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Obviously he didn't have enough time. From what I remember from the shoot, by the end of Watts' employment, he used to bring Russo into the booking/creative meetings with McMahon and everybody. This is the time where Russo was writing for WWF magazine as Vic Venom. Russo said out of the blue, Watts was gone. I guess it never dawned on Russo that it wasn't so much that Watts took him "under his wing" because he saw potential in him, as it was that Watts thought the editor of the magazine should know where the storylines are going, to keep the magazine as current as possible.

I could dig that. Zayn upsets Cesaro and Zeb and Swagger blow their tops at him, which triggers the babyface turn and him and Zayn as buddies. Sort of like Razor and Kid back in the day.

I'm not sure about Shiozaki, but Morishima got buried by Michael Hayes because of all the Terry Gordy comparisions people like to make, and Vince didn't think he was marketable.

I think Bryan winning at EC works and defending against Batista. Bryan wins, going over Orton clean for the finish. Batista, who at this point is still the babyface, shakes his hand, raises his arm and then turns on him, because he's the handpicked "face of the WWE" for the authority after Orton failed to cut the mustard.

Cornette has told that same story (save for the annoying part, but I think he knows that he can be annoying). When Watts was checking out the talent, Jarrett had Cornette doing a bunch of stuff in the matches, which wasn't usual. He knew it was Jarrett's way of telling Watts to take him.

That doesn't surpise me at all. Who else is there for TNA to try to get? The only options I'm coming up with are Russo or going full WWE style and trying to get TV writers.

I think this was based on the TV versions. The full versions weren't available until they aired on AJW classics, and then it was crystal clear which was better.

This came up in the shoot thread, but it applies here too: The latest offering from Kayfabe Commentaries, Breaking Kayfabe with Jim Cornette, is pretty much 99% of Jim talking about his time with ROH, and all the issues he had with the various people in Sinclair broadcasting that eventually led to his departure. The original report was that it was an amicable split, but I imagine that it's not much amicable anymore when they hear about what all he had to say.

Awesome!

Sure he did. All the people were dressed like chairs!

Edge I thought he said he was a Hogan kid? He's been pretty vocal about that for years now, that he was a huge Hogan mark as a kid. And says that he stopped like Warrior after he beat Hogan at 'Mania 6.

The HOF ceremony NEEDS to be shown the network in full. Just for Warrior's hour and half long speech, that USA network would probably chop down to five minutes.

My buddies and I got a huge kick out of the fact that when she did the table spot with Bubba, she took way more of a bump than Terri Runnels did a couple weeks before.

I might be biased because Walters did some good stuff in 2CW years later, but Walters had that match with Daniels and the Xavier feud to his credit. I'm at a complete loss for anything from Rave that's even close to the Daniels match. And, Rave had a much longer run and a lot more quality opponents than Walters.

I've always found it bizzare that there were only a few guys on the ROH roster that had more heat than Jimmy Rave in 2005-06, and that there were also fewer who were so boring to actually watch work.

Punk is well known for how much of a dick he can be. Hell, his best friends have said it. Colt Cabana has worked 2CW a few times and if someone asks him about Punk, it's usually one of the first things he'll come out with.

Cornette on ROH:

I was thinking the exact same thing, actually. Although I get the feeling that the match won't be as balls out awesome as the La Parka vs. L A Park match from TripleMania a few years back.

Found it, thanks to the wayback machine. From DVDVR Issue #139. It's not from Dean, it's actually from TKG: "Again, Takayama makes you believe in his opponents. Takayama fights for and out of German suplexes. It's amusing to see a single German be so meaningful when there must be thirty meaningless Germans in every Smackdown tag."

I'm not gonna say that it was "hating" on Smackdown, but I know there was some criticism of it on DVDVR. During whatever article had the Takayama roundtable discussion on it, one of them (I want to credit Dean, but I'm not sure) commented something along the lines of that it was great to see Takayama make his German seem important when there were probably 30 worthless Germans in every Smackdown tag match.

Praise the lord, I'd heard that it was an actual report. Bryan winning the Rumble is the only one that really seems to make a lick of sense right now, unless they want to do a surprise return, like Sheamus, and put him over in the match.

I got Hulk Hogan bubblebath when I was five.

I'd love for Loss to keep going with '89, and I'd love to bang out some more pre 1988, but typing them up is very time consuming and between a full time job, and a second full time job in the form of two little kids, I just don't have it in me right now.

The only examples I'm recalling are Memphis with Tommy Rich under the ring, and Continental with Doug Furnas' debut (which was stolen for Kane in Badd Blood).