RavishingRickRudo

Elvis was in the 50s, Bucky would have done better doing some Elvis. I just don't like Paris. Theres something about her voice for the most part that annoys me. It was like she was performing the song, but she wasn't feeling the song.

This is just awful. Certainly there has to be a better song from the 50s catalogue for Bucky.

Wow, Mandisa might just be able to blast it out of the park each week. It didn't do anything for me, but it was still one of the best performances thus far in the season. It's nothing I would buy or stop to listen to on the radio, but for a performance show, infront of an audience, it certainly got the job done.

Yeah, I think the stylists learned their lesson after the black dress debacle with Kellie. Bright colours are much better. Barry is there every year, isn't he?

Part of me thinks that Vince was caught playing with dolls when he was a young lad and this is him trying to live out those fantasies in a more acceptable (?) manner. Another part of me thinks that this is Steph playing with dolls because all her parents gave her growing up were wrestling figures and she hated them for it (which explains SO much).

Maybe if Mickie was being controlled by someone. Like, she had someone in her ear telling her that Trish loved her and whatnot. Another thing is this program doesn't really have much legs to it. They fight, they have a rematch, it's over. The womens division goes back to being pointless. Another chick, it could even be someone in their development, is manipulating Mickie, so Mickie can beat up Trish for her, take the title at Mania (with help from unidentified chick), and give the title to her (the 2nd Raw after Mania, the first Raw after Mania introduces the chick to the audience where their match for the next week is established. That 2nd Raw has the fingerpoke of doom finish, along with the two kissing, revealing that the relationship goes deeper). They could go almost the entire year running with those three, with Mickie acting as the bodyguard preventing Trish from getting to the real threat, until Trish finally beats Mickie and gets her title shot. And you can also have Mickie discovering she's been manipulated and turns on the chick. Hell, even though it would suck ring-wise, they could have Lita be pulling the strings, and blow it all up.

I stopped giving a shit about this feud a while ago. It worked for me the first few weeks because Mickey was so upbeat and they weren't playing the turn up at all, which meant the possibility of them taking a different route (other than the Single White Female crap that they've been doing). Now it's pretty conventional and boring. There isn't a good feud in the WWE right now, the only two that are passable are Finlay/Lashley and Mickey/Trish (which, while boring, has at least been structured and somewhat coherent)

AWESOME match between Colt Cabana and Beef Wellington. BRILLIANT, even. The nip up spots are fucking tremendous. I am going to go to an indy show this week that has Jerry Lynn, Alex Shelley, and Sonjay Dutt - who I all like - but the reason I am going is for Beef Wellington. The nip up spot(s) alone make this a MOTYC, whenever it was. Fucking amazing stuff. Better than 99% of the stuff I've seen in the past few years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDCCu2m0zw&search=bob%20sapp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4bhx3uiEFM&search=bob%20sapp Sapp vs. Cro Cop Sapp vs. Kimo

Rosey, now you are free. Be the God you were meant to be. We need a Rosey/Albert team, STAT.

You see spinning back kicks/fists, jumping spins kicks, axe kicks etc. by some of the more dynamic fighters. The problem is leaving yourself open for a counter-attack, which is why more fighters are conservative in the move dept. than willing to take the risks. I imagine most techniques used in traditional martial arts could be applied to MMA, it's just a matter of setting the move up, and following it up. We don't know which techniques work and which don't unless guys try them. Sakuraba did a cartwheel guard pass, the jumping double stomp, mongolian chops. After that, you had more guys doing unorthodox techniques, though a lil less now because of Sakurabas decline. It's very much an evolutionary process with MMA, and Natural Selection is the strongest styles survive. And lots of TMA are dogmatic in their approach and are so focused on routine that they lose sight of practicality. It gets to the point to where it's "ok, you punch me. No, you are punching wrong. Ok, just leave your arm out. *WHAPAH~!* now I broke your wrist. It also helps that they only compete against guys who study the same style of fighting, so they don't have to worry about, say, a takedown if they are a standing martial art. That would change the dynamic greatly.

"Think about what you would do if you were in my situation" "The question you should be asking yourself is: what would you do if you were in mine" BAUER. The German with the Chinese makes sense. Though if he knew about the situation with the Chinese, he should have recognized Bauer. However, if he is out for vengeance, it should be easy to find Jacks enemies. Audrey supplying the schematics will probably turn out something like she was framed, but Jack did enough to lose her, which makes Jacks day even worse.

I think if you took Tank out of MMA history and then you took Randy out of MMA history, there would be a much greater effect in taking Randy out than Tank.

It was the standard wrestling piece where the reporter gets in the ring and gets beat up.

What about Late Afternoon Main Event? It's much more fitting.

I've heard numerous times that this show did a good-great job in building towards WM. That it helped further angles. This show did nothing to further anything. What did it do? HHH hates Cena. Cena hates HHH. We know this. Smackdown is lesser than RAW. We know this. Edge doesn't like Foley and vice versa. Booker and Sharmell are afraid of the Boogeyman. We know this. JBL is a tool. Austin likes to get drunk. Benoit is there. We know this. Vince hates Shawn. Shane hates Shawn. Shawn is having a hard time with them hating him. We know this. It didn't further anything. It just re-established shit that we already knew. If this show never existed, it wouldn't have mattered, because it didn't do anything more than what they've already done. The only thing that they furthered was Mickey/Trish, and even that was something we knew. If they did a spin on it, like Trish decks Mickey after kissing her, then it would have mattered. Mickey turning on Trish? If someone had missed the show and you told them that, they just would have said "Oh". If Trish beat the crap out of Mickey, it might have gotten a "Oh, really?".

It's MMA-Snark.com. They are the equivalent of WWEDIVAS4BOOBZ.com

Wrestling-wise, I didn't have a whole lot of problems with the opener. Booking wise, it was awful. The last match, though, was bad both wrestling-wise and booking wise. Not because it was a garbage match, but because it was a bad garbage match. That table spot was poorly placed and not very smartly used. It was such a big spot and they had it placed in the opening stages of the match, and didn't build to it at all and didn't build from it either. It was used as a spot leading to the commercial break, and after the break they were on their feet and fighting in the ring like it never happened. So the heat they got from that one spot, the buzz, they never improved upon or used. So even though it worked in exciting the crowd, it didn't have a lasting influence on the match in anyone way. Now, some would say "But Rudo, Taker/Angle had no selling and you said it didn't matter because the crowd was still into it. If the crowd was into that move, it shouldn't matter if it was poorly used or no sold, you are being a hypocrite again". These, of course, would be the people who don't actually read what I write and just pick that one part out of my argument and think that's my entire point. Taker/Angle used their no selling in a way that got the crowd buzzing and they continually progressed forward and furthered the "momentum" of the heat, right until the climax. That was "working" the crowd. That was part of its brilliance. There wasn't a whole lot of "work" done in Michaels/Shane and specifically in that ladder spot. It was random. The shit done in Taker/Angle was done for a reason. Much smarter. Much better laid out. Much more effective, because the crowd for Taker/Angle was much more rabid than Shawn/Shane.

The "this is your life" quote is hilarious. So what? It got that rating in 1999. In case you haven't noticed, it's 2006 now and tastes have changed. People are 7 years older now. Someone who was 10 then, is 17 now. You're saying a 17 year olds taste isn't different from when he was ten? Someone who was 16 then, who cared about whether the girl sitting next to him in high school chemistry likes him or not, is 23 now and either in or past college and is working on his career. They'd like different shit. It's akin to saying "The Blair Witch Project made 140 million in the box office" in support of making a Blair Witch-style movie now. Or "Who wants to be a Millionaire" was the top rated show in 1999, so there should be more gameshows like that on TV today. It's a classic case of not getting it. But I'm the dumbfuck.

Someone called me a hypocrite on another board because I have said in the past that wrestling is about popping an audience and what the WWE did on SNME was designed to pop an audience, so their intentions were good. Or something. Wrestling is about making money. Period. Pops are good. You want the crowd to be entertained and their positive reactions tell you they are (though in todays WWE, there is somewhat of a pavlovian response that isn't an indication of anything other them knowing what to respond to) - but this is only in the name of money. Popping a crowd is a symptom of making money. And like symptoms are to sickness, not all pops mean that you will be making money. A cough is a symptom of a cold. Not all coughs mean you have a cold, though. Saturday Nights Main Event and how the crowd reacted in no way means that the WWE has a caught a cold. The WWE's intention isn't to pop a crowd, it's to make money**. Popping a crowd just happens to be tied directly and irrevocably in with making money. However, like I said, not all pops mean you make money. You just can't make money without the crowd pops. It's like one of those SAT Questions. Not all A is B. But all B is A. I'll use an example from SNME, and this can pretty much be applied to everything they did last night. The WWE put out crowd-favourite Steve Austin with JBL. This was designed to do what? It wasn't designed to make money. Cause the Wrestlemania match is between Benoit and JBL. Austin can't wrestle and JBL was buried. Benoit was barely there. JBL and Austin won't be interacting in the future. So where was the money in this?? What was being sold? I can see someone saying "Well, Austin is a big name and he brings attention to whatever he's doing". Ok, but that attention wasn't used for anything productive. There was no focus, there was nothing to build on or from. The only purpose it had was to put Austin out there and drink beer so the crowd could pop, but there is no money. Not all A is B. (**Edit: That is, the WWEs intention *should* be to make money, and not pop a crowd. Somewhere along the way Vince has confused the two so for the past few years he has just been out to get a reaction from the crowd. So that's what he and his writers try to do and they have forgotten about the making money part. The objective for them is to get a reaction, when it should be to make money and entertaining the crowd is a way of getting money from them. Vince hasn't been trying to make more and more money, he has been trying to get a strong and stronger reaction. This, of course, has proven to be flawed. As they have made countless attempts to offend the audience, to get their blood boiling, and have made very little money from it.)

In 2003 I called Benjamin one of the guys to watch because he did have talent. I was, however, working from the assumption that he would take his athletic gifts and get better with experience. In 3 years he is still where he was at in 2003. He just doesn't know how to work. Part of the blame goes to the WWE because not a lot of people show improvement in their company, but most of the blame goes to Benjamin because it doesn't matter how bad the WWE is, after 3 years, the responsibility is on you to show some improvement.

Because they want to prove neither guy can work and thusly justify why they haven't used either guy to their fullest potential yet. I've stopped feeling bad for either guy. Benjamin hasn't improved at all in the past, what, 4 years?

I would pay money to see that happen, just to watch his knees and ribs get destroyed by a legit kickboxer. Tong Po, anyone? I think I have the perfect scenario down. Takers urn gets stolen. So he goes to Bangkok to get it back. In the process he gets involved in an underground fight ring. We shall call it. Ong Take.

The problem is they don't know how to cook. Period. They can't pick out the right steak. They can't find the right seasonings. They don't know the proper heat settings. And they don't know how long they should keep the meat on the grill. And to make matters worse, throughout this whole process, they think they are baking a cake.

Watching Fyedor in your avatar speaks volumes about that demo. Heeey.... your show... *pfff*... that's right... I'm such a dick.