JHawk

How the fuck are the Pats 14-point favorites when they only beat an injury-ridden Chargers team by 9 and almost lost to the Giants already? If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the Giants to cover unless it drops tremendously between now and then.

Dude, they did read TSM. They even got an intentional closeup of a sign for Dames at the beginning of one of their weekly PPVs before the Lazarush ever came to being.

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Anybody have Suzanne Pleshette?

"This Bar Association logo shouldn't be here either."

I don't remember seeing "Lily Allen's unborn child" on anybody's lists.

Gola Wielka A Few Hours Daily

The Clash, yes. Not sure about Havoc.

Go into the options and you can turn the visualizer off.

They'd been teasing Savage's face turn for weeks though. Challenging Honky for the belt was almost enough for the face turn, Honky was that hated.

I find this one much more entertaining.

I will likely do this once all 30 guys are announced (no point picking the final six until I know who everybody is).

I could have seen Lashley winning the match had there anybody the crowd gave a shit about there at the end. But you eliminate Punk first, then RVD second, and you're left with Hardcore Holly (a sub for Sabu, so while not out of place in ECW, the crowd's pissed there's no Sabu), Test (who sucked), The Big Show (who was only just being somewhat accepted as an ECW guy for the sole reason he'd been champion five months and had a couple of passable extreme rules matches), and Lashley (who was on SmackDown two weeks earlier). Why is an ECW crowd supposed to give a shit about those four guys being in an ECW title match? Had Sabu remained in the match, Dreamer been in Lashley's spot, and Holly in Test's spot, just about anybody with the possible exception of Holly could have walked out of there with the title and been accepted. But no, someone was pissed at Sabu and we needed Dreamer to bump for Khali.

I thought Flair would beat Hogan at Havoc 94 because there was no way WCW would let a long-time WWF guy go over a near lifelong WCW guy in a retirement match on PPV. Never underestimate the power of Hogan in finishes that make no sense. Why didn't it make sense for Hogan to win? You're talking about a match between the two best wrestlers of the era. WCW signed Hogan to be their main guy so why wouldn't Flair "pass the torch" to Hogan? Hogan getting a win (or several wins) over Flair, fine. You need main event guys having even feuds once in a while. But if: 1. You're running WCW 2. You've got Ric Flair, who has been the guy who represents WCW in the eyes of the fans. 3. You have Flair taking on Hulk Hogan, who was still seen as a WWF guy by most of the fanbase. 4. Your fans are booing Hogan despite there being no doubt that he's supposed to be the babyface in the feud. 5. You book the blowoff as a retirement match. Logical booking is you'd put the long-time WCW guy over the long-time WWF guy. This was such a smart move that when Nitro first went on the air, WCW literally used to give away Hulk Hogan T-shirts with the stipulation "you have to wear it if we give to you" to make it look like Hogan was seen by WCW fans as the top babyface and Flair was still getting larger pops than Hogan in a lot of towns after his comeback started.

Hogan becoming a face in WCW by wearing red and yellow again. NOTE: I know that technically the Flair-Hogan match at Uncensored 1999 was a double turn for storyline purposes but after three years of Hogan doing everything he could to screw WCW over (from both a real life and kayfabe standpoint) I'm not sure either of them actually turned.

Triple H pins Booker T despite hitting exactly one move in a five minute period and taking almost 30 seconds to cover after implying racism by saying "people like you don't win world championships". Curt Hennig turns on the Horsemen three weeks after Arn Anderson's retirement speech despite the almost unanimously negative feedback to the NWO parody of said speech. Pretty much anytime Hogan pinned Flair after Bash at the Beach 1994.

Fixed. I thought Feldman's been clean and sober for a long time now? Isn't it Haim that's still a fuck up? You can actually tell the two of them apart?

Allow me to clarify. The format was essentially the same, but the matches outside of Chavo-Punk were boring. And considering they ran an ad on Raw announcing Chavo vs. Punk and did a challenge on the opening segment...sure, it was a good segment, but it didn't actually accomplish anything since the point, signing Punk vs. Chavo, was made before the show ever went on the air.

As soon as I call this "probably the most consistently good wrestling show on national TV" on Smart Mark Radio, and they give us this.

While I can go either way on that one, I do feel fining coaches/players for saying "the referee blew that call" is absolutlely ricockulous. The only way the umpires/referees can improve is to be critiqued for their mistakes, and sports in general (and the NBA in particular) seem to feel it's bad for the game when the referees are called out, even if it's obviously justified. I'm still waiting for a referee to be reprimanded for calling Bibby for a foul against Kobe in game 6 of the Western Conference a few years ago (2003?) for being elbowed in the face by Kobe and essentially handing the Lakers the game, forcing a game 7 that the Lakers won even though it never should have been played. Question: What was the best team to not win its sports championship that year?

I thought Flair would beat Hogan at Havoc 94 because there was no way WCW would let a long-time WWF guy go over a near lifelong WCW guy in a retirement match on PPV. Never underestimate the power of Hogan in finishes that make no sense.

Pretty much the same way it did except there would have been far fewer Wizards games on national TV. What stadium will be the last one not to have a corporate name? I mean, we're down to a very few at this point (Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Cleveland Brown Stadium, plus a select few I know I'm missing), and with Fenway and Yankee Stadium aging, it's only a matter of time before those teams have no choice but to have new stadiums.

If any company but RF Video would have done that, I'd agree, but I refuse to give Feinstein my money. Thank God for whoever posted the entire thing on YouTube so I don't have to.

I agree, considering there was the whole divorce thing that they could have used. Announce their divorce on TV then go "Flair's lies about Elizabeth made her leave me, now I kill him!"

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