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From last years results: From the prior year results: It's pretty clear that Sr. is the one who should be on the ballot and Jr. shouldn't be on it for another couple of years.

I think it'll be some of his Twitter followers who said something to rub him up the wrong way.

Cageside Quote: Jim Ross is 'treated wonderfully in WWE'

There is something to that, but Cena's delivery was pretty hit and miss in those angles.

Can anyone point to an impressive number Cena's drawn this year? WrestleMania was really drawn by The Rock and Money In The Bank was really drawn by CM Punk, which leaves um...

It's probably worth pointing out too that, VINCE BREACHED BRET'S CONTRACT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T AGREE TO GET SCREWED.

Watch Raw get the lowest non-holiday rating of the year so far this week.

I'm guessing one of the inductees may be a surprise by Dave's wording. Maybe Carlos Colon due to the new geographic region or a historical candidate going in by fiat?

For someone who was pushed so hard from 2000-2006, you would think there would be one number that you could point to as evidence that Angle was a draw, but there really isn't. He probably peaked as a hot character in the summer of 2000, but he'd still be behind Austin, Rock and Hunter in terms of responsibility for the big PPV numbers drawn that year.

No, I believe that was Kevin Nash's doing. Mabel gave Nash a bruised sternum in their SummerSlam '95 main event. When a rematch was booked at a Raw taping in late 1995, Nash balked at working with someone so reckless, which meant that Nash got to squash in a few seconds. After a last brief appearance at the '96 Royal Rumble, Mabel didn't work for the company again until he returned as Viscera in early 1999.

Details? I don't recall him being a physical wreck like Flair is (at least in 2003). He went into the bout against Brock Lesnar with a broken neck and risked paralysis by just wrestling on the show. After returning to the locker room after the match, his body went into traumatic shock and he had to be rushed to hospital.

Dave on his radio show today wasn't buying Ric's con of a miraculous recovery from his torn triceps, citing his mentality to gut out even serious injuries like a broken neck when he was a much younger man. Indeed, Bryan revealed that the original plan was for Ric Flair to be heavily involved in Hogan's match against Sting at Bound For Glory, with Flair taking all the bumps so Hulk doesn't have to. Which makes the timing of the Mooneyham interview interesting as Bound For Glory is on Sunday. Sounds like the interview was more about giving TNA plausible deniability, though Dave should have made his scepticism more clear on his website.

Jim Ross asked by WWE.com reporter "Is it true that John Laurinaitis looks more attractive than you on television?" as he walks out after Raw. Sounds like another nice hometown surprise for him.

But he was willing to put that "stupid asshole mark" over, it just wasn't on the day that Vince McMahon wanted. I think you're really mistaken if you think tons of workers would have put Shawn over under the exact same circumstances at that time. Bret went further than a lot of guys would have when Shawn arrogantly told the locker room that he wouldn't put over anybody in the whole company. I think most would have been a lot more steadfast in their refusal to ever put Shawn over.

Personally I think Dylan and John are spot on with their analysis. Montreal was a problem wholly created by Vince being stupid enough to give Bret the legal right to refuse to do jobs in the last 30 days of his contract, then allowing Bret to reopen negotiations with WCW while he was still WWF champion. I don't think a fair solution to a problem of your own making is to screw the most innocent party in the whole mess.

He did a pretty good obituary for Takashi Matsunaga when he died on July 11th, 2009.

Of course, they could have found someone if they really wanted to do to be "a short transitional lame duck" champion, but they didn't want that.

I think they're an oversight, as I've never seen them included in the rundown of inductees over the years.

The directly part is what I don't get. I've never heard anyone refute Bret's claim that he brought up the idea of droping it to someone else, whether he really would have is irrelevant since Vince seemed hell bent on "Bret MUST lose to Shawn and it MUST be at Survivor Series" with no room for compromise It wasn't like they had many good options for interim champions. Austin's first WWF title victory was being held back for WrestleMania. The Undertaker was being protected / kept for Kane. Which leaves, who exactly? Ken Shamrock would be the best option, though I don't think they saw even him at World title level. Also, the name of the next In Your House PPV was subtitled D-Generation X, which suggests they wanted Shawn to be champion coming into the PPV.

He did draw the two biggest buyrates in TNA history against Samoa Joe, which means something, given all the stars that have gone though TNA's doors.

To be fair, I don't really hold it against Kurt that he couldn't sustain his marketability with Vince Russo booking him from face to heel to tweener on a weekly basis and burning out a lengthy feud with Samoa Joe in about six weeks. Bringing back Vince Russo the same week they signed Kurt Angle was going to ensure that Angle "did jack shit to help pop business in any meaningful long term way", because Russo's bad booking was inevitably going to kill all the momentum he had coming in.

Kurt Angle won the PS50. I know it's PowerSlam, but it just goes to show that many people are still heavily hitting the bong on him as a worker. That said, I don't have any problem with Angle now being in the HOF, because enough people believed he was the best worker in the world and one of the best for long enough that I can at least understand why he got in. Edge is harder to justify, as though he was praised as being very good in some circles, he never had Kurt's rep.

Edge carried the Smackdown territory for a couple of years.

I suspect that we'd find, if we knew who voted for whom, that the difference between Ultimo being several votes short of the HOF to getting in, would be his peers in WCW who rated him highly as a worker, but weren't experts on the Japanese scene.

It's worth adding that in the days before SS Bret was on Off The Record speaking very frankly and openly about his dissatisfaction at the current direction of WWF programming, and acknowledging the rumours that he might jump ship to WCW. I think "everyone knew anyway" would be an exaggeration, but the hardcore, online fans knew something was up.