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You gotta be two to be involved in a relationship. So Mickie makes a "stupid call" but Cena who was cheatting on her long-time girlfriend to boot when he was banging Mickie doesn't make any "stupid call" I guess.

There's more to it than that. Dave Meltzer a few months ago teased that the impromptu move to Smackdown and the whole "Piggy James" ritual humiliation angle was to send her the message to get over John Cena, after they had a messy break up around the time Cena got married. Ugh... That's really the sensitive thing to do, humiliate the girl who got through a messy breakup. That's totally the way to deal with it, just call the girl a pig on national television. What a bunch of jerks...

Mickie James was "fat" by WWE standart. I guess that's why. The only talented woman on the roster too. Can you believe Funaki has been employed by Vince since 1998 ? Amazing. And they never did shit with him. Maybe the fact Michaels retired allowed him to get finally fired ?

When was the last time Finlay had the opportunity to wrestle a big dome match so we can at least compare the two ? Oh, yeah, that's right. Never. Not a knock on Michaels, and I don't think Finlay is nearly as great as he's pimped to be by some, but it's just not a very good point. I take Kensuke Sasaki's last decade of big matches over Michaels' in a heartbeat FWIW. Except for the Jericho match at WM 19, I don't think Michaels had one great match in the 00's. Certainly some very good ones, like the two Taker Mania matches, but *great*, nah. And I've seen the vaunted Cena, Angle etc... matches. I'd rather watch the mid to late 90's Michaels (93 to 97) or the Rockers babyface anyday rather than self-conscious epic match worker of the 00's.

Pretty sure he was just called "The King" to explain why such an old dude had a chance against Hogan and others..."King of Wrestling", in terms of him being a wrestling Grandmaster. If that makes sense. Actually no, Race won the KOTR tournament, beating Pedro Morales in the final. It was a non televised event in 1986.

Bischoff saying Cornette isn't and hasn't been relevant in ages is cute as hell when you see the product Easy E is putting on TV these days...

Any actual proofs that Vanes really did this ?

Yeah, that's absolutely ridiculous. Talking about HHH's insecurity. "Let's have daddy-in-law have me work with the 50 year old announcer with bell's palsy and have a match, you know, a worked match, so I can actually punch the guy in the eye without getting charged for assault nor having another guy kick my ass for it, because I'm a frustrated little bitch." They totally do that in entertainment companies like Vince believes he's running.

Triple H and Jeffrey were lucky. Well, one fucked his way to the top, the other one got it because he was friend with the booker then got his own company. Shane on the other hand, was perfect in his role. For the small ECW, Douglas brought the credibility of coming from WCW (moreso than WWF), he carried himself like the personna he was portraying, was excellent from 94 to 96 as a worker, before injuries piled up. Really, he did a great job in ECW, the Franchise character was right on the money (a wrestler who took pride in being a wrestler, but took himself too seriously and was also a slimeball and a cheater). Really, Shane with that gimmick could have been a strong upper mid-card guy in either WWF or WCW with the right push. Of course he wasn't motivated in WWF as the Dean. Who would be, that was so stupid, plus you had Shawn not wanting to to business and drop the belt, as always. And by the time he got back to WCW, he was way past his prime and was banged up. But at the right time he would have been perfect for IC / US title level. Much like Jarrett and Triple H when he was the greenwich snob (which is the only period I really like in HHH's career). They can work occasionnal main event, I guess even be surprise transitionnal champs, but they just don't have the *it* factor, at all.

It's clear when he's not acting and left to himself just how vacant he is. Consider the unfunny dick comments in the early days of DX. They showed a total lack of wit, which I imagine was genuine. There was the attempt to be funny in the commentary box once (Over The Edge '98?), when he inadvertently made it appear that he was acknowledging himself as bisexual. (I'm bi- a lot of things, but -lingual ain't one of them. Hey, did I just mean to say that?) I remember that very well. I also remember than when Shawn left, Triple H the leader of DX wasn't over by himself. Actually, The Outlaws were more over than he was at this point. What kills Triple H to me and make him so boring and painful to watch, is that he doesn't know his limitations at all. He isn't a great promo but love and can cut 20 minutes promos and TV. He isn't a great wrestler but he thinks he's Harley Race so he loves having those 20-30 minutes "epic", "classic" matches. It's unbearable to me. When you think of guys who never had *it* either but were good upper mid-card workers, Shane Douglas and Jeff Jarrett were a lot better than Triple H ever was on every level (even though Jarrett is not a very good promo either).

That is quite a moving hommage...

Because he's an insecure little bitch.

What about his brother. I really never bought him one second a as a main-eventer. I think his work pretty much sucks to begin with, and his character is... well, Matt Hardy on acid. I have no idea why he got bigger than his brother. He did fell from high places more often, that's the only thing I can see that put him over his brother.

Well, there's no future for him now... Will Lydon pay hommage ? I mean, he hated the guy, but I doubt he'd ever had a career without him.

Especially when the West Texas Rednecks got over as face against these guys. Man... WCW, I miss you, but then again, I don't.

Hotshoting Goldberg vs Hogan to pop a TV rating was the stupidest thing they could do. I mean, apart from ending Goldberg stroke so soon and give the title to Nash, which was even worse. And apart from the fingerpoke of doom, which reset the entire company one year back and made Goldberg look like an ass. I agree that they could have run for a long time with Goldie before even thinking of ending the streak. He was the hottest thing they had, they just had to feed him hot heels.

Anyone knows about the No Limit Soldier. What a total waste of time and money...

There was an actually fun story that Kanyon told himself I believe about him pretending to bang a girl so he would pass for a heterosexual in the locker room. I don't know who was the guy who helped him with that, maybe it was Vandenberg. Anyway, I don't remember the details, but first guy he bumped into after the whole thing was Waltman I think, and when the word was out that Kanyon had banged this girl, Waltman reaction was "Really ? Oh, I thought you were gay ?" So anyway, it seems people knew.

Terry Funk coming up to Ennio Morricone was grand. The SST coming up with the Halloween theme I believe was pretty nice too. I liked WCW's ripoff version they did for DDP, Chris Jericho anc I believe Raven too. And how can you not love Chris Benoit's porn theme ? They had pretty cool themes for the Horsemen, but most of the music was rotten and sounded so random and dull. Not that Johntson didn't deliver his share of stinker too.

Cornette told a story of Vader working with Shawn and of course getting stiff with him. Then Shawn grabs a headlock and talks to Vader's ear. Next thing you know, Vader goes to Cornette, supposedly crying, saying Shawn told him he was gonna get him fired.

It's disgusting. Tha amount of stress this poor guy had to endure. But of course it's nobody's fault if he ended up depressed and killed himself. WWE never has any responsability in anything, of course.

Oh, I didn't forget about it. The Evangelists Against Television Movies and Entertainment.... E.A.T.M.E. Because what would a Russo gimmick be without a sleazy retarded acronym ? I'm baffled that this guy had a job anywhere in wrestling. I'm baffled he hasn't been fired from TNA yet. I'm baffled Dixie Carter is so fucking stupid. Why do stupid people get so many opportunities and money ? Fuck...

Yep. Me too. After being a WWF fan for nearly 10 years, I just didn't care anymore. It also killed the Royal Rumble for me, which I loved until then when I was a mark. I was beginning to not enjoy the product that much since the fall of 98, but Royal Rulble 99 is clearly when I ceased to be a WWF fan. Terri having a miscariage was embarrassing too. Her whole angle with Val and Dustin was terrible since the heel/face structure was all fucked up. People cheered for Val because he was fun, but Terri was supposed to be this evil bitch who cheated on her husband. Despite the fact that he had been a heel for 10 months after dumping her on TV. Then DUstin turned into Goldust and people turned him face because Goldust coming back was cool. Then Val dumped Terri when she said she was pregnant, and the crowd cheered I believe, because a guy dumping his pregnant woman should be a face of course. Then she tried to get back with Goldust but the announcers acted like she was a manipulative bitch so when Goldust had none of it the crowd cheered Goldie. Then she formed that PMS faction, whose name wasn't mysoginic at all, and kicked men in the balls, to what the crowd cheered. Then she had a miscarriage and we were supposed to feel sorry for her, depsite the fact she was supposed to be a manipulative bitch. But then she said she was never pregnant after all. Yeah, Vince Russo sure knew how to write compelling characters and stories... Jeez, what an awful angle. Felt for sorry for Terri, which I like as Marlena. Watching her shoot interview, she said she thought the whole pregnant/miscarriage/PMS stuff was embarrassing and terrible. She hated it.

Yeah. Bret was the absolute babyface in 95. I don't see how he would have turned heel at all at this point. The fact that he remained over despite having shitty feuds with Lawler, Hakushi, Dentistkane and Jean Pierre Lafitte, and got right into the title picture like nothing happened tells you how much the WWF crowd loved him.

I can't get enough of Cornette telling the story of him calling Dunn a "Bugs Bunny looking motherfucker" at a production meeting.