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They should have Fandango win the managerial services of Emma for a month and then have to dance with her. That would bring the laughs.

If this was an experiment, the control would be RVD.

It's not too late for them to do the superidol Emma/Bailey tag team. Alternatively, they could do AJ, Paige, and Bailey as the Powerpuff girls and we can just forget about Emma.

When Twilight gets hot again?

At this point they should just gut the whole thing and make Injustice-Gods Among Us the official universe. You get the feeling they kind of want to do that anyway. It'd be a mercy killing and probably make them more money.

It really does switch between that and freaking Let It Go these days, doesn't it?

It was sort of legendary in the late 90s in a "You have to see this! It's insane!" way.

King of the Ring is right there.

Will doesn't get amped. Will stays amped.

I'm not saying the Legacy thing was outright fiction, but man was it ever surreal. Talk about WWE having control of history.

It looks like some sort of CGI error.

There's not a lot in the first part of the article about Dustin's resurgence, admittedly. I think the key word here is worker, because it highlights the athleticism now, and yes, he's super athletic, bucking a trend and sort of blurring the line. If we leave the idea of workrate out of it, it's more interesting to me. When it comes to controlling an audience and understanding psychology and what to do, when and why, in order to get the maximum response possible, it makes a lot of sense to me that a wrestler would be better at this at 45 than 30. Dustin, in the documentary on the network, says that he's out there to tell stories, and who knows if that's a mindset he had fifteen years ago or a mindset that most 30 year olds in wrestling have today?

I haven't had any time to touch this over the last few days, but obviously, it's near and dear to me so I'm glad people are looking at it and I'll contribute when I get a chance.

There's really nothing in the WON about it. Just that it wasn't a legit injury, of course.

I don't think most people would have figured that they would actually use the Bad News Barrett gimmick on TV. Steph was in on the Clem act this week.

If only that means Heath Slater gets a singles push as Clem Layfield You are joking but I kind of think it is about to happen.

Fixed it.

Yeah, actually, they were talking a lot of the match about what side Elizabeth might be on at Mania. I think that was the point of the match as much as anything else, to show what a conflicted manager looked like in Heenan.

Yeah, let's make Jae do some more work. i'm all for this.

He gets the Borne/Rose feud all messed up in his Matt Borne bio too. He is only human.

On the flip side, what's the best right now? Ours is 23 months or so, and we go very low on the TV, extremely so, save for what we watch normally, of which she's only into it during end credit music, but that'll change in the near future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfd4_lselV4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fau3BtvIE Has anyone seen that last one? It sounds pretty cool.

Here's what I wrote about Murdoch vs O'Connor: "This is a very cool, very frustrating match. Here's the quick breakdown. Ten minutes of Murdoch putting on headscissors, O'Connor getting out, going for a headlock, getting put back in. Most of the work here is by O'Connor trying to get out and each time he makes it, there's an escalation of energy in him trying to get on top and Murdoch putting him back down. He finally takes over with a cheap knee to the face. This leads to some amazing looking arm stuff by O'Connor and then some back and forth legwork. THIS ends with a limping Murdoch being unable to hold onto the headscissors for long and punching O'Connor in the face. Up until this point it's a really fun match. I might doubt the logic of O'Connor going back to the headock again and again but I can see it as old man's pride. The problem is that the FACE PUNCHING leads into 6 or 7 minutes of comedy. And it's good comedy, first with Murdoch complaining about O'Connor's fists, sneaking his own, and then getting wildly out punched, and then with O'Connor escaping holds quickly as the crowd laughs and Murodch lumbering at him (including a great spot where he goes through the ropes). It's entertaining, but a minute or two before they were starting to punch each other in the face, while limping, after 20 minutes of holds. It's jarring and really, annoying. I like comedy a lot at the beginning of a match or throughout a match, but i don't think it belonged in the tail end of THIS match, even if it was all well done. Then the time-limit is coming so they go into a pretty compelling series of pinfall attempts until the bell rings. Well worth watching but highly frustrating."

There's a Windham vs Muraco match from FL that was on youtube maybe 9 months ago and it was an extended squash/beatdown to set up Brisco making the save but it was one of my favorite Muraco things I'd ever seen and a lot of that was rookie Windham being his punching bag.

http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/hartsdemos8-29-88review.htm http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/hartsdemos8-27-90review2.htm on the run, no time to C+P