Hunter's Torn Quad

Yes, it was me. Not anymore. As for why, because I'm not feeling it. And because I can.....

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Um, didn't Show sign a 10-year contract? Wouldn't that not expire until 2009? They renegotiated the contract when they were unhappy with Show's condition, so it was the same money but for less time.

The headliner leaving is Big Show. Right now, he is aiming to leave in February when his contract runs out. He feels too banged up to keep going and wants out. He even turned down a five-year contract extension for a $1m a year. The worldwide name is Bob Sapp.

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For those of you who couldn't get enough of the feud that would never die and is probably going to get restarted all over again at Cyber Sunday.

TNA's Bound For Glory 2006 X-Division Battle Royal: At least Austin Starr's gimmick has a chance of letting him stand out, I can say that much about it that's positive. I think Kevin Nash endorsed his own mic, because it couldn't work without help. An X-Division battle royal with a non-X Division wrestler, a one legged man, a woman, a midget and a referee who decided to take part just for the hell of it; yes, Vince Russo is indeed back with TNA. Booking aside, at least this thing got the crowd warmed up. Four-Way Tag match Too short to be bad but also too short to be any good. With The Naturals getting a tag title shot, why didn't they win so that, A) They look strong going into their title match, and B) the tag titles are being challenged for by losers. What does it say about the belts that losers are getting a title shot? And if The Naturals gimmick is that of losers, would it not make sense for them to win, have Shane Douglas get excited for them getting into their stride heading into their title shot and then beat them and set up the split with Douglas? I can see them not beating AMW because they are about to turn babyface, and I can see them not beating Team 3D because they just returned, but were the James Gang of such high importance that they couldn't lose? Well, Jeff Jarrett is meant to be teaming with them in some fashion when he turns babyface, so I guess we know why they couldn't lose. Samoa Joe vs. Raven vs. Abyss vs. Brother Runt Or Joe versus one person he shouldn't ever wrestle and two guys he shouldn't be in the ring with until he gets the NWA Title. If it's Anything Goes, why does it matter if Joe was in the ropes? You can smack someone across the back with a chair but you'd better make sure he's not in the ropes. Joe beats Raven after Jake Roberts DDT's him. And Joe couldn't win clean because...? Jake was going to use the snake on Raven after the match anyway, so why not leave the DDT until then? That way, Joe wins clean but Jake still gets to lay Raven out. The match was just there, with the only real heat coming when anything crazy happened and when Joe did, well, anything really. Eric Young vs. Larry Zbyszko Two weeks ago, Eric Young lost a match that he had to win or he would be fired. Now, here he is wrestling a match where he has to win or he will get fired. Don't forget, the selling point of the main event is that Sting has to win or he'll have to retire. And people wonder why stipulations mean nothing anymore. Very short, not very good, complete with a ref bump after about 90 seconds. Eric wins after using Larry's own foreign object. Again, is there any reason Eric had to win thanks to a ref bump and foreign object? Was there a brilliant reason he couldn't win clean? Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle brawl again Ok, here we go. This was pretty much the exact same thing they did on Impact. An angle, I might add, that a lot of people, in their rush to ignore the stupidity of giving away the first Joe/Angle confrontation on FREE TV with zero hype, were proclaiming would get people to buy the PPV to see Joe and Angle go at it. Well, anybody who did just that isn't going to be happy, because they just paid $34.95 to see the same thing they saw for free three days before. Bear in mind, that the people who insisted the angle was great did so because they felt it would get people to buy the PPV to see Joe and Angle collide again. Well, there was what those people paid to see. Can you imagine being happy with that? Chris Sabin vs. Sen Shi Now this was damn good. I'd say it was in the ***1/2 range. Christian Cage vs. Rhino This had some terrible psychology. Rhino started out the big babyface and the crowd wound up not only booing the guy but cheering the heel for BEATING THE HOMETOWN BABYFACE HERO, which itself was bad booking. Someone, anyone, tell me how any of that is a good thing? Whether Christian had to be kept strong for Sting or not, and now he might not even be wrestling Sting for a couple of months, someone defend the psychology of a match that turned the hometown babyface hero into a heel. There was some decent brawling here, I won't deny that, but the psychology was all fucked up and I guarantee a number of wrestlers backstage were shaking their heads at that. LAX vs. AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels Another good match, but since when have the rules of the match been disregarded because the referee said so? When Daniels used the fork in retaliation for Homicide using it, the referee went to stop him but let it go. Why? Because Daniels said the heels used it first. Aren't referee's meant to only call what they see? And if all it takes is claiming your opponents used the fork first to get the rules changed in mid-match, why don't the heels just claim that to begin with? Then they wouldn't have to hide it. Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett Tenay claiming this could be the last time we see Sting could carry more weight if TNA hadn't already established that stipulations can be ignored at will if they feel like it. Why is the heel outwrestling the babyface? Since when does it make sense for the heel to cleanly outwrestle the face? If they're going to use the storyline of Sting not wrestling for two months as a reason, fine, but can the heel at least cheat seeing as that is how heels are meant to outdo babyfaces? Why is Kurt Angle getting bumped? Kurt shouldn't be put in a position to sell until the match with Joe. That must have been one hell of a crossbody, because both guys would have been TKO'd if not for Angle attacking the referee. Can Jeff at least make it look like he's raising his shoulder on a cover rather than just lifting his arm up? Jeff should not be using the ankle lock. That spot should have been saved for Joe when he faces Angle. In any event, it would make more sense for Jeff to use Sting's hold, because it would be more insulting for Jeff to retire Sting using Sting's own hold, and Sting is the one he's wrestling. The match and heat was disappointing until Sting no-sold the guitar shot. I know Jeff's turning babyface soon, but couldn't they have held off on praising him so much until Impact? Shouldn't they focus on pushing Sting, the guy who just won the World title and avoided being forced into retirement? All in all, Bound For Glory had some good action for the most part and the crowd had a good time. The major problems, as always with TNA, were with quality control and the attention to the little details that TNA seem happy to let slide. I know some people, most people actually, here will dismiss them and tell me not to be so negative, but you can't hide from the facts forever. It's those little details that slowly chip away at a company. Stipulations are ignored and devalued when the main event is being sold on one. Guys meant to be pushed strong have to rely on interference to beat a virtual midcarder and someone who need not be protected. The specialness of the first Joe vs. Angle match is lessened slightly each time they brawl. The big hometown babyface not only loses but the match is worked in such a manner that the heel gets cheered as the match goes on and the crowd pop for him winning. Rules get changed in mid-match, simply because a wrestler said so. And Kurt Angle sells for a minor bump when he shouldn't be leaving his feet for anyone who isn't Samoa Joe for a very long time. On their own, they might not be major, but together these small details add up and until someone in TNA actually bothers with attention to detail, then TNA will not achieve the heights they want to and have the talent to reach.

A wrestler needs something to carry the load when the bells rings. It can be talent, charisma, personality or anything else, but he does need something. The problem comes when a wrestler is not only lacking in one area, but also lacking in any other area to where he can't make up for it. Hogan was never the best in-ring worker, but he had the charisma to make up for it. Benoit will never be confused with The Rock in terms of charisma, but had the in-ring talent to make up for it. A wrestler need not excel in one area if he is good enough in another to make up for it.

I don't hate the company. I'd love nothing more than for TNA to thrive, survive and provide viable competition for WWE. The problem is that TNA continues to make a seemingly non-stop series of mistakes and blunders, ones that a lot of people, even ones here, can see coming. They make the kind of mistakes that, not only are ones that anyone with a brain know to avoid, but ones that a company in their position simply cannot afford make. Now, if pointing out those mistakes makes people think I hate TNA or gives people the impression I think TNA can't do anything right, then that's their problem not mine. TNA does do some things right; the Chris Sabin vs. Sen Shi match at BFG was pretty good for one, and, as ass backwards as it's been at times, they've done a decent job of promoting Joe vs. Angle as something big. The problem with TNA, and the most frustrating part about TNA, is that they can do so much better than they are doing. They have the in-ring talent, no one can deny that. The problem is management. As long as the management keep making mistakes that a blind man can see coming, then people will point them out. If that upsets you so much, then either stop reading when people point out those mistakes, or start praying for TNA, because they're the ones screwing up something that could be so much better.

I've seen it reported that though he came in at No Surrender, he was just tweaking the existing plans through BFG (i.e. making Angle special enforcer). If that's true, than this is the first show he's the main booker for. And either way, from the spoilers, this is the first show that his fingerprints are on. He was heavily involved in the last set of tapings before Bound For Glory as well. His light work started at NS, but his main work started a couple of tapings ago, at least.

He forget the part where Russo blamed Standards and Practices for not letting him call Rhonda Singh fat.

And from WO.com: And if by 'Russo Era', you mean Russo starting to book, he started well before this taping. Can cancer get Jarrett over as a babyface is the big question?

They sure did. And then Styles and Daniels vanished so they could run a major angle to build towards next month's PPV.

Where is the logic in the last segment before BFG running an angle that doesn't even build towards BFG? Would it not make sense to build towards the PPV happening in three days time? Maybe have Styles and Daniels talk about the match upcoming at the PPV. Did they do even that? The company using one to build up the main event of their biggest PPV of all time. Explain the logic in devaluing stipulations when the draw of your biggest PPV main event ever is a guy having to adhere to the stipulation of retiring if he loses?. Then why have as the last segment on TV before the PPV? If it wasn't going to draw buys, as you claim, why not put it elsewhere and end with something that actually built towards the PPV in three days? It created quite the buzz. 100,000 less people watched that Impact and the segment drew a miserable 0.76 rating. Yay for BUZZ~. The first ever Joe/Angle confrontation should have been something special, and it would have made sense, and money, to tease it going into the PPV so people would have to PAY MONEY to see the first ever stand off between the two. Instead, it gets turned into just another pull-apart brawl that we've seen a million times. Russo helped kill a national wrestling promotion. For all the good he did in the WWF, he has fallen flat on his face every time since.

Russo's 'good job so far', in booking the month of TV prior to BFG included: Not bringing Sting in to the tapings to build for the BFG main event. Justify that, please. Disregarding building BFG in favor of next month's PPV Did they do anything at all on the last Impact before BFG to build up the tag title match? LAX did angle, but it was to build to next month's PPV. Having a You're Fired match where the loser didn't get fired two weeks before BFG where the main event was a guy supposedly retiring if he lost They just told us not to take their stipulations seriously, when the main event of their so-called biggest PPV ever was a stipulation match. Putting Kurt Angle on TV for free and the segment then bombing Shouldn't something that major be on a PPV so people have to PAY MONEY TO TNA to see it? And we haven't talked about their insane world title tournament, which literally reeks of Russo.

A note from todays WO.com update: So, they're hoping cancer can get Jarrett over as a face.

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I think it will take something that strong to turn Jarrett babyface, especially to the Orland crowd, but I still see it as only making the people not want to boo him rather than want to cheer him. And it'll be interesting to see how far they'll go, because going too far will see this backfire and people turn on him even more and his turn really will fail.

Lucha Midget Crazy Highspot

If you liked that Raw, try and find the movie Swimming With Sharks. The plot was taken from the movie,

In addition to being interested in Claudio Castignoli and Monty Brown, WWE have also shown interest in Chris Hero and are said to be very open to signing all three. F4WOnline

What was happening in the game when the DX segment went against it?

There is a very strong chance Sting is re-signing, so it's likely he'll be around for another year. Why be original when there's no need to be? So what if WWE has screwed up a bunch of tournaments? This isn't WWE. At least they won't make a tournament convoluted for no good reason. Tournaments don't get over in WWE because of how they are booked not because of their format. The single elimination format works very well when done right, and it won't give you an aneurysm when you try to figure it out.

From PWInsider. Why is Rhino facing Cage after losing to him on two PPV's in a row?