Slickster

I marked out to see Flair wearing the gold around his waist. Now there's a man who can treat a title belt with RESPECT (unlike Bubba, who lobs it into the ring from 15 ft away).

BEST PROMO EVER! That >>>> RNN.

The old WWE Live Events Calendar music! w00t

EVOLUTION HATES THE DUDLEYZ TEAM! BEAT THEM DOWN OUT ON THE STREET!

Coach's OSU comments are gold.

OMG RACISM

Coach is wearing an LSU longsleeve shirt tonight.

I can't believe they're taking tradition and turning it ass backwards. This is so retarded. Why? The World Heavyweight Championship is now on equal footing with the WWE Championship from both the marks' perspective and from the company's perspective. It's no longer treated as a fake title or secondary to the 'original' WWE title. Having it be defended in the ME at the biggest event in wrestling history certainly solidifies its place as better than or equal the older WWE Title.

Sort of an extended version of Matt Hardy in 03 (sans the assistance of Shannon Moore).

You can only do that so many times, though....(see 1995, 1999)

David Sedaris and PaRappa the Rapper support the DerangedHermit era!

DIG THE SIG!

The what? See: La Resistance v. Dudleyz, RAW 9/03 (double La Rez powerbomb to Spike over the top where Spike's career is nearly cut short)

Rumble Theme Song: 'Nothing Left to Lose' by Puddle of Mudd (their 2nd PPV theme; also did Survivor Series 2001)

Mama, we're all crazy now!

According to reports, the unknwon's name was Charles Schipporeit.

BPS, You're right about the X title; I made a mistake. I apologize for fucking up. HERE's the list of titles EXPRESSLY controlled by the NWA (according to the Wrestling Information Archive): NWA World Heavyweight Title NWA World Tag Team Titles NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title NWA World Women's Title NWA North American Heavyweight Title NWA North American Tag Team Titles NWA National Heavyweight Title NWA Pacific Women's Title All other belts with the NWA name are controlled by their respective promoters and are (in theory and in practice) secondary to the belts listed above.

The thing is, the 3 belts that are defended on TNA (World, X, Tag) are the top 3 belts in the whole NWA. All of the other NWA belts (numering around 60) are secondary to them. I don't see how they can hurt the main title's prestige, but maybe you could explain it to me.

Off-Topic: Sorry to be a douche but (see Man, Honky Tonk) bothers me because not even people who watch PBS write like that and it's one of those things that makes you look like you're trying to be smart. You could have saved time and said "like Honky Tonk Man" or even shorter as "i.e. Honky Tonk Man." I think he did it to be funny, not to be an asshole.

Dusty (to Don West): Well, EXCUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, Mr. Umphus! GOLD.

I thought it was still pending, as I can't find a result anywhere.

[obvious joke] I guess there were no folding chairs nearby or else those cops woulda been toast. [/obvious joke]

Good point, but I didn't mention too much after Youth because then it'd become a 2-disc set. I am a HUGE mark for Kill the King though; that's seriously in my top 5 favorite Deth songs.

Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Match: Jeff Jarrett pinned Razor Ramon (18:06) to win the Intercontinental title.... The Undertaker pinned Irwin R. Schyster (12:21) ....World Heavyweight Title Match: Diesel and Bret Hart fought to a No Contest. Diesel retains the title (27:19) .... World Tag Team Title Match: The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka (15:32) when Kid pinned Bigelow to win the vacant tag team titles.... Royal Rumble Match: Shawn Michaels won a "royal rumble" (38:41). So, they cut the Rumble down so they'd have time for a longer undercard.

30 second intervals so Shawn could be #1 and win the thing. Actually, they were 60 second intervals, or the Rumble would have been 15 minutes long.