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[ohtani's jacket]

You had me thinking he'd died.

[rovert]

You had me thinking he'd died.

I dont think him dying would be all that horrific really at this stage.

[1004Holds]

Wait a minute.

 

The 7/20/2000 edition of WWE War Zone drew a 5.4 rating which equates to 5.48 million viewers.

The 7/19/2010 edition of WWE Raw Zone drew a 3.2 rating which equates to 5.16 million viewers.

 

I don't quite get how the cable Neilsens are measured, but Bryan is absolutely right.

 

 

Sources:

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/inde...mp;art_aid=9836

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/20/monda...-raw-more/57802

I know going by personal observations isn't enough to judge, but if they have about as many viewers as they did ten years ago why does the WWE and wrestling as a whole seem less relevant today? I rarely see many people wearing wrestling t-shirts in public these days. Most people who aren't wrestling fans don't bring up Cena like they used to do for the Rock. No one even knows what TNA is. Even when WCW was going down the toilet in 2000 if you mentioned their name most people had an idea who they were.

[Bix]

In light of the Zuffa suit against Bellator, I did a big TNA/Jay Hassman info dump post at Cageside Seats. One interesting thing I dug up was that Hassman had worked for Cablevision in the past, the same Cablevision that he lied about getting TNA cleared on. I don't remember seeing that coming up in the past. I also included a bunch about his more recent criminal charges.

[rovert]

In light of the Zuffa suit against Bellator, I did a big TNA/Jay Hassman info dump post at Cageside Seats. One interesting thing I dug up was that Hassman had worked for Cablevision in the past, the same Cablevision that he lied about getting TNA cleared on. I don't remember seeing that coming up in the past. I also included a bunch about his more recent criminal charges.

The TNA-Hassman deal continues to intrigue me.

 

On a semi-related note kind of funny seeing WWA backer Andrew McManus involved in the Impact FC debacle.

[Phil Schneider]

So what is with moving fanposts to the main page on Cageside Seats? Some of those are of Wahlers level quality.

[Bix]

That's just mean.

[Phil Schneider]

I didn't say Babinsack level. I think Wahlers level is a mild slur, but seriously defend this

 

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/7/25/158...ly-returning-at

[Loss]

Where did this assumption that Undertaker is retiring soon come from? It seems like every year, there is a rumor that he only has one more year and that he's retiring at Wrestlemania. It may be true, but I haven't read this anywhere.

[Bix]

I didn't say Babinsack level. I think Wahlers level is a mild slur, but seriously defend this

 

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/7/25/158...ly-returning-at

Undertaker posts always get more page views.

[KrisZ]

Taker has a prime schedule right now he isn't retiring anytime soon.

[Loss]

Really, Undertaker is a guy who works a full schedule during the Rumble to Mania stretch and appears very selectively the rest of the year. Most of that is because the last few years, he has been injured almost constantly, but I'm not sure his schedule would be terribly different without the injuries.

[sek69]

To be fair to Taker, he's had some bad luck when it comes to injuries. Isn't this the second time he got his orbital bone broken by someone else's carelessness? The thing with Mabel injuring him with a legdrop (and him wearing that Phantom of the Opera mask) was a legit injury was it not?

[Johnny Sorrow]

Well I don't know if Husky's play acting, he comes from a long line of old school fat guys who wore cowboy boots. His granddad and (eventually) both uncles were pretty good at that role, so I'm thinking he's just fulfilling his destiny.

 

I think where the love for him is coming from is that there has been a long standing belief that if an Adrian Adonis type athletic fat guy ever came around, he would never make it since WWE is all about bodies. Now there's an athletic fat guy who the company seems to be getting behind (even if it's because of family connections) so people are getting into it.

I was just in a shitty mood. I like Harris a ton, I just think he's nowhere near as "awesome" as some go on about.

 

Besides, my venting was more at people going on about the character and type in these posts that read like some Village artsy types were talking about wrestling. "Oh, look at him. Now that is Bill Watts approved. He looks sleazy, and I for one say HUZZAH!"", rather than, "That big fat guy looks like he'd fuck you up."

 

Is the DVDR zeigiest moving away from fat, sleazy guys with believable strikes now?

Go eat a potato.

[rovert]

Colt Cabana has his own podcast and it shows lot promise. Thankfully he didnt go down the blogtalkradio route:

http://www.welovecolt.com/

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

To be fair to Taker, he's had some bad luck when it comes to injuries. Isn't this the second time he got his orbital bone broken by someone else's carelessness? The thing with Mabel injuring him with a legdrop (and him wearing that Phantom of the Opera mask) was a legit injury was it not?

Yes. At least AFAIK.

[sek69]

So I watched a whole show of AAA for the first time in years, and a few things occurred to me:

 

1. Konnan is like the lucha Magnum TA now. Wherever they were taping the show at had two steps off the main stage to the walkway, and boy was it awkward watching him try to walk down just two steps. I guess after what he's been through it's amazing he's still alive, but it would probably be better for everyone if he had a backstage only role at this point.

 

 

2. Maybe it's me, but the heel ref act gets really old when it's in 3 out of 4 matches. It's one thing when it's just a heel ref fast counting faces, but they do entire spots with Tirantes Jr - sometimes he does more involved spots than the guys in the match. It's one thing when you have Earl Hebner shove back the heel who pushed him, but when you have refs doing sunset flips it's getting silly.

 

3. Dr. Wagner Jr. is still my favorite lucha guy. Especially considering that he comes out to "Bad Medicine". Bon Jovi and lucha, what more can you ask for? I love that AAA made him their world champion with him being only under what seems to be a verbal contract, and then he showed up at a CMLL houseshow presumably to watch his son but also made a point of letting the crowd know he was there. Speaking of his son, is there some kind of rule on how the Hijo/Junior thing is handled? Wagner's son is working as Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr when you would think it would be easier for everyone to call him Dr. Wagner III.

[rovert]

The Memphis Doc looks like a blast:

[KanadianKrusty]

I'm way out of the loop, but what happened to Konnan?

[Bix]

Kidney transplant and hip replacement.

[sek69]

Also because of those, he had to get off whatever steroids/HGH he was on so now he's way less muscular and of course can't work out as much due to the hip surgeries. If he's just standing at ringside he doesn't look too bad. Anything that requires him to move is painful to watch.

[Bix]

John McA...err, C.C. Milani posted this at WC thread about Pat Tanaka:

 

In 1990 the WWF had a mole somewhere in WCWs' offices. As soon as an indy guy (everyone not in WWF or WCW was an indy guy at this point) had agreed to work for WCW and had a contract faxed to them, the mole would call the WWF and let someone there know that the wrestler had an actual offer on the table. More often tham not, the WWF would immediately call the wrestler and offer them a contract.

 

I think Tanaka was the first wrestler they did this with, but he was far from the last.

[jdw]

McAdam is using a socko?

 

John

[Bix]

Yeah, but everybody knows it's him. Not sure why he's doing it.

[jdw]

WTF.