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Anyone else get the impression that it finally sunk in during the Elimination Chamber match that Cena was getting booed and they decided on the spot to switch the title?

Seems like Angle going out first was classic WWE style "fuck you" booking. Creative seems mad that they can't get the crowd to boo Angle, and they know the crowd wants Angle to win, so they say "fuck you" to their paying customers and job out the guy they want to win first. Now the crowd's probably going to shit on whoever wins because it's not who they wanted to see.

It's also a good possibility that this kid will end up running WWE one day, since it seems like Steph and Hunter will inherit the lion's share of the operation when Vince dies. I'm expecting the full Lion King treatment when this kid's born, complete with Pat Patterson holding the child up so the whole locker room can bow to him.

I think it's obviously important to have some kind of system in place to keep rookies from having a big head (especially since WWE is pushing a lot of guys who are greener than grass), but the current locker room police have a history of punishing people over petty shit.

I know these things are probably planned in advance and can't be helped, but I wonder if after seeing 2005 end in the death of a top superstar and a new drug policy in place if WWE sees any irony in the first DVD release of 2006 being Superstar Billy Graham.

From WM 6 after Bobby Heenan slapped Andre around (causing him to turn face) Mean Gene interviewed him later in the show: Gene: Bobby Heenan, What gives you the ba...NERVE to do what you did to Andre the Giant? Heenan (trying to keep in character while trying not to laugh at Gene): I'll tell you what gives me the *long pause* NERVE!

WWE did a good job editing Smackdown. If you didn't read the reports or see the feed video, you'd never have known Mark Henry jobbed to the cage.

I'm watching WM9, and did the real story behind Hogan's black eye ever come out? I've heard it was an accident at the gym (which is what the storyline was, with the implication Money Inc made it happen) and I've heard it was Savage busting Hulk in the grill over something (Liz?). All I know is if it was Savage, dude has a hell of a punch since it looks like Hogan has an egg over his eye socket.

OK, then we need a new term for people who constantly bitch about wrestling no matter what any company does, always talks about never watching again (but they still know the latest angles), and are always contridicting themselves when they complain about what they want to see.

I define smarks as people who want every fed booked to their specifcations, and then bitch when it's not (no matter if what was booked instead is good or not).

Watching the Best of Piper's Pit made me realize how well Adrian Adonis pulled off his role. I also noticed how his signoff to the Flower Shop was to tell the audience to drive home safely and may the Lord be your co-pilot, pretty ironic considering the way he died.

I just got the WM 9 section of the WM box set from Netflix today. Let the hilarity ensue.

What makes it worse is some of the complaints are valid, his finisher (at least the way he does it now) is horrible, and his gimmick is way watered down than it was when he first started doing it. Him being able to wrestle or not would be valid, but that's not nearly as essential as the smarks make it seem. My only complaint is that he should never have been taken from Smackdown. He just doesn't fit on RAW.

That was expected, but still, I'm gonna miss hearing wacky Juvi stories.

The whole "Cena needs to drop the title" nonsense is getting more insane by the day. The fact is Cena's getting more reaction than anyone on the roster, even if it's not the intended one. He's already acknowledged in promos that half the crowd hates him, they'd be better off turning him heel than having him drop the title.

It probably had something to do with DVD being a new medium. Any rights deals set up before DVDs only mention rights on TV and audio/video tape, and companies are finding they have to make a new rights deal for DVD. I guess its what happened here.

I was wandering around over at Obsessedwithwrestling.com and I think I'm pretty confident Ray Gordy will have a good career with WWE. Why to I feel this way? He knows to impress the right people.

Most of the time the guy wrestling the bear was the bear's trainer, so he'd know what he could do without getting mauled to death.

Well that was quite the reasoned reply. Are you suggesting they haven't spent the last few months making OJ look like a jobber?

I'd be digging it more if they hadn't gone to such lengths to make OJ look like a jobber, and having him point out he held the belt longer than Benoit is kind of an indirect burial since it's basically saying he's not as good a champ as the jobber was.

I still don't get why they had to replace half the music. I can't imagine Jimmy Hart played hardball with them. Someone in the Amazon reviews said it had something to do with Rick Derringer, but he did Real American too and they certainly have the rights to that song.

Steph calling other women fat...nope, don't see any projection there, no sir.

Even Gorilla reacted to that clothesline on the replay. Marty or Mr. Perfect must have been giving Tito some selling pointers for that.

Thank God for Netflix so I didn't have to drop $200 on this.

I think I'd rather have JBL beat my ass in the locker room and have it be done and over with than have someone like Steph constantly reminding me she's pissed at something real or made up.