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Ah ah ah.

"… and now, for something completely different, we'll show you a compilation of Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka's matches, because Jimmy Snuka never did anything wrong, ever." Yeah. I wonder if they should put the National Domestic Violence Hotline number when they'll show Austin & Debra together circa early 00's.

Rushed TV match, which isn't a format that suits Hogan well, making his no-selling even more random and annoying. Flair's delayed suplex was quite impressive. Hogan's stupid overselling wasn't. Hogan no selling the brass knuckles was even worse and it made Arn look like a complete dork since he was KOed earlier by Savage using the same object. The nWo turn can't come too soon, Hogan is unbearable.

He said athlete. Not Olympic champion.

Awesome. I love Internet.

I only watched the main event because of time constraint. Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwd. Way overlong self-conscious epic overbooked with cute garbage spots and freaking Randy Orton winning the title. That was painfull to go through. Another thing, not only Vince looks bad, but man Stephy looks rough as hell too. She was never exactly a hottie, but she's turning into her father. The opening segment with her and Trip refering back to Thesz and Buddy Rogers was WWE revisionnist history at its best. Totally ridiculous. Will these two open every damn PPV with a boring promo now ? Oh, anyway...

So, we already know AJ is jobbing hard tonight.

Indeed. It's ridiculous. No woman can even talk to the guy you're dating ? Really ? Not good for CM Punk either. If I had to mess with every guy who litteraly hit on my girlfriend, including right in front of me, I would get into fights every other week. The keyword is trust.

Well, that's what I meant. Sarcastically. Wasn't very good though.

He had a strong relationship with FMW and enjoyed japanese style better. And he wouldn't look that big in the land of giants that was WWF. ECW was the perfect fit since it was a small guys promotion.

Agreed. Leilani had a lot of interesting stories to tell. Yep. And Luna's stories are even worse. Moolah seemed to be a complete piece of shit.

Kevin Sullivan in Florida doing a promo surrounded by Luna & Boob Roop. He talks about Maya Singh having "penetrated places that no man has ever penetrated." Then says that Luna has "spread herself all over the country.", at which point Luna just turns away from the camera, hanging her head down, immediately followed by Roop who just stops doing the bizarre gestures he was doing to brutally turn his back and leave the frame. Sullivan himself almost cracks up and turns his back too as he was obviously giggling ! Pretty damn funny.

Every time I see a new post in this thread, I think TNA is actually dead for good.

Valentine's Day is the Royal Rumble. Moves shitloads of merch too. The big hit of the early year. Although I remember one time this girl drew number one, she had to go the whole hour and she was not so happy about that… I drew 27. I was gutted as most everyone had already come and gone.

Yeah, I remember that, but still. Hell, Kane is more relevant than most these guys when talking about SMW. No Tony Anthony, no Ricky Morton, no Dr. Tom, no cred. Is Al Snow still working for TNA ?

Well, they did another Shoot Interview in the meantime in which they were extremely apologetic for the stuff they said before and basically kissed HHH's ass. So yeah, there's always a way to get back.

Zach Gowen is working twice at the PPV ?

The players : Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, D-Lo Brown, Jerry Lawler, Road Dogg ? I mean, seriously ?

It's always been strictly a national draw anyway. Christmas still draws worldwide no matter how boring the product is.

Last night I actually dreamt about Daniel Bryan. And he had a fake beard.

Oh, gawd, HHH is gonna book himself vs Orton for the unified title, then go to WM as the face champ. (anyway, watched the last RAW segment since I'm probably gonna watch a bit of the PPV. Man, Orton is just as putrid as a promo and "actor" as he is a worker. Cena totally saved the segment.)

Well, Russo's booking, even without the shoot angle bullshit, was abysmal anyway and he would have killed WCW just as well. And TNA is irrevelant, always has been and always will be. So to me it was inconsequential in the big picture. It just produced a whole lot of inconsequential stupid angles and promos. And really when you think about it, the real "shoot-angle"-that-wasn't-an-angle that shook the business forever was the Montreal screwjob. That's the one Russo and others always tried to reproduce. CM Punk's "shoot" promo has its roots in the will to create another Montreal. Re-acting Pillman's out of nowhere, out of context "bookerman" comment is more akin to Eric Bischoff telling Sid to "use a squeegee" on Nitro to me.

This. If anything it's one of the most overrated "moment" in wrestling history. It was a cute "WTF" moment for smart marks only, led to absolutely nothing in term of matches, angles or payoff, and didn't draw WCW any money. What it did though, was mesmerize Vince Russo who even mentionned it in one of his "Vic Venom" columns in the Raw Magazine sometime in 97. And from there comes his fascination for shoot-angles. So yeah, in some twisted way it was important as it "inspired" the worst booker ever to do a hundred shoot-angles in WCW which all accomplished nothing in the end just like the original one did.

1994 ECW had plenty of fun already, especially as the year was closing down. Being a Sabu and/or Sandman fan helps.

Ah… mass consumption… Such a great way of life.