Hunter's Torn Quad

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They are looking at programming Eric Young with Jeff Jarrett. Ron Killings was unhappy at the recent tapings, and was even more upset when it appeared the crowd didn't buy him as being able to beat Christian. No decision yet over going to two-hours, but the recent ratings haven't helped the cause. A member of the Orlando Police Department was at the tapings, and was unhappy over the Jeff/fan incident and Konnan's promo's, as he felt there weren't suitable for an amusement park audience. Jake Roberts may still be coming in. Bobby Heenan and Sherri Martel pitched to get work when they came in for the Bobby Roode stuff not long ago. From the recent Observers

All 5,000 tickets for the 10/10 live special with Ortiz vs. Shamrock sold out in an hour, making it the fastest sellout in UFC history. The numbers for UFC 62 were 9,589 paid and $3.07 million, which includes closed-circuit sites. From the latest Observers.

You mean like you did? People know that this stuff comes from the Observer. I'm the one who types it up to post here, so I just think the people copying it to post elsewhere should note they got it from this forum. They don't have to stay who posted it, just where they got it from.

Orlando Jones was in line to be used as a gay character and I think they even were going that way before he got cut. He was going to be bisexual, not gay.

One of the latest Observer's says this was actually real.

Eric would only have accepted the deal if he had no other choice. The slot would have been unlike to have aired in Chicago, at least in prime time, and that was/is WGN's best city. There are two versions of WGN; the Chicago version, which airs WB stuff in prime time, and the version everyone else gets that, at the time, was available in about 73% of the cable homes and 57% of the total homes, but with low viewership. If TNA had signed the deal the earliest it could have gone on in Chicago was 11pm, if at all. Not only that, but WGN had limited exposure in New York. Someone clarify the Sid Vicious squeegee story for me. Roddy Piper's description in his autobio doesn't seem to be particularly accurate. Sid was in a bar with Brian Pillman and Mike Graham. An argument ensued and Sid backed off and walked out of the bar, only to return armed with a squeegee. This did not do wonders for his rep.

When Vince gets tired of using WWE as his personal playground.

Shame that it isn't getting blown off.

Neither do I. But I do have faith in the ego of Undertaker being big enough that he won't give the streak up unless it's to someone who really does have the potential to be a superstar, which is why if it does happen it'll probably be to someone worth it.

I was thinking more in terms of 'smart' fans viewing him as a HoF wrestler. He's already in the WON HoF.

The streak is important enough that you know that, if only for this one thing, a LOT of thought will go into possibly ending it. It's about the one thing they won't waste on someone who really is a lame duck and has no potential.

If nobody with the right potential come along, then the streak probably should stay intact. But if there is someone who comes along who would be something big, then there is no good reason not to give that guy the huge rub of ending the streak and making them a sensation overnight.

Except to elevate a breakout superstar into the top level, but that would be good for business and we can't have business taking precedence over a ‘sacred’ winning streak. I'd bet that Undertaker giving up his streak to make someone a superstar in one night would do more for his HoF potential than holding onto it.

For Raw on 8/28 on Sci-Fi, DX vs. Regal. Finlay and Kennedy lost about 123,000 viewers, making it the most unsuccessful TV main event of the year. For Smackdown on 8/25, the Vickie Guerrero angle lost 140,000, which is a surprise because, even though the angle is terrible, the Mexican family soap operas have always done well. London and Kendrick vs. James and Stevens gained 659,000 viewers, while the following women’s segment, with Marshall vs. Hall, lost 434,000 viewers. In regards to Kurt Angle, Dave said that even though Kurt appears down and out right now, historically, people who are driven enough and talented enough to be the best in their profession can come back when it physically looks impossible. If Angle does take the long time off and acknowledges that he can’t take bumps without pain medication, the right move is to not take bumps and, presumably, walk away. Says you can’t count Angle out, even if the sane reaction is to hope he doesn’t wrestle again. John Laurinaitis is now getting advice from different writers over the house show booking, which he handles. There is increased talk about Batista’s star fading. The reason Kennedy got the US title is because there were concerns about Batista losing steam and it is felt that Finlay is best on Smackdown at getting someone over, so while Kennedy and Lashley feud over the US title, Finlay works with Batista to try and get him back over. The official view internally is that this proves how great Triple H is because he got Batista over, whereas, and Dave has espoused this part from day one, there is also the thinking that what kept Batista hot was playing off of Triple H and Flair and without them he’s floundering. That said, since coming back from the injury Batista has seemed slower, more tentative and less confident. Unforgiven on 9/17 has sold out to the tune of 14,600 tickets. Cryme Tyme are Shad Gaspard and Devon Driscoll, from OVW. Gaspard has the WWE look and does good interviews, but has never gotten it in the ring and has had some terrible matches in OVW. On JBL ripping into Matt Hardy in commentary on the 9/1 Smackdown, Dave points out that whenever something happens like the Hardy deal and it goes public, long after the person has publicly stopped talking about it, it’s the company that can’t let it go. Dave said that bringing up Cena might be coming to Smackdown, which isn’t going to happen unless plans change as Cena is getting the belt back at Unforgiven, only makes Smackdown look more like the ‘B’ show. Called Booker’s role campy and said while he doesn’t mind how overdone it is, when Booker does the British accent he calls it the antithesis of a money drawing main eventer. Referred to the DX angle on Raw where Vince repeatedly hit Triple H with the pipe before Triple H juiced, and said it was funny because if a young guy did that the agents would tell him that you only do the one shot before juicing, and Dave mentioned it because that exact thing happened when a young guy did the same thing. The Mexico tour has changed yet again. After being pressured into adding Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero, Flair, Wilson, Harry Smith and Pradius were all taken off the shows. The line up for all four cities, and it’s a bad idea to repeat the same line up like this, is now Edge vs. Cena for the title in a streetfight, DX vs. Cade and Murdoch (Flair will sub if either Shawn or Hunter don’t make it), Mysterio vs. Guerrero, Kane vs. Umaga, Carlito vs. Orton, Nitro vs. Hardy for the IC Title, SS vs. Highlanders for the tag titles, Lita vs. James for the Women’s title, and Benjamin vs. Venis. Rick Martel was offered an agents job but turned it down. Wrestling DVD sales for 8/13 to 8/19 saw WM 22 at #1, TNA Lockdown at #2 and Vengeance (DX vs. SS) at #3. Wrestlemania 21 was at #9, and is now in its 66th straight week in the top 20. John Cena will in the new season of Punk’d. One of the Deep South wrestlers wrote to John Laurinaitis to complain about Bill DeMott being abusive in training. Laurinaitis told the guy he’d come down to Deep South to sort it out but when he got there, Laurinaitis told everyone that anyone who didn’t like it there could leave. At the ECW house show in Bethlehem, PA, Test was serenaded with chants of, “Shoot ‘em up Test, shoot ‘em up”, as well as other steroid chants.

WCW going out of business is depressing to think about. So much that could have been done, should have done, and so much potential for the future of this business and it all got pissed away because of a few insecure, middle-aged/old-aged men either desperately clinging onto their fading spotlight or a grabbing a spotlight they never had any business in having.

What makes this so great is that Balls just failed the drug test.

I believe it's his sixth or seventh stint with the company.

He didn't attempt to get Jericho over, though. Hall did what he did to get a pop and fool people into thinking he did something that he didn't. It worked on both counts.

If someone suitable comes along, and it's handled right, the streak should end. It's called doing what's right for business.

All of Warrior's good matches were down to the other guy working his ass off and, in the case of the Hogan match, going through the match move-for-move for two months prior. Those matches might have been better than Goldberg's best matches, but Goldberg at least was an active part of his good matches and worked hard.

You need to go to http://noah.puroresufan.com/ and check out the reaction to the GHC Title match.

I think they've mixed up Milano Collection A.T with Milanito Collection A.T, who is a smaller version of Milano.

Goldberg was so much better than Warrior. Goldberg is very underrated as a worker.