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Bruno wanted out. The funny part about Bruno's loss to Ivan is when the three count went down, clean, the entire building went silent and Bruno thought he had gone deaf. Bruno's second reign came about because Morales wasn't cutting it and Vince Sr. asked Bruno to come back and take the title while they could find another babyface champion.

Which plays into why Team 3D should have demanded Cornette put them in a match against LAX rather than challenging LAX, which made no sense for a number of reasons. They tell Cornette they want revenge against LAX but know if they go after them on the streets LAX will cry foul and go to the cops, but if they do it in a Streetfight they get their revenge legally and LAX can't go to the cops over it.

The best example being the Hart/Benoit match at Mayhem in Canada. All that was needed was for the two to go out and wrestle for twenty minutes in a ****+ match that would have gotten over huge and would have elevated both men. Instead, we got a 17-minute match marred by run-ins and interference that did nothing but take the match down and turn it into a clusterfuck.

I'd imagine it being something like Undertaker having an earpiece telling him what Vince's decision is, so it comes like: "At Wrestlemania, I will be challenging Joh...Ba...Bo....", and then Undertaker snapping and yelling at Vince to make his mind up.

I'll agree that WCW was sinking even when Russo came on board the first time, but they were still doing half-decent numbers in the 3.5 range for Nitro and had the nucleus for what could have been a solid product. The only thing was that making something of that involved bringing in someone who had a respect for the audience and what they wanted, neither quality Russo possessed. Bischoff and company might have done more damage overall than Russo, but Russo was the one who did the crucial damage at a time when WCW couldn't afford it.

And what a great job he did in WCW. I can understand that Russo's big fans want to defend the guy, but mentioning his runs in WCW is not the way to do it, because they are shining examples of everything that is wrong with Russo and show what a waste it was to bring him in.

Meltzer's latest update says Undertaker wil appear at the start of Raw to announce the main event of Wrestlemania, one would presume by announcing which title he's going after.

I know it's not always easy to make weight, but for Lutter to not make weight with all the build up he got is astounding.

Vince proposed it to Bret as part of the series of matches presented to Bret supposedly to try to get him to stay but obviously designed to get him to leave. The series was Bret losing three straight to Shawn, beating Shawn for the belt and then dropping it to Steve.

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A chance like this, and Lutter might blow it?

Apparently, it's down to Joe getting the NWA title soon, and TNA don't want Joe in angles and storylines they don't control.

It's a completely valid point, but I'm not surprised you don't get it. Everything that happens on Impact, or any wrestling show, is 'real' within the context of the show. In the Impact world, if someone like Mike Tenay is given a tape of LAX beating up Brother Ray's uncle, who has nothing to do with anyone else on the show, it makes no sense for Tenay not to turn this tape over to the police to see that justice gets done. It also makes no sense for the response of Team 3D to this attack to simply issue a challenge to LAX. Logically, and I know that's a dirty word for Vince Russo and a concept that some are unable to grasp, it made no sense for Tenay not to report the attack to the police, given that it was on a non-wrestling individual who had nothing to do with wrestling, and it made no sense for the Team 3D response to just be D-Von issuing a challenge for a match. Logically, Mike Tenay should have handed the tape over to the police, and even if you explain that away by saying that Team 3D could have wanted to keep the police out of it and settle things with LAX themselves, what sense does it make for them to just issue a challenge when a more logical response, the kind of response that just about anyone else in the universe would have, is to vow revenge on LAX. Whether it's 'not real' or not is not the point. The point is that it made no sense within the context of the show. THIS JUST IN; 0.99

Well, someone was not a fan of Impact:

I highly doubt Gabe would bring in Ki, more over principal than anything. When Ki tried to hold ROH up for money last year, Gabe said Ki was now in the same category as Teddy Hart in that he'd only ever use him again if it was a life or death situation. This isn't life or death. As for who Joe faces on his last night, given that it's England, I would have said Nigel, but that's happening the night before, so I'd say some other English guy if at all possible. If not, then maybe Colt Cabana, because he's popular in the UK from working there whenever he can. It could even be set up from something the night before.

They can and they will. I wouldn't be surprised if they assume fans tuning into USA and not seeing Raw will tune into Spike, simply because they used to have wrestling and want to see if they still have it. TNA haven't exactly done their best when it comes to getting the word out about anything they do.

Another note from F4W, is that it was Kevin Dunn who made the call for Michael Cole to call the Rumble instead of Jim Ross. Dunn considers Cole the "heir apparent" and wanted to make sure that fact was clear.

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I think either Cena loses to Undertaker or Batista loses to Michaels, with the winner challenging the champion he pinned and the other two not involved in the finish gettingt put together in the other WM title match I think the match was put together to set up whatever the WM main events were going to be at the time. Whether they'll end up like that or not remains to be seen, but I think that was the logic behind putting the match together. If that's accurate, then I'm picking Undertaker to pin Cena.

There isn't really a whole lot left for Joe to do in ROH. He can go for being the first guy to have held all the titles in ROH, but that's it. Let him go, he'll stick to TNA and any other places for a while, maybe a year or so, and then come back for one-off major matches.

A match that ends clean with no semblance of a run-in, ref bump or swerve with one guy actually winning decisively?