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Yes! Finlay in Money in the Bank!

Supposedly Mark Canterbury is training for a comeback down in OVW. Good god, just what we need again, more Hillbillies. I'd assume Trevor Murdoch will be repackaged as Trevor Godwinn?

I think Wrestlemania has a shot. The Smackdown Three Way and the Money in the Bank will obviously be good, but I think even Cena and Triple H could be pretty good if they put their working shoes on. I just wanna see Lashly and Finlay stiff the shit out of each other, and hope they don't get relegated to the pre-show.

This was about on par with the average WWE Show. There was some great stuff in the Mid-Card, particularly the Four Way, but the stuff with the Main Event guys was either Atrocious (The Eight Man Tag) or just complely dull and uninteresting (Christian vs Brown) and of course we couldn't go through one whole PPV without our Sprtz Entertainment ending.

Bristol was actually a very nice city, untill they decided to level all the factories and eliminate most of the jobs in the 80's when they built a Shopping Mall that was never able to do any significant buisiness.

So basically what you're saying is The argument that one could move elsewhere to a place with a lower cost of living is false, as it assumes that one would be paid the same amount of money for the same amount of work as one gets in the place with a high cost of living. Anyways, you're missing a point. I'm not whining about anything, my life is fine, I make enough money to keep myself busy, and I'm graduating from college in a few years in hopes that maybe some day I can get a better job doing something else. The point is that I'm angry about what I see the clear injustices of our society.

I've lived in and around the city of Waterbury, Connecticut my entire life, and for the past 5 years, I've worked there as well. While my mother often speaks of a time when things were good in the city, for as long as I've ever known it, it's been a complete and utter shithole, now more then ever. While just randomly walking around the mall I work in while trying to kill time while on break today, I've noticed that not only have things in this city, or any city for that matter, not improved, they're actually getting worse. What do I see just walking around the mall for 15 minutes? I see kids as young as six just loitering, attempting to come up with elaborate schemes to distract the employees at EB while they pocket Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I see girls as young as eight openly groping their boyfriends that are five, ten, or sometimes even more years older then they are. I see children, teenagers, and adults with no clue at all how to properly behave in a public situation, and not only do they not know how to behave, but they give birth to obnoxious children that grow up to be even worse then the parents. I see girls as young as 12 who are pregnant, I see 18 year old girls that already have a child and are pregnant with a second or a third, with no clue who the father of any of them might be. I see people that can't even put together a grammatically correct sentence in English OR Spanish. I see parents that need their children to speak English for them because they're not capable of doing so themself. I see teenagers that couldn't even name one fuckin song by the Beatles, but can name every track off the latest Daddy Yankee or My Chemical Romance album. Is this truely what we have come to as a society? Will we come to a point where one day Americas urban cities have no majority race, no definitive language, and no definitive culture? Has anyone even considerd the consequences of the generations of families that are giving birth to children at 14, with people becoming Grandparents in their Early-30's? Does anyone have any sort of guess as to what led society down such a rotting cesspool where Basketball Players and Football Players make millions a year but can't read or write, or where people on Welfare can go to the meat market on the first of the month and buy Filet Mignon and Prime Rib for themselves and their seventeen children, while I can barely afford a couple hamburger patties? People worry about possibly dying in a nuclear haulocaust twenty years from now, but I worry about being stabbed to death in the parking lot of the mall tomorrow by some guy who wants to steal my wallet and the six dollars I might have in there at any given time. Why does the city continue to build beautiful section 8 housing which will be destroyed in less then a year, while I can't afford 700 dollars a month to rent a two room apartment? What happened that forced the hard working people in this country to work even harder to make ends meet, while the idiots who aren't even capable of tying their own shoe get to sit at home and watch Maury all afternoon?

As long as we keep schmucks like Kim Jon Il who may very well be unbalanced mentally, from having Nukes, we'll be fine. Even crazies like the Iranians, who shouldn't have them either, aren't stupid enough to actually use them

I know I've seen some tape traders that claim to have all of them, but a lot of that could be BS. I'm sure if you dealt with a few different people you could get what you wanted, but finding tapes is getting harder and harder, because everyone is so afraid of lawsuits from WWE.

The key to working retail is to stick it out and outlast everyone around you, and eventually you will be on top. I've been working at the same movie theater for 4 years now. The first 3 years were pretty shitty, the pay was acceptable, but I only got about 20-25 hours a week. Last march, the theater I worked for was aquired by a much larger corporation, and in less then a year, I went from a low string supervisor, to most senior assistant manager, since everyone else above me quit or moved on, so I guess it's just a lot of luck.

Undertaker is actually a weird example of someone who has improved with age. He's still a terrible worker who has never been able to grasp the concept of selling moves, but he's been leaps and bounds better from 1998-now then he was 1990-1997, where he would consistantly be involved in the worst match on any given show.

A wrestler can very easily overcome a bad gimmick if they have the charisma and in ring skills to do so. For every Nailz and Akeem that go no where, there's at least as many guys like Triple H and Mankind that were able to overcome their shit gimmicks and get over with the fans. Hell, look at guys like Finlay and Boogeyman today. There's no reason on the planet why a drunken Irish Stereotype or a Modern Day Papa Shango should be over with the crowd, but I'll be damned if they aren't getting loud pops every week.

No, they just didn't want to see Bob Holly, Val Venis, Tyson Tomko, and Gene Snitsky in squash matches. No one watched Heat and Velocity not because it was nothing but squash matches, but becasue WWE programmed it's viewers to understand that none of these wrestlers matter at all, so you don't have to watch becasue nothing interesting is ever going to happen.

Obviously if you were to scale back to more squashes, you'd ahve to change the format for TV tapings too. No one watches Heat or Velocity, mostly because they only ever feature jobbers, and they're only on the Internet. Jobber squashes would help legitimize the mid-card wrestlers becasue they wouldn't constantly have to job for one another on free TV due to the constraints of having PPV calibur matches every week.

Do you think it would be conceivable that WWE could slowly start to shift back to the 80's and 90's model where Television is used to build up the mid-card guys as legitimate threats, while limiting encounters between Name Wrestlers to House Shows and PPVs that the fans have to pay to see? Certainly you could make the argument for both sides. Sure, more Jobber Squashes would mean a deacrease in quality of Television, and possibly lower ratings, but it would also in theory increase House Show Revenue and PPV buys so the fans can see the Main Eventers that don't wrestle on TV that often. It would also help establish and legitimize the mid-card guys more, as they wouldn't nescessarily lose on a weekly basis. On the other hand, it would probobly not work because monthly PPVs dictate instant feuds that have to be built up almost immediately. Was phasing out Jobber Squashes in the late-90's a pandoras box will can never be closed?

Seriously, what current storylines? So far, the Vince vs HBK storyline is "Vince is mad at Shawn for something". HHH vs Cena is "HHH is like, really awesome, and Cena really sucks but he has the belt", Orton vs Angle vs Rey is "EDDIE! EDDIE! EDDIE!". Only storylines I know of that are even remotely interesting is the Trish/Mickie one. Well, I didn't say they were GOOD storylines, they are just storylines. On that note, am I the only one who doesn't give a shit at all about the Trish / Mickey storyline? Neither one are very good actors, and the story really isn't going anywhere, and is only going to lead to more bad womens matches.

Eh, it'll be good for what it is, an attempt to showcase current WWE storylines and wrestlers to try and hook casual viewers or former fans who haven't watched in a long time.

To my knowlege, the Wrestlemania shows have been released 4 different times. The original Coliseum Videos, the 1997 Collection Box, the 1998 Legacy Set, and the 2005 DVD release, each one being at different edits of the same shows. I know the original Coliseum versions of the early shows are edited to fit in a 3 hour time window, except for Wrestlemania 4 which is 2 seperate tapes, but also had exclusive backstage interviews and promos that were only on the Coliseum Tapes. Now as far as I know the Collection Box from 1997 are the shows completely as they were originally broadcast on Closed Circuit / PPV, and the Legacy Set from 1998 are just re-releases of the original Coliseum Tapes that are edited to erase any mention of Coliseum Video , and are also on much poorer quality tapes which had a tendency to fall apart. The DVDs from what I understand are a mix of both the original broadcast versions, and the edited VHS shows, with all mentions of WWF and copywritten music edited out. So really, in order to have the definitive version of the Wrestlemania Shows, you would need the Collection Boxed Set, along with the Coliseum Tapes with their exclusive content, correct? Can anyone clear this up?

The Bashams I can almost guarantee will be on the chopping block after Wrestlemania. Rob Conway is also likely, with Eugene being the least likely, but still probable.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone even have a clue how far back the WWE's tape collection go? I know their own stuff must go back at least to the days of Capitol Wrestling on the Dumont Network in the 50's. but I've also heard that a lot of the stuff pre-1970's has been lost, including many important title changes like the Stasiak win, and both times Sammartino won the belt. How about the Jim Crockett Promotions stuff? or the AWA stuff? Might those very well go even further back, into the 40's or the 50's?

Yeah, the theater I manage is pretty urban in the first place, so we had 2 screens of this Madea crap running, and if you didn't know any better, you would have thought the Universe was collapsing in on itself in those Auditoriums based on how dark it was, which is unusual since we usual draw more hispanics to our theater then anything. Ph well, at least we have Ultra Violet to look forward to next weekend.

I picked this up at the mall today while looking for something to read at work. I've only read the first 25 pages or so, but it's a fairly interesting look at the early days of Northeast Wrestling, and a great response to anyone who might fairly criticize that WWE's current version of History begins on January 23, 1984, and that anything which may have happened prior to that isn't important. It basically profiles all of the major Capitol Wreslting, WWWF, and WWF stars prior to the Hogan Era, mixing a bit of work and shoot info about the guys. It's a steal at only 14 bucks, and will probobly go unnoticed by a lot of fans.

Heh, I got the poster for See No Evil the other day. I framed it and put t up right next to my poster for The Wizard

This channel will probobly take the place of the extra network slot which will be open on most cable systems when UPN and WB merge to become one network.

That doesn't matter, Matt Morgan, Mark Jindrak, Maven, Haas, and Spike Dudley were all in the midst of either coming off of angles or in the middle of minor pushes on TV and were all dumped. Ashley will be dumped when her contract is up, if not before that. Mark Henry will stick around. A guy like him is always useful, even if he can't work a lick, he's still fucking huge, and that has at least some value, maybe not a 10 year multi million dolalr contract, but still it's something.