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Where were you sitting?

Yeah, but when we were at the autograph signing in Woodbine last year (maybe 2 years ago), there were well over 400 people who got a signing and they had the same amount of wrestlers there.

Rudo Tip: If you've stopped watching Smackdown - there is nothing here to bring you back. If you continue to watch Smackdown, then... well... this won't stop you.

We showed up, they had just given out the last wristbands (cause, apparently, they were only giving out 400 of them to ppl who bought tickets) so we said "fuck this" and went to get a bite. We had tickets to the show, and lemme just say. "Painfully Average" The full report should be up tomorrow. Here's what I sent Meltzer. *SPOILERS* Hey Dave, this might be a lil out of order (see, A LOT out of order) as it was a pretty unremarkable show. Dark Match 1: Tyson Dux vs. ?? - ?? won with a flatliner (?), seemed botched, but I missed it cause someone was in the way. Match 2: Rico/Haas vs. Akio/Sakoda - Haas won with a German Suplex on Akio, Rico gave Sakoda a high kick. Rico is pretty over up here. Match 3: Shannon Moore vs. Spike Dudley - Dudley won with his Acid Drop. Lots of "mat wrestling", which the crowd didn't much enjoy, the only high spot was Spike doing a plancha to the floor Match 4: Mark Jindrak vs. Billy Kidman - good heat on Jindrak and a nice pop for Kidman. Notable move: each mans dropkick. MJ won with his backdrop/slam move. Smackdown: Booker T comes out and says that Taker was behind Bearers abduction because he wanted an excuse to get out of their match tonight. Cena comes out to a big pop. Lots of "Cena" chants. Booker said Cena copies him with his "you can't see me" hand wave ripping off Bookers "Five time" hand gesture. Cena then says if he were really copying booker, he'd "talk like this" (he talks in a deeper voice), and then "bend my knees down like this" ... blah blah blah, he basically says Booker "poops" himself and then makes fart noises. Pinnacle of the craft here. They get nose-to-nose and Angle comes out saying he wants Cena under control... long story short, Angle ends up on the ground, Booker attacks Cena from behind, Cena is left alone in the ring. Match 5: Eddie Guerrero vs. Danny Basham - Eddie got a good pop coming out. Doug got banned from ring side after Eddie went on the outside and acted like Doug hit him with a chair. Finish was a frog splash. Mordecai comes out. Talks about how our children are spoiled, our women are harlettes, and our men are corrupt and how "he" forgives them. However, Mordecai won't. Crowd liked the entrance but then kinda got bored with it by the end of the segment. Match 6: Chavo Classic vs. Funaki - Classic won after Chavo Jr (who was doing commentary) pushed Funaki off the top rope. 4 women "stormed" the ring post-match and got all up ons Classic. Later on we find out he paid them. Har har. JBL comes out and gets some good heat by saying he's from America and we Canadians should respect him. He has bullrope in hand and then goes on and on and on and on about the details of the match. Match 7: Gunn/Holly vs. FBI - Holly/Gunn win with a powerbomb/neckbreaker combo where Holly was struggling to get Nunzio up for the powerbomb. Will probably be edited. Mixed reaction for the vets. Noble does the Bikini thing. Each women got a beach themed "prop"; Torrie got sand from the sand box, Dawn Marie got a chair - which Noble sat in - Sable got a beach blanket and Miss Jackie got water. Miss Jackie won and all of them poured water on Noble for being so horny. All I can say is the 12 year old boys LOVED this. Match 8: Rene Dupree vs. Rey Mysterio - some limb work by Rey as he targets Duprees leg early. Finish is a roll up after a Dupree-attempted powerbomb. Best match up to this point; but that's not saying much. Dupree forgot about the leg after a while but then remembered to sell it walking to the back. Adrenaline is a wonderful thing. Match 9: Taker vs. Booker - Went to a No Contest (???) after Taker chokeslammed Booker and Paul Heyman came out and gave him a choice - either Taker joins with him, or Paul Bearer gets beat up by the Dudleys. Match of the night, Taker worked the arm... which was kinda pointless... and dominated the majority of the match up. He took a nice bump to the outside when trying to go for the rope walk. After Heyman left, JBL came out and asked Taker to be on his team - since they're from the same country: Texas. Then he said Taker was "eyeballin him" so he was going to kick his ass... but then got scared... and then attacked him anyways. Dudleys then come out. Dupree comes out. Cena comes out for the save. Eddie does too. Everyone is in the ring now - Dudleys, Booker, JBL, Dupree vs. Taker, Eddie, Cena. Cena FU's Dupree and they eventually fight to the back. Taker is left with Booker in the ring and he ends the show with a chokeslam. Pops: 1. Cena 2. Taker 3. Eddie Heat: 1. JBL 2. Mordecai 3. Jindrak Editorial: They really need to change up this "WWE style". Everyone is wrestling the same match. EVERY match had a heat spot in it (headlock: clap, clap, clap, clap), dropkicks, vertical suplexes, hiptosses, and backbody drops. It got so repetitive and BORING. Wrestling is supposed to be an imitation of two men fighting. Well, this wasn't that. There was no reason behind anything; it was simply an imitation of two people wrestling. It had all the moves, but was total formula. There was no spark, no emotion, no connection. It is very, very sad.

1. Trishes promo does suck, however, her giving a "shout out" to her "baby" with accompanying kisses fucking ruled. 2. Eugene hulking up had me marking out. I was begging for a warrior rope shake.

Tickets for WM 18 went on sale in November, dunno about 19 or 20.

Dude, you were the one who wanted to have the sign "John Cena likes to have Anal Sex with Boys"

Well, the first time Curry and I went to an event at the ACC we brought a TAKAMANIA banner, so anything is possible.

FUCK YOU! OGAWA RULES!! HUSTLE! HUSTLE!

It's great cause they've been building Badass Wes from Season 2 when Angel went down with a case of the crazies and Wes got shot saving Gunn and had to be wheelchair bound. That allowed them to change him up a lil bit but not enough to really be noticed. Subtle changes in clothes and attitude and then when Fred showed up his character once again and then with the Connor thing and the Fred/Gunn thing and him getting all grizzled-up and glassesless... perfect changes. Much better IMO than the Willow change and the Cordy change. However, the Gunn change may rival it.

PSYCHONERDNESS~! *shudders* Wes had to be a badass. Lilah does not dress up like Fred to fuck nerds, so a change had to be made. IMO, it's the best character change in both shows runs.

I wonder how many hot tags there will be tonight... ... I'm saying 5.

Anyanaka, I clearly quoted you there from this thread. Demonologist Schemonologist, he wasn't an asskickingologist or a lilahdressinguplikefredfuckingologlist or a whippingoutdoublegunsandthenashotgunonthemotherfuckingBEASTologist.

Why is Lita getting better billing than Benoit?

Our initial plan (entitled: "Alpha Plan X") is to go without a Smack**** ticket. Unfortunately, circumstances would be better with a Smack**** ticket; I say unfortunately because that means you'd have to support Smack**** (this plan is known as: "Beta Plan Suck", not to be confused with "Trish Plan Suck", or the more controversial "Benoit Plan Suck".).

The last press conference we went to - the WM 18 one - was soooo smarky that it couldn't have gotten better (well, if we weren't at the very back of the crowd...). Chanting "She's a Crackwhore" at Steph with a large group of other people will forever be close to my heart.

But why would you waste a full beer? Why not throw, say, a WWE Originals CD which you stole from another (presumably stupid) fan there waiting to get it signed by John Cena?

It is, however, a B-Show in Canada... which means he has an opportunity to play up Montreal 97 and then act like he wants to get over it but the Canadian fans won't let him.

If we do go to Smack****, I'm hoping to buy really cheap tickets so I won't regret getting kicked out for various reasons... hopefully one of those reasons will be punching vince in the ear.

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I have a wonderful handshake. It's firm, yet soft. If I'm in a particularly welcoming mood, I might do a double grasp and give ya a wink. But those days are few and far between. Curry has horrible penmanship though. He does, however, have nice puns and one liners that come along with his John Handcock.

Who's goin? Curry and I are, so along with the Superstars of the WWE's autographs, you can get ours too. I charge $2.50 and Curry charges $10.00; you have to provide your own materials to sign, but you can buy a 8X10 photo from our merchandise counter for only $5.00 respectively and we'll be sure to shake your hand and maybe entertain a picture or two*. Besides us, Superstars in attendance will be Vince McMahon, Jim Ross, Rey Mysterio Jr., Chris Benoit, Trish Stratus, Edge, John Cena, Christian, Kurt Angle, Torrie Wilson and Eddie Guerrero. (*All photos taken of RRR and LOTC become propertly and license of RudoCurry Industries; any misuse of said property is liable for lawsuit.) ...Oh, and there's some sort of TV taping happening later on that night... Smacksomething... I dunno... we may go to that too as you can buy Summerslam tickets before they officially go on sale PLUS you get moved up the autograph lines. But that means you have to pay to watch Smack**** and I don't even watch it "for free" at home.

Well that's only because your views suck. That doesn't mean they're not welcome though. Jeez. In other news, I downloaded Serenity to see how dark the video was, and, besides the beginning, it's pretty darn watchable. Shit, I couldn't stop watching the episode until about a half-hour in. The badger scene still fucking owns.

ANYANKA~ how could you hold out on bringing the LUV for this show to this thread? How could you do that to me? After all that we've been through. I thought we had something... something special. I hope my attempts to ban you haven't brought any bad blood between us.

I've seen it around 40-45 dollars up here, so it could be lower in the states. Fox didn't like "Serenity" - the pilot episode - (for the same reason Anyanka didn't, "it's too slow") and asked Joss to write another first episode. He did and it was "The Train Job" - a much inferior episode, but Fox liked it enough and they aired it first. After the show was cancelled they decided to air Serenity as the last episode. And it does screw everything up, as I view Serenity as the perfect opening episode that introduces the characters, humour, and universe of the show flawlessly. It is the episode where the crew of the ship picks up 3 more crew members, so seeing their first introduction is integral to knowing their place on the ship. It also shows some sides of the characters that you don't see in the rest of the show. I purchased the Box Set having only watched this episode, however I knew Gina Torres and Nathan Fillion from other projects, so I wasn't exactly going in "blind". It's hard to compare Firefly to anything, which is why I tend to say what it's not (Star Trek, for example), so I don't know if it's the show for you Downhome... I mean, I think its a show for everybody, but as Zsasz and Anyanka have said, it didn't exactly rock their world, so I might be wrong on that.