Dangerous A

Beat me to it.

Actually ROH guys, if offered a TNA and WWE contract at the same time, can choose whoever they felt like signing with. ROH guys aren't under any kind of contract. They can leave to whoever. Now, a lot of ROH guys choose TNA before WWE because TNA isn't as restrictive in terms of style. Smaller guys also feel they have a better shot at getting over in the X Division, which is pushed as a bigger deal than WWE's cruiserweights. There really is not "dibs". If you're in ROH, you basically do it for exposure. There isn't anything really developmental about it. ROH is not OVW for TNA.

One reason his work in TNA didn't suck so hard is because he was used on and off. He didn't burn out as an act and he didn't cripple his body as much. If the ECW guys have to work a WWE-like schedule, Sabu won't last a year with them.

Guys like Sabu were not protected by TNA because they are flaky. Remember, Sabu has no showed ECW before and been publicly fired by Heyman in the past. Guys like Joe and AJ are under actual contract and even a guy like Strong has to wait, since he sent out feelers and was shut down once it was discovered he was under contract and not pay per appearance like Sabu. That said, for ECW, even under the WWE umbrella to survive, it's not going to be about who can they bring back from the past but who can they make into a star for the future. Problem there is once someone starts to show they are on the verge of a breakout, WWE will snatch them. It'll be up to Dreamer and Heyman to not only create stars, but to have a second tier group ready to take their place once WWE comes a knockin. That will be the biggest challenge IMO.

Eh, not worth $25 of my money. The Show was good, don't get me wrong, just not good enough for $25 and a spot in my collection. If WM21 wasn't good enough for my shelf, this sure isn't.

We need Charlie Sheen and Iron Sheik on the next Surreal Life. Right. Fucking. Now.

It's rather insignificant for TNA to lose him. He was too on/off TV to really mean much and TNA needs to trim the roster some anyways. (James Gang anyone?) The only thing he'll mean to ECW/WWE is some legitimacy in the startup of ECW. After that, it's back to being old and broken down.

Not a bad choice. There are several other guys you could make a case for, but Avery Johnson is as good a selection as you are going to get this year.

He had arthroscopic surgery on one of his knees right after Destination X. Not sure when he's due back.

As much as I hate games coming down to the refs whistle, Alfdogg is right. There was clearly a foul and they made the right call. I hate the argument of "let the players decide the game". Well, they did decide it. Kidd and Krstic fouled AJ. If they didn't foul him, the ref wouldn't have blown his whistle. Therefore, since Kidd and Krstic decided to foul, they in effect decided the game.

There is a God.

I hope to God they are only there because they are friends with Sting and Scott Steiner. If they signed any one of those 3 clowns to any kind of lengthy deal, they (meaning JJ, Dixie, anyone with power) are fucking clueless as ever and will never get past being just a lower rent rehash of WCW.

I think that Brock just wanted the chance to make money other than having to deal with WWE. He's still young enough that with a year or more of training, could become a hell of an MMA fighter.

Kings are fucked for Game 2 now that Artest is supsended for his elbow to Ginobili's mouth.

Nice to see the league is still doing very well in terms of attendence... http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2415700 Updated: April 21, 2006, 1:41 PM ET NBA sets attendance record for second straight yearAssociated Press NEW YORK -- The NBA set an attendance record for the second straight year, announcing Thursday that it averaged 17,558 fans for its games this season. With the league's arenas filled to 91.4 percent capacity, the league bettered last season's average of 17,314. Before that, the previous mark had been 17,252 in 1995-96. Commissioner David Stern said in a phone interview that he wasn't surprised by the figures. "Our teams are getting to be so intent on using the most impressive professional techniques for engaging their fans," he said, "for making the consumer experience so good, that we saw very early on that renewals were going well and that fans were responding in a positive way." The league does not release individual team totals, but according to ESPN.com, Detroit led the way with an average of more than 22,000 for its games at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Chicago and Dallas also drew more than 20,000 per game, with Miami and Cleveland rounding out the top five. The league's total attendance figure of 21,595,804 also was a record, surpassing the 21,296,497 of last season. A highlight was the performance of the New Orleans Hornets, who were barely outside the top 10 while playing in four different cities. Not surprisingly, some of the worst figures came from the Northwest. Portland, which had the NBA's worst record, was last with just over 15,000 fans per game. Seattle was 23rd. Both teams say they are losing money, and Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen has said he may sell the team. The SuperSonics could move out of Seattle when their lease expires in 2010 if they don't get a better arena deal. "There's an ebb and flow of building issues in any sports league and we just happen to be in the ebb," Stern said. "Hopefully the flow will pick up, and these things really do have a way of either working themselves out one way or the other." The NBA also announced that numbers were up in merchandising, sponsorships, visits to NBA.com and television viewership. Much of that business has been overseen by Adam Silver, who was appointed as the league's new deputy commissioner Wednesday. "We have to be in front of our fans however they consume us and the methodology for consuming us is changing," Stern said.

Yes, but I was starting to have to put money into it the last year of my having it. Since I moved to the Bay Area, I started putting more miles on my car traveling to and from Sacramento. I figured since I make more money, I might as well get a new ride.

Hayabusa breaking his neck trying to do the lionsault was even worse, although I do remember the Mike Awesome match and found it weird that Hayabusa got more fucked up doing the move, yet it lead to the finish.

I guess we'll just agree to disagree. Jones and Marshall are shooters, they just don't hit their open shots this year like they did in previous years. Murray is about the only consistent perimeter player I've seen. Hughes is a question mark since he can't stay healthy. I'll give you Big Z is a better center than anything LA has as a big man, but Gooden is vastly overrated and flat out disappears at times. Odom is more talented than anyone on Cleveland not named LeBron James. They have at least a serviceable big man in Brown and Smush and Luke Walton play very consistent as role players, something I can't say for the Cavs.

Corollas rule. I got a '96 Corolla brand new only 2 years removed from high school. I said good bye to her last year and got a fully loaded '04 Corolla, which rules since gas in the Bay Area is now $3.00 a gallon and I'm getting roughly 30 mpg between little city and lots of freeway driving.

This argument goes double for LeBron. If you take LeBron off the Cavs, then the Cavs would be staring up at the Knicks.

I'm thinking the finale will see Nicki either go back to Roman on the compound or leave the home all together with Season 2 beginning in the middle for the search for her.

Skipper is not Canadian. He's from the south somewhere. Heard it on a wrestling podcast about 6 months ago. Brother Runt sounds goofy. Runt is too close to that C-word that got Randy Orton into so much trouble recently.

My personal favs in order 1) Angle vs Taker -No Way Out 2) Edge vs Foley -WM22 3) JBL vs Benoit -SD TV 4) Rey vs Finlay -SD TV 5) Mickie vs Trish -WM22 Nothing else is memorable enough to warrant consideration. There is a serious lack of Raw matches that are good, which is sad considering they are the brand that is pushed in any way as special.

I've read in an interview that Chuck D is not please with Flav since he agreed to be on Surreal Life and how it spun into Flavor of Love. He feels that VH1 is exploiting Flav, which is true, but Flav is a grown ass man and it's not like he can't make decisions for himself. If Flav wants to be known as a knucklehead for money to the public, that's on him.

I'm not saying that there hasn't been any positive press. I'm just going by what I'm seeing where I'm at in the Bay Area since San Jose is a pretty big haven of MMA right now. There have been some positve articles in the SF Chronicle and some local free papers. However, when the local CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox affiliates run negative stories, some of which were designed to make MMA into the "Bloodsport" LOTC referred to, I just think perhaps a lot of the media still hasn't come around. If I could, I would buy stock in MMA (or at least UFC) because I get the feeling it'll grow monumentally in the next decade.