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He does look more like Dick Murdoch, but somehow I doubt he's as good a worker as Captain Redneck was.

WWE seems to be trying to package them like Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch, with a Deliverance twist. We all know Cade, who's Murdoch? Anyone want to wager what direction they'll go with this?

That's kind of like saying the Beatles shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame because Ringo and George piggybacked in on John and Paul's shoulders. If a tag team can draw huge, I don't see why they should be cordoned off into their own HOF because the whole sometimes (usually) is greater than the sum of its parts.

Was Dana White all over the show? Meltz was saying he's in danger of becoming another Vince, putting himself all over his company's TV programming.

I know it wasn't an exact comparison, but ECW fans were the only thing I could think of that was in the same ballpark as the TNA crowd at that PPV. I loved the dueling chants during Daniels-Aries too, that's the kind of shit that made me a fan in the first place. Remember when the fans at the old Techwood studios Saturday Night shows used to come up with chants for the jobbers? "Come on *jobber's name* you can do it, put a little OOMPH into it!" That shit used to crack me up back in the day.

I watched the show last night and what I enjoyed the most was how the crowd was into every match. I marked out for the "This is Awesome" chants during Joe-Styles, I mean when do you hear a WWE crowd get that into the show? If it's not HBK in Montreal, you don't. It reminded me so much of the early ECW crowds that really appriciated good work.

The logo stays, but when someone says "WWF" the F gets muted out.

Just a few months ago, people were praising Big Dave's pimp suits. Did the IWC pull a Strike Force turn on him too? Im not really sweating the IWC. Whats with your Strike Force reference? It's my way of referring to the IWC habit of jumping off someone's bandwagon once they start getting over with a wider audience. The Strike Force reference is in regards to Rick Martel famously walking out on Tito Santana mid-match, beginning his awesomely underrated heel run. It's become my favorite analogy to bandwagon jumpers since Martel turned just as the team was at its most popular point.

Who exactly are these Meltzer stooges who cast the votes?

Well there you go then. Any alleged HOF that hinges on the opinion of one person has zero credibility no matter what.

So its entirely up to Meltz who gets into the HOF? I'm just trying to get my head around HHH getting in the Hall if Meltz is the doorkeeper. He slags on the guy just as much as any other IWC reporter.

Don't the readers vote on the Observer HOF?

Just a few months ago, people were praising Big Dave's pimp suits. Did the IWC pull a Strike Force turn on him too?

I'll have to doublecheck which set it is, but I know it was footage of those MSG matches. I thought it was the 80s set, but I'll make sure if yours isn't blurred.

I don't think they were fired for steroids, as much as Davey was just asked to lay low until the trial was over and Warrior was just completely out of his mind at that point. As an aside, it's hilarious to read Warrior's take on his WWF career. Like almost every wrestler, he was completely innocent and everything that happened was someone else's fault. Not that it's out of the question to suggest Vince would try to screw one of his employees, but the stories of Warrior's behavior are legendary.

I'd wager I'm probably in the minority on most of these: I don't mind the LOD 2005 angle. They just didn't throw Heidenreich in there as the new Hawk and expect people to buy it. They showed him reluctant to take on any of the LOD gimmick until Animal assured him it was okay. I thought it was uncharacterisically classy on WWE's part to acknowledge no one will replace Hawk and made it so it was Animal giving his blessing as the surviving member to have Heidenreich don the LOD gear. I dig the Undertaker-Orton feud. Orton's that cocky bastard you just want to see get his ass kicked, and Taker's still capable of putting on a respectable performance. Ever since his MMA phase, Taker's really done a good job expanding past the standard Hoss Moveset, and he probably has the best looking punches in the business. I've said it before, but he's spent so much time feuding with some of the most useless wrestlers in history people tend to really sleep on his ability when he's paired with someone who's not a complete waste.

I noticed on the 80s DVD that those old MSG matches would have "World Wrestling Federation" in the chyron for champions and it got blurred out like a logo in a rap video. What confused me is I'm almost 100% sure they've let that go unblurred before since during the block logo era they always had that blue WWF banner with "World Wrestling Federation" hanging from the rafters.

I've been noticing that on newer WWE DVD releases, they're not only blurring the WWF scratch logo (which everyone knows is a no-no now) but in footage of 80s stuff where they identify the champion with "World Wrestling Federation (Whatever) Champion", the World Wrestling Federation part is blurred. They're even blanking out the "F" when someone says "WWF" as well. I thought Vince was allowed to use WWF for all the pre-scratch logo stuff. Did the panda people bust his balls again?

The Observer HOF will continue to be meaningless until the Rock N' Rolls are in. Any Hall of Fame that refuses to induct the team that redefined tag team wrestling with a formula still used by pretty much every promotion to this day is nothing more than a joke.

Apparently you can't get "Captain Charisma" shirts at WWE live events or from ShopZone, and he's pretty disgruntled that a projected main event push got scuttled. Since he's been on SmackDown, he's been squished by Batista twice and punked by the Mexicools last night. I wonder whose Wheaties he peed in.