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You know, reading stuff like this, it's pretty apparent why this fellow is no longer a WWE writer. Well, either that, or his desire to have a life.

I think on one of the last Prime Times that aired, they did this with the Blowaway Diet fake commercial with Buddy Rose. I just think they were often pressed for time, so they would just reair something on there and hope nobody noticed. I don't get the feeling Prime Time was very high priority at this point anyway, they cared more about the syndie package because cable wasn't nearly as prominent.

More to the point, doesn't chemo really wear a person down? Is he really going to get on his wife's case from being worn down by the chemo to the point where she couldn't vacuum? I mean, that's a really nasty thing to say about his wife when she was undergoing something so difficult he can't even fathom. If there's anybody being a cunt in this instance, it's Batista (not that I thought JHawk were calling Batista's wife a cunt, just saying).

That really should be the company slogan.

It's a house organ board to push their own DVD sales by having like-minded fans rave about how great their shows are, hoping to get other people to buy their shows. What did you expect?

When you look at it like that, really, the Kronus thing may have only been the tip of the iceberg.

Not to mention cheating to squeak out a win against an extremely green Maven, who couldn't defeat anybody in the WWE at that point. Jericho's undisputed title reign was one of the worst championship runs ever. It was booked so, so awful. The first month or so wasn't THAT bad. I mean, watch the Royal Rumble match with The Rock. I thought he came out of that looking like a great heel champ is supposed to look. He was also booked strong when he won the belts at Armageddon. The problems started at No Way Out, where he was booked as an afterthought to the nWo against Steve Austin, and then heading into Mania, where he was definitely at least the #3 guy in his feud with HHH (and possibly #4 behind HHH's dog). But credit where credit is due, the first month or so of his reign was done really well.

Not to mention that Dynamite Kid "sucking it the hell up" probably had a lot to do with the fact that he was in a wheelchair to begin with. Maybe if he "sucked it the hell up" less and took care of his body more, he'd be walking today.

It was David Crockett.

Black Bart was in WWF in 1990, and I think Sam Houston was pretty much out of the mainstream wrestling scene entirely by then.

And then won it back in a potential WWE MOTY I like how the main event being a good match gets people to ignore the nonsensical path it took to get there. Seriously, what was the point of giving Orton the belt and having him lose it and win it the same night? They could have had the main event they did without all the other bullshit. That was some very TNA-ish booking that will get completely no-sold by the masses because HHH lost in the end and the match was good. It was done for two reasons: 1) So creative can justify their job by taking a path to the title that's never been done before, and 2) So HHH could beat the new champion, and then win two matches on one show before doing his first job since coming back from surgery, making him look like the uncrowned champion who only lost because he worked three times on one show. Not to be one of "those guys," but this looked like a show really built around HHH's ego more than anything else, and with Cena out for an extended period of time, Raw will be the HHH Show for the foreseeable future.

Cornette? Did he suddenly learn how to use a computer?

Actually according to this week's WON, Angle is majorly in Dixie Carter's ear and may wind up swiping TNA right out from underneath Jarrett.

Is that really that horrible? How many current WWE fans have been fans for longer than ten years? Maybe 5-10%?

Oh, wow. I didn't even consider that angle of it. RAW didn't even have the best six-months of work in a WWE demi-promotion in 2007. To be fair, the RAW main events were better than the Smackdown main events, but Smackdown had a better top-to-bottom show.

From the way Alvarez phrased it, a little from column A, a little from column B.

Really? We're giving Michaels the credit for all of the great matches from the first half of the year? Not Cena, who had the great matches with Umaga, Michaels, and the miracles he worked with Khali (which may turn out to be viewed as the best work he's ever done in the ring)? Not Umaga, who made Lashley look like a real professional wrestler at Wrestlemania? I generally like Alvarez, but I can't for the life of me figure out how Michaels was more responsible than Cena for the great main events from WWE this year. Fuck that, look at the other half of that claim: "the best six months of weekly high-level in-ring action that there has perhaps ever been in any promotion in the world." Not that WWE wasn't great the first half of this year (and still is to a certain extent), but he's not just putting 2007 Michaels ahead of 2007 Cena, Umaga, and Hardys, he's putting 2007 Michaels ahead of 1974 Jack Brisco, 1976 Jumbo, 1977 Race, 1986 Flair, 1989 Flair, 1990 Jumbo, 1992 Liger, 1993-95 Kawada, 1997 El Hijo del Santo and Negro Casas, 1997 Eddie Guerrero, 2005 Eddie Guerrero, practically any six month period between 1974 and 1986 for Jerry Lawler...I could go on forever. It's an astoundingly stupid claim. Yeah, I was so incredulous about Alvarez giving Michaels credit for all of the good work in the first half of the year (when he wasn't even the fifth best guy on Raw at that point) that I glossed over the second half, which is equally ludicrous. I mean, was the first half of 2007 even Michaels' best six months of work ever?

From this week's Figure Four Weekly about Michaels contemplating retirement: Really? We're giving Michaels the credit for all of the great matches from the first half of the year? Not Cena, who had the great matches with Umaga, Michaels, and the miracles he worked with Khali (which may turn out to be viewed as the best work he's ever done in the ring)? Not Umaga, who made Lashley look like a real professional wrestler at Wrestlemania? I generally like Alvarez, but I can't for the life of me figure out how Michaels was more responsible than Cena for the great main events from WWE this year.

If that's the case, way to go Gabe. You are as successful a promoter as Michael Modest.

No, I think all wrestlers would be better off by no longer being wrestlers, but if you're going to insist on being a wrestler...I mean, make money while you still can. The ROH lifestyle is not going to make you a living. Working for Vince isn't going to be any better on your body, but at least you'll be paid well. Danielson is getting the same concussions that wrestlers in WWE are receiving, the same wear and tear on his body. If anything, it's worse; I mean, who was the last WWE wrestler to have his eyeball knocked out of his head? I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I just see the ROH lifestyle as being a dead-end, and if Danielson has other interests which won't wind up with his body breaking down, he should go for them rather than continue to wreck himself to receive "Best in the world!" chants. It goes back to Mick Foley's interviews on ECW back in 1995, where he decried the hardcore wrestling style on the indy level, where wrestlers wrecked their bodies for Heyman for little pay, and the result was the hardcore drug culture that existed in ECW, and look at all of the ECW casualties over the years. The ROH style is as hard on the human body as the ECW style, the pay isn't much better, and the end result isn't any better; fans go crazy, wrestler's body is wrecked, no money to show for it.

Not really, because working a full-time indy schedule means you are compensated monetarily about as well as the senior cashier at the local 7-11. It is not possible to be self-sufficient working an indy schedule alone, and I suspect that in order to avoid being dirt poor, he would probably have to work a second job, assuming he hasn't been fired from said second job for missing time repeatedly due to injuries suffered working such a hard style. But yeah, destroying himself for the benefit of ROH fans just to hear them chant "BEST IN THE WORLD!" is not a worthwhile existence. Good for him if he enjoys it now, but when his body is broken down years from now and he gave up prime earning years just for some fake "best wrestler in the world" title, I suspect he'll regret it.

Danielson is an idiot, to be sure, but he has made his own bed here by refusing to sign with a wrestling company that will compensate him better. By continuing to work indies, he opens himself up to situations where if he isn't wrestling, he isn't getting paid, thus putting himself in greater danger of getting seriously hurt. You would think that the separated shoulder and separated eyeball would put this shitty business in perspective and get him off the "OMG PRO WRES ARTISTE~" gimmick he seems to be running and realize it's time to get paid, but...well, he's an idiot.

I don't know, I just don't see the comparison to Rocky Balboa working at all. No, it wasn't a box office hit, but since when has wrestling been reflective of what has worked at the movie box office, or vice versa? Wrestling has always existed in its own little world, and within the wrestling fanbase, I sense there would be a great deal of interest in a final Flair run near the top, although I would think it would have to be made clear that this is truly the end and at the end he would have to retire for good.

Oh man, that fucking match. Briscoe had like two weeks after he took some ridiculous head drop on his head, and then focused an entire match around getting dumped on his head repeatedly without protecting himself. That match made me hate wrestling for a good few weeks. Mark Briscoe might die before he's 35, legit.