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Steph at least hasn't been all over TV of late, so she gets a bit of a pass on the TV character front. Shane and the way he is booked whenever he wrestles is something that is tough to stomach however. I could buy him practicing a few moves and holding his own with a lightweight like X-Pac or letting Steve Blackman knock him off the Titan Tron. But when he did that goofy Kane feud it became obvious that he wanted to get himself over more than the actual wrestler. Kane should not have any trouble beating the piss out of Shane McMahon, ditto Bobby Lashley. I guess Lashley did kill Shane in about a minute at Judgment Day, but he also jobbed to him and sold far more than he should have.

I'm somewhere in the middle on this. If they keep it to just 1 match on the PPV it could be silly and fun and we could possibly see some of the Jackass guys get their asses kicked. It does have the potential to be business exposing if you're WWE though, since these guys take way worse shit on TV and in the movies. But really, how can they justify giving the Jackass guys 3 matches at SS? No way that happens. They can't even get half the main roster on the PPVs now as it is. That PPV would literally be 3 Jackass matches, Cena defending, Edge defending, and Lashley defending and that's it unless one of those guys got involved in the Jackass angle.

I have seen an angle similar to Crazy Vince and it can't lead to anything good. Anyone remember crazy Ric Flair in WCW circa 1999? It's only a matter of time before Shane or Linda has him committed to an asylum and we get the wacky skits from the nuthouse. Wonder if Scott Hall is available for another cameo? At least this time Hall being there might make sense.

Well I guess there goes the theory that LeBron is this huge ratings draw. This isn't shocking though since nobody outside of OH thinks the Cavs have a hope in hell of winning this series. Thus you have one team perceived as having no shot, and the other highly favored team has zero marketability. It is time to simply say the truth: The Spurs are a good team for the top team to go through en route to the Finals. The entire decade of the 1990s for instance...Spurs were a good team but nobody seriously wanted them to make the Finals by any means. Truth be told, the only team in the Western Conference that the general public has been conditioned to accept is the Lakers. Who else has ever been any sort of ratings draw in the West? Maybe Phoenix with Barkley and Co.?

That was a fun episode of ECW. I recall that Cactus/Dreamer match from Foley's book, where it described it in great detail. There was also a really fun match with Konnan/Rey vs. La Parka/Psychosis.

Well, let's see: WCW didn't let the guy past midcard status. He went back to ECW and was mostly injured and/or cashing the paycheck until he could go to WWF. And then he didn't do much outside of the hardcore division in the WWF. And I actually quite enjoyed Raven's first TNA run aside from the jobbing to JJ. His feud with the New Church was one of the best things the promotion has ever done. There's no excuse for TNA to blow it with Van Dam. Hell even if they brought him in and gave him the typical "WWE castoff mega push" like Christian has gotten, it'd work. RVD is actually an ideal guy to give a huge undefeated push to since he was very successful with one in the past in ECW.

Well, Raven was a bit easier to screw up. Let's face it, Raven hasn't been relevant since about 1999 when he walked out on Bischoff at that meeting and went back to ECW. WWE did nothing with the guy in his 2000-2002 run (though his hardcore match with Rhino at Backlash 2001 was excellent). Raven was also about 41 when he signed with TNA. Jeff Hardy has shown that a guy can go to TNA for a while, then come back to WWE and not get buried.

The disturbing aspect of TNA is that a lof of these guys get misused while getting a big push. Think about that one. Christian is getting a big push in TNA, but hasn't quite ever seemed like a guy who should win as much as he wins. Has the guy EVER lost in TNA? Angle is someone else that TNA has yet to figure out (not that WWE ever did either really). Angle has essayed a comedy goof, a smarmy American hero, and now in TNA a raving lunatic tweener. But has any of this ever really been a major money drawing character? If TNA can't figure out how to book RVD then they are truly morons. Christian is a guy who quite honestly isn't a believable main event guy, due to either his size or years jobbing in WWE. Angle has never seemed at home fully in any character. But RVD? Die hard fans certainly believe in him as a main event guy (especially somewhere like TNA) and his character has been very over for nearly a decade.

I need more World Class dammit! They've got to be getting close to Von Erich vs. Flair in the famous Christmas 1982 match from Reunion Arena.

I can see how giving Edge a cage match win over Batista is a nice push, but to do this same match on 3 straight PPVs? Especially given that Batista is likely to come up short again. Why not throw a couple other guys in there and make it a 4 way or something a bit different, get some guys on a PPV. Make it Edge/Batista/Finlay/Benoit and then you have something.

No, I just have Anarchy Rulz and the Boston show from 1986 on the Big Ones section. But since I already got a DVD recording of that SuperBrawl from 24/7 last year I'm not that worried about it.

Call me crazy but I think I'd keep Punk and trade Lashley. What exactly IS there for Lashley to do on ECW at the moment? Feud with Snitsky? Who wants to see that? So I'd move Lashley to Smackdown, since SD is in dire need of a top face. Batista is beyond played out on SD as he keeps getting shot after shot at Edge. So I'd move Batista to Raw, where he can either feud with Orton or turn heel and feud with Cena. Since Lashley would move to SD he'd likely have to surrender the ECW belt, so they can do a tourney to start fresh (this isn't quite like the WWE title switching from SD to Raw, since both are WWE anyway...ECW has to have the ECW belt). Let's face it, what is the big picture on SD at the moment? This Edge/Batista feud is going nowhere so they need a new top face to challenge. It gives them a new top face in Lashley, Batista can go back to Raw where he enjoys being, and Punk can be elevated to ECW title status and feud with the New Breed over the title or other guys that they bring in from the draft.

Yeah this could go one of three ways: 1. RVD could end up like Chris Jericho and just chill for a long while, with it constantly being up in the air what he's going to do next. WWE comes off looking neither good or bad here. 2. RVD could take some time off as speculated, then in 6 months or so he can come back to WWE fresh and ready for one last run. WWE management looks brilliant since they conceded nothing and Van Dam came back. 3. RVD could sign with TNA and get a big push. This makes WWE looks like morons considering they didn't really use Van Dam to create a new star and really didn't even job him on the way out.

What does it say when I don't remember the GAB 06 match hardly at all? Was that the match where Batista creamed Kennedy with a chair and Kennedy did hardway bleeding on the top of his head?

Why is this crazy Vince shit polluting the virgin territory of Smackdown now? SD has been the last refuge for sane booking over the past few months and now this trash is on the show. I will agree that it's beyond time to move past Batista getting title shots. He lost to Edge in a regular match fairly cleanly (was there even a pull of tights?) and then lost in the cage match too. Since they aren't going to put the belt on Batista why is he constantly getting these title shots? Is it to bury him? If anything I thought Vengeance being the Night of Champions implied another Champion of Champions match with all 3 guys in the same match.

The Basic Instinct spoof is a ripoff of the much better WM 21 skit with Jericho, Christian, Benoit interrogating Stacy Keibler. I liked just about all of those WM skits aside from maybe the UT as Dirty Harry spoof, which was really just a line for line version of the actual scene.

They could just put Dave Lagana or Dusty Rhodes on TV as the ECW representative, since they are booking the show anyway. Or maybe bring RVD out in a wheelchair and have him draw the names, and Orton happens to be one of them and he attacks RVD again.

Yeah that crowd sucked tonight. They even crapped on a fairly decent tag match with the Major Bros. vs. New Breed. Anyone have an idea who will be moved off ECW and who ECW will get in the draft?

I think next year the Suns are going to win it all though. They have flat out run out of excuses. In 05 it was "Oh, this is our first year with Nash and Co., but we'll be back." Last year it's "Stoudamire was hurt, we did the best we could." This year it's "The Spurs gooned us and the office screwed us with suspensions." As far as the Spurs go, I don't place them all THAT highly even if they win. The 99 title was a lockout year, so that one doesn't even hardly count in my book. As in it technically counts but not the same as an 82 game season title. The 2003 team was fairly good but if I recall Shaq was hurt on and off that year so the Lakers were quite down that year. And honestly, is beating a joke of a Finals team like the Nets (who were just 49-33 and not really a shocking finalist) really impressive? Not to mention the 05 series with the Pistons being an aesthetic nightmare that I'm glad we got to avoid this year. In other words, beating a crappy 8 seed Knicks, the New Jersey Nets, and having a dreary 7 gamer with the Pistons didn't really amaze anyone. Nor will beating a 1 man 50-32 Cavs team that is lucky to be there. I don't really blame the Spurs for the East sucking and offering little opposition, but at the end of the day they will be remembered as the team that semi dominated the post Jordan declining NBA years. Oh, and one thing that also hurts them is that for the most part the Lakers beat the piss out of them in 2000-02. At the end of the day the Spurs will be like the Redskins from 1982-91, a team that won some titles during decade but not a flat out dynasty per se.

I dunno about a Rogen and Rudd team vehicle, but why is it that Paul Rudd can't ever seem to get beyond 3rd billing status? Knocked Up, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin...even as far back as Clueless. As far as this movie goes, it was pretty good. I'm not quite as amazed as others here, probably would put it 7 out of 10 if I was to vote on imdb.com or something. You know what Apatow's movies remind me of? An R rated version of John Hughes movies. While I laugh at all the pop culture references does it seem like that sort of thing is getting a bit old hat? As in the constant referring to other movies (in this case Munich, Wild Things, Total Recall, etc.) in order to get a laugh.

Technically this is incorrect. Bischoff did not rename the WCW world title into the World Title. That was Linda McMahon right after the Invasion was over, so for a month or so The Rock had the newly renamed World Title before they unified it with the WWF title in Dec. 2001. Thus when Lesnar opted to appear on SD full time in Aug. 2002 Bischoff declared the title un-unified and awarded HHH the World title since Lesnar was the recognized WWE champion.

I'm thinking Vince goes insane next week over something in the draft, be it someone drafted to Raw like Lashley, or he himself being drafted to ECW.

Well, the Cavs aren't the worst team ever to make the Finals. Not even close actually. That honor will always go to the 1981 Houston Rockets, who actually made the Finals with a 40-42 record. That would be like the Orlando Magic somehow making the Finals today. I just listened to one of the all time most idiotic debates on First Take, with Skip Bayless and these clowns the Two Live Stews. It was the debate of LeBron vs. Jordan after each guy's 4th year in the league. The evidence of LeBron's supposed superiority over Jordan is that he has taken the Cavs to the Finals in his 4th year, and they kept screaming "DID JORDAN GO TO THE FINALS IN HIS 4TH YEAR???" Bayless schooled them by rightly pointing out that the East was actually, you know, good back in the 1980s and the Bulls weren't yet near the level of the Celtics or Pistons.

He didn't put over Orton....he WON the stretcher match. Possibly the strangest booked match of the year, considering it required a guy who is being pushed for a feud with HHH to lose to a guy leaving the company, and also made the #2 face on Raw (HBK) look like a tool in the process.

You know what I meant...that the Hardys will be on separate shows full time again. If anything I'd just trade Matt to Raw or Jeff to SD and make them a team all the time. The black cloud of doom could be the following: Benoit is moved to Raw and becomes the next Orton concussion victim. You know it'll happen.