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Sabin and Jay Lethal are the confirmed members of Team USA so far.

Wetting it down makes your hair look even thinner. Besides, I don't think anyone would hold it against him if he looked at bit thin on top at 57.

Why has Ric Flair's hair been wet for like the last 5 years? I'd understand it if it was only like that when he wrestled, but it's like the man constantly goes around looking like he just walked out of the shower and put a suit on without bothering to towel off. It makes him look even older than he already is.

The latest entrant in the WWE HOF.....Verne Gagne? OK, so Wrestlemania's in Chicago which was a big AWA town, but I never expected to see Vince ever acknowledge Verne having any role in the business other than being the guy who didn't see the potential in Hulk Hogan.

It's funny to see the evolution of acceptable wrestling. A few years ago, submission wrestling was widely bashed as being boring and high flying was where it's at. Now it's cool to bash high flyers as "spot monkeys" and people seemingly want every match to look like a MMA contest.

They don't have it on the largest cable company in the US (Comcast) at all.

I just wish JR would stay behind the scenes. I know he's been a loyal employee and he used to be the best announcer of the professional wrestling, but once he started confusing the Dudleys it was time to step away from the mic. He's one of the best at getting an angle over, but he was quickly becoming horrible at getting individual workers over. Remember the wacky hilarity when Edge, Jericho, and Christian would all be in a match and JR was calling everyone by the wrong names? I have my footage of Mid South/UWF/NWA if I want to hear JR when he was at the top of his game. When a wrestler who's obviously past his prime still tries to make a go of it, people call him on it, why should an announcer be any different?

It's funny WWE 24/7 is considered a disappointment when it doesn't seem to be available to anyone on a major cable system. I know I'd get it if it was offered, and it's not.

It's probably hard to argue when Vince asks you to get implants, considering Steph has them and all...

I'm kinda surprised they released a DVD of him to be honest, since Dusty's the antithesis of everything WWE wants their workers to be. They wany everyone to have the same look with the toned bodies and get themselves over using the same cookie cutter promos everyone else uses. Dusty wouldn't even get a tryout in Deep South if he broke into the business today.

Bringing up Taker-HBK kinda proved Coffey's point though. The match was booked as Shawn running for his life and trying to escape the Terminator-like Taker who would destroy him if he could get his hands on him. The whole match was just HBK bumping like a superball until Kane showed up. Shawn only won because Taker got laid out by a guy who was the same size (or bigger, we weren't sure yet) as him. He did what the little guy couldn't do. That also sums up WWF/E booking nicely, which is why I think Rey wouldn't be booked right if he ever ended up the champ.

The mid 90s provided a simple way to distinguish between the two types: Fans chanting "ECW" at an actual ECW show: Fans who bought a ticket and are using the opportunity to show how hyped they are about seeing their favorite promotion. Fans chanting "ECW" at a WWF show that happened to take place in Philly: Douchebags who are trying to get themselves over despite the fact they paid money to see the promotion they love to bash.

Konnan probably wasn't the best person to make the point, but it was still a valid point that the "smartest" fan sometimes is the most disrespectful to the business. I know, the old "you buy a ticket, you can boo who you want" argument. That's true, but I've always said just because you have the right to be an asshole, that doesn't mean no one else has the right to point it out. I hate when fans do chants like "You Fucked Up" as if the guy who just blew a spot and landed balls-first on the ropes needed reminded of that fact. To me, one of the best moments in wrestling was when Hogan got the standing ovation on the RAW after WM 18. Yeah, you can be cynical and say he was milking it, but everyone in that arena was giving props to the man who they grew up watching. They weren't just cheering him for the night before, they were saying thanks for the last 20 years that made the business what it is now. I'm not even a Hogan fan, and I appricated that.

Wow, I thought that wound was going to heal. I just don't have any faith that WWE would push Rey the way he'd need to be pushed as champ to make it work. I also don't see the guys who'd need to make it work be willing to do what it takes to put over a smaller guy like Rey in a way that didn't make them look stronger.

The Boogeyman is probably the greatest thing WWE has done in YEARS. I'm for real on this. They took a guy who can't work for shit and gave him a gimmick that got over like rover because he kept showing up out of nowhere during other people's backstage skits doing random weird shit. Say what you will about Boogey, but there's no one else like him on the roster and you remember his shit after the show's over. They took something that by all rights should have been straight up Wrestlecrap and managed to go past that and actually got him over. Unique look, catchphrase, memorable gimmick. That's all it takes to get over. "I'M THE BOOGEYMAN....AND I'M COMING TA GET YA!" *breaks clock over head* If you don't mark for that just a little bit, you're truly dead inside. *does the Boogeyman spasm dance*

The death of male managers in WWE is another reason Heenan gave for WWE not being able to get people over. Their job would be to help guys who couldn't talk get over. I'd wager that if Brock didn't have Lesnar, he would have been another WWE musclehead that didn't get over. By the time Heyman left, he was already established enough that it didn't hurt him.

Bobby Heenan made an excellent, excellent point in one of his shoots that should be carved in stone and dropped on Vince's head. He was asked about how WWE scripts everyone's promos now, and Heenan said it's the reason no one can get over now, no one can stand out. Using his time as an example, he said that someone like Jake Roberts couldn't do the promos Heenan did, and he couldn't do the promos Jake did. If they were in the WWE now, they'd have the same guys writing both their promos and it wouldn't work. Promos get people over, and if you don't let giys use their own voice to get themselves over, it's all going to sound the same to the audience. No one in the post attitude era really got over, and a lot of it is due to everyone cutting promos in the same vanilla cookie-cutter style.

Speaking of wrestlers and fast food ads, what the hell prompted Hogan to do that Arby's commercial? Seeing them basically make fun of him for using roids boggled my mind considering heels in the 80s weren't even allowed to point out his rapidly receeding hairline. Certainly he can't be that hard up for money can he?

Except for those commercials they ran on USA when WWE switched over with HHH looking menacing into the camera, and those little blurbs at the bottom of the screen USA runs during their other shows (read: Law and Order reruns) that feature HHH running the ropes. I'm pretty sure he was on the cover of TV Guide during Wrestlemania before too. So even if you just watch USA for Monk, you've probably seen Mr. Levesque looking all scary faced on your TV.

Not surprising since he's been all over every show since 2000, save the times he was out with the quad injury or making a movie.

Thanks Vince, for continuing to make being a fan of pro wrestling something we all have to constantly defend/apologize for.

So basically, 90s AJPW head-droppy moves

Are they playing in Alabama? Cause that's where Foley was last night.

I love listening to Bobby Heenan do shoot interviews, he makes everything sound so simple when it comes to getting over in wrestling. The fact that Vince could have him on the payroll helping the young guys and doesn't pretty much proves he doesn't care much about wrestling these days.