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We have spoiler tags for a reason, Mole. I agree, intentional spoiling without the tags should be immediately punishment. But we have spoiler tags for a reason.

Don't have the Benoit-Malenko match, but I had the benoit match on Nitro. ::shrugs::

No show this week, as I'm spending the day at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire with the family. Back on 7/15.

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I don't necessarily disagree with Zed, but there are exceptions to "less competition breeds longer title reigns". Even discounting my International Title reign (which featured extended angles with Zyon and Wildchild), Bruce Blank's hardcore title reign had some awesome angles as well. Right now we're running fewer shows, and that's going to inflate title reigns as well. Does that mean the competition is any worse than it was say, six or eight months ago? There's more to the title reigns than "Not enough people are in the division."

The number's on page 2 of this thread. Thanks to those of you who did listen and didn't tune out my incoherent ramblings.

Please call next week. Even I can't babble coherently for an hour by myself.

Had some tech problems but we are underway

Still about half an hour before we start, Luke. This is the week to vent about Benoit if you're gonna do it.

I will admit to liberally using quite a bit of that match, simply because there were several spots in that match that I wanted to use in this one. As you've pointed out, I obviously did some sloppy editing in my haste to get the rest of it done and sent off. A chance to put some realism into a big championship match? Make it seem important? A spot I wanted to use from the losing match, and some admittedly sloppy editing. You and I will have to agree to disagree here, which I'll explain later. In this case, that's simply because I wrote with the team of Pete and King for so long that sometimes I type Pete's name out of habit and don't always look for it when editing. Here's what I was going for (and had I not been pressed for time I would have explained it better on commentary). Jay Hawke's style has always been "work a body part to set up the Wing Span." Always has been, always will be. Anything that deviates too far from that isn't within his character. This is where we'll agree to disagree with the style of match in the main event slot. As for the finish, I can see your argument with the superplex to the floor, but bear in mind that a certain amount of time does elapse from the time the move is executed to the time the cover is made. You've got to factor in the time it takes to get back into the ring, the time it takes to cover, and then the time it takes to kick out. It's not like WrestleMania XIX where Triple H hit the Pedigree and waited 30 seconds to cover and still got the pin off it. I did the foot on the ropes for the MI Slam because I didn't want to kick out of your primary finisher, but as the babyface you need to look like you're going to vanquish the evil villain at the end. The foot on the ropes makes it look like the heel got away with one. Johnny even breaks the Wing Span once it's applied, something normally only saved for big PPV title matches. The attempted shooting star I feel works in this case as Hawke has been kicking out of a lot of big moves, so it's almost like Johnny's last gasp at putting Hawke away. You did write one hell of a match, and after I win the World Title at Ground Zero I'll be happy to give you a rematch.

:: checks to see when W&D broke the record for most title reigns :: Okay, I'm good... Either way that makes me the last International Champion. Good deal.

DOn't forget that episode two is at 5pm Eastern this afternoon. Somehow I doubt we'll cover much more than the Benoit situation, but call in anyway.

You're in a bar. One guy sits in the corner quietly drinking a beer. Another guy is accidentally bumped by a passer-by and, in a drunken state, starts to scream and beat the shit out of him. Who would you be more worried about?

For the record, Johnny, having read your match, I would not have argued had yours gotten the victory. Very nice job.

Crimson Mask 1 on the crossface killing the kid over at WC This after two days of saying "There were no signs of a struggle." This just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Buy it now for 90.00? Isn't the entire set only like twice that?

Just a note about the contest. You are still welcome to submit entries if you like, but in light of the ongoing situation with Chris Benoit, I'm going to wait at least an extra week to pick a winner (if I decide to pick a winner at all). It's just not in good taste at this point.

Haven't seen it, but my roommate, who watches every shitty horror movie that hits theaters and is never scared at anything of them, told me she didn't even see the second half of the movie because she couldn't look at the screen. I've GOT to see this movie

I actually do want to use Skype but right this second I don't have the cash for the credits. Once I do that's probably the direction I'll go. I am actually in the process of contacting some current and former wrestlers about potentially doing interviews, but as of yet no responses.

I don't have access to a landline with free long distance, but it probably would help.

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Secret Agent can verify, but I believe there's a "listen live" button that comes up when the show goes live. And Johnny, to this day I think I've heard five minutes of Skull Radio, but yeah, I stole your idea, alright? Happy now?

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