Zack Malibu

::revives thread.:: ::stomps on it.::

I can some up the best use of Cornette's ideas for WWE in one simple sentence. Book a strong tag division. This guy has booked his teams and his tag titles so strong in OVW that I dare say they mean more than most of the championships on the main roster. MNM, Heartbreakers, Thrillseekers (although rumor is that Johnny Jeter doesn't want to be typecast as a tag guy), Seth Skyfire and Mac Johnson, and earlier on with the Disciples of Synn, The Troubleshooters and the Jersey Shore Crew. Those are more full fledged tag teams than the main roster has had in some time. As for following OVW storylines, no, they do not have to do that. OVW booking is so old school and Southern the majority of the time anyhow that it'd be foolish for WWE to book those same angles because it goes against everything they've presented in the past. Still, some continuity and focus on what you've got going on in developmental would be nice. There is no excuse for having a guy work babyface and then shift gears, tell him he's turning heel, and call him up 2 weeks later. There is also no excuse to not listen to the concerns of the man in charge of developmental, which is something they have done numerous times when Cornette was vocal about people not being ready, only to see them pulled anyways.

Funny how in the Observer recently, it said that Fertig was paranoid about all the releases lately, knowing he's not too popular and could be on the bubble. Now it seems he's going out of his way to piss people off. Regarding Johnny Ace, this guy is doing himself no favors when it comes to being held in a high regard by fans or talent. Ironic that he played perhaps the biggest heel to date for OVW, and now truly is one. Cornette, while maybe he got a little colorful in his reprimand, was not out of line for scolding Fertig, yet much like the Hardy situation, it seems that Ace is looking for each and every excuse to vent his dislike/frustrations with someone.

We know that. It was seeing someone that was presented as the next Benoit turned into a gimmick worker. Granted, Dinsmore proposed the gimmick as a way to get on the roster, but it says something when you won't call up a good worker like him and are bringing up stiffs like Heidenreich. And if we're so anti-WWE, why are we OVW fans? It's more annoyance at the stupidity of the talent relations and the fact that many in WWE do not even pay remote attention to OVW.

Just telling you my opinion in what is wrong with the team.......it is obvious that I am not in "the business". I'm not saying your opinion is wrong as in "you can't think that way", but just that if you're going on what you see on RAW and Heat, you don't understand how badly botched their debut has been. That's where my "you don't have a clue" comes in. Simon Dean would be a terrible manager for the team. Mo Green (formerly Lamont with The Cat) didn't act or talk like them. Picture them being managed by The Godfather, just smaller and with more natural charisma.

Did Romeo always do the stupid ass kissing face 495890235 a match? The finisher is nice but everything else about the team sucks. No offense then, but you don't have a clue. Granted, they need work in the ring, but if WWE ran with them as they were in OVW and didn't tweak the gimmick, they'd be doing better for themselves. They have enough charisma to carry that gimmick and make up for the fact they're average workers. Also, for some of the best skits ever, you need to see the two OVW videos they did-one a workout video to "Let's Get Physical" and the other a shopping spree video set to their OVW theme song, "It's Raining Men".

The good thing about this is that they are actually sending in people who seem to give a damn about OVW (Dreamer and Snow, and Storm's been training guys there of late), rather than just sending anyone down (which is a move that wouldn't have surprised me). Morgan, as much as he's not much in the ring, could have been a goldmine for WWE, but has had his two callups to TV marred by stupidity. First time around (November '03 as part of Heyman's crew), they take a guy who has worked face his whole time in developmental, and turn him into a heel. A non-promo cutting heel at that, already taking away two pieces of his personality. Now, just weeks after taking part in a GREAT back and forth promo with Cornette about how he had been rushed into stardom, couldn't cut it, and was his "own worst enemy", he gets called back up to become Buh Buh Dudley 2K5. I shudder to think how Atlanta could turn out with no Cornette there.

The discussion about the Bashams (great rivals, excellent matches, good to great promo's from either of them, Doug especially) being morphed into the World's Blandest Tag Team could go on for days as well. A company is in desperate need of tag teams, and has one of the greatest tag team managers of all team booking their developmental terriotory. This man puts a major emphasis on the tag division, forming teams and alliances left and right. Brent Albright and Chris Masters debut for OVW as Johnny Ace's Troubleshooters, a heel team. About a year later, one is having a great surge of popularity and becoming a bonafide star in OVW, the other is daring indy workers to get out of his full nelson. The Jersey Shore Crew-Three guys and a girl, all admitted assholes who would screw their own families over to get ahead. So what do you do, WWE? Pull the most experienced one, an experienced ECW worker at that, and give him the Infomercial Gimmick From Hell. I love how MNM are so over, not just because they are great, but because their fame was somewhat of an accident. Joey Matthews wouldn't have even been in OVW if his girlfriend Alexis Laree didn't get signed to a deal, so he went their on his own. Nitro and Melina date in real life, so that was an obvious pairing, and Cornette felt by putting Matthews with them, Nitro could feed off him and learn something. They currently hold the distinction of being the only actual OVW act to remain intact on WWE TV. I also love how Cornette feared putting Big Bad John Heidenreich on OVW TV, yet we get to see him all the time on Smackdown.

Amen. You and I as OVW fans both know how badly they've ruined certain people.

Eskimo and I co-wrote the buildup to the main event, Frig.

Exactly what I was thinking. No buildup to the debut, no Mo Green to feed off of as the straight man (no pun intended) to the comedy act, and ruining the gimmick. For those who don't know, in OVW the Heartbreakers/throbs were blatantly gay, it was stated so by everyone, and they let their actions do the talking. Keep in mind that OVW, in the heart of Kentucky, has fans that got into the act so much they turned them babyface. Yes, you read that right. A homosexual team got turned face by Southern fans. Now they're left to rot as a comedy act on RAW.

From the WO daily update: -Jim Cornette has been given a leave of absence for 5 weeks by WWE after being upset with things that took place and the overall quality of the last two week's of OVW TV tapings and the company felt he was hitting a wall. Al Snow, Tommy Dreamer, Danny Davis and Lance Storm will be handling his work load until he returns, including running the first Six Flags show of the summer on 6/3. We'll have full details on this in this coming week's Observer. Snow will work with Dean Hill on the announcing for the next few TV's. Bobby Heenan will be in for tonight's TV to do some sort of an angle with Kenny Bolin. I'm not completely sure what specifially led to this, but I knew Cornette was getting frustrated. It's gotta suck being one of the few people who give a shit about the younger talent and then watch the higher-ups screw them up beyond belief in many cases. I don't think it's Cornette hitting a wall so much as running out of ways to replace the call-ups (MNM, Morgan and Heartbreakers the most recent) and trying to find ways to book around WWE's stupidity (putting Damaja/Doug Basham together, turning Dinsmore into Eugene, etc.).

You know, by insulting her, you're also fueling the rage of The Incredible Hoff.

Pssh, never happenin'.

I also enjoy looking at her too. HD should start off with a huge Kelly pic every week.

Precisely why I suggested Kelly Clarkson.

I so did reply. I mean, I just did it NOW, but I did it! So there.

Not as good as Kelly Clarkson.

Puff Daddy and Mase "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" would also be appropriate. An honest request from me would be Orgy's "Stitches". God I love that song.

Styles should get the belt, and his first feud should be with Daniels. Right there you've got two fresh people feuding over the title, guaranteed good matches, and your champion (AJ) is far and away a better worker than either of the World Champions in WWE.

"Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson.

Raven now has a legitimate myspace profile up, which is advertised on his own website. There's a link on the main page of his site if anyone else from here is on myspace and wants to add him.

1)Frank Andersson, who was from Switzerland. I believe he got into some legal trouble and disappeared from the sport. 2)Sick Boy (Scott Vick) was under a WWE developmental deal for a while in the late 90's-early 00's. I believe he also recently resurfaced and did a dark match or two. No idea what happened to Reese. 3)Ozzy was Ashley Hudson, who made a few appearances on TNA as SEX's "Australian Champion". I don't believe they ever closed the book on that angle.

We're all reading it, it's just that you have to count the people in school, the people working, the people doing both...sometimes people can only pop in and say a few words and not leave detailed feedback. There was a point where I wrote up an entire Scott Keith-esque review for a PPV (License To Pin) and did enormous feedbacks for every show, however reality catches up with all of us. For those who have the extra time, God bless ya for it. It's nothing personal by anyone, it's just how it is.

In an old Figure Four Weekly, it discusses the spot in a match review.