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It seems that Molly may have requested to leave. Apparently she got tired of doing jobs for talentless newbies.

I don't get why people still look forward to any drafts, they never move the people who need moved, it's always a bunch of jobbers and a upper mid card guy.

You can pretty much stop reading here. Never before has one sentence spoken so loudly.

I don't know how anyone who considers themselves to be a smart fan can say HHH didn't overshadow the show.

Holy shit.... Now there's no chance of ever having a watchable women's match again since Molly was the one who made most of the T&A sluts somehwt presentable in the ring.

I don't think there's too many smart fans left defending HHH. I know at one point years ago I took sides against the people bitching about glass ceilings (and I still stand by that, there's much more of one now than there was when it was the smark thing to do to bitch about it). What turned me against HHH is displays like last night where the spotlight had to be on him at all costs.

Hogan and the Sheik in MSG would blow the lid off the place. I'll admit, I mark out for Hogan now. As long as he's not in the title picture I don't have a problem with him as a novelty act.

The Russo Theory that winning doesn't matter led to 50/50 booking where everyone had to get their win back. Winning and losing doesn't matter anymore because everyone (except HHH of course) is batting .500 or less.

I think it hurt Davari's character to show that not only can he wrestle, he's pretty ripped for a small guy instead of the usual scrawny manager.

It's a shame wrestlers are notoriously selfish, RAW's begging for a locker room revolt. What could Vince do, fire everyone and have HHH give a 2 hour 10 minute promo?

HHH's promos make me long for the guy who yelled "GET TO THE POINT" at HBK that one time. Seriously, if HHH is the smartest man in the history of canvas and ropes, why does he waste so much time saying the same thing every week?

The moral here seems to be don't get injured or serve your country.

Well RAW was certainly interesting. On one hand you had a 20 minute Benoit-Christian match and the start of a good Shelton-Jericho program. On the other hand you had yet another looooooooooooooong winded HHH promo to grind the show to a halt and the continual undermining of Batista. Compare how the two brands' new champs started off: Smackdown: John Cena cuts a spirited promo in which he introduces (and does a good job of getting over) a new catchphrase. The champ.......is HERE. RAW: Batista gets less than 5 minutes of promo time before HHH has to come out and re-establish himself as the dominant guy on the show. I mean, odds are Batista isn't going to be able to cut a promo like Cena can, but they should really let him sink or swim on his own merits instead of letting HHH throw him an anchor.

He's also the embodiment of why they never will have one.

The name change stuff was for copyright issues, but he's repeatedly shown he wants to have control of all information about his workers, especially mid carders, when it doesn't even concern him.

WWE wants to control all aspects of a wrestler's life. Remember when they wanted all their workers to close their personal websites and only have WWE-operated sites? Vince is so paranoid about getting bad PR from his employees he's turing into a control nazi.

You'd think that they'd pay attention to which DVDs sell best and take that as a sign on what the fans want to see. Hell, if Comcast ever got off its ass and offered 24/7 I'd probably lose my job cause I'd be watching old NWA and AWA shows nonstop.

Apparently WWE is now a "drama free zone". I can't access that page (firewall at work blocks anything sports related which seems to include wwe.com) but what justification could there be releasing Matt Hardy? Wasn't he about ready to come back from his injury?

Maybe its just my bleeding-heart liberalness, but if someone's expressing suicidal thoughts you try to get them some help rather than kick them in the balls. I guess Vince already proved his views on suicidal employees with the whole Kerry Von Erich deal, so as long as the blood doesn't get on his suit no big deal.

Wow. This is turning into one of those stories that ends with "...and then he turned the gun on himself." Someone says they have nothing left to live for and they respond with firing him, taking away the one thing left in his life?

There's just something about how he uses the number of words in each issue as a selling point that makes me wonder if his high prices are worth it. Speaking of Dave's sales pitches, I always wondered why people in the industry would subscribe to the Observer. Especially now, since WWE is the only game in town. Seems kind of self-serving to read a newsletter full of stories about yourself, wouldn't you think?

It seems like Dave charges an awful lot for the newsletter. $90 doesn't even get you a full year sub. Does he know it's not 1986 and there's other sources for information besides newsletters? Just seems like an awful lot of money when you consider the best parts end up on the net in some form sooner or later anyway.

The "IWC" always gets behind the underdog, then if the WWE ever pushes them they end up turning on the guy faster than one of Hogan's tag partners. I think part of it is the somewhat elitist attitude of being a mark for someone underpushed just to be different, then once your guy gets pushed and has people on his bandwagon being a fan of the guy is nothing special. As far as Heyman style booking being hated, I'd wager most of the heat comes from the workrate wonks since that kind of booking usually protects poor workers. Not to mention sometimes Heyman didn't know when to stop, with half the matches having 947 run-ins and "lights go off and on" spots just to hide the fact that there was two garbage workers in the ring.

Austin and Eddie having good matches would have gone a long way toward making Eddie a star no matter if they had a long term program or not. One day WWE will learn that all you need to do to make someone a star is have them face a main event guy who's got mark cred to spare (Rock, Austin, HHH, Taker) and have the main event guy make him look like a million bucks. The main eventer doesn't even have to job as long as he makes the guy look credible. Then (and this is the part they haven't figured out yet) you let the guy try out his newly minted credibility before you have the main eventer who "made" him squishing the guy right out of the box.

Rhyno was over in ECW because of Heyman's ability to get anyone over and the fact that most of the guys in ECW were average sized. Once he was in the ring with WWE guys it really exposed him as a midget. I can't say I'm gonna miss him, but getting fired for breaking a flowerpot is pretty lame. I guess they view public domestic disturbances the same way they look at flying first class, only main eventers are allowed to.