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Hahahaaha!!! Listen through to the end... we get Loss to see the light on how to turn Cena heel.

A lot of us are sad Dave doesn't cover more obscure wrestling and had a separate MMA newsletter but that topic has been beaten to death. Lets not go down that road again.

I love Cornette the performer (and even the SMW promoter) but he really isn't worth anything from a creative point of view. When he went back to OVW, he should have named it SMW Redux. Nothing felt fresh or new in the company. it all felt old and tired. It was fun but it wasn't original. He eneds to stick to telling old stories and collaborating on cool wrestling history books.

Forgive my ignorance... who is Jordan Breen?

I just don't think their current staff has any idea how to write something like that without it being totally over-the-top. In an idealistic world, I agree with FPT. In the real world that Vince McMahon lives in, it would be an embarrassment and give wrestling a worse black eye.

How should a Hispanic star be booked? Serious question because we discussed this very topic on a soon to be released podcast of Booking the WWE. I still want you to answer this question. Honestly I always think how Loss once talked about how refreshing it would be if a wrestler could be gay without it being part of his gimmick, and think that could apply to Black/Hispanic wrestlers. Why couldn't Alberto be pushed like any strong heel, just one who happened to be Mexican? No Speedy Gonzales style exaggerated accents, no one beating it down your throats that he's MEXICO'S GREATEST EXPORT, MAGGLE! It also doesn't help the writers seem to have no idea how to write for a Hispanic character despite them insisting that's the core of his gimmick. Agreed with everything up until that last sentence which you kind of forces me to ask the same question again. I'm not sure what you're expecting me to say. As far as I know, the only non white guy on the writing team is Dave Kapoor, My thing is if they insist on making his ethnicity part of his gimmick, the people writing for him should have some idea what would appeal to a Hispanic audience. Rey wasn't a megastar to the Hispanic audience because they pushed it down people's throats, it was because he was this cool little dude who did all kinds of crazy moves and found a way to beat guys twice his size. Yeah, he'd bust out Aztec themed gear for big events sometimes, but being Mexican was never the main focus. Same thing with Eddie, he got way more over when they dialed back the LATINO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT stuff and focused more on him being a great wrestler. Whenever he was doing the over the top stereotypical stuff he always did in in a winking fashion like he realized this was silly but at least he was in on the joke. Alberto as a babyface came off way too much as "this is what white people think latinos would cheer for" . tl;dr version: what fakeplastictrees said I was semi-trolling you. I just wanted your 1st response to end with the paragraph of your 2nd response and not the last sentence in the 1st statement.

How should a Hispanic star be booked? Serious question because we discussed this very topic on a soon to be released podcast of Booking the WWE. I still want you to answer this question. Honestly I always think how Loss once talked about how refreshing it would be if a wrestler could be gay without it being part of his gimmick, and think that could apply to Black/Hispanic wrestlers. Why couldn't Alberto be pushed like any strong heel, just one who happened to be Mexican? No Speedy Gonzales style exaggerated accents, no one beating it down your throats that he's MEXICO'S GREATEST EXPORT, MAGGLE! It also doesn't help the writers seem to have no idea how to write for a Hispanic character despite them insisting that's the core of his gimmick. Agreed with everything up until that last sentence which you kind of forces me to ask the same question again.

How should a Hispanic star be booked? Serious question because we discussed this very topic on a soon to be released podcast of Booking the WWE. I still want you to answer this question.

I enjoyed RIng of Hell.

How should a Hispanic star be booked? Serious question because we discussed this very topic on a soon to be released podcast of Booking the WWE. Also, they didn't even wish him well in his future endeavors.

Hahaha! Sorry bro, I should have been more clear. I was responding to the original topic.

Dylan's secret friend gave a "jaw-dropping-in your face-so obvious why didn't we think of that" scenario on the upcoming Fixing WWE: Booking podcast episode that Charles and I were starting to pitch possible RAW segments for the Cena heel character. Stay tuned.

I might create a topic... Where does Shawn Michaels rank in your all time bleeder list?

Charisma, competence to play his character and larger than life personality. He also has proven that when he was in a position to move numbers, he moved numbers. I have always said the easiest way to kill the Goldberg chants is to have a vignette where Ryback goes to visit Goldberg and Goldberg "trains" him to do the Jackhammer and he gets the Goldberg endorsement.

I don't think so. The minute somebody like jdw listed all the reasons Brody sucked, they would hate this place. Having said that, I loved the interview with Morton. He is somebody who really needs their own podcast. I had a phone conversation with him about 7-8 years ago and the guy is entertaining in conversation.

Chief, this doesn't even feel like rocket science. I was only half joking when I said that WWE could hire me, Charles and Chris and we would make it an appealing playground for wrestling fans. Hell, we have only a few ideas on the show but there were other ideas from Dylan and Kris (on the ill fated original Part 2) that we could have mentioned or maybe we stole some of their ideas. There are tons of great ideas in Network threads across multiple message boards and most of them seem pretty cost-effective. I mentioned it in the podcast but I really think it is a combination of hubris and lack of respect for their audience that they haven't been able to call this a success.

Mike was already making a resurgence with the Hangover cameos and the documentary. Tyson would still do box office.

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August might be my month. With the Summerslam Reaction, more Fixing the WWE, Grimmas's show, a P2B Summerslam 2010 rewind, and episode of WTBBP, and trying to get together with the Culture crew and my man, Johnny P.... you'll be sick of me soon enough if you aren't already. Having said that, Dylan will be on the majority of the shows I just mentioned so he may wear the crown 2 months running.

Refresh my memory

We are discovering in 1999 that Flair could still work a pretty great match DESPITE the horrible booking.

Ha. I was scrolling down to make this very joke. Joke? No joke. We are going to tackle booking/creative (along with the great Cena Heel Turn debate) and production. We may even do an NXT/future prospects show. Thanks man, that's a huge compliment!!! All good ideas and all EASY to implement!!!! I did that early on but stopped expecting anything good to pop up about 2 months in.

That reminds me.. .part 3 of Fixing WWE featuring Dylan. COMING SOON!!!!

Hell, I might become a happy host if I listen to Chris too much. Shit, where is Dylan to get me riled up?

Heh, showing your age shoe! I wasn't talking about Plimpton, I was talking about Dhani Jones... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhani_Tackles_the_Globe