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What killed the angle was "God, not hogan again. Didn't we just get rid of him!"

Part of me has always theorized that one reason why WCW started to decline was Eric leaving the announcer's booth. He was the only one who knew what was going on in advance a lot of the times and where things were supposed to be going, so while he wasn't a good announcer by any means, he was able to convey the storyline, even when what was going on didn't make a whole lot of sense. He could tell us what it was SUPPOSED to mean.

It did slow them down though. There was a moment of nervous laughter.

From the looks of the SD Spoilers, they're hyping a few big matches for the live SD in advance at least.

WWECW in 2009 is one of my favorite wrestling shows ever. Also, who just looks at Raw? With WCW, it'd be nuts to just look at Nitro (or even WCW SN before that) when the B shows were where some of the best TV matches were. Traditionally all the best WWF stuff was on PTWs or the televised house shows, by a WIDE margin. It was such a huge loss when they went off MSG in 92. I've seen most of 1984 Mid South TV now and I know I'm missing the best match stuff without the sister show.

then he should be the anonymous GM "By God, King! The Undertaker has learned how to possess the internet!"

He actually said that Vader was "TOTALLY safe." and really stressed it.

I really hope they save teaming Punk and Cena until Survivor Series.

The crowd turned him as much as anything.

I don't want to step in the middle of this with a vaguely unrelated question, but did they change the finish at Mania when the Edge injury became apparent? Or was Edge always going over?

They need to turn Miz face.

Of course it was a logical decision, that was the problem with it. Vince should have been so freaked out over Punk leaving with the title that he was unable to think logically, even if it was only for one week. I should make you all read my Montreal Manifesto post again.

If we could sum up this entire note with one sentence..........

Or Ziggler, past a twitter comment, saying that he was now the #1 guy on Raw since he had the IC Belt.

It was also on Smackdown and not Raw. Remember, Christian (and I'm the biggest Christian fan we have) has main evented the last 4 WWE PPVs on the SD side.

Speaking of sigs and what have you: Bix can you update yours with the new site/your page there? It's a bit of a quagmire to get through using more conventional means.

I think the most interesting thing about it is how they've course changed from what they initially wanted to do (get HHH over and give Cena a hot summer opponent) to create sort of a squishy medium.

Waaaay back in the dark ages of the internet, message boards didn't have user-names attached to them. A lot of times it was just a number/id, so you had to sign a name to make people realize it was you. I figure he just kept that habit over the years.

This is the very, very tail end of Watts, right? I just wonder how THAT meeting went.

I want to say WWE Classics On Demand have said that that 91 doesn't exist, but I don't remember.

I'm not defending Keith but he is a WWE fan that dabbled in some WCW on the side. The Bruno stance would make sense for his worldview. Plus, a lot of people think that however incorrect it might be. I don't think that it's the wildest idea in the world, no? It depends on criteria.

What about ECW? I know you've stated a preference for later ECW, but ECW in '95 still had Benoit, Malenko, Guerrero, and Scorpio tearing it up for all or part of the year, and the Gangstas carried TPE to probably their best ever brawls and Cactus carrying Sandman to some good brawls too. Plus, for whatever shit Raven deservedly gets for being lousy, '95 was probably his best year. As you've said, wrestling domestically wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire in '95, but ECW was a much fresher promotion than death knell era SMW, even if SMW had some gems at the end of their run. There was a lot to like about 95 WCW. It just wasn't necessarily on the PPVs/A Shows. Just a great tag division with Blue Bloods, Bagwell/Patriot, Lightning Express (then Armstrongs), Slater/Bunk, Austin/Arn (for a month or two at least), Harlem Heat, Nasties, Southern Posse, Pillman/Badd (then Pillman/Arn or Benoit).

I think it's not THAT hard to get a good match out of Zombie heel taker. The Hogan matches are both good, with the second one really building off the first. It's just... as always, up to the definition of good. Will they be ACTION PACKED? No. Will they have a REAL SPORTS FEEL? No. But you can have a good strong narrative and stay within the rules being established and it can be a good match.

Awesome. Nitro was the number one wrestling show on TV for how many weeks with the Living Legend on commentary? How much credit do I have to give him? If you read Larry's book, you'd see that he gives himself PLENTY of credit for that.

You know what's sad? It seemed like the biggest thing in the world, the idea someone would win the IC and WWF belts in the same night. If they did that today it wouldn't mean anything at all.