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Funny story. So a few months back WWE was interested in Japanese wrestler Milanito Collection AT for the junior division. Well, at a recent ROH show that Gerwirtz attended, MILANO Collection AT (6-2, 180) was in action and really impressed Gerwirtz, who thought he was the smaller, MILANITO Collection AT (Who I believe is like 5-5). Funaki is pushing for them to hire Milano, but nobody knows if they realize they are two different people they are talking about. This comes from the PWTorch audio and the DVDVR board.

The dude still didn't tell us any more info than "I'm right you'll see!" so I'm not too concerned here.

That just seems crazy...I'd like to hear more about this, really. I can't imagine spoiling one of the biggest events of the year with your damn magazine cover.

How do you know? Would they be that stupid to put it out before the actual Rumble?

Yeah, it was Regal against David Flair.

Um...because I frequent both boards and that way people at both boards could respond? *shrugs*

Are there detailed accounts by Meltzer or Keller that are available on the net about this? I'd really like to read more about the whole thing, since I never really have, and have only ever heard summaries of what happened.

To me, nothing has been more interesting, complicated, confusing, and odder than the character of Vince McMahon since WWE Homecoming. I have tried to put the pieces together concerning his character, but I just can't quite do it. The way he is written is so different week in and week out that he's becoming interesting to watch just for the fact of I have no idea what the hell he'll do next. Sure, most of the time I have an idea, but you never know for sure. Case in point: -At Homecoming, we have a fun little nostalgia segment with Austin and he stuns all the McMahons. This leads to Vince getting pissed, JR getting fired, the Linda heel turn, and what was supposed to be an Austin/Coach match at Taboo Tuesday. And the original plan was for Coach to WIN after interference by Mark Henry. Okay...so where was this all going before Austin backed out? Was it just Vince venting personal anger towards JR on camera? Was it leading to some big Austin/McMahon thing? Was it leading, with Linda's heel turn and Steph's on camera presence again, to another reign of the McMahons as a weekly force on WWE TV? Obviously with Steph pregnant I can understand her being out of action...but why turn Linda heel and then do nothing? -Then we have the firing of Eric Bischoff, the whole time in which Vince acted like a babyface, had numerous jokes, one liners, and acted as a babyface with Cena in the ring at the end of the show as he "took out the trash". -Now we have the HBK feud. Apparently the feud was started in order to work something with HBK/Vince/Bret at Mania, but there are no signs Bret will do the show. Again, Vince is a heel, talking about how much money he has, accidentally pulling his pants down for Mrs. Benjamin, making HBK win matches to keep this job, or this past RAW, not only make HBK win a match to keep his Rumble spot, but cut a creepy promo begging Shawn to come back to his drug abusing days with him. So I'm asking you guys...what the hell is the point of all this, where is it going, is there any plan in place, is Vince crazy, and what the hell is exactly going on?

Too much filler. No reason to have JBL/Boogey on the show when they could just interact in the Rumble match and face off at NWO. There's four spots left for SD (maybe two because I believe Psicosis/Crazy are in?) and that's with no Taker, Finlay, Booker, JBL, Boogeyman, or Regal. RAW side is a lot better, but still no Flair. Hopefully he gets added.

I was looking for this article again today, so BUMP! Interesting, interesting stuff.

He's the next to be released.

Finlay crossfacing the hell out of him seems fun to me.

Sorry if this was posted already, but it's funny a hell: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=sd5stIN-Uxc

http://rapidshare.de/files/10696970/WWE-Ed...n_Cena.wmv.html

Velocity: 1) Dicks vs. Jobbers 2) Lashley vs. Jobber 3) FBI vs. Mexicools 4) Scotty 2 Hotty vs. Jamie Noble Smackdown: 1) JBL vs. Matt Hardy (falls count anywhere) 2) Mark Henry vs. 3 jobbers (elimination match) 3) Kid Kash vs. Juvy (CW title match) 4) Benoit vs. Orton (match #6 in Booker/Benoit series) 5) MNM vs. Batista/Rey (tag team title mathc, steel cage) Plus an interview segment with Simon Dean and Lonon/Kendrick, as well as a Bobby Lashley promo, Boogeyman/JBL stuff, and the return of a certain star.

Was there ever a plan for HHH to return at Vengeance 2001 (since he was on the PPV's poster), or was that just something made months in advance? Was he always planned to be a babyface on return, winning the Rumble and at Mania, or was that a late decision?

A few interesting house show results I found: Never knew Taker was pinned on a house show like that. I knew he lost via DQ to Warrior and in bodybag matches to Justice, but not getting pinned straight up. (Though he did lose that match to Tito in Spain) Also... Was that Bret match televised, then? Anybody know if it was any good?

Yeah, I initially thought the Kingston stuff was a little overboard too, but I haven't seen the No Limits stuff either. This Saturday is the big Survivor Series style match that was pushed back when the Thanksgiving shows were cancelled. Teams are now: Ian/Corp/Nate/Necro/New Jack vs. Brandon/Vito/Sal/Josh/Kingston With Necro in there now, it should be a hell of a lot of fun, even if New Jack sucks. The 12/16 and 12/17 shows coming up here look great, hopefully they go down without a hitch.

For those who want non-spoiler match listings: Velocity: 1) Regal vs. Scotty 2) London/Kendrick vs. ??? 3) Simon Dean promo 4) OJ vs. Funaki --Might be some other squash matches, not sure if they're dark or not. Smackdown: 1) Boogeyman vs. Nunzio 2) Super Crazy vs. Kid Kash 3) MNM vs. Batista/Rey 4) Lashley vs. Burchill 5) LOD vs. Dicks 6) Matt Hardy vs. Booker T Main event is an interview segment with some Orton/Taker stuff.

When did the original wwf.com hit the web and what did the page look like?

These are actually spoilers for 12/19, RAW will be live this Monday.

COD Match: Joker & Tough Crazy Bastards vs. Zandig & H8 Club CZW World Heavyweight Championship: Super Dragon vs. Ruckus © CZW World Tag Team Championship: Kingston & Sabian vs. Hero & Claudio © CZW Iron Man Championship: Chris Sabin vs. Keven Steen © CZW Wrold Junior Heavyweight Championship: Niles Young vs. Derek Frazier © Team Masterbation vs. Larry Sweeney & Franky the Mobster DJ Hyde vs. Jon Dahmer Adam Flash & B-Boy vs. Sexxxy Eddy & Nate Webb El Generico vs. Joey Ryan Cheech vs. Cloudy Quackenbush, Jigsaw & Shane Storm vs. Hallowicked, Icarus & Gran Acuma Great card.

Seriously? Kennedy as GM? Or was that just a joke?

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/473/vivalasavings0bh.jpg Wow is that terrible.

Shows like this will always get a bigger rating then just straight up wrestling shows. I don't know about the people watching this that don't usually watch buying any PPVs, though.