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He did have contacts within WWE. He had been working with them as part of Team Services in the distribution of the Fanatix PPVs.

That sounds unlikely.

I've read Burgan's review and some excerpts on Google Books. Hassman's actions were so utterly ridiculous and damaging to TNA that they couldn't have been unintentional, and the whole situation (including the initial inDemand press release, which I can't wrap my head around at all) really deserves to be examined further than it has been in the past. Between everything Hassman did and the Team Services/WWE connection, it was not paranoid at all for the Jarretts to think that it was a WWE plan.

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I'd really love to know more about what actually happened there. I know the WWE sabotage idea sounds like something they wouldn't do so blatantly, but how incompetent could Hassman really be? Good summary here. One thing I forgot about was that inDemand had put out a press release that backed up Hassman's initial, inaccurate numbers. IIRC the lawsuit was settled in a fashion where nobody really came out on top.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/5/12/146...n-stupider-than I must emphasize: She made a MAJOR error here on several levels.

Googling around finds a newspaper TV rundown that mentions it airing on 5/26/85 on ABC.

(And didn't Dave's wife give birth to a daughter last year, too?)

Is it overly cynical to think NXT was created solely to build up and then bury Danielson?

Isn't that based partially on actual (non-sexual preference biased) scientific studies where people find those with facial characteristics closer to their own more attractive and trustworthy?

Nash had actually turned into a draw as a heel during his last several months in the WWF. Bret Hart vs The Undertaker vs Diesel turned house show business around.

That line overlaps "We Hate School" and "Crank It Up," doesn't it? (And yes, "Music Monday" will obviously be belated this week).

Bubba.

Did GLAAD think Chuck and Billy were actually gay and getting married? I don't remember that. I remember them getting snowed by WWE's claims about how positive it would be, but not that.

Please excerpt and post that. PLEASE.

Yeah...that's not what that means. WWE getting about 40% of the PPV price is standard. That doesn't mean that 40% of the PPV buys were in the US.

Booker T was also a buyout.

Carwin, not Lesnar. Is that in a paysite article? It's not in anything I saw there. Someone PM me the stuff plz.

Remember, they only bought a couple dozen undercard and midcard wrestler contracts, since the rest were funneled through Turner Home Entertainment for funky accounting reasons. Anyone contract that wasn't an asset of WCW had to be negotiated individually after taking a buyout from THE for a fraction of the deal's total value.

Belatedly, I give you Piledriver.

I was with Tom and never heard of anyone rating that team highly before. DiBiase didn't exactly set the world on fire in Japan. He wasn't bad but he didn't fit in well.

Didn't America's Team-MX get blown off during the Bash tour with the six person tag matches?

Chyna is still a crazy, depressing mess.

SLL starts with Pearl Forrester of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

So is the answer to the inevitable "Why didn't they just run specials after basketball season?" question that NBC was desperate for live sports-ish programming and didn't care about WCW when they didn't need them anymore?