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Since no one knows about the Lashley question, I'll pass on that one. Raw Inventational Battle Royal. Winner was to face the Champion after Summerslam. Ahmed won. Was it suppose to be Ahmed vs. Vader or Ahmed vs. Shawn Michaels? If not, what was the point of it then.

After watching a lot of old Sid stuff, I hope he looks the same, same music, and same ass kicking guy. His first appearence at the Garden will probably be great.

I though he blamed it on all of us wanting Rocky and we thought Austin was no good anymore? Remember the "what's wrong with Stone Cold?" line?

Why did he turn heel again? I wasn't watching WCW in 1999 and I know many guys made stupid heel turns. What was Sting's excuse?

Times like this I wish CM Punk would feud with Austin or Sandman. As a heel, I'm sure Punk would tear them a new one on the mic. And on the fans too.

Sabotage eh? Well, first there's Bret Hart's run in 1995 after dropping the title to Backlund. The clique suceeded in demoting him to the mid card for one good year between Survivor Series 94 till 95. Dean Douglas. Didn't get along with Michaels hence his push and IC title run was destroyed within minutes. Ahmed Johnson. Shawn told him to stop doing the high impact moves and stuff that was getting him over. Vader. Because Shawn wouldn't drop the WWF title to him. Owen Hart. HBK didn't want to work with him post-survivor series so instead of becoming a breakout star, he became a mid-carder. Shawn turning heel in 97 sabatoged Hitman's heel run as champion. Shawn became the #1 heel and main evented ppv's while Bret got stuck mid-carding the belt to patroit and running in meaning less tag matches with Bulldog. That's all I got for now. By the way, notice a trend in the sabataging?

I remember that, what did the article say? And the cover in question:

Here's an interesting topic, over the years we've seen a lot of guys come and do within promotions. After watching the Bulldog heel turn from 1995 on Diesel and the preceeding interview explaining where Luger was "medical emergency, had to go home to Atlanta" (sound familiar eh?) it got me thinking. What were your favorite explainations/burials on guys leaving a company. A few come to mind quickly for me: Brock Lesnar and Goldberg. Both take stunners and practically look like chumps at Wrestlemania XX. The Giant's last match on Nitro. I remember they were reading between the lines stating he was going to the WWF. They spray paint his back, pull down his trunks and I remember Hall making the smelly hand gesture. Hogan. Ah, the 1993 King of the Ring. They made him look totally weak and I loved it. It was nice to see him buried for a change. I got a quick question as well. Who actually left a company and joined another one without getting extremely buried? Also, how exactly did Jericho leave WCW? Like did he get buried on the way out or did they just take him off TV beforehand?

Batista was right. From Rajah.com "The buildups to big matches where Triple H and I are the perfect example. We had such a buildup for our match. Cena and I being in such a marquee match, I really wish the buildup had been allowed." He also added, "I think a match like that deserves the fan's emotional investment. It's way too soon. It's just an attraction match and I think it's more valuable than that, I think it's been wasted a little bit. It will still be a hell of a match, I just wish some more emotional investment put into the match. Right now, I feel it's more of an attraction, something that's new and fresh.

As you mention Survivor Series, maybe that is where they can have Jericho put the Sharpshooter on Michaels, have him get screwed and all Canadians can finally be silenced. Michaels gets his 11 years later. And then......... just let it ride that Michaels got screwed out of the WWE, don't even mention him until he returns after No Way Out and there's your final blowoff with Michaels WINNING in Texas.

Jericho: 2000 - Won Euro Title 2001 - Sucessful defense of IC title 2002 - Lost Undisputed Title 2003 - Lost to HBK 2004 - Lost to Christian 2005 - Lost MITB 2006 - N/A 2007 - N/A 2008 - Lost MITB Yeah, I think he needs a win. Jericho w/Sid def. Michaels via PINFALL. I'd love to see that at Mania 25.

So now it's Survivor Series. Well, good luck on that Orton. Hell, if he really needs it, I say hold him out to Royal Rumble. I love it when injured guys come back during the Rumble and make it a surprise. Like Cena this year.

I just wonder, with the shape he's in, if he will be a full-time performer, part-time performer, or a bodyguard? Maybe, Jericho's hired gun? Imagine, during the Jericho-Michaels rematch at Unforgiven, since it's bound to happen, Sid runs out and powerbombs the HELL out of Michaels. So this fits into another piece of Michaels' past coming back to get him. Y2J and the Millenium Man. SOLD!

Seriously, I saw NOTHING in this guy, JP, so I have no idea why there are any defenders of him left. I follow the team, so I've seen some ridicolous defenses in his behalf. At one time, people thought he was the "Colangelo" of the Blue Jays, he's more like a "Babcock" now. From Dunn-Gate, to Gibbons, BJ Ryan and lying about the injury last year, trading Glaus 20 and 80 RBI's I believe this year? for an injury prone and over the hill player, OVERPAYING Burnett, the Frank Thomas fiasco, not re-signing Delgado and treating him like crap, no real farm system........... Ugh, when you are in year 7 of a 5 year plan you don't deserve a job. If they DO NOT fire Riccardi, I may just quit being a fan of this team.

Shannon Stewart has been released. This was the same guy JP cut Reed Johnson to make room for. Anyone else on the JP for Executive of the Year bandwagon?

Lashley, what were the plans with him post Great American Bash and the loss to Cena? Were they eventually gonna give him a WWE Title run? Or even an IC run? Of course we'll never know, but just wondering if they had anything long term booked for him.

Plus he wasn't on Smackdown, so he didn't know what went down backstage with Lashley and Hayes. Especially since the Henry comments were public, so knocking commitment, yes do that, but commenting on something you weren't there to see, bad.

Where the hell do these fans come from? I'd say Joey Styles' online gimmick? I'm sure with him running the site there must be multiple accounts of his lying around.

If Sid comes back and is healthy, I have no doubt in my mind the CM Punk title run will end. Due to McMahon loving the big guys, it will probably go to Sid and then he can branch off in a feud with either Batista and Cena if heel, or Orton, Jericho, or any of Adamle's cronies as a face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eeYizCI1O4 Since this was posted, I have to ask. All the flexing in the end. A shot at Hogan? And reading between the lines, some at Bret?

Nice to see there is some heat for him in a good way. Really though, he is a different type of debut, because it's a re-debut basically erasing his first run. If he's a face, I just hope he doesn't replicate a lot of the rapping like he did with Road Dogg in 2000. That R-Truth, we don't need. If he's gonna get into the US title picture, then I guess that's an insta-feud with Shelton.

Sid at Summerslam eh? I gotta admit, where the heck would he have fit in by then? Heel turn? He wasn't in the WWF or IC title pictures at the time. Maybe a feud with Ahmed and the New Nation? Just thinking where Sid would've fit in at that time was intriguing to say the least.

So did anybody here get the Summerslam set and has a review? I'm wondering myself, what they are like.

Was it true that HBK didn't want to drop the tag titles in 1994, hence why they were forfeited? Just curious about that one. Every other title he held and didn't drop all had a back story except this title run.

Those matches were spectacular? Hell, out of those guys, I think Nash had the best match with him. The match with Booker at WM was sad and embarrassing, while the match against Goldberg at Unforgiven had no momentum since Goldberg should have won at SS, and the match with Steiner at the Rumble was one of the worst matches of all time. I don't really think HHH was trying to make just WCW guys look bad, I think he tried to make everyone look bad, such as RVD and Kane. I think it looked like he was only trying to bury WCW guys because Vince signed a lot of those guys in that time period, and wanted to main event them, but HHH obviously wasn't going to put them over. I mean WEREN'T. Man, those were horrible. And I'd like to add, the best period for me in terms of WWF TV was the NEW VR period. Always live and never missed a show. It's when then went to TSN that I started to hate how they covered it. Especially Jim Van Horn always chiming in during breaks with his "RASSLIN" line.