RavishingRickRudo

The Tag Division is a wreck right now. As is the cruiserweight division. They need more face teams and a more competitive division (for both). Tajiri vs. Kidman #1 contender? How the fuck did that come about? APA shouldn't even be wrestling and they're the only face tag team on Smackdown right now (Bashams, FBI, WGTT, Rhyno/Albert-potentially). Funaki and Spanky should get a push as a tag team on Smackdown. Not necessarily as serious contenders, but as something FUN to watch. Benoit seems to be there to put over Rhyno and Albert, which I don't like but I don't hate as long as something is done with both guys rather than just throw around Benoit and that's it. Taker in the ME scene, it's been fuckin played. Periodical title shots with shit in between? WHY?? Taker loses, but never gets knocked down a peg, so he doesn't really "lose" so much as he "doesn't win". Angle should beat Taker to add to his legitimacy, but then again he shouldn't cause Takers job should belong to someone else.

Cena calling Eddie a wetback is fun, I hope he does the swimming motions as well which would be a cool homage to LGL Eddie Guerrero.

OT: The strange thing about Gracie vs. Sak that I didn't expect but hoped for, was that it was VERY EASY to watch. 90 Minutes! I didn't get bored once! Infact, I think it went by too fast.

*smacks head* HOW could I have forgotten... Zoo Crew 2.

Let's see what they are setting up... Benoit & ??? vs. Albert/Rhyno (aka Beasts from the East... aka Furhyno... aka the Boston Bad Boy and the Detroit Dominator of Doom... aka Rhybert... aka The MenBeasts.... aka Horny Train....aka Big Bald and Bad... aka Paul Heymans wetdream -that is to say, Rhyno the last ECW champion and Albert the jew... aka Traino.) Kurt vs. Taker Tajiri vs. Mysterio (or Kidman vs. Mysterio where Kidman tries to attack Tajiri and ends up hitting Rey and whatnot) Eddie vs. Cena. ... wow, Smackdown was WAY more productive than Raw and they still have another month to build for the PPV.

I changed it last night. That match is freakin awesome.

Damn you pinjaaaahkaaaay!!!

Yeah, just like they did at Fully Loaded 00.

No, the McMahons would just put someone up in another high spot on the card -still have the show centred around them- and when the ratings fall they can still blame someone else and say "there's not enough of us on!"

So I guess you could say that Cena gives Eddie a... rim... job. *wink, nod, gun*

Step By Step got old fast. Esp when Cody beat his wife.

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

Wait... Call me crazy. But there was only ONE McMahon on that show. And that McMahon was only in ONE segment. Something is wrong here. And wait.. this seems to be a wrestler-centric show... Something is VERY wrong here.

Albert and Rhyno as a team? Oh... THIS should be fun. *begins to think of team names and zany skits*

The Growing Pains theme is better than Full Houses. Just to clear that up.

I also believe the UFC drew significant ratings for said program.

You should catch those UFC shows on the Sunshine network. They've shown some really great, acton-packed fights like Carter vs. Serra and Rizzo vs. Barnett (must-see's), and none of the fights that they show are boring. My only problem with them are that they need to be up-dated and don't really give the full scope of what the UFC is and was. Hopefully this thing on Spike TV will. UFC had a show on Fox Sports Net? I recall them showing a card (UFC 37.5 I believe) on the best damn sports... and hyping it up on said program, but I don't believe they had a show or a tv deal.

The GP theme fucking rocked. WAY better than Family Ties, a bit better than Family Matters, owned Full House... Though it really started to suck once Kirk got self-righteous and became Jesus.

Steiner didn't lose his first match, he won it by DQ. And how come the brilliant HHH couldn't get out of the second match or get the career stip placed on the rematch? Afterall, he's been able to manipulate Goldberg and Steiner hasn't exactly been known for his smarts. Booker got his shot awarded by Austin which Goldberg probably could have gotten too if he wasn't such a dumb shit. I haven't really seen any indication of the WWE portraying Goldberg as a "dumb shit". You can say that HHH knows how to push Goldbergs buttons and Goldbergs confidence is enough to put his career on the line for the title... but then you'd have to say the same for Kane, Nash, Steiner, Booker, Shawn, RVD since they all supposedly want the title and have gotten the upperhand on HHH to give them enough confidence... Which wouldn't explain why HHH is only now pulling out the career stip I don't remember Kane getting another one-on-one title shot for a long time. Probably since he was so introverted, he reacted by just attacking HHH physically instead of getting a microphone and asking him for another title shot. See, that's the character development I was talking about. Ah, so this all naturally leads Kane wanting to fight in a casket match? Or how about Kane participating in Tag matches w/ HHH and holding the tag rope? Oh that Kane, always using his brawn and never his brains... gotta love character development.

I bet a thousand backyard wrestlers could all do what Shane does...

Thank GOD someone like Kane is intelligent enough to not be conned. Or that dark fellow who wasn't in his league... Book something.. you know, with the hair and the dancing... yeah, HHH sure thought a lot about him... So all those matches that happened after the title matches occured, that was... what? You know, with Booker and Steiner and Kane..

Of course it worked better.. RRR: Hey shawn! HBK: Hey RRR: All those bumps you took really worked better than those bumps Bret took, eh Shawn? He didn't have to fly all over the place to have a good match with Nash because he knew how to lay out a match and sell all those little things in a match rather - you know, like a great wrestler does... HBK: I guess so. RRR: Yeah, it kinda sucked that you fucked up your back and missed out on all those huge pay-jobs that came after WM 14. HBK: Um.. RRR: But hey, at least Nash has the respect from all the fans for being a monster right? Made all that bumpin worth while. HBK: Sure. RRR: Yeah. Nice talkin to ya Shawn. HBK: Jesus be with you.

I cannot touch the glory that is the Chewbacca defense....

It could be said in 3 minutes, but it wouldn't have the same effect. The fans would feel cheated by it being so short, and it would be forgotten by the time the show was over. Ok, then you say 3 more minutes worth of material that helps build the feud. NOT add in 10 minutes of worthless chatter. Everything they say should be relevant, anything less is wasting time. If you remember back in '98/'99 almost every show started off with an in-ring promo. I've often thought it was a major thing that's been missing from the current product. Go back and read what you wrote here. Then check the date.

They were selling the tension between the men and the gravity of the match. The crowd was eating up every word. Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean anything. Ah, so you got the feeling that the scene could "explode at any moment"... which is what building tension does. I didn't get that feeling. It was the first segment of Raw, featuring the top heel and babyface - I would hope that the crowd would be into it... that doesn't mean it was *good*, I gave you a bunch of reasons why it was *bad*. And the career thing didn't "come out of nowhere". Goldberg had already blown his title shot when he got pinned last night, and he would only be awarded another one if HHH let him. HHH wanted to get rid of him, so he offered him a shot, but only on the condition that he'd lose if he lost. It did come out of nowhere. First, the Goldberg/HHH contract signing came out of nowhere. Goldberg has not made his intentions known for the title _at all_ since he came into the WWE. So why are we now to believe that he is willing to put his career on the line for the title? The fans have not had a very long "journey" to follow with Goldberg, so how could they invest their emotions into the possibility of him losing the title? Goldberg hasn't exactly been the thorn in HHH's side for the past few months either. HHH took him out rather easily at Summerslam. HHH has been in far more trouble with Kane, RVD, Steiner, Booker, HBK, Nash than he has with Goldberg - yet he never demanded for their careers for a title shot. Why does he do it now? Add this to the above with Goldberg and it makes this stipulation senseless. Feuds sell PPVs. Nothing else. For example, I bet a lot of people bought the St. Valentine's Day Massacre because of the Austin/McMahon feud. Then since, no one cared about the Angle/Brock feud this year, Wrestlemania had a low buyrate. The heat of the main event feud is the main tool to sell a PPV. Ah, you mean that feud that played second fiddle to Hogan/McMahon? Feuds centre around a match, therefore ultimately THE MATCH sells the show. I am not against building up the feud, I _am_ against taking unnecessary steps to help promote it. Steps like taking pot-shots at other wrestlers, spending needless amounts of time in the ring talking about nothing, adding asinine stipulations to a pretty cut-and-paste match. But hey, all this doesn't mean a thing... I guess.