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Whatever the Rock was able to withstand and win, Brock should have done so even more. That is my gripe.

If you don't see that 3/4 of the roster or more is obviously on something then I would suggest getting your eyes checked. Again, who cares? If they ever get suspended, then I will say the same thing I am saying about Rey. It is disingenious to shield Rey from blame while taking WWE to task on this. It takes two to tango here. If Rey doesn't like it, stop juicing and stop giving them valid excuses to punish him. Simple as that. Look at the bingo card, one square says "But everyone else is doing it!", and you are falling into that trap.

Rey is still a contracted employee thus WWE is free to test whenever they want. Dick move or not, if Rey steps into a WWE arena as an employee, active or not, he is free game. Sure the motivation to test him then is shitty but please don't let a legitimate failed test get lost in translation. If the WWE doctored the sample then I am with the outrage, but it is probably not, so I have to side with WWE here legally speaking. People need to stop bringing up Mason Ryan and etc because they have nothing to do with Rey. If someone and I smoked pot and thry popped me for it, it does me no good to say "But the guy with me was doing it too!"

Honestly how can anyone trot out the bingo card and then try to paint WWE as some shady organization out to get poor little Rey? Sure the WWE manipulates events to get what they want, but seriously. A failed test is a failed test. Rey don't like it? Stop doing drugs.

No Way Out is coming back? Didn't they replace that with Elimination Chamber?

I think it is more that non fans look down on pro wrestling as some sort of inane thing they don't understand how anyone can be a fan of it. In that attitude they try to impose some kind of intellectual superiority by declaring it to be fake... little do they know or want to admit we are in on the joke ourselves.

Really? This guy may have a drug problem and clearly has health issues regardless of how or why, and you want him wrestling the world? That is an interesting viewpoint.

For me, the segment does reinforce the David/Goliath matchup as it shows Brock being so intimidating in stature it felt like Ace was making a deal with the devil just to wipe out Cena from his vision of a legitimate WWE.

Well you'd think after being doused, a fuming Punk would be storming into somebody's office demanding Jericho's head. Otherwise that's a hell of one even keeled dude.

I love that about pro wrestling. Instead of just beating the guy up backstage or at the gym you're willing to risk losing your championship to give a guy you just beat cleanly a rematch with some wild stipulation that usually doesn't favor you. I would just smash the guy's head in in the parking lot. I wouldn't be a very good professional wrestler. In theory it makes it all the more sweeter when you DO beat the heel again. Like all his efforts were for naught.

Pretty sure the anti Cena fans are still attending house shows but a big part of the whole booing gimmick is it is a tv gimmick. It's almost like a Pavlovian response at this point. Similar to when fans would chant "You Suck" at Kurt Angle, just for the hell of it. It's the "fun" thing to do at tv tapings. House shows? Not as much.

On the flip side, I think Brock is smart enough that if he feels the WWE is not booking his run to maximize its potential, it only increases his chances to flake, wouldn't it? Putting a big time Cena/Brock matchup for Extreme Rules doesn't really spell "MONEYMAKER" to anyone, much less Brock.

Should have added that he did all this, plus win the WWE title, the King of the Ring, the Royal Rumble and more... in only two years of service.

I don't see how Hunter/Shawn is possible at all. Yes they argued a bit in the cell, but Shawn superkicked the Undertaker and nearly fast-counted the ensuing pinfall. Then they did the whole thing with Shawn kneeling over Hunter at the end, like in mourning. Not to mention the ending where they all hugged each other. Where would such a beef crop up from all this?

Dunno. I'm not seeing this heel turn for Cena, yet. The show was still in Miami, and they just saw Cena get beat by their hometown boy, then try to pander to them by kissing up to that hometown boy. Let's see what happens when they leave Florida.

I was not clear of the stipulation but was this essentially Triple H's retirement match? It seemed like when he crotch chopped out of desperate sign of defiance, it was saying he was accepting his end... am I wrong on reading that in his actions?

Did think it was odd and somewhat funny that while Jericho and Punk are selling on the outside, the camera pans in to Jericho smiling at Punk, "How's your sister?"

In an odd way I think Triple H made Sheamus. He let Sheamus take him out for nearly a year. After he came back, he did have the segment where he destroyed Sheamus but that was a long period of time in between action and retaliation.

Few things I wanna say about the Taker and the Streak: 1. I agree that going out 20-0 is ideal, if he is to retire with the streak intact. The thing is, how do they explain the Streak matches no longer continuing? Run a retirement ceremony within the next year? If they don't mention anything, people will be expecting a 21st match. 2. If the streak is to end, it should end this year, but NOT to Triple H. I like the idea of Cena ending it, kicking off a heel turn. It also brings everything full circle as they did a big-time program on Smackdown back in 2003, with the fans becoming Cena fans against Taker while playing a heel, in his first real major program. Pitting a 20-0 Taker against Cena pretty much telegraphs a Cena victory as there is no real sense to send him off with such an odd number, and 20-1 is still amazing a Mania record to retire on.

That's what I mean, Log. If he's just a wrestler who happens to be gay, then he is just a wrestler. I do understand the whole concept of being progressive enough to accept a character for being gay without going trailer trash homophobic on them, but at the same time, it is an easy heat grab. When DX was scheduled to do a parody of the N.O.D., they actually had to establish character quirks for it to work. Wrestling has proved to me time and time again that their level of thought process is very much so shallow. I imagine that lesser talented heels would pick on that trait just for cheap heat, and that's not what you want, right?

Thing is, why does it even matter? If you are talking about the gay character trait being low key, to the point it's only mentioned in passing, then what is the point of bringing it up? Acknowledging the gimmick puts a spotlight on the character, and that seems to be something you don't want, am I mistaken in this assumption?

Loss, would you enjoy an angle where the low key gay babyface was involved in a blood feud with a bigoted heel, leading to a blowoff where this gay person won? It could be similar to Guerrero/Layfield in that JBL was pouring on the jingoism really thick.

If you were Vince McMahon, do you really trust the guy who was notable for giving away your taped results, NOT to reveal the Monday night after Survivor Series, that he had the WWF champion in his back pocket? Let's say he does (and it's likely he would), and WWF sues the shit out of him or whatever, it does not remove the information from the fans' brains who hears that news. The damage would be done, and WWF likely in a hole. Again, I don't think Vince was right to screw him over, but I can somewhat almost forgive him for not trusting Eric Bischoff's word. Now as to the question posed- I guess he thought he could squeeze one last big buyrate out of Hart/Michaels before letting Bret out. I guess in hindsight, if he wanted to avoid the backlash (which ended up being a windfall creatively as it pushed his on-screen character over the top as a lead heel), he could have put the belt on Shawn instead and had Bret unsuccessfully challenge Shawn at the PPV instead, I guess.

Hey I'm not a Montreal contrarian here or anything. I've always been on Bret's side of things and I'm incredibly biased as a Bret mark. I also think that there were better ways to do things, and that Bret was legally screwed, but speaking strictly from a non-legal standpoint, which admittedly amounts to zilch, I think Bret could have been the "better man" there and just agree to putting over the top heel in the company on his final PPV, but I don't begrudge him for not wanting to do so.

REASONABLY so. Not sure it was really unreasonable to ask Bret to drop the belt to the top heel in the company. Bret knew it was in Canada, and that's all he needed to hear to veto the idea. I think Vince, Triple H, Shawn Michaels and whoever else was involved in the screwjob are huge scumbags but I can at the very least understand their reasoning, however wrong in legal sense it was.