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Wow, I can't believe all those great matches that never happened. When did rumors of the proposed Bret/Benoit/Jericho stable surface? When did Jericho turn down an angle to go nWo? What did Hogan have against Raven?

I know they were involved in angles together and stuff, but I don't know if they ever had a one on one match.

Hulk Hogan vs. Chris Benoit Hulk Hogan vs. Raven Hulk Hogan vs Shane Douglas Hulk Hogan vs. Bret Hart Bret Hart vs. Chris Jericho Bret Hart vs. Eddie Guerrero Bret Hart vs. Rey Misterio Jr. Sting vs. Chris Jericho Sting vs. Eddie Guerrero Sting vs. Rey Misterio Jr. Sting vs. Raven Maybe I'll add more later. Thanks ahead of time for the answers.

I blame it more on Stephanie. The WWE was going along fine until she took over the book in October of 2000. Then there was a NOTICEABLE drop in the quality of the shows.

Obviously we've had a lot of threads on how bad the WWE writing is right now, but it really does truly boggle my mind. 1) Insulting the viewer's intelligence: We're supposed to boo Kurt Angle for shaving Big Show's head and forget the chokeslam onto the concrete? We're supposed to forget that Kane is an evil bastard who basically raped Lita and boo Gene Snitsky for sending him off on a stretcher? We're supposed to get behind wrestlers who we can tell the writers have no long term interest in? 2) Matches on TV that should be on pay per view: We get Angle/Eddie for free and pay for Eddie vs. Luther and Kurt vs. Big Show? Please. HHH vs. Benoit ironman match on RAW? And ending in Eugene interference? Come on now. 3) Focus on the wrong people: Benoit's non-HHH title defenses on PPV during his title reign (Kane and Orton) were both simply determined by a battle royal on RAW while the focus went to HHH and HBK the first time and HHH and Eugene the second time. Put the focus on your champions! That should be EVERYONE'S goal, not just the guy feuding with the champ. And don't have a world title match at a PPV decided with a battle royal because you couldn't think of anything else to do, that's just lazy booking! 4) Crappy entertainment: Lame John Cena jokes...crappy Diva Search and Tough Enough crap...Simon Dean...Jacqueline winning the cruiserweight title. The list could go on and on. 5) No long term planning: Putting the cruiserweight title on Jacqueline and then firing her shortly thereafter...no long term planning on RAW aside from a Randy Orton push...they're heading towards an Angle/Taker WM main even on Smackdown? Who cares? There's no elevation! Who are we supposed to get behind on Smackdown? 6) Wrestlers out of the loop: Why has Rob Van Dam not been in a feud since August of 2003? Why are so many wrestlers just "there"? Seriously, what has Chris Jericho done lately? What about Eddie Guerrero? There needs to be thought put into the booking of not just the top angle, but the guys below that too. Otherwise everyone just gets stale, and the audience gets third rate, "we'll throw this out here just so we have SOMETHING going on" booking. I think maybe the biggest problem is that the writers aren't really wrestling fans...Stephanie obviously sucks as head writer, and Vince has some stupid vision of the WWE being great "entertainment" that results in C-movie level crap being produced just so it's not "rasslin" but "entertainment."

I've been out of this for a bit, but I swear I'll be back soon!

Just curious if anyone is going to pick this up when it's released in December. I know I'm kind of interested in it. Also, was R.D Reynold's Wrestlecrap book any good, or should I just stick to the website?

Looking for Nitros and Thunder episodes from 97, 98, 99, and 2000 if you have any and want to get rid of them.

If Orton gets counted out or DQ-ed sometime during the match, then obviously the heels win. If not, then Orton gets the pin on HHH and is sole survivor. Those are the two ways I see it working out. The #1 goal here is to make Orton look good, keep that in mind.

I thought South Park was one of the weaker episodes of late. Didn't find it all that funny. Drawn Together I just watched. God getting a penis stuck in his face? Wow.

"SOMEBODY CALL NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE ONE ONNNNNNNNNNNNE!!!"

The people really popped for Tazz tonight.

Great review...I might need to check this match out for a third time. And BTW, my favorite match from night one is easily Punk vs. Aries. I loved Joe vs. Strong, but it wasn't as good as I thought it was upon second viewing.

This is like Clue. JESUS IN THE CLUB WITH THE KNIFE!

OMG CENA RETURNS FROM BEING STABBED IN THE KIDNEY~!~!~~!~!~! How can you NOT pay for Survivor Series now, huh?

Eddie cheating is money.

Maybe they'll have Cena attack him backstage at Survivor Series or something, or do a quick brawl and double countout or something like that.

Has there been any update on if Carlito is going to wrestle at Survivor Series or if he's hurt enough that they'll have to strip him of the title?

Yeah, I watched Raven/Stevie vs. Pitbulls 2/3 falls dog collar last night for the first time...man, it really wasn't very good at all. And Scott Keith gives it *****.

"You're a big man, champ! You're a big man, champ!" Classic douchebag Cole.

I flipped to Smackdown for a second and see Josh Matthews apparently just did a line of coke before his match...

I'm watching Survivor.

Survivor, then the last hour of SD, then I'll tape TNA and skim through it later maybe.

If Burchill improves and gets pushed like Lesnar did, I'm sure that'll be considered a good thing, whether he does the SSP or not.

How big is he exactly?