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I want to believe the guy fired because of the Visine bottle was Sid. It just seems like something he'd do. As far as Gino goes, a lot of people who knew him seem to believe that he pissed someone off and that someone was probably mob-connected and Gino ended up in deep shit. The amount of cocaine found in his system would suggest that someone unfamiliar with drugs wanted to make it look like an OD.

I know people probably hold back because of what happened, but Brody was really quite the douche to almost every US promoter. He would win titles then vacate them due to some injury that he always seemed to come down with when he was leaving the territory and was asked to job to someone. Was Brody even enough of a draw to justify him behaving the way he did?

It seems like the US is the last place keeping to the "everyone cheer the faces and boo the heels" booking mentality. I know there was phases like the nWo and Austin where it was cool to cheer someone acting the heel, but when those characters ran their course it went back to "cheer this guy, and boo that guy". Forcing the fans to cheer or boo the way you want them to when they're trying to tell you otherwise just seems like stupid business. The mindset that WWE is stuck in that you have to be a face to sell merch is mind boggling as well. I don't think I've ever seen any wrestling shirt get worn more than the nWo one, and they were heels for most of that time when everyone in the mall was sporting the black n' white. I guess what my point was is not to abandon the face vs heel dynamic in pro wrestling, but to stop trying to herd the fans into what the company decided is the correct reaction to give someone. If a face is getting boos, don't have your announcers make the people booing feel like they're doing something wrong. Play into it like how they keep teasing with Cena. Wrestling is like any other business, you need to adapt or you'll end up in the dust like Verne Gagne.

Carlito is hardly a n00b either, since he was wrestling with his dad in Puerto Rico for years before coming to WWE.

WWE 24/7 is running a "Women of WWE" special this month, and on it is the Wendi Richter vs Spider Lady (Moolah) screwjob. That's one of the "holy grails" I've been looking for, and if someone with 24/7 could cap it I'd be eternally grateful. If you'd be willing, lemme know.

I was watching the Angle/Orton/Rey WM match and I noticed how many boos Rey was getting. Every time he had an advantage on either guy, a big portion of the crowd would boo. Even Orton got some cheers (the RKO did at least). I think the WWE is seeing a shift in its audience, and it's just not with John Cena. The fans are starting to resist more when it comes to cheering and booing who the company wants them to, and like Loss said, this could be the beginning of a fairly large shift in how wrestling is operated if fans just stopped reacting the way the company wants. Loss mentioned how the WWE would be smart to notice how the fans are reacting and start adopting a "cheer or boo who you want" mindset rather than the face vs heel we're used to. I think we may be heading that way no matter if Vince likes it or not.

Everyone needs to go to www.rohvideos.com and download video #3 and see another AWESOME Cornette promo.

High school, since he was like 14 or 15 when Davey died.

It's not really that interesting of a story, he was annoying the piss out of people backstage and they don't want to have him following everyone around begging to come out of the closest on an episode of Impact. He's acting like this "first openly gay wrestler" idea is a gold mine and can't figure out why TNA or Spike wouldn't want the chants that you know wrestling fans would come up with at such a character.

From what I've seen in OVW he isn't *that* bad, he's the type of guy that back in the 80s would have been a perfect tag wrestler, but these days he might be hosed since WWE sees tag team wrestling as an annoyance.

Domino can't seem to figure out if he's doing a 50s gimmick or an Andrew Dice Clay gimmick.

Harry told a story in his shoot interview how he talked to Vince at his father's funeral and Vince told him then he had a job in the WWE whenever he wanted it. The only thing Vince wanted was that Harry complete his education first. He told Vince he wanted to get experience around the world before starting with WWE so he would be more well rounded, advice he said came from Chris Benoit.

Harry Smith and TJ Wilson were pretty kick ass as the Stampede Bulldogs. TJ, Nattie, Harry. I just have a soft spot for Nattie for 3 main reasons: 1. Her dad was one of my favorites when I was a kid. 2. According to that book on Stampede wrestling, she was the one who was taking care of Stu when he was on his deathbed. 3. How cool would it be to see a Dungeon trained female wrestler whomping some WWE Divas

Apparently this Guther/Gunner Scott guy is Brent Albright from OVW finally getting his callup. I don't know what the deal is with giving him such a stupid name, but the guy can go so if he's paired with Benoit only awesomeness can result. I'm guessing Orton was there since his match with Rey was hyped before whatever happened to get him suspended. I'm guessing he'll have some off camera altercation before next week to explain his 60 day vacation.

Orton was at the SD tapings and was announced as wrestling next week as well, so who knows.

TJ and Harry grew up together and he's dating Nattie.

Too bad Teddy's such a fuckup, I'd be digging a Hart Foundation 2.0 with Harry, Teddy, TJ and Nattie.

It's too soon for the Wellness Program to nab anyone yet, I'm thinking Orton's rumored douchebag behavior finally caught up to him.

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Yeah but when they took the handcuffs off Rocky, he ended up becoming one of their biggest stars and draws ever. You'd think they'd remember that now. Hell, Rock's said that part of the motivation behind the Rock character was him being legit pissed at the fans booing him as a face.

Someone over at DVDVR made a throwaway comment about the Akeem The African Dream gimmick being a rib on Dusty. Is that true? I remember being stunned even as a kid at the blatant racism of making a white guy a jive talking African, but looking back damned if he isn't doing a dead-on Dusty impression. Considering the whole "Virgil" thing, why did Dusty do a run with the WWF? That reminds me of another question, I happened to notice while watching the "DiBiase buys Sapphire" angle that Dusty suddenly dropped the polka dots and came to the ring with his old NWA tights with the "DR" script. Did they drop the polka dot gimmick when she left?

The opening segment of RAW was everything that's wrong with WWE booking. You have the supposed babyface champ getting booed again, so they tease the tweener route only to have him keep up the "I'm gonna be the good guy no matter what" routine. Then HHH and Edge come out and get into a promo battle while the WWE Champion of the World is off to the side with his dick in his hands. Not to mention Edge was allowed to get more shots on HHH in that one promo than Cena was during the whole build to WM. Why wasn't Cena the one pointing out HHH acts like he owns the place (which of course would make the smarts wet their pants) and be the one who calls him out on always asking and getting title matches? Then to top it all off, the Champ agrees to a 2 on 1 match. What is it about championship gold in WWE that makes people stupid? It made no sense for him to agree to the match other than it being required for HHH to lay him out at the end of the show. It's like they're making extra effort to make him look like a dumb ass as much as they can. Cena should be the guy with a huge chip on his shoulder sticking his belt in the faces of the haters, instead he's the goober burying himself in his own promos ("even I was surprised I won").

I'd say 25% might be right for the people who read WWE.com and maybe check out a few of the markish message boards. People who know HHH's real name but think that him and Steph are still divorced because that's what the storyline was. I'd stick at around 10% tops for the limousine-ridin', dirtsheet-buyin', Observer Live-listenin', tape-collectin' sonsaguns like us.

As a percentage of the WWE fanbase, you're looking at 10% tops.