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As excited as I am about Brock coming back, I am a bit pessimistic about how much effect he will really have on PPV buys. I'm assuming WWE had to pay him a ton of money to get him to come back and work the schedule it's reported he's going to work. How do you recoup that? You'd almost have to use him on every PPV from now until Mania, and surely by the time a year rolls around the WWE booking problems will have killed any initial bump he'll provide.

Maybe the problem is you've accepted what Dave has said as 100% fact instead of waiting to see his first match.

Because it's the Divas division and WWE makes it brutally obvious they don't care about it and no one can really figure out why they haven't killed it yet.

http://forums.barbaricwrestling.com/index....showtopic=16179 Does anyone know if this is true? I tried a quick google search which came up with nothing, and I've never heard anything about this before.

Could someone help me understand this match better? . Heavy Metal & La Parka Jr. vs LA Park & Zorro. I get that it's like a house show crowd/tons of schtick kind of match, but what is the relation between LA PARK and La Parka Jr., and what is the thing LA PARK keeps doing in the corner to both guys and the ref?

Maybe he had copies of some of those documents, as a sort of "portfolio" for his next employers to show his previous success.

Dylan if you want to point to the match where they really beat the Rolling Germans into the ground it was during the build-up to the Jericho/Benoit/Austin Triple Threat where Benoit wrestled Austin on Smackdown and I think hit him with 8 or even 9 in a row. And obviously did not win with it.

Wrestling seems like it's done very much by "feel", in the sense that I can definitely believe that there would be a lot of wrestlers who may not be able to explain to you the logic of how and why they do what they do when they do it. Just imagine a work situation you've probably seen before where someone is really great at their job but really bad at training someone else how to do it because they can't explain how they know when to do what. In the same sense a wrestler might not be able to tell you why they did which spots in what order, they just know it "feels right" because they have trained themselves to be in tune with the audience.

I don't think the American and Japanese media would necessarily have the same response.

Honestly, I don't see a problem with that. If you look at a guy like David Flair, that might have actually given him a chance at having a career.

Don't know about 95 but Wright was one of the best heels they had by around 97 but they totally wasted him.

Listened this mourning, didn't get that vibe off of Ki at all. He never threatened to shoot on green kids. Bryan asked him in regards to matwork how he would handle dealing with someone who wasn't as good at it and he more or less just said he wasn't worried about it, that he'd hold up his end and hope that the other guy could keep up. Most of the other stuff he talked about in refrence to how he was going to go against other guys he sounded like he was responding in atleast half "work" mode anyways which he does a lot. His other points I largely agree with too. It is really easy to become a wrestler these days compared to the past, most of the home grown FCW guys do suck ass and in an ideal world, your world champions should be the #1 guys in the company so it is a bit harder to take them serious when they're at best going to be working the #3 & 4 slots on your major show of the year. Now, I do think Low Ki is batshit insane on a lot of things don't get me wrong but for this interview he came off fine to me. I feel like this is a constant unfair criticism of WrestleMania. Essentially it boils down to you either think that Rock/Cena and HHH/Taker shouldn't be on the card because they overshadow the regular card, or you think that Cena/Rock and HHH/Taker should be for the titles because they are the biggest matches on the card and the titles should be the most important thing.

I wonder if DEAN still hates Meng "and then Meng- the biggest cancer on the colon of wrestling- came out so we could actually say it was a total turd."

Why did people think Taz was some kind of legit bad ass for years? Guess they were just good enough at getting over their characters that people believed.

similar to this, Kizarnie. Months of promos, then they throw him out there as part of MVP's losing streak gimmick, he made one more appearance in a battle royal and then out. Loch Ness in WCW got much the same treatment as the Yeti. Loch Ness is at least defensible because he retired from wrestling and went back to England due to health problems. Whether that's before or after they decided to job him out is unknown. The bigger question is why bring in 50 year old Giant Haystacks who was really only known in England and give him a big push instead of someone young?

No, Mongo was not a great wrestler, but he knew how to be a character. I think the Mongo hate that used to be more prevalent on the internet is pretty overblown. It's not like he was AWFUL, and he was a better Horsemen than a guy like Paul Roma or even Malenko who brought no character to his role in the Horsemen.

Even with most of HHH's career on tape I think you would be hard pressed to put together 6, 2 hours DVDs of HHH's career that would be better than goodhelmet's 6 disc Butch Reed set.

Apparently his career was held back by issues of general professionalism. I remember Bert Prentice once shilling his weekly card, and actually saying on television something to the effect of "and we've also got Billy Joe Travis versus Jamie Dundee, in a 'if one of them shows up he automatically wins' match". That's fantastic.

I'd say that's as much a shift in the audience demographics as the booking, but it has been quite a while since there was an "Asshole" chant.

WCW was always going to have a problem bringing in real big heavyweights, due to WWF being very aggressive going after those guys at the time. And it doesn't help when they had the greatest big man of the era, homegrown, (The Giant/Big Show) and screwed around with him until he hated being there and left for WWF. But they also didn't make effective use of the talent they had, Big Show being the worst example, waiting forever to pull the trigger on Scott Steiner, killing Wrath's push, etc.

The thing that jumped out the most at me over that Top 100 poll is Ted DiBiase being ranked above Randy Savage, with one person even voting DiBiase #1. I like Ted and all, and I guess you could make an argument for him being better than Savage, although I doubt you could sway me. But best of all time?

Nord was probably ready for a decent push around the time he showed up on Nitro, but you could say that for a lot of WCW guys during that period.

Ron Killings Terry Taylor Plowboy Frazier Greg Gagne John Nord Ted Dibiase Jr. Cody Rhodes Chavo Guerrero Jr. Harry Smith Justin Credible