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Really saved the best for last, huh.

No Loss, he and Candice were getting head from a couple of hot chicks at the 4th of July hot dog stand. With their pants up.

Phil Schneider sure hit one out of the park, didn't he.

You know what would be great? If we all used this thread to make up our own Hogan lies, i.e. things he never actually said, but that are bullshit enough that they sound like things he would say. Here, I'll go first. Vince McMahon wanted to bring back Hogan in '96 and give him the Stone Cold gimmick. Hulk turned it down because he didn't want Nick and Brooke to hear him say "ass" on TV. There, how was that?

Jerry Lawler's official history of Savage's departure is that one night at Raw they couldn't find him anywhere, and as they were scrambling around looking for him, they turned on the TV and saw him...on NITRO. And that's the story of how the King became a WWE announcer!

Warrior has a whole litany of early '90s WWF personalities who don't like him. With Savage it would be harder to find people to speak out against him since he was apparently pretty well-liked until he came back to WCW in '99, when he became a major backstage headache. Also, WWE's burial DVD only came about when Warrior refused to participate with their DVD on him. With Savage he's basically been blacklisted until now. As much as I hate to buy into the Steph rumor, nothing else makes sense in their years-long refusal to deal with him. Obviously the fact that they've made a deal with him would take some credence away from that rumor. But in case Bix sees this, what exactly have you heard about this? You said that your sources in WWE believed it to be true, and I'm sure Randazzo has asked his sources (assuming they aren't the same people as yours), though whatever he's learned I'm sure he couldn't very well put it into his book. But that still doesn't make sense because the rumor as originally reported on DVDVR stated that Savage was fired due to Vince finding out about it, and he certainly talked about Savage fondly on Raw after he left, not to mention he was willing to take him back in '96, so it just doesn't all jive. Oh, it is a mystery.

HHH-Batista, which was extremely well-built for months, did a surprisingly huge buyrate for 2005, considerably larger than the following years's show. Wrestlemania 19's main events were built much better than 18's, but 18 had Rock-Hogan and nobody cared about 19's matches. I don't think you can underestimate the value of a strongly-built main event between two big stars. Sure, they'll get hundreds of thousands of buys for Wrestlemania no matter what they present. But there's a difference between 800,000 and a million, and sometimes it takes a little more to get into the seven figures.

Also, as awesome as Orton was at the end of Raw, they're going to have to keep that program strong for seven weeks. I fear that by the time Mania comes around, the feud will have run out of steam. Anyone else think they would have been better off running Orton-Vince?

I've been wrong in all my predictions.

OK, as I'm posting this Michaels is coming out for an in-ring promo with JBL. I'm predicting Taker/JBL/HBK three-way at Mania.

So, No Way Out tonight... - HHH wins the title again - Edge steals Kofi's Chamber spot and wins the other title - Orton beats Shane, no surprise - Michaels beats JBL, probably ending their storyline Certainly an eventful PPV, but I thought this show would provide some answers as to where they are going for Mania, and now it's even more unclear. HHH and Edge as champions would seem to prevent the match between them I was expecting, but I'm thinking they might do that match anyway and make it title for title. They wouldn't necessarily have to unify the brands if they did that, just have the champ wrestle on both shows like in the early days of the draft. I'm still predicting Orton-Austin for WM, even though I'm listening to Meltzer on the LAW right now saying he thinks it'll be HHH-Orton and Cena-Edge. (From his tone and use of language, it sounds like it's just him speculating rather than working on any inside knowledge.) I've seen those matches so many damn times, I could do without them taking place ever again. Michaels beat JBL, seemingly ending their angle, but I think there's a chance they'll reverse the decision because Rebecca slapped JBL during the match. If not, there was that speculation a couple of months ago of Taker-HBK at Mania, but certainly there haven't been any clues in that direction. Before the show, I was expecting Cena to retain and defend against Taker at Mania, and I still think those two might wrestle. Obviously Jeff vs Matt is a lock, and I still think Rourke is going to wrestle Jericho. There are still seven weeks before WM this year, which I think is actually a longer gap between WWE PPVs since '95. Speculate away, y'all.

They'll probably have a house show match with Andre, since they love themselves some Andre. Also the match where he beats Duggan to become King, or the SNME rematch. I bet they'll have at least one match vs Flair from WCW, I'm guessing either the lumberjack match on the beach or the title win in Vegas.

Actually, maybe I shouldn't be so sure. Jeff's suspensions (at least the second one I'm sure of) were for recreational drugs, which is something WWE actually does want their talent to be free of, and it's much harder to bullshit your way out of having a guy fail for, say, ecstasy, because you can't very well claim he had a prescription for it. But still, it is WWE.

Sure, that's true, but it's obvious WWE doesn't care about that all that much, so why not go with the most over guy? Besides which, as much as I hate to cast aspersions on the WWE (they put smiles on faces, after all) and their infallible Wellness Policy...Jeff Hardy isn't getting a third strike. Feel free to bump this as much as you want and call me stupid if he's cutting shoot promos in the Impact Zone six months from now but something tells me whether he stays clean or not he's staying on the WWE roster. Meltzer pretty much said so on Observer Radio this week (he was specifically referring to Randy Orton, but he was using him as the hypothetical example in saying that WWE either does or would cover up a test failure for a major, world champion-level star).

That may have been a good idea, but I wish they had saved the Jeff title win for Mania and pushed everything back from there. It's really dumb that they took the belt off him so soon, and as much as I don't want to beat a dead horse, I hope nobody will groan when I say that I suspect Edge only got the title because they didn't have any other opponent for HHH.

Woof

Lots of regular sexualy snide asides were also aimed at Ross. Heyman, and Cornette as being homosexuals on commentary as well. I'm trying to remember which face Flair always talked about as having hard time swallowing his nut. When has JR ever been called gay on commentary?

WHAT

When Jeff appeared in ROH, was he booed from the moment he came out or did he stink up the joint?

Another interesting note: The name of the "FU" was changed because of Linda McMahon getting on the Connecticut Board of Education.

I wouldn't say Meltzer "confirmed" it, just that he was speculating that was what they were going for...but nothing would surprise me with WWE.

Fairly sure he's joking, as I believe he's acknowledged the dubious nature of the alleged tournament in the past.

Weren't there rumors about her and Angle?

Meltzer hated Backlund as champ for some reason. It's funny how "Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic" seems to swing back and forth between legitimately tasteless things (Von Erichs, Jose Gonzalez) and just bad booking (MCMAHON FAMILY ALL OVER THE PRODUCT).