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If anyone has any brains left in WWE, they'd put him on SmackDown. They badly need someone like Brock to show they aren't a B level show. If they put him on RAW, they might as well cancel SD now.

I looked like they were trying to do a Nailz-like gimmick with Nathan Jones before he exposed himself as completely inept.

I have like 9 CDs of individual matches in mpg or avi format, and one of them is the Backlund-Inoki match where Inoki wins the WWF title. It's an interesting match, you'd think their styles might not mesh well but it was pretty decent.

Based on HBK's promo, they seem to have decided to cheer him.

True, but at the same time it was a refreshing return to the old HBK which was a breath of fresh air over the boring face HBK.

Waylon Mercy would have worked then too, had Spivey's knees not exploded. I agree, it would be huge if done the same way now. You could make the point that Chris Masters is proving the Narcissist gimmick wasn't too bad as well.

Undertaker - I always felt Taker gets a raw deal from the smart crowd because he spent the prime of his career matched off with some of the worst workers in pro wrestling history. Frankly, it's a testament to his ability that he was able to become a huge star when he was feuding with guys like Mable, Yoko, and Giant Gonzalez. Arn Anderson - Probably the best tag team worker ever, he was able to work well with an amazing variety of partners. I don't think I've ever seen a bad Arn Anderson match, and that's not something you can say about a lot of people. Juventud Guerrera - It's almost enough to make you cry to think where he'd be if he didn't quit messing himself up with drugs. I hope he stays straight with this WWE gig he has now, he's got that silly-but-not-too-silly personality that's made for getting over WWE style gimmicks. Keiji Muto- The Steve Austin of Japan in the sense that he had two distinctly separate careers: A high-workrate early half, and the more brawling second half. Like Austin, the brawling second half seemed to be his biggest success period.

"Whaddya gonna do, fire me?" - that was classic.

How funny/sad is it when HBK can do a better shoot-style promo than people in a storyline based on real-life events. Not to mention the face pops he was getting for saying what most smarks think about Hogan. Heel HBK > Jeebus Lovin' Babyface HBK any day of the week. I even marked for him bringing back the "lays down for no one" catchphrase. The only thing that could top this is if Hogan comes out next week and cuts a promo mentioning all the times HBK lost his smile and had to give up a title. If both guys are willing to play ball, they could out-shoot the real life storyline.

Yeah but to my knowledge Rick Rude didn't go around telling everyone in earshot how much he disliked the McMahons.

All of a sudden Batista's the shits now because he had a crappy match against a crappy opponent. HHH = teh genius

What I want to know is how does this crap get on PPV?

Didn't he sign a deal with WWE in order to be on the ECW PPV?

I heard that not only was there an extra feature of people goofing, but pretty much everyone interviewed for the main feature saying how dumb the Warrior was. I tend to believe it since Warrior had the nerve to actually demand Vince honor the contracts he signed, then actually changed his name to Warrior so Vince couldn't keep him from using the name. We all know how forgiving Vince is towards people who got one over on him, and Warrior's steadfastly refused to return to WWE to kiss McAss so I wouldn't be surprised to see the DVD be a burial job.

It's amazing to watch when you consider the time. When you hear Gordon Solie sound like a clueless WWE pretty boy announcer because a guy's doing moves *he's* never seen before, you know that's someone special.

Bubba Ray Dudley is one of the most underrated bumpers, IMO. The way he takes bumps flat backed with his arms out makes every move sound devestating.

You'd think an outing like you describe would get someone more work, but knowing WCW they probably didn't appricate someone showing effort in a prelim match.

Steve Keirn was in WCW in 1994? My brain swiss-cheeses a lot of mid 90s wrestling but I don't have any recall of that at all. Was he mainly on the B shows?

They don't want JBL to job outright because Vince is a mark for the character. They're basically taking the risk of damaging Batista as a main eventer just so Vince can plug his alter ego back in the title picture whenever he wants.

I'd really be disappointed if the Warrior DVD was nothing but people goofing. Yeah he's a nutball but at one point the company thought enough of him to put him over Hogan (when that still meant something big) and make him their champion.

According to people posting on SK's blog, the Warrior DVD is basically a giant goof with everyone saying how much of an idiot the Warrior was and a whole feature of people making fun of his mannerisims.

The only way I'd consider this as offensive as the original segment is because they brought back the "terrorists". Otherwise it's still not even the same ballpark. It's not even the first time they've done that this year, remember when they did the spot where Big Show threw Angle off whatever backstage and he had blood splattered around his head? They can't even kill a character off creatively anymore.

Jeez.... a 2 minute cruiser match, Benoit jobs, your hot new tag team jobs to a midcarder and a fat old guy, Christian jobs again, the "terrorists" come back, and the main event ends in a non-finish. It looks like WWE worked long and hard to ensure no matter what kind of wrestling you like, you'd hate this PPV.

When they moved from USA to TNN, wasn't there a fuss made about how TNN was seen in fewer homes? If this is still the case, then WWE in theory should get higher ratings if more people can see them. I would think we'll probably see more DVD releases using the footage they own, since it usually makes money and it justifies the money spent on obtaining the footage in the first place.