Hunter's Torn Quad

At least it wasn't the first quad again, because that could have been career ending or very close to it. Too many tears of the same muscle, and it could be game over. As it were.

Of all the top names in recent years, The Rock was far and away the most professional.

NOAH, 1/7/07 (NTV/G+) Tokyo Differ Ariake 1,800 Fans - Super No Vacancy 7. GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura © (20:45) when Mark Briscoe pinned Kanemaru after a swan-dive Double Impact to become the 5th champions.

Psychology is great and all, but surely at the end of the day it's about getting a reaction from the audience. It's not just about getting a reaction. A lot of things can get a reaction, but that doesn't mean they should be done or that they make sense. But can someone explain why Michaels' kip-up in mid match should be treated any differently to getting immediately up after a usually match ending headdrop, sometimes on more than one occasion? Anyone? The major problem I have with Shawn's no-selling kip-up's, beside rendering useless all the work done in the match up to that point, is that it didn't look credible for someone who was 6ft and, maybe, 210lbs, to be casually shrugging off offense that he just spent twenty minutes selling like crazy. With Hogan, at least in his prime, he looked like a physically imposing guy who, at 6ft4 and 300lbs, looks credible in rising up from the ashes of a major beating and kicking some ass. Something he also did was continue to sell the beating he'd just been taking, even while he was making his comeback, and usually after the match where he'd act like he was just in a war. Shawn would just stop selling completely and be bouncing around the ring like nothing had happened. For someone of Shawn's size to go from selling a beating like crazy to flying and flopping around like he was perfectly fine made no sense and looked silly. If you want to see someone of Shawn's size sell his ass off for twenty minutes but make a comeback that looks credible and believable, watch Ricky Morton in his heyday. That guy could sell his ass off, usually better than Shawn, but when he made his comeback he didn’t do it such a way that made no sense for someone of his size and stature.

Not as many as I would have liked.

I assume anyone who voted for Misawa likes the way things are done in NOAH. Those votes should be added to Jun Akiyama's total. He does the booking for NOAH. How would that affect the final standings? As I understand it, while Akiyama does the majority of the booking in NOAH, Misawa does some of it too. In any event, all it would have done was give the NOAH booking team second place just ahead of Hayes. Sapolsky won by a landslide.

TSM Wrestler of the Year: Bryan Danielson Danielson won a very close race that also involved Samoa Joe and Edge. TSM Tag Team of the Year: Austin Aries and Roderick Strong This was another close race, with The Briscoe’s and, surprisingly, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, providing the competition. TSM Match of the Year: Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness at ROH Unified There were a lot of matches getting votes here, but Danielson versus McGuinness was the clear winner. TSM TV Show of the Year: Impact Impact just edged out Smackdown to win this one, with Raw a distant third. TSM Announcer of the Year: JBL This one wasn’t even close, as JBL won by a large margin. TSM Card of the Year: ROH Supercard of Honor Like with MOTY, the voting here was spread round but SoH won handily. TSM Feud of the Year: ROH vs. CZW A surprise winner here, with John Cena vs. Edge coming in second and LAX vs. Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles way back in third place. TSM Promotion of the Year: ROH ROH won out, but TNA was close behind in second place and NOAH even closer for third. TSM Worst Wrestler of the Year: The Great Khali Another decisive winner here, with nobody else getting into the double digit point total. For the record, Lance Hoyt and Chris Masters were tied for second. TSM Worst Tag Team of the Year: The James Gang There were a number of other contenders, but The James Gang won out, beating the Highlanders and The Naturals into second and third places respectively. TSM Worst Match of the Year: The Great Khali vs. The Undertaker at Judgment Day The votes were spread around for this award too, but Khali and Undertaker win out. Undertaker was in the joint #2 match, the Punjabi Prison match against Big Show, with Boogeyman vs. Booker T and Sharmell from WM XXII the other co-runner up. TSM Worst TV Show of the Year: Raw Raw managed to beat ECW to this one, with both shows being the clear front runners for this award. Smackdown was far behind in third place. TSM Worst Announcer of the Year: Jerry Lawler Lawler just about won here, with Jim Ross and Mike Tenay tied for second. Michael Cole was just behind them, and everyone else was far off the pace. TSM Worst Card of the Year: Cyber Sunday Cyber Sunday came out just ahead of Survivor Series. A lot of people voted for December to Dismember, but that PPV came after the period the awards covered. Had it qualified, however, it would have won hands and feet down. People hated that show with a passion. TSM Worst Feud of the Year: DX vs. The McMahon’s. There was a clear winner for a change, with this stinker breaking away to claim the prize. Khali vs. Undertaker was second, barely ahead of DX vs. The Spirit Squad. TSM Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE WWE won this award very convincingly, with almost double the points tally of second placed TNA. The ECW brand was third. TSM Most Overrated Wrestler of the Year: Batista This one was even clearer, with Batista gaining nearly triple the points of second placed Bobby Lashley. There were almost a dozen wrestlers vying for third place and it came down to a three-way tie with RVD, Finlay and Shawn Michaels. TSM Most Underrated Wrestler of the Year: AJ Styles Again, this award had a lot of votes spread amongst a large number of wrestlers, with Styles coming out just ahead of a seven-person tie for second. Those tied for second were Jimmy Yang, Kevin Steen, Ron Killings, Nigel McGuinness, Jimmy Rave, Edge and Alex Shelly. TSM Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Year: Bryan Danielson Bryan Danielson was decisive winner, with just over twice the points total of Samoa Joe. Edge was some way behind in third. TSM Best on the Mic: Edge Edge came out the winner here, with Konnan close by in second and Booker T and JBL tied for third. TSM Worst on the Mic: Bobby Lashley Lashley won with a decisive victory here, far ahead of second placed The Miz, with Lita right behind for third. TSM Best Booker: Gabe Sapolsky This was another award with the winner so far ahead of the rest as to make it a race for second place. Michael Hayes was second, with Jun Akiyama and Mitsuharu Misawa tying for third. TSM Worst Promotional Tactic: WWE exploiting Eddie Guerrero. Not surprisingly, this won the award by a wide margin. Second place went to the VKM angel from TNA, and third was a tie between The Marine plugs and TNA doing the baseball angles.

The votes have been counted and I'll post a rundown of the winners shortly.

Now did he walk out of the Boston Garden BECAUSE he didn't beat Hogan? I can't answer that. The guy was just starting a run against the Ultimate Warrior and fared well against Taker on the UK tour. It's not the most credible of sources, but in Sid's shoot interview with RF in 1998, he said the reason he walked out that night was because they wanted Warrior to kick out of his finisher. Sid said he was against it completely, but told them he'd do it if they wanted him to but if they did then he'd quit the promtion.

From what I heard at the time, Kurt did tell Benoit to really try to wrestle him, and Kurt felt he was good enough that he could fend off Benoit and then go into regular working mode. The idea was to make the bout look more realistic.

The rating turned out to be 3.9, which is slightly higher than they've been getting lately.

Someone's been bad:

Since when? If there is one person that can't let this Shawn/Bret thing go, it isn't Meltzer. Is it really impossible to think that Shawn would take a shot at Bret for no reason?

The official numbers for crowd and gate are 12,191 paid for a gate of $5,397,300.

The payoffs for UFC 66: UFCJunkie

Thursday's rating was a 0.9

Except for the whole main eventing Wrestlemania thing. It was more of a semi-final match, which only went nine minutes and saw Orton lose clean. Edge might not have been in the main event, but his match with Foley was one of the best ones of the night and had the most memorable spot with both Edge and Foley going through a flaming table.

But he's faced both of them the biggest PPV of the year and neither are curtain jerking anywhere... Personal shots like that rarely make sense. And in regard to Rob Conway getting 'fired':

Apparently, Shawn's line was about both Bret Hart and Kurt Angle. It was supposed to be vague to build up controversy about who he was talking about.

Your right but if your Vince...would you want Federline to look like a total joke in the ring or would you want Federline to look something like he knows what he's doing? The whole K-fed vs Cena thing can draw a lot of people and can also hook people to watch more. So if you wanna look it as that way, would you want Federline to look like a joke in the ring or would you want to have it look like he knows what he's doing? K-Fed can take a good FU. Good enough that nobody who saw it on E! and the like were complaining that he took the bump wrong. K-Fed taking a good FU is all that matters in the end because that's the spot that got the publicity and likely the spot they'll tease to and probably hit tonight.

Of all the reactions from people who saw K-Fed getting FU'd when it was shown on fifty million entertainment shows, I doubt many of them were complaining that he took the bump wrong.

In a lot of ways, whether Leben is overrated or not doesn't matter. He has the kinds of fights people like and as long as he keeps that up, he'll stay employed by the UFC. Sure, it would be nice if he was a good fighter, but that isn't always the most important thing.

see why Tazz was pist. I'd say Tazz was more pissed that his side, when it comes to negotiations, was revealed, and it's not like his place on the totem pole was a secret either. JBL is a favorite who can be good to great at his job, so he's in no real danger of losing his spot as color guy on Smackdown. With WWE wanting to remove all vestiges of the old ECW, it's not hard to conclude that, whether valid or not, Tazz might think his position in ECW is in danger. Tazz isn't exactly bargaining from a position of power, and I think that has Tazz pissed more than anything. That this news got out didn't help.

I'd have to re-read what Meltzer wrote, but I think the gist of what he said was that Tazz trying to get a raise and that he might not get it so he'd probably leave because he'd take the better offer from elsewhere. Ok, here is exactly what Meltzer wrote: