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It's just the 12 PPVs from that year.

CZW Tag Title Match: Team Ca$h vs H8 Club - Title vs. Title: B-Boy vs. Frankie the Mobster - CZW Junior Heavyweight title match: Alex Shelley vs. Sexxxy Eddy vs. ???????????? - IWS Tag Team Title match: Flying Hurricanes vs. All Money Is Legal vs. Ghost Shadow & Spyral vs. Generico & Beef Wellington - Skayde vs Milanito Collection AT - Super Dragon/Excalibur vs. BLK OUT - Hero/Claudio vs. Dahmer/Hyde - Derek Frazier vs. Heretic - Kaos vs. Adam Flash (TLC match)

I can put Steiners/Luger/Sting back up. Just give me a minute as I'm uploading something else and I'll get to that one next.

Big files take a while, but for me (I have a really fast connection) the ones you want to do would probably be no longer than 20-30 minutes on Sendit.

My girlfriend likes the Rock and Edge.

WCW War Games at Fall Brawl 1996; nWo vs. Flair, Arn, Luger, and Sting: http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2P4WN53...J624RB71JCB7N10

Yeah, JimLotFP (the guy who wrote this, a big IWA-MS fan) is old school to the bone.

It might be smart if they announced matches for their world and ironman champions... I mean come on, it's their 6th Anniversary show. They should have something big going on.

Except he went to the Steve Blackman school of charisma...the man isn't over in ROH at all and he's the pure champion. Well, maybe his heel turn will help. Maybe Maven can stick with a finisher now!

No. I'm assuming they'll do that in Japan.

Actually Walters calls it the Lung Blower.

Thoughts on the show: This was a "bridge the gap" show. Nothing major happened, just little stuff they'll play off of later. Tag team title match finish was obviously botched. They were focusing on Jericho not being in the corner to tag out to Benoit, and I think later miscommunication was to cause them to lose, but they fucked up and everything went to shit. So they had to reshoot that backstage promo with Chris and Chris that seemed oddly homoerotic. Maven's new finisher is the Lung Blower. John Walters uses it in ROH. Josh Abercrombie also uses it in IWA-MS, and I'm sure several other indy guys use it. I like the move, and it's really cool when done as a springboard from the second rope. Hmmm...anyone here think HHH was the guy who had that JBL tape play? That would be SHOCKING~!~!~! Weird stuff with Orton. And weird they're giving Edge a title shot in Japan. Gotta love Regal/Tajiri winning the tag team titles in Japan (I'm sure they will) and Benoit/Jericho in a submission match. Cool, cool stuff. Main event was crap. I expected Taker to come through the ring.

The weird thing about them thinking about bringing up Chad Wicks is that his Obsessed With Wrestling profile says he's 5-9, 205...bringing up a cruiserweight? WHAAA?

YOU ARE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was posted on Gamefaqs...thoughts? "I've been looking around a little bit, and I've only seen a few people suggest that the finish was botched, but only in speculative statements with no evidence to back it up. I checked a few wrestling news sites, and no one seems to have noticed the things that I did. I even googled some key terms and phrases that would have to appear in any description of what happened and came up with absolutely nothing about last night, which I suppose means that these observations have yet to be noted anywhere on the Internet. I was working all night and just got home a few hours ago and watched the Rumble. I can't be the only one who taped it. After you read this, go take another look. You'll see and hear exactly what I'm talking about. Here's what happened. When I saw Batista & Cena hit the floor virtually simultaneously, I thought what pretty much everyone else did. "It's Bret Hart & Lex Luger all over again. Why?" But in the moments that immediately followed, something just didn't seem right. I rewound the tape and looked at it again. As they moved towards the ropes Batista's hands were still up by Cena's waist in a ready-to-powerbomb position. As Cena began get tossed over the ropes Batista was leaning back a bit and Cena's weight tipped Batista backwards over the op rope as well. Batista's hands shot down immediately, desperately reaching for a rope to grab onto. The top rope wasn't there to grab because Cena was still hanging on it when he hit the apron on his way to the floor, and it was pulled down way out of reach. I began to suspect that maybe Batista was supposed to have hung on. I let the rest of the scene play out. After they hit the floor there was an awkward hesitation on the part of the officials. Jack Doan motions that Cena hit first, and raises Batista's hand in victory. Now, if this was all planned, the SmackDown refs would have immediately raised Cena's hand. They did just the opposite. Jimmy Corderas & Charles Robinson backed off, pointed at Cena, and agreed with the RAW official. "He hit first" Corderas said while pointing at Cena and nodding in agreement. Now I was positive that Batista was never supposed to hit the floor, but it gets even better. Both of Jack Doan's hands go to his left ear, as he is listening very closely to what someone(most likely an irate Vince McMahon) is saying in his ear-piece. He then returns to raising Batista's hand, while moving closer to Corderas to deliver the message. "Raise his hand." Jack Doan (RAW ref), while declaring Batista the winner, told Jimmy Corderas (SD! ref) to raise Cena's hand in victory as well. This simply wouldn't be happening if everything was going according to plan. Immediately, Corderas & Robinson, who just seconds earlier were agreeing that Cena hit the floor first and that Batista won the match, pulled a 180 and now declared Cena victorious. If I wasn't sure before, everything just became crystal clear. They couldn't let on that the finish of the Royal Rumble was just botched, so they switched gears on the fly to cover it up and played out the "refs siding with their respective brand's wrestler" angle. Then Vince himself (sans entrance theme) comes down the aisle looking very pissed off, at least some of which has to be legitimate frustration over the botched finish. Vince's appearance also serves to make the cover-up look more "non-cover-uppy", as it is the sort of "surprise" that wrestling fans have come to expect in planned situations that involve disputes between referees over who the winner of a match is. But we already know, thanks to the SD! refs contradicting themselves after Jack Doan is clearly seen receiving a message in his ear-microphone and clearly heard telling them to "Raise his hand", that this is most certainly not a planned situation. I have no doubt that only minutes prior to all of this, Vince had absolutely no plans to appear on camera at the Royal Rumble. Then comes another moment of hilarity; everyone noticed this one. Vince gets in the ring, apparently breaks his ankle within a second or two, and then just sits there. I'm loving all of this. I love it when something has to be ad-libbed on the spot. Usually it's something much simpler, like the top rope breaking in the middle of a match and the wrestlers having to improvise, but this is on a much grander scale. This is the once-a-year Royal Rumble match; the beginning of the lead-up to WrestleMania, and they don't want to let on that they ****ed up the finish. Everyone has that look in their eyes like they don't know what they're going to do next any more than the onlooking fans do. Like I said, I'm loving this. Both Batista & Cena take turns playing to the crowd, raising their arms in victory. Then Batista grabs Cena and tosses him over the top rope. Cena comes back in and tosses Batista over the top rope. They've jockeyed for crowd support long enough; a decision has to be made. At this point Vince really only had two good options: go with the botch and declare a "Batista Vs. Triple H, Cena Vs. JBL double-main-event" for WrestleMania, or restart the end of the Rumble and let Batista get the win like he was supposed to; void of the controversy of a double-elimination finish. He chose the latter. Overall, that was maybe the most complicated botch-recovery situations I've ever seen, especially since it was on a stage as grand as the finish of the annual Rumble Match. It was definitely more ****ed up than the 2000 Rumble finish botch, because The Rock at least held on to the rope and not only did they not show the replay of both of his feet hitting the floor before Big Show fell, they actually used to footage in an angle leading up to WM16. (I don't care what anyone says; Big Show won the 2000 Royal Rumble) I found the whole situation to be fascinating. When I thought the double-elimination was planned, I was disappointed. Once I realized that things weren't going according to plan, I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. I was thoroughly entertained. Your thoughts?" --Interesting piece. Another thing pointing to a restart not being planned was that Cena and Batista seemed a little lost when they restarted. Batista immediately put Cena in a powerbomb position and Cena didn't go along with it, instead punching Batista. He then runs into a spinebuster and gets tossed, and it's over. Now Meltzer has said that the finish was rushed...but no major source has said yet that the finish was BOTCHED.

I support this. I see something like this. They'll give Batista two weeks to make a decision. He'll say he's going to Smackdown. They'll have an in ring going away party or something, and HHH will throw in some comment about how he would have beaten Batista anyways. And then it's on.

Exactly. Orton lost clean. Batista won the Rumble. No way Orton gets a title shot at Mania. It wouldn't make any sense.

Not very old, but here's Noble/Karagias vs. AJ Styles and Air Paris from WCW in early 2001 on Thunder. http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XHZ4VU...8R1GXQKXZUV5JBG

I was thinking maybe Edge vs. Shelton after he eliminated Shelton last night, but who knows. It would seem kind of anti climactic to go back to the IC title scene right now with Edge. They have to be VERY careful how they book him in the next few months. Same with Orton.

HHH/Flair vs. HBK/Orton on RAW tonight, if anyone cares.

Definitely. We all know how much HHH loves body builders. He has giant posters of them given to him by Steph.

He's so going back heel. Meltzer said on his radio show last night that it was only a matter of time because they realize he's not getting over as a face.

YES!!!! To Smackdown: Jericho: (It's the only thing that can save his career.) Edge: (He can win the WWE title, JBL already shit on it, Edge would be better.) Christian: (Unless he's gonna main event on RAW send him over, he can win some US Titles...I'd also like to see a Edge, Christian, Angle reunion.) Shawn Michaels: (Let him give the rub to SD guys.) Hurricane: (He's not doing anything anyways...let him be a cruiser..again.) To RAW Eddie Guerrero: (Fresh Main Eventer on RAW.) Renee Dupree: (Let him win some IC titles and revive the mid-card stables.) Funaki: (He could do something with Tajiri, maybe get Taka, reform Kai-en-tai, haha.) Rey Mysterio: (Raw needs some fresh mid-carders, and Rey doesn't wanna be a cruiser anymore.) Big Show: (who cares, he can fued with Val Venis..as long as Val goes over...clean.) I pretty much go along with all your picks. They sure as hell make sense to me except for Funaki. I'd rather see someone else, maybe Haas, get a fresh start on RAW. Oh, and I guess I wouldn't put Dupree back on RAW either. I'd rather switch someone that didn't get switched last year.

Vince McMahon's knee was injured last night, but no details are known at this time. It's the type of thing most people within WWE don't want to be caught talking about since the boss has a lot of pride when it comes to this type of thing. McMahon has a rep for not selling pain. Many people close to him have commented over the years that he could be in tremendous pain due to bumps he's taken in angles or back problems he's had, and he would never show it in front of the wrestlers. The speculative psychological breakdown is besides general ego, McMahon feels if he shows that injuries slow him down, it sets a bad example for letting wrestlers' injuries slow them down. McMahon is a workaholic, but not a complainer. -The finish of the Royal Rumble was rushed, which is part of the reason Batista showed a little bit of frustration after the match. The show was running right up against the top of the hour. Hunter vs. Orton ran a bit longer than it should have due to the hard timeframe needed for the Rumble with the 90 second entrance intervals. More was planned between Batista and Cena at the end regardless of the McMahon injury. -Randy Orton didn't suffer a concussion. That is part of the storyline of the match and where they're going from this point with Orton. The concussion storyline could possibly play a significant role in a shift of how his character is portrayed. With Batista taking over what was originally scheduled to be a Rumble win by Orton (months ago, when the original idea was that Orton was going to have to win the Rumble to earn a title shot against Triple H at WrestleMania), Orton has to change to not appear lost in the shuffle. It's acknowledged - even by him - that his character has gone off course, so some moves will be made to give him a new direction. -There were no injuries of note on the show. Paul London was fine after his dive. Others who appeared banged up were just bruised. -There wasn't the usual few moments of relaxation after tonight's PPV that there usually is, especially when both crews get together, since the feeling in the back was more tense as everyone was bracing for the unprecedented Raw/Smackdown marathon taping tomorrow night in San Jose, followed by an immediate overseas trip to Hawaii, Japan, and Alaska with the entire crew travelling together for the next week. CREDIT: PWTorch.com