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Fucking A, Bad News Brown Vs. Adrian Adonis is going to be REALLY hard for me...and that's just to get them IN to the tournament.

Ah, I see where you're coming from now. The single's wrestlers could give the rub, so to speak, to the new tag team champions. See, I don't know, I still think that the single's wrestlers would have to get wins over other tag teams to get "built up" so that they had a rub to give. Even if they have tons of accolades from single's wrestling, it shouldn't matter in the tag team scene.

Like that? It'll take more labor, and time, to get the results in but then you don't have anyone voting more than once or any of the other crap that can happen with polls.

Who's to say that people are going to be available to vote for every round though? Who's to say that we won't get more interested parties? That's not fair either. Not fair to the posters. We don't want to be waiting for round three to finish for three weeks because Sek's laptop broke down. I don't think it should be done via polls.

I actually don't understand why people have to vote ahead of time to tell you that they're going to vote. So, if someone registers on Saturday they can't vote? If someone is on vacation and don't get back until late Friday night, they can't vote? It's silly. Just take votes each round and end on an even number so there's not ties.

I like to think that in the future WWE will focus more on in-ring work, like Ring of Honor, as opposed to storylines and "larger than life" appeal. I've never thought that size or age mattered in wrestling. If you can go, you can go. That's really all there is to it. If a wrestler can wrestle great but can't talk, get him a mouthpiece like in the 80's. A return of male managers wouldn't be a bad thing. I voted "no." I don't think it will always matter. In fact, I think we'll start seeing a change in the near future. Possibly in the next five years. Call me optimistic.

I agree. If it's just going to come down to Bret Hart, Chris Benoit, Eddy Guerrero & Kurt Angle, what's the point? It's taking FOREVER to get this ball rolling. Can we at least get some teaser qualifying brackets posted or something?

I don't know. I disagree with that. Having two single's wrestlers slapped together has always pissed me off. Especially when they suddenly win in tag team matches. I don't care if it's two main eventers against a lower midcard tag team. The tag team should ALWAYS win. The experience should be built up and what not. Austin & The Rock shouldn't be able to defeat The Dudley Boyz for example. I don't care if Austin has former tag experience or whatnot. He doesn't have the cohesiveness with the Rock. The Dudleyz have a lot of team experience. They know each other well. They know tag team wrestling well. They should be able to cut the ring in half and tag advantage of non-tag wrestlers. Same with Benoit & Jericho. They shouldn't be able to beat La R?sistance, The Dudleyz or MNM.

It's been apparent for a long time that the bigger you are, the better shot you have of getting onto WWE TV. Just look at Chris Masters as an example. He's not ready to wrestle at all yet he gets Raw time. We've also seen Chris Benoit & Eddy Guerrero win the World Titles recently. They were depushed afterwards but they still reached the top. A couple of years ago, nobody would've seen that coming. With some of the best indy talent in the US today being under 250lbs and 6' tall, one has to wonder: Will size always matter in WWE? If size matters so much to Vince, why isn't The Big Show currently in the middle of a five year world title reign? Why do the cruiserweights ever win matches or get TV time?

No clue. That's the problem. I like Heyman on color and I like Josh on play-by-play. Actually, Josh isn't even good, I just like him more than Ross and Cole. Coach is coming into his own as well. So, either Coach or Heyman on color and preferably a new play-by-play man. Then you have to worry about Smackdown too.

I don't know what WWE is planning to do with tag team wrestling, even with the draft on the horizon. If they put all the teams on one show, they'd have a passable division. Who do you put the gold on though? MNM? The Dudleyz? La R?sistance?

I actually like the idea of Ross/Tazz & Josh/Heyman. Coach/Lawler on Heat though? They're both color, it wouldn't work. When the new USA deal comes up, since Velocity is going bye-bye, one would think that WWE would want to utilize Heat again. Then again, they don't really utilize Raw & Smackdown, so maybe not. I would actually prefer if Ross and Lawler were both gone from commentary. I don't care if someone could make Ross better or not, he's played out to me.

They paid WARRIOR $3mil just for what he did in WCW? *shoots himself*

All over it.

Then they enter the loser's bracket and have to wait for the two loser's in the second round to play. Then they play the winner of those two losers. A Vs. B C Vs. D E Vs. F G Vs. H Let's say A, C, E & G win. B, D, F, H lose. A would play C & E would play G. B would play D and F would play H. A and E win. So, C & G enter the loser's bracket. C would play the winner of B & D while the loser of B & D would be eliminated. G would play the winner of F & H. Like that. Where you get eliminated does matter.

Yes. You have to lose twice to get knocked out. So, if you lose in the first round, you'll have to wait until the end of the first round and then go again against someone else that also lost in the first round. If you lose again, you're eliminated. I think that's what you were asking.

In this day and age, how much does the commentary even matter? WCW had bad commentary, especially when Stevie Ray and Ed Ferrera were doing it. Ring of Honor has always had bad commentary. The commentary in XPW was the shits. So, how much does it even matter anymore? Obviously Jerry "The King" Lawler doesn't bring a lot to the table. He just acts like a horny old man and switches between heel and face at the drop of a hat. The only thing consistant about him is his friendship with Jim Ross. His jokes are well beyond stale. Jim Ross just isn't himself anymore. He's obviously a shell of his former self and I believe that he should've been replaced a long time ago. He can hardly talk and all of his catchphrases, if you can call them that, are played out. He seems to have only two moods these days: apathetic & super hard sell mode. When commentary is good it helps add to the product and sell matches. When commentary is bad people seem to be apathetic towards it. The commentary in WWE, at least on the Raw side, has been bad for a long time. So, do you guys think it's time for a change? If so, who could get the job done? Do you still think that Ross & Lawler can add something to the product?

Right on. The real question is, how will you seed the selected sixty-four? At random?

I like Steamboat. Obviously that was just an extreme example.

Seems good to me. All the names that I care about are on there. The others weren't WWF, like Nikita.

Can't we just pick whom we prefer in any given match-up? What if I want to pick Tugboat over Ricky Steamboat?

I vote for zero pinned threads, for what it's worth.

That's fantastic news for WWE and not so great news for fans.

I think you're preaching to the wrong man. I don't get offended by any of that. I live in Indiana. I get your point though. I got your point a long time ago. It's like you're trying to convert me or something. They could gang-rape an eight year old black virgin all the while calling her a nigger and riding carpets and I wouldn't blink.