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Edge always seemed like a guy who could have great feuds with anyone except the Matt Hardy angle when that spat happened. I loved all the matches these two had but after he whole Lita/Edge thing when they battled on Raw something just wasent there. Yeah, that Kane feud was freaking great, eh? I can't even think of one great Edge feud, let alone all of his feuds being great. But how many great Kane feuds have there been? The Edge series provided some memorable out of the ring moments in the build: which is the most you can ask for from a Kane feud.

I wrote a lengthy post here ages ago of why I think TNA's Feast or Fired in one of the dumbest ideas in wrestling history.

Time flies. What are our thoughts on the concept? What are it's strengths / weaknesses? Fond memories and missed chances? For me, having two briefcases was as redundant as having two belts. Especially when it was a reductive holder, such as Damien Sandow. The concept has also been used as a cheap heat vehicle too often in my opinion. Cena cashing in on Cena was fine as it set a tone, but the scenario was repeated far too many times. Looking back to RVD winning: it was a breathe of fresh air for the booking: Rob used the opportunity to put the odds in his favour: getting a world title shot at an ECW event in home territory. I'd like to see more stuff like this go down. Rusev winning for instance and booking himself in a Russian show, Daniel Bryan requesting a submission match, etc. What say you?

Sounds about right in this world.

I swear Rock called him Big Daddy Bitch in the ring once right? Or am I imagining that one?

Pretty sure he said on Jericho's podcast he was handed the name and was all, WTF?

Just listened to it. I hope somebody works out the ratio of dialogue on this one, has to be 90% in HHH's favour. I'm all for the subject speaking a lot more than the interviewer but I came away wanting my Austin fix. The way Austin was going through his notes, you can believe A LOT of stuff was left out because HHH was droning on. Pretty boring interview IMO.

In HD to boot

Tremendous Jerry

People put forth the "Sabu should be a millionaire" thing all the time and I'm not doubting his influence to 90's wrestling and everything that spawned off that, but the fact is that the man had terrible business sense.

Such as?

5 pages in and no love for the Hogan vs Great Muta match in 1993? Certainly one of my favourites from bell to bell in terms of action. Sadly, it's been pigeon holed a lot as "just" the match where Hulkster hits an enzuigiri.

That was 2000.

Do you think that's the only time they were in the same building or something? Some of your posts leave me scratching my head mate.

Andre was cutting promos on TV for an appearance in the 1991 Rumble but he didn't appear due to his health. Such a shame he didn't make it to that match, if for nothing else, I think there would have been a strong chance of Andre / Undertaker locking up. It's an image I've spoken about in the past, but for histories sake I would have LOVED to have seen committed to film even just once. Hell, the day a photo of them in the same room rocks up (I have to believe somebody has one somewhere) that is getting blown up and mounted on my living room wall.

Sometimes it's hard to explain why you like something. It would be like me trying to explain why Phil Collins' "One More Night" is one of my favorite songs in contrast to millions of others. Perhaps it conjures memories, a couple of words hit true, a few cords pull heart muscles. It's all so samey to everything else and as I wrote earlier, at the end of the day it's subjective. 26 for me felt like an epilogue of the 25 one. The 25 one I rate highly as I remember watching it at the time on the edge of my seat. When Taker twatted his head I honestly thought they'd be going home straight afterwards. If memory serves, a big move was hit very shortly after which I naturally thought would be it. I'm not a fan of the repeated kick out culture of big moves, but in this context of thinking the match would end quickly I found it gripping. Then the match kept going and going... fluid, intense... to me it was brilliant. Haven't watched 26 since it happened whereas I've had repeated viewings of 25. I'll have to get round to watching it again soon.

Xbox One, lovely interface, easy to use, responds to voice commands via Kinnect (Pause and play are the only ones I use). It does crash however every so often, say once every few hours. But thankfully now they have the auto resume feature added (finally!), it's not the end of the world.

Yeah Dunn was on Tough Enough Season 1. I remember him talking badly about John Morrison / Nitro.

Bret Hart vs Owen hart at Wrestlemania 10 Bret Hart vs Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 13. Undertaker vs Mankind at KOTR 98. Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania 21 Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker at Wrestlemania 25 It's all subjective of course. If I wanted to make arguments why the above matches weren't good, I could. But these 5 matches to me are brilliant each for different reasons. Hart / Austin at WM13 may be my favourite ever WWE match.

Studd won because he was making a return and they wanted to run with him as the resident giant and give him a push.

Please don't upset me...

I'd love to know what it's from. It almost has a deposition feel to it, but going by the location he seems to be in I doubt it.

God knows, but I doubt this. A feud with Randy would have been huge for Shawn in 1993. Imagine Michaels vs Savage at Mania that year instead of Tatanka.

The big difference between WWE and McDonalds is that McDonald's doesn't come out and intentionally shit all over their entire menu nor will they let a product flounder (no pun intended) around on the menu if it isn't selling well (McDLT, McLean, McPizza just to name a few). They certainly don't have the best food in the world (all the sugar in their buns for example nevermind their cheese...) but they're going to pimp it and pimp it hard to get feet in the door/drive-thru. You also better bet that their CEO and horde of executives will eat their own dog food too (not all the time, mind you, but when pushed they will).

I try not to get negative about Raw. It's like moaning that my McDonald's isn't nutritional: I know what I'm getting and I certainly have the option not to tune in. But that ending was awful. The evil authority figure ad nausea continues to be my biggest hate about the WWE. And we have a storyline development (the multiple firings) which won't last more than two episodes. Poor form all round for an episode I was looking forward to.