Hollinger.

My question about booking Brock down the road, is who else on the roster is going to take the kind of ass kicking that Cena did? Having Brock come in, first match back, working the way he worked, establishes a precedent. The match was entirely Lesnar pummeling Cena with strikes, and it was stiff as hell to make it look real. Is Randy Orton going to buy off on that the way Cena did? Will CM Punk work that kind of match? Is he just going to go back to using his old offense? I don't know how you can reconcile Brock Lesnar the monster from this match with Brock Lesnar the professional wrestler he'd really need to be to be able to book again.

I would also suggest Owen Hart & Booker T for under the radar 1998 picks.

It wasn't like Trips playing Superman and taking on Nash w/ a sledgehammer. Nash was kicking the shit out of him, then took his time clearing off the announce table, turned around and he got cracked in the head. It was actually a neat visual, because they kept Trips out of frame until the shot. And then Nash for some reason bumped into a Christ pose, arms out and ankles crossed.

Yeah, it wasn't a burial at all. Punk looked stronger than Hunter during the match, and took three pedigrees and a jacknife before he went down. It was overbooked like crazy, but no one came away looking much different than before the match. (Also, the match had been really fucking good before all the interference)

Weird. I didn't hate this nearly as much as everyone else seems to.

I'm not a Punk mark, but I think I'm one of the people Loss is referring to. I haven't cared for where the angle has gone the last couple weeks, and it's mostly because of Nash's involvement. I was hoping he'd be playing Diesel for Del Rio, but instead he's cutting promos that are mostly dragging. I'm still interested in where things go from here.

I'll wait and see how it plays out before I make that kind of judgment. My gut instinct was to not like it, but I'm not going to say it's stupid before I see where it goes.

From Insider

And from the way it actually went down, what are you "cynical anti-WWE guys" going to claim when Punk goes over?

Awesome. So now I need to get three yearbooks + the ECW set. Will, I'm just gonna set you up for direct deposit through my payroll.

How soon does that mean we should be looking for a release?

That's what I remember.

I thought the intro summed up the point of it: John Eh. Obviously, my question wasn't, "WHAT was the article ABOUT?" My question was, "What was the point of the article?" As in, "What am I supposed to learn from this?" Which was, "Ric Flair is a scummy, irresponsible, cheating, money-stealing low life." Thing is, I already knew that. Just sounds like someone found some new information and decided to compile it a little bit more, which is why I am questioning it. What is the point of making an already horrible person look even worse when the facts he added only added up to something Ric had done before and was pretty much common knowledge to people that 1. know him and 2. know about him. I mean, I knew as far back as 2003 (1 year after I got online) that it would be behoove of me to avoid financial interactions with Ric Flair. Is it to protect the general public who don't know who Ric Flair is? I kinda doubt it. WE know most of this stuff, because we read the sheets and follow that kind of thing. Your casual wrestling fan legitimately thinks that Flair is a jet flyin, limousine ridin playboy. And he is. What most people don't realize is HOW he's been doing it. That makes for an interesting story. This wasn't some wrestling site, it was a very mainstream sports web site, and one designed around provocative articles. This was definitely something their reader base would be interested in.

Didn't Meltzer or someone claim last year that the whole "softball" story was bullshit to cover for Sid just being a flake?

He had some really fun individual stuff, but for whatever reason they didn't seem to know how to use him. I think they could have had something with him and Bossman after Nailz left if Bossman had stuck around longer than he did.

I was 12 years old and well past getting worked up over this kind of thing, but I marked the hell out for the Luger title win. Like jumping around the house excited.

I do not understand the "They didn't book this exactly how I wanted, so the story is already deader than dead" attitude. I know some of you just hate current WWE and are going to shit on anything and everything they do, but we're going on two months of quality television at this point. At what point do you stop sitting around waiting to be the first to proclaim that they've fucked things up and start enjoying it?

Wasn't it Meltzer who was saying that even before the contract situation came up, Punk was forming a relationship with Vince similar to HBK's, where Vince will run ideas past him before bringing them to the rest of the booking team?

Zack Ryder didn't have merchandise until two weeks ago, which is exactly when he was put on tv more regularly.

She looked scary at King Of Trios, and that picture from Chikarasaurus Rex looks even worse. Really sad to see. As a side note, Eddie Edwards is looking just as bad these days. EDIT: Def meant Erick Stevens there.

Cena did his job perfectly tonight.

Shit, I knew I should have gone to AAW. Was hoping he'd be at the HOF show last night.

Why is this being talked about like anyone here thinks it's a shoot?