Hunter's Torn Quad

After this past Thursday, wasn't there any other lower level babyface they could have fed to Magnus?

It looks like they raided Ron Simmons wardrobe. http://www.justin.tv/warpig5

That and they wanted Patterson as ref in case Mr T got lost and they'd have someone who could direct traffic.

Joe has to come out looking like a killer. He's just come back from a beatdown, he's been given a makeover (the nature of which is dubious) and there needs to be one strong babyface that's a homegrown TNA talent. I would prefer Joe wins clean, but regardless of that I would expect some kind of angle where Joe goes overboard and has to be pulled off of Steiner and maybe gets DQ'd because of that. Team 3-D aren't breaking up, so either they win the belts for some kind of non-finish takes place. Or 3D lose and we get some goofy storyline over getting around the pre-match stips. I expect Styles to have to carry things here in terms of effort. In any event, I don't see the match being much above average and I expect a silly finish based around an equally silly storyline. The belt is Booker's property but he gets forced to 'return' it to TNA Presumably, this is designed for Suicide to shine and look good, all the while with the announcers having to ignore it when the fans pick up on who is under the suit. We'll get lots of crazy spots and most of them will look very contrived. I guess Suicides wins, but it doesn't really matter. The build up to this wasn't half bad until the last two weeks, when they started building up to Angle vs. Jarrett leaving this match an almost afterthought. It's a TNA main event, so we're going to get lots of overbooked gimmickry, and the surprise here would be if there wasn't a Foley turn. One presumes whatever happens will build to Angle vs. Jarrett and Sting vs. Foley, so I'll pick Foley to cause Sting to lose, either as his heel turn or to build to his heel turn down the road, and it'll be a convoluted mess.

It has it's own set of potential problems. One of which is known as 'GH gut', so named because it causes the internal organs to enlarge and gives the impression of having a gut. Of course, this is a cosmetic problem, with the more serious problem being the increased strain this puts on the heart, from having to pump our more blood.

Last I heard, they hadn't called Mae and I don't think they're going to. Mae almost hurt herself really badly the last time she was in the ring a few months ago so I think they're gunshy about putting her in any kind of match.

I guess he won't be extolling the virtues of steroids anymore. It's sad that family and friends have lost a loved one, but it's ironic that he spoke out against WWE in the wake of the death of Eddie Guerrero and promptly ignored the lessons that he seemed to want the company to learn.

I know I'm one of the few people who will have ever asked this question, but whatever happened to everyone's favorite You Shooter, Kent Jones?

I have many positive things to say about future Wrestlemania's. And, as advertised, my thoughts on the WM XII Iron Man match, which were originally posted in a discussion thread about said match: The first boos come at just shy of seven minutes into the math. Lawler told too many jokes. While a supposedly serious wrestling match was going on, this little pervert was cracking jokes about Stu, Helen and Bret Hart Bret played subtle heel through the match, tending to hit Shawn right at the break, while Shawn played total babyface. Lawler would kill moves dead. When Shawn headscissored Bret through the ropes to the floor where Bret landed in a heap, Lawler totally blew the move off, saying it didn’t hurt Bret at all, and it only frustrated him. Even when they replayed the move, Lawler tried his best to kill the move, not only saying it didn’t hurt Bret at all, but that all of these “high flying” moves don’t really hurt much anyway. Shawn worked on Bret’s left shoulder during the middle portion of the match, and at one point you can hear him ask Bret, “stay on the arm ?”, and what did it lead to ? Nothing. Oh, wait, I take that back. It led to Shawn putting a cross armbreaker on the wrong arm, which he immediately let go of, before applying the move to the arm he actually had been working on. There was a lot of work done on arms and limbs during the match that led nowhere. There were a few “Let’s go Bret”, chants here and there, but no such chants for Shawn. There was a ref bump half way through, but it didn’t lead to anything and served no purpose whatsoever. Around this time, Bret hits a piledriver on Shawn, which Lawler naturally pushes like hell as a fall winner, but Shawn kicks out, which is when the booing gets really loud. For a 60 minute Iron Man match, there were very few pinfall or submission attempts made. The whole match was wrestled like a standard match that was going to a 60 minute draw, rather than in Iron Man match that was going 60 minutes, and it showed glaringly. Neither man really went for any pinfalls or submissions nor did they show anything in terms of struggling when it came to fighting for decisions. Both men were guilty of some really sloppy work, where they would hit a big move, and instead of going for a pin, where the other guy was flat on his back, they’d instead go to a rest hold or go right into the next high spot. Shawn took a really big bump over the top rope, like his one against Jeff Jarrett at IYH 2, and Bret spent a long portion of the match working over both the back and Shawn’s legs as well. This was all well done stuff actually. All of which Shawn promptly no-sold when it came time to make his comeback. No limping, no grimacing, not even a squeal of pain. It was as if the last 15 minutes had never happened. About the 45 minute mark it really started to drag, which wasn’t helped by the aforementioned fact that the match wasn’t wrestled with any real intensity or fire, and both men seemed to be going through the motions of wrestling for 60 minutes as if it was an exhibition. You never got the impression that these two men were fighting over any issue of importance, but rather they were just going out there and doing an exhibition of moves and holds with none of it really meaning anything. All in all, the quality of the work itself was ****, but the structure of the match, and the fact that none of the work really led to anything, drags the match as a whole down to **1/2

Well, it's going to be neither: F4W

If a major network wanted wrestling, and it would had to have been a major network, Bischoff would have gotten the deal done. Bischoff was trying his best to make it work, and the idea he and Fusient gave up too easily is completely laughable.

F4W Lashley vs. Frye would be many buys. And while I think Bonnar will beat Coleman, I'd prefer Coleman winning.

Looks like Dumas showed loyalty after all; I'm sure she would have made more with WWE.

Nitro got decent ratings wrestling shows don't generate the ad revenue that equal, or even lesser, rated shows do, because of the negative stigma that wrestling and wrestling fans have.

Undertaker giving his opponents the last ride off of the 'ten punches in the corner' spot.

I'll just and copy and paste my original post: The WWF executive who initiated dialog with AOL TW about purchasing WCW was Stu Snyder and wouldn't you know that he and Brad Siegel were tight, having come up in the business world together. WOL - WWF buys WCW A very interesting and informative edition of WOL that covers the purchase that I've actually been listening to it today. It includes a recap of the press conference that Linda McMahon and, I believe, Snyder, held in regard to the purchase and details exactly what WWF got and it was a bit more than just some contracts and intellectual rights.

F4W

The lack of Rey on the card is really strange. He's one of their top guys, really popular, talented; you'd think they'd have something for him by now. If all he's getting is a spot in a cluster of some kind designed to give everyone without something to do a payoff, it's a waste.

Contrived, perhaps, but wasn't that the highest-rated segment of Monday night wrestling ever? The highest rated non-wrestling segment ever, yes. It also meant absolutely nothing in the long-run.

It is: Count me in as someone really looking forward to Rashad vs. Machida.

Am I the only one who doesn't see the correlation between the two? What's actually written in the Observer: It makes a lot more sense without such a poor job of paraphrasing. And there's nothing about JBL/Kozlov teaming at house shows, either.

You sure didn't sound so negative about me when I was supplying WON for TSM for 42 straight weeks! That was before you clogged up threads with every piece of trivial news you could copy and paste from PWI. "Hey everyone, some totally irrelevant WWE developmental talent was released. Here's his tl;dr blog about it" Boy, we sure wanted to know the latest on that major news item.

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