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WWE threatens to leave Georgia over new regulations. Money quote by Cary Ichter: "What else would you expect a bully to say?"

WWE rejects Benoit estate's proposed settlement (of $2 million) I'm not sure this is a wise move on WWE's part. It seems inevitable that a lawsuit against WWE by Michael Benoit will now be filed and even if they win the case, like the steroid trial in 1994, it will yield them a ton of bad publicity as their dirty laundry gets aired in public, which in turn may stir Congress into action. Two million dollars seems like a small price to pay to get Michael Benoit to shut up and go away, even though I understand WWE's mentality that they refuse to do anything that would suggest they were even 1% to blame for Benoit's suicide.

Jereme Warneck (WO.com's boxing correspondent) bashes the WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 video game in relation to its response to the Benoit tragedy and subsequent steroid scandal. His follow up piece. "Intergender matches have been a part of wrestling games for decades, but in light of recent circumstances the choice to continue to include them in this year's version of the game was tacky at best." Remember it only becomes tacky when the wife ends up murdered instead of just being nicely bruised and battered and having to call the cops to protect themselves!

The story I heard was that Holly threatened to quit before the Survivor Series, as he was unhappy with his push and payoffs at the time, so the WWF gave him Snow's spot to stop him from leaving.

The irony is, of course, that Triple H is much better at the hardcore style he disses than working a straight up wrestling match with no gimmicks whatsoever.

Part of the bias working against Big Daddy V is due to Meltzer who still joshes about what a bad, limited worker he is.

Isn't it a bit early to be writing off Jericho's return? Sure his angle on Raw was a weak take off of his WWF debut 8 years ago, but even in his original stint with the company it took him about 6 months to really hit his stride. On another note, Jericho's a smart businessman, but this is more about easy fame than easy money. He was always going to return to wrestling when he failed to break into acting, comedy, music or TV and if he wanted the easiest money, not the most fame, he would have gone to TNA instead.

It's the WWE, since when has that stopped them? When that wrestler thinks he's got nothing left to learn, ignores managements demands to work harder at house shows to improve his in ring ability and then arrogantly mouths off to a newspaper reporter that it's a travesty he's not on the main WrestleMania card, but he doesn't politic and kiss ass like others.

Loss forgot to mention those old chestnuts that the kids of today don't have any respect for the veterans in the back and the territories must be brought back by WWE so that some respect can be starved and beaten into them.

I thought it was obvious that they came up with the no superkick stipulation as a storyline reason for why Shawn would have to resort to using the Sharpshooter as his finisher for the first time in ten years.

It's amazing that they didn't stop and think for a second that by promoting a developmental wrestler that they knew had failed their last steroid test instead of choosing one of the dozens who are clean according to their testing, the media would probably see that as proof they reward steroid abuse not that they mean business in cleaning it up. But that's the wrestling bubble for you.

I'm not going to dispute that those stories are some really sick stuff, but I'm sure there's plenty of similarly sick stuff in the porn industry and probably far more prevalent and vile too.

See JBL forcibly soaping the ass of Edge and simulating anal rape on Duke "The Dumpster" Droese and or Brian Christopher.

So was Vince Russo. He too was known for directly ignoring the fans wishes to write (or in Doyle's case wanting to write) a show that fitted his own personal tastes and relied heavily on outdated nostalgia.

What a coincidence! I've got guests coming by today, and I managed to get their room vacuumed AND dusted despite my seasonal affective disorder acting up. You, sir, are a hero. Only if he manged to squeeze a threesome into his busy schedule too!

If they use Brock correctly they may get one strong PPV buy rate out of him, which is more than can be said for any of the other fighters in the heavyweight division now Couture is gone. Speaking of Dana White, I know people earlier in the year said he was favourite for winning promoter of the year in the WON awards, but I'm starting to think he would be a really bad winner. What with buying Pride for at least ten times what it was worth, blowing the HBO deal, completely blowing the money that could have been made with Cro Cop vs Couture, almost doing the same with Silva vs Liddell, failing to capitalise long term on the media interest they got out of Liddell vs Jackson II, failing to get the services of Fedor Emelianenko and Randy Couture's messy resign, overall it has been a pretty bad year for the promotion.

WWE files court papers saying it will not comply with discovery requests from the Benoit and Toffoloni families.

I'm not sure we should be too angry at the historians for failing to vote for Rey. It depends on the reasons why they failed to vote for him. I know Steve Yohe didn't vote for him because he felt it was too early and wanted to wait and see. In this case that is probably too cautious, but I'd rather see that than more weak candidates like Kurt Angle get rushed in when first eligible who got badly exposed in the years after induction.

Some of the mental health problems are unique to the wrestling business though. I remember listening to an interview by Alex Shane after the Benoit murders happened where he said that most wrestlers would be diagnosed as suffering from mania and mild schizophrenia by a psychologist, because they walk a fine line between being the person they really are and being their wrestling character, as they are taught to play their character outside the arena whenever they are in front of fans.

Gees, WWE should start gagging Jerry McDevitt, because every time he opens his mouth now he makes the company look more and more like sleazebags. I suppose the only scientists that don't peddle crap are the ones who believe testosterone is not an anabolic steroid.

Konnan seems to be splitting the Mexican vote. Once he gets in, it'll be a lot easier for Villano III, Karloff Lagarde or Dr Wagner Sr. to make it.

Hopefully the Johnny Nitro and Melina story ends much more happily than the Skip and Sunny story.

To add to Bix's point, most of the serious injuries suffered in WWE in recent years since they toned their style down have been muscle tears and knee problems, not the concussions and other serious head injuries I was speaking about, which seem to me to be much more prevalent currently outside of WWE whether it be in the indys, Mexico or Japan. The problem with head injuries like concussions is that if you suffer too many of them, then you will have permanent damage that you can never recover from.

Yeah, we should really heed the word of the crazed ex drug addict who's probably only still alive because he ended up wheelchair bound and bedridden before his heart could explode on him or he accidentally OD'd, and whose protege who idolised his toughness and work ethic and followed in his footsteps ended up murdering his family. Suck it the hell up in the wrestling business is really a euphemism for saying that you're a motherfucking pussy if you don't take some fucking pills like everybody else and work hurt. Frankly that macho attitude now nauseates me, because we now know all too well the price of that attitude.

Obviously you can't eliminate concussions completely from wrestling, but there is no need to work a match so stiffly that suffering some sort of head trauma becomes very likely and there is definitely no need for wrestlers to work through serious head injuries like concussions.