Hunter's Torn Quad

--Ticketmaster has 30% off all tickets for the 5/27 UFC show at the Staples Center, which is an update that tickets are not selling well. For more info you can go to www.ticketmaster.com/channe_partner/?brand=tmdeal Looks like, at least locally, this UFC isn't going to draw that well.

--Although the 6/7 USA Network special in Dayton is designed to get the ECW brand going, it is being advertised locally as a special Wednesday Night Raw, and all of the promotion is around the main Raw names like HHH, Edge, Cena, etc. appearing. There is a brief mention of ECW in the ad but it's buried. Credit Da Meltz.

"Good garbage wrestler"? That doesn't even make sense. Someone doesn't need to be talented to put on "garbage" matches. A performer without talent is hardly someone I would consider "good" or a "wrestler". So, Balls Mahoney is simply a person that brings that same type of talent to the table that any homeless guy on the street could. The new ECW would be better off without him. While anyone can hit someone else with a chair or blade, it takes talent to put on a good 'garbage' style match. Like them or not, there is a psychology to garbage matches, as there is to any kind of wrestling match, and not just any 'homeless guy' could do it.

--Regarding reports from PWI that Jim Cornette is coming to TNA, I do know the sides have been talking for some time but we haven't had any confirmation a deal has been made. Cornette is undergoing knee surgery on Tuesday and wouldn't be able to appear for a couple of months. There is virtually no chance Cornette would become booker of OVW when Paul Heyman gets pulled, which is inevitable. Nobody really knows who will be booking OVW at this point. From Da Meltz. Looks like PWI might be a little premature on declaring this a done deal.

--Smackdown ratings continue to fall as last night's show was down to a 2.3 on the fast nationals, falling to where it now is only beating WB. Ouch!

Henry's money was I believe cut down a while ago, along with Big Show's, when WWE renegotiated the contracts.

He was advised by his doctors to come back around August/September, but is aiming to return by the end of the month last I heard.

Buddy Lee Parker should sue for gimmick infringement.

I don't exactly remember what he said. I just remember bawling my eyes out. IIRC, it was on RAW. I recently watched the last nitro and didn't catch it on there, so during the night of the last nitro Vince was backstage gloating about buying WCW and he showed Jeff Jarrett on the TV and said something to the effect of he's out of a job. I'd like a transcript...or video, cuz I can't remember what he said. He did the same thing with Dustin Rhodes being shown on the television in the back, he said something like Dustin used to be Goldust here in the WWF, blah, blah, he's fired. Vince was in his office watching Nitro, and made reference to Jeff Jarrett, saying something like "J-E Double F is now G-O-N-E". Jarrett was backstage at Nitro and watching the simulcast with the rest of the wrestlers and when Vince said that, everyone looked at him and Jeff said, "Well, I guess I just got fired"

Probably. I could see him getting some wins over the perrenial jobber types before getting fed to someone. If TNA had folded before Panda stepped in and Jeff, for whatever reason, returned to WWE, he would have likely been fed to Lesnar.

Ted Dibiase vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts, WWF 24th April 1989 @ MSG You really can't go wrong with any DiBiase/Roberts match. They always had chemistry, and their matches were regularly in the ***-**** range. Mr. Perfect vs. Rugged Ronnie Garvin, WWF 12th December 1989 Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Rick Martel, WWF @ Madison Square Gardens 19th March 1990 These are both ok. Nothing great, but you probably won't feel you wasted your time after watching them. The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty) vs. The Powers of Pain (The Barbarian and The Warlord), WWF @ Madison Square Gardens January 15th 1990 A standard big guy/little guy tag match, with The Rockers bumping like crazy to get over the 'roid boys. Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Rick Rude in a steel cage match, WWF @ Madison Square Gardens 28th December 1989 A nice enough brawl, with a few twists along the way. It also has Rude, I think, bleeding a little. Mr. Perfect vs. Kerry Von Erich for the Intercontinental Title, WWF 16th September 1990 The Legion of Doom and The Ultimate Warrior vs. Demolition (All 3 Members including Crush, Smash and Ax), WWF 21st September 1990 @ Madison Square Gardens Mr. Perfect vs. Kerry Von Erich, WWF 12th December 1990 You can skip these.

he also fired Dustin Rhodes on national tv, and he hired him back. But Rhodes didn't hold him up for money. Not that Jarrett really did that, but that's how Vince sees it. Vince would have brought him in upper-midcard level, jobbed him out to a few guys, and Jarrett would have been gone after that. A short squash run is all he would have gotten. I don't think Vince would have even done that. Midcard is the best Jarrett would have placed, and even then he'd have been putting people over until he quit.

The chances of Jeff Jarrett returning to WWE would have been low with or without TNA. Vince pretty much fired the guy on live television on the simulcast of Raw and Nitro, and if Vince ever hired Jeff there would be no chance he'd be used in any kind of meaningful role, as Vince would do everything he could do make Jeff's life miserable.

The Giant was supposed to win the Battle Royal at WW III. Hogan alludes to it in his infamous 'rag sheet' promo during the PPV, where he also kills the storyline for the Savage/Luger match later that night by claiming Savage's arm injury was a work on everyone and that it's fine, even though the finish of the match plays off of the arm injury.

True. There's always a chance you might get back a form email from Todd Grisham.

Writing emails to anyone in charge at WWE is just as useless. At least something written here will get a response and might generate discussion.

At the end of the day, if you want to watch WWE watch it. If you feel let down and disillusioned and don't want to watch it, don't. If you feel dissillusioned and dislike the product but watch it anyway, then don't bitch about it because you know it's not for you. I stopped wanting to watch WWE when it became clear that, no matter, what happened, things would revolve around Hunter or Vince in some form on Raw, and whatever Smackdown did would always be positioned as secondary. I stuck with WWE, at least Raw, for longer than I thought I would, but eventually the drive to watch it got sapped away. If you go into things with the attitude of they're gonna fuck it up, however true that may be, you won't enjoy it because you'll be waiting for it to fail, you wont be thinking about the match and if they do something well, you wont appreciate it as much because you'll still be waiting for them to fuck it up. It's not an attitude but a feeling that, at any moment, the ceiling is going to cave in. When I did watch WWE with any seriousness I didn't wait for things to fail, and I did want them to succeed, but at the same time I always had the feeling in the back of my mind that things would fall apart because WWE had a track record of doing so. I was still able to enjoy a lot of the things they did right, but eventually the number of things they screwed up got so numerous that it was too much trouble to stick with it and I walked away. WWE is Sports Entertainment. They don't do things the smarks agree with, but that's because the people on this board aren't their target audience. Either watch it as a fan or don't watch it at all. WWE don't do things a lot of people don't agree with, not just 'smarks', but regular casual fans too. As for people on this board not being their target audience, a lot of people on here want to be their target audience, and would probably watch WWE if they promoted a quality product that WWE, with all their resources, have no real excuses not to deliver.

After almost ten years where there have been far more misses than hits, it's tough to really get excited when the odds are WWE will find some way to screw things up. After a while, even the staunchest fan gets disillusioned.

Yes.

I really hope Coach 'disappearing' has nothing to do with the 'TBD' announcer for ECW.

1992 The Year In Review.

Dixie sits in on the meetings and voices her opinion, though it is more often than not simply what she gets told by people who have influence over here, like Jeff.

It's hard to get excited about anything WWE tries to do because they so rarely get things right, and even when they do get things right, more often than not the usual egos get in the way and cut things off at the knees. If you've been a fan for 5 years and you're still getting excited, good for you. But don't expect sympathy if you get let down, as you probably will be, because WWE screw things up so much that you really should have seen it coming. Maybe if WWE go through a period with more hits than misses, then more people will feel able to get excited again, but that is unlikely to happen for all the obvious reasons.

Add to that Dixie Carter, and it sounds complete, though Jeff is the one making the final call on things.

Because I stay away from all wrestling sites until I am able to watch the PPV in question so I can avoid spoilers of any kind.