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I think it was just a case of bad timing as Candice seemed to miss her cue and that left Ashley and Mickie literally hung out to dry.

Meltz News that might be tangentally related: Leading the lambs to slaughter? I can imagine Vince or Johnny handling this with their usual smoothness, delivering a big "Yay WrestleMania" peptalk then firing half the people in the room.

Meltz said it best when the Heart Throbs were released that people who saw them in OVW were shaking their heads in disbelief and people who only saw their WWE work had the complete opposite reaction. WWE's attitude toward tag teams is complete bullshit. The Tolands (Dicks) and the Heart Throbs were over in OVW, only to get shit on in WWE. Cade and Murdoch got an inital push, but then it became clear they were being used to make fun of AMW and they were broken up and turned into Heat jobbers. Meanwhile the tag team titles on RAW (the ones with the history) are held by two singles wrestlers who have been booked as unbeatable and as such never defend the belts.

WWE had tons of chances to make guys like Jericho, RVD, and Booker the next generation of stars but they didn't and it was almost always because a certain someone would run to Vince and say the person in question couldn't work.

I'd say "win in the second to last one". I mean, look at HHH's WM losses: One was against the one guy who has as much pull with Vince as he does (Taker), one was to establish the guy he groomed as the next big superstar (Batista), and the other was to set up the WM Moment of Eddy and Benoit in the ring together as champions. This WM match coming up seems to have a more HHH vs Jericho vibe, as I don't see him going into the match as the challenger and losing.

No one's mentioned the best part, when they come back and the stage manager or whoever that was is explaining that Belz got hurt. Hogan does an admirable job of explaining that it was a good example of why you shouldn't try wrestling moves at home, only to have Mr. T cut him off and go on a ramble about how wrestling is real and Belzer found that out just like the guy from 20/20 (I'm sure Vince loved that).

I don't see HHH losing a title match at Mania, no matter how much the company wants to push Cena.

They don't have the backing of the main wrestling company. It's like Canton claiming to be the football HOF if the NFL had its own in-house Hall.

The WWF HOF is as close to a real HOF wrestling will have (don't get me started about the WON HOF, it's no better than WWE's since Dave's got his MMA boner). Besides, the only thing people bitch about is them putting Pete Rose in the "Celebrity Wing", which was just a PR move anyway. The rest of the people in there deserve it for the most part. Hell, it's pretty much the only time WWE will pay any attention to its past anyway.

Dusty's not going to be the top guy inducted no matter what year he goes in. Most current fans don't know him and most of the ones that do only know him as the polka dot wearing son-of-a-plummer with Sapphire.

With Bret and Eddie already in, and Dusty probably next since he has a DVD coming out, who do you think will fill out the Class of 2006? Assuming a class size of 7, my picks: Bret Eddie Dusty Ricky Steamboat The Freebirds (with Ray Gordy doing the induction honors) Mr. Fuji (they always pick someone completely random) William Perry (he was in the Battle Royal at WM 2 in Chicago, and it would have someone other than Pete Rose in the "Celebrity Wing")

Yeah, Rude knocked him out (or at least knocked him silly).

Mickie James did a rana on Ashley to elimate her from the battle royale, and Candice Michelle was supposed to push them both out. She was a little late and Mickie had to hold Ashley longer than expected which resulted in an awkward looking bump to the floor for both of them.

To be fair, I think everyone wanted to smack Warrior around. Hell, Rick Rude actually did.

Wrestling companies always seem to get caught in that web, fans want to see the guy they don't like lose the belt, and when he does, the heat goes away since they wanted to see the ex champ lose more than they wanted to see the guy who won with the belt. 9 times out of 10 the promotion ends up putting the belt back on the guy the people wanted to see lose, since then there was at least some heat.

Well lemme tell ya something Mean Gene, everyone's gunnin' for the Hulkster and he just does what he has to do to keep the WWF championship. If he has to fly 500,000 miles across the ocean and get rough with that nasty Fujinami dude, then that's what he's gonna do. He'll take that big nasty Fujinami and choke him out with the Pythons, then he'll take all his little Hulksters on his back and fly them back home again because THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES~! *rips off shirt, poses and snorts*

I just loved how just when the crowd was hottest for RVD, KICK WHAM PEDIGREE!

If it's RAW only, I'd say Carlito, RVD, Shelton, Masters, someone completely random like maybe Matt Striker, and Kane (he was in the last one for no reason, why not this one too?).

Carlito reminded me of Piper, talking while beating up that jobber. He's really been improving and I think while the company's got hard-ons for Cena and Orton, Carlito's going to end up being the star. At least the Spirit Squad are starting to show their talent, and the trampoline adds all sorts of possibilities. I'm glad they're using real first names for Johnny (Jeter), Nicky (Nemeth), and Kenny (Doane) so I know when my OVW heroes are in the match.

Guess we know who's getting cut next.

http://www.youtube.com/?v=wjIImt1YAOA Pratfall gone wrong, or Hulk not realizing it doesn't take much pressure to choke out a 150 pound comedian? You Make The Call!

I'm such a mark, every time a Russian wins a gold medal and they play their national anthem, all I can hear is Nikolai singing. I half expect after the song to hear the Sheik over the PA "RUSHA NUMBAH ONE! EE-RAN NUMBAH ONE! USA, *PTUI*!"

This is going to be the most un-ECW ECW show ever. Anyone who's identified with ECW is either dead, under contract to TNA, burned thier bridge, or is too broke down to work. What's the main event going to be, Sabu vs Terry Funk in a first-man-standing match?

BTW, Marty's arrest info can be found here. Looks like he's been tagged as a three time DUI offender and was on probation when he got caught up in a domestic dispute and was sent to jail. He's on probation till 6/28/2007.

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