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Recap of the whole Eddie/Bradshaw angle from last week. The writing for Smackdown right now is really, really bad. Hopefully they take notice of the ratings going down the crapper.

Holly/Gunn win via Alabama slam. I actually don't mind them as a tag team - much better than them each stinking up the singles ranks. And they mesh decently, too.

Now we'll got Hardcore Ass vs. Eddie Craven and Russell somebody.

Promo for Rico and Jackie's Runway Arrival this week on Smackdown. Huh?

They're going to flash back to Chavo vs. Knoble from Smackdown tonight. I'm sure those guys had a great match (I missed the first hour watching Survivor), but how bad a show is it that they show clips of _that_ on Velocity? At least it ties in with the four corners main event later on. I really wish they made Velocity like Sunday Night Heat circa 98-99. Live half the time, with actual angle development and stuff. Hopefully they'll make it a better show and not just a flash back show once they move it up a few hours.

Basham wins with his leaping leg lariat thingy. Pretty good match, bad commentary. I really wish Paul would get a push one of these days. He puts on great matches week after week.

Great psychology by London. Basham works the arm, Paul tries a sunset flip, and he can't get him over because of the arm. Of course the announcers are talking about Bradshaw.

Matthews and DeMott are annoying.

And we kick things off with Doug Basham vs. Paul London! Go London! Whooooooooooooo!

And we're on the air. Recap of 2 weeks ago.

Goldust rocked, but I really doubt they ever considered pushing him above the IC level. He just wasn't a big monster like Sid or Vader, y'know?

...who wrestled in WAR against ULTIMO DRAGON...

Gabe just posted on the ROH board: Hey everyone, I understand everyone's need to vent. This board has become almost impossible to moniter and a lot of stuff has gotten through that normally wouldn't. We are still going to give you people a little more time to say what you need to get off your chests before we just start deleting everything, but the time is coming to focus once again on the product and upcoming shows. There are a couple of good threads already going like the one about stripping AJ Styles of the belt and the one about the future of The Prophecy. I know that this sounds like a company line, but I am very excited about all the upcoming shows. If we can't blow people away and have incredible storylines and matches with the talent still with ROH than we don't belong running shows. This whole situation has given us some very unique booking opportunites to start some innovative stories that can really breath some fresh air into ROH. I suggest paying close attention to the Newswire and items on the main page because we are going to start some stuff there. I really wish we were running Philly tonight so we could blow the roof off the place with some of the ideas floating around. As far as commenting on the document thing, I'm not going to say anything now except that not signing it for me and Cary wasn't an issue of Rob Feinstein, but rather an issue of personal liability. If you know anything about business or speak to a lawyer, they will tell you its insane to sign something vague that makes you personally liable. The Jarretts told me they just wanted a document signed so they could tell the cable companies that they have a document stating that ROH assures them that Rob is no longer with the company. They have the president and owner's signiture on that document. They can tell the cable companies that the ROH president and owner has signed a document assuring them that Rob is not involved. Doug had his back against the wall and signed it despite the advice of everyone around him. TNA should be happy with that. I could go into more details at this time, but I won't. The only reason I posted this is because of the very one sided bullet points that Bob Ryder put up on his site today. I was also quoted in those bullet points that Doug is the owner "on paper." I never said that. We will have lots of news coming soon as we focus on the upcoming shows. Things are going to be very chaotic, very interesting, very original and very fresh in ROH. ROH has always been about giving the top, hungry, upcoming talent a chance to showcase themselves. We have never been about letting the "stars" grab the spotlight. That is why Low Ki vs. American Dragon vs. Christopher Daniels headlined our first show when 99% of the other promotions out there would have headlined with Eddy Guerrero vs. Super Crazy. 2-3 years ago there was a class coming up that was absolutely incredible. It included guys like Ki, Dragon, Daniels, Samoa Joe, Doug Williams, Spanky, Paul London, AJ Styles, Homicide and others. One of the reasons we decided to start ROH was to feature that incredible class. Those guys have since gone on to achieve success whether it is being an international star or a wwe contract or becoming a top flight indy star. There is now a new class that reminds me exactly of that first class. We are now going to give these guys a chance to shine while still promoting ROH stars like Samoa Joe, Homicide, Bryan Danielson, Second City Saints and others. We are going to have a great mix with lots of fresh match ups and lots of interesting scenerios. I can't wait to get started. On a closing note just take a look at some of the facts below: -Steve Corino & Spanky are forced to cancel their appearances on 9/21/02 and the result is Paul London vs. Michael Shane ladder match. -Spanky is forced to cancel his 11/9/02 booking and we get Low Ki working Tanaka and Ohtani. -Paul London misses 3/15 where he was supposed to win the tag titles with AJ Styles. Instead we get the Styles & Red vs. Briscoes series and the London vs. Styles match on 6/14. -Low Ki cancels his 4/12 booking a week before the show and we get "The Epic Encounter" with London vs. Danielson. -AJ Styles injures his knee and cancels his 4/26 booking. So instead of AJ & Red vs. Hotstuff Herndandez (what was I thinking?) & Paul London, we get Round Robin Challenge II. -Everyone says the 5/31 "Do Or Die" lineup is weak and instead we get one of the best building shows in ROH history, an incredible world title match and the emergence of CM Punk as a star. -Several injuries on 9/6 give us an opportunity to put on a show stealing Homicide vs. Trent Acid match. Obviously I am still hopeful the TNA talent will return since AJ is not being stripped of the Pure Wrestling Title, but in the meantime we will make some lemonade and blow away Chicago & St. Paul as we head into Round Robin Challenge III in Boston and a night I can't wait for "Generation Next" in Philadelphia. Lets start looking forward people!!!

On Velocity this week, the action in the cruiserweight division heats up when a new No. 1 contender for the Cruiserweight Championship will be determined. Don’t miss the Fatal Fourway involving Rey Mysterio, Akio, Billy Kidman and Nunzio, with the winner facing Chavo Guerrero next week on SmackDown! With four high-flyers in the ring at the same time, anything can happen. Who will gain a golden opportunity to make history on SmackDown! next week? Find out on Velocity. Also on Velocity, one of the newer tag teams on the SmackDown! roster, Billy Gunn & Hardcore Holly will be in action. Velocity will also take a look back at SmackDown! when Chavo Guerrero defended the Cruiserweight Championship against Jamie Noble. Don’t miss what was a thrilling match from last week’s SmackDown! Also, the Kurt Angle Great American Award was named on SmackDown! with a surprise winner, and an even more surprising incident after Angle made his announcement. It was a classic SmackDown! moment; don’t miss it on Velocity. All of this and more on Velocity this Saturday night at 10/9 CT on Spike TV. ================================================== The People’s Champion is a very busy man these days as, following his blockbuster match at WrestleMania, The Rock’s latest movie – “Walking Tall” – was released in theaters all throughout the United States to critical acclaim. On Confidential this week, go along with The Rock as he makes his rounds promoting this new film. Join him as he made numerous promotional appearances and appeared on several talk shows over the last two weeks as “Walking Tall” enjoyed a tremendous first week at box offices across America. Also on Confidential, while John Cena may be a gifted rapper, does he have the same talent for musical instruments? Join Cena during the recent WWE tour of Scotland as the United States Champion attempted to play the bagpipes. Can the professor of thugonomics perform on one of the most difficult musical instruments in the world? Find out on Confidential. Confidential also traveled with the RAW Superstars recently during a trip to Monterrery, Mexico. Join RAW Diva Victoria as she brings some south of the border flavor. All of this and more – including a classic match between Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty from Royal Rumble 1993 – on Confidential, this Saturday night at 11/10 CT on Spike TV. ==================================================== HBK/Jannetty from the 93 Rumble! And you gotta watch Velocity for that 4 corners match that should have been on Smackdown, right?

Of course someone voted for 95. I knew someone would do that.

As the whole tragic event happened, the WWF was showing a promo for the Blue Blazer and Godfather match that was about to take place. My question is why was it so important for Owen to rappel or whatever from the rafters and make his "superhero" entrance on that night when it wasn't even going to be shown on the PPV telecast?

Where did you hear that from? He wasn't willing to drop it to Vader, but he was willing to drop it to Sid, "the biggest piece of luggage in wrestling"? Yeah, he liked Sid better, so he convinced Vince to let him drop the title to him instead of Vader. It was supposed to be on Vader...why else do you think the December IYH was called "It's Time" and didn't even feature Vader on it?

New Jack is a scary, SCARY man.

Smackdown REALLY has problems right now. And the ratings are just going to keep dropping between here and Judgment Day, because it's not like they're going to change the direction they're doing in for the next PPV. Like it's been said before...that JD buyrate is going to be SCARY low.

Send your smarkish replies to [email protected] and post them here, too. Oh, and here's last week's photo and two "winners" as picked by the WWE.com staff: Jill from Vermont writes: Ric Flair becomes the official ADD spokesperson. Judd from Texas writes: "Ohhh! Watch where you're stepping, Hunter. You just smashed my left pinky toe."

Which is the best? (For 96 I included some matches that weren't on PPV)

Interesting...any reason why?

From PWInsider.com ===================================================== BK Steven sent along a link to the transcript from Bill Goldberg's chat on AOL earlier this week. Highlights of the chat included: Unhappiness with his character in WWE: A lot of promises were not fulfilled and there were twists and turns for everybody that were counterproductive. Things he didn't expect during his WWE run: I didn't envision it to be counter productive and having the belt throughout my time there. Being upset at Armageddon and Dropping the Belt: Nothing necessarily at Armageddon. It just came to a head and they were stupid to take the belt off of me. Working for NWA:TNA: I don't really don't know the product so I can't really answer that. I would like to kill a couple of guys over there so yes, that would be an option. Returning to WWE to face Steve Austin: I would love nothing more then to wrestle Austin at Wrestlemania XXI. As I said before, I would consider going back if the circumstances were a lot different. I only left for those circumstances. My knee is also not good, and I want to take some time to get it operated on and get it taken care of. If I do another movie, that is what a stunt man is for. Future Plans: No question that I will do more acting. I am considering it. I am re-signing a Japanese contract to wrestle overseas. Brock Lesnar's Decision to leave WWE: I believe if anybody has a dream, before they die they should have the option to pursue it. He is entitled to that decision. More power to him to make himself happy. Scott Hall: He is a troubled soul. I wish him all the best! Issues with Chris Jericho: We don't see eye to forehead. Wrestlemania XX: [The match with Brock Lesnar] could have been a wonderful match in history but the fans in the arena wouldn't let that happen. They just wanted to heckle us both for leaving. We didn't want to be there at that time, but give me a break. I wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for the fans. His WWE Debut: Rushed, very rushed. I didn't think the match had the proper preparation, nor the did the angle have the proper preparation. Although it was an honor to be there and an honor to wrestle the Rock, it could have gone better. Creative Control in WWE: I think people know me much better than to think I had control over any of that. I wouldn't change my entrance, my music, any of that. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. Believe me, if I had creative control things would have been A LOT Different. If they paid me to be creative what you saw is what I wouldn't have created. That's a fact, jack! Goldberg also touched on a number of different topics including charity work, Steve Austin, his movie, The Rock, Eric Bischoff and more. You can check out the complete chat at www.BillGoldberg.com.

GAB '98 wasn't that good. Benoit-Booker is the only match worth watching. I disagree. Jericho/Malenko, Saturn/Kanyon, and Eddie/Chavo all rocked it.

I still like that match, just because I loved the buildup for it and the crowd for it was great. But yeah, Rock wasn't quite the worker he became, and Austin was in his all punchy-kick mode.