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*Smackdown Spoilers* Teddy Long just announced The Big Show Vs. Cody Rhodes at Wrestlemania for the Intercontinental Title. I'm sure WWE is just pulling our leg still and they're just going to wait until the last week to announce Shaquille O'Neal.

I saw a TMZ video clip of the people from Legends House at a dance studio. I could make out Jimmy Hart, Roddy Piper & Jim Duggan. There's also a dude in the back that sort of looks like Jim Neidhart but he has a long ponytail so I don't think it's him. http://www.tmz.com/videos/0-1vh0tn0e/?adid=rr_raw_uncut

My big thing is 20-0 sounds like a big number to go out on. 21-0 or 22-0? I don't think it would end on a number not divisible by five, but maybe I'm just retarded.

Well, I mention the travel because the first thing I thought of was that if he loves it that much & can't walk away from it, maybe he could take a non-wrestling role, like a road agent. But then you still have to do all of the travel. I can't imagine after that many years driving, flying and crashing in hotels that you would still see the travel as a perk, ya know? But if he just does the Wrestlemania stuff each year, you're absolutely correct.

Ya know, loving the business is one thing, and wanting that rush from all the people going crazy when you come out is probably a big thing for a lot of guys too. But with The Undertaker, if he can't walk away from it all, then I have no faith for wrestlers at all. He's a multimillionaire, has a beautiful woman at home, has one of the most decorated professional wrestling careers ever, is a shoe-in for any and all wrestling Halls of Fame and has a son. I can understand not wanting to just sit at home and do nothing everyday, but not being able to give up the in-ring aspect or the travel seems ludicrous to me. Retiring 20-0 and never losing at Wrestlemania. As a performer, you're one of a kind and in a category that no one can touch. How is that not enough?

Well, I like the idea of the message but I don't like the means that it's being used. I'm not sure the guy running that Facebook page is too...what's the word I'm looking for? Knowledgeable. Or maybe she/he is a troll, I have no idea. Trying to name-drop Jimmy Snuka & Jerry Lawler as the two example wrestlers to counter misogyny, really? A shame because I really like Joey Ryan too and think he could be a star. I hope this doesn't get any legs using him as the example.

It's more that they're going out of their way to mention it when they don't really need to. So even though Shaq hasn't been mentioned on TV, and they're saying on WWE.com that he's not going to be there, and Shaq isn't talking about it anymore, and The Big Show is building up a feud with Cody Rhodes on TV, you think it's still going to involve Shaq and that WWE.com, for no reason, is just trying to work their fans?

If WWE were going to lie about a celebrity, wouldn't they lie about them being there, not not being there? They want all the publicity they can get. Shit, just look at the "former Divas" section where in the headline of Stacy Kiebler they don't even make it a full sentence before mentioning George Clooney.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/28/s...stlemania-plans

Not a match recommendation or anything, but with SMASH pro-wrestling closing, what are the odds that we'll see Tajiri on American TV again?

I'm getting ready to sit down & watch NJPW: The New Beginning (2/12/12) right now & I'm pretty damn excited, I won't lie. Lately, I have felt the "itch" so to speak, & I think the reason is because WWE has been so bad lately, that I feel like I have a professional wrestling void that I need to fill. So I have been seeking out other stuff again lately. Not just different promotions but different eras as well. I have a couple of buddies going along for the ride too, so that makes it a lot more fun. Watching wrestling on my computer is boring & kind of pathetic, really. But I don't feel so bad if I burn a show onto a DVD then have some friends come over & we all watch it together. Of course, we'll probably still order the Elimination Chamber and Wrestlemania from WWE because we're fucking marks.

This was a reply that I made, amongst friends, in reply to the Summerslam HBK Vs. Razor ladder match which was posted in the "Match-Of-The-Week" group that I'm apart of on Facebook. I just wanted to re-post it here so that I can save it for later: "The first thing that really grabs me about this match is that the midcard was fucking over. This is for the Intercontinental Title...but it was obvious that they were both going to keep climbing up the ladder of success. In that regard, the damn ladder is almost a metaphor. I mean the actual ladder, in this match. You look at the "stars" of today, like look at the midcard. No one means shit! The Miz was the WWE Champion and in the main event of last years Wrestlemania going over the biggest babyface in the company to retain the title...and no one gave a fuck. He was still looked at like a jobber. Now he's floundering in the midcard next to the likes of people like Kofi Kingston and Sheamus. Who is going to be this generations Shawn and Razor? The midcarders that are sure fit potential future main-eventers and title holders? The only guys that I think even have the possibility of being stars are Sheamus, Barrett and Cody Rhodes...and Barrett isn't that good and Sheamus already was WWE champion and no one gave a shit. What does it say about WWE when their biggest flagship PPV of the year rolls around and they don't trust their roster to sell tickets? Instead, they bring back The Rock to slap in the main event. They bring back Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker & Triple H...and they build the entire show around all of the veterans. WWE doesn't even have faith in their guys, so why should we as fans care about any of them? When I was growing up, the damn midcard mattered...but it's not just nostalgia. It's respect, and a lot of other factors, like talent. When Piper, Duggan, Roberts, The Dragon, DiBiase Sr. or any of the old school guys come out, Slaughter, people remember them and pop for them. Yet when they try to bring back midcarders from the Attitude Era, no one even knows who the fuck they are. Trish Stratus didn't even get a pop. Brian Christopher was completely shit on (as he should have been). The future is going to be even worse. Can you imagine years down the road, if The Miz makes a surprise return/guest appearance? It'll be fuckin' crickets. But if HBK or Razor show up? Totally banana. If nothing else, it just pisses me off. There's no emotion, there's no passion. There's no one waiting in the weeds to take someones spot, or a rival promotion threatening to steal your talent. It's a bunch of complacent fucks that think they're over enough and just content getting paid and not getting hurt. Blame it on WWE going public, or TV-PG, or whatever you want, but it's fucking terrible. John, Chad & I talked about this a little last night because I can see it happening to Dolph Ziggler. Here's a guy that got a shot, albeit a bad one, as a nobody in the Spirit Squad. He obviously didn't stand out, but he played his role and did was he was told. Got some TV time, some experience and whatnot then was sent back to OVW to be repackaged. They call him back up and from the get-go he's fucked again with a terrible name and another terrible gimmick, where he just sits around backstage and shakes peoples hands while introducing himself. Despite the slop, he sticks with it, busts his ass and manages to get over and be a pretty damn good heel. He was the highlight of several shows even just last year, working double-duty sometimes, and always being a damn good bumper. Look at Dolph Ziggler today. Do you see what I see? I see a mother-fucker with all the potential in the world that has stopped trying as hard as he used to because he knows WWE isn't going to give him a fair and legitimate shot. He's not trying to change his game up, he's not trying to better his persona, or work on his promo skills, or try new shit. He's now Kofi Kingston. Kofi did the same thing. Remember the fuckin' pop Kofi got when they teased him being a top babyface against heel Randy Orton? When he took out Orton's car? Then WWE stopped trying with him and it just killed all of Kofi's motivation and momentum. Dolph Ziggler has now lost clean, four straight weeks in a row. Their idea of building him up for the Royal Rumble was to get cheap-ass, half-ass "victories" over C.M. Punk only for Punk to beat him about three different times in the one Rumble match. It completely killed Dolph and I don't think it's lost on Dolph or WWE. Now he just doesn't give a fuck. It's sad and WWE do it all the goddamn time. They didn't do that shit with Razor Ramon, or HBK or Bret Hart...and what happened? Bret & Shawn went on to be main eventers that were WWE champions and headlines Wrestlemanias, Razor went on to be one of the biggest things ever in WCW in the most recognizable faction of all-time sans the 4 Horsemen. It's not rocket science, people! Why does WWE shoot themselves in the foot and then wonder why they're limping? The midcard is bland because it's all overproduced with mediocre talent and everything feels fabricated. Nothing is natural. The matches are average, the promos are scripted, the stories are cheesy...nothing feels natural. It's fuckin' CORNY. I could rant about this shit all day because it really does piss me off. I've been watching WWE (then WWF) for literally over twenty years...and now this is what I'm "rewarded" with for being a lifelong fan? I go from Rick Rude and Mr. Perfect to The Miz and Santino. I go from Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior to John Cena and Randy Orton. It's a fucking joke. It's not about nostalgia, or rose-colored glasses. If that were true, why are they bringing back The Rock and putting him in the main event of Wrestlemania against the biggest babyface in the company and announcing it a year before it happens? It's because they know their roster is fucking terrible and they don't even have faith that within an ENTIRE YEAR that they could build someone up for Wrestlemania. So instead, they just said "fuck it" and brought back The Rock."

She would have to run out of scape goats eventually!

It's TNA in India. With some stars from India and people like Sonjay Dutt being over-pushed. That's it. Basically, iMPACT! in a different language.

I think the card is going to be solid. I just don't like how we're getting there. The Rock Vs. John Cena is going to be huge, for sure. The problem is that it has been announced for a year and the whole thing has been built over Twitter, video packages and pre-taped promos. The Undertaker Vs. Triple H is going to be, at the very least, watchable. However, it's the third time that we're going to have this as a Wrestlemania match (even if we're supposed to have forgotten that X-Seven ever happened). It's also a broken down, bald Undertaker now and a Triple H as an authority figure. Next week Shawn Michaels is going to show up and it's going to be a combined age of 134 years setting up what will take up probably 45-minutes to an hour of Wrestlemania. Which, all three are great entertainers, but WWE right now has a huge problem with established guys at the top and shit like this is just more counter-productivity. Meanwhile, all of the guys that they should start building up as a potential fresh body at the top of the card down the road, will most likely be slapped in a multi-man match where you only shine by doing a big, ridiculously unsafe bump. Many of which have been former World Champions themselves or previous Money in the Bank winners, whom should be "above" that match by now, but because of WWE writing and booking are still just floundering mid-carders with no credibility or star power. Like Jack Swagger or Alberto Del Rio or The Miz (who main evented Wrestlemania last year by the way) Chris Jericho Vs. C.M. Punk would have made a lot more sense had Jericho won the Royal Rumble. He could have won the Rumble, then said he was going after the RAW brand champion, then explained the whole "Best in the World" thing. Instead, he lost the Rumble, then gets to fight Punk anyway, leading into a pointless February PPV that shouldn't even exist. Jericho & Punk are both great talkers, but Jericho gets heat by coming back and not talking, then Punk gets under Jericho's skin by not talking. I understand what they're doing, but it just seems silly to not exploit the positives of people at all times. If you just look at the Wrestlemania card in a vacuum, as a DVD on a shelf, it will probably be really good. Once some time passes and we all forget about the build-up anyway, assuming the matches deliver (as they should) it will be an enjoyable evening. That being said, in real time, watching the shows on a week-to-week basis to get to that card? It's just...blah.

That was a pretty bad RAW. R-Truth could have seriously been fucked up there. Plus, I just read that Eve had her nose broken too. This Wrestlemania is shaping up to be one of the worst ever, in my opinion. The Rock Vs. John Cena to headline, a feud built around Twitter & The Rock not being there. Triple H. Vs. The Undertaker part III. Whatever the Hell they do with the Smackdown World Title. Then Punk Vs. Jericho in the battle of who can troll harder.

Hulk Hogan also has some of the best facial expressions that I have ever seen. To me, it was impossible to not get emotionally invested in a Hogan match, whether he was babyface or heel. He just had that way of drawing you in. His match with The Rock at Wrestlemania X-8 had me and my friends literally shouting at the television, repeatedly standing up and counting along with pinfalls...it was crazy. I felt like a little kid again. Hogan brings out my inner megamark.

He went from being the biggest babyface in the world to the biggest heel in the world. If that's not an accomplishment in pro-wrestling, I don't know what is.

I feel like the only wrestling fan on the internet that has no idea who Rob Naylor is. I looked it up & it makes sense because I never watched DGUSA but I didn't think DGUSA was that popular in the first place, so his popularity is surprising to me.

As a heterosexual male, it feels terribly wrong for Adrianna Lima to be #8 at...well, anything.

This is exactly what I feared.

I just don't really understand how Sheamus goes from squashing Jinder Mahal repeatedly, for about six weeks now, to just randomly winning the Royal Rumble and getting a title shot at Wrestlemania. The Big Show, Mark Henry & Daniel Bryan have all been messing around with the title lately and if there was someone else going to be added to the mix, I would have expected it to be Randy Orton, not Sheamus. But despite that, I think the RAW title situation would have been much better served to have been represented. I mean, at this point, it looks like C.M. Punk's biggest threat is...John Laurinaitis? I've heard the rumors of Jericho/Punk and that makes sense, so why not just go with that? It just feels like the shit was changed last second because "Oh, everyone knows Jericho is going to win, let's swerve them!" and now shit doesn't make sense again. What's so wrong with people knowing ahead of time what might happen if it makes sense? It's better than going for some shitty half-assed surprise and messing up your storylines.

I really liked the Royal Rumble overall but I honestly have no idea why Sheamus won. I mean, what the hell are they going to do with Sheamus? Especially since Daniel Bryan retained the title in the cage match. Are they just going to use Elimination Chamber to set-up the Smackdown title match for Wrestlemania? *sigh* I hope we don't get some bullshit 3-way.

All your posts on JBL make it sound like you just want to be contrary. You liked him when no one else did. Then hated him when everyone else liked him. That doesn't make you right. Indeed.

I watched some Tanahashi this year and he didn't really standout. Nothing out of the ordinary for him. I just think it's time they re-did the categories and what each one means/represents. I'll hammer the point home forever, but wrestler of the year factoring in drawing power in this day and age is fucking retarded. Then you have a bunch of people voting on technical wrestling and brawling and everyone has a different opinion of what each word even means. And I won't even get into the whole mixing MMA in with pro-wrestling can of worms. I thought it was pretty clear that the biggest standouts this year (voting year) were Mark Henry, C.M. Punk, Dolph Ziggler & Kevin Steen.