Dangerous A

Subway Club w/side of minestrone soup.

Or he could just brawl his way out of the match like he did with Hassan on SD. (except of course they weren't inside a cage for that)

Jasikevicius will get in a fist fight with Ron Artest at practice or shootaround within the first 2 months of the season opening. Bank on it.

I'd actually be a smidge interested in an Elimination Chamber match with Batista/JBL/Taker/Orton/Benoit/perhaps Christian. Problem is HHH won't let the Chamber (or HIAC) gimmick on SD because he knows those 2 cage matches are draws. Also, it seems HHH HAS to be in a Chamber or HIAC match if one is to take place.

The Battle of the Bands bit is dumb and I hope they actually battle and end up in pull apart brawl mode before any of the "musical" performances ever take place. Did no one in WWE learn from the mistakes of the West Texas Rednecks v. No Limit Soldiers feud from WCW? They won't be able to control that particular environment because it's music. People have their opinions about music and they won't be able to manipulate people to like Rap or like Rock music. Crowd responses will be interesting in that one.

Because WWE are damn fools.

"Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard was recently played on an 80's music station I had on.

Face it, y'all ain't making it to 101 without repeats of previous reasons.

Where in any of my posts did I say anything about "Hustle and Flow" being "black" movie? I know it's about the rise of a pimp from street hustler to rap artist. However, from what I've seen in the previews, it doesn't look that good. I'm not feeling it. I had the same feelings about 8 Mile. I ended up seeing 8 Mile on cable and while it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be, I was glad I didn't see it in a theatre. Perhaps the same thing happens with this movie, but it doesn't mean I can't wish bad things upon it. Not sure where the "black" movie comment comes from since I never mentioned it. I just think it looks like a "bad" movie, not a "black" movie.

I got no problem if a team wants to take a chance on Kemp. Their risk. I like a good redemption story. Not sure of his chances for success, but I wouldn't mind seeing the attempt.

The intention is nice, but the problem is Hassan CAN'T wrestle his ass off. I'm not sure if you've caught, oh, ANY his matches, but he sucks in the ring and he definitely won't get over with his in ring work. He was called up about 2-3 years too early from OVW. Dude needs to go back to OVW and change his look by either bulking up on juice or growing his hair back long. Anything to get him away from the Hassan character.

The problem with that is Creative doesn't think the US title is important, so they don't book it properly and it ends up looking bad. Even when Cena had the title, it didn't mean shit and it was more Cena being over than him having the title. The US champs before and after Cena have all been forgotten.

Why? It looked stupid to me, that's why I wanted it to fail. Like I give a flying fuck what Sundance people thought. Thing is it doesn't need a big opening since the budget was probrably peanuts. Why are you so happy to see Scarlett Johanssen fail? Why, cause she has more acting talent than Lohan and Duff have combined?

Just finished Marie Calender's brunch. Had a brocolli and ham omellette from the omellette bar as well as some roast beef and waffles.

I'm not. Hardships of a pimp? Not appealing enough to spend $8-$10 to watch. This is a movie I'm glad it fell on it's face, and I'm a huge hip hop fan. This just didn't appeal to me on any level.

I am going to have to agree. Topless Johanssen >The World

Holy shit, that was fucking funny.

BBQ Cheeseburgers and potato salad.

That is the pic from his OVW debut where WWE Creative insisted (yes WWE Creative insisted as said in last week's Observer) that Boogeyman debut with antlers on his head. Antlers or no antlers, this is going to tank badly. Did you all know he has one 15 second squash match under his belt? Cornette and everyone in OVW said he's not even ready to do AN OVW TV MATCH YET!!! Do you know how bad that is? In this week's Observer, it's said Vince loves him because, and brace yourselves for this, HE REMINDS HIM OF ZEUS!!!!!!!! Isn't reminding you of Zeus supposed to be a red flag to NOT have a guy brought up? Further evidence Vince has completely lost his mind.

WWE has no problems doing 3 ways, no matter how big the PPV. In 1999 @ Summerslam, they ran HHH v Austin v Foley as the main event and last year @ WMXX, they had HHH v HBK v Benoit as the main event on THE biggest show of the year.

Nothing blow away at all on this show. Are they trying to make SD bad? Keep promoting shows like this and I'll start to believe it. NoCalMike, I kind of feel the same way you do. (since I am one of the guys in the group and all) Here are my thoughts and predicitons... World Championship Batista © vs. John Bradshaw Layfield This will actually test JBL more than Batista since Batista isn't the one who will be pacing the match, it'll be Bradshaw. With the new revelations about the Hassan character, they may end this in a schmozz of some kind if they don't want to do Batista/Taker yet. WWE Tag Team Championship MNM © vs. Road Warrior Animal & Heidenreich This can't be anything but bad. Animal looks to have eaten a small child. Heidenreich is one of the top 3 worse workers in the company. Nitro has the same amount of offense as Carlito and Mercury is decent, but can't work for 4. We should all pray this ends in less than 5 minutes. U.S. Championship Orlando Jordan © vs. Chris Benoit As RRR brought up, this actually takes Benoit down a peg since he should be in the World title hunt, not fighting for the most poorly protected championship against the most poorly protected champion. Still, Orlando is nowhere near the level of Benoit and has no business on SD or Raw. This should basically be one huge squash since Orlando has no credibility whatsoever. I normally don't advocate squashes or not making guys look good, but this is one instance where Benoit needs to go into business for himself and kill this idiot. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio. If Eddie wins, he will tell Rey's "secret". If he loses, he will never reveal it. For WrestleCrap reasons, I am morbidly curious as to what this secret is. I can damn near guarantee it won't help either man one iota and may help destroy one or both of them. They are not going to do anything in the ring that they haven't already done or we haven't already seen, so I don't expect the in ring work to suck, but it also won't blow me away. Number One Contender Match The Undertaker vs. Muhammad Hassan The ONLY reason I have an interest in this is to see a) if they write off Hassan as a character and b) if they do, will they kill him as in a squash match or literally kill him a la Paul Bearer? Other than that, this match will stink. Unless Hassan let's UT take him by the hand and walks him through a watchable match, this thing has no prayer of being anything but a bad match. UT couldn't do anything with Heidenreich, and Hassan is as bad as Heidenreich in the ring. Bra & Panties Match Special Referee: Candice Michelle Melina vs. Torrie Wilson This has zero appeal to me. I've already as much as I'm going to see from these women in regards to skin. Hell, I've already seen Torrie naked. What makes this match any more appealing than the other B & P matches? It's filler and I get that we "have" to have this crap on the show, it's just that since we've already seen everything there is to see skinwise from these women, why waste my time? Booker T vs. Christian A nothing match. Even if they turned Christian face or Booker heel, where is it really going to go in the big picture? This is spinning the wheels in the mud if I've ever seen it in regards to these 2 guys careers. Look at it this way, if Booker wins, who cares? If Christian wins, who cares? They've positioned as unimportant and it's obvious that Creative doens't care about them. So why should I? Because the IWC likes them? Methinks not. The Mexicools vs. The BWO I like the Mexicools and don't hate the BWO, so hopefully this can at least be fun. Other than that, I don't have any real expectations either way for this match

According to the latest Observer, Spike is putting the show on largely because they are being paid for the time, and those with knowledge of the deal say it's going to be very difficult to make it work in building a profitable business model. It's a far worse deal than ECW, as ECW was not buying time, but did have to pay TV production costs. TNA has to do both, and has a worse time slot which WWE hasn't even been able to get ratings in since the Confidential days. Better hope that Howard Stern-UFC bookends bit works or else this deal looks like the last straw for TNA business wise.

If Rey can't have a kid, why does he have 2 kids who have been shown on WWE TV? He has a son and daughter. What, Rey's sperm can't produce a son, so he asks Eddie to fuck his wife so he can have a boy? Doesn't work for me. As for Eddie being Dominick's father and Rey being ok with it, that doesn't fly either cause then Rey is a punk for being ok with Eddie fucking his wife. Even if there was a cooling off period, it's lame and it's us filling in logic gaps that creative (and Rey) have dug themselves into. It's only a day away, let them reveal it and then we'll either praise or hammer it. We should stop trying to fill in logic gaps so the storylines fit. Creative's job is to provide us with storylines that aren't convoluted and straight forward without having to fill in gaps.

I kind of had reservations about posting that stuff, but said "fuck it" and ran with it. I'll just keep my Insider articles out and just post a summary of the important parts of the article in my own words, so as not to get TSM or myself in trouble.

To add to the discussion, this little blurb is taken from the WWE section of the new Observer... "Regarding Hassan, there is heat on him personally. Most in the company were not unhappy in the least about the negative publicity. There are schools of thought on it. I guess they thought all the pub Hassan into a media star and would help ratings. The problem is the heat in the pub wasn't on Hassan it was on WWE and UPN. The Heat on Hassan is that he's balked at some of their ideas to put major heat on him, whether it be fear for his own safety or just being uncomfortable with them. The talk has been that he has never done anything in wrestling and therefore shouldn't be saying no to any ideas." Just thought this was an interesting blurb to throw in here after the last page of posts in this thread.