RavishingRickRudo

The key works here are "in the past". He hasn't had a single impressive win in YEARS. He was set up to lose. Jobber. Can.

I go with Claire.

I did. Are you saying he wasn't expected to lose against Sapp?

I enjoyed that fight, as short as it was. They need to bring back Alex. I am assuming the change has to do with the teammates facing each other, rather than the opposing team. But c'mon, Forrest vs. Sam would fucking own.

Fuck, I hate this board. Sam is the greatest heel ever. So smug. He's awesome. Liddell has been hilarious in this episode.

They were at the last UFC live Oh man, let Forrest Fight. Just let him fight.

I am enjoying them watch the show way too much.

Man, they really need to rework the structure if they are going to have a TUF2.

For a guy who was just "destroyed", HHH looks alright outside of the ring here.

And he got his win back, and Benoit is going to be sent down the card, and it was a reminder that Benoit is back to being a midcarder, and it was proof that Benoit was never, ever "put over" by HHH at any time during his WWE career.

I like the idea of Orton taking out all of Takers former opponents.

Yeah, but the McMahon Genes have at least 70 years of experience in running a promotion, and it is a scientific fact that wrestling writing ability is passed through the X chromosome from the fathers side. It's right beside the hair gene, I believe. Really, Heyman and Cornette don't stand a chance.

I think they just hire these people to say "you are doing nothing wrong", and when they don't, "they clearly don't get the wrestling business".

Christian could "rent out" the title to other lower-card wrestlers and job-guys, have them take photos with it, but tape over the nameplate, etc. etc. This drives HHH crazy. HHH ends up stealing back his title from one of the wrestlers who rented it, but it turns out it was a fake and Christian has the real one at home.

Or lock everyone else in their locker rooms.

I think Benoit should climb the ladder and reach up, but can't reach it because his arms are too small and *Dave Meltzer cuts post off and sez "Ok, that's it, you're done"*

And I would personally have Christian and Kane capture it together and work that feud to Backlash.

Needs more lisp and a "FAAAAABULUTH" but other than that, it qualifies for queer. Oh, and, um. They should have two guys capture the briefcase at the same time and then challenge each other at Backlash as to delay the title match and feud for Batista.

Yeah, I was also thinking "Nah, doesn't sound gay". Like, seriously, you need to gay-it-up at least 50 more "you go girl"s before you can pass for the stereo-typical, over-the-top, diva gay guy. C'mon, live the gimmick. Don't break gayfabe.

Oh thank god, I thought you were insane there for a second.

You know, I was listening to WOL last night and thought to myself during a certain call "I don't know what Loss sounds like, but this sounds like Loss".

The episode where Lois' sister comes and causes trouble. I am still unfamiliar how Lois has ended up in Smallville and knows Clarke, but she's a fun character and works well enough. I think the witch stuff is lame as shit, and thought the same thing when Buffy did it.

He is as out of touch as everyone thinks. The mans concept of wrestling is out-dated, and he believes his own hype of being able to sell anything to the wrestling public. He sees himself as infallible because he is the last man standing. In this interview, did he once mention a mistake the company had made? No, of course not. His company doesn't make mistakes. It's the government, it's the wrestlers, it's the economy, it's the nature of the industry. They never lay the blame internally and that is where the blame belongs. If he wasn't out of touch he would have changed 4 or 5 years ago. If he wasn't out of touch, they would have changed the logo, the production, and the structure of their shows by now. Vince isn't a baseball coach. He is the leader of a publicly traded company, and has shareholders to answer to. He also has these loyal fans who dumbly wait around for things to get better. Unfortunately, he and his family are the main stakeholders in the WWE and he doesn't care about fan loyalty. There are weak links in the chain and he has yet to get rid of them. It hasn't been one or two games either, it's been nearly FIVE YEARS, and Steph has proven herself to be absolutely incompetant as creative director. There has been NO improvement shown AT ALL. Vince likes to think -and has people tell him this all the time- that he can put business above everything, he clearly can't. Find someone better to run it and have the kids sit on the BOD. Remove her from the position because she sucks at the position. It is the best thing to do _for business_. And they are grooming Shane for the Linda position. SHE DOES??!?! Sure hasn't shown it. They should move her down to OVW and learn from Cornette. The bitch needs to be humbled. I am not saying that there isn't a decline in the entertainment industry, what I am saying it is not at the same *rate* as the WWE. The WWE fell very fast where in one year they were having one of their highest years *ever* and the next year they were in the red. They could have restricted their decline greatly and salvaged more fans for a longer period, but they refused to do certain things and push certain stars when they had a chance. And even worse, they ignored the obvious problems that had a hand in causing the decline because they just figured "well, we peaked and now we're receeding. That's the wrestling industry for you. Let's do what we did in the mid 90's - lots of international tours, smaller contracts - and wait out the storm"

And this is what it has been like for every wrestling fan that has left, guaranteed, cept some had it occur faster than others. It will happen to everyone if given enough time. Once upon a time I got so angry at the WWE for doing such stupid shit, now I'm much less abrasive, I take it much less personally. That's not good. I've been detaching myself from the product, or I should say, they've made me detach. I just don't care enough to get worked up about things, and they need their fans to care. I wouldn't be surprised to see the traffic on this site has slowed down every year since it opened because there are less arguments, there are less people bitching, there are less people in the Smackdown and Raw and Heat and Velocity threads, there are less people -period- discussing it, and certainly because there is less interesting things going on to talk about, The signs are all there, and they refuse to see it. There is no line where there are guaranteed fans. The bottom is the bottom - it is 0 fans.

I felt this way in the mid-90s as well. Up until about WMX I was insane for wrestling. I would rent wrestling videos every week and watched everything I could. Then they got really out of touch with the audience and got really kiddy and gimmicky and I just got bored of it. My tastes were developing and they weren't keeping up - which is very similar to what is happening today. WCW got a lot more interesting with the NWO, then they hit on the Bret Hart heel turn and the Canadian/American angle. So it is possible for my interest to return, but I am wondering if it's even worth it, or if the WWE deserves it.