Hunter's Torn Quad

It was, until Shawn had one of his infamous temper tantrums and decided he wasn't going to do two high profile jobs in a row. If you mean why they went with Sid vs. Taker, then that was down to Vince, as he always goes with big men when he panics.

They could. Jeter, for one, is a great babyface. Not that you'll ever get to see that on Raw.

Why did they do it though? I mean, it didn't achive anything did it? Best guess is that they wanted to protect Kid and not have him do so many jobs in a row.

http://www.youtube.com/w/Taue-vs-Akiyama?v=L-yPZKOxGcM http://www.youtube.com/w/KENTA-vs-Marufuji?v=Cfj-Zd9I3Os

The more people you try to get over the less chance any one of them has to get over. It's a nice idea in theory to give everyone something to do, but it's better to concentrate on getting handful of people over rather than everyone at once. Three Count was a Jimmy Hart idea. And, of all people, Kevin Nash was behind NBT, or at least pushing them.

And people say Shawn isn't a draw. In the right circumstances, Shawn can be a draw, and I don't think anyone would disagree. But as a regular headliner, he wouldn't be a draw. Had they gone through with their rematch the next month, there wouldn't have been anywhere near 640,000 buys.

His exact wording was: "The World Heavyweight title, which is scheduled to be Kurt Angle versus Mark Henry; there may be news about this match in the next couple of days". He didn't say what the change was, but the way he said it suggested the change is more likely to happen than not, and it sounded like someone is either going to be taken out of the match or added to it.

In his latest update, Alvarez said that there could be a change to the Angle vs. Henry match made in the next couple of days.

Besides, shit that EC incident with RVD and HHH was at Survivor Series 2002. How long does the guy have to be jobbed out over it? The guy has been hurt for a year. By now, any real heat against Rob for that has gone. But it's still remembered, and is no doubt used as a reason to not push Rob. Let's face it. What if HHH gets the WM shot and wins the title. So what? What can you do with it? It's just back to him shooting on everyone and holding others down, and frankly I don't see a remotely interesting feud with him holding the title at this point. Neither does anyone else. But it's going to happen again a bunch of times anyway. I'd almost just do Cena/HHH anyway at WM with no title on the line. I think at least one of those two will be the title match, and it will most likely be HHH. HTQ, I realize that RVD is going against Carlito on some house shows but is that really a biggie? Let's face it, this Carlito thing just needs to be a quick TV assbeating to get RVD back in the groove. It's not anything that has legs enough to last till WM. WWE are high on Carlito. Not enough to push him hard, but enough that he was one of the last two in the EC and they don't feed him to anyone not already a top guy. RVD isn't 'assbeating' Carlito, and they'll be together a while. The reason HHH winning makes no sense to me is that it looks like Edge is retaining at the Rumble. Another 3 way would suck, so let's dismiss that idea. And Edge/HHH, a heel vs. heel matchup at WM for the title? What a shitty idea. And HHH isn't really in a position to turn face. Hell, if anything he and Edge are almost too alike in their trash talking burial jobs on their opponents. It doesn't matter if it makes no sense to you, me or anyone else. At this point, it's more likley to happen because it doesn't make sense.

They don't see him at that level and he's getting put against Carlito post-Rumble. I think it'd be nice for RVD to win, but it isn't happening.

Shawn gets screwed a lot more if he loses a chance to main event WM.

Or better yet, Shawn's fury finally explodes and during an "unintentional" moment... He throws himself at vince. They could do a spot where someone is eliminated and is injured or something and Vince comes out to check on the injured wrestler in one of those oh so popular "worked shoots". Shawn,whom has been in for awhile only sees Vince stand ringside and without thinking, just flies over the ropes to attack him. Much better then Vince pulling Shawn out or something. It shows Vince has gotten into Shawn's mind. For Vince screwing Shawn out of a Rumble win to get the most heat, Shawn has to be close to winning it and Vince has to directly cost Shawn the win.

RVD's chances of winning the Rumble are so small as to make him a huge longshot. And Shawn isn't winning. The plan hasn't changed so far, and it's set to be Shawn vs. Vince at WM. Best bet for Shawn at the Rumble is Vince screws him out of the win to set up their match.

It's not that Spike has lost faith in TNA; Spike didn't think TNA could break the 1.0 barrier. Obviously, Spike aren't totally behind TNA, but they haven't lost faith in them, or they would stop giving them any specials and wouldn't have helped them get Sting.

I thought it was nice of Triple H to let us watch a booking meeting.

Work.

His name was John Bailey. And he was not a plant.

Because as bad of a person as he was, and he was that bad, he drew. It didn't last long, but he drew. And that's what mattered. Not happening. WWE think Savage is even nuttier than Warrior.

Hogan doesn't have to do shit if he doesn't want to.

Legend-types like Sting shouldn't wrestle much, because the more they do so the less they mean each time out. What would you instead?

From Da Meltz on The Law: Heidenreich getting released was mostly a WWE decision, and Heidenreich was not happy about it. Matt Hardy and Animal are being teamed up. WWE have finally accepted that Bret Hart is not coming in. Thinks WWE will end up begging for Hogan to come in, but not sure who they'll put him in with. Batista has ZERO chance of coming in time for WM.

There are times when Russo seems like he's throwing everything against to see what sticks but to say he's incapable of planning things out is ridiculous. The 1998 Survivor Series angle and everything leading up to it was more developed and thought out than anything the WWE has done in the last five years. Everything leading to the nWo reformation in December of 1999 was laid out really well too. The Rock heel turn was well written, that much is true. Not everything leading up to nWo version 653,322 was well written. The World title tournament, which was part of it, was one of the worst booked tournaments of all time. Not to mention we had another boring and pointless rehash of Montreal.

I think it goes without saying Russo wasn't being honest. Especially when Russo is virtually incapable of planning things out, much less sticking to those plans.

Russo has a book to plug

That's the impression I got. But Russo was booking for WCW when the Radz were still there. In fact they left the week after Russo was booted out the first time. You'd think that Russo would remember that. Maybe he does remember and chose not to bring it up. There are plenty of things he'd like to never bring up.