Mecca

Cause see it's "threatening"

Shhh, no matter what the crowd says no one is more over than H.

I wonder if we'll get about 8 Mania mainevents that involve Cena/HHH before it's all done.

The fact that they are going to basically do the Rumble winner challenging not at Mania is all you need to know about the grasp HHH has on that company... All tradition goes out the window when it involves the H's.

Oh no, Ashley....her song would have probably be some popular hair metal song in 89.

Nice scar..

It's better Cena than H that's how I look at it.

It amuses me that he got a huge pop when he came out then got booed right after,,"yea Cena!..oh wait.."

TNA: BIPOLAR? I watched all three hours of TNA Impact this week. I watched the regular 2-hour Impact as well as the 1-hour Global Impact that followed. When I was done with my marathon of TNA watching I was left in a state of disbelief. I can’t figure out how it is possible that the same company produced both shows. How can the same people be behind such an amazing great show and one that is so mind bogglingly stupid. Global Impact was fantastic. Everyone and everything on the show got over. This show treated the sport of pro-wrestling like it was a sport and everyone on the show could be taken seriously and in the end had credibility. There was only the one match on the show but it was great. Two top guys competed to see who the better man was, and the better man won decisively. The clips from other matches made me want to see more and everyone who spoke sounded intelligent and professional, which gave credibility and importance to what they did. If I told someone I was a pro-wrestler and they weren’t sure what I meant, I could show them this show to explain pro-wrestling and be proud of my chosen profession. If I had never seen or heard of TNA before this show it would be my favourite company and I would order every PPV they produced in a heartbeat after the way TNA came off on this show. In contrast to that if I told someone I was a pro-wrestler and showed them this week’s regular Impact show as an example, I would be embarrassed and want to put a paper bag over my head and slit my wrists. The Shark Boy stuff over shadowed all the hard work of those who wrestled on the show and TNA has once again regained the crown as the biggest disgrace in wrestling history after WWE’s brief lead when Hornswoggle ran through the spray painted hole in the wall. Let’s be honest, comedy can be a fun part of the show. Booker and Goldust at the Movies were funny. E and C were hilarious, but the Shark Boy segments this week on Impact were stupid, insulting, and perhaps more importantly extremely bad for business. It’s the bad for business part of things that drives me crazy with TNA. If they just did stupid comedy segments on their show I could stomach it, but segments like this have far wider ramifications and no one seems able to get their head out of their @$$ long enough it realize it. Let’s look at the fact that TNA spent approximately 7 minutes of airtime on the Shark Boy skits. That is more airtime than was given to any of the matches on the show outside of the main event, and is actually 16% of the total airtime on the show. 16% of the show was spent on a ‘jobber comedy’ character that does not appear on PPV, or draw a dime of revenue for the company. The skits were insultingly stupid and undermined the credibility of every person who took part in them. At least the Hornswoggle thing only made a midget comedy character and a guy who was (at the time) quitting, look stupid. TNA parades ½ their roster through these imbecilic segments. If that isn’t bad enough, and this is where the short sightedness of the creative team shows through, by doing this stupid injury angle gimmick with Shark Boy they are sabotaging their own company by wasting potential money drawing angles on this comedy character. How can TNA book an injury angle with anyone else on the show when Shark Boy comes to the ring in a near body cast and on crutches? The spirit of 76, never say die baby face character, is a proven money draw, when done properly. Tommy Dreamer and Dusty Rhodes used it many times and it always got over. TNA can’t use it now because they wasted it on a comedy skit. If Christian or Kurt Angle wants to play up an injury and come out bandaged up to get over the violence of their feud, they can’t, Shark Boy already did it. Having Shark Boy working “against Doctor’s orders” kills another great angle. Suppose they wanted to keep Gail Kim and Awesome Kong apart for a while. One of the easiest means to do so would be to play up Gail’s concussion and have her unable to get medical clearance to wrestle. That angle can no longer be used because TNA booked Shark Boy when he was seriously injured simply because Shark Boy asked to. They actually stated the Shark Boy was wrestling against Doctor's orders. So that’s another potential angle flushed down the toilet. Granted TNA will likely still use these types of angles despite them not making sense any longer, because having segments on the show that contradict each other is a TNA staple. How many times have we seen wrestlers in TNA demanding matches that they don’t’ get, and complaining that they can’t get enough airtime? I’ve seen Robert Roode do it, Samoa Joe do it, Chris Harris does it, to name just a few. They constantly complain, asking what a guy has to do to get the matches he wants. Oddly enough the near dead Shark Boy is wrestling every week and the explanation given as to why he is wrestling, despite being near death each week is that, “Shark Boy demanded the match”. Last week he demanded a match with a top contender and got a match with Tomko. How is it that an undercard nobody who can’t even get medical clearance is being given what he demands while other top stars are ignored by TNA management? This company makes no sense at all, at least not in this hemisphere. In Japan on the other hand, they are fantastic. Yours in utter confusion, Lance Storm

Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter Quote: Jeff Hardy has been gaining a ton of momentum the last few weeks. Instead of people seeing him as a stepping stone for Orton on the way to Triple H, you hear that a lot of people are saying that it's time for WWE to move him up. Although, if they do so, it would mess up long-term title plans they have involving Triple H. At last word - and remember, plans can change in an instant - the original plans are not changing. Orton will more than likely go over Hardy in their match tonight at the Royal Rumble. It should also be noted that people in power are pushing for Hardy to get the strap. Michael Hayes is Hardy's biggest advocate right now. Hayes has always pushed the Hardys, and earlier in their WWE careers he came out of retirement to be their manager. Hayes doesn't favor Hardy at all times though as he's said to be fair in evaluating him - both good and bad - but he feels that Hardy has proven himself enough to get the strap and he deserves to be rewarded with a title run. Hayes is pushing that the crowd reactions are telling WWE to finally pull the trigger. However, there is at least one person in particular who is against a Jeff Hardy title run at the moment and that person is Stephanie McMahon. She doesn't want WWE to give Hardy the belt because she feels that it would force a change of plans. Stephanie has given her reasons for why Hardy should not get the strap, though some backstage are saying that it sounds like Triple H rhetoric.

If i was a Skins fan I wouldn't be upset at all, there is nothing in the world that could make me want Gregg Williams as my teams head coach. I've heard they want Steve Spagnola, we'll see after the Bowl I guess.

So it comes back to his moronic nobody G/F who refused to do a role.... It's the new Krissy Vaine/Ryan O'Reilly...god people really are fuckin stupid.

The kid should have asked him if Batista knows he looks like a jacked up Pee Wee Herman.

Does HBK look even older in HD?

Big Show has either re-signed or is very close to re-signing with WWE and should be heading back in probably by the end of the month. He may be a surprise entrant in the Royal Rumble but the latest I heard was that he probably wasn't going to debut somewhere where he'd come across as just one of 30 guys, even if he tossed a lot of dudes before being eliminated. Plans changed regularly, though. Show won the ECW Title in July of 2006 for his final run with the company. He actually got the belt because RVD and Sabu were busted for drugs while Van Dam held both the WWE and ECW Titles, so they had to get the belts off him post-haste. Show was the top star in ECW for the rest of the year and it was probably the best usage of him in his entire career. He lost the belt to Bobby Lashley at the Elimination Chamber show at that year's December to Dismember PPV (which was also Paul Heyman's swan song), then lost a rematch the following Tuesday on the TV show. At that point WWE.com claimed he was taking time off to heal a bunch of injuries. He had been offered a lucrative five-year renewal at the time but turned it down, saying his body just couldn't handle the abuse anymore. He told some people that he was done forever, but it's tough to retire in this business. He did one match with Hulk Hogan on April 27, 2007 in Memphis, TN. Hogan, bitter that he was left out of WrestleMania XXIII (obviously he wanted to do a Hogan vs. Show match there to play off his legendary match with Andre the Giant twenty years earlier), decided he was going to show Vince McMahon a thing or two and become a huge draw on his own. Unfortunately, the show drew just over 2,000, and it was such that they filmed it for Hogan Knows Best in such a way to try to make the place seemed packed, and it still never made air. Because he couldn't be billed as Big Show, they called him Paul "The Great" Wight. In his time off he'd started training in boxing. The stories were that he was trying to go pro, but he surely realized that starting out in boxing in the mid-30s was a recipe for failure. So as it turns out he largely trained just to get in shape, and he's apparently down around the 440 mark now, at least 100 pounds less than his peak weight. He looked really good in the Memphis match, so hopefully he can keep his weight at this level through this next run. Speaking of Big Show, Hogan and Memphis, Cory Maclin, who has promoted in Memphis forever, filed suit against WWE this week. Basically, the Hogan vs. Show match we talked about earlier was supposed to be Hogan vs. Lawler, but after everything had been agreed to Lawler ended up no-showing the press conference where they were going to announce the match. This was how Big Show got the call to step in as replacement. Lawler, who had built up the Hogan match forever on television, claimed that his contract with WWE would not allow him to appear on VH-1 (they were taping the show, as noted, for Hogan Knows Best) since VH-1 and NBC/Universal (which owns USA Network) were rivals. Maclin is claiming that WWE pressured Lawler not to appear and then pressured their other wrestlers into not working for Maclin's promotion, which ultimately resulted in them losing their television show which was filmed every week in Sam's Town Casino. McMahon's actions, he claims, violated section two of the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It is strange that for nearly the entire time Lawler was promoting the match nobody in WWE bothered to say anything. According to an article in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the lawsuit alleges that Vince and WWE "took these actions because of a long-running feud with Hogan and in an effort to continue its extensive market control of the wrestling market by not allowing Maclin, a competing promoter, to have a successful and popular promotion." The suit seeks "punitive damages and all additional damages allowed" but does not list a dollar amount. This is going to be a tough case for Maclin unless he has it in writing from WWE that they were going to provide talent for the Sam's Town shows and reneged on the offer. Plus, the reason the show is on hiatus right now is because the TV station is being sold and the new owners aren't sure they want pro-wrestling on it, at least in the old traditional time slot. WWE Films is about to start shooting another project, 12 Rounds starring John Cena. Shooting begins at the end of the month in New Orleans. Not sure how this is working with the writer's strike. Technically, if the script needs a re-write they can't do anything about it. This may not be an issue with WWE Films given some of the previous fare. It will be directed by Renny Harlin, who was the man behind Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2. From reading the synopsis, it's basically The Marine in New Orleans, with Cena's girlfriend getting kidnapped and he has to save her. It will not be going to theatres, sadly, but straight to DVD. This story is great. Dave Batista was driving home from a wrestling show in Canton on January 5th and was pulled over on Interstate 77. The officer came up to his car and Dave noticed that he had no badge, no gun, none of the usual policing accoutrements, and he was wearing camouflage pants. So he drove off. He called the police and they had no idea who this man was. He has not been apprehended. He apparently had a red flashing light that he'd attached to the top of his car. Mr. Kennedy was married this weekend. Mae Young on James Guttman's radio show said she had been promised a match with Aurora Rose Lavesque, Hunter and Stephanie's daughter, on her 100th birthday. Aurora will be 17 at the time. Set your calendars for May 12, 2022. Roadkill apparently suffered a stinger in a match with Matt Sydal last week in OVW. He'll be fine. Sydal is the current OVW Champion. WWE got some good news this week as Raw will not be pre-empted on February 11th for the annual Westminster Dog Show as they have been every year since the beginning of their run in the early 90s. The Dog Show does crapty ratings, but because it's a Dog Show and not pro-wrestling the ad rates are through the roof and USA still makes more money with the dogs that night than the wrestlers. Over the last few years the live Raw was moved to Sci-Fi and the replay aired on USA after the dogs. This year, though, the dogs are being moved to CNBC. March 31st Raw, the night after WrestleMania, takes place at the Amway Arena in Orlando. Tickets went on sale January 12th credit:F4W Newsletter

- Dave Meltzer reported that Ron "The Truth" Killings did tell people at an independent show that he will be signing with WWE, accepting the company's $80,000 downside guarantee. - Mike Mooneyham is also reporting that Killings has signed with WWE.

Damn Finlay, I wanted to see Hornswoggle get punted.

Ok the midget doing the Batista entrance thing was hilarious.

I always ask that question, this guy is extremely well treated by the company and McMahon loves him. He's treated like he was a huge draw Austin/Rock level guy in his day...he even gets to use McMahons personal jet at times.. I'd honestly like to know WTF this guy did to ever gain this kind of treatment, he was never a huge star, frankly no one cares about him. Hell most people I know were tired as fuck of him during his Smackdown run.

Yes ripping on H is so uncool now, any bad news about him is also smark bait too.

I'm pretty sure Snitsky has lost numerous times..to Cena for one.

Look they have to put H back in the rumble...they can't stick to their word.

They're all getting new sets I think.

God I hate Hornswaggle.

He won not using the superkick...I'm shocked.