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I think the Eddie story is probably true. By all accounts the match was disappointing and you have to think Benoit wanted to go all out for the ECW crowd, if nothing else for the storyline. Eddy sure seemed to be sandbagging, and I'm sure Benoit was all "WTF, negro?" afterward.

It would appear that JBL has the Douchebag of the Year Award on lockdown already....

When you think about it, the Stone Cold character really was born in ECW, so it really wasn't too much of a stretch for me. At least they didn't have a guy with no ECW connection at all in that role.

So is WWE going to revive ECW or was this still just a one shot?

It could be like Collateral, someone trashes his limo and a dead body falls out of the trunk...

What the hell could Meanie have possibly done to JBL to warrant a shitkicking years after his WWF run?

Wow, JBL's an unprofessional shit, what a shocker. RVD got put in the doghouse for accidental potatoes, and JBL rapes people in and out of the ring and gets a main event push.

Reading the results it seems halfway through they realized it was an ECW show so maybe they should book it like an ECW show. Sounds like the last half of the show was everything you could possibly ask for.

Sounds like the crowd is pretty anti-WWE, Meltz is calling it "violent heat" when the WWE gusy came out and got a "Fuck You Smackdown" chant. I'm thinking they SERIOUSLY underestimated ECW's staying power as the fans seem to be pretty vocal against any WWE involvment.

I wonder if the anti WWE signs were handed out at the door... I really wanted to get behind this PPV, but they couldn't let it be just an ECW show, they had to make it WWE vs ECW and we all know that they never want to show WWE as weak. It's like a HHH match stretched over a whole PPV: just when you let yourself get a little excited that the right person will go over, you get Pedigree'd into reality.

I don't remember the exact quote, but Cornette commandeered the play by play as usual during a MX squash on Saturday Night back when they were taping at the old Techwood Drive studios. Bobby Eaton went to the top rope to do a move and reached up and grabbed hold of one of one of the rafters to balance himself, and without even missing a beat, Cornette went into a rant-within-his-usual-rant on how he asked TBS to raise the roof of the studio for MX matches.

You gotta think HHH is chomping at the bit to squash Cena, especially after the pop he got for his first RAW appearance. Besides, they've spent years establishing RAW is HHH. I don't think he wants to change shows.

Apparently WWE is trying to stack Smackdown in order to make it attractive for another network, but can it be saved? USA isn't likely to devote another night to wrestling, and Smackdown is hamstrung by the fact that it's on UPN and even the highest rated show on UPN has extremely shitty ratings. It seems like half the midwest US doesn't even have a UPN affiliate, or if they do, it's a small no-power station you gotta live next to the tower to pick up. I'm thinking that moving Cena and the WWE title to Raw and delaying the decision on a Smackdown champion is somewhat of a safety valve. I think if they can't get a network by the end of the summer, they're gonna pull the plug and have some sort of title-vs-title blowoff.

Well apparently Teddy Long is supposed to make a decision about the title in the coming weeks. I don't know if that means the HHH Memorial Hunk of Gold is moving to SD or if they're going to vacate the WWE title and have a tournament.

Cause you know that a lot of mysterious white dust went into booking the thing....

Is the Yokozuna match the casket match with Marty flying to heaven?

Seems like you guys might be right, since the first Smackdown draft pick was.......... OMG SPOILARZ~! ......................... Chris(t) Benoit

So does John Cena getting drafted to RAW (and presumably the WWE championship moving over as well) combined with the switch from Viacom to USA mean that Smackdown's all but dead and the split is over?

I wonder why do most DVDs include people's WWF/E debut matches (which were usually jobber matches) yet they don't include Taker's debut at Survivor Series '90 which was one of the best debuts they ever pulled off.

My girlfriend has a poster of The Rock in her bedroom, so yeah. She also used to be big on HBK back in the day. Not so much the current balding version though. Edge used to be one of her favorites too, until he stopped washing his hair on a regular basis and started with the mop-head look. She doesn't watch wrestling much anymore, but she caught RAW recently and thought Randy Orton looked like a dork, so she still has a good eye for talent.

If he ever ties or passes Flair's record, I'd wager WWE would start with the "best ever" BS. I still say HHH isn't a bad wrestler. I've seen him have pretty good matches with people of various skill levels, it's just a matter of HHH wanting to work that leaves the impression of him being poor. Even before getting with Steph, a lot of the smark crowd was down on HHH for not always giving his best effort.

One usually follows the other, people with failing businesses don't tend to do well personally in the finance department.

I'm sure Vince will come in his pants the first time he sees Singh too. How sad is this, one of the all-time greats having money issues despite a brillant 30+ year career. HHH allegedly worships the guy so why doesn't he help a brother out?

HHH tends to half-ass it if he knows he isn't going over or he isn't wrestling one of his buddies, which creates the opinon he isn't a good wrestler.

I think HHH can still bring it in the ring, but he's way too overexposed. It seems like every RAW starts with a 20 minute HHH promo and ends with HHH in the main event, and in the middle everyone talks about what HHH is doing or what his plan will be. The casual fans are bored shitless with HHH, and WWE is going to embarrassing lengths to hide it. Why should they be emotionally invested in anyone on RAW since the moment they become popular, they're immediately booked to face (and get dominated by) HHH for no other reason than to prove he's the dominant alpha male. Look at Hurricane, Rock gave him a rub and despite the fact that no one expected Helms to main event because of it, to this day when HHH wants to make the point that he's angry we get him beating up on Hurricane. RVD caught on with the crowd, and BAMMO he's booked to be clearly inferior to HHH. What really becomes annoying, is when the heat starts to rise on him, he'll do some safe jobs he can point to later, "see, I'm a company man, I laid down for X". Of course whoever he jobs to usually ends up returning the favor in triplicate. It becomes a self-fulfilling circle jerk of a prophecy. HHH can honestly say no one else on RAW can carry the ball, but the main reason he's seen as the only real main eventer is because he's booked himself to thoroughly dominate everyone he faces. HHH-Batista III is a prime example. Kayfabe-wise there's no way HHH deserves a title shot. He lost twice already, yet he gets to make the demand to the champion that not only does he get another match, he gets to name the stip too. Way to completely remove your champion's balls. Batista should have just told H to go fuck himself and make him earn a title shot like anyone else. Instead, we get the big, bad Animal allowing his enemy to set the terms for his title defenses.