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I love how the underlying theme of tonight's Raw has been if you hate John Cena then you're in agreement with the most hated and annoying person in WWE (Cole).

I think this part gets undersold. How he went from the dipshit in the yellow WWF suits who yelled WHATTAMANUVER~! at everything (and always being made fun of by the heel color commentators) to being the ruthless asshole Mr. McMahon in the span of a few years is really spectacular. The best parallel would be if somehow in 2015 Michael Cole ends up being the most evil bastard in WWE history.

A lot of the mid to lower card guys get a fairly nice cut of the video game royalties (compared to their base salary) so if THQ goes tits up and leaves the WWE games up in the air, it would would suck for most of the roster. I know whenever they announce the roster every year there's always people pissed off at missing the cut since it's a nice chunk of change. So while Dave may have overplayed this as MAJOR NOOZ, it can have a ripple effect to WWE.

If it's MMA related and not about Brock, it will just end up something most wrestling fans don't care about unless it's something out of left field like announcing Vince bought every MMA group other than UFC and will run against them.

Isn't it Davey Richards' gimmick to be the super serious whiteboy who thinks he's the ace in mid 90s All Japan? Part of what's made the angle with Steen great is how he's got under everyone's skin and made Davey flip out.

Isn't it Davey Richards' gimmick to be the super serious whiteboy who thinks he's the ace in mid 90s All Japan? Part of what's made the angle with Steen great is how he's got under everyone's skin and made Davey flip out.

Isn't it Davey Richards' gimmick to be the super serious whiteboy who thinks he's the ace in mid 90s All Japan? Part of what's made the angle with Steen great is how he's got under everyone's skin and made Davey flip out.

Isn't it Davey Richards' gimmick to be the super serious whiteboy who thinks he's the ace in mid 90s All Japan? Part of what's made the angle with Steen great is how he's got under everyone's skin and made Davey flip out.

I would think Sr's money was what Jr used to finance Wrestlemania I. I don't think he'd have the money to bring in the top level celebrities they had with the money he was making on his own projects.

Not that I think they're going to be anywhere near competing with WWE anytime soon, but the post Russo era TNA has been slowly improving week to week. The wrestling has been pretty solid, and the angles/out of the ring stuff has reached the point where it's no longer cringe worthy in every segment. I know that sounds like damning with faint praise, but considering WWE has been fairly blah the last few weeks, Impact has been arguably the best wrestling show of the week lately.

Karate Fighter Graham always made me sad since he looked like the wrestling version of a superstar in sports who was at or near the top, but has obviously stayed a few years too long and is embarrassing his legacy. Which made it all the more amazing he would be back in the WWF not too too much later cutting awesome promos in the desert again.

It is, International Wrestling Cartel, based out of southwest PA. Also known as home to the Super Indy tournament. IWC was also the name of AAA's top title before they created their own.

Yeah, Dave often pulls out numbers with Rain Man-eqsue speed while any time Bryan is faced with anything more complex with 2+2 he ends up sputtering DON'T MAKE ME DO MATH!

Sting is pretty much the wrestling version of Dale Murphy. Dale was a great baseball player for the Atlanta Braves during one of the shittiest periods of their history, winning multiple MVP awards, but has not made it into the baseball HOF and has become their "almost, but not quite" guy. It's not completely out of line to suggest he would have been in a long time ago had he not played all but the last three years of a near 20 year career on a team that was primarily bottom dwellers-middle of the pack at best. Since the Braves started their run of division titles almost immediately after he retired, he's mostly known as the one bright spot in an era largely mired in forgettable shit. Sting being best known as the face of WCW during their lean times is a similar situation. I think in a way he does sort of get it held against him, in the "captain goes down with the ship" manner. Of course he wasn't the sole reason business wasn't exactly booming for them, but for better or worse he's the face people associate with it.

I think the actual topic isn't the actual brouhaha, but how the face of a major sports enterprise is devoting large chunks of time to try to start a slappy fight with a reporter no one outside of the MMA/pro wres bubble would even know let alone care about.

1. Dana's spent the last few weeks trying to bait Dave into a flamewar and seems frustrated he isn't taking the bait. 2. Is there anything worse than the self appointed arbiter of what can and can't be discussed on message boards?

Watched the UFC PPV at work today, and seeing how much Joe Rogan with a shaved head looked like a Gillberg version of Dana was one of those "can't stop noticing once you notice it" deals for me.

I don't see why Dana's so concerned, Bellator seems like it will just be the TNA to UFC's WWE (in terms of audience, not necessarily product quality).

I think it matters as long as Vince has final say in WWE. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming into agreeing to put the belt on Rey, and when he did it was with all the enthusiasm of a six year old eating brussels sprouts.

Not where I get them anyway..... But I think so, yes. Maybe I'm mistaken. Only WM is higher priced.

Is this how they're writing him off while he does the summer tour with Fozzy?

They fired him instantly, but since they didn't notify TNA for weeks I'd think that opens up the argument they could have been using that time to capitalize on what they were told. Not to say that they definitely did, but it at least creates the appearance that shenanigans could have happened. Also consider based on how the last few weeks of TNA have been laid out, it looks like Alex Shelley would have given TNA his notice not too long after Sabin returned to form the MCMGs again. Could TNA make the case they knew his deal was ending and gave him an offer he couldn't refuse? Perhaps. I stated on another board, this probably fucks over anyone in TNA hoping to jump ship for the near future.

Was Cornette a Dave source when he was with the WWF? Surely Heyman was talking to him when he was writing Smackdown I would guess. As far as non-famous writers, you're probably right just because most current writers would be afraid to talk to DA SHEETZ.

I thought how it went was that it was originally going to be Sheamus, then shit happened where everyone they were going to program with got hurt, so they were going to go with Jericho to pay off his silent gimmick when he first came back. It seemed that's where they were going when Jericho did the promo where he said something to the effect that the world was ending at the Rumble, which makes no sense if he wasn't (at that point at least) being booked to win.

That's something which doesn't get talked about nearly enough, mostly because it's pretty hard to determine who came up with what ideas. Can anyone look at any WWE match and definitively be able to tell which agent laid it out? Or which of the much-derided anonymous Hollywood writers scripted any particular promo? That kind of backstage knowledge is rarely explained even by the dirtsheets. And I think our ignorance of how it works makes smarks reluctant to discuss it or acknowledge just how incredibly damned important it is. I don't know who does each match, but one of the more noticeable things has been how different matches are laid out since Patterson retired. He gets credit for being great, but its even more telling that since he left you really only see that kind of THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MATCH kind of layout when it involves long term guys like HHH/HBK/Taker who are largely left to handle their own stuff. You can say all you want about the writers and booking, but WWE seemingly not being able to hire anyone who can lay things out worth a damn since Pat left has been their biggest shortcoming.