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Dave says that Vince intended for his beating at the hands of Bret to turn him face, but it didn't quite work out that way.

Bryan Danielson getting squashed by the Great Khali makes me LOL.

Dave said on last night's Observer Radio that he was offended that they used such a "pussy bull" for the Diva bull-riding segment. Then he revealed that some 15 years ago, he used to go mechanical bull-riding every Saturday night.

Really stretching now.

Bonus Madden content: The Mark in '93 telling Ole Anderson to KNUCK IF YA BUCK SON

Wasn't Madden just butthurt that he didn't get a job working for the WCW hotline? I seem to remember him unconvincingly denying so in an old Torch column. FAKE EDIT: I found it.

I was amused by the Sack's Lizzy Borden reference. For those who don't know, a few weeks ago Dave in the WON referred to Lizzy Valentine as the porn star wife of Rob Black. Then he printed a retraction in the next Daily News Update saying he meant Lizzy Borden. And then he made the same mistake the next week.

Scott Keith actually gave the Rumble *****. I wouldn't have gone any higher than ***, but I can understand how some people would be marks for the surprise winner, since it happens so rarely.

Maybe Vince will finance that treasure hunt now.

Yeah, funny thing about that. He wasn't on TV at all this past week...but he's in the main event of the next PPV against AJ. TNA! TNA!

Georgiann Makropolous died today. Too bad, she always seemed nice.

Is "respect for history" really a hallmark of the Heyman days when Heyman had his champion come out and cut a promo saying Lou Thesz, Jack Brisco and Harley Race can all kiss his ass and then throw down the NWA title? I suppose such a betrayal serves on its own as a sort of tribute to the golden days of wrestling when double-crosses like that were commonplace but I doubt that's what the writer meant.

The only source I can find for the "Jeff failed a third test" story is something called The Bleacher Report which says the news came from Matt on his pay-per-view webcast, The Hardy Show. Somehow I doubt Matt would be dumb enough to publicly disclose that information unless he wants to be fired so he can go to TNA.

Hey Bix, I liked your writeup on CSS, but you referred to JR as Williams' "love-time friend." That was an unfortunate typo...I hope.

TNA signed Jeff Hardy, the 2nd most popular wrestler in the country, and featured him in a two-minute midcard angle while the main angle of the show featured Scott Hall and X-Pac. This company is hopeless. Also, having Tenay enthusiastically announce the Spike was going to let them stay with the title match until there was a winner and then immediately cutting to commercial was the most WCW-ish moment in wrestling since, well, WCW. Funny note: I had closed captioning on and when Flair first appeared it referred to him as "'Nature Boy' Riki Choshu."

All joking aside, we know from the book what an incredible horn dog Bret is. He's saying shit about Melina that no rational person, especially one who has seen and taken part in so many incredible matches, could possibly believe. It's clear that Bret has decided to compromise all his integrity, risk further damaging his brain, and perhaps harm his legacy with the wrestling fans, all in an epic quest to hit that. And I find that admirable.

According to Dave, Bret signed a contract last week that will have him as an on-screen character from Jan. 4 to a couple of weeks after Mania. Wow.

Yeah, I don't think he looks so bad either. I just wanted to know if you guys thought it was a GH gut. If not, then I wouldn't mind looking like that when I'm 60. If so, then no.

Uh so are both these guys just wide around the stomach from not doing enough crunches/situps or is this a serious case of GH gut?

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Graham's pretty much put it all out there as far as his steroid use, so if he got the disease from, say, sharing needles with another wrestler, I don't think he'd try to cover it up.

The Silverdome is probably going to be converted into a soccer stadium.

It's lupus.

He's getting married again today. LOL