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I don't think it was in poor tastes at all, but I understand why some thought it was. There is very little in wrestling that can get an emotional reaction out of viewers anymore, and I have no problem with them pushing the envelopes to fuck with people's emotions and comfort zones. That sort of thing is definitely more compelling than the fart joke-style booking that defined the Attitude era.

Unpinning this to make more room at the top. If anyone accidentally opens a new thread in the future with wrestling quotes, I'll just merge them.

I'd like to see Dupree and Grenier somehow team back up again while Conway gets to try his hand at a singles push. I think your scenario would work, and I agree with you.

Oh, and the biggest fabrication of all that people who should know better still believe. He said that Ric Flair asked to drop the title to any babyface so he could win it back at Thanksgiving, and the only one dumb enough to agree to it was Ron Garvin. Flair had nothing to do with that decision whatsoever, and that story was made up out of thin air. Dusty and Crockett felt that Flair was out of babyface opponents and that they needed to do something special to make sure Starrcade would draw with Flair having a weak opponent, so they had him drop the title to Garvin and win it back at the event.

Yeah, he also seems to talk about plans for this heel group of Benoit, Guerrero, Regal and Malenko called The Apocalypse that no one else ever knew anything about. According to him, Hogan squashed it because it scared him. Uh huh.

HHH/Undertaker at WM X-7 was a farce. The cameramen were the workers in that match more than HHH or Taker. They shot distant when they were brawling, but I was there live and they were just running with HHH bumping off of pretty much nothing. The far zoom didn't expose that. Then, when HHH took the bump off of the plywood, it was maybe a six-inch drop down, but the camera positioned it where it looked like he took an enormous bump. Aside from the nearfall off of HHH's sledgehammer shot while Taker had him up for the Last Ride, there's not really anything genuinely good in this match.

Actually, strummer, the quality of writing in those rants was an issue too. A lot of the facts he told (Austin being scheduled to win the title at Final Four, Vince changing the Foley/HBK finish mid-match) were incorrect.

He was overrated to begin with, just because there was no one else who had covered so much material. Quick, name another reviewer that has covered every single WCW pay-per-view, written history columns (no matter how many falsehoods were therein) on WWF and WCW and covered tons of RAW episodes, Thunders and Smackdowns; almost every WWF PPV; and scattered Coliseum Videos, ECW cards and shoot interviews as well. Exactly. All he ever has been is a source of convenience, and if someone else out there had covered as much US stuff as he has, they'd be equally valuable. The only people who've covered more "big two" stuff than Scott Keith are Dave Meltzer and Wade Keller, and sadly, their work isn't online and free.