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  1. He faced a pushed/protected Kozlov in 08 and killed his career. Henry is way better than Kozlov, but it's not like the company getting behind pushing a guy as a monster was going to stop HHH from making them look bad.
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  3. I think the amount of lapsed Attitude Era fans can be underestimated, because Rock's segments on Raw have not been some big spike compared to the rest of the show. If there haven't been a large number of old fans turning in to Raw to see him for free when he's there, why should we expect they are going to pay $50 to see him at Mania?
  4. What's so good about Ring Ka King? I haven't watched it. Yea Dylan give us a nice breakdown of Ring Ka King if you've been watching it. The roster seems pretty interesting and the production values looked good from the little bits I've seen on youtube.
  5. How much do you guys REALLY think Rock is going to move the Mania buyrate? Last year they apparently had 1,059,000 buys last year, however only 663,000 of them were domestic. Just judging from ratings, attendance and overall fan interest, how much higher can that domestic number really go? 750,000? I'm not trying to say that possibly bringing in an extra 100,000 PPV buys is insignificant, but I don't see this Mania blowing last year's number out of the water or anything.
  6. Now he has stockholders he has to explain the WWE's first money-losing quarter in years to. Even if you take the film division and network startup costs out of the equation, they didn't make enough profit to cover dividend payments. Because business has been in steady decline for the past few years and he's desperate to turn things around? But how does bringing in Shaq turn things around? There was a good plan in place with Mike Tyson, and a similar deal with Shaq just doesn't work. When they did it with Tyson, they already felt like their show was better than Nitro, they just needed something big to make people give Raw another chance, and once they did, it wasn't long after that they started winning the ratings war. There is no comparable scenario for Shaq. There is no hook to the show, that you know "well if I can just get new eyes on my show, I'm sure they will stay around." So bringing in Shaq will just do the same thing that bringing in Mayweather did. Get you a lot of mainstream pub, but not really have any effect on your bottom line.
  7. Didn't Vince used to be the guy who'd rather lose money off of 500k buys than make money off of 300k? Whose purse are his balls in? That was when his company was dying and he desperately needed a spark to get the attention away from WCW. That worked with Mike Tyson in the circumstances at that time. There's no reason to do that now with Shaq, because you aren't trying to get a spark to get new eyes on your product, the idea was to get as much publicity for the Network launching. Now that isn't happening, so why pay Shaq?
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  9. If you wrestled in the Impact Zone most of the time, I'm sure you WOULD be grateful for a hot crowd. That's the worst wrestling crowd there is, and some of those guys like James Storm have wrestled there almost exclusively for years now.
  10. It kind of felt like there was some foreshadowing that went on with Eric joining nWo. I have been watching some Nitros lately around the beginning of the nWo angle and if you go back and watch around like August 96 they do a show where Eric doesn't show up for hour 2 of Nitro, and nWo are outside in a limo the whole night and never come out. At the end of the show Sting & Luger go out to see who is in the limo and when the open the door it shuts really fast but they grab someone's jacket and it's a WCW jacket. Then the next week on Nitro Eric really dodges the questions of where he was and kind of subtly hints he was in the limo.
  11. I watched LLUSA and was actually kind of disappointed we didn't get the end of that Mini Halloween married Reyes storyline.
  12. I think he likely would have done even worse had he done that. I think he was just too small for anyone but his Dad to push.
  13. Matt why do you constantly torture me by mentioning cool territory stuff that is apparently on justin.tv that I can never find when I look there?
  14. My first lesson to not always trust internet wrestling hype was the first time I watched a Christopher Daniels match. I mean why the hell was anyone EVER pimping him as "one of the best in the world"?
  15. It's not two words. It's skinnyfat ass.
  16. Other than the first Randy Orton feud with Orton punting his dad, I would agree that most of his feuds really never feel "hot." There are some hot moments every now and again but he has had a lot of programs that just felt like "the next guy for Cena to be matched up with." Sheamus feud immediately comes to mind. Bobby Lashley program is another. EDIT: Oh yea the Edge feud worked really well too. That was probably his second best opponent. I feel like Orton is his best although they really ran that match into the ground. And Orton was never as over as they wanted him to be. I still they think they would have probably had a MOTC at No Mercy in 2007 if Cena hadn't got injured. And Orton wouldn't have been made to look like shit by HHH that night.
  17. I wish people would start posting number of viewers instead of ratings points because a lot of people don't seem to understand that a 3.2 in 2011 is not the same as a 3.2 in 1998. A 3.2 ratings equals about 4.83 million viewers, which is a whole lot of people watching the show. It's also .3 higher than last week.
  18. Blasphemy. Liger slapping people is the greatest thing in pro-wrestling. I should watch that instead. Resulting in pinfall victories? The right person slapping you can really mess you up. Just ask Ted Dibiase who got a concussion from a slap by R-Truth. Of course it's still a terrible pro wrestling finisher.
  19. Nobody cared about most of the celebrities, but the Titans brawl was a HUGE deal. Every local news outlet had that as their lead story the next day. Even TNA would have to know that they should've followed up on that, but it led to nothing even on the very next show. I'm assuming that the Titans management (if not the NFL higher-ups themselves) had a very stern talk with the players afterwards, ordering them to never do such a thing again. I have a vague memory of the Titans players getting some heat for doing a physical angle without permission. The angle was covered on many news stations, even here in Sacramento. I still wonder how much of that brawl was actually supposed to happen. Jeff Jarrett clearly looked uncomfortable when he was getting manhandled by the Titans and I know there is no way they would have scripted one of the Titans players having to block a chairshot.
  20. I appreciate you writing this up and it makes me glad I never finished my project of watching all of 2002 TNA. I tapped at around week 11 or 12.
  21. I'd say it's two guys having fun. But what's the fun of reading anything if you don't get to find something to be offended by?
  22. Interestingly enough, I just asked about him after reading about him in some old 89 Observers. Here is the answer I was given:
  23. So I've been reading 89 Observers recently and I'm up to July right now. Can anyone can give me more info on Mark Young, a.k.a. Vince Young in the NWA, and Carl Styles from Portland?
  24. Drew McIntyre is a pretty good recent case. Came in as Mr. McMahon's chosen one, had a long undefeated streak and a good I.C. title run and then just totally fell into Superstars obscurity.
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