series. I just don't think they'll match up with an equally hot Flyers team, should Philly advance. Keep in mind, Tampa's played Islanders and Canadiens....two team nowhere near the level of Philly/Toronto.

Blink and you miss the Leafs score...

Flyers have destroyed the Leafs in the opening period of Game 5.

Smackdown! doesn't deserve the torture that is a Scott Steiner match. Even if Bradshaw IS a main eventer.

Actually, I want sexy, skinny Stephanie accompanying Evolution, and not being a mouthpiece. But she's far from skinny and sexy now. So I dunno if itd work.

The Rock held the WCW World Title and either the WCW or WWE tag straps with Jericho I believe.

Now that Trips is back to putting on good matches, putting over new stars (or at least not just squashing them), and Raw has been getting better, I was thinking that now is the time to bring back Stephanie to HHH's side. The fans hate Stephanie. The marks do. The internet does. She's been doing the ridiculous "general manager babyface" crap and quite frankly, it didn't draw. I say, allign her as Evolution's manager, and have her and Trips draw massive heat again, staying AWAY from the title picture for now. It would help, with say, an Edge/HHH feud. Edge came back, was hurt, and quite frankly, the internet pretty much hated him for a month. Now that he and Benoit have been teaming, and having some pretty decent matches, Edge has been getting better and more entertaining. Still, though, I don't know how well HHH/Edge would go right now. Adding Stephanie to the mix almost guarantees that Edge would get a damn positive face reaction. I don't want HHH/Stephanie "This is OUR show!" promos every week. But I think Trips could benefit from adding more heat to his ever-improving ring work. Perhaps when they finally dump Flair (and it's coming...) from Evolution, Stephanie could help get the next Evo. heel over, too. Any thoughts? Please don't bring up Lucy the Dog, Jericho's abortion of a World Title run, or "the wedding", because the WWE right now is a lot different than 2002. I think she should be used.

Headhunters made their WWE debut at the Royal Rumble in...uh...95 or 96....96, I believe.

My mistake. Rocco Rock did NOT make his wrestling debut for WCW at the 1990 Starrcade in that ridiculous tag tournament as the evil South African, Col. DeClerk. He and his partner actually wrestled the "finals of the South Africa tournament" to qualify for the PPV at the Clash of the Champions before Starrcade.

I was there front row, as well, a few seats down from him. Worst. WrestleMania. Ever.

Ken Shamrock's *official* first WWE match was during 1997's In Your House in May, I believe. Tho he wrestled an "exhibition" against preliminary scrub Vernon White on Raw the week before. To be technical... "the nWo Sting" made his wrestling debut at Fall Brawl 1996. I know he was the Cobra, but the gimmick/new entity debuted in the ring there. Oh yeah! Curt Hennig made his WCW wrestling debut in 1997 at Bach at the Beach, tagging with DDP against Hall and Savage. Rocco Rock made his WCW wrestling debut at the 1990 Starrcade. Sgt. DeClerk, I believe. Wasn't Fred Ottman's wrestling debut in WCW (as Shockmaster) at the 1993 WarGames? And Gorgeous George (the valet)'s WCW debut occurred at the 1999 Slamboree. Same with Little Naitch. Undertaker at the 1990 Survivor Series...dunno if that got said.

Tawren, look at 2002-2003. It's a start

Question, can someone give me the exact quote Jericho used when describing both Stephanie (2000) and Trish (2004) The "Filthy, Dirty, Skanky, Trash Bag" line...all the words. Thanks. Also, just noticed Eddie and HORSHU facing off on Smackdown! tonite. One month from now... Angle: "Okay Eddie, you may have cheated your way past Bradshaw...but at the Great American Bash, I'll personally be the referee of the title match with your next challenger.... HORSHU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (Here's hoping they change "Luther"'s name by June!)

The match is listed in the WWF/W/WWE Raw Tag Titles section. If you're thinking it wasn't written up on a PPV card, it wasn't. It took place on WWF Raw the night after the '99 Royal Rumble.

Holy shit, how'd you guys miss THIS? Brock Lesnar's WWE wrestling debut = Backlash 2002 PPV. Jerry Lynn's WWE debut was on MONDAY NIGHT RAW in the summer of 1997, against TAKA Michinoku. Sorry folks.

Yes, they used to be written poorly. Right now, I think WWE is being written well. Benoit's title reign works. Michaels has become an entertaining player for the past year. Evolution are very entertaining. Foley/Orton was good. Christian's become a player, Trish became fresh. Jericho's done a successful face turn. We've said goodbye to useless talent like Austin (not a writing decision, but he was slowly being fazed out), Goldberg, Nash, etc. On Smackdown, well the show sucks. It's still written decently, for some parts. Booker T has been given a new direction. RVD may flourish, if he has suitable workers to have matches with. They brought back Taker, which I believe will slowly lose elements remaining of the Biker character. Bradshaw's storyline, well...he sucks in the ring, but plays a decent corporate heel. Match quality is different than story telling. For instance, Cena Vs. Dupree has been decently built. Both characters strong points are emphasized. New stars made. Will the match hit ****? Most likely not a chance. But it has a decent build. Smackdown! overall just reeks of overused, lame characters. However, their angles aren't awful. So Big Show killed Angle. So what? That's what happened. Show is gone, and as long as they explain it that he'd fired/suspended/arrested/whatever, it's coherent. Kurt Angle fucking sucks anyway as a heel "GM", and sucks as a face, for that matter. So get Angle off TV.

The Owen/JJ over Bossman/Shamrock result is correct, BTW...whatre you talkin about?

For the SummerSlam 2003 Results: WWE Smackdown Champion Kurt Angle pinned Brock Lesnar. Wrong, Lesnar tapped out. His first time, actually.

WWE was just written extremely badly at that point. They were attempting "Shock TV" instead of focusing on the in-ring talent like they are now.

Fuck Inoki. Trying to actually put his promotion in the same league as WWE with a blatantly not-going-to-be-answered challenge. Bush league.

"Corky" from "Life Goes On". He had a pig and he knew it.

Nice sell, Batista. Cue the run-ins.