RavishingRickRudo

The issue was about me "derailing threads". I bring up Melina being hassled and relating it to the possibility of Orton being the cause of it and their response is "Melina has a gap in her teeth" and "she's good looking". Which is just one instance of many in that thread alone about them going off topic and off point. Yet they feel they have the right to bitch about ME derailing threads? It's pure hypocrisy. Porter, how many worthless one line posts did you make in that thread? Next time you make comments about what I post, take a look at your own and realize how fucking shitty they are and then shut the fuck up.

It's a powerful thing, soup. You never know how popular it is and how many people care about it until you actually sit down and talk about it. Ruins lives, really.

Btw, guys, get over it. I called you morons a while back. So what? Quit crying about it.

I agree...when anyone else constantly does stuff like that, they get warned, banned, whatever...but, oh, it's okay when he does it...bullshit. I don't give a fuck how smarky he is, that doesn't give him the right to derail a thread just because HE doesn't like it...oh, by the way Rudo, it's severly unfunny and oldhat and switching it up with cereal doesn't make it any funnier or newer. - Canadian Chick - My next post - Porters Next 2 Posts - Black Lushus' next post Now, I know I am such a huge troll who has done the soup treatment while quality posters such as Black Lushus and Porter do nothing but add insight and well-crafted posts that always add to the greater knowledge of this board (why, I had never noticed Melinas teeth before) and I am just running around CRAZY and UNCHAINED on TSM, but I wish to defend myself against these rather slanderous allegations by stating that the soup and cracker treatment was used all of TWO times, in threads that had "KANYON IZ A FAG" as its content, and the third time I used it, when told to stop by a mod, I did (as shown above) and actually did something that superposters Black Lushus and Porter failed to do - ADD SOMETHING TO THE DISCUSSION. But shit, talking about Melina and anime pictures of WWE wrestlers clearly is better than whatever I bring to the table... "Well-reasoned arguments", I think they are called? Clearly not as good. Another word for "troll" those is.

I feel the love, I really do.

"James, you forgot to flush the toilet." "Jesus, Spock, don't you see the sock on the door knob. I'm gettin my Kirk on here."

So Spock and Kirk crash on a mysterious island and the movie intercuts flashbacks with the present day? "Spock... What do these numbers... mean? FOUR?.... EIGHT? .... FIFTEEN??"

http://streaming1.vidilife.com/vidilife/vi.../5216/48203.wmv The 20 Greatest Comebacks in UFC/PRIDE. Great vid. Not so great music.

Styles as an honest announcer is a bit of a laugh. He's always been a bitch-boy, doing what he was told, saying what he was told to say, it's just he has a different hand up his ass now.

It would be odd to have that concept and then have coaches. They would need someone like Miletich as a coach (also with the comeback story) and, like, Frank Shamrock.

BEHOLD THE AWESOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CosM-f6V_sg Cro Cop vs. Fedor Promo Vid before their fight at the GP Finals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ObrQxYAIo&search=pride Also: The Opening ceremony from the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG8Mc-ktME4 The end credits to the quarter-finals (I think this was posted before, but fuck it, its hilarious) As much as I love the UFC, PRIDE just smokes it in terms of presentation. Nothing can top Wanderleis kid wearing a cookie monster Tshirt, or the Chute Boxe team yelling HEEEEEY! in Shoguns ears.

I hear that the Hammer House enjoys Ranch while Team Quest is more Sweet and Sour. AKA? Honey Mustard.

Taylor mainly looks annoyed in pretty much all (candid) pictures it seems. Which is hilarious. And Kellie/Katharine is a great relationship. Take solice with the fact that Katharine would be the man. "Wuts that?" "GOSH" "Ain't that one of them hobbits from Lord of the Rings?"

Ever since you became just Adam you haven't been so nice, guy. I don't know if it is illegal, but it is generally unwise given the injury rate among fighters to hold one day tournaments. Plus, though I like the idea of building the LW division, it wouldn't be the big deal that I was suggesting UFC put on a Live Spike Card. Though a LW title match + a MW or WW title match would fit the bill.

This, btw, is the best photo. She has some nice gams, too. It's a shame she's always coverin em up. (Yes, I did write that just so I could use the word "gams")

It's interesting... where ones focus is directed in that picture... The photographer clearly is a filthy, filthy, wonderful man, with how the mic stand is positioned and how she holds it and where she holds it to. How the couch is shaped. I do love how the third pic shows off her curves. Her waist-to-ass deal there is quite the, um, thing. And BOOBIES!

Ya, next season will be its last, as it is the last on both Graham and Bledels contract. The disagreement with the WB came from Amy wanting 2 seasons, I hear. Apparently they offered her 5 million for one season and she still turned it down.

I should note this is one of the things I love about MMA. The more guys who get over, the better it is, and there isn't this worry about upstaging the top guys, since the top guys are the top guys because they deserve to be there and are that good. And stars can be made in just one fight. However, there is a problem of sustaining stars and creating superstars. Few guys in MMA are superstars - Chuck Liddell is one, Rich Franklin is close, Matt Hughes is getting there as well, Tito and Forrest are up there. And that's about it (actually, thats a heckuvalot more than the WWE has). The unpredictable nature which can sometimes create stars often hurts companies because guys lose, and so much emphasis is placed on wins and losses. Fans want to get behind someone who doesn't lose, they want to cheer guys and feel confident in saying "My guy is going to kick that other guys ass!" and then end up being right. This is a form of fan gratification that the WWE simply doesn't have right now - to have fans confidently rally around a wrestler, and I think that's partially, if not subconsciously, because few wrestlers have had the chance to shine and validate that support due to the glass ceiling.

There's also negatives about that, though. Taking control of the card is important for a booker in regards to long-term planning, but there is something to be said about allowing every guy to go out there and get himself over as much as possible, so you can get as many potential new stars over. The WWE has had such control over their wrestlers and continually force a select few guys for one reason or another (and rarely has to do with talent or overness) down the fans' throats that they severely limit that potential, which is why there are so few new stars created in that company. They want to control everything to where the guys who amazingly do get over on their own are often punished because the structure doesn't allow it, so the WWE will try to -at best- fit them in down the road, and by then most of the heat is gone. However, if you just have everyone trying to get over and doing all these wild stunts, and have no control, it will be a disaster. There's an Indy show I go to that is a perfect example of that because they put on all these insane matches in a row and by the last match the crowd is spent and that's the match everyone came to see, and that's the match the company spent the most money on. And by the end of the night, there isn't one or two stand outs, there are just a bunch of guys who get jumbled together in my memory. So, as a company, you want to still present a clear voice and focus - because that effectively transfers over to the audience. PLUS, in regards to marketing, it's easier to have a clear vision and put the money around that vision, rather than have this blurred view and end up wasting money on trying to push everyone. That's why the WWE was so successful, when they had a star like Austin, Rock, or Hogan to push, they would and could centre everything around them. But then you get a situation like you do today when the guys who have the focus have had it for too long and its not shared and few fresh guys get put on top and it gets boring. So there has to be a middle-ground. Where you have enough freedom in your card or roster to have guys to potentially stand out, but a rigid enough structure to where you make the most effective use of your time, money, and fan support. A very hard balance, which is why when companies find a successful formula they tend to drive it into the ground.

I love when people say that Trish and Mickey is the feud of the year when, like, it gets very little reaction live.

Nah, they got their highest opening rating ever with a 2.0 on that Thursday which was up from the lead-in. People tuned in to see Shamrock and Tito fight and when they said "let's have a truce" I guess a portion of the audience that tuned in, tuned out. I think this audience wants to see something happen, and they don't consider the essentially quarter-final matches to be important. As shown with the TUF2 finale drawing a 2.0, even if the audience tunes out for the most part during the season, they will still come back to see, well, something happen. The Leben/Koscheck thing was something happening. If Season 3 had something happen, something controversial, something "must see", and they promoted it on television, then they'd probably get a higher rating. I love this season, I think it is the best yet, I look forward to every episode and want to see more when its done, but I can understand this mentality. And when you think about it, who the UFC is going for and who usually watches the UFC, those guys 18-34 (with relatively high incomes) probably have better things to do, so it takes a lot to get them to tune in. IMO, the UFC should put on a SUPERCARD on SPIKETV. No more of the TUF bullshit, put a PPV calibre show on, with title fights, and it will get their best rating yet, guaranteed.

They need to have Mark Coleman as the coach for next year. Correction: Kendall is *6'6* and 185. WOW.

Part of the logic in saving the best for last/building upwards is that the main event is your drawing guys, so you want to protect them by not upstaging them and give them the best stuff so the fans who bought the show for the main event can say "that was worth it" and the main eventers continue to draw money. If you expose the main eventers by putting on all these much more impressive matches on before it, you sorta have the audience going "wow, we paid to see THOSE guys?" and you start to tear down your main eventers. PLUS, you don't want to kill the crowd by having them blow their load cheering the undercard and end up having a heatless main.

I thought the visual of him blanketing Ross when he had his back was hilarious. Normally you see guys jump up to gain leverage and pressure, but the dude is 6'4 and is a middleweight, so he had to bend over.

As always, anytime I get to pimp Ballz vs. Tanaka HH2000, I do. Was it the best match on the show? I don't think it matters here, because the two guys were pretty directionless at the time and the match was pretty static in regards to build and follow-through. RVD/Lynn was bigger, though not necessarily better, so it's not like the two stole the show away (esp. when there was Tajiri/Corino and a New Jack balcony dive). It did its job in getting the crowd insane jacked. I haven't enjoyed an opener more than that for a PPV.