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Oh, that too.

WWE makes no money from TV advertising, thus the ratings have no direct impact on their bottom line. Besides, ratings haven't gone down under Cena, anyway. They're in the same high 3s to low 4s range they were before he came to Raw. The house show numbers, as indicated by WWE's own figures, are up. I'd like an argument for how WWE could pop much higher PPV numbers at a consistent rate after increasing the price to $39.95 for shows that occur every three weeks.

I suspect that like Dave, you still have that intolerance. And like Dave, it wouldn't be hard to find. John I should've elaborated after the Dave quote. At least when I take shots at people, I don't do it in a smarmy, passive-aggressive manner. I'd have expected something like that from Frank, but not from you. From you, I expect better.

Jim Crockett Sr. & Rocca were running NY as opposition at the time, so I guess it came from the WCW buyout.

Liger and Ultimo doing what would become the INDY RESPECT sequence makes me hate the world.

When you grow up, you realize that intolerance of other people's divergent opinions, which was certainly a trait I had, is a bad vice.

I don't look for Ric to be "RIC", and don't hold his current work to that standard. I guess it depends on how one defines "very good". His ladder match with Edge got a lot of praise, including Ric's preformance in it. I pretty much laughed through the whole thing for how bad it was, and specifically how awful Ric was. Yeah...that's not the match I'm talking about.

But he *is* an old bastard who sucks. The thing is, he doesn't *suck*. He's not RIC FLAIR anymore, just Ric Flair, and that can cloud one's judgment. His last few high profile singles matches (vs Carlito, Edge, and Finlay) were all very good, and I don't think anyone would argue that Carlito carried their match.

Well, no.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rocky6.htm Production Budget: $24 million Worldwide: $155,595,239 It did make a good bit of money.

I'm not even sure what your point is. Flair was not going to be in the actual WM main event under this plan. It was going to be either #2 or #3 from the top at best (especially that given how the other plans are now, he probably would've ended up with the ECW title as opposed to the SD title). Wrestling is supposed to be ridiculous and the top star in what's basically the shoot version of pro wrestling is very old relative to the sport and his competition. Satanico was a draw at 53 with the right program. As much as you and Vince McMahon may want to think that Rocky Balboa is WWE's competition, it's not. UFC is. We get it. You think Flair's been an utter embarrassment for the last decade and a half.

Randy = Real Sports Rocky = Fake Sports Which is Flair? If a 44 year-old man can be the best heavyweight real fighter (and a big box office draw), why can't a 58 year-old man in the exaggerated world of fake fighting get a big retirement push?

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Randy Couture.

WWF @ Brantford, Ontario - June 1985 All-Star Wrestling taping: 6/15/85 - included B. Brian Blair as a guest of the Body Shop: Paul Orndorff pinned Mike Moore at 4:04 with the piledriver WWF Tag Team Champions the Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff (w/ Freddie Blassie) defeated SD Jones & Gary Starr at 2:17 when Starr submitted to Sheik's Camel Clutch Ricky Steamboat pinned AJ Petruzzi at 2:53 with the crossbody off the top Big John Studd (w/ Bobby Heenan) defeated Brain Mackney via submission with the backbreaker at 2:45 Edouard Carpentier pinned the Black Demon at 3:37 following several somersault splashes Brutus Beefcake (w/ Johnny V) pinned Jim Powers at 4:32 with a running kneelift

1987 (I think) in the WWF.

They pulled the chairshot article.

Geez, that makes Carpentier 58 when he had a cup of coffee with the WWF in '84 and was still doing all of his cool gymnastic spots.

Need company in the Louisville or SoCal area? (Link is surprisingly work-safe)

I have Somas I don't need that I'd gladly trade Hector for tapes of Eddy vs Negro Casas.

Fat burning.

I'm 99% sure it's not a Meltzer talking point, as I believe he's talked about Sayama learning stuff from Lizmark and how Sayama's style was a fusion of Lucha Libre, British chain wrestling, and kickboxing.

I know it's not true. That's my whole point. Was it in a PWI Almanac or something and that's what caused people to repeat it?

Hamada was working extensively in Mexico before Sayama's pro debut.

Geez, Jeff hit him with the "wrong" part of the chair.