WWE News & Notes from the 9/13 Observer

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RAW contained the single most selfish performance I can recall. I used to think the single most selfish high profile performance was a WCW Souled Out 2000 PPV match on January 16, 2000, when Kevin Nash destroyed Terry Funk, sold nothing for him, put him through a table, and beat him when they had that match for the commissioner’s job in WCW (an angle designed to bury Ric Flair again, except Flair refused to come back for it). The HHH vs. Jeff Hardy feud was one people have talked about for the past few years, but neither came close to the HHH vs. Eugene cage match. Not only did Eugene get treated as a total joke the week before when they did the fake job ("What do you mean I never lose, why I put over Rey Mysterio" says Nash), including not even giving him the easy comeback off the sleeper, but this week was even worse. Granted, it was HHH's match to win. He's in the main event on the PPV six days later. Also, if they want to do an injury angle, that's fine. But in those circumstances, a heel should make the babyface before destroying him. Fans had already given up on Eugene as a top guy from HHH outsmarting him and beating him at SummerSlam, but he was buried underground on this one. Not only did he no longer have his Danny Hodge grip strength, but he no longer had his savant like wrestling skill. In this case, Eugene went into the cage scared to death, and the only babyface in history who got over as being a chicken was Mikey Whipwreck, and that was a unique short-term deal. HHH destroyed him, made him juice, on several situations had him beat but instead of showing Eugene had guts for holding on when it would be smart for him to quit (same result of HHH being a bully, but giving Eugene something), HHH had to show he had the match won, that Eugene wasn't even in his league, and he could beat him at will. Usually when you do that story, it's to set up the slipping on a banana peel finish where the heel's cockiness cost him (which is an old main-eventer trick where the main-eventer says, "What do you mean I never lose" and then the next week when the face is over less after winning, can point out, "I put him over, but the people just won't get with him."). Instead, the heel once again becomes the face. He gets things done. The face is impotent, and who in 2004 wants to root for an uncompetitive loser? There was a time when this should have been a major issue, like when Jeff Hardy's so-called elevation ended up destroying his credibility and heat (and I guess you can argue, in the long run, Hardy was on a course of self- destruction if HHH hadn’t have gotten the job done first). Now the company has already taught its fan base not to get behind any new characters because the game isn't to watch guys start at the bottom and work their way up, but the game is, see how few weeks before their push is bungled or dropped. I just think it's funny that 14 years ago, Kevin Sullivan and Ric Flair argued over a TV match where Flair wrestled Brian Pillman the week before a Flair/Lex Luger PPV match. Flair wanted to make Pillman and lose via DQ on TV. Sullivan insisted, and got his way, saying Flair had to win because he's in the main event on the PPV. But even in the situation where he had to win and it was his time to be selfish, Flair sold like crazy for Pillman, had a **** TV match with him, making Pillman by beating him, and Flair still went over in the end. Then 14 years later, the guy who aspires to be Flair does everything Flair would never do. If Flair was put in the position where he was to injure a mid-level face, he's giving that face most of the match and tons of near falls and the injury’s due to the veteran's desperation and fear of losing. In fact, I'd bet money the face injures himself or gets hurt by interference before Flair is in the position to humiliate and injure him seriously. Anyway, I do think if you combine the good qualities of Flair and HHH, you've got almost the ultimate performer. You take Flair's night-after-night workrate. You take Flair's natural charisma. You take Flair's promo ability. You take Flair's ability to make people. You take Flair's ability to have a good match every night. You take Flair's drive to always have the best match on the show. And you take HHH's, ummm, height, and you'll have one hell of a career.

 

The new dividend, which means $2.8 million to Vince McMahon, is being paid on 10/12.

 

Ringside seats for WrestleMania at the Staples Center in Los Angeles will be $750. Fact of the matter is scalpers and ticket brokers will end up selling some of those seats for a lot more than that. The rest of the prices are $200, $100, $75, $50, and $40, and they go on sale on 9/25, which means there will probably be a coded internet pre-sale a day or two before where almost all the seats will be gone.

 

In what was a big surprise to almost everyone, Tom Prichard was fired this past week. Prichard, 45, had been with the company for nearly ten years, ever since he and Jimmy Del Ray left SMW for the WWF as the Heavenly Bodies tag team. His background, besides pro wrestling from the age of 20, was working in Paul Boesch's office as a helper since he was a teenager, so he really has 30 years or so of constant experience in wrestling. After the Body Donnas gimmick with Chris Candido ended, his active career for the most part was over. He became a trainer as well as worked in the talent office under Jim Ross. The official corporate reason is that they wanted someone in the position with more experience at putting together and running within a budget. The feeling among some was John Laurinaitis getting rid of the old guard and he's going to use his own people, in this case Tommy Dreamer, in the role. Others close to the situation felt that Laurinaitis was making a lot of changes. Prichard was with the program for years, and argued against some of the changes. The company warns people in the department to dress nice, represent the company well, and say yes without questioning (and if you’ve ever seen Pritchard, you know he’s a proprietor of the t-shirt/sweatpants look). This was not a popular move, and comes at a time when the company has been pressured by both outside forces and by the realities of the future to expand developmental. Besides Dreamer, the other people on the new Laurinaitis team in being liaisons with developmental and trainers are Bill DeMott and Lance Storm.

 

This came just days after Bruce Prichard, Tom's younger brother, missed TV. He's one of the main Smackdown writers. Talent was told he's "on retreat," whatever that means. He's on an indefinite leave of absence officially. Based on the reaction to this, my impression is Bruce Prichard probably has more heat on him than anyone in the company with the possible exception of Eric Bischoff (to clarify, Bischoff hasn’t been a problem since joining WWE, but he committed many unpardonable sins as head of WCW to people now on WWE’s roster).

 

Paul Heyman was at the RAW tapings as a new member of the writing staff. It's funny because if you read Matt Hardy's book, you'll get a pretty good read on some of the negativity toward Heyman. But for the past several months, all I've heard is wrestlers wanting him back on. Even those who don't quite trust him at least have confidence that he knows how to get people over and into logical storylines, something badly missing of late. It's funny because most wrestlers are actually now like fans in that they get frustrated when their storylines don't make sense, and the writing team is the No. 1 heat position in the company and for good reason of late. Heyman for the past year plus has been a creative advisor, in the sense that they ask him for ideas, he gives them his opinions, usually they ignore him, and occasionally they use his ideas. The fact they brought him to RAW and will be bringing him more makes me think they are going to listen to him more, but it seems to be an expanded version of the same role. His official role is replacing Bruce Prichard on the Smackdown writing staff, although Dan Lagana remains head writer. He will have some input into RAW as well, and will be working at the RAW TVs. Heyman will no longer manage Heidenreich at the house shows, because of his expanded writing duties. Most of the Smackdown talent, some of whom had been going to him for months with their complaints and frustrations, were very happy with the move. In Tulsa, Heyman was telling everyone who came up to him that he's just one voice of many.

 

PPV lineup for 9/12 in Portland: Randy Orton vs. HHH for world title, Shawn Michaels vs. Kane, Chris Jericho vs. Christian in a ladder match for the vacant IC title, Ric Flair & Batista vs. Chris Benoit & William Regal, La Resistance vs. Rhyno & Tajiri for tag titles and Trish Stratus vs. Victoria for women's title. This build-up for this show and storylines have been, with the exception of the main event, (which has had well thought out angles, only it was rushed and the wrong guy turned, and nobody cares about Orton as a face at this point), as bad as any this company has done for a PPV in recent memory.

 

The entire Diva Search from San Francisco was edited off the show that was sent internationally.

 

The company responded to complaints about the San Francisco segment by stating what happened was unscripted and they apologized for it.

 

The plan right now for the main Smackdown programs are JBL vs. The Undertaker, Big Show (returning as a babyface, which, considering how the angle originally went down, makes no sense) vs. Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero vs. Luther Reigns, John Cena vs. Booker T and Rey Mysterio vs. Spike Dudley.

 

Vikings coach Mike Tice said Brock Lesnar probably wouldn't be put on the team's practice squad, but he said he could see Lesnar playing on the Vikings some time this season if another team doesn't sign him. "He's a lot better than we thought. We didn't think he'd be able to pick it up so quickly. He showed us that he was going to have the right work ethic and the right attention to detail." The Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League put Lesnar on their negotiation list. The CFL season is already underway, and Lesnar has never really looked toward the CFL as a possibility. The CFL average salary is $50,000 per year Canadian.

 

Ivory on the Diva Search contest: "The RAW Divas are in a bad spot right now. It seems like as hard as we work to bring integrity and interest into the Women's Division, the WWE creative team, or whoever the mystery people are who make rotten decisions in storylines, etc., work against us. The Diva Search is unentertaining, unimaginative, and a total waste of what each of the contestants could probably bring to our programming. Instead of a contest/reality show, WWE is giving us Jackass meets Top Model! Wouldn't these girls be better off just saving face and getting naked for Playboy? At least they could be bunnies with attitude instead of dumb divas. What, I'll probably be invited back to the ring to put over the new diva as a real ‘ring technician’!” If you recall, when Steve Austin spoke his mind like that, the next week he was scheduled to do a TV job that made zero business sense for Brock Lesnar. And this was Steve Austin they were punishing. Reminder to all WWE wrestlers who aren't HHH or The Undertaker: Complain to your friends who don't brag on the internet about being your friends. But in public, everything on the show is great, and if you can't bring yourself to say it if you don't believe it, then avoid the subject. History shows this can be a very vindictive place, and if it can be when you are Austin or Roddy Piper, it certainly can be if you're anyone else except HHH or Undertaker.

 

Lots of WWE talent at the Republican Convention got mainstream exposure, including Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, JBL, Big Show, Mark Henry, Ivory, and Linda McMahon. JBL even gave a well-received speech at the Republican Youth convention. Flair was on Neil Cavuto with Linda and started praising George W. Bush. Linda immediately brought up their voter registration drive was non-partisan, and claimed the WWE was split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. I guess she felt saying that was the right thing, but it has always appeared there are far more Republicans, but maybe that's just because JBL talks so much politics and because of the deal on the RAW the night before the 2000 election when they tried to sway the close election to Bush with Lawler going on-and-on negatively about Al Gore.

 

A funny story regarding Smackdown your Vote from the Raw on 8/23 at the Pond in Anaheim: the League of Women Voters sent eight members to RAW to sit at a table at the main entrance with the idea of registering people to vote. With 9,000 paid, and probably another 1-2,000 more in the building, well, "It didn't work out especially well" reports Eleanor Fumanti, the chairwoman of the Orange County League and one of the volunteers. In all, they registered five voters. She said one man sat down next to them and said he was going to vote with his Smith & Wesson.

 

After Survivor Series in Cleveland on 11/14, other future PPV dates are Armageddon on 12/12 in Atlanta (well, it’s really in Duluth, GA, but it’s so close to Atlanta they can get away with it, and “Atlanta, GA” sounds a lot more prestigious than “Duluth, GA”), the Raw PPV on 1/9/05 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Royal Rumble on 1/30/05 in Fresno, No Way Out on 2/20/05 in Pittsburgh and Mania on 4/3/05 in Los Angeles.

 

Eddie Guerrero has an autobiography called "Cheating Death, Stealing Life," scheduled for a May 2005 release.

 

William Regal's book "Walking a Golden Mile," ghostwritten by Neil Chandler of The Star is now scheduled to be released in March 2005. The preview for Regal's book talks about Darren Matthews taking on all comers in the Blackpool, England fair wrestling booth at the age of 15, and talked about him wrestling against Big Daddy, Kendo Nagasaki (not the Japanese wrestler), and Giant Haystacks (probably the three best known British wrestlers of the 70s and 80s), and how his life fell apart when he left for the U.S. It talked about how Regal nearly killed himself with drugs, and then suffered a heart attack in 2003 (this was years after he'd kicked his drug habit) but finally returned to wrestle this year.

 

Other WWE releases scheduled are "Are We There Yet?" which will be a small book with a collection of travel stories from WWE wrestlers, like that plane trip deal with them landing in the Russian blizzard a few months back (think the May 2002 plane ride from Hell that got Mr. Perfect & Scott Hall fired will be featured?); and "WWE Confidential," based on the show coming out in April 2005. That's funny they did a book based on a canceled show.

 

With the airports shut in Florida, the Tampa crew all had to head to Fort Myers and was flown into Wichita Falls for Raw on Vince McMahon's private plane.

 

At the Sacramento tapings, Shane Roberts, who teamed with Tony Jones against the Bashams, is Mako'a the Hawaiian Warrior from UPW. Mike Kirkhart, who put over Luther Reigns on Velocity, is the real name of Marshall Knox from UPW.

 

A correction from last week: Brock Lesnar played more than one play in the 49ers-Vikings preseason game. He was in a few plays in the fourth quarter, but made a tackle in the final play of the game.

 

Porn star Jenna Jameson recently came out with an autobiography. She never acknowledges the brief period she worked for ECW and even briefer period with the WWF. She was an interviewer for ECW and was scheduled to be Val Venis’ valet, by recommendation of Vince Russo, when he debuted (they aired one pre-debut vignette with Jameson in it, rising from behind the bush Venis, wearing a purple helmet, was talking behind, implying that she was giving him oral sex), but Vince McMahon changed his mind and thought it would make it too trashy.. But she did rip on The Undertaker, who she claimed tried to hit on her in Las Vegas years ago and was very critical of him, saying he also threatened at the time to beat up her boyfriend.

 

Tom Childress, the soap opera writer we talked about a month or two back, who was offered $200,000 per year for a writing job to handle, among other things, storyline continuity, ended up turning down the offer. There were family considerations, and he didn't want to move to Stamford. He also recognized, even if the company didn't, that he didn't know enough about wrestling. He also recognized that you really aren't writing for the audience, but writing for Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, and HHH.

 

Lex Luger had a press release sent out where he was looking for independent bookings. In it, he talked about how he receives tons of phone calls from WWE about coming back and hinted at a return. Somehow I find that one very difficult to believe; probably because he's full of it.

 

There was a new producer, Domenic Cotter, hired for TV who started this past week in an entry-level position. He has a background with MTV and VH-1 and Stephanie McMahon was said to be very high on him. He was introduced to talent at the shows this week but right now he's learning the way things are done.

 

There were problems at a Ric Flair book signing in Dallas at a Borders the afternoon before the 9/5 house show. The deal was Flair would sign his book, as well as one other item, for everyone who bought a book (or brought their book and bought a $14 ticket). However, Flair was only signing books, and they were moving the line so fast you couldn't get photos with him. Later that night at the house show, Dave Hebner, who was with Flair, was asked and said that it was the managers' decision to have the line move as fast as possible. When asked the next day, the manager claimed what happened was someone brought items for Flair to sign and a book, then returned the book and asked for a refund. According to the manager, when Flair found out, he said he was only signing books.

 

8/23 Raw TV taping in Los Angeles drew 9,000 and 8/24 Smackdown TV taping in Fresno drew 4,100.

 

9/4 Raw in Beaumont drew 2,200 paying $74,000. 9/5 Raw in Dallas drew 3,600 paying $137,000.

 

In Beaumont, main event was Randy Orton over HHH. HHH had his ribs taped up from Raw. It was the usual deal with a ref bump, and then Ric Flair and Batista did their run-in, but to no avail. Same finish as always with HHH going for the pedigree, but Orton reversing into an RKO for the pin. Good match as well. Chris Benoit beat Batista with the crossface, also said to be good. Kane pinned Shelton Benjamin, with Lita at ringside with Kane. Post match saw Lita hover over Benjamin and Kane grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her out of the ring. The tag title was a three-way with La Resistance over Tyson Tomko & Christian and William Regal & Eugene. Flair pinned Maven with his feet on the ropes. They opened the show with a Flair promo, where he said he wasn't scheduled on the card, but he was in the mood to kick some ass and wanted an opponent, saying there wasn't a man whose ass he couldn't kick and a woman who he couldn't kiss. They teased it would be Val Venis, but it wound up being Maven, with Flair winning. They also did a new women's angle. They started with a dancing contest with Stacy Keibler and Molly Holly. Keibler did her regular dance while Molly danced like she was at a ballet recital. Of course, Keibler won the audience vote. Molly jumped her after, and it wound up with all the women involved. It turned into a six-way with Molly, Gail Kim, & Trish Stratus vs. Victoria, Nidia, & Keibler. Victoria used the widow's peak on Molly for the win. There was also interference by Tomko, which led to Steven Richards coming out in drag and superkicking Tomko.

 

In Dallas, the show again began with a Ric Flair interview. He talked about how it was almost 22 years ago when he kicked Kerry Von Erich's ass in Dallas. I think the only Flair win over Kerry in Dallas would have been the famous Christmas 1982 match when Terry Gordy slammed the cage door on Kerry's head. They did the same women's deal. Flair this time pinned Shelton Benjamin with his feet on the ropes, which shows how quickly his star has fallen. Advice to young WWE wrestlers: Don't punch people's kneebraces and break your own hand. Reports were Flair tore down the house. Shawn Michaels worked his first match since the angle, and pinned Kane with a superkick in a short match. Eric Bischoff was there, selling the idea he had a broken foot from when Randy Orton dropped the sledge hammer on it. Bischoff announced Orton's punishment was he would have to defend the title against, which was already the pre-advertised main event. You know the story from there.

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It talked about how Regal nearly killed himself with drugs, and then suffered a heart attack in 2003 (this was years after he'd kicked his drug habit) but finally returned to wrestle this year.

 

I thought it was a stomach thing he caught on the Asia trip that keep him out all that time?

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"But she did rip on The Undertaker, who she claimed tried to hit on her in Las Vegas years ago and was very critical of him, saying he also threatened at the time to beat up her boyfriend."

 

This would be soooo much better than the Deadman gimmick.

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"The Barfly" Mark Calloway = Ratings.

 

"Hey there pretty lady, I'll show you a good time."- Undertaker, to every single woman on Smackdown.

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"Hey, HEY! TURN that TELEVISION screen UP! I wanna hear the score! ... ShADDAAAP! I WANNA HEAR THE SCORE!!! Did he say 13-7? DID HE SAY 13 - 7? YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! *grabs nearest waitress and slobbers on her* 50 BIG ONES!!!! Hows about youse and mes make somethin special outta thisssss, ssssweet thang??"

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I like Flair as much the next guy, but Jesus, Meltzer embarasses himself with his Flair love. For someone who claims to be an objective journalist, it comes off as rather pathetic

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"The Barfly" Mark Calloway = Ratings.

 

"Hey there pretty lady, I'll show you a good time."- Undertaker, to every single woman on Smackdown.

This is the greatest thing.......................E-V-E-R.

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He only mentioned Flair a dozen times in the article. It's not like he devoted the whole thing to him.

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"The Barfly" Mark Calloway = Ratings.

 

"Hey there pretty lady, I'll show you a good time."- Undertaker, to every single woman on Smackdown.

This is the greatest thing.......................E-V-E-R.

It would be great. Like Sandman 2004 but with more mysoginism and cursing.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

"The Barfly" Mark Calloway = Ratings.

 

"Hey there pretty lady, I'll show you a good time."- Undertaker, to every single woman on Smackdown.

This is the greatest thing.......................E-V-E-R.

It would be great. Like Sandman 2004 but with more mysoginism and cursing.

True....plus, who wouldn't wanna see Taker on his bike at that point as well. Kinda like LOD 2000 Hawk.......without the drug problem.

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*Undertaker enters his dressing room in a drunken stupor, complete with beergut and "NASCAR 2004" tank top. There is a circle of chairs and seated are Theodore R. Long, Kurt Angle, Eddy Guerrero, JBL, Chief of Staff Orlando Jordan and Paul London*.

 

*Undertaker ignores them and begins rummaging around*

 

Long: Looking for this, Mark?

 

*Long holds up a bottle of JD*

 

*Taker does the zombie eye-roll*

 

Taker: Sweet sweet JD.

 

*Taker begins the zombie walk towards the bottle and is restrained by JBL and Angle*

 

JBL: Ease up, big fella. We're all friends here. We've come to help you.

 

*Taker cocks one eye and glares at JBL*

 

Taker: I told you before.....................I don't need help. I'm fine. Now GIMME THAT BOOOOOOOOZE~!~!~

 

Long: Now hold up playa. You used to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. A locker room leader, somebody the young guys could look up to. Young guys like Orlando Jordan here.

 

Jordan: Hey Mark........remember me? We used to have something going back in the day for 2 episodes.

 

*There is a flicker of recognition in Takers eyes but he doesn't respond*

 

London: Hey, what about me?

 

*JBL punches London in the neck and kicks him in the back*

 

Long: We've called you here because we want you to confront your demons.

 

Angle: Mark, we know that you're drinking before your matches. The staff and the wrestlers have all seen you do it. Now each of us has prepared a statement to let you know how your drinking has affected us. Eddy, I believe that you wanted to go first.

 

Eddy: No I didn't.

 

*Angle smirks*

 

Eddy: What the fuck was that for, holmes?

 

Angle: Nothing. Just read the damn statement.

 

Eddy: Mark, two weeks ago I asked you to look after my daughter while I went out and worked a match. When I came back I found out that you were outside the arena attemping to sell my daughter for a 6 pack of Budweiser.

 

*A tear rolls down Takers cheek ala the old Indian dude from the cigarette commercials*

 

TO BE CONTINUED

[Guest DeathBecomesYou]

That's great, funny stuff indeed.

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"Fans, this has been the greatest intervention in the history of our sport!"

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*Undertaker enters his dressing room in a drunken stupor, complete with beergut and "NASCAR 2004" tank top. There is a circle of chairs and seated are Theodore R. Long, Kurt Angle, Eddy Guerrero, JBL, Chief of Staff Orlando Jordan and Paul London*.

 

*Undertaker ignores them and begins rummaging around*

 

Long: Looking for this, Mark?

 

*Long holds up a bottle of JD*

 

*Taker does the zombie eye-roll*

 

Taker: Sweet sweet JD.

 

*Taker begins the zombie walk towards the bottle and is restrained by JBL and Angle*

 

JBL: Ease up, big fella. We're all friends here. We've come to help you.

 

*Taker cocks one eye and glares at JBL*

 

Taker: I told you before.....................I don't need help. I'm fine. Now GIMME THAT BOOOOOOOOZE~!~!~

 

Long: Now hold up playa. You used to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. A locker room leader, somebody the young guys could look up to. Young guys like Orlando Jordan here.

 

Jordan: Hey Mark........remember me? We used to have something going back in the day for 2 episodes.

 

*There is a flicker of recognition in Takers eyes but he doesn't respond*

 

London: Hey, what about me?

 

*JBL punches London in the neck and kicks him in the back*

 

Long: We've called you here because we want you to confront your demons.

 

Angle: Mark, we know that you're drinking before your matches. The staff and the wrestlers have all seen you do it. Now each of us has prepared a statement to let you know how your drinking has affected us. Eddy, I believe that you wanted to go first.

 

Eddy: No I didn't.

 

*Angle smirks*

 

Eddy: What the fuck was that for, holmes?

 

Angle: Nothing. Just read the damn statement.

 

Eddy: Mark, two weeks ago I asked you to look after my daughter while I went out and worked a match. When I came back I found out that you were outside the arena attemping to sell my daughter for a 6 pack of Budweiser.

 

*A tear rolls down Takers cheek ala the old Indian dude from the cigarette commercials*

 

TO BE CONTINUED

Is there anyway we could have Taker drive off the SD fist all shitfaced? Because if we could:

 

Drunk Undertaker driving off smackdown fist = ratings/money OMG!!!!!

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CONTINUED

 

Long: Alright, alright, now it's my turn to holla. Now Mark, three months ago at the Great American Bash PPV you were told what the finish was going to be for the Concrete Crypt Match. What exactly was that finish?

 

Taker: Uh........I.....uh.....I don't remember.

 

Long: Well then let me refresh your memory. The finish was that after you were done beating The Dudleyz you were supposed to press the "Don't drown Paul Bearer in cement" button. Did you press that button?

 

Taker: Maybe I did.

 

Long: No, Mark, you didn't. And the fact that you did 10 tequila shots before the match wouldn't have anything do with that, would it?

 

Taker: Ain't mah fault. That damn Mex-ee-can over there is the one who gave me the tequila.

 

Long: Eddy? Is this true?

 

Eddy: Kurt convinced me it would be good for my career. He hasn't led me astray so far.

 

*Angle smirks*

 

Angle: It's true, it's damn true.

 

Long: Very cute Kurt, we all know the line. JBL, I believe you were next.

 

JBL: How ya'll doin'? I'm John Bradshaw Layfield, proud citizen of the United States of America. Now Mark, you and I have had some really good times. We've watched each others back on numerous occasions. Without you giving him a stern talking-to that blabbermouth Edge might actually have said something to the brass. And I in turn have promised you a clean job at No Mercy for the title. But I can't condone what you're doing to your body.

 

Taker: I'm fine, I just need a little juice to give me a lift.

 

*Taker lunges for the JD again and is restrained*

 

JBL: But I knew that you had gone too far during that tour we did in Germany a while back. If I'd have known that you had drank a whole bottle of Goldschlagger before giving me advice before the match I'd have never done that whole Nazi saulte thingy. Did I get that right?

 

*Camera pans off-set to see Vince McMahon with a wide smile on his face, nodding*

 

TO BE CONTINUED

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Well, I guess now we'll see Ivory busted down to some crappy Z-show like The WWE Experi.....oh.

 

Well, she'll probably get squashed by Lilian Garcia or something.

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So how about HHH's burial of Eugene?

[Guest Astro]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh....so what did happen at the San Fran Diva search?

[Guest GreatOne]

So how about HHH's burial of Eugene?

The difference:

 

Pillman: Upcoming

Eugene: One trick pony that had already been used and is in reprogram mode

 

So challenger Jericho's supposed to go over Tomko with little difficulty yet challenger HHH is supposed to go 50/50 with Eugene?

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Well, I guess now we'll see Ivory busted down to some crappy Z-show like The WWE Experi.....oh.

 

Well, she'll probably get squashed by Lilian Garcia or something.

I'd be up for that...unless it's a B&P match, then Lilian should job.

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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh....so what did happen at the San Fran Diva search?

When all of them went on a curse fest.

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Let me just say that S_D is a good sport for posting these every week.

 

Thanks, dude.

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Well, I guess now we'll see Ivory busted down to some crappy Z-show like The WWE Experi.....oh.

 

Well, she'll probably get squashed by Lilian Garcia or something.

Ivory can't steal Howard Finkel's job!

[Guest DeathBecomesYou]

They also did a new women's angle. They started with a dancing contest with Stacy Keibler and Molly Holly. Keibler did her regular dance while Molly danced like she was at a ballet recital. Of course, Keibler won the audience vote. Molly jumped her after, and it wound up with all the women involved. It turned into a six-way with Molly, Gail Kim, & Trish Stratus vs. Victoria, Nidia, & Keibler. Victoria used the widow's peak on Molly for the win.

 

Wow, they're really booking Molly well aren't they? First she's made to look like an idiot, then she gets squashed yet again, great booking that .

[Guest DeathBecomesYou]

Is there anyway we could have Taker drive off the SD fist all shitfaced? Because if we could:

 

Drunk Undertaker driving off smackdown fist = ratings/money OMG!!!!!

I'd like the idea of 'Taker trying to ride off the Smackdown fist, but his bike gets stuck up there, so he'd spend the whole episode sitting on his bike stuck up there cursing "Why ain't ma fuckin' bike goin?"

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

I just think it's funny that 14 years ago, Kevin Sullivan and Ric Flair argued over a TV match where Flair wrestled Brian Pillman the week before a Flair/Lex Luger PPV match. Flair wanted to make Pillman and lose via DQ on TV. Sullivan insisted, and got his way, saying Flair had to win because he's in the main event on the PPV. But even in the situation where he had to win and it was his time to be selfish, Flair sold like crazy for Pillman, had a **** TV match with him, making Pillman by beating him, and Flair still went over in the end.

 

I remember this. Does anyone have a copy of the match?