Mad Dog

Are they really talking about bringing in minis or are you talking about the Tolands who attacked the Mexicools. The Tolands are actually fairly decent and funny when given the chance.

Triple H also sucks when he's not working with one of his buddies. Look at his 47 minute ego-fest with Michaels last year. That whole match was barely better than a garbage match.

I think Triple H is barely better than a garbage wrestler on the indy scene now. Notice Triple H has troubles with matches where he can't use weapons or brawl the whole time. JBL's obsession with becoming Stan Hansen-lite has had a positive effect on his wrestling even though I still am bored by him.

I noticed that too.

Just to add. How many times has Batista fallen for the heel pretending to be a face gag. He's looking like a complete retard to be buying into the Eddie reform after getting burned by Flair multiple times.

I just saw the BoogeyMan's debut on Smackdown and it was so weird and awful that I couldn't even laugh at how bad the segment was.

Maybe they could've dusted off the Waylon Mercy gimmick for him.

I always laugh when they make fun of WCW giving away Goldberg/Hogan for free because they gave away that match for free. I think the WWF really blew it with him a lot of times. The Showster days was probably the closest they came to hitting with him. I think his WWF Title run could've worked had they not sabotaged him by having his first big defense been against the Bossman.

That and they berate guys backstage for actually trying to learn about the product. They supposedly mocked Michael Cole repeatedly for being a mark when he tried to learn about wrestling.

I'm getting the feeling that Linda's heel turn might end up being the WWF's own "fingerpoke of doom."

Yeah but ECW created their own problems. They were highly insulting towards TNN during their whole stay there.

That's pretty low on the list. They've been way creepier with Vince/Steph before. The incestual undertones to that Trish thing in 2001 was the worst. Also lets not forgot they turned a rapist into a face character you were supposed to feel sympathy for last year. And there's also the Katie Vick thing. I think the only deviant behavior they haven't hit in the last 4 years is beastiality and pedophile stuff.

That's great news. Slowly climbing to that 1.0 mark.

JBL almost always beats Mysterio.

Haven't they done that angle with him everytime they want to turn him face?

Not to sound really stupid but I thought Uncle Eddie was a heel.

You know, they could turn next year's Mania to Summerslam time into a decent run if they'd get over their big man fetish and push Mysterio to the title. I think they could have some success with him on top. With that said it'll never happen.

New IWGP Champion:

I'm trying to think of potential young replacements for Ross and getting nothing. There really is a lack of quality wrestling announcers these days.

I don't think you can teach the guy to get excited about something he doesn't care about though. I don't think Goldberg is capable of playing off of a heel color guy. He usually just let's Rogan control the flow during UFC stuff. It can't be worse than the McMahon/Savage/Bartlett era Raws.

It seems like a bad decision to me as well. He definately can't get by without being emotional about the product. It only slides in the UFC because it's a real sport and he's not trying to sell some silly storyline. Just look at Don West. He annoys people but he at least has passion for what he's watching. I don't know who they could've gotten though. I think Scott Hudson is the only acceptable PBP man around. People will say Joey Styles but his quirks will get tiring within a few weeks on Raw. I personally would sign Jim Cornette or Gary Michael Capetta but that's just me.

I would tend to agree with him. I think Piper's just a little eccentric and some of it's a show but Savage seems to actually think he's the Macho Man character from the 80s.

That was my thought as well. Maybe they think he'll be turning up dead soon after he's ODed on something and don't want to be associated with him if that does indeed happen.

PWInsider said something that they might be looking to replace him with Mike Goldberg. I don't think he's what they're looking for in an announcer. Lacks emotion and not a good shill. He only fits in with UFC because it's a real sport.

I'd say it's between Sting and Ric Flair. Flair had a longer period as a draw but Sting's run in 96-98 might be enough to be slighly higher.