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Ahhh, cheap heat. Where would WWE be without it. BOSTON BRAWLER~!

Damn, Carlito is CRAZY over!

I'm MUCH more into SD than RAW right now.

I could see Warrior doing a lot of what Sid ended up doing. Match with Bulldog at Summerslam, and eventually a match with Vader.

They are SO dumb to release this before Backlash...like the people who see this poster will want to see what happens at Backlash now...they know it doesn't matter because a rematch is already scheduled.

No surprise. I predicted a double DQ or some sort at Backlash, and then the HIAC rematch at Vengeance. I could even see the Hogan match getting the main event slot at Backlash.

1) Why did Crush appear at the 1995 Royal Rumble and then not again for the WWF the rest of the year? 2) Why didn't Adam Bomb ever get a big push? Bryan Clarke always seemed to be the big hoss type that Vince likes. 3) I've read the rumors before about Warrior originally being the guy to turn heel at Summerslam 1992, but refused to go heel...if he had accepted, would he have won the title with Flair interference? Would we have seen a heel Ultimate Warrior as champ?

"Have you seen this? Have you heard about this?"

Looking back, 1995 was a pretty rough year for wrestling. Bad gimmicks, goofyness, bad matches. So who would you say had the better year, quality wise? And what could each promotion have done differently to get better results? Who could they have pushed, what angles/stories could they have run that would have been better?

Thanks BHK. Another question...was there ever a plan to do a Diesel/HBK rematch at Wrestlemania 12? Was putting the title on Bret at Survivor Series a late decision, or was the plan always to do HBK/Bret at Wrestlemania?

Cheers for the answers... Can someone go over the major Savage/Flair matches and the feuds going into those? -Wrestlemania 8 (I know the general idea with Flair saying he slept with Elizabeth and making fake magazine pictures or whatever...can somone go a little more in depth?) -Summer 1995, WCW (Didn't Flair put Savage's dad in the figure four?) -Superbrawl 6 cage match (Elizabeth turns on Savage...what led to this match?)

Bumping an old thread that I liked... What was the buildup to Savage/Steamboat at WM3? I know the stuff with the ring bell, which happened on a SNME (or not?). Was there anything else to the feud leading into Mania? Was there any story behind the Hogan/Terry Funk match from SNME #4 in December of 1985? How about the Hogan/Orndorff SNME cage match in December of 1986? How about Hogan vs. Savage in February of 1990 with Buster Douglas as ref?

I know this has been answered before, but what was the exact date of the first ever Royal Rumble? (I believe it was a house show in St. Louis?)

Final results!

I hadn't thought of Lawler vs. Flair, but with Lawler taking the pedigree last week I suppose it could happen. Doesn't really serve much of a purpose, though.

I thought that with the rumored addition of a bunch of OVW stars to the Smackdown and RAW rosters in the near future, a thread could be used to discuss the new characters. So far we have seen MNM and the HeartThrobs debut. Another character is debuting on Smackdown. PWTorch reports that...(includes SD spoilers) -Matt Morgan, a Tough Enough dropout due to injury a few years back, was called up from OVW to be on the Smackdown roster. His gimmick is that he stutters. Jillian Hall was also called up and her gimmick is that she's going to have a prosthetic mole on her face. These ideas were courtesy of the WWE writers, not their existing OVW gimmicks. DAMN do those gimmicks sound horrible. Anyways, PWTorch goes on to write that: So this thread is simply there to talk and discuss the new characters WWE is bringing in this spring.

Viscera was awesome in his segment with Trish, and she was great too. One of the highlights of the night.

That was a lot of blood from JR.

Bashams turning face to feud with MNM I guess. Can't see them really getting over without some SERIOUS effort, though.

Heidenreich did his face turn. Maybe they can re-do that classic Matt Morgan vs. Big Bad John feud from last summer that Cornette was frightened to death to put on television. He was reading a poem when Steve Lombardi came out as the Brooklyn Brawler. However, the Brawler took off his Yankee wear and underneath it had a Red Sox uniform. Heidenreich apparently does not like the Red Sox, and beat him up. --Meltzer. Also they apparently claimed that Morgan was making his WWE debut...

The best they could do with Morgan is a stuttering gimmick?

More Smackdown spoilers: Mike Johnson is live at Madison Square Garden for tonight's Raw broadcast/Smackdown taping, and we will have updated results all night from the show. Smackdown Taping: The Big Show vs. Booker T. JBL and Kurt Angle were at ringside for commentary, since the winner of this match would move on to the three way with them next week to determine the number one contender to John Cena's WWE Title. Booker's wife, Sharmell, was at ringside for the match. Show and Booker battled to the floor, and Angle & JBL attacked them, ending the match in a double DQ. Angle & JBL believed they had eliminated both men from the match next week. General Manager Theodore R. Long came out and announced that next week would now be a Fatal Four Way with JBL vs. Kurt Angle vs. Booker T vs. Big Show to determine the number one contender. He also announced a tag team match with JBL & Angle vs. Booker & Show for later tonight. More results later tonight.

According to Meltz, MNM will win the tag titles tonight, and Melina will be pushed as the star of the team, with Nitro and Mercury sort of as background for her. Don't know why they don't wait until JD to do the title switch, but I guess they want to do Eddie vs. Rey again?

Flair elbow dropping the magazine that had Hogan rated higher than him in a list of all time greats.