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No, he has confidence when he speaks and isn't uneasy like Benoit and Benjamin can get, it's that his actual God-given voice is like Michael Jackson. Paging Paul Heyman.

Actually in regards to JR, I heard he, along with Benoit, refused to say anything bad about Bret while the interviewer tried to get Piper to say bad things about Bret with loaded questions and Piper started picking up on it. The others trashed him, HBK, HHH, and Hogan in particular.

It's Hyperbole. Oxford Dictionary meaning: Excess, extravagance.

Ransome pretty much covered your first paragraph for me. I don't know about you, but does BIG TIME matches mean that even though you are the champion, you don't headline as a title match (see Bad Blood 2004) and even when your match is on top, your storyline (or lack thereof) takes a backseat to your top challenger's feud with a retard? Benoit's title win was good, but his reign was not. Cena and Batista's World title reign's have been handled way better. You are right about Benoit being past his prime. However, Benoit past his prime is still better in the ring than just about every person on the WWE roster except Eddie on some nights. My point is that the No Mercy card is hardly worth $35 of my money at this point. Most brand exclusive shows are that way to me. I have high expectations for my money.

I liked Blaster Lashley better myself. Lashley has the look they like and because of that he'll probrably be protected well. (hence them having Dean work with him because Dean worked with him a lot in OVW and knows what will get over) Unless he becomes like Carlito, who showed zero charisma in OVW and then blossomed in the mic department once called up, they need to find Lashley a mouthpiece because his voice is the shits. Again, because of his size, he'll be given oppurtunity to get over.

Not that I disagree with you Porter, but to play a little devil's advocate.. Perhaps TNA isn't looking to "blow it's load" even though this is the launch. Perhaps they are waiting until BFG or even a little later before doing something really big anglewise or big match delivery.

No it does not. I love watching Benoit as much as the next smart mark, but for him to have this lowly title after seeing them screw up his World title program makes it hard to watch. He's the company's best guy in the ring and they don't keep him strong. I'm not even saying he should be World champ or anything, but right now, since he moved to SD, he has been portrayed as anything but ME material.

So far, No Mercy looks like... Batista v Eddie JBL v Rey MNM v LOD 5000 Lashley v Simon Dean Taker v The Ortons Casket match Color me under fucking welmed at that lame attempt at putting together a ppv. May have to skip this one and look to Survivor Series because this is not worth $35. Hell, it's not worth $10.

I'm pretty much of this mindset. I don't care to read Warrior's long winded, insane rants and no way in fucking hell I give Vince McMahon a dime of my money so I can watch him bury someone so he can get his rocks off. Fuck 'em both.

I am interesting in seeing this visual.

Problem is at the beginning of Eric's administration, Hogan and the "star power" still had drawing legs. Dixie's "stars" don't even have that luxury because they are nothing but albatrosses around TNA's neck. Kind of weird that TNA was created to get Jeff over as the main star in a wrestling promotion, it's perception changed to something that is different and could provide a decent alternative in the monopoly that is US wrestling, and Jeff is doing whatever he has to to keep the original vision of TNA alive.

It looks like that, but hopefully TNA can edit it so it looks like dynamite. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, the beauty of taping shows versus live ones. I never got why Raw didn't go to taping after WCW went under. The whole reason for doing live shows was so 1) Eric couldn't spoil the results so much and 2) The so called "anything can happen" so don't tune out mentality. Once WCW went the way of the dodo, live shows should've gone by the way side. Lord knows Raw could've used some editing the last 4 years.

The Observer said the difference was USA is in 88 million homes and Spike is in 87 million homes.

$80 Million in the US alone is going to be really tough since this is the dead season for the big screen. If it finds an audience overseas and the DVD's do well, I'd like to hope for sequels. $20-$30 million opening would be great for an opening, but the key is to look for weeks 2 and 3 for the drop off. Those will be the true indicators as to whether or not the movie has box office legs or is just a one shot opening weekend of fanboys and curious moviegoers.

Another thing is Meltz believes that the US pro wrestling audience is a bigger factor to MMA (UFC in particular) than it really is. Like HTQ said in his interview on the Danger Zone (cheap plug, go there now!) I also think UFC's audience is more boxing type guys than wrestling. It's not to say that there is zero crossover appeal, just less than what Meltz thinks.

Meltz has to do this sort of thing. Really, I don't see UFC and TNA being real competition just yet. However, Meltz has to portray that things are heating up in the pro wrestling business or else he stands to lose a lot of his audience. He bad mouths WWE for sure, but he can't go full monty because if he portrays that there's no hope, than why would people buy his newsletters or come to his site? They'd just give up. He has to give a glimmer of hope that either A) WWE is bad, but not hopeless or B) Play up the new competition.

So Bentley can superkick one or both his opponents to heat up BFG?

This is from the Observer site in regards to last night....

Just wrapped up the DVD set last night. I'm hooked. Can't wait for this friday. I'm actually circulating the DVD set to some of my friends to try to convert them and eventually get their asses into the theatres.

Another factor in this duel of Iron Man Matches is the finish. WWE has Taboo Tuesday coming up, where fans decide things by voting. Most are assuming that Angle will end up with a title match against Cena and the fans will be deciding on a stip. However, Shawn Michaels is involved here and the one thing he isn't trying to have is someone going over him. I can see them booking the Iron man to a draw and then booking team giving fans the chance to vote for either Angle, HBK, or whoever ,perhaps Edge to keep up the story that he keeps getting out voted at TT for title shots and lines him up perfectly as a challenger around Survivor Series time. He could say he's using his MITB shot at the winner of TT at Survivor Series. (hey, I should be on creative Daniels and AJ will probrably have a decisive winner because both men don't mind losing to the other. Angle/Michaels could become effected if they do even-steven booking of their Iron Man match and it's not out of the relm of possibility either.

That's because he can't. It would make him look worse in the industry if he had a show littered with sniping at Spike. He already has UPN up his ass for the Muhammed Hassan fiasco and the last thing he needs is Viacom (?) looking for a reason to have lawyers looking for clauses to get out of their new deal the moment they screw up again and do something really offensive.

Well, it's not like WWE are paragons of virtue. Vince made ridiculous demands when negotiating and seeing that WWE didn't deliver ratings it on a consistent basis due to bad booking and failure to create stars, (this is where some will insert the "cyclical" defense) I could see where Spike didn't want to give Vince what he wanted, despite WWE helping Spike get from TNN to where they are now. However, I don't see where Spike owes WWE anything. Their deal is over. I'm sure Vince is just loving thinking he's the victim here when, if given the chance, he'd screw with whoever over whatever whenever he can. I'm sure if WWE were a hotter commodity, Vince wouldn't think twice about fucking Spike over for a better deal and would probrably kick dirt on the network on the way out. Spike isn't right for handling things like they did, but it's not like WWE is known for being a company that is very honorable and deserving of a nice send-off.

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Believe it or not, Jarrett-Nash, while as a match it will suck ass, almost has to happen if long term booking and planning are a part of TNA. They don't want to give away the elevation of Brown and/or Joe just yet. As stated in the latest Observer, they have to establish those guys first and make fans want to see Brown and Joe challenge for the title. Then after a heated buildup, you deliver the match. Giving Brown the shot and title now is hot shotting and opening him up to becoming a transitional champ instead of a long term one if his reign starts to show it doesn't have legs. The important thing is for TNA to use Jarrett as the transitional champ until they build up the proper long term guy. The problem with that is Jarrett doesn't have a good track record of helping make guys into stars and putting people over. Ditto Nash. While they could do it, there is no evidence that they will put guys over no matter what they say in interviews.

The Worm and People's Elbow are moves that are over because of the character executing them. The Canadian Destroyer is over because of the move itself and degree of difficulty involved in executing it.