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Well that certainly cements my opinon of Brody as a selfish dick. Looked like he got pissed after the headbutt to the cage spot where both guys ended up going down that certainly looked like a botch. No reason to decide to stop co-operating and make the biggest star in the territory look like a chump. Also, the whole internet legend of "Luger wet his pants and ran like a baby" can finally be put to rest. You can see he's clearly fed up with Brody's bullshit and just hits the ref to kayfabe a DQ and leaves.

Can I point out how annoying it is to see how people on the net have decided the new ECW is a failure just because Vince isn't kissing smark ass? The bar was set so ridiculously low (running small venues for shows and being on a low ratings network like Sci-Fi) that business wise it couldn't possibly do anything but make the company a few extra dollars and earn some guys a guaranteed paycheck. Also, all those fans in the Hammerstein last night with all the wacky chants and turning their backs on the main event match need to be reminded they paid their money to Vince for their fucking tickets. If the new ECW is that goddamned offensive to your delicate sense of wrestling history, don't fucking buy tickets to watch it. I guess the ECW guys should have stayed working for the guy handing out the rubber checks just to keep their smark cred. Damn them for selling out to the MAN just so they can do silly stuff like pay bills and eat.

Being okay with it doesn't make it any less disgusting, and it smacks of someone trying to make excuses for feeling some level of guilt watching people shame themselves like this. I know you don't watch WWE Dave, but most of the people who put that argument forward do. Melanie Pillman obviously agreed to go on TV the day after her husband died, that doesn't make it any less goulish and creepy to watch that segment and see them zoom in to her face to the point where you can document every tear dropping from her eye while he was doing his best to coax her into saying "wasn't your fault, Vince". People agree to do things they may not really think is best if they're in a tight enough financial situation and need money.

In their mind, they were. It was supposed to get Rey over as an underdog babyface champion, but it became clear that he was only getting pops for mentioning Eddie. Not that Rey wasn't over, but he wasn't WWE Main Eventer over. I'm just hoping this isn't as bad as the infamous Melanie Pillman segment, which to me is the most disgusting moment of WWF/E TV ever.

Apparently the plan for SmackDown is to have Chavo feud with Rey over him using Eddie as an inspiration for his World Title run. Fine, I can live with that. It's kinda tacky, but by carny standards it's defendable at least. Now I hear the further plans are to not only have Vicki involved but to have her turn heel and side with Chavo as well. Someone tell me how this isn't crossing some sort of line, even by the usually low SPORTZ ENTERTAINMENT standards. The usual arguments of "you can't judge cause they're family and knew Eddie better than we do" don't fly considering this is fast approaching Fritz Von Erich levels of turning a family tragedy into fun and profit. Also as was pointed out on SC, there's no one who knew Eddie and isn't employed by Vince than thinks Eddie would be down with this.

I think is mostly a matter of overstaying one's welcome. All the greats have done it: Hogan, Flair, Piper, Austin, even Foley (he's done a good job of limiting his appearances so it's not as obvious with him). Guys aren't able to stay at their peak forever, and they spend the time afterwards trying to reclaim that peak (or even worse pretend like they're still at their peak). His constant political games also wear away at his legacy as well. His behavior during and after the Hogan feud was completely inexcusable for a guy at his level.

ECW mutants completely shitting on the Big Show-Batista main event tonight was quite possibly the funniest thing ever. That kid in the orange shirt in the front row really got under Show's skin. Given Vince's penchant for doing things just too piss off the mutants, I fully expect to see CM Punk in a bra and panties match next week.

A fun game to play when watching 80s NWA TV is to watch whoever the announcer is try not to lose it during Ric Flair promos. Tony usually was able to keep a straight face, David Crockett usually couldn't.

Seeing Elijah Burke from OVW getting the callup to be Sylvester Terkay's manager on SmackDown made me realize that WWE now has 3 male managers (along with Davari and Estrada) for the first time in a long while. Could it be that word finally broke through the McMahon Wall of Secrecy that putting new guys with managers who can talk is a good way to get people over?

You should demand they get On Demand capabilities first, then demand they carry WWE.

I wouldn't be surprised if they offered a discount. Howard Stern On Demand is $13.99 a month but Comcast offers it at $9.99.

Consider this HAWT INSIDER INFO~! if you will, but we recieved word that WWE 24/7 will start on August 15th for Comcast subscribers. Price will be $7.99 a month. Bonus NEWZ: WWE is running a contest for SummerSlam where the grand prize is a backyard BBQ with a WWE Superstar.

As I recall, what sent Scooter over the edge is that JBL was the one tapped to take the belt when Eddie was cracking under the pressure.

I have a feeling that Hep C or something similar will be the kayfabe reason, with the real reason probably being a side effect from roids (or a supplement meant to replace roids). Either way, it's pretty much a lock at this point that roids had to have played some role in this, it'll be funny what the segment of internet fans who are in denial about steriod use think of this.

Sharing needles is a good way for a group of people to catch a blood borne disease.

Saw this on the WWC TV report on the Observer site: ...and I realized the answer was "NWA 1989"

There's a difference between getting hurt in a real fight and getting hurt in a fake fight, especially when the fake fight depends alot on your opponent doing his moves properly and not dropping you.

Perhaps, but there's rumors that Vince wants to create an nWo faction to feud with DX.

This is the poster that is popping up for this year's event: This ties in to a story at 1millionpopupswrestling that WWE was planning on having DX last longer than planned due to positive fan reaction and possibly having Hogan lead an nWo faction against them.

WWE could always sign David Flair (he's still on the indies somewhere, right?) and call up Cody Runnels in honor of the 20th anniversary of Dusty's last NWA title win, which was July 26th 1986 by the way.

Wow, I just watched Batista vs Kennedy from the Bash and Big Dave almost killed the guy 3 times in that match. Poor Ken gets busted open hardway twice and then almost gets dropped on his head with the Batista Bomb.

Say what you will about Hogan, he's the greatest when it comes to coked out promos. Warrior wishes he was this good. THANK GOD DONALD TRUMP IS A HULAMANIAC~!

Yeah, cause Vince would never let a female run the comp...oh yeah, that's right.

Those few guys tend to be the top stars in both companies. TNA wants to run houseshows, ROH only runs houseshows. ROH wants the guys who made their name in the biz under them to make ROH shows a priority if they conflict with a TNA date, even if it's a PPV. It seems like in any other business a deal could be reached that would be benefical to both sides in many ways, but again wrestling's way too carny for it to ever work.