Hunter's Torn Quad

I'm not feeling it. Maybe next month.

Agreed. They do give credit to the wrestlers for working hard, and are positive about that, but Bryan and Vinny are merciless about ripping into the writing and booking. I might upload the show that talks about the latest Impact, but I don't think the TNA fans here would appreciate it.

Of those three limited workers, it's funny how the only one whose weaknesses he worked around was the guy who just happened to be Hunter's best friend.

From DDT - A Silence match This seriously may be the greatest match of all time.

If Cena and Orton takes place at No Mercy as well, they can have another non-finish or a post-match attack from Orton to set up a fourth match at Cyber Sunday. If Cena against Orton is happening at No Mercy and Cyber Sunday, they'll have to do something in the first match to warrant going back to it the next month.

I don't know about 2003 and 2005, but Hogan's run in 2002, at least as Unified champion, was a disaster. Ratings sank by about a full point on both shows.

3.9, with hours of 3.6 and 4.1 I think Cena gets DQ'd for beating on Orton too much, and then they come back for the blowoff match at the following PPV, maybe with a stip of Cena losing the title if he gets disqualified.

The gimmick change didn't last long, because Dustin didn't get over as Dustin Runnels, and he was back to Goldust after only a couple of months. Dustin Runnels was a heel, but when he reverted to Goldust he turned face on Val Venis, who I think was officially a heel but was getting cheered because of the gimmick.

Doubtful. WWF fans are weaned on star power and major league showmanship, qualities ECW sorely lacked. You might have got some WWF fans liking it, but the majority would have considered it low-rent and not bothered.

This is classic example of why Rock cut great entertainment promos, but terrible wrestling promos.

Around 1997. Vince took out some big loans to keep the company afloat, and Raw was very close to being canceled on USA.

Mike Johnson is reporting that not only will Bound for Glory have a Women's Gauntlet match, but a Monster's Ball match and an Ultimate X match.

Ken Anderson taking on Austin Aries, and looking a good 30lbs lighter He's sure bulked up a lot since then.

Kennedy was set to be part of the biggest angle of the year. One that was likely to lead into wrestlemania. Wrestlemania is seven months away, and Kennedy can still be plugged into the main event. Unforgiven is this Sunday, and I don't know who else WWE would have gone with after the hot angle they shot with Cena's father.

Anyone else see the latest WEC show, with the Rob McCollough vs. Rich Crunkilton main event? A really good event, and I thought the Bantamweight title fight was awesome. Chase Beebe didn't seem to tire at all for the five rounds, and just kept going and going.

What helped Orton more than anything was that he was set to headline a PPV. The wrongful death suit is probably to do with the Benoit situation.

I can't feel sorry for a man who quite clearly hasn't learned a thing over the years, and who still thinks it's 1997. Getting angry at the fans is missing the point, but for TNA it makes a great excuse to keep the blinders on. When your most diehard fans are rejecting something, it's the kind of thing that should send up red flags about what you're putting out, not be cause to raise the drawbridge and start lashing out. As for Russo's influence, just take a look at TNA since he came on board. His fingerprints are all over the product.

The problem with chanting "Fire Russo" is that if he didn't book the segment in question, TNA uses that as a reason to dismiss and ignore the fact that their most devoted fans are rejecting the segment. They generally try to play at as the fans just trying to get themselves over. Of course, they have no problem accepting the reaction of those same fans when they're going crazy for a hot match.

No. That match was booked all wrong for Goldberg. It went too long and he sold too much. Goldberg works best in short, explosive matches where he doesn't have to sell a lot. It's not that he's bad at selling, it's that the crowd die when he starts selling. They don't want to see it. They want Goldberg to generally kick someone's ass around the ring, maybe sell a little, and then fire back and hit the jackhammer for the win.

According to Mike Johnson at PWI, Sandman had showed up in 'questionable' condition at some house shows recently, and missed one of the South African house shows entirely. As well as that, he and Ricky Steamboat had words on the flight back. Sandman was apparently unhappy as well recently, and WWE had no problems with firing him.

I remember that. It still makes no sense.

Of the many things that helped bring about the downfall WCW, DDP getting the world title is way down on the list.

The idea at the time was for Austin to face Hogan at Wrestlemania the following year. With Hogan only wrestling infrequently, and being treated as a legend, it would have been a bad idea for Hogan to have lost the match with Shawn, or any match before facing Austin. A rematch the next month would have been pointless, because the draw was in it being the first time meeting of two legendary names, and it wouldn't have done even half the business Summerslam did.

Russo and Nash's booking reigns were different kinds of bullshit, almost as bad as each other, but Russo's did the most damage. Nash's booking centered around keeping him and the usual group of old guys around the top mix and virtually neglecting everyone else. Russo's booking, and I use that term loosely, was worse because it tried to turn WCW into a copy of the WWF and it started causing even the die-hard, long time WCW fans to turn off, and it really says something that even the hardest of the hardcore WCW fans were turned off, because they had suffered through some really bad TV up to that point. I can understand some people liking Russo's first run more than Nash's run, but no question that Russo's did the more significant damage, because even Nash wasn't running off the die-hards. Sullivan's regime wasn't as bad as much as it was boring. There was virtually nothing exciting about his entire three-month run.