WWE General Discussion - November 2007

[Thanks for the Fish 0]

WWe.com has a feature called "Superstar Ink" where they basically take pictures of a superstar's tattoes and get the stories behind them and such. Most are superficial fluff, however they profiled MVP most recently and it's actually pretty interesting. I hope he doesn't touch up the Malcolm X prison tat he has on his chest, sure it's pretty bad but it is what it is and tells a better story. We've seen MVP without his shirt on - where are these unphotographed gang tats? Are they just airburshed out of the photos? I don't think gangbangers would ink legs and asses...

 

http://www.wwe.com/inside/superstarink/

[Enigma 0]

Are RAW, SD and ECW going HD anytime soon? I think I heard something about iMPACT going HD some time in 2008, what about the E shows?

Smackdown is going HD on January 8, 2008 on The CW. No word on Raw or ECW, but it's likely they could jump over to HD since USA and Sci-Fi just launched their HD channels.

[Downhome 0]

Anyone got that .gif of Stevie Richards and Val Venis high-fiving?

[haVoc 0]

Are RAW, SD and ECW going HD anytime soon? I think I heard something about iMPACT going HD some time in 2008, what about the E shows?

Smackdown is going HD on January 8, 2008 on The CW. No word on Raw or ECW, but it's likely they could jump over to HD since USA and Sci-Fi just launched their HD channels.

 

Any idea if Time Warner Cable is going to be getting those HD channels?

 

[Enigma 0]

I think they're only available on DirecTV right now.

[Perfection 0]

Yup. She even went the Ultimate Warrior path by legally changing her name to Chyna.

 

 

Does she not do research before doing dumb shit?

 

Watch the video that is in that link of her. I don't know whats wrong with her but I think she might have some form of mental retardation...I'm serious. Every time she is on tv, she really does seem like a mentally challenged person. Now I know many of those times she was fucked up on something but 24/7 for the last 8 years?

 

And her face just looks bizarre. She looked awful when she first came in and had that square jaw but now after all that plastic surgery she almost looks mannequin like

 

 

http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/09/chyna-change...n-to-bring-it//

[MrRant 0]

That's not entirely true. Depends on your market.

[haVoc 0]

If it wasn't for Road Runner I would have jumped to DirecTV for the HD service a while ago. The sport packages/NFL Network has been temping me for the last year or two.

[Vampiro69 0]

Anyone got that .gif of Stevie Richards and Val Venis high-fiving?

 

I have had it as my avatar for about a month now.

[Mike wanna be 0]

Why were they high-fiving anyway?

[CBright7831 0]

I really like that Edge promo w/ the chainsaw. I'm a mark for chainsaws and some of my favorite movies features chainsaws - Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Scarface, American Psycho, Spider-man 2, and The Evil Dead. I even bought a fake chainsaw for Halloween last year.

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

Somebody go to WWE.com and look around.

 

Look hard.

 

Do they not have divas any more?

 

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

No, seriously. Every reference to WWE having women on their roster is gone. No diva pages, they aren't listed on the superstar pages, no women's champion referenced.

 

What the hell?

 

[Jaxxson Mayhem 0]

Damn.

 

Just checked. They even took down wwedivas.com

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

Did all the divas fail the Wellness Testing or something?

[Karnage 0]

Daily Divas is gone too!

[CBright7831 0]

If this means no more Maria, then I will need a bottle of vodka each night to help me go to sleep due to grief.

[Mike wanna be 0]

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/divas/dailydivaarchive/ still works, but the profiles & most recent Diva search aren't there. It's the weirdest fucking thing, because if you go backwards to just the Diva page it can't find it.

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

So any guesses what happened?

[Vern Gagne 0]

They all pulled a Benoit?

[Jaxxson Mayhem 0]

Them freaking out over Cena's story on CNN?

[Hawk 34 0]

I'll assume they are going to launch a new Divas' website and just removed all the content from WWE site. Vickie is still listed under the Smackdown roster, though.

[fazzle 0]

They're probably just putting up a new diva-centric site.

 

 

Or it'll all be back tomorrow and this will go into the "WTF?" file

[Vern Gagne 0]

That's probably it. Still seems odd that to erase all mention of the divas.

[Guest AndrewisyourHero]

Damage control time. From WWE.com...

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Cena: Steroids? "Absolutely not"

In a country in which the news media is highly suspect, and the quality of unbiased reporting has been thrown into the trash can, CNN has stooped to new depths. Notwithstanding the fairness, or lack therein, of CNN’s recent piece entitled “Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling,” perhaps the best example of how CNN misrepresents and unfairly presents their biased, if not illegal, point of view is the comparison of WWE’s unedited video above to CNN’s edited version. CNN’s depiction of John Cena as it relates to steroids is not only professionally and morally wrong, but damaging to his character.

 

Watch the entire unedited John Cena interview

http://www.wwe.com/inside/cenaoncnn/

 

[Nate 0]

well maybe not so much WWE damage control, from Observer:

 

The WWE web site today showed the unedited CNN interview with John Cena that was used in Wednesday night's "Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling" special.

 

The result showed an editing process that, by taking a quote out of context, made it appear John Cena was cavalierly admitting steroid use, and teasing that he couldn't be caught, making him come off very bad in the process.

 

On the contrary, Cena said largely what you would expect him to say. He was well spoken, and whether you believe him or not, issued a complete denial when asked if he had ever used steroids, even in his football and bodybuilding days.

 

"Absolutely not," was his response.

 

The quote that they used was part of a long answer regarding society, that whenever an athlete sets a standard or does something impressive, people immediately accuse them of doing performance enhancing drugs. His response was that people are going to believe what they want, and even though he's passed drug tests, people will still believe what they believe. But, he noted, no matter what they believe or what he says, they can't prove it.

 

Cena overall spoke well in the interview. He was a little contradictory at different points on the steroid issue. At one point, when asked what he thought of others who are using steroids in his profession, he would not say anything negative about them. At another point, he said that athletes who fail tests for drugs that are illegal should be put up on criminal charges and be sent to prison, saying steroids should be treated in a legal sense the same as cocaine.

 

There is no excuse for the complete manipulation of his words, particularly on such a sensitive issue. It sadly ruins the credibility of what was, for the most part, a well put together piece.

 

so it sounds like CNN was trying to paint wrestling in a horrible light, guess I should not be shocked since the media likes to make things sound alot worse due to one incident

[veseo 0]

http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/worldheavyweight/

 

Weren't Benoit supposed to "disappear" from every corner of WWE.com?

[TheFranchise 0]

http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/worldheavyweight/

 

Weren't Benoit supposed to "disappear" from every corner of WWE.com?

He can't disappear from history, you can't click his link and there is no information about him on the site.

 

He's needed for lineage and history purposes.

 

 

[tbondrage99 0]

Guess they couldn't say that Triple H lost the title at Wrestlemania XX, or that Randy Orton won his first world title to some non-entity. They will probably just not mention anything more about it then that, since it looks like Benoit is the only one whose name you cant click on. In fact if you click on Triple H they make no mention on who beat him for the title and on Orton's they briefly mention Benoit but mostly talk about the ensuing feud with Triple H instead.

[Enigma 0]

According to Bret Hart's book, the WM13 match between Hart and Shawn Michaels was originally talked about to be a ladder match with the loser having to shave their head bald.