Kahran Ramsus

I'm still counting on a bitter divorce.

Can't do that because you would have an odd number of split PPVs. You need 2. Might as well use Royal Rumble & Wrestlemania, since that's what gets the highest buyrates most of the time anyways.

The NWO was at its height in terms of drawing power in 1997 and early 1998. You're thinking of when it reached its creative peak which is different. When the NWO was drawing its best ratings was when Undertaker & Bret Hart were champs and both of them drew better than Michaels did a year earlier when the NWO was still in its early stages.

I still hate HBK although I like his wrestling, but to be honest he didn't really have much in the way of great challengers all the time, plus he was shit as a babyface and all the fans knew it. He didn't want to be heel so he'd just fake an injury and come back as a triumphant face, he figured. And here is the big difference between HBK & RVD. Shawn is an unprofessional shit, and RVD isn't. It is still debatable whether Shawn wasn't a draw because Shawn the Wrestler didn't generate interest or that people just hated Shawn the Person. If it is the former than RVD is basically screwed. If it is the latter, I might be wrong about Rob not being a draw. I still think their are safer choices. WWE right now needs to do a lot of small things right, they don't need to take a risk and go for that knockout punch. Eddy or Jericho are easier to push than Rob is. Benoit has much of the same problems, although he appeals to a different audience.

Exactly. It is kind of hard for Sid to drop ratings when Michaels already put them in the 1.0s. Doesn't anybody remember how hated Michaels was when he lost the title to Sid at the end of his big babyface run? Everybody outside of Texas hated the guy at that point, and he was their big babyface champion.

Nash actually did better than HBK. If you are referring to the amount that a champion dropped buyrates, yes, Nash moves into the number one slot. But Michaels is still number 2. Sid didn't have that much further he could drop them. RVD has never gotten a true shot, I'll give them that. But there appear to be several wrestlers (Eddy, Benoit, Jericho, Haas, Benjamin, Rhyno, Rey) that have more drawing potential than RVD. HBK had three shots at being the top guy and he failed three times. It has been proven that he is not a draw. With RVD at least it is only speculated.

Neither did Charlie Haas, but his numbers are substantially higher than RVD's.

Do we really need to go through this again? I've lost count of the number of times myself or someone else has had to post burates, ratings to prove that Michaels was a piss poor draw. He is the second worst drawing WWF Champion of all time, and sunk ratings and buyrates to all-time lows in 1996 (which would be dropped lower by Sid later). Bret Hart basically saved the WWF after his title win from Diesel (who was also a terrible draw), and Michaels pissed it all away and then some by King of the Ring 1996. His title run in 1997-98 also failed to light the world on fire, with HIS PPV (Degeneration X) doing one of the lowest buyrates in history. It wasn't until the rise of Austin that things began to turn around, long after Michaels ceased to be anything. Austin could have been fighting Brother Love at Wrestlemania XIV and it would have been a huge draw. Most recently, he killed ratings again in late 2002 before they went up again after HHH won the title back. Armaggeddon 2002 did a dreadful buyrate as well.

I must have missed all of those Chris Benoit main events during the summer.

Dillon is 29 years old. He has one step in the football grave already (like George, Martin & Faulk). I'd rather have Hambrick.

Carolina at New Orleans Cleveland at New England Dallas at Tampa Bay Denver at Baltimore - LOCK Detroit at Chicago N.Y. Giants at Minnesota Seattle at Cincinnati St. Louis at Pittsburgh Tennessee at Jacksonville San Francisco at Arizona Houston at Indianapolis N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia Buffalo at Kansas City Miami at San Diego (Monday Night)

No more features. But I wouldn't mind a Rogue or Wraith Squadron TV series. Preferably animated.

He has a lot of things to be rightfully pissed about. But he's Goldberg, so fuck him.

Ralph vs. Sam I still hate that fucking sheepdog.

I knew I was forgetting something. I hated 98-99 WWF so I can see making that mistake. I'll go switch it now.

And it never did become a threat to the WWF. If TNA is to become a threat, it must realize that the path of ECW is the path to oblivion.

I stand by my statement. The Angle/Taker match was a cut and paste remake of the VERY good Kane/Angle match, and the Angle/Taker match that followed the week(?) after that. While they were good, they were not as good as the RVD match...or the Angle/Kane Match for that matter. And the Cena Match?... ... I stand by my statement. Anybody else care to handle this? I can't keep a straight face.

RVD is a lot closer to Godfather territory than Hogan. Just look at the recent ratings reports. Benoit & Eddy are drawing 5x what RVD is with the same push. RVD is similar to Shawn Michaels. He was always a terrible draw too despite his fan support.

A hot crowd does not make a good match. Otherwise Andre/Hogan would be the best match of all time. Who said anything about a great match??? You said that we go apeshit for RVD because the moronic crowd is cheering for him.

WHAT? You obviously didn't see his match with Angle a month back or even his match with Cena at Vengeance. They smoke anything he ever did with RVD.

A hot crowd does not make a good match. Otherwise Andre/Hogan would be the best match of all time.

The only good match he had with any of those guys was against Jericho at Unforgiven 2001. His KOTR 2002 match was okay. His only other good matches in the WWF have come against Eddy Guerrero. A-Train has had better matches with Benoit then RVD has. That should tell you something about Rob's talent level right there.

Jericho.

Hitler's?

MLB - 1992-1993 WS. In both cases I though the Jays were going to blow it. 1993 was more memorable simply because it came out of nowhere. When Carter hit that homerun off of Wild Thing, I was estatic. I don't think anything I ever see in sports will compare to that again. NFL - Super Bowl XXXI. Reggie White gets his Super Bowl. After the disaster of a year before with bad officiating determining pretty much every game of the playoffs (the 1996 NFC Championship remains one of my most painful sports memories) we get Green Bay's first/only championship since the merger. It was also the first Super Bowl since 1991 that didn't suck too. NHL - 1993 Western Conference Finals. If you didn't know it, I fucking hate the Leafs. I was worried here, but the Kings pulled it out. NBA - Nothing but bad memories here. I was a Jazz fan for years before the Raptors came into the league. Had Toronto won that series against Philly a few years back, I would have said that, but unfortunately they couldn't come through.