strummer

Stephanie McMahon getting a huge pop saying she was posing for Playboy and then getting booed mercifully when she said it wasn't her. I talked to a guy that was there live and he couldn't believe the pop when she teased she was posing nude

They reposted this from 1wrestling.com

Cena went over clean, Meltzer said it saved the show

Just like last night, the crowd is absolutely DEAD for the game, IMO it makes the NBA look bad to have no reaction to its "cavalcade of stars"

more fake lesbian action for Torrie? At least according to Meltzer's report

Probably, but Bruno seems to think very highly of himself as a worker, and I just don't see it. Bruno seems to have a tremendous ego, but that's common in top guys in wrestling. And Bruno picked a bad time to start criticizing Vince, right in the middle of the 80s boom when business was on fire. No one really started to pick up on his agenda till business went down in the early 90s with the steroid trial.

The thing I never understood was that Bruno spoke out against the pushes of the steroid freaks who did very little in the ring, but it wasn't like he was a ring technician himself. I've seen dozens of Bruno matches and all he seems to do is punch/kick, bearhug and some clotheslines

Bruno hates Vince because Bruno hated the gimmicks and the steroid infested wrestlers the WWF pushed in the 80s. It was more over philosophy than financial reasons.

Rock is writing the show with David Spade:

Nash! Crowd finally getting into an event.

Christ, the crowd has been DEAD for the whole night. Sign of the times for the NBA or just the lack of star power for the contests?

God please, Joe Dorgan is a TERRIBLE wrestling name

80s WWF was partly known for its corny, campy, over the top skits. A lot of old time fans didn't like them, but a a lot of them, IMO, were really entertaining. Fuji Vice!! The Hart Foundation's Secret Liar (infiltrated by Mean Gene) Funk Brothers Barbeque (Lord Alfred Hayes is part of the meal) Rick Steamboat's 3 levels of becoming a Ninja At home with the Macho Man (Playgirl calling him everyday) A Very Piper Christmas Hulk Training Mean Gene

Early news out of Mets camp is that Willie Randolph has banned facial hair for the season. The "Yankeeization" of the Mets continues

According to various sources, HHH was to go over, but HBK showed up "incapable of performing" and HHH was punished due to his friend ruining the planned storyline this has been debated several times on the board, was Shawn going to cost Undertaker or HHH the match? I've heard that Shawn would help HHH win and then they would face Undertaker and Kane at Backlash, but I've also heard that Shawn would have helped UT win and Shawn and HHH would have had their feud a year and half earlier

yep, I was going to say Beefcake also, WWF tried like hell to make him a main eventer in 89/90 by having him hang around Hogan and man handle midcard heels. If he hadn't gotten hurt, he would have had a shot on top. Who knows how long he would have got to fail?

Each year I see the talent the Phillies have, and I'm amazed that they don't win the division by at least 10 games. Their pitching hurt them last year, but their offense is just lethal when it's clicking. They seem to score a tremendous amount of runs in bunches and then other times, they can't buy a run. It's seems like a feast or famine offense. Maybe they just needed to get rid of Bowa.

On this point, I visit a few boards inhabited by mostly "marks" and they don't buy Edge or Orton as main eventers in the slightest. To them, Edge has so called "X-Pac Heat", they find him annoying, whiny, and didn't buy in the least that he could beat Shawn Michaels at the Royal Rumble. Orton, they like a little better, but they don't believe he should be champion or fighting for the title because "he hasn't been around long enough". Don't mean to extrapolate, but if this is how the majority of the audience (non-smark) feels, WWE might be in deep trouble.

Meltzer said it best when he said that when Austin sided with Vince, all the casual fans realized that nothing truly means anything in wrestling, and they tuned out.

In Keller's update today, he says vignettes have already been filmed to promote the match, so it looks like a go

every time I watch Royal Rumble 92 it becomes less and less special. I think it has to do with the nature of the Rumble, where the drama builds with each entrant and after repeated viewings, it loses that effect. Shawn Michaels v Diesel from Good Friends, Better Enemies. Each time it seems more and more like an extended squash.

John Studd is in both the WCW HOF and WWE HOF. There was controversy at Slamboree 95 as Gordon Solie legit did not believe Studd should be inducted because he was such a poor worker.

Steele is already in

There was a picture of Sherri as Peggy Sue blowing a bubble in one of the WWF magazines from 1988. As a young mark I didn't want to believe it was her, but I knew deep down it was. This was a point where I was slowly realizing wrestling was worked. In the following years when Ricky Steamboat came back as the Dragon and Iron Sheik as Col. Mustafa and their past identities weren't identified, I knew something was up for sure