Thanks for the Fish

So $10 says Orton attacks Cena's father...

HHH (hurt because he talks too long) HBK (When motivated he could be the best) Regal (anybody have that backstage promo he cut on Hogan back in the day?) Edge (Comfortable on the mic and can get across what needs to be said) Booker (Is a over the top gimmick, but works it really well. I believe he has announcer/commentator aspirations when he retires) Punk (from his ROH work - I think the wwe is keeping him off the mic to slow his rise) Kennedy (I loved his mic work while feuding with Undertaker) John Cena is hit or miss, but he's so natural with the mic. Undertaker can sell any angle and get his point across. MVP is getting there, and will be a top promo guy eventually. Carlito is effective as a heel, Cody Rhodes was pretty natural at the HOF induction ceremony even if he does have a slight lisp. JBL would definitely be on the list if he was in the ring, Flair can be gold if he has something he can sink his teeth into and speak from the heart.

I won't mind the Porter/Hardy tandem as champions because SD! has no other options. Deuce and Domino have a silly gimmick that was sorta fun at first, but played out and The Majors Brothers are not established. SD! has a couple other tag teams on the way in Taylor/Burchill and Festus and Jesse Dalton, however SD! needs a over team that fans will care about to help establish new tag teams, and D&D is not that team.

There was that rumor of the WWE wanting a Harry Potter inspired wrestler/gimmick that would call for a small, young looking wrestler...

Call me crazy but I sorta like the idea of the Kennedy as a McMahon storyline with the eventual out being played to end it as well. From what I have read about the "Who Killed VKM" storyline, it would have played out better, but this could work as well. I don't blame Henry at all if he can break into the movies - Even if he'll be bodyguard #2. I was hoping Flair would retire at WM - hopefully the office doesn't screw him over. HHH will probably make sure Flair is done right. With Kennedy vs HHH for the title, I guess Flair won't get the "Rocky Balboa" one more chance storyline. Vince can't get past Lawler and Ross calling Raw can't he. Usually it was Ross who was on the outs, but the office probably realized that PBP guys are hard to find, whereas color commentators are much easier. Too bad Josh Matthews is in the dog house - I thought the kid has potential. Booker T is ready to quit a lot lately. He's booking TNA talent for his promotion as an FU to the office - though I bet the office doesn't care and actually likes the possibility of forming lines of communication with certain TNA talents. I'd love to see D'Lo Brown back, though only with a chest protector. I wonder if he is over the accident yet though. Hart Foundation v2.0 is a stupid name. And the team will flop. I'd rather bring in the Stampede Bulldogs of Harry Smith and TJ Wilson and bring in Teddy Hart as a solo act on a seperate brand and heve them unite down the line. I've always thought Teddy was playing the Pillman-esque Loose Cannon gimmick - He doesn't look like a Hart, so it might be the best gimmick for him. Call him the "Black Hart" or something... Rosey is on Fat March or whatever now, so he must make it to the end. If he's brought back, maybe it will be with Sonny Siaki or his Samoan Fight Club partner in FCW, though would have to be on SD! away from Umaga.

Wow - what a shitty show. I guess I won't have to bother trying to catch this offering or even any potentially interesting segments. Chuck Palumbo vs Chris Masters Funaki vs Chavo Guerrero Jamie Noble vs Jimmy Wang D&D vs Shannon Moore and Eugene Mark Henry vs Brad Allen Are youy sure they're not bringing back Velocity?? I'm not exaggerating when I say I'd rather see both dark matches over the crud that will air.

I know it's a rather obvious observation and that I'm sounding like a broken record in making it, but ECW needs to expand it's roster by 3-4 wrestlers. Jay Bradley is jobbing on Heat this week, Burchill is teaming with Taylor in SD! darkmatches, Chett the Jett is rumored for a call-up, and Jeter is wrestling on Raw house shows - why can't ECW get any developmental love?

And the silly part is that Jay Bradley, Johnny Jeter, Paul Burchill, Nemeth, Mondo and Ryan O'Reilly are working SD! and Raw dark matches and houseshows - When is ECW going to get any new developmental talent?

Chris Masters also smasked Stevie's face in with a double axe handle shot to his nose. I think it was Masters' debut match. ECW has too small of a roster to have a "monster" character - so I don't mind BDV leaving to SD! however I hope it is via a trade as opposed to "his contract running out". I don't know where this Teddy Long/Vickie Guerrero/Kristal storyline is going, but if it's a GM takeover, maybe Long could trade for BDV just before he loses his GM powers and will be the manager/mouthpiece for BDV to wreak havoc on the SD! roster to stickit to the new GM sorta deal.

Shantelle under a mask wrestling as a male would never work in the internet smark age. I find two things interesting about that idea - A]They thought she was good enough in the ring to pull off working with the cruiser boys and B]She's flatchested enough to pass as a male. I guess we know where the wwe priorities are (like we needed the reminder).

Colt Cabana would be fun, but I don't think they'd give such a push to a developmental. Wwe likes things to be surprises, with everybody expecting KK, maybe they'll switch it up. Outside of KK, I don't know who would really work in the role, as the wrestler will have to be solid on the mic. A darkhose extreme longshot pick could be Trevor Murdoch.

Wwe has a poll up for a new John Morrison t-shirt - http://poll.wwe.com/johnmorrison/ First one is probably the best of the bunch for a Doors rip-off/vibe. "Beyond Good and Evil" is sorta silly though better than "Shaman of Sexy"...

Jackie's mouth goes in a million different directions when she talks...

I actually liked Heidenreich, I loved how he'd verbalize in the ring. I don't blame him for his characters as that's the bookers and I didn't like him as a face or in teaming with Animal. He should probably head over to Japan as I don't think TNA would have any room for him.

He was a solid enough SD! midcarder, though I don't like him on ECW as I think he's terribly overexposed on ECW. A match every couple of weeks on the 2hr SD! was one thing, however every week on the one hour ECW with the EEx girls fawning over him is too much. I can think of 20 underutilized wwe contracted wrestlers that I would rather see get Miz' ECW television time.

I think Vince McMahon is going to give a rah-rah speech about the wwe and shoot on the media critics, the government and the dirtsheets and try to rally the fanbase to make it "Us vs Them".

When does WWE's current contract with USA expire? VKM would be hard pressed to find a television company to take Raw on right now... Vince has lost touch with the wrestling fan and doesn't realize Stephanie doesn't know shit. Stack Raw with every friggin top wrestler and it doesn't make a difference because Raw is a shitty show. And what's worse, is that SD! has been told to be more like Raw, though with all of the sports entertainers taken away. Basically SD! was showing up Raw, so they had all of their top talent taken away and then was handcuffed by the edict to be more like Raw.

At least I hope this hometown "15 minutes of fame" gimmick by Morrison leads to a debut of a developmental. Mike Knox is supposedly being repackaged and close to a re-debut. I wonder if we're not supposed to recognize him, as unfortunatley is the case with Big Daddy V/Viscera. ECW needs 4-5 additions to their roster.

The silliness of the Visera to Big Daddy V transformation/gimmick change is that the announcers and I assume other wrestlers are not supposed to know this is the former Viscera? It certainly sounded that way last week. I haven't seen last nights show yet, hopefully they rectified the situation, maybe having Striker explain how he mitivated the former Viscera to focus on being the badass monster he is instead of chasing tail and wrestling in pajamas.

Is he doing a Morrison rip-off? If so this gimmick has been rumored for years. I can't even remember the first wrestler I heard this gimmick linked to. For it to be around for so long, and given the writing team turnover, it has to be a Vince McMahon idea.

I think Joe would be interested in WWE, however would use ROH to get certain protections in his contract. Now if WWE didn't want to agree to these protections, Joe would probably be happy enough in ROH, especially with their 2-yr contracts, PPV's and Japan and Europe tours. I believe Joe and Cena are UPW buddies, and assume Cena has some pretty big pull these days. Punk could even be a solid ally in a years time.

Teddy's "problem" is twofold - he doesn't look like a Hart, and he's a cruiserweight.

They're gonna put him(HHH) on SD! and sacrifice Edge to him I just know it. Setting up HHH vs Cena at WM24...

C probably is Chavo. S could be Steven Regal or Shawn Daivari. I believe Daivari and Benoit were training partners(yeah even after the hindu squat incident)...

Talk that he used the Crippler Crossface is ridiculous. The DA only said he must have used a chokehold of some kind because there wasn't the tell-tale hand markings. The CC is not a choke, I'm sure Benoit learned many a choke over the years. If you listen to Benoit's goodbye message/vid to Eddie, he says that Eddie was the only person he could talk to and really be open with and that he would go to Eddie with all of his problems and Eddie would help him out. I think when Eddie died he lost this outlet. Furthermore he grew more and more paranoid given the steroid usage and he finally erupted. Benoit is a virtual textbook case of a "Family Annihilator"