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Looking at the buyrates, doesn't seem like anything is drawing other than the Big 4 PPVs which are pretty much on name value. JBL really stepped it up during his title reign, his promos are top notch and he's turned into quite the capable brawler. His match with Eddie at Judgement Day has become a modern-day classic in terms of brawls.

Bossman was way better than he gets credit for, especially after he dropped a lot of weight. Alas, he was a big guy and conventional wisdom says Big Guys Can't Work so pointing out someone like Bossman would probably get you laughed at in most places.

Condsidering the state of tag team wrestling these days, MNM might just be the closest thing we get to Tully and Arn for a long time.

How have they attempted to ruin Smackdown? I know they moved it to Friday nights but that's there prerogative. That it is, but I know I'm not the only one who gave up on the show completely at least in part because of the change. Letting rumors leak out about you maybe not wanting Smackdown was pretty bad. But I can't blame them with how the WWF has thrown Smackdown under a train compared to Raw. 1. Switching Cena for Batista when Cena was catching fire with the fans. 2. Moving most of the quality in ring workers to Raw at the expense of Smackdown for most of the time they've both been in existance. 3. Promising that Smackdown! would be the cleaner and less controversial show to advertisers, and going back on that promise. 4. Building the show around the Rock, then not having the Rock. And everytime someone was given a choice of where to go (Austin, Batista initially) they always chose Raw. 5. Making sure the women that could wrestle were on Raw, and Smackdown would get the second rate chicks. 6. Having JBL as their fucking World Champ for damn near a year. 7. Continuing to unabashedly treat Raw as the flagship show and making sure Raw had the major events. Example: Eddie's memorial show being on Raw, in spite of Eddie being a Smackdown! wrestler. 8. Always giving Smackdown! short shift on joint pay-per-views (their World Title matches always appearing in a worse position on the cards, etc.) I agree with most of your points, except for the needless JBL bashing. He proved himself to be a worthy champ, certainly better than the guy who beat him (Cena). The Eddie thing's not fair either, he died on a Sunday and it's not WWE's fault that Raw comes on before Smackdown. There were SD guys on the Raw show, so it's not like they were completely shut out or as if they didn't have their own tribute show the same week.

I remember that Vince wouldn't let PWI photographers ringside at WWF events. Their pics for Hogan-Warrior were all wide angle shots because their guy literally had to buy a ticket to WM to even get in the building. I find it hilarious that all these years later, WWF Magazine got turned into RAW Magazine and is pretty much a waste of paper these days and PWI is still plugging along.

copycat!

I wonder if Inoki's going senile or is he just like Jon Lovitz's habitual liar character from 80s SNL. His tall tales are starting to get hilarious.

I know, Vince still has sex with Linda, who'da thunk it?

Saw this on DVDVR and had to share it, some of these are hilarious: I don't know what's worse, HHH mad that WWE.com reported on HHH Jr or that the Kimmel show was disappointed that a wrestling fan wasn't a drooling retard.

Breaking news today, the WB and UPN are merging to make a new network called CW. This makes the future of Smackdown even less clear now.

I took that to mean $3.2 million was what he was making in the WWF, which would still be bullshit, but considering merch sales and WM payoffs it's more believable bullshit. I have to say I've never felt dirtier than after watching the Jake DVD. I wanted to take a bath in clorox after hearing about his family life.

Let me correct myself by saying I've never seen a good Sheik singles match. His tag work was pretty decent mainly because Volkoff was better than anyone ever gave him credit before.

Sarge is probably the only guy to get a watchable match out of the Iron Sheik, at least the only one I've ever seen.

Also, anyone else get creeped out by seeing Vince try to convince Shawn to go back to partying and pill popping?

Apparently Johnny Jeter was one of the Spirit Squad tonight. As someone familar with his awesome heel work in OVW, seeing him as an indistinguishable part of a lame ass group like this makes me very sad indeed. They just took the best young talent in OVW and cut them all off at the kneecaps.

I finished watching the Jake DVD, and I love how after going into (sometimes horrifying) detail about his childhood and his subsesquent abuse problems, they then do a 180 and bash "Beyond the Mat" for, and I couldn't believe they said it, a one sided view of Jake's life. Christ, they spend pretty much the entire program saying the same thing Beyond the Mat does yet they still have to bash it because Vince doesn't like it. Also, according to Jake, he was tricked into participating in it by Terry Funk (who doesn't exactly come off all that good in the film either). It's also interesting to hear Vince say that Jake was one of those people who was good at hiding it when he was drunk or on drugs. That Heroes of Wrestling disaster would suggest otherwise, but I guess that's what happens when Vince gets to tell history.

Man, 10 minutes into watching the Jake Roberts DVD and I was ready to stick my head in the oven. I completely understand his drug problems now.

Ditto. As stated elsewhere, I've been sucked in by the Boogeyman. The worms can be a bit much but for some reason him bashing the big ass clock on his head cracks me up everytime.

An underdog babyface beating the seemingly insurmountable odds is what wrestling is all about.

I might lose my smark cred but I dig the Boogeyman. He's really ran with the gimmick and seems to enjoy it. He's gone from ridiculous to entertaining just from the effort he puts into it. He reminds me of Sid in the sense that he knows he sucks, but he's going to go ahead anyway and give it his best.

After watching a match like this, it's sad that people still think Rey isn't big enough to be on top. Here he is, working with a guy who has a "strongest man in the world" gimmick, and the crowd *TOTALLY* buys him as a threat. Shockingly good match. Your statement is correct if by "people" you mean "Vince McMahon". I don't think anyone ever made the argument that Rey wouldn't make a deserving champ, just that the man who makes the calls doesn't think so and as such it'll never happen.

Alvarez is the Ed McMahon of the Internet community to Meltz's Johnny Carson.

I don't know if it's laziness or if it's the ego of being a big shot on the net. I see a lot of people who get well known start to develop the "I don't have to defend my position because I have a column/newsletter/etc" attitude. I keep reading what Loss posted and I swear if it wasn't Alvarez himself I'd think it was someone trolling the board by being obtuse on purpose.

Your description of Rave could also fit almost everyone who's got a big push in wrestling.