Kahran Ramsus

Yes. Hell, I've pretty much blocked out of my mind anything that happened after Starrcade 98.

As you wish.

As requested... 7/6/06 GoldenKlose38 He was an obvious troll.

He was an obvious troll. Need anything else?

All-around? Probably Steve Austin, certainly prior to the injury. The guy is a walking joke these days, but he was fantastic at what he did. He could wrestle (ex. Survivor Series 1996) & brawl (ex. Wrestlemania XIII) with the best of them, could play heel or face, was one of the best promo guys in the business, and was as over as Hulk Hogan. He's probably about as close to a total package that you are going to get. Other candidates as far as WWE is concerned, include Savage, Michaels, Hart, Rock & Angle. The best pure wrestler in WWE history is Chris Benoit.

This was a fun summer film, and certainly a huge upgrade over the last two films, but not anywhere near as good as Batman Begins. In particular, the Lex Luthor plot drags down the movie and the character (even though played well by Kevin Spacey) is more or less used as the same campy villain that he was in the original series. He's amusing, but not a serious threat by any means. All three Batman Begins villains were much better, as were villains like Magneto & Doc Ock in the Marvel movies. Parker Posey was horrible.

This is why we didn't create a seperate ECW Folder.

I mean good. I agree that it would have been viewed more positively had it been built up better, but once he actually got the belt he made it mean something again. Most of his matches were underrated, aside from the Show feud and who has good matches with him besides Lesnar, and the match where he won the title was one of the best of the year. By the fall and winter it is especially notable as his matches against Kurt Angle were much better than what HHH was doing on RAW at the same time. But I agree, inside the ring he couldn't compete with the likes of Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle as champion. Outside of it, he was the most entertaining champion in ages. Yeah, but Michaels was around the entire year. I can't think of a single good thing (except maybe the brief Jericho/Rock feud in January) prior to Vengeance that occurred in 2002. That is a lot of dreck to get through, with no positives coming out of it. At least in 2002 there was some stuff in the undercard, and believe it or not, bad as they were Diesel's matches with Sid & Mabel were better than the Taker/HHH, Hogan/HHH & Hogan/Taker main events we got in 2002.

2001 - The Invasion was a flop, but it was still easily the best year of the last five in terms of quality. No Way Out 2001 & Wrestlemania XVII are two of the best PPVs that the company ever put on. Even until Summerslam things were going pretty good. It was really starting at that show that the truly major burial of WCW/ECW started and the product starting going downhill for the rest of the year, although still much better than we would get for the next six months. 2004 - Chris Benoit had a nice little title run, and contrary to popular belief he main evented 4 PPVs while only being in the sub-main of 1, which is more than we can say for many champions. JBL had the single greatest title reign since Austin in '01 and is incredibly underrated as a performer. RAW tanked in a big way after Orton one the title, but Smackdown remained entertaining throughout the end of the year. With Benoit & Eddy in the main events, we also saw the best matches in the main events since 2000. 2005 - Almost by default as the other three years were all terrible. The first part of the year was entertaining enough for both shows, as Batista/HHH was great before it went on too long (although their best match was the last one) and Cena's feud with JBL was the last time he (Cena) was viewed positively. Bad writing (ex. Eddy/Rey, Angle lusting after Sharmell) infected both cards like the plague, but the RAW/Smackdown feud at the end of the year was enjoyable as was the Batista/Eddy relationship. Generally speaking, although it wasn't great, it was sure more fun than 2002-03, even with Eddy's death. 2003 - Smackdown remained strong throughout most of the year, as this was the year when Brock Lesnar basically carried the company on his back (with help from the oft-injured Angle). RAW was dreadful with the unending HHH title reign lasting until September before losing it to Goldberg, who was even more boring as champ than HHH was. Kevin Nash was given a main event push, which is never a good thing. But boring is still better than what happened the year before. 2002 - The Smackdown Six era was fantastic. Other than that, this year was a complete wash starting with Chris Jericho's complete burial as Undisputed Champ and the return of the last three guys anybody who watched WCW in their last years wanted to see. Hogan/Rock was a big deal, but Hogan's title reign dropped ratings almost a full point overnight. And that pales in comparison to the end of the year with wonderful decisions from creative like the Billy & Chuck wedding, HLA, Katie Vick & Al Wilson. The worst year in WWF history, and I'm not forgetting 1995.

And this despite many of their top stars suffering injuries or being pulled from the show. The less the main creative team has to do with a show, the better it tends to end up being. Funny how that works.

No it won't. Kurt Angle & Big Show are still there, and who knows who else will come in.

Okay. Cool it. You obviously are just trolling here, so I'm going to have to ask you either stop or leave this thread alone.

This match would have been great in 1994.

When was the last time Oliver Stone made a good movie?

I don't think people expected something so incredibly awful and without merit. I didn't expect it to be THAT bad, and it probably won't continue to be, but the basic problem will remain.

People should have seen this coming. At least after the disasterous finish of the PPV on Sunday, if not when the whole project was announced. This was always going to be Vince's version of ECW, which is essentially WWE with a new name.

Bringing back ECW has potential. The problem is that this isn't ECW. It is the same old WWE with a different name. That is why it will fail.

If the new ECW wasn't on its deathbed already, it sure is now after that finish which made RVD look like a complete joke and did more to put over the Cena/Edge feud than anything. Why people had faith in this idea is beyond me. It looked like this was going to be the Invasion all over again, and now we know that it will be. They couldn't write a worse finish if they tried. See ya for the funeral in a few weeks.

Iron Man could be good, and Thor might be good for a laugh. Other than that, not interested.

Does he really need one? Isn't the past 5 years enough? How long until Heyman is turfed and Stephanie is made head booker for all ECW shows? 6 weeks?

To be honest, I was just thinking about that. It still isn't as popular as soccer or basketball, but it probably makes it much more popular than NASCAR. The Chinese are big fans of badminton too for that matter. We are seeing the affects that this attitude has on baseball too. When idiots are chanting 'boring' during a 1-0 pitching duel, something is wrong.

The World Cup Final will be watched by well over a billion people. NASCAR is nothing outside the US, and there are what...300 million (?) people living there. So basically if everyone in the US loved NASCAR, it wouldn't be even a third as popular as soccer. This isn't even close. Soccer is #1. Basketball is #2. And that's about it. I was in Norway for the 1998 World Cup, and the country was basically stopped for a month, even though Norway itself didn't even make it out of the Round of 16. Even in Canada with Olympic Hockey, once Canada's eliminated, nobody cares anymore. No other sport is as popular worldwide as soccer.

Looks like my pick of Ecuador making it out of the round is pretty good at the moment.

I love that the fate of ECW is being defended by lifelong ECW wrestlers like Big Show & Kurt Angle. This is the Invasion all over again...

Don't mind? That's a big positive!