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It was hard to miss HHH when they were talking about him every available second they had. It would be interesting to see how many RAWs this year weren't based around HHH. I'd be surprised if it would be over 10.

Loved it. Best Pixar Film I've seen. Nemo had more heart, but I thought this was better all-round. Great structuring, and Sindrome is one of the best villains ever... or at the very least, has the best reason for being bad. Great voicing by Craig T Nelson and Holly Hunter, my only problem is not enough Sam Jackson. The best Superhero movie I've seen, smoking Spiderman 2 and Unbreakable. The Cape thing was fantastic. The Pulp Fiction parody and all of the subtle stuff they put it (rather than Shrek and specifically Shrek 2 putting lights and pointers around theirs) was great. Great, Great, Great, Great. This is not a kids movie. It deals with parenthood, responsibility and mid-life crisises. And they kill people in it!

This thread is dripping with Irony. Thank you all.

Why go to that format now? When for years the WWE has been using the same format and not a weight divison. It has proven to be succesful at times. It isn't successful now and hasn't been for years. The tag titles are worthless, the IC and US titles are worthless, and the main titles don't have any meaning. And doing that format basically erases a tag team divison and breaks up the very few credible tag teams the WWE has left(Dudleys) I mentioned that the tag titles would be open weight. Jeez, it had its own point. It just seems boring and would erase some of the good matches that the WWE can produce. No, infact it would produce better matches by keeping the good workers in two divisions and have the crap in one, without having to drag down the good workers with the hosses. This isn't boxing folks. Neither is this. See, they're still wrestling... at first I thought you were joking by saying the idea was garbage, but now I just think you're stupid.

The biggest suggestion I would make, that I think would actually be listened to, would be the Weight Division suggestion. Heavyweight Division Weight: 245+ Wrestlers: 1 Big Show 2 Bubba 3 Booker 4 JBL 5 Taker 6 Danny Basham 7 Heidenreich 8 Kenzo 9 Luther 10 Jindrak 11 Orlando 12 Rene Dupree Middleweight Division Weight: 220-245lbs Wrestlers: 1 Kurt Angle 2 RVD 3 Eddie 4 Charlie Haas 5 Dvon Dudley 6 John Cena 7 Carlito 8 Doug Basham 9 Hardcore Holly Cruiserweight Division Weight: 220 and under Wrestlers: 1 Akio 2 Rey 3 London 4 Kidman 5 Spike 6 Funaki 7 Nunzio 8 Chavo 9 Scotty 10 Moore Now, this has multiple advantages. - It gets rid of the natural pecking order that the US title and WWE title have created, where all belts are equal on paper. This opens up a lot more variety in your main events. You can headline a PPV with the Middleweight title whereas you can't headline a PPV with the US title. - It gives each title a distinction. The heavyweight title is for the big men, so the matches you'd get from them would be hard-hitting brawls. The middleweight title is for the pure wrestlers, this is your 'wrestling title'. Names like Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero give this belt value, as would the matches under it. The cruiserweight title is the 'exciting' title, unfortunately the stigma of being a lesser title is already attached to it, but the weight divisions allow it a chance to grow - since cruiserweights won't get to be squashed under the big monsters. - People can move up or down in weight, thus allowing guys some leeway to move around. If a heavyweight is not successful in that division, maybe he could move down. Or if a Middleweight is not successful in that division, he could move up or down to the other divisions. This give the belts value. - The Tag division would be an open weight division, so you *can* get interaction between the wrestlers, and it makes you think about the dynamics of a team. A big guy and little guy team up, that means you get strength and speed - a really good combination. Combinations can be worked and that is what makes tag teams fun. Each guy plays a role rather than both guys being equal. The Hart Foundation was a perfect example of this. -It differentiates Smackdown from RAW. Smackdown has already used "tale of the tape", so it's not necessarily out of place on Smackdown. This also sets up a natural "ranking" system, because it limits the amount of guys per division. The Heavyweight division has 12 guys, the Middleweight has 9, the Cruiserweight has 10. The top guys in each division are given a feud, the bottom guys are jobbers. It's also DIFFERENT from what the WWE normally does, it's a real change in format, and I think that can draw attention.

This is fucking great. I expressed my growing disinterest earlier, and now here you are. Yawning. You know, this gives me a thought. Banders is in the genesis stage of becoming the persona of every "known" poster on TSM. That's why it seems like he's riffing off others. It's because he's becoming the board. Banders is TSM. This is SUCH an awesome theory. I would have said he's just CWM, but this is much more abstract.

November 8/9th was the greatest day/s in the history of this board. 3 Posts that were so revolutionary and memorable that they have their own day. What other threads have their own day, huh?! That alone gives them worth. Can you find ANY other board that would have ANYTHING like those 3 posts? No, you can't. Plus, we CREATED Eugene. US! Had it not been for the success of Fertig on this board, the Eugene phenomenon would never had occured. The most over wrestler of the year, we created! There is no doubt about it.

I think an inherant problem with this scenario is that creative doesn't control ANY of what is being talked about here (ok, I haven't read everything, but from what I have read - changing of # of PPV's, who is on top, etc - is not really affected by the writers - storylines and characters, concepts for shows and PPV's, THAT is what writers can affect.)

Every single occasion? As in...Velocity? Because that's about the only thing that's happened so far, that would have anything to do with that segment on SD. But yea, while that may not be a bad idea, in a way 'how fair would that be'? I mean...Puder is still..only a TE kid, ,so what would he be doing getting an interview? Unless they all were to cut promos again or something, but there's really no way he can have a kind of interview, at least not without all the others having to do one also. Unless Torrie, or the person the next week does like Kurt did, and asks them a question or something..and then he goes on a rant. But other then that, I can't see how he'd get the opportunity. Read their Smackdown recap. They brushed it aside. If the objective is to get over a new star, then there is no problem interviewing Puder and singling him out. It's taking advantage of the interest shown last week. But the objective isn't that, so it obviously won't apply.

They could use Eddie, make it a face vs. face feud where Eddie pushes RVD to exceed. Have RVD get pinned at Survivor Series and at the next Smackdown have 3 of the 4 guys be all pissed off that they lost and RVD is like "Guys, chill out. It's just one loss" and everyone looks at him with disgust and Eddie goes off on him. "Just one loss?! Just one loss?! That one loss said that they're better that us Rob! Each of us want to be the best, so doesn't that kill you inside knowing that someone is better than you?!" "Dude, I don't worry about that. I'm here to put on a show for my fans. Win or Lose, Mr. Thursday Night will deliver. Yeah." It would hurt Eddie a lil bit, in a way, where Eddie says "RVD, I'm going to be honest with you. For the first time in my life I'll be honest... I'm better than you. BUT, you CAN be better than me. You can be better than all of us, esse. You're the best athlete in the WWE, you can do things that can blow everyones minds, man. But when you say you don't care whether you win or lose, whether you have the title or not, man, dude, you shouldn't even be in the ring vato. I should kick your ass right now, just for letting what you have go to waste. I should force you to live up to your potential man" (Not the exact words that I want, but it gets across the intent). But where it hurts Eddie in one way, it helps him in another - where he completes his objective when RVD beats him and lives up to his full potential. Then you move on to a feud with Angle or JBL, and by then you at least have a bit of a money program with RVD and he gets boosted even if he loses.

If the WWE wanted to, the could get Puder over on that keylock. Where they interview him next week and Josh Mathews says "Daniel Puder, you lost to Kurt Angle last week in a wrestling match" and Puder says "Hold on a sec, Josh. I didn't lose to Kurt Angle last week. Had that referee not saved Kurts ass, his arm would have been broken. I'm an Ultimate Fighter, Josh. I said 2 weeks ago that I could break Big Shows arms and legs, and last week I could have broken Kurts. Olympic Gold Medalist or not, a Giant or not, once I get a hold on you, all the Gold Medals in the world, all the size in the world, won't help you." They clearly don't want to, as they've ignored the keylock on every single occasion.

They should position RVD as someone who has not lived up to his full potential -someone who could be the best wrestler ever, but doesn't have the drive to be the best. Have a wrestler (Rey, maybe Eddie) try to bring the fire out of RVD anyway possible, because they need RVD to beat, say, Angle or something. I'd dig that. Of course, they'd do it in a way that would completely bury RVD by making him seem like a loser at first and then never paying off in the end, but I think there is a specific way it could be done that could possibly make a new ME'er.

So you're saying they didn't change your life? Now you're just being like Kotz; living in denial.

It's like something that would happen on The Family Guy.

You still get points for making fun of Downhome in your sig, Rando.

Did Josh just say "The Torrie Wilson Sucks Test"???

PUSH FUNAKI! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!! MARK OUT!!! MARK!!! OUT!~

They're both bald.

We know Joe, we know. I never thought one could do that with a stick of chalk.

Torrie Wilson has the sex appeal of a chalkboard.

Is this commercial supposed to parody the Millers Light Cat Fight stuff? Why didn't they just have them say "WASSAAAAAAAAP?" "WUHZZZZZZZZZZZUH"

KNOCK IT AWFF BILL!! 10 year old Josh is great. Why should I be interested in this sex test? Who the fuck thought of this shit. What heavyset she beast thought of this?

KISS MY BUTT TAUNT! YEAAAH!

The Bashams don't seem so... crazy... what happened?

You were looking at someones nice boots. I gave you a shoe fetish. Merry Christmas.