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I have to say, with the exception of Wrestlemania, TNA PPVs usually smoke WWE PPVs in terms of match quality. WWE PPVs usually have a ton of matches that are criminally short or just brutally bad, with one or two matches really going balls-out that end up saving the show. TNA PPVs tend to have maybe 2 or 3 matches that are short and/or bad and the rest tend to be at least decent if not very good. Better wrestling? Considering WWE's "main event style" has become another way of saying "boring kicky-punchy fest" I'd say TNA has the edge here. They don't handcuff their guys like WWE does. Maybe you can make the argument that they should, but at least they let their guys do their thing and not work the same vanilla style. I don't think anyone would argue that TNA's young talent is better than WWE's. TNA might not use everyone on the roster correctly 100% of the time, but I don't think we'll be seeing them cutting the young talent off at the knees with dead end gimmicks either. Obviously WWE does the presentation aspect of wrestling better than anyone in the US, arguably the world too. It's going to be a while before any US promotion can touch WWE's production values, but I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest that TNA (and ROH for that matter) have much better wrestling on their shows than WWE does. When Impact started on Spike, everyone was crowing about how it would be lucky to do what the WWE C shows were getting in that slot, and how TNA was doomed, and yet they've managed to stay at around a 1.0 rating (unless there's a UFC PPV) for a while now. I often wonder if part of the reason people started calling TNA a wannabe WCW is because they miss having a second promotion to bash on and predict the demise of.

I was extremely disappointed (but not surprised) that almost all of the stuff listed for the 80s, 90s, and 00s has already been released on DVD and most matches have been on multiple sets.

Jerry Lawler is pretty much the best US Southern Style worker ever. If you've only seen him in the WWF or his stuff with AWA/World Class you're really not seeing the real Lawler.

I'm watching Kurt Angle win his gold medal (with a broken freakin' neck!), and pro wrestling has tainted me to the point where the crowd is chanting "USA" but I was hearing it as "You Tapped Out".

Univision is the #1 spanish language channel in the US. It's been around since 1961 in one form or another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univision

Is this supposed to be based on in ring ability or all around worker ability? Cause whenever people on the net make lists of the greatest, they tend to shape the guidelines to make it so people they might not like (HHH, Dusty, Hogan) don't place well when they're the most influential guys in US wrestling of the last 25 years and should be in the top 5 of any "greatest" list that takes into account things that matter most in wrestling: drawing money and putting asses in seats.

More Orton News: So basically Orton would have been fired, but they don't want him showing up on TNA so they're pretty much going to have him suspended for the rest of his contract. This REALLY needs to be the first challenge to the whole "independent contractor" thing. If Orton really is this much of a fuckup, WWE needs to fire him and take the risk of him showing up elsewhere. Keeping them from being able to ply their trade seems to be a violation of some labor laws.

This can only mean one thing: the return of Super Astros!

Sounds interesting, but would he actually have the cash to make such a deal? It would be interesting to see what would happen, considering their main competitor is Telemundo which is owned by NBC.

It made sense for HBK to do it in his match, since part of the angle was Vince trying to get him to go back to his old ways, but I guess HHH was just having an ego moment.

Gunner Scott, which is Brent Albright's new WWE name, is also the name of a transgender activist. Har har, that wacky WWE.

Rewatching WM 22, it's amazing how much of what was pushed the most got rejected by the crowd. Beyond Cena, Rey and Trish also got turned on pretty harshly as well. Is WWE thinking about reuniting DX or what? Seemed odd that HBK and Triple H would both bust out the crotch chop on the same show (Wrestlemania no less), unless it was just them being cutesy to the smart...err "traditonal wrestling fans" again.

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Which is why I said the Cena hate is getting out of control.

I've not read that story...what's supposed to have happened? From what I've heard though Cena is always a great public entity and a real gentleman when he's out and about, really carries the company well and shows them in a good light at every occasion. The internet hate for Cena is out of control though, he's really not half as bad as anyone makes out, in fact, he's better than most of the nobody's that they juice up over. The WWE's handling of the whole thing I still find strange, but I'm sure they have some clue as to what direction they're going with him in the end. Allegedly Cena had a blowup at O'Hare airport, and it involved him dropping some F bombs that would have got a person arrested had not the WWE smoothed it out. Some people are now demanding Cena get the same punishment as Orton despite him not having the reputation for being a douche that Orton has.

He looks pretty much the same as he does in the pic in the Stuff article only with blonde hair, no beard, and lame tribal tattoo.

WWE will be my favorite promotion ever if Trish keeps wearing thongs as part of her Mickie James outfit.

He's like the bad guy rich kid from an 80s teen movie.

The Cena hate on the net is getting out of control. The story about him blowing up in the airport started on cut and paste sites (I haven't seen it mentioned on the Observer site yet) and everyone's already decided it's 100% true and Cena needs punished like Orton was.

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.