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The funny thing is that with the way the couch cushions are it almost looks like Dusty were wearing the belt. You know.. if Dusty was upholstered and all.

Ah poop. Close enough. :-P

I think the Rico problem is that they've based the gimmick on Adrian Sweet, but they didn't copy the important aspect. Sweet might have acted gay but he was also a badass when it came down to brass tacks. Rico's character is just gay and, while Rico may be a good talent in the ring based on what people have said about his OVW work, he's not allowed to tie in the crucial element of the Sweet character to really gain the heat.

Um... why can't either 1wrestling or the Observer just come out and tell us who said that? Seriously... I'm pretty sure the WWE knows whos said it, being it was said in one of their meetings and all, so it's not like this guy needs the added protection.

I was just thinking last night that one nifty little addition they could do for certain submission hold animations (primarily sleepers) is to add the ref arm check thing. If you break it your arm stays up on the third try, if not it obviously falls. (Sorry, spent most of last night fueding with Piper and spending quality time in his sleeper/choke.)

Here's a cached version of the page from Google... just missing the pics: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...lers%2FHoss.htm

Probably not. If I recall right, SMB only let you get 99 extra lives. If you hit 100, you died.

Yeah, you could hear a pin drop when Foley was out there. Actually I mis-spoke on that. What I meant was that giving Mick the chance to get face heat had very little useful purpose. Just another "build up the non-wrestler position over the actual wrestlers" heat exchange.

I could see using bigoted or predjudiced or, as the subject said, xenophobic, but calling this "racist" just doesn't feel right. It's putting this on the same level of the HHH/Booker T "those people" fiasco. All-in-all, I don't see what the big deal is here. You have the newest anti-American style heel stable who were "punished" by the face by having to do something they'd hate. They half-ass it for the cheap heat. I'm not saying it's good storytelling, I think it's an awful way to get heat, esp when you get into the 3rd Law of Wrestling Thermodynamics and have Foley fire them to get himself face heat (albeit very litte). Just my $0.02.

Racist? When did country of origin became a person's race?

Arrived Friday. Only had time to watch the first disk, but that was probably the best 3.5 hours I've spent in a long time.

Yee-haw... it has arrived. Going to be an excellent night. :-D

Just got an email from Highspots that mine has shipped! Can't wait to see this badboy.

Did Booker rape a corpse like Kane? Maybe it was a group thing?

Promo ends with JR silently weeping...

I think Mark Henry is a messiah. I mean, how else would you explain that angel-wing shaped sweat stain on the back of his tights?

Is this a sample of a new "Not Ready for Passions" DVD or something?

Bah, Coah shoul've handed the chair over already folded up and ready to go.

"That's one cocky cracker" Awesome...

You know, I can't remember if he did his hair flip, but I wouldn't be suprised. Seriously, he got up, walked over to the cage and just watched me. I had just got above rope level at that point. Forgot to mention that this RAW was in Las Vegas, obviously.

OMFG Spoiler (Highlight to Read): I'm looking at my screen and seeing Bischoff and the goddamn RAW ROULETTE WHEEL!!!! This game rocks! Edit: Well, that was anti-climactic. I got a steel cage match from the wheel against Nash. I basically kicked him once and escaped the cage. I think it took longer to load the match than to play the match itself.

I must be blessed. I had a last man standing match between my CAW and Angle and beat him in probably 5 minutes. No shit. I just kept my attacks focused on his head and it seemed to lay him out nicely. I've got it set on easy and still the only problems I've had were Brock at Mania, Goldberg and beating HHH to get the IC title back.

Well, just FYI if you request a show transfer and win the belt after doing so you stay with the show you've been on. That sucks. I was hoping the fact it gave me a shot the show after getting the transfer approved was another storyline.

Weirdness... I went ahead and just dealt with him throwing me around like a rag doll. Started a new season and kept all info and first thing I did was run into him in the training area. Whipped his ass but good, so obviously he was just turned up a few million notches at Mania. Now I'm in an interesting position, I just requested a transfer to RAW, which was accepted by Steph to go into effect the end of the current game month. Next Smackdown I was booked against Eddie for the US title, which I won. Now I'm in a triple threat against Brock & Austin for the belt. Wonder what happens if I still have it at month's end. Do I get to jump to RAW with the title?

It *is* on easy.