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Comparing a pro wrestler to the leader of the free world is not the best analogy to make. I was a big fan of Eddy, but did not cry when I read he died or when I watched Raw. I didn't know a single person who died on 9/11 but I did cry that day. If the President died, I might cry, I might not. I've been a fan of pro wrestling for 16 years now and not a single one of the deaths have made me cry. They've saddened me to varying levels, but none to tears. The fact that people who didn't know Eddy were crying about his death is sort of silly IMO, but but the blubbering that went on was pretty pathetic.

Your welcome. You could try responding to the post rather than one line of it.

I watched both Ground Zero and Bad Blood main events today. GZ is a total clusterfuck, with overbooked nonsense, no wrestling and little if any psychology. BB is mostly Undertaker beating Shawn up, which he does do well, but that all gets negated when Shawn does his usual deal of no-selling everything when he kips up. Once he kips up, it’s like nothing happened because none of the last fifteen or twenty minutes gets sold a lick. The one thing both matches have is Shawn’s usual stupid bumps that are more pratfall bumps than credible bumps, and the GZ match saw a forerunner of Shawn’s bump from the Hogan match where he gets his head rammed into the turnbuckle and did a rolling senton, but the earlier version just saw Shawn fly off and fall on his face. Even the table bump from Shawn in BB only gets sold for a couple of minutes before Shawn's upright and walking. None of these matches are great, or even good, and are definitely nowhere close to being great. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> While I agree with your take on the Hogan/HBK match from Summerslam about HBK's over bumping ans trying to show up Hogan, I disagree about the HiaC match. Outside of the bumps he took of the turnbuckles, there was nothing over-the-top in the match in terms of his selling of moves or spots. The match was exactly how it should have been. It was built as a blood feud with the smaller cocky heel drawing first blood and escaping his bigger and very pissed off opponent. Taker murdered Shawn for the first portion of the match. HBK made a comeback, selling the somewhat random beating he took the whole time. Shawn's kip up in this match is no different from Eddy's dancing comeback during the Eddy/JBL match after Eddy had lost about 6 gallons of blood. Wrestlers get beat up and then make comebacks, if not then it would be a total squash match. HBK took over, tried everything he could to beat Taker and could not, so he came up with a plan to run away. The plan didn't work, as Taker caught him and rammed him into the cage. Shawn then tried to climb the cage to get away from him, that didn't work either. The basic story of the match is that you have a big guy who wants to kill his smaller opponent because he cost him the WWF title and then busted him open with a chair. This was Shawn's day of reckoning with Taker. Then came the bump through the table. Taker picks him up and hip tosses him onto another table and then slams him onto the broken table that HBK had just fallen through. I seem to recall that by this point Shawn could barely walk for the rest of the match. He won after Kane debuted, all the while Shawn was laying flat on the mat and was just barely able to drape an arm on Taker for the pin. Then HHH and Chyna dragged Shawn to the back, with HHH raising Shawn's arm because he couldn't do so on his own. But, there was no selling in the match and it was just pratfalls, I suppose. Shawn's bumping and selling of Takers punches and kicks put Taker over as a monster. Shawn making a comeback and throwing all his offensive weapons, including his finisher at Taker only to have Taker sit up, put Taker over as a monster. Shawn only being able to win because Kane showed up and Tombstoned Taker, didn't exactly make HBK look like a giant killer and didn't make Taker look bad. To read what you wrote one would think that the match was just Shawn getting beat up before no selling everything, pinning Taker clean and dancing to the back after the match. Try watching the match with an open mind.

I think that the Hogan DVD was put out just as the WWF/WWE switch was going on and all the WWF mentions and logos were not edited out. I might be confusing it with the nWo DVD though.

I just got the chance to read the last two shows and I enjoyed the hell out of them. I'm loving the Originals angle. I like that everybody seems to be getting worked into to it. Alf and Hoff, you guys did a great job on the matches. Alf, you had me laughing out loud through out the match. Hoff, I liked how you had my character go heel. It made perfect sense and the loss to Alf the week before added more reasoning. One of these weeks I'll win a match (one where I'm not teamed with Zack, that is.)

Good show. I really like the way the top angles are running. But, why did I have to work with Alf? Like I need any less drawing power...

OMG GIMMICK INFRINGEMENT~! You'll be hearing from my legal team shortly...

The Food Folder has been claimed elsewhere, you can't have it back. You had your chance, you shunned it and don't deserve a new one.

It's been 45 minutes.

[cough]Still doesn't get it[/cough]

[cough]doesn't get it[/cough]

Tom's just showing off. Drama Queen. What else is new?

I noticed that Sass and Dr. Tom got thier Admin status back, what about PK?

Listen to this man. He's knows how to Yankee bash.

And he's back in red!

Am I the only one who finds it strange that someone managed to fins the time to ban him during all this shit? I'm not complaining, just making a point.

Guess who's back?

What makes you think that? Why in the hell did you get demoted? You're a God amongst men.

An explanation? Where's the fun in that?

No.

Brian, how did you escape Mike's wrath? I'm like the Filipino elite, Aguinaldo, always breaking bread with the right people. Well, the truth is I have no idea. Well, more power to you. I think you're the only mod left.

Brian, how did you escape Mike's wrath?

Noted.

Seconded.

Rumor has it that The Dames is back.