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The same thing could be said (and has been said) of HHH, Shawn, Taker, even Big Show. Someone needs to take the Carters aside and explain to them that TNA can be a moneymaker at some point but not if it's the Jeff Jarrett Show.

It's called building to a PPV. Everything's so on-demand these days people want instant satisfaction and quick payoffs for everything, and that goes against the business model proven to be the best money producer for pro wrestling. I doubt the bulk of today's fans could sit through an entire episode of Prime Time Wrestling or Saturday Night, my god...2 hours of jobber matches! The horror!

What amuses me is one of the chief complaints about WWE used to be that it's hard for new guys to establish themselves now that they don't have squash matches anymore. TNA does that and people complain about *that* too. Everyone knows WWE and especially WCW gave away too many money matches on free TV, and now they want TNA to do it too.

Had to post this tidbit from the SD spoilers here: Gyminizers! Get it? They're twins, so Gemini>Gyminize! Brillant, that WWE is.

I know Dixie trusts Jeff's business expertise and all, but how much longer can the Carters ignore the crowd shitting all over everything JJ does? It's starting to get to WWE levels of ignoring the crowd.

Steamboat's been kicking the idea around for a while. He wants to do it, but he doesn't want the fans' lasting memory of him to be a broken down old man.

I don't know why they would do a 15 minute Sportz Entertainment segment when they've been promoting themselves as the wrestling alternative. Not to mention JJ already did the busload of Stings bit when they feuded in WCW.

I doubt WWE even knew she had her own ABC show, all they wanted was a big black woman to give Shelton his whuppin's and wave her aren't-they-hilarious fake nails around. I doubt they even checked her resume, probably just looked at her and said "you'll do".

Seems like Vince does, and that's all that matters in WWE-ville.

I get what he's saying too, but "we can't make it easier on these guys cause we had it hard" is the cause for many of the ills wrestling faces.

So New Japan is turning away paying customers so they can give more tickets away? Do they not want to make money anymore? WWE doesn't even try to hold that suspension of disbelief. What next, will John Witherspoon show up next as Shelton's grizzled dad who clears out the locker room when he takes a shit? The part about not complaining about the schedule pisses me off, as it's a symbol of all that's wrong with wrestling. I don't know if Regal was playing the role of sockpuppet for Vince or if he really feels that way since he's a legit badass, but when most people you work with are on painkillers to some extent or another it's moronic to say people shouldn't ask for a reduced schedule. That sound you heard was the rest of Heyman's hair falling out.

People seem to think if you point out someone is undersized then you must be implying they need to use steroids. HBK's probably not the best example since he most likely can't add weight because of his back injuries, but it does come close to exposing the buisness when a balding 40 year old with a chicken chest can go toe to toe with someone like Kane and only lose because of outside interference.

Flair's book has an ironic twist now, considering the last couple chapters are love notes to his now bitter ex-wife.

You kidding? Steph will be telling the writers to come up with more suicide angles and stereotypical gimmicks while little Vincent Hunter Paul Shane James Kennedy (KENNEDY~!) McMahon-Levesque is pushing his way out from betwixt her labia.

I guess it's time to add Joe to the list of people who are hated in proportion to how successful TNA gets....

For as much of a rep PWI got for being a mark mag, it's funny to look back and see how "smarkish" some of it really was. The heel columns in particular could be written by any of today's IWC.

Called "Good bye WWF as we know" , it's a salute to the pre-WWE era. Watching this made me play a little game called "count the markouts".

That's not exactly what I just read, Sek. That guy was already concussed before the APW trainers decided to put him in the ring with Singh. The kid couldn't protect himself because he was probably still woozy from the first concussion. Singh just happened to be the poor bastard in the ring that day.

Actually I think Singh gets a bad rap for that, the guy got a concussion on a spinebuster and he didn't want to look like a pussy a few months into wrestling school and didn't let himself heal properly. I blame APW's policy of abusing the n00bs more than anything Singh did. It's not his fault they sent a kid with a few months experience in there to trade bumps with a giant.

How much you wanna bet his WWE push is going to focus on him killing that guy.

I'm surprised he hadn't signed him by now as well. Now the question remains, who's gonna get squashed by him first?

I've always been a fan of Dustin, but he's always been stuck fighting perceptions that may or may not have been at work. His first WCW run was good, but everyone just assumed he was being pushed because of his family name. Then his first Goldust run was overshadowed by the "is he gay or not" crap that had any other company but WWE handled it, could have been a breakthrough in wrestling. Then he was back to WCW with the abortion that was "Seven", until finally he went back to the WWF/E and got the props he deserved with the BookDust team.

I find it hard to watch old wrestling and not think of the current state of the guys involved. It makes watching matches like the 10 man from Canadian Stampede interesting to say the least.

There are people who don't think it was a burial, saying WWE main eventers are supposed to be able to go 20 minutes and it wasn't HHH's fault that Steiner couldn't hang. Of course that ignores the fact that Steiner was getting over, and people who start to get over shouldn't be put in a position to get exposed, especially when it's a face being exposed by a heel. That just goes against every booking rule there is. But then, the people who make that argument are usually the ones that have an excuse for every burial HHH has masterminded in the past 5 years or so.

Yeah, these videos run on Flash, so you gotta have the most recent version. I figured if it worked for me on my Win98se system it should work on everyone else's newfangled machines with their fancy new operating systems.