The C Man

Paint Shop Pro 9. I had made the backround ages ago and just found it sitting around my hard drive. I pasted the Taker PSD onto it, liked the effect and went with it. To finish it off I coloured it purple, and added a cross and the Unforgiven bit. I had already thought up an angle involving Booker but added the suspension in because I remember reading somewhere that Booker was having problems with his back so now he can have some time off and further an angle at the same time. He'll be back soon though.

Current Unforgiven card WWE Heavyweight title Eddie Guerrero vs Rob Van Dam vs The Undertaker No DQ match Charlie Haas vs Luther Reigns ------- Any opinions on the Unforgiven poster?

WWE SmackDown! 9th September 2004 Commentary: Michael Cole & Tazz Rey Mysterio vs Spike Dudley Despite getting attacked last week by an unknown attacker Rey didn’t look to be feeling any of the effects. Spike’s a cruiserweight in size but not in style. The biggest spot he hit was a flying headscissors, which paled in comparison to Rey’s usual stuff. Rey won the match after Dropping the Dime. Winner: Rey Mysterio Suddenly the Titantron went black and a voice started talking. The person was talking from a darkened room. They told Rey to start worrying, because Rey had something that they wanted; something that they needed. And they weren’t going to stop until they got it. The lights came on to reveal it was The Blue Nova talking. So he attacked Rey last week then. Makes sense. I’m guessing he wants the Cruiser title. Rey looked as pissed as anyone can be while wearing a mask. -- The camera cut to outside the Olympic Office. Voices could be heard coming from inside. The door opened and Paul Heyman walked out, looking pleased. Before shutting the door he told Angle he “wouldn’t regret it”. Wonder what that means. -- WWE Tag Team title no.1 contendership The Bashams vs The FBI vs 2 Cool An elimination match. I repeat, an elimination match. Kidman and London headed to the announce table to do commentary. Oh goody. The blandest team in the WWE since Phil LaFon & Doug Furnas were first to go, courtesy of an FBI Kiss of Death. The remaining two teams then had a decent little match of their own; Rikishi and Stamboli had a decent little brawl (including Stamboli impressively press slamming the big man), and Nunzio and Scotty had a nice, crisp little technical exchange (guess Scotty can still go a bit then). Near the end of the match Scotty hit Stamboli with the FACEBUSTER OF DOOM~! W...O...R...but Scotty stopped (probably realising how much of a fool he looked). Scotty’s expression changed from his usual smiling one to one of uncertainty. He stood for a few seconds, staring into space, before walking to the corner and tagging out. Scotty didn’t even go onto the apron; he started walking to the back. Rikishi looked puzzled, and started shouting at Scotty, wondering what was going on. That was distraction enough for Stamboli to hit Rikishi with the Forget About It for the win. The FBI are the no.1 contenders. Winners: The FBI -- Scotty Too Hotty was walking in a corridor, presumably heading for his locker room. He walked past Chavo Guerrero, who started laughing. Scotty stopped and angrily went face-to-face with Chavo. Chavo started trash-talking but Scotty didn’t respond, instead he just walked away. Chavo laughed and started to walk away backwards but got a nasty surprise when he bumped into Rikishi’s chest. A scared-looking Chavo slowly turned around and feigned surprise. He tried to walk away but Rikishi blocked his path. Rikishi challenged Chavo to a match next week. Chavo said he would think about it and tried to walk away. Rikishi said either Chavo faced him next week in the ring or they have a match right here, right now. Chavo accepted the match for next week. -- Next up JBL came to the ring for some interview time. He said normally it would be great to be back but not in a hick town like this. Ouch, cheap heat. He would also like to thank the thousands of fans who sent him good-will messages while he was having trouble with his money. But all that is now behind him, he’s managed to sort it all out in record time. And while he was away he realised something. He realised that he had got his priorities mixed up. Here he is this great American patriot, the epitome of everything America should be, but he’s letting some thug walk around tarnishing America’s good name by disrespecting it’s title, the United States title. And he’s damn sure he won’t stand for it anymore. So what he wants is for John Cena to come to the ring and hand over the title to him so he can carry the title to the greatness and prestige it deserves. Cena’s music played but he didn’t come to the ring, instead he appeared on the Titantron. He cut a little rap on JBL but shockingly didn’t make any homosexual jokes. He finished with: “you wanna call me a thug; say I aint good ’nuf for you; well am gon show you what a thug can do”. Cena walked away from the camera and returned with a baseball bat in hand. He motioned for the camera to follow him and walked away again. Cena then smashed up the limo. JBL’s facial expressions were priceless. When he was satisfied with his handy-work Cena looked straight into the camera and said his signature “word life”, before smashing the camera with the bat causing it to cut out. Nice way to end. -- Billy Gunn & Hardcore Holly vs Rene Dupree & Mark Jindrak (w/Theodore Long) Meh meh blah blah. No one likes Billy Gunn; no one likes Bob Holly; no one likes Rene Dupree; and hardly anyone likes Jindrak. So, should make for a fun match then. [/exaggerated sarcasm]. Thankfully Dupree put an end to the festivities when he pinned Holly with a schoolboy and a handful of tights, thanks to a Teddy Long distraction. Winners: Dupree & Jindrak -- Josh Matthews caught up with the losing team in he backstage area. Gunn challenged Jindrak to a match at Unforgiven. Oh goody. Holly grabbed the mic and insulted Dupree. He said that that is two weeks now that Dupree has screwed him and his “yellow French ass” better not try anything like that again. [/mandatory French insult]. -- The Dudley Boyz entered the Olympic Office and were angry that they weren’t booked in the no.1 contender’s match earlier. Instead they had to take out Cena and Hass because Angle can’t get the job done himself. Feel the tension. Luther got in the Duds faces but Angle talked him down. Angle said that if, if, the Dudleys could get the job done then next week on SmackDown they would compete for the no.1 contendership for the tag titles, against the current no.1 contender’s The FBI. That seemed enough to appease them and they headed to the ring. -- Charlie Haas & John Cena vs The Dudley Boyz (w/Paul Heyman) After a brief skirmish involving all four men the match settled into a standard tag formula, with Haas playing the bump machine for the Dudleys offence. From the apron Cena rallied the fans in Haas’ favour and Haas responded by finally making the hot tag. Cena transmetamogrified into a HOUSE..EN..FEUGO~! Familiar, generic, seen-it-all-before offence everywhere. My God, my writing’s starting to get as repetitive as Cena’s matches. Help. With the crowd firmly behind him Cena laid out Bubba, pumped up the sneakers, Five Knuckle Shuffle to D-Von. Paul Heyman got on the apron; Cena flipped him the ‘word life’ symbol, and poked Heyman in the eye with it. Wow, I’m impressed. That’s the coolest thing Cena’s done in ages. But that was distraction enough for the Dudleys to regroup and hit Cena with the 3D when he turned round. Bubba made the pin as a combination of D-Von and Heyman stopped Haas from breaking the pin. Winners: The Dudley Boyz -- Next GM Kurt Angle came to the ring, with Luther, for his major announcement. He gloated about the Dudleys beating Haas and Cena and then formally announced The Dudley Boyz vs The FBI for the no.1 contendership for next week’s show. He then talked about Luther’s match with Charlie Haas at Unforgiven. He put Luther over and said that he was making the match a No DQ match. Also getting booked for Unforgiven will be another match – and that is the reason he is out here. Sunday 26th September at Unforgiven Eddie Guerrero will defend his WWE championship against...Rob Van Dam. That prompted RVD’s music to play and Mr Thursday Night made his way to the ring, along with Paul Heyman. They both got in the ring and Heyman took the mic from Angle, who left along with Luther. Heyman introduced RVD Michael Buffer style (but Heyman got his name right). Heyman thanked Angle for making a smart decision – he needed someone to get the job done and RVD always gets the job done – and then thanked RVD for finally ‘coming home’. He applauded RVD as he handed him the mic. RVD thanked the fans for everything they’ve done for him. In fact he wanted to shake their hands, so he left the ring and walked around the ringside area. He finally chose someone to shake hands with and climbed over the security wall. He extended his hand, but when the fan went to shake RVD’s hand RVD pulled his away. He stood on the security wall and said that that’s exactly what he has the fans to thank for, nothing. “A long time ago, in a bingo hall far, far away” proclaimed RVD as he said that back then he used to be something special, but now he couldn’t even lace up the boots of that man, the man who tore the house down night after night. But Paul Heyman has helped him find that RVD, the RVD who was the real ‘Whole Damn Show’; the RVD who thought he was so good; the RVD who actually was that good. The Rob Van Dam who only cared about one person, Rob...Van...Dam. RVD was back in the ring by this time and he handed the mic to Heyman. Heyman said RVD told him he had only one regret, never becoming a world champion. And he chose the perfect man to come to, because Heyman is the greatest manager ever LOL2k4~!, or something like that. Heyman addressed Eddie Guerrero and said that at Unforgiven he will not stand in the way of RVD’s destiny. Obviously Eddie Guerrero decided to come to the ring, but without his ‘ride’ (see, I’m hip). Eddie tried to take the mic from Heyman but Heyman wouldn’t give him it. Eddie just smiled and pointed to the sky, Heyman looked, and Eddie stole the mic from him. Another innocent smile as the crowd started a loud ‘Eddie’ chant. Surprisingly Eddie thanked Heyman, for what Eddie called his big break in the business. But Heyman only threw Eddie the ball, he was the one who caught it and ran with it. Well, actually Eddie said he dropped it but no one noticed so it didn’t count. However all of that didn’t excuse Heyman’s hideous ‘skullit’. Eddie said that he understands RVD’s desire to be world champion, he knows exactly what it feels like to never have been a champion. But Eddie is the champ now and RVD isn’t, so na na na (or something along those lines). RVD attempted to take the mic from Eddie but Eddie held on for a few seconds, resulting in a staredown. After a few seconds Eddie let the mic go as the crowd chanted conflicting ‘Eddie’ and ‘RVD’ chants. RVD said that Eddie was jealous, jealous because RVD has more talent in his two thumbs [double-thumb taunt] than Eddie has in his whole body. RVD reminded Eddie that a long time ago, when Eddie made his ‘triumphant’ return to the WWE he wanted RVD’s title, and now the tables have turned, RVD’s wants Eddie’s now. But RVD is going to do what Eddie couldn’t, he’s actually going to win. The tension had built by this time and the two men were about to go at it when GM Angle reappeared through the curtain. Eddie, RVD and Heyman all seemed surprised. Angle told them to save the fighting for Unforgiven because he hadn’t quite finished. Before he was interrupted he was about to say that at Unforgiven it would be Eddie Guerrero defending the WWE championship against Rob Van Dam, and against The Undertaker. The arena was plunged into The Undertaker’s blue light and a wicked smile crept onto Angle’s face as the show ended.

Didn't he have a 'real' match with Tommy Dreamer once in ECW. Dreamer took the mic and said something like 'we're not going to do that tonight Jack'. Off the top of my head that's the only thing I know of.

Hell yeah. Could you imagine him & O'Haire as a tag team? Taking into account his size, I think Burchill is one of the most physically gifted athletes EVER.

Russo, IMO anyway, is a good writer but I agree with the common conception that he needs someone to filter out all his crap.

WWE Velocity 4th September 2004 Commentary: Josh Matthews & Bill DeMott The Blue Nova beat Joey Ryan with the Kryptonite Krunch. A video recap played highlighting the Cena/RVD match from SmackDown. It was announced that on SmackDown John Cena will team with Charlie Haas to take on The Dudley Boyz. A pre-recorded Basham Brothers interview played. They put themselves over and said that on SmackDown they were going to become the no.1 contender’s and then win the titles. Then they said something about their father slapping them about when they were younger, saying they wouldn’t amount to anything. Well they will succeed; now they’ll be the ones dishing out the beatings. Character development on Velocity? Ye, like anyone’s watching. The announcers confirmed a three-team elimination match on SmackDown between The Basham, 2 Cool and The FBI. The winners would be crowned no.1 contenders. The Basham Brothers beat The Ballard Brothers with the Ball and Gag. The Dudley Boyz/Paul Heyman interview from SmackDown was played again, in case you missed it. Heyman said The Duds wanted ‘their’ titles back. Ok, so why aren’t they in the no.1 contender match then? It’s a mystery. The Dudley Boyz were almost arrested for the attempted murder of The Urban Outlaws.

I agree with Rudo. I think that Batista is over big with the fans because they want to see him kick Triple H's ass; not because they want him to win the title.

WWE SmackDown! 2nd September 2004 Commentary: Michael Cole & Tazz As the show opened the camera cut to the parking lot to see John Bradshaw making his *triumphant* return to SmackDown. JBL looked refreshed and happy to be back. -- Kidman & London vs Akio & Jamie Noble Really good way to start the show. For those history-mongers out there Akio & Noble used to make up 2/3 of the Jung Dragons back in WCW, with Kaz Hayashi. They were a good threesome. Hee hee, I said threesome. Anyway the new champions looked good and seem to be developing into a really good team, even if there is still the odd awkward tag. After Akio was knocked out with the Kid Krusher London headed up top and hit Noble with a picture-perfect 450 splash, followed by Kidman hitting his patented (but damn sure not picture-perfect) Shooting Star Press. Winners: Kidman & London -- After seeing the new champions in action Funaki interviewed the former champs The Dudley Boyz, along with Paul Heyman. Heyman assured everyone that Kidman & London winning at Summerslam was a total fluke and said that they had 'stolen' the Dudleys titles, as both Bubba and D-Von chipped in with a menacing “thou shalt not steal”. Heyman continued that it wouldn’t be long before the Dudleys had ‘their’ titles back around their waists – as Heyman was saying that Bubba and D-Von were continuing their catchphrase in a quiet voice, “thou shalt not kill”. Finally Heyman said that you don’t mess with the Dudley Boyz, followed by Bubba and D-Von finishing their catchphrase, “and thou shalt not f*** with the Dudleys”. I really liked that segment, it made the Dudleys look real badasses. -- In the back Scotty Too Hotty and Rikishi were talking. Scotty was doing some stretching before his match as Rikishi wished him good luck. From out of camera-view a voice said “Ye, he’ll need it”. It was Scotty’s opponent Chavo Guerrero. Rikishi got face to face with Chavo but Scotty pushed Rikishi away. (Chavo: “I aint a cheeseburger”). Scotty got in Chavo’s face but Chavo just smiled. Chavo started laughing so Scotty asked if something was funny. Chavo: “Ye, you. You’re a joke”. Chavo headed to the ring as Scotty looked angry. -- Chavo Guerrero vs Scotty Too Hotty (w/Rikishi) Passable match. Anyone remember when Scotty could wrestle? Loooooooooooong time ago. Anyway, Chavo played a really good heel in the match – taunting and kicking Scotty when he was down. But Scotty mounted the big comeback and hit the FACEBUSTER OF DOOM~! W...O... But Chavo was up (finally someone no-selling that stupid move) and he rolled Scotty up, and got the three-count. Scotty looked dejected after the match. Rikishi tried to console him but Scotty pushed him away. Winner: Chavo Guerrero Next up was the Kurt Angle interview. Conducting the interview was Michael Cole, leaving Tazz on his own. If they really want to have one of the announcers conduct the interviews they’ve got to have a three-man announce team. That’s just my opinion. Firstly Cole asked Angle for an update on his injuries. Angle said that he’s getting there, his leg is quite weak. But it will eventually heal up as long as he looks after it. Next Cole asked if Angle was enjoying being the General Manager. Angle said...blah, blah, blah. Stop wasting time. Finally Cole asked an interesting question; he asked about Eddie Guerrero retaining his title against Booker T. That made Angle angry. Angle called Eddie some rude names and said that he was exploiting the fact that Angle can’t fire him while he still has the title. Angle said that the WWE title is the only thing stopping Eddie getting fired – he doesn’t want to fire Eddie and tarnish the image of the WWE title. Good point Kurt. Well done WWE for a logical answer. But as soon as Eddie loses that title he can kiss SmackDown goodbye. Cole asked if Angle’s personal dislike for Eddie was getting in the way of business. That made Kurt mad, and he set Luther on Cole. But Cole managed to escape back to his announce position. Finally Kurt compared Eddie to a dying man, being kept alive by a life-support machine. I’m guessing the life-support machine is the WWE title. As soon as you take it away...it’s over. -- Hardcore Holly vs Rene Dupree (w/o FiFi) Yes you read that right, no FiFi this week. I know it’s hard to take but I’m sure we’ll get over it, eventually. Pretty meh match thankfully ended when Mark Jindrak interfered and distracted Holly, allowing Dupree to win with a handful of tights. Why do heels have finishers? They never ever use them. Winner: Rene Dupree After the match Jindrak and Dupree beat-down Holly until Billy Gunn made his *long-awaited* return to make the save. What a night, first Bradshaw returns and now Billy Gunn. Great. -- In the Olympic Office Kurt Angle had summoned Booker T. Booker looked nervous – obviously expecting to be reprimanded for getting beat at Summerslam by Eddie. However Angle was perfectly calm and told Booker to forget about it; Angle is a fair man; he’ll give Booker a second chance. Last month Kurt suspended ‘the wrestling clown’ Charlie Haas but the higher-uppers said that the suspension must be lifted because they called it an “overreaction”. So Booker’s second chance will be tonight when he goes one-on-one with Charlie Haas, with the loser being suspended for a month. (Booker: “Tell me he didn’t just say that”). As Booker left he passed JBL, who entered the Olympic Office and shut the door behind him. -- Suspension match Booker T vs Charlie Haas Good match. MOTY contender compared to the last. The suspension stipulation added a little bit more heat to the match, which helped. In the end Haas’ technical skills overcame Booker’s brawling, courtesy of a quick-fire Haastruction. Booker was suspended; and wasn’t happy. Winner: Charlie Haas -- The camera joined Rey Mysterio in his locker room going through his bags. Suddenly the lights went out and a commotion was heard going on. When the lights came back on Rey was lying on the floor unconscious. No one knew who the attacker was. Someone call Scooby Doo. -- Charlie Haas was making his way back to his locker room when GM Kurt Angle appeared, along with Luther. Angle mockingly applauded Haas’ performance in his match and offered an insincere ‘congratulations’. Haas said ‘thanks’ – as insincere as Kurt’s congratulations. Angle said that he had underestimated Haas; maybe he wasn’t a joke after all. Kurt said he could see that the talent was still there, screaming to get out, maybe it just needed a little help. So at Unforgiven Haas will get it beaten out of him when he goes one-on-one with Luther Reigns. Haas responded with a smile. (Haas: “Great. I’ve wanted to kick that big ugly bastard’s ass for a long time”). Luther growled. Haas mockingly told Luther to go ‘fetch’. Angle said that Haas can laugh all he wants but come Unforgiven Luther will knock the smile off of his face. As Angle and Luther left Haas shouted “hey horseshoe, see you at Unforgiven”. Kurt tried to calm Luther down as Haas just laughed. -- WWE United States championship John Cena vs Rob Van Dam (w/Paul Heyman) © Cena was aggressive at the start, going straight for RVD – who was too busy playing to the crowd. Cena really took it to Van Dam and got a few one-count’s. However, realising he had to do something more if he wanted to get the match over quickly, Cena went for the F-U. But RVD managed to shift his weight and crucifix Cena for a one-count. Cena was surprised and wildly threw punches at RVD. But the more methodical Van Dam managed to dodge the punches and knock Cena down with a spinning roundhouse kick. RVD quickly hit a Rolling Thunder for the first two-count of the match. RVD maintained the advantage, hitting his trademark spots. However when he went for the Five Star Frog Splash Cena somehow managed to get up and F-U RVD to the mat. Both men were down. Cena crawled over to RVD and made the cover. One...two...Heyman pulled the referee out. As the ref argued with Heyman on the outside The Dudley Boyz sprinted to the ring and 3D-ed Cena. Seeing this, Heyman sent the ref back into the ring. RVD was slowly ascending the ropes. He got to the top and did the ‘double-thumb’ when suddenly the lights went out. The GONG~! sounded a few times and the lights came back on. RVD was now lying on the mat, and looked to be out of it. Cena looked confused but covered Van Dam anyway. The ref made the count, one...two...three! Cena had won back the U.S title. Winner: John Cena Heyman pulled RVD out of the ring as Cena celebrated, still looking confused. Cena held his title up to the crowd, but when he turned round he was met by a vicious Clothesline from Hell. JBL had killed John Cena. Having made an impact on his return JBL capped it off with a million-dollar smile and a wave to the fans.

Mine is the best, just say it. Oh you betta not be stealing my ideas playa. No seriously, don't even think about it. I'm kidding, of course. Anyway if you need any help/opinions/anyone to bounce ideas off of then feel free to ask me. I'm the best booker on TSM, according to Officer Goeman anyway.

WWE Summerslam 29th August 2004 Commentary: Michael Cole & Tazz SmackDown matches Rey Mysterio beat Akio to regain the Cruiserweight title in a good match. Billy Kidman & Paul London beat The Dudley Boyz to win the WWE Tag Team titles in a major upset. John Cena went to a no contest with Rob Van Dam for the U.S. title when both men were counted out. Josh Matthews entered SmackDown GM Kurt Angle's office enquiring about the RVD/Cena no contest. Angle was in the middle of a conversation with RAW GM Eric Bischoff. Luther threw Matthews out. WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero beat Booker T cleanly with a Frog Splash.

WWE Smackdown! 26th August 2004 Commentary: Michael Cole & Tazz Before the show opened GM Angle picked up his (red, white & blue) phone and dialled a number. "Hey Eric, it's Kurt..." The Blue Nova & mystery partner Funaki beat 2 Cool Nova cheated to win. Scotty and Rikishi had another little falling out. After the match Nova sucker-punched Funaki and hit him with the Kryptonite Krunch. Josh Matthews attempted to interview Rob Van Dam as he entered the arena. Matthews wanted to know why RVD aligned himself with Paul Heyman. RVD blew him off. GM Angle appeared and asked RVD why he was late again. RVD said he was Mr Thursday Night, he could arrive whenever he wanted. Angle wasn't happy and told RVD that this was the second time; another wouldn't be tolerated. RVD just laughed, "ye like there's a show without me. I am the damn show". Mark Jindrak was in his locker room posing in front of a full-length mirror, while a groupie rubbed baby oil into Jindrak's body and Theodore Long was talking about Jindrak's hardcore match with Hardcore Holly later on. Jindrak was worried, not because he was afraid of Holly, but he didn't want his 'perfect' complexion damaged. Long assured him everything would be fine, "chill playa". Rey Mysterio beat Shannon Moore The eight participants in the Summer Games relay match were drawing their numbers for the match, overseen by GM Kurt Angle, Luther Reigns, and a ton of security. Kidman wasn't pleased with his number and tried to swap it with London's. The two ended up having to be seperated by security. In the midst of that Booker T tried to steal D-Von's number. It didn't work. Both Dudleys stared Booker out. Rey Mysterio entered his locker room to find Akio. The two went face-to-face. Akio, a man of few words, looked at his Cruiserweight title and then simply said "Summerslam". Mark Jindrak beat Hardcore Holly in a hardcore match Jindrak held his own for most of the match. A Teddy Long distraction and a ring bell-shot were enough for Jindrak to pick up the win. In the Olympic Office Kurt Angle was talking to Luther. Luther asked what would happen if Booker failed to win the title at Summerslam. Kurt laughed. Luther then said "well, you know, there's always...". Angle angrily cut him off; "over my dead body". Angle said there was no need to worry, he was sure Booker would win. Before heading to the ring Eddie and Cena angrily told Kidman and London to stop fighting with each other and concentrate on kicking their opponents asses. Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, Billy Kidman & Paul London beat Booker T, Rob Van Dam & The Dudley Boyz First ever Summer Games relay match. Kidman and Bubba Ray never entered the match. In the end Booker pinned Eddie, thanks to Rob Van Dam.

**Announcement** Everything's back in working order so expect some meaningful posts sometime soon. Everything is correct in the game; I've got a few shows written out; and I've booked all of Wrestlemania 21 and two matches of Wrestlemania 22. (Damn I'm good). However I think I'm going to skip doing the last SmackDown of August and also Summerslam. Anyone who's ever played EWR knows it's much easier to do it that way. Next show up soon folks, I know you can't wait.

Who said I was a reader? (That was a joke btw. Thought I'd clear that up as some people can't tell) No, there's no such rule. Most people just do it because they're already in the forum seeing if anyone has replied to theirs.

Nope no one's been reading cause it absolutely sucks. I'm just kidding. Seriously don't get upset that you haven't got much feedback, you've barely started writing the thing.

I totally agree and understand with what you're saying. It's just that I'd prefer a simple match overview - summing the match up in a few lines - rather than a copy&paste job.

Um...that's not copy and paste. That's written out. The matches are copy & paste.

My last significant update was October. Hardly my top priority either. By 'the game' I'm guessing you're meaning EWR (or TEW). But I'm not using it as a game; I'm using it as a simulator for my fantasy booking. You seem to be missing the point of my diary. I'm not trying to sign/push every wrestler I mark for; nor am I going to fire/job every wrestler I dislike. If I was then Rhyno would be murdering the entire roster (GORE!!!!!!!!!!!). What I'm trying to do is present an alternative reality to the WWE, so to speak. I'm taking the angles the WWE had going and doing my own thing with them. Like a 'what if'. "I liked that angle but what if this happened". "I think this wrestler could really get over if this happened". The Angle/Eddie feud, for example. That had so much more potential. But look what happened, the WWE screwed it up. That's basically what my diary is all about. Taking angles that had lots of potential and attempting to get it to live up to that potential. Also when I started the diary SmackDown - and its writers - were getting a lot of bashing. So I wanted to put myself in their position and attempt to see how hard it is to book the WWE. Which is why I can't fire/sign who I want, or push someone like Funaki to the WWE title. Maybe on this board, where the active diaries can be counted on one hand. Try going to the Extreme Warfare Battleground, you'll find a lot more diaries of the same type. That wasn't me trying to diss the diary, please don't take it that way. His sig. By 'smarkish' I meant the common IWC stereotype. Midget spot-monkeys > mean-looking Hosses. Everyone over 250 lbs is bad; everyone under is good; indy flavour-of-the-month getting a large push; Bryan Danielson in the WWE. Yes this is The Smartmarks, but there are lots of differing opinions here. Some people here actually enjoy Albert, JBL & Billy Gunn. Ok so maybe I lied about the last one but you get the idea.

I hate copying & pasting straight from EWR. Hate hate hate hate.

...says who....you?....self proclaimation is just sad Sorry, I'm very big-headed. But I'm also never serious. It was just a little bit of big-headed humour. no You need to include the previous statement for that sentence to make any sense.

Fair enough, you're entitled to your opinion. But mine and ErnieRowe's diary's are entirely different. Firstly, his shows have been going on a lot longer than mine - I haven't even had 1 PPV yet. I haven't read Rowe's diary (too smarkish) but I doubt his long-term planning will be anywhere near as good as mine. For once I'm not being sarcastic, I actually mean that. Also I think my diary is a lot harder to do than his. I have to keep within the realms of WWE 'realism' - I can't fire who I like; I can't sign who I like; I can't make someone a main-eventer if I don't think they'll draw in the WWE; I have to lower wrestlers overness in the game if I feel they wouldn't be that over in the real world. In all fairness it's a lot harder to do than simply 'fantasy booking'. Coming from anyone else I could accept that but you copy & paste from EWR, I at least put some effort into writing my own matches. While I do accept that some of the matches are quite generic & boring, when they need to be they're detailed enough (see the recent RVD-Taker match). But the matches aren't all that important in a diary. The angles are the most important thing. A lot of people have been commenting on Akio's push. He has had the most obvious push. In fact I wouldn't really call it a 'push', as such. More like highlighting his strong points. He becomes no.1 contender; is made to look strong; and wins the title (which makes him look even stronger). Plus he went over Rey Mysterio - and that won't damage Rey because right now it's very hard to make Rey less over. The Akio push has been a decent angle but right now my personal favourite is the Kidman/London tag team. I'm surprised there hasn't been a lot more love for that. That's probably cause I do have a dry sense of humour. I'm guessing that's what you meant. What do you mean by that? Keep at it? Sorry to end on a confrontational note but my writing blows yours away. Right now it's only a slight breeze but the further I go with my diary the stronger the wind will get, if you know what I mean.

Ok I really despise the format. Why is the show broken up into numerous posts? Apart from that the format is pretty decent. The booking has been ok as well. I think Eddie/Angle has been pretty much fucked up by the WWE for it to be worthwhile for your diary. Not really your fault though. I don't like the idea of vacating the U.S title so soon after Angle stripped Cena. That - coupled with some of the decisions in the tournament so far - have damaged the image of the title. IMO the Big Show/CCC match is a bit of a no-win situation. Carlito has been gaining a lot of momentum so a big PPV loss would be bad. On the other hand if Show loses to a man almost half his size it wouldn't be good either. It would only help if u wanted to de-push Show and turn him into a comedy character again like the WWE is so fond of doing. That is, if the match goes ahead. I'm undecided on Heyman being GM. I liked Long in the role but Heyman is good in almost any role. I have a feeling you are heading somewhere with it though. I do understand some of the booking constraints you have, having been doing a diary myself. (Which is better than yours btw. Ha ha). I don't know how long-term you plan but prepare for your long-term plans to be fucked up by the WWE when they fire someone. It will happen, believe me. If you need someone to run ideas by or anything of the like I'd be happy to help.

Ditto. Standing Moonsault; Standing Shooting Star; vaulting over the ropes; C4 (1-man Spanish Flying). Totally fucking awesome. DISCLAIMER: All of those reading Mr C Man's posts do so at their own risk. Mr C Man accepts no responsibility for any rude language.

Mordecai, but only if Kevin Fertig is allowed to use the Seven gimmick. The gimmick is better; the look is better; and maybe by using a gimmick he has already played Fertig will be less nervous this time.

Don't think an American audience would 'get' a chav but I agree 100% with the hardman gangster. I've been wanting them to do that for a while rather than tea-supping snobs, like you said. A character like Vinnie Jones played in Lock Stock or Snatch. But I think they may be saving that type of gimmick for a certain high-flying phenomenon by the name of Burchill. (Seriously folks check this guy out. Simply amazing)