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It's probably just going to be a Royal Rumble qualifying match. Hopefully it won't be a NC so somebody like Hassan can't ruin it.

I don't remeber the exact details, but I think it had to do with the reason Sidney was abducted and brainwashed in the first place by the Covenant. They discovered through a Rimbaldi artefact that she was destined to prevent Rimbaldi's prophecy from happening. Those that remember last season, feel free to correct or add more deailed information.

Bring back the Eliminators, dammit.

Do you think that the reason Derevko wanted Sidney dead was because of the revelations in season four? Do you guys think it's all related to the Rimbaldi subplot?

I'd rather not get my hopes up, since Stephanie is the head of Creative. I'll be honest up front and tell you guys that I'll be watching it at the local sports bar. That way, if it turns out to be a disaster, at least I'll have somebody else besides my friends to make fun of that crap.

You're both wrong. Vince will probably credit Tough Enough for the buy rate.

I guess it's unanimous, for most of us anyway.

Next week, January 5th. This week the Director's cut vcame out, along with #1 again, only this time with a David Finch cover.

BTW, how packed was the show?

Last I heard, she and Archangel were slated to join the Excalibur crew over at Genosha.

Pretty good RAW, IMO. The only thing that sucked was the sense of impending doom we all feel for the scheduled debate next week. What other matches do you think they'll on the NYR card. I make the following predicitions: - Dean vs. Rosey or Hurricane - Benjamin vs. Maven (?) - Tag team title match - Hassan vs. Lawler (?)

So the reason they didn't include Murdock talking to Father Everett in the confessionary in the Director's cut was to modify it so it wouldn't seem like a revenge tale?

Sounds crappy. Hopefully, they'll go with something else.

Shane and Stephanie keeping themselves out of television.

I just saw this posted on wrestlingplanet.com. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else, so take it for what it's worth. We're being told that there is a lot of heat backstage on Rob Vam Dam after he refused to go on the "voluntary" middle east SmackDown! tour. The guys were all told backstage at a meeting last week that the trip was 100% voluntary and it was to be left entirely up to them. Luther Reigns approached management last week and told them he didn't want to go. WWE talent VP John Laurinaitis then told him that if he didn't go, it would have been a huge mistake because although the tour was optional, Vince McMahon expected everyone to attend. He was basically told in more ways than one that if he didn't go, there would be heat on him After being given a long lecture, Reigns reconsidered and went. Rob Van Dam on the other hand was a different story. He had absolutely no desire to attend the tour and he didn't. Rob told Laurinaitis last week that he wasn't going and was told to go meet with Vince McMahon. Many WWE employees would have likely reconsidered the idea of not going due to having to meet with the boss. Rob Van Dam went to Vince McMahon though and told him he wasn't going. WWE tried one last time to get him to go and he stood by his ground and never went. WWE management is less than happy with his decision

Austin doing a fujiwa armbar on Benoit in the ME the RAW after Survivor Series 2000. I thought that match was awesome because it should me Austin could pull off some great technical wrestling whenever he wanted to.

Undertaker doing the Angle Slam to Angle during Vengeance '02.

Depp looks really creepy in that trailer. One of my friends said that it made her little sister cry.

One thing that bothered me was: why didn't they explain that the reason for Denethor's madness was that he had a Palantir of his own that he used quite often?

Saturn & Kronus, the Eliminators.

This is not the first time Bendis screws up continuity in comics. By putting the purple man in issue #1, it gets kind of confusing because he's currently involved in the first story arc of New Thunderbolts.

I'd probably have to go with Booker T: Voddo Dodoo. This only proves that outrageous gimmicks seldom work. Thankfully, Pritchard's oversaturation of gimmicks was halted (at least temporarily.

I actually like that Saruman dies, as opposed to the book. It made more sense for him to get his comeuppance that way. One question I have is why didn't Jackson have Sam weqar the ring briefly, like in the book?

Meltzer did indeed pull a Loeb.

Lack of coordination, mostly.