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Both teams were broken up by politics as well, if the stories about the Blonds are true.

It only took 8 million to make. After DVD sales, they'll end up making a profit. Most movie experts only expected it to take in 3-4 million the first week so it already is a success by horror flick standards. As far as ECW on Sci-Fi goes, they've already veered pretty far from the science fiction stuff so ECW won't be completely out in left field.

I'd be willing to bet they only did so because Taker jobbed clean to Khali. This PPV is a prime example of why WWE, or any top level wrestling company, should never cater to what smart fans want. This show had everything the typical net fan demands in their professional wrestling (Benoit and Finlay in a 20 minute match, Taker jobbing clean, women having an actual match and not T&A garbage, a team of young flippy flop guys winning the tag titles) and it still got shat on.

Melina had some sort of tangle with Sharmell, and she had previously been full of herself backstage to the point where they did one of those "wrestler's courts" on her a while back.

Benoit and Finlay had what Meltz called "a freaking awesome 70s style match" as well. Apparently someone tied Vince up tonight and allowed all this awesomeness to happen.

Somewhat of an offshoot of this, it does appear Melina and Sharmell got into a scuffle for real and MNM was broken up at the PPV tonight because of it.

Tony Soprano's new baby niece (Janice and Bobby's daughter) is played by Tommy Dreamer and Beulah's twin daughters.

I think it was a combination of them wanting to go back to Japan, WWF not having anyone who could hang with them on their roster, and some of the guys feeling upstaged by Japanese chicks doing shit that wouldn't be commonplace in men's US wrestling for almost another decade.

It sounds ridiculous, but pretty much everyone in that Wargames besides Sting and JJ take indy bookings during the week and probably couldn't all be in one place at the same time prior to the show. Considering having 8 guys in a cage would take some planning to avoid it becoming a total clusterfuck, they had to do something to get some planning done. Personally, I'm waiting to see how the ROH-botz and TNA haters (they're usually the same people) reconcile Corny being the on-air authority figure in both promotions.

I've always thought Nash could (and should, considering how he's looked in the ring lately) be the Jesse Ventura of our time in terms of the "wrestler turned color commentator who's great on the mic". Having a wrestler on the announce team would give TNA's shows a boost in cred since the best announcers in wrestling have always been guys who were former performers like Jesse, Gorilla, and Bobby Heenan.

I like it just because it seems to be a natural heat seeker for the smarter TNA crowd. For all the (not entirely undeserved) heat Nash gets from net fans, the man's gold on the mic and as long as it doesn't lead to Big Kev squashing the entire X Division single handedly I'm looking forward to this.

After hearing it on the radio, I Googled the lyrics to "Obsession", most famous to most of us as the theme to Saturday Night's Main Event back in the 80s. Considering what we've heard about Vince McMahon since then, I can guess what made him like the song:

Short answer is Vince wants to give guys a WWE-owned gimmick they control the copyrights to. Longer, more hypothetical answer is that Vince seems to think any gimmick that a guy uses outside of the WWE is too bush league. Ironic considering the company line is that they'll listen to any input the worker has, yet the record seems to show they ignore that input and put the guy in a clown suit and demand he get over.

From WO.com I think I might need to change my pants.

I like how even in 2006 there's still "was it a work or not" debate about things. Michael Cole was put in charge of WWE.com mainly due to the previous guy in charge getting too shoot-style (ie: mentioning Steph and HHH's baby when they're divorced in storylines). This is 100% work gearing up for Big Dave's return.

Why would they do an angle involving Mick Foley and Tommy Dreamer in Anaheim? If they would have done it practically anywhere on the east coast it would have got a much bigger reaction instead of dying a slow death.

Saw this in today's WO update and it made me chuckle: I would pay twice the amount asked for this PPV if Dusty was doing commentary. "THEY BE CLUBBERIN' EACH OTHA FOR REALZ, TONAH!"

From the daily WO update: OVW had some of the most exciting TV of any wrestling promotion, and now I guess no one outside of Kentucky will see it. I wonder if WWE was getting tired of hearing complaints that they were messing up everyone that got the call from OVW.

I always heard that's why the storyline was ended.

The fact that all WWE could come up with for her is to call her fat makes me very sad.

Also, is it me or was Joey's new gimmick "cynical internet wrestling fan"? I swear it sounded like every jaded smark on every internet wrestling board. Did anyone else see those black dudes sitting behind the announce desk during the Lawler/Styles segment? Bruvva did the whole OH SNAP/ AW NAW HE DID-ENT routine when Styles slapped Jerry.

Half of the Rock?

That splash you heard was the internet having a collective orgasm over Joey's promo on RAW tonight.

Poor Trish, pops out her shoulder then Meltz calls her a dude. Wasn't her night, I guess.