Celtic Guardian

WWE should try to be WWE overseas. The Japanese WWE fans have tended to want the same sports entertainment experience that American fans get anyway with the same "superstars" like John Cena, Undertaker and so forth. Maybe the WWE can make new brands but there's no need to divide them up by ethnic boundries.

That would fit Vinnie Mac's m.o. to a tee, wouldn't it?

True but if Vince McMahon really wants to give the middle finger to Hulk Hogan, inducting Randy Savage now would be a great way to do it.

Maybe not. The storyline could be read as Trump "trumping" McMahon (pun intended) by choosing a full brand champion instead of a now-secondary one. I doubt either title will be at stake in this anyway.

WWE is promoting a rematch of the Armageddon ladder match. D&D instead of Regal/Taylor means NOT a rematch.

Congrats to UNC Wilmington for scoring all of 10 points tonight by halftime against George Mason. 2 UNCW field goals including a 3-pointer, the remaining first half points on free throws.

If that's the new direction of WWE.com, I'd like the old direction back. My head still hurts from reading that nonsense.

Not from this corner. I'm no fan of the political games but it has to be agonizing to go through that. Hope for the best.

- Victoria will have a short-lived Women's title reign early in the year but be out of the company by year's end. - Monty Brown will defeat Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas in a loser leaves WWE handicap match. - The Women's title will be eliminated in favor of a Divas title to launch with the 2007 Diva Search. - Carlito and Eddie Colon will become Raw tag team champions. - Finlay will go to ECW to resume his feud with Lashley. Both men will alternate with the title. - Randy Orton will be fired from the company after one scandalous incident too far. - The ECW brand will be renewed but under an alternate name such as WWE Extreme. - Paul Heyman will not work in professional wrestling during the year outside of autograph shows. - Rob Van Dam, Sabu and Tommy Dreamer will all be gone from the company by mid to late year. - Edge will go to Smackdown, lose to Undertaker at Mania but later be rewarded with a World title win over Batista. - Batista will end the year injured and irrelevant. - The Wellness program will quietly be discontinued. - Triple H will win the WWE title from John Cena at WrestleMania but give it back up to Cena by SummerSlam. - Triple H will spend late 2007 focused on outside acting projects. - Ken Kennedy will move to Raw and feud with John Cena over the WWE title toward year's end. - Umaga will be moved to ECW and become a face wrestler. - Tribute to the Troops 2007 will be held in South Korea

There's no shame in Joe tapping after a long fought battle but after only 11-13 minutes or so? How is that possible?

Fox doesn't have a doubleheader today so it can't be that.

And to think that Maryland struggled earlier this season to beat a pre-brawl Florida International. The Terps have really stepped it up from then to now.

WO.com Vinnie Mac should just call it WWExtreme and get it over with. Let the ECW name rest back in the same graveyard with WCW already.

CM Punk got 'rebuilt' in OVW. And Jeff Hardy made his name in WWE. The concern seems a valid one. CM Punk was primarily known as an indy guy, Jeff Hardy as WWE, Sabu as ECW and Shannon Moore as a waste of space. Monty Brown may be the first man associated primarily with TNA to jump to WWE. This is an interesting test case to say the least. If WWE is smart, Monty Brown will be built up strong to encourage future defections. Or Vinnie Mac could just take the same petty attitude that he did to the ex-WCW wrestlers and bury Monty Brown in that Serengeti.

I don't know if it's possible for a more moronic segment than that to ever air on a wrestling show. Let's never find out!

Under the SEC contract, ESPN had the right to select three of the top ten 2006 games before the season even started. Florida/Auburn was such a selection. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel did a writeup on how SEC football gets allocated by the television nets.

Navy QB Brian Hampton suffered a season-ending leg injury early in that game against Rutgers, shades of the Theismann injury supposedly. The Mids have played lifelessly since then.

Someone tell the financial genius that double 619 is 1238, not 1228.

One could say the same about Booker vs. Finlay.

The Credible firing is on the Wrestling Observer site.

Impact will be a special two hours on November 16, one hour in subsequent weeks. Full press release now in pdf on Kurt Angle's site.

Non-title match.

A later PWInsider news item stated more definitively that Russo is coming in but is NOT the surprise, essentially the same as the PWTorch report.

Agreed. Angle dying in WWE under these circumstances would get Vince McMahon dragged before a congressional committee if not a grand jury.

Let's hope for his sake it stays just a dream.