Slickster

Well, he kind of has to drop the belt, what with that knee surgery and all...

Since TGK is coming up later tonight, I'd like to talk about him for a minute. This is how I would have booked The Great Khali's introduction. 1) April 7 edition of SmackDown!: Daivari comes out alone and talks up "The Great Khali," implying that it he's talking about himself. Make statements about how Khali has beaten Bengal tigers, KO'd elephants, cured cancer, etc. 2) April 14 and 21 editions of SmackDown!: Daivari continues to cut promos about the awesomeness of Khali. Daivari is a heat machine, so he'll get booed by fans and shushed by Cole/Tazz. It's implied Daivari is talking about himself. 3) April 28: Daivari's diatribe is interrupted by Paul Burchill, who (in pirate talk) challenges The Great Khali to a match, shocking Daivari. 4) May 5: Daivari comes out after a Burchill victory to show him a video on the tron. The video shows Daivari supposedly flying to India to talk with Khali. We see Khali's shadow as Daivari tells him about the challenge and hands the contract up to him. Khali's ginormous arm comes into the frame as he takes the contract and signs it. Announcers are unsure if it's a camera trick or a guy on a stepladder. 5) May 14 (Judgment Day): Paul Burchill enters first, looking a bit anxious. Khali's music hits and out comes a goddamn menagerie. I'm talking tigers and elephants, with one pullung a cart with Khali standing in it. Khali's dressed like The Sultan, only in powder blue. Also, he needs to wear a mask so we don't know he was in that Adam Sandler movie. Anyway, Paul Burchill gets his ass handed to him for 4 minutes before losing via pinfall. Then, Khali beats the shit out of Burchill for 4 minutes after the bell, putting Burchill through a table, hitting him with the ring steps, etc. Burchill bleeds profusely and does a stretcher job. INSTANT main eventer.

Mark Henry is cutting another half-hour promo.

Veiled lines of the night from Michael Cole: "They're the tag team champions, they share everything." and "Here's one man who's never in a mood to share...Mark Henry!"

Booker's eye is swollen shut, almost.

from WWE.com

To the shock of no one...

I like how 2 of them did the HBK pose during their entrance.

NFL Films presents This Week in WWE History.

Note that they call it the "World Championship" now, since the titleholder isn't a heavyweight?

...The tron was a 3D representation of his old mask...

Scientific wrestling?!? Test of strength?!?

The budget for SNE was actually around $8 million USD, so that lowers the bar significantly. Today it was announced that Austin's film 'The Condemned' starts shooting May 15 in AUS. IIRC his is the first WWE Films production to have the $20 million budget. 'The Marine' was filmed for $8 million and comes out September 8. Honestly, I don't see the movie doing too badly. The WWE label isn't overt enough to push people away from the movie. I think that people will go to this movie because, well, it's the only horror movie coming out between late April and June 6.

http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2006/2006_04_10.jsp

To recap: THIS POSTER IS FAKE AS HELL. Mods, plz close the thread.

Hey, at least all the people represented on Wreckless Intent are still with the company (cf. ThemeAddict).

"This Fire Burns" is for Randy Orton, not Kane. He used it for one week on SmackDown! in March.

This is odd, seeing as how Houston, not San Antonio, has been announced as the site for the 07 Rumble.

Big Show gets a new theme by Brand New Sin on the upcoming 'Wreckless Intent' album on May 23.

Gagne is a French name. It's the past participle of the verb 'gagner,' meaning 'to win.'

Gene's wife is gorgeous. ORGAN DONATION~!

This speech is really battling with Putski's '94 speech and Sheik's '04 speech for 'Best HOF Induction Speech.'

Sherri needs to get hired back right now.

Sherri is AWESOME.