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Shawn beat him because 1.the show was rewritten at the last second due to Orton being sent home from Europe, and 2.it's fucking Shawn, he ALWAYS gets his win back for doing a job. Khali beat him because, uh, it's Khali, and they let him retain the tiniest smidgen of monster baddassness in between jobbing like a Mulkey to Cena every other time they fought. Other than that? Edge and RVD are the only guys I can think of who pinned Cena... once each... in non-clean victories... to start their title reigns. Cena IS booked exactly like Hogan.

But seriously, most of those tan-in-a-bottle concoctions are pretty worthless. I saw some of that shit turn a guy Incredible Hulk colors one time.

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So now... we're saying that civil war, murder, shoving Them up against The Wall, all that crap, is a GOOD thing? Jesus. Bush sucks, but relax, this time in, uh, seventeen months, he won't be here anymore. I'll be here as a shoulder to cry on when Hillary wins the primary. And we staged it over far lower taxes than we currently endure, mind you. Don't forget blocking gay marriage, that's apparently damned important. (Though I actually agree with the "gimme guns and cheap gas" sentiment.)

One of the biggest problems IS about the money. The undercard guys aren't being paid shit. They're not reimbursed for their hotel rooms, and I don't know if they even get their plane tickets comped. Plus, TNA steals a cool 25% right off the top of any and every indy payoff they earn. Like one guy told me, "I'm on national television every week and I can't even pay my bills". As for "exposure"? TNA pulls in lower ratings numbers than Thunder used to. That ain't fucking real exposure. There are way more Johnny Nitro fans in this country than Samoa Joe marks. There's many reasons why guys like Konnan and Killings would quit TNA to go work elsewhere, aside from the obvious "evil corporation fucking with them on paying for their necessary surgeries" part of it.

Sid. He cuts promos just like motherfucking Sid. Same weird combination of screaming & ranting, and creepy (but hard to hear) whispering. Plus generic maniacal villain laughter.

Um... none of the above? Ever since they brought it back, GAB has sucked harder than ::insert slut here:: every single year. Ah, good ol' WWE, every time I think they can't possibly get dumber or show more contempt towards their fans, they somehow find a way.

Abyss talks now?! Aw christ. "I'm... suicidal... homicidal... genocical... I'm..... Sabu." Speaking as someone who's seen a lot of Abyss promos from the old days on the indys, no, he can't.

I haven't heard about anything else. And truthfully, by the MPAA's rules, all they'd have to do for an NC17 is just restore the color to that one bit. There wouldn't have to be one more second of actual violence in the picture. Yes, it's a very stupid rule.

Because "Roid Rage" is a much sexier sound byte than "complicated situation involving marital difficulties and possible long-term psychosis that none of his closest friends noticed, plus various drug use". The talking head so-called news shows aren't in the business of providing true and accurate information to the public, they're basically just another crappy reality show.

Fuck yeah, I'd forgotten about that! The phrase didn't make any goddamn sense, and he kept saying it OVER AND OVER.

For some reason, that phrase actually made me lol. Milky = sympathetic hitman guy from the beginning of Sin City.

...damn, that's a good point. Probably didn't happen, as the DEA doesn't actually send out agents to follow people FBI-style all that much, but if someone tailed Benoit even once and Chris noticed it, that could've indeed had a major effect on what happened here.

Which could come back to bite them in the ass, considering that it's NOT the real IWGP title. It's a belt that was called that by Brock (he walked off from New Japan without ever losing the belt), because he's working for Inoki's new company and Inoki is so arrogant that he insisted on referring to the belt as the IWGP.

And to WWE, everyone of those are Pros. Yep, sounds like every other non-Mickie girl that they've hired in the past several years. Ha, you're funny. (Although it is the obvious answer, I find it amusing that it apparently NEVER occured to HHH to do the job himself.)

Yes, Punk is the top ECW babyface... by default, because he's damn near the ONLY one. RVD quit, Angle got fired, Sabu got fired, Lashley jumped, Benoit died, and the company has been damn determined to make every fresh new superstar on that show a heel. Seriously, aside from Punk, which new guys in ECW have they even tried making babyfaces? The only other non-heels on the show are Dreamer and Ballz, and they've both been jobbed out so much that it's obvious they're never getting near the main event again.

Huh? You're right about the others, but I think I can count on one hand the number of times Piper got pinned in the old WWF.

He must be the only one, cuz it seems like everyone not named Paul Heyman utterly hates him. (And wasn't HHH one of the ones complaining that Punk was "too indy", used too many Japanese moves and played towards the smart marks too much?) Arn Anderson in particular has been named as someone who doesn't like the guy, and supposedly the McMahons don't see much long-term potential in him either.

Exactly, it's just the beginning of Failed Hardys Singles Push #137.

No, there's a couple bigger threads in Classics, the Buffy and Angel threads notably, and I'm sure there's a few others lurking way back in the archives. Basically said that he refused to talk about Chris Benoit the person right now, and then said a few standard platitudes about what a great worker he was. Definitely came off as really uncomfortable about the situation and not wanting to talk about it.

Technically to some of these idiots, stubbing your toe while being within line-of-sight of an infidel could count for martyrdom. Also, prison? I thought the mouse got beaten to death.

Both, probably. Rey's body is ridiculously banged up, especially his Terry Funk-like knees. And lots of the really big guys couldn't take a clean flip bump if they had snipers in the balconey waiting to cap them if they failed.

Okay, you're ignoring one key thing here: People are supposedly paying to see a show on the chance the invulnerable guy might lose? Okay, that makes sense if it's Triple H or Hollywood Hogan we're talking about... But Cena's a babyface. Or, at least, he's supposed to be. He's certainly booked as one. And yet he gets massive boos in about half the arenas. And PPV buyrates are down. He does sell merchandise, and maybe he draws at the house shows (debatable, and house shows are a relatively small chunk of the WWE's total revenue anyway), but he's certainly not carrying the entire company to financial success like a REAL top baby in the Hogan/Austin mode is supposed to. As for Cena's wrestling "skills", we're just gonna have to agree to disagree, cause nobody is gonna convince me that the guy is anything more than average.

By crucifying him, no less. Milky's harrdcorre.

I think he means Gerat American Bash. As to Hardy, yeah, that's what all the backstage reports have been saying for like the past two weeks.