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Horrible example. Everyone loves Glengarry Glen Ross. And I think everyone loved Spider-Man 2 as well. While everyone on the internet likes Glengarry, I don't think it is a well known film. I have mentioned it to people in the past and when they hear the title they shrug their shoulders saying "that sounds stupid". Oh well, their loss.

I've got one. Glengarry Glen Ross. It may be well known on the internet but few people know what this movie is. I picked it up on a blind buy. I looked at the cover and said "Pacino,Spacey,Harris,Baldwin,Lemmon, I have to at least try this one." Great movie. Alec Baldwin's 5 minute part steals the show. I think the name of the movie is what keeps people from seeing it. Too bad because it's good stuff.

1.Spiderman 3-$375 2.Shrek 3-$325 3.Pirates 3-$300 4.Harry Potter-$250 5.Bourne Ultimatum-$215 That's my take.Despite Pirates being released for Memorial Day weekend I think it will suffer from the last one being released less than a year ago. The same thing happened with the matrix series. I still think Pirates will bring in $300 mil but I just don't think there is enough time between movies.

That feature on the horsemen dvd might be the best feature they have had on a dvd yet.Great stuff from everyone. I rewatched the segment where flair reforms the horsemen on nitro and it is still awesome. You would think it was the pontiac silverdome by how loud the crowd was.Fire me!I'm already fired! One of the best moments ever from nitro.

The discussion about wrestlemania XI and with WM just around the corner it gave me the idea. I know this has been done before but I thought I would give it a shot. I am going to rebook every wrestlemania. Please provide some feedback. Here is the first one. WRESTLEMANIA 1 1. BOB ORTON VS JIMMY SNUKA Winner: JIMMY SNUKA 12:44 2. JUNKYARD DOG VS KING KONG BUNDY Winner: KING KONG BUNDY 4:21 3. THE BRITISH BULDOGS VS THE MOONDOGS Winners BRITISH BULDOGS 9:55 4. RICKY STEAMBOAT VS DON MURACO Winner: RICKY STEAMBOAT 13:30 5. IC TITLE: GREG VALENTINE VS TITO SANTANA Winner: GREG VALENTINE 19:47 INTERMISSION 6. TAG TITLES: U.S. EXPRESS VS IRON SHIEK/NIKOLIA VOLKOFF Winners: IRON SHIEK/NIKOLIA VOLKOFF 12:49 7. ANDRE THE GIANT VS BIG JOHN STUD Winner: ANDRE THE GIANT 6:23 8. WOMENS TITLE: LELANI KAI VS WENDY RICHTER Winner: WENDY RICHTER 8:12 9. HULK HOGAN/MR. T VS RODDY PIPER/PAUL ORNDORFF Winners: HULK HOGAN/MR T 13:26

This project is going to be a work in progress but I will compile a list eventually. 2 promos I always liked were the post match interviews with savage and flair from wm8. It made you want to see a rematch right then. Savage gives a classic line of "I haven't beaten you up properly". Flair's victory speech at the 92 rumble was another gem.

Consider this to be just the start of the list but here is some ideas I have. 1. Hogans heel turn interview 2. Flairs promo at the begining of the final nitro 3. Flair reunites the horsemen on nitro 4. Bret snaps on raw 5. Brets anti american promo 6. Vinces bret screwed bret promo 7. Heymans promo before survivor series 01 8. Foleys sitdown interviews with jim ross 9. Foleys cane dewey promo 10. Foleys anti hardcore promo 11. Foleys promo the night after wm14 12. Austins promo at mind games 13. Pilmans smart mark promo 14. Shawn Michaels montreal promo 15. Dean Malenkos ecw farewell speech 16. Jerichos man of 1,004 holds promo 17. Terry Funks promo before barely legal (not sure exactly whenthis was) 18. Ted Dibiase gets the kid to dribble the basketball 19. Jake Roberts at tuesday in texas

This just might be my next list.The only thing is to seperate the interviews from the promos. If anyone thinks this is a good idea then send me some suggestions.

WRESTLEMANIA IX 1. IC TITLE: SHAWN MICHAELS VS MARTY JANNETTY Winner: SHAWN MICHAELS 20:15 2. YOKOZUNA VS HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN Winner: YOKOZUNA 4:37 3. HEADSHRINKERS/BAM BAM BIGELOW VS BUSHWHACKERS/TATANKA Winners: BUSHWHACKERS/TATANKA 7:50 4. RAZOR RAMON VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: RAZOR RAMON 15:41 5. LEX LUGER VS UNDERTAKER Winner: LEX LUGER 9:05 6. TAG TITLES STEINERS VS MONEY INC Winners: STEINERS 20:47 7. LOSER LEAVES TOWN: RIC FLAIR VS MR PERFECT Winner: MR PERFECT 23:17 8. WORLD TITLE: BRET HART VS HULK HOGAN Winner: BRET HART 18:28 WRESTLEMANIA X 1. BRET HART VS OWEN HART Winner: OWEN HART 20:25 2. DOINK/MEN ON A MISSION VS HEADSHRINKERS/BAM BAM BIGELOW Winners: DOINK/MEN ON A MISSION 5:21 3. WORLD TITLE #1: LEX LUGER VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: LEX LUGER 10:45 4. SPARKY PLUG VS JEFF JARRETT Winner: JEFF JARRETT 6:30 5. SMOKING GUNS VS HEAVENLY BODIES Winners: SMOKING GUNS 13:38 6. CASKET MATCH: UNDERTAKER VS YOKOZUNA Winner: UNDERTAKER 13:16 7. TATANKA VS IRS Winner: TATANKA 6:10 8. TAG TITLES: QUEBECKERS VS 1-2-3 KID/MARTY JANNETTY Winners: QUEBECKERS 17:40 9. IC TITLE: LADDER MATCH: SHAWN MICHAELS vs RAZOR RAMON Winner: RAZOR RAMON 18:45 10. WORLD TITLE #2: LEX LUGER VS BRET HART Winner: BRET HART 15:30 My Explanation: First off wm9. I went with shawn/marty over shawn/tatanka because of the feud and it would be a better match. I did think the hbk/tatanka match was underrated though. I did yokozuna/duggan because Duggan was Yokozunas first major opponent and I never liked having him in the main event scene. I put the headshrinkers/bam bam in there with the bushwhackers/tatanka to add a second tag match. I went with savage/razor because they were feuding not long before this and I felt that savage could have been used in the ring on the show. I went with the Steiners winning the belts over Money inc because it was happening eventually and it would have made for a great wm match/title change. I like the idea of having flair stay until wm and having that loser leaves town match with hennig happen on the ppv. I had Narcissist Lex Luger go over Undertaker and stop the winning streak dead. I know that is unpopular but I loved the Narcissist gimmick and I would have pushed luger as the heel big time. I went with Bret retaining the title over Hogan which really would give Bret the rub. I would have had Hogan return for the rumble and win it which would give him the wm title shot.Then have him lose clean to bret. As for wm 10. Bret/Owen stays the same.no need to change anything there. I put the 6 man on there because I went with a 10 match card and I felt 3 tag matches was necessary. Jarrett/Sparky Plug was a filler match and they could have given a decent match imo. Bottom line is the roster was weak. Ditto tatanka/irs Yokozuna/Undetaker casket match I had take place at wm instead of the rumble because I never had Yoko in the title picture. I went with Smoking Gunns/Heavenly Bodies to add a tag match and I thought it would be a decent match. No need to change the ladder match. I put kid/jannetty in there with the quebeckers because it would be a much better tag match. Now there is some explaining to do.I had Bret go over Hogan at wm9. I had luger go over undertaker to build him as the next top heel. I would have luger win king of the ring.I would have Bret go over savage at king of the ring to get another big win over another top guy from the old regime. I would have luger go over bret to win the belt at Summerslam. Savage is kept strong despite the kotr loss to bret. Bret is still in the family tag match at survivor series where owen starts his heel turn. Luger and Savage are on opposing teams at that ppv. Bret/Owen have their match with quebeckers at the rumble and it goes exactly the same way. Luger defends the belt against undertaker and retains with interference from yokozuna. Savage who is kept strong for his ongoing feud with luger does the photo finish with bret. That leads to the same bret owen match with bret getting a title match at the end. The first title match is champion heel luger going over co rumble winner randy savage. Bret goes over luger in the main event. Thoughts on my changes to wm 9/10 ?

WRESTLEMANIA VII This is a ppv that has become a fan favorite over the years. It has several great matches and very few squashes. I am blowing up the entire card from a booking standpoint which means all of those good matches get sacrificed. Here is what I came up with. 1. TAG TITLES: HART FOUNDATION VS LEGION OF DOOM Winners: LEGION OF DOOM 18:49 2. RICK MARTEL VS JAKE ROBERTS Winner: JAKE ROBERTS 11:30 3. EARTHQUAKE VS TUGBOAT Winner: EARTHQUAKE 2:17 4. NASTY BOYS VS BUSHWHACKERS Winners: NASTY BOYS 8:45 5. UNDERTAKER VS JIMMY SNUKA Winner: UNDERTAKER 4:20 6. SGT SLAUGHTER VS HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN Winner: HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN 12:04 INTERMISSION 7. HAKU/BARBARIAN VS BIG BOSSMAN/TEXAS TORNADO Winners: BIG BOSSMAN/TEXAS TORNADO 6:27 8. RODDY PIPER VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: RODDY PIPER 16:52 9. IC TITLE: MR PERFECT VS BRITISH BULDOG Winner: MR PERFECT 17:33 10. POWER & GLORY VS ROCKERS Winners: ROCKERS 14:23 11. TED DIBIASE VS VIRGIL Winner: VIRGIL 5:13 12. WORLD TITLE: ULTIMATE WARRIOR VS HULK HOGAN Winner: HULK HOGAN 21:47 WRESTLEMANIA VIII 1. OWEN HART VS BRITISH BULDOG Winner: BRITISH BULDOG 16:40 2. BIG BOSSMAN VS SHAWN MICHAELS Winner: SHAWN MICHAELS 13:22 3. NATURAL DISASTERS VS NASTY BOYS Winners: NATURAL DISASTERS 4:35 4. TATANKA VS RICK MARTEL Winner: TATANKA 5:16 5. RANDY SAVAGE VS JAKE ROBERTS Winner RANDY SAVAGE 15:54 INTERMISSION 6. TAG TITLES: LEGION OF DOOM VS MONEY INC. Winners MONEY INC 17:42 7. UNDERTAKER VS SID JUSTICE Winner: UNDERTAKER 11:14 8. IC TITLE: BRET HART VS RODDY PIPER Winner: BRET HART 13:54 9. WORLD TITLE: HULK HOGAN VS RIC FLAIR Winner: RIC FLAIR 21:20 (with hogan leaving after wm8,i kept the belt on flair. I would have flair and perfect double team hogan post match with warrior making the save.)

I know I stopped after wm4 but I will do 2 each day.Since everyone seems to be having fun making there own cards, mine will look very similar to some peoples. WRESTLEMANIA V 1. ROCKERS VS BRAINBUSTERS Winners: BRAINBUSTERS 17:22 2. BRUTUS BEEFCAKE VS HONKYTONK MAN Winner: BRUTUS BEEFCAKE 6:41 3. BLUE BLAZER VS MR PERFECT Winner: MR PERFECT 15:35 4. STRIKE FORCE VS TWIN TOWERS Winners: TWIN TOWERS 8:05 (heel turn stays) 5. HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN VS HAKU Winner: HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN 6:12 6. JAKE ROBERTS VS TED DIBIASE Winner: JAKE ROBERTS 15:48 INTERMISSION 7. TAG TITLES: DEMOLITION VS POWERS OF PAIN/MR FUJI Winners: DEMOLITION 9:17 8. BIG JOHN STUD VS ANDRE THE GIANT Winner: ANDRE THE GIANT 4:06 9. HERCULES VS BAD NEWS BROWN Winner: BAD NEWS BROWN 3:26 10. IC TITLE: ULTIMATE WARRIOR VS RICK RUDE Winner: RICK RUDE 13:30 11. HART FOUNDATION/RONNIE GARVIN VS GREG VALENTINE/ROUGEOUS Winners: HART FOUNDATION/RONNIE GARVIN 17:48 12. WORLD TITLE: HULK HOGAN VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: HULK HOGAN 20:10 You will note the total wrestling time is very high. Wrestlemania 17 showed that you can put on a 4 hour show without the fans getting bored. The key is that if you give the right matches and if everyone brings thier A game, it can work. Some of the early wrestlemanias seemed long and boring because they were 4 hour shows filled with squashes and silly segments like pipers pit. WRESTLEMANIA VI 1. HART FOUNDATION VS ROCKERS Winners: HART FOUNDATION 18:32 2. TITO SANTANA VS RICK MARTEL Winner: RICK MARTEL 10:12 3. BRUTUS BEEFCAKE VS MR PERFECT Winner: BRUTUS BEEFCAKE 13:41 4. BUSHWHACKERS VS ORIENT EXPRESS Winners: ORIENT EXPRESS 5:17 5. RONNIE GARVIN VS GREG VALENTINE Winner: GREG VALENTINE 15:24 6. RODDY PIPER VS RICK RUDE Winner: RODDY PIPER 14:09 INTERMISSION 7. TAG TITLES: DEMOLITION VS COLOSSAL CONNECTION Winners: DEMOLITION 8:34 8. JAKE ROBERTS VS TED DIBIASE Winner: JAKE ROBERTS 15:23 9. DUSTY RHODES VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: DUSTY RHODES 11:29 10. HACKSAW DUGGAN/JIMMY SNUKA VS EARTHQUAKE/DINO BRAVO Winners: EARTHQUAKE/DINO BRAVO 4:10 11. BIG BOSSMAN VS AKEEM Winner: BIG BOSSMAN 0.38 12. TITLE VS TITLE: HULK HOGAN VS ULTIMATE WARRIOR Winner: ULTIMATE WARRIOR 22:51

WRESTLEMANIA IV 1. WOMENS TAG TITLES: JUMPING BOMB ANGELS VS GLAMOUR GIRLS Winners: JUMPING BOMB ANGELS 14:36 2. DON MURACO VS GREG VALENTINE Winner: GREG VALENTINE 9:51 3. BRITISH BULDOGS VS ISLANDERS Winners: BRITISH BULDOGS 14:20 4. JUNKYARD DOG VS BAD NEWS BROWN Winner: BAD NEWS BROWN 4:12 5. ROUGEOUS VS HART FOUNDATION Winners: ROUGEOUS 15:38 6. IC TITLE HONKY TONK MAN VS RANDY SAVAGE Winner: RANDY SAVAGE 12:50 INTERMISSION 7. BRUTUS BEEFCAKE VS DINO BRAVO Winner: BRUTUS BEEFCAKE 4:08 8. TAG TITLES: STRIKE FORCE VS DEMOLITION Winners: DEMOLITION 15:44 9. HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN VS ANDRE THE GIANT Winner: ANDRE THE GIANT 5:22 10: RICKY STEAMBOAT VS RICK RUDE Winner RICK RUDE 13:30 11. JAKE ROBERTS/BAM BAM BIGELOW VS BUTCH REED/ONE MAN GANG Winners: JAKE ROBERTS/BAM BAM BIGELOW 3:07 12. WORLD TITLE: HULK HOGAN VS TED DIBIASE Winner: TED DIBIASE 17:45 My reasons for the changes: I turned this card upside down and shook it up and made something new out of it.It would require several booking changes.Things prabably worked out better in the long run but I thought I would get creative. I dumped the tourney idea. I put the womens match on there since they always had good matches together. I put the buldogs/islanders together and gave them more time because I thought koko/heenan brought the match down. I kept the tag title match the same and gave it more time. Nothing really needed to be changed there. I would of had a double turn in the rougeous/harts match with jimmy hart turning on the hart foundation which would take care of bret's face turn. I put jake/Bigelow in there against gang/reed to get jake on the show. I went with muraco/valentine because it was a better match than muraco/bravo I put beefcake in there with bravo to get beefcake on the show. I did steamboat/rude because it would be a better match than jake/rude. I went with bad newsjyd to get bad news over as the new heel. Andre/Duggan was to get Andre on the show and duggan was a friend of Hogan so it worked. Savage wins the ic belt to end the feud with htm. Dibiase wins the belt in the main event. If you think the heel going over is wrong, that was the original plan. They could have ended it with dibiase/andre double teaming hogan and savage making the save and then the mega powers celebrate at the end. Then after wm you could hotshot the ic belt back to htm with dibiase costing savage the belt. Then have Savage win the belt over dibiase at summerslam. Then you could still have the warrior squash htm at summerslam too. Yes all of this is far fetched but who knows what would have happened if honky didn't make a big deal out of jobbing to savage.

WRESTLEMANIA III 1. CAM AM CONNECTION VS BOB ORTON/ DON MURACO Winners: CAM AM CONNECTION 10:48 2. TITO SANTANA VS DANNY DAVIS Winner: DANNY DAVIS 7:35 3. KAMALA/SIKA VS ISLANDERS Winners: KAMALA/SIKA 4:21 4. KOKO B WARE VS PAUL ORNDORFF Winner: PAUL ORNDORFF 4:17 5. ROUGEOUS VS DREAM TEAM Winners: DREAM TEAM 12:56 6 RODDY PIPER VS ADRIAN ADONIS Winner: RODDY PIPER 8:20 INTERMISSION 7. BATTLE ROYAL: Winner DEMOLITION 9:37 (last two left and they split the winnings) Participants: Demolition,Killer Bees,Young Stallions,Nikolia Volkoff,Butch Reed,Junkyard Dog,Ron Bass,Harley Race,George Steele,Hercules,Billy Jack Haynes,Hillbilly Jim,King Kong Bundy,Dino Bravo,Blackjack Mulligan,Danny Spivey,Lanny Poffo 8. IC TITLE RANDY SAVAGE VS RICKY STEAMBOAT Winner: RICKY STEAMBOAT 23:12 9. HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN VS IRON SHIEK Winner HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN 7:40 10: TAG TITLES HART FOUNDATION VS BRITISH BULDOGS Winners: HART FOUNDATION 18:16 11. JAKE ROBERTS VS HONKY TONK MAN Winner: JAKE ROBERTS 8:05 12. WORLD TITLE HULK HOGAN VS ANDRE THE GIANT Winner: HULK HOGAN 12:10 My reasons for the changes There was little to change and if it stayed the same it would be fine. Since I decided to change every wrestlemania here is what I came up with. I added more time to the opening tag match because they were putting something good together and an extra 5 minutes would have made the match much better. I put tito/davis by themselves because I thought tito was a good worker and davis was over as the cowardly heel ref. The harts/buldogs could put on a great match by themselves. Kamala/Sika vs Islanders was an excuse to get more talent on the show and I don't like midget matches. I replaced Butch Reed with Orndorff because Orndorff went from being the #1 heel to not being on the biggest show ever.That wasn't right. Dream Team/Rougeous was kept the same but given more time to build a good match. Piper/Adonis was fine as it was. Harts/Buldogs was made a regular tag match for the belts.Even with Dynamites injury they could have put on a great match. Jake/Honky was kept the same. I put Duggan/Shiek on there instead of the tag match because Duggan was new and would have got over with the crowd. Savage/Steamboat was given more time just because. I put in the 20 man battle royal because with an event that huge I felt it was only fair to have as much of the roster on there as possible. It was a way to get everyone on wm3. Demolition went over because they were a new team that was going to get a push anyway. Obviously the main event was kept the same.

Everyone has taken most of my ideas but thats ok. Here is wm 2. I will post wm3 later tonight. WRESTLEMANIA 2 (one arena) 1. HART FOUNDATION VS KILLER BEES Winners: HART FOUNDATION 17:24 2. BIG JOHN STUD VS HILLBILLY JIM Winner: HILLBILLY JIM 3:05 3. DON MURACO VS RICKY STEAMBOAT Winner: RICKY STEAMBOAT 14:46 4. TONY ATLAS/CPL KIRSHNER VS IRON SHIEK/NIKOLAI VOLKOFF Winners: TONY ATLAS/CPL KIRSHNER 5:51 5. JUNKYARD DOG VS JAKE ROBERTS Winner: JAKE ROBERTS 6:34 6. IC TITLE RANDY SAVAGE VS TITO SANTANA Winner: RANDY SAVAGE 16:40 INTERMISSION 7. U.S. EXPRESS (spivey/rotundo) VS FUNKS Winners FUNK BROTHERS 10:21 8. PAUL ORNDORFF VS BOB ORTON Winner: PAUL ORNDORFF 8:03 9. ANDRE THE GIANT VS KING KONG BUNDY Winner: ANDRE THE GIANT 5:36 10. TAG TITLES DREAM TEAM VS BRITISH BULDOGS Winners BRITISH BULDOGS 19:15 11. GEORGE STEELE VS ADRIAN ADONIS Winner ADRIAN ADONIS 1:49 12. WORLD TITLE HULK HOGAN VS RODDY PIPER CAGE MATCH Winner: HULK HOGAN 16:50 My reasons for the changes: I put the harts and bees together because they were having good tag matches with each other at the time. I felt they were better served here than in a battle royal. I decided against bret/steamboat because I thought this tag match would have worked well and steamboat would be involved in another good match.2 for the price of one. Steamboat vs Muraco was logical since they were feuding at the time and they worked well together.A better match than Hercules. Stud/Hillbilly Jim was a way to get them on the card without having a battle royal. I changed the Volkoff/Kirshner match to a tag match to get another tag match on the card.Simple as that. Jake/Jyd would follow the same formula bundy/jyd did the previous year. Jyd was better competition but served the purpose of putting over the new guy. Savage/Tito was a no brainer instead of george Steele. Would have been one of the best matches on the card too. With tito/jyd gone I needed someone for the funks to work with. I chose Spivey/Rotundo because they are two of the few the funks can get a good match out of. Orndorff/Orton was a logical choice since they were feuding and would have been a better match than orndorff/muraco. Tag title match needed no change other than an extra 10 minutes to put on the match of the night. Andre/Bundy was put together to get them on the show since I didn't have the battle royal. Adonis/Steele was filler to use in between the tag titles and main event. I went with Hogan/Piper instead of Hogan/Bundy to give the feud a proper blowoff.It also would have at least been a passable match too.

Starting tomorrow I will do 2 per day. Here is my reasoning behind the first wrestlemania. Snuka/Orton were pretty good workers at the time and would have been more useful than having guys like executioner/s.d. jones on there. Jyd was a big name at the time but I didn't think he was the best opponent for valentine. He stays on the card as better competition for bundy. Bundy still goes over strong though. I don't believe the harts were a team yet but I think the buldogs had just started teaming. Even an extended squash against a midcard team like the moondogs would have been decent considering how great the buldogs were. Muraco should have been on the show one way or another. Why not put him in there with steamboat instead of matt bourne who was a jobber at the time. Plus they would have put on a good match. Valentine and Tito were in a big feud at the time. This match would have stole the show from a workrate perspective. The last 4 matches I kept the same because I saw nothing wrong with them. I gave more time to the tag title match because I thought they could have put a good match together. The last three had there place. Also, beefcake/Sammartino was extremely boring and I don't think any tears would have been shed if it didn't take place.

I still have no clue what kind of list I'm going to do next. I will come up with something though.

50. IT'S VADER TIME 1/22/96 Vader made his debut at the royal rumble in 1996. He was suppose to make an immediate impact. In his first singles match on raw he squashed savio vega. After the match, vader continued the beating and layed into the refs as well. Then president gorilla monsoon came down and suspended vader. Vader took his frustrations out on monsoon, giving him the vader bomb. This was a perfect debut for vader giving him instant heat. Unfortunately injuries stalled his momentum and then politics ruined it but this was good tv for the time. 49. SID Gets the Night Off 4/3/95 It was the night after wrestlemania 11. Hbk went in the ring with his bodyguard Sid to cut a promo about his loss to Deisel. Shawn implyed that Sid was not much of a help in the match. He talked about a rematch and then told Sid he would have the night off when the match took place. Sid took offense to that and gave hbk 3 nasty looking powerbombs. That cleared the way for Shawn's face turn which was only a matter of time anyway. 48. BATISTA Makes His Decision 2/21/05 It wasn't suppose to be him. It was penciled in long in advance that the wm main event would be HHH vs Randy Orton. Orton failed as a babyface. The fans took to batista just on the basis that he didn't kiss hhh's ass like the rest of the locker room did. Batista won the rumble but he had the choice of facing either champion. They played that up for a few weeks. HHH kept trying to convince him that if he chose to face smackdown that evolution would have both titles. Everyone knew they way the storyline would play out but it was fun to watch anyway. Obviously batista chose to face hhh and destroyed him that night to everyone's delight. 47. Kurt and his Medals 9/18/00 I'll admit that this isn't a significant moment but I thought it was damn funny. The feud between Kurt Angle and HHH had been building for months. Both guys were heels which made it pretty interesting. Stephanie wanted then commissioner foley to call off the match scheduled for unforgiven. Angle came out and said the match must go on. That brought out HHH. Then hilarity ensued. HHH played a clip of angles olympic matches and implied that angle was gay. Foley joined in on the fun asking angle which team he was playing for now. The fact that hhh and foley were involved in a bitter feud at the beginning of the year made it that much better. Then they showed a clip of angle crying after winning the gold medal. 46. Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit 6/11/01 This match is forgotten about because of the matches that they went on to have down the line. This was a cage match. This is one of the rare occasions where two guys can have a feud over who was the better wrestler because there matches were so great. Angle giving benoit a moonsault from the top of the cage is the highlight of the match. One of the better matches shown on raw.

I prabably could have done a top 100. I figured I covered the hart foundation reforming in the bret heel promo at #5. There was alot of stuff I left out like austin throwing the ic title in the river,mr socko following by austin attacking vince in the hospital. I always liked the steiners/quebeckers title switch from late 93 though I havent seen it in years. The savage/crush feud was cool at the time too.

2. THIS IS HOW YOU GET EVERYONE TALKING 1/19/98 While nitro was still winning in the ratings and putting on some good shows, the wwf had been putting on the better product for much of 1997. They were gaining viewers. They became an edgier product. They just needed something that would grab everyone's attention. It was the night after the royal rumble where Stone Cold won the match and would face HBK at wrestlemania. With the wwf getting more popular, Vince wanted something special for wrestlemania so he decided to bring in a celebrity. He called Mike Tyson. They showed wrestlers interacting with tyson throughout the show. To end raw Vince was in the ring and introduced Mike Tyson. He was getting ready to make the announcement that tyson would be the special second ref for the match. Cue Stone Cold. Austin got in the ring and made it clear that Mike Tyson was in his ring and he was not welcomed. "Your out here calling yourself the baddest man on the planet. Right now you've got your eyes locked on to the eyes of the worlds toughest son of a bitch." Austin gave tyson the one finger salute and it was a massive pull apart. Vince tried getting at austin for ruining the surprise. This got the wwf national coverage and got the hype machine rolling for wrestlemania. It also got a bunch of non wrestling fans to start watching raw and it lead to the huge ratings raw would start getting every monday. It was also somewhat of a swerve to get everyone thinking there would be an austin/tyson match at wm when that was never the intention. That only leaves one more left and if you don't like my choice to steal a quote : 1. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH SHIT 3/17/97 The award for best in ring meltdown goes to: Bret Hart. From the time bret returned at survivor series everything that could go wrong for him did. Nothing went in bret's favor and he got more and more upset each week. The problem was he began complaining about each event that went in favor of austin or hbk or whatever opponent he was facing. The fans took objection to that since bret painted himself as a top notch role model who always turned the other cheek. Bret's main objection at the time was Steve Austin. Austin was a classic heel in every sense. He was so good at being the heel that he got a cult following. That cult following started to grow as weeks went by. Austin went out of his way to get involved in bret's matches in every way possible. The match for wrestlemania was set and it would be a submission match. On the last raw before wm, Bret was facing Sid in a cage match for the world title. This created an interesting situation. Sid was facing Undertaker at wm and Bret was facing Austin. Both mens opponents at wm tried during the match to help them win so that they could be the one to get the title shot. Smart booking. In the end, Undertaker slammed the cage door in brets face and Sid won the match which meant Bret was on the short end yet again. That was the straw that broke the camels back. After the match, Vince got in the ring to interview Bret about the loss. This was 6 months before the stunner heard round the world and Vince was still just an announcer at this point. He told Bret that he must be frustrated over the loss. Bret shoved Vince down and gave this classic rant: " Frustrated isn't a god damn word for it. This is bullshit. You screwed me. Everybody screwed me and nobody does a god damn thing about it. Nobody in the building cares. Nobody in the dressing room cares. So much god damn injustice around here. Ive had it up to here. I know it. Everybody knows it. I should be the wwf champion. Everybody keeps turning the blind eye to it. You keep turning the blind eye to it. I've got gorilla Monsoon, he turns the blind eye to it. Everybody in that god damn dressing room knows that I'm the best there is,the best there was and the best there ever will be. And if you don't like it tough shit." At this point austin got on the titantron and blamed bret for losing the match and told him all he does is cry like a baby. Bret tld austin to come to the ring. Sid made his way to the ring and he and bret had a stare down until undertaker came down to the ring. Bret went after taker for slamming the door on him. Austin came down to the ring. It was a huge brawl for the next 10 minutes as all 4 wrestlers fought. Funny bit where bret punches out pat patterson and vince who is back on commentary says "he just hit hall of famer pat patterson. That dirty rotten son of a..." Shawn Michaels then came down to the ring and went untouched. Bret tried to get after hbk but he was brawling with austin. The show went off the air during the brawl. The slow change in brets character leading up to this was great. You knew bret was going to snap eventually but this was far beyond what anyone expected. This lead to the double turn at wrestlemania and my favorite wwf match of all time. That lead to the Austin era and the second boom period in wrestling. Thoughts on my top 50 ? Any suggestions for my next top 50 ?

We would not see the rise of Steve Austin. That is for sure.

lol. They do not include nipple slips. I am surprised nobody has been able to guess them by this point. I guess I am the only one who likes the last two that much. I will post them later. As far as the bret/vince hockey fight episode goes, I might not have seen that because I don't remember it at all. One honorable mention goes to the night after rumble 97 where Bret went out and quit the company before they made the final four match. Bret's character from survivor series 96 until survivor series 97 was awesome.

3. WINNER of the MONDAY NIGHT WARS: VINCENT K MCMAHAN 3/26/01 I was out of town the weekend this story broke on the internet. This was the most shocking thing I've ever seen. Vince now owns wcw. The only reason this is not number 1 is because I don't consider it a positive moment. It is however, the most historic. Vince appeared on nitro first and talked about how he owned wcw and that he holds everyone's lives in his hands. When he got in the ring for the simulcast he couldn't help but put himself over in every way possible. Vince talked about how wcw used to laugh at the wwf when they were winning the ratings and "He who laughs last laughs best". Vince then basically challenged Ted Turner to come to wrestlemania. Vince then said he had a choice of putting wcw on the shelf or making it another huge wrestling company like wwf. He then surveyed the crowd on some of wcw wrestlers. Hogan,Steiner,Booker,Bagwell,Sting all got named. Then the crowd themselves starting chanting for goldberg. (Personally, I feel that if they were able to bring in any top stars at the time it would have helped tremendously.) Vince then said that he was putting wcw on the shelf and it would be buried. (That is what happened). Shane Mcmahan then appeared on the screen. He said that the contract was already signed for wcw only it was his name on the contract and not vince. Again, this is imo the most important moment in raw. It is not my favorite. The top two are my two favorites and they were tough to choose from. Until next time.

4. AUSTIN/MCMAHAN 4/13/98 This had been building for a long time. Stone Cold came out to open the show. He wanted to talk to Vince face to face in the ring. Vince reluctantly came to the ring. Austin asked vince who he was going to be going against at the next ppv and vince said he hadn't made up his mind yet. Austin then ran down all of the things vince didn't like about him being champion. He said vince would prefer a corporate champion. Austin said "It sounds to me like you want to be the wwf champion. Is that right ?". Vince asked austin what he meant by that and Austin replied: 'Tonight I am putting the wwf title on the line. You are prabably going to ask me who my opponent is going to be. The way I look at it there can only be one opponent and that is Mr Vince Mcmahan." Austin surveyed the crowd and they went nuts. He told Vince he could beat him with one arm tied behind his back and gave him a half hour to decide or he would drag him out to the ring anyway. We got some funny segments throughout the show of brisco/patterson offering vince advice. Vince came back out and accepted the challenge. The main event was set. When it came time for the match vince made austin tie one hand behind his back since he said earlier that he could. Then dude love interrupted. Dude Love didn't want the match to take place and Vince pushed him aside. Dude went towards vince then decided to put the mandible claw on austin instead as the show went off the air. Anyone who became a fan post 1998 doesn't realize how big of a moment this was. Vince had not been seen in a match to this point. Everyone was waiting for austin to get his hands on vince. Philly was the perfect place for this show much like msg was perfect for the first stunner delivered to vince. This was also the first time wwf beat nitro in the ratings in I think 78 weeks.

I hope everyone has enjoyed my top 50 raw moments. I'd be curious to see some other peoples top 10. At this point it is tough putting one over another as these are my favorites. As you can see, 97-98 was my favorite time and its amazing looking back that wcw won the ratings this whole time. I am not sure what my next list will be but I am open to suggestions. Here is #5. 5. AMERICAN WRESTLING FANS CAN KISS MY ASS 3/24/97 It was the day after wrestlemania 13. One day removed from my favorite wrestling match ever and possibly the most effective double turn ever. Bret Hart came out to talk about the match. He issued an apology to everyone for his actions that last few months. Everyone got an apology except for america. Bret talked about how the fans would cheer every heel act that steve austin did. At the same time, they would boo hart everytime he retaliated or complained about austins rule breaking. Hart talked about how he tried to be a role model but fans would rather cheer shawn michaels. Bret then made the comment "The american wrestling fans coast to coast can kiss my ass." This brought out Shawn Michaels. Hbk talked about how the fans can cheer and boo anyone they want whether bret likes it or not. Bret attacked hbk and put on the ringpost figure four. Refferees tried to pull him off but bret wouldn't let go. Then Sid came out and Bret ran. Imo, this was the best promo bret ever cut because he threw so much truth into it. He never really said anything that wasn't true. The thing was that it was the cool thing to do at the time was to cheer the heel. Bret couldn't deal with that so he would complain and that made him look like the cowardly heel as a result. Bret reformed the hart foundation the next week and we got the summer of awesome with the U.S. vs Canada feud.

6. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS STONE COLD STUNNERS 9/22/97 This had been building for weeks. Austin was paralyzed in his summerslam match with owen hart. While he was out of action we got some pretty famous stone cold moments. JR interviewed austin from his home where he took target practice with some wwf pictures. Austin was stripped of both the ic belt and the tag belt because of his injury. Owen got a restraining order put against austin. Stone Cold was in a word... bitter. Owen was in the ring cutting a promo when austin attacked him. The police hit the ring to arrest austin because of the restraining order. Vince got in the ring to prevent the arrest and to calm austin down. Vince tried to explain to austin that they were worried that austin would get injured permanently if he wrestled and everyone understood his frustration. Austin replied " I apreciate the fact that you and the wwf care. I also apreciate the fact that you can kiss my ass." He then gave Vince Mcmahan his first stone cold stunner. Austin was then put in handcuffs and taken out. This was one of the most famous raws of all time and really got the ball rolling on the austin/mcmahan feud. This was an easy top 10 choice.