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Scott D'Amore was pretty good in 2005. Ian Rotten? IWA-MS had some good shows, he couldn't be worse than Russo. The guy behind JAPW? Any old school wrestler that recently retired and is someway up on current trends. Maybe Raven? I don't know. Anyone is going to be better than Russo.

I've said the same thing about Christian for awhile.

How can you say this? Wasn't he the first ever triple crown champion in wwe? First ever grand slam champion? Triple crown - intercontinental, world and tag champ grand slam - intercontinental, world, european and tag champ Pedro Morales and Bret Hart both won the triple crown before Shawn.

Because only the top couple matches on the show draw, so why care about the undercard guys. I believe that is their philosophy.

I was lurking the TOA board recently and saw variations of this same post in a couple of threads. It's always intrigued me how people got into wrestling and how they've maintained that interest. Using the who, what, when, where and why format, tell your wrestling story. Who got you interested? What initially drew your interest and kept it? How old were you? Where did you live/attend first show/watch first TV episode? Why did you like and continue to like wrestling (or why not)? Use Etc. at the end to fill in any gaps. Who: My sister. When you have a sibling who is four years older than you, you definately want to be cool like them. Of course, she gave up wrestling shortly after, while I stuck around to this day. However, she got back into it two years ago and watches whenever Cena is on. What: GLOW! Like I said, it was with my sister. She'd get my dad to tape GLOW and watch it the next day. I'd watch with her and that was my start into watching pro-wrestling. I don't really remember anything from GLOW, but it was the gateway that allowed me to see the WWF and the Islanders stealing Matilda, which got me hooked. Format: Videotape, because GLOW was on too late.

This has to be leading somewhere doesn't it? Doesn't Jericho have to either win the Royal Rumble or win the Tag Titles back? Otherwise, what was the point of this?

So that means nobody has high levels of power, because Vince can veto things?

Since Bret has signed on through WrestleMania, it would mean the later.

I thought Bryan didn't follow sports and actually hated them, outside of MMA? That would explain it.

Yeah, and we would love to see Roger Ebert direct movies and music critics produce albums.... Being a reviewer does not mean they think they could do it better.

Of course star power and aura should be inlcuding in discussing how good a match is. If Cena and Taker do the exact same match as Abyss and Joey Ryan, which match is better. Even if it is move for move the same, Cena and Taker just would make the match cooler to watch. Just like having an insane crowd makes a match better than having a shitty crowd. If that wasn't counted, then Rock-Hogan from WM18 would not be remembered at all.

Come on it's a Roast! That isn't a stupid thing to write. I've never been to a roast, but if it is making fun of things like people's diseases then I wouldn't find it funny either. It is a stupid thing to write. If you were invited to a roast, wouldn't you (I dunno) find out how a roast worked before hand? Foley's part yes, but Meltzer's no. He said he's never been to one and if that is what they are like he wouldn't like it.

Come on it's a Roast! That isn't a stupid thing to write. I've never been to a roast, but if it is making fun of things like people's diseases then I wouldn't find it funny either.

I don't think he realized Mick was retired at the time.

Actually I watched this and he stated he wanted to do something with Hall/Nash, but Hall wasn't on the roster of WCW at the time, so he couldn't. Also, Cornette did this in 4 hours for fun, its not as if he was really booking he wouldn't had put a LOT more work into it and made it so much better.

Yeah, Punk in a suit is out of character. It's not as if he is Ric Flair or somebody.

Why isn't Goldberg on the ballot? He was an insane draw, albeit for a short period. Isn't he a better candidate than Kurt Angle, who is already in?

I'm looking at what the promotion viewed. Between Hogan and Luger the fans would view Bret as #1. But Vince didn't intend for that to last. Then why was Bret vs Hogan the original plan for SummerSlam? Also, why did Bret win the King of the Ring?

Absolutely. They elevated a new crop of main eventers, made the best use of the talent they had available at the time, wrote engaging feuds (Austin-McMahon, DX-Nation) and built to PPV main events that people paid to see. It wasn't a great time for in-ring, but they did everything business-wise that a booking team should do. In 2000? Besdies WM2000 there were a LOT of awesome matches during that period.

If he was still Rey Jr. from 95/96 he would be in a wheelchair for life.

What I really don't get about a statement like that is that someone could find something like late 80's WWF better than 04-07 WWE. I understand people are in to different things but week in - week out quality wise, I can't think of any argument for late 80's over ANY year this decade in WWE. As shitty as old WWF is, my favourite show ever is Survivor Series 1989. Its all about awesome characters interacting, that makes it amazing.

Who is Better, Jeff Hardy or Lex Luger? That is a tough one, b/c I hate spot matches, but Luger also got soo boring later in his career. If I was go prime vs prime, I'd go with Jeff Hardy. Purely for the run that Dylan Waco mentioned. Who is Better, Jeff Jarrett or Kurt Angle? Jeff Jarrett, easily. Angle never really got wrestling which always lead to stupid stuff. Jarrett freaking had awesome matches with beat down Raven. Who is Better, Dean Malenko or Chris Candido? Candido, Malenko was also a little too boring for me. Although when he teamed up with Benoit in WCW, he was freaking awesome.

If that was true then why did Matt Hardy fight so hard against Kozlov to get Jeff Hardy to get into that Armageddon title match?

Bret Hart seemed to be pretty good from the beginning.