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Not saying it's not true....but we believe Court Bauer knows exactly what's going on because..? He worked for WWE 4 1/2 years ago?

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/0...124231?sac=Home CARTHAGE - Wrestling star Matt Hardy's list of legal woes got longer today after Moore County lawmen filed drug-related charges against him from a search last week at his home on Boys Camp Road in Cameron. Hardy, 36, has been charged with possessing a controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver, possessing a controlled substance, maintaining a drug dwelling and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a release today from the Moore County Sheriff's Office. The search at Hardy's home on Sept. 14 turned up 20 vials of anabolic steroids, one hit of Ecstasy and $1,961 in cash, the release said. It is Hardy's third arrest in less than a month, authorities said. Hardy, a former World Wrestling Entertainment and Impact Wrestling wrestler, was charged in Raleigh last week with driving while impaired. On Aug. 20, Hardy was charged with driving while impaired after crashing his 2009 Chevrolet Corvette into a tree about a half-mile south of Vass, authorities said. On Aug. 19, Hardy crashed his 2006 Cadillac when he collided with a guard rail on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines, authorities said. He was not cited for the incident. On Tuesday, Hardy released a video on his YouTube channel in which he announced that he was entering a rehabilitation facility to seek help for substance abuse. He was released today on a written promise to appear in Moore County court on Thursday.

Dave says on today's Breaking News Audio that the Survivor Series main event is a 4 on 4 elimination match with Rock/Cena/Punk/Sheamus vs. Miz/Truth/Rio/someone else. Him and Bryan claim the whole Survivor Series lineup is basically set but nothing is set for even Hell In A Cell in two weeks. Bryan runs down the rest of the card: Big Show and Kane returning, maybe Undertaker will return but probably not, and "We've also got more Survivor Series matches likely involving the Divas." Huge scoop there. So of course 30 minutes later WWE.com announces: "WWE sources have confirmed that The Rock and John Cena will be a part of a Traditional 5-on-5 Survivor Series Tag Team Match." THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS~!

More from Dave: "The number was actually up 13%, less than the 20% Vince and the company expected. Last year's show also didn't air in the U.K. on PPV but there was a strong domestic increase as well as an overseas decrease. So the number was a little down from Vince's estimate a few weeks ago. Good or bad depends on your point of view. It was good in that it's better than any B show is going to do the reset of the year, but slightly less than Elimination Chamber (worldwide less than Extreme Rules but that's not fair because Extreme Rules includes U.K.). For those who thought it was going to do this huge B show number like One Night Stand because of all the Internet talk, well, then not so good. Compared to company projections, then a little low."

Big Dave says otherwise: "If you read the web site, the buys for Money in the Bank were 185,000 and domestic were 134,000. The 276,000 number includes about 70,000 buys because they estimated low on Mania. If you go to the web site and look at buys from the quarter not including late buys from the previous quarter, the numbers for both worldwide and domestic are right there. Let me know when the corrections are made from the people reporting that didn't know how to read the tables after how many years."

I actually have that episode from Dan. It aired in full. As luck would have it, I have it ripped on my computer too

I actually have that episode from Dan. It aired in full. As luck would have it, I have it ripped on my computer too

So if the plan was for Del Rio to cash in on Punk at the end of the show...where does the title tournament fit into it? Seems like another one of those getting bad information or pulling shit out of there ass items that's been going on for a long time with Dave & Bryan.

Alvarez with the huge scoop today: -- Vince will be at SummerSlam in LA in a few weeks, though not necessarily in front of the camera.

Before the Observer was online, I remember every Wednesday, if there was a major story broken in the Observer, Scherer would post it saying "I'm getting a lot of emails asking me if is true, yes, we can confirm it is true." As bad as Scherer is, Mike Johnson is unquestionably the #1 source for WWE news for at least two years now. In 2009 I started noticing the Observer was becoming a summary of Mike Johnson's hotlines from the previous week even a lot of times being reprinted almost word for word. In the 1% of the time that Meltzer breaks a story that Mike Johnson doesn't, there is a 99% chance that Meltzer will follow it up with VINCE CHANGED HIS MIND AGAIN when the story doesn't follow through. Mike Johnson never has to do that because everything he reports WWE wise is always dead on. Not too many people have figured that out yet and still think Meltzer is the leading insider but it's laughable if you read both sites. Just as a perfect example, like with PPV lineups, Johnson will give the booked card for the show weeks in advance and it'll turn out to be 100% accurate and then you'll have Meltzer and Alvarez guessing matches every few days and saying that WWE changes the card everyday. Funny how that works.

Rock-Triple H @ Rebellion UK PPV in 1999 had it.

This is so silly. Isn't it possible Vince was just working the writers so the Rock-Cena announcement wouldn't leak? I find it very hard to believe they were legitimately planning Cena-Undertaker on Monday morning and then just decided hey, lets do Rock vs Cena instead! If Rock agreed to a match it's on his terms not whatever Vince was feeling Monday afternoon.

I watch pretty much all WWE programming and have largely given up on everything outside of WWE. But I thought Taker-HHH sucked for the exact reasons you listed. When they went straight to the table spots and dives I thought, at least they recognize they can't do a long match so they're just going to do it big from the beginning. Then the second half was so fucking slow and miserable with the long delays between covers. Absolutely no excuse for Hunter taking forever to go for the pin several times. No comparison at all between this and the first Shawn/UT IMO.

Agreed. The night after WM25, Meltzer was doing the whole "if Michaels/Taker had that match in ROH everyone would be up in arms" argument. In ROH the night before WM25, KENTA hit a falcon arrow on Davey Richards off the apron to the floor...they were up seconds later and Richards was chanting "fuck WrestleMania" with the crowd. Yep. Same thing as Michaels and Undertaker selling a tombstone/superkick like death for 2-3 minutes.

Although I totally disagree about Meltzer on how he thinks it was a great match, he still made a great point about how if the same match move for move happened on a ROH show with indy guys as opposed to WM with Taker and HHH, everybody in the WWE locker room would dismiss these guys as "not knowing how to work" and basically just kicking out of finishers back and forth. Well, it was better than their terrible 2001 match at least. That's the Alan4L argument and it's true only if you don't consider the fact that Undertaker's tombstone has been protected for 20 years. You can probably count on one hand the number of times it's been kicked out of after an immediate cover. Guys in ROH & Dragon Gate each have 5-10 finishing moves that are kicked out of in every match. None are protected. Speaking of which, from today's WOR talking about Tozawa vs Yamatao at yesterday's DGUSA show: Bryan: "They finally do the big spot where Yamato hits the Galleria, one of his finishers, and Tozawa leaps up at 1 which always gets the people just losing it, so he gets up at 1..." Dave: "I'm surprised they don't do that more because everytime I see it...they did that spot in one of the matches the night before too...and it just works so well." Fuck. Remember that next time they are habitually complaining about basic wrestling booking and finishers not being protected. Kick out at 1 it gets a big pop! And add me to the list of people who though WrestleMania was a terrible show. I'm actually stunned there's even a small hand full of people who liked it (outside of Dylan who saw it live and probably had a much different experience). Easily the worst Mania by far since 16 and while I do remember 16 being brutal I actually felt last night was worse.

That wasn't even as good as this: [Talking about WWE writers] BRYAN: "Well you're on call 24/7 but you're not also being yelled at all the time...and told your ideas suck." DAVE: "My ideas suck...I don't think anyone ever tells me that...even when they do no one tells me that...well sometimes on the message board but most of the time they don't know what they're talking about anyway."

Worth mentioning that Michaels/Cena was suppose to continue through June with Cena winning the blow-off at Night of Champions (which was even talked about as being an Iron Man match). They went to Cena/Khali and Michaels/Orton after Backlash as a way to drag the program out longer before the blow-off but Michaels got hurt in a match with Edge and was out until October. When he came back they couldn't continue the feud because Cena was out with the torn pec.

Every match list I've seen for this over the last 10 years has said Sabu but it's actually Dick Togo working as SATO in the match.

I could be wrong but I'm almost positive Bryan didn't see the 1989 Great American Bash until a year ago when it first aired on 24/7. I think even Dave was surprised when he brought up he saw it for the first time. Again, could be wrong but I remember the discussion on an Observer radio show.

It doesn't help that DGUSA's DVDs are 4 months (approaching 5) behind. There's just no excuse for that in 2010. He's been claiming they are working on fixing that for a year now.

It isn't so much printing the results, it's acting like independent wrestling is dead because Gabe can't draw anymore despite the fact other companies are doing well.

Danielson is working for North East Wrestling on 10/1 and it will end up drawing 1,500-2,000 paid. You won't hear about in the Observer though because it 1) wasn't booked by Gabe and 2) wouldn't jive with the independent wrestling is dead because Gabe told me everyone wants to go into MMA bullshit.

Meltzer mentioned Cade, Umaga and Charlie found Russ Haas dead in 2001 which got me thinking - when WWE pulled out of Memphis in 2001 they kept 6 guys: Russ & Charlie Haas, Umaga, Rosey, Cade and Steve Bradley. 4 are dead less than 10 years later.