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Why wouldn't it be, it's part of RAW's TV deal after all...

I was reading WWE's finanical filings (ever since I took accounting classes, that stuff interests me) and I saw this in the section on the new TV deal: I've seen it mentioned as a hypothetical before, but this is the first thing I've read that confirms it: Saturday Night's Main Event is back!

I'll miss his horribly contrived ref bumps more, how will HHH win a match now that he won't have Earl launching himself in the path of every Irish Whip?

I think moving Cena off Smackdown is going to end up being another case of WWE botching a sure thing. His hip-hop gimmick seems so out of place on RAW and you know he's going to be cannon fodder once HHH comes back from his summer vacation. To paraphrase Brando: Cena coulda been somebody, but on RAW he'll end up just a bum.

So I guess Nova's a Velocity-only gimmick?

That was pretty cool in a freaky way.... One thing TNA seems to have learned is that production is the key to success, they do a really good job with their promos and packages. "Rhino is here.....more are coming" Think they already have people lined up from the WWE release pile?

Anyone else notice everyone seems to be really stressing that HHH's vacation has nothing to do with Hogan, no sir. It's as if all the people who leak info to the sheets got the same memo to stress that point. Also, doesn't it seem that TNA got an even worse deal than ECW did? Paying for their own TV time? They spent all that time ironing out a deal and this is what the result was? BTW, does anyone have a clip or screen cap of the backward messages in the TNA PPV intro?

I think they were trying to sell his head injury from when he lost the title, since he was able to keep his balance when they did the spot where he got put in the Tree of Woe.

Man, Philly was the absolutely the worst place to have such a long Diva segment. Those were the loudest "BORING" chants I've heard in years. But these segments are basically Vince shoving his dick in the fans' face so it doesn't matter how loudly the fans turn on these segments.

Not to mention the tired company line of workers being asked to go to creative if they have any ideas for their character. Yeah, do that, and if you end up thinking of something better than creative could you run the risk of getting cut because you rub someone the wrong way.

It's been said a million times, but who the fuck thinks this crap like having someone wear antlers would EVER work? I mean, it didn't work the FIRST time they tried it: It's 2005, cartoon gimmicks just don't fly anymore.

Perhaps they'd do the old Rick Rude bit where the security team is in full SWAT gear and one of them turns out to be Matt.

So basically HHH didn't want to pull the trigger on the Flair turn they always jerk the fans around with, and decided to lose his smile for a couple months. Tremendous.

Looks like that pic is from OVW. I don't get why WWE doesn't understand why stuff like the Hardy angle got the pop of the night and Kane vs Snitsky doesn't.

ROH fans come off to me like less ignorant versions of ECW mutants, with the whole "every other company is subpar to ours" mentality. It's fine to be a fan of whatever you want but sometimes people who are marks for these small indy promotions lose perspective when it comes to who needs who for business.

This can't be overlooked. Watch tapes of World Class and you'll see that the walkways were so small it looked like they were walking through the crowd. The Von Erichs would almost get stripped naked by the crush of female fans as they walked to the ring. It made them look like the most important people in the universe, and for that moment in that arena, they were. I never understood why WWF/E started keeping the lights on for the whole crowd, having just the ring lit would go light years toward fixing the growing problem of idiots going to WWE shows just to get themselves (or their websites) over.

Hilarous comments from Tazz re: Michael Cole.... No matter how you look at it, that's just too funny for words.

My point was that Awesome (IMO at least) doesn't suck any more or less than the hosses they did keep, which is why it suprised me he didn't get signed since he was at least over at one point.

Booker T: He's been on autopilot since leaving WCW, despite showing signs of life recently with the program he had going w/ Angle. He was a great worker until it seemed he just came to terms with never getting a real chance in WWE and just started to coast. Tito Santana: He's one of those guys who's prime came *just* before the big boom of the 80s. Most people remember him as the guy who was in a couple tag teams and jobbed at Wrestlemania every year. His matches with Greg Valentine over the IC title were usually excellent, and his feud with Savage helped launch the Macho Man into the upper tier of the WWF. Jun Akiyama: I always saw him as like the Randy Savage of Japan in the sense that he was unfortunate enough to never get the full focus of the fans. He seemed to always be in someone else's shadow. Still, I always enjoy watching his work. Hulk Hogan: It's funny, I never liked him growing up. Maybe I was just cynical at a young age, but I was never a Hulkamaniac. Hell, I even marked out when he got squished by the Earthquake. You can't deny that Hogan's probably the most brilliant politican ever in wrestling history, his heel turn and nWo run was a work of art until WCW let him get too much control. Ironically, I don't mind his nostalgia runs of the last couple years. As long as he's not being pushed as a title contender, I don't mind his occaisonal ego strokes. Mike Awesome: Everyone gives Heyman credit for being so protective of Awesome, but he really didn't do anything that wasn't already done when Awesome was the Gladiator in Japan. I'm kinda surprised WWE didn't sign him, since he has the hoss credientals they like.

Yeah, but this is WWE we're talking about, since when to they care about if something's big for another company? That's the part that baffles me, since this is completely out of character for WWE to help another company out even if it helps them in the long run.

I'm surprised the "smart" fans that ROH seems to attract haven't turned on the company for having such an obvious working relationship with WWE, the evil empire. Hell, for that matter, I'm suprised that WWE has allowed what could possibly be a big angle develop outside of their sphere of influence.

Benjamin has said he uses the Stinger Splash because he was a Sting fan growing up, and HBK trained Cade so I'd assume he was a big influence there.

Road Warrior Animal returns! What more do you want!

Yeah, there's nothing more irritating than someone who acts like they're better than what they're reviewing/transcribing. You're a wrestling fan for chrissakes, don't act so goddamn uppity.

Boy, was that guy who did the transcripts a self-important douche or what? Did we really need his MST3K type comments after every paragraph?