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They probably have more faith since Jericho's roughly a zillion times better as a heel.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I remember Barry Windham going up against Harley Race in Florida, and despite losing, it pretty much made Barry's career because Gordon Solie put over how much of a fight the kid put up against the veteran champ. Sometimes losing ends up a bigger push than winning.

According to Kevin Nash, Shane McMahon is a lot more hip than his rich-boy personna lets on. Unfortunately he's the one person in the family who doesn't seem to want to be in the business.

I second the notion for full introductions in the ring for title matches. The NWA did this (they still do it for NWA title matches actually) and it made the champ look like a million dollars. Your champion is the most important man in your promotion, his matches shouldn't look the same as Random Jobber #1 vs Random Jobber #2 that opened the show. I agree with the sneak attacks too. Hell, look at the reaction HBK got for turning on Hogan, which you could argue was a sneak attack since most people didn't see it coming.

That's one of the best ideas I've heard. Have something like a longer version of the "Smackdown Rebound" segments recapping OWV TV. Baseball fans not only follow prospects, they know that the hot AAA outfielder is probably going to struggle at first until he gets acclimated with major league pitching. They could very easily apply that thinking to wrestling, so OVW guys wouldn't be expected to be mega stars right out of the box.

I don't think he's done anything remarkable since leaving WCW, but I don't watch the B shows.

Hearing that WWE feels that announcers preparing is "markish" just stunned me. Who knew that Gordon Solie was the biggest mark ever in the business.

They should just hire us to book and write for them.

So I guess Stevie got a receipt for Meanie? I guess JBL's punishment is a feud with the bWo. Hassan and Davari have terrorists helping them now? Wow, WWE's really on a roll with the blindingly stupid angles with racist overtones.

1. Revamp the RAW set, it's been pretty much the same since they went to the Attitiude era. It's tired looking, and a revamp would help get people excited again. 2. Keep the brand split. People who argue that the split isn't working don't seem to realize that if it wasn't for the split, we'd have 4 hours of HHH every week while the rest of the roster fights for a spot on Velocity. 3. Hire someone to filter out bad ideas, and don't fire them when they do just that. Vince Russo was the prime example of someone who could be a great writer as long as there was someone to veto the more stupid ideas. 4. Make the cruisers a part of the show like how WCW did. Don't sign the latest high flying indy star and then force them to mat wrestle WWE style. It's not like they're ever going to be bothered to have long term angles for these guys, so let them show what they can do. 5. They really need to cut back on the PPVs. It puts them in a vicious cycle, they won't cut back on PPVs because they need the money, but they need the money because fans aren't as interested in buying PPVs every month. After the Big Four shows, there really isn't a reason to have the other filler shows. With their new deal on USA, they should have specials like a new version of Saturday Night Main Event to stoke some interest in wrestling again. 6. Stop insulting the fans. I know, it's probably the least likely thing to happen. It's at the point now where most of the fans watching are of the smart variety, don't piss on them by taking guys they like to watch and make them into stupid gimmicks. 7. Sort of related to point #6, looking at the stupid gimmicks and the diva search, it's clear that WWE has forgotten that the point is to entertain the fans, not to entertain themselves. *edit: doh, hit "post" instead of "preview"* 8. Either have a viable women's division and/or bring back valets, or stop hiring women who have no use. WWE has done what I thought wasn't possible: made hot women boring. 9. Bring back male managers to help the green guys they call up from OVW get over rather than throwing them to the wolves. For that matter, they should revamp the developmental system so that guys aren't learning one way, then when they get the call to go to WWE end up working entirely different. When a company needs new stars, quit setting them up to fail. 10. Make titles mean something. It's aggrivating how they do it with some titles (namely the HHH Memorial Belt) but not others (the RAW tag titles, the ones with the history). They're doing okay rehabbing the IC belt, but it's sad to think the titles once held by Demolition, The Bulldogs, and the Hart Foundation is now held by Rosey and the Hurricane.

It's simply mind boggling that anyone involved thinks this is a good idea. I was talking to a friend on AIM after RAW and his only comment was "so is he going to be managed by Kerwin Classic now?"

If nothing else, Shawn sure knows how to make a memorable heel turn.

I'll admit, I was stunned. I thought he was dead set against turning heel. First time in a long, long time something in wrestling caught me by surprise.

Well that was unexpected. Guess Jesus decided it was okay to be a heel after all.

Is it me or does it seem they're going out of their way to insult as much of their audience as possible? Who wants to watch Hulk Hogan grill some 22 year old who's going out with his daughter who despite being 16 is pimped like the next sex object pop tart. Yeah, millions of CD buyers can have wank fantasies about her but don't dare let some kid she's already friends with have a sniff. What the fuck is going on with Chavo? Smackdown's largest growing audience is latinos and WWE is basically telling them to fuck off with this gimmick. The fans couldn't have made it any more clear they don't want this Diva shit wasting TV time, but Vince apparently is a mark for it so here it is. I did laugh for the one bimbo doing a total Goldberg-ian ass plant. Thats what you get for trying to show off, dipshit.

*bumping rather than starting a new thread* I was reading the box for this at Media Play yesterday (didn't buy it...$31.99? African-American please!) and I wondered how can they advertise NWA title matches on WWE releases? I know they own the footage, but doesn't the NWA or TNA or someone own the rights to the name and/or likeness of the NWA title?

I was loving the Eddie/Rey feud, but getting kids involved made my Wrestlecrap sense tingle. That's a line wrestling companies shouldn't cross, getting young kids involved in angles. Especially the way the WWE works, it just paints them in a corner. Either it's going to be something horribly offensive that a kid shouldn't be involved with, or it'll end up having a lame cop-out payoff when WWE gets afraid of bad publicity for getting children involved in storylines. The moment they aired that footage on SD! of Eddie in the playground, I channeled the spirit of Han Solo and had a bad feeling about this.

Some of these arguments against HHH are ridiculous. People are acting like he's to blame for business going down and not the fact WCW went out of business and wrestling lost half its audience. This whole "HHH had one good year" is silly too, he's become more selective in his performances to be sure but he can still put on a **** match when he wants to. I'll grant he came back too soon from the quad tear and it took a while for him to regain his form, but he's had some excellent performances since then.

I guess they're finally realizing Grenier is dead weight.

It's becoming kind of sad to watch them try to dress up the fact that their core business, American TV ratings and PPV buys, are getting smaller and smaller.

I think the 'Birds should get in based on their work in Texas alone. The heat for the feud with the Von Erichs was nuclear. I have that DVD Kevin put out, and most of the matches are against the Freebirds. Michael Hayes gets "I'm going to kill you" heat just standing in the ring.

I wouldn't object to HHH being in a HOF. For better or worse, he has been a main event player for several years and he's had several top level matches (admittedly when he feels like it).

It's still a travesty the Rock n' Rolls aren't in, considering they re-defined tag team wrestling and pretty much set the standard for babyface heat.

I'd have a hard time not voting for any of the non-performer's list. Every one left an indelible mark on the business.

Here's one: Fact or Fiction... HTQ is dead.