NintendoLogic

You may be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen this match: http://www.wwe.com/videos/raw-dolph-ziggler-vs-kofi-kingston-us-championship-2-out-of-3-falls-match-part-2-25021978 Note that Dolph loses the final fall by DQ but still retains the title. As with most things in wrestling, the DQ rule doesn't apply in multi-fall matches...except when it does.

This thread is getting closed, isn't it?

Not if he can't get it up... Hey, a mouth's a mouth.

So calling a charity crooked is totally kosher, but criticizing WWE for supporting a crooked charity is beyond the pale? C'mon, man.

But where was she when he was mauled by 4-5 people at a time? All of a sudden she's concerned while it's one-on-one? If you want moral support, you gotta put a ring on it. Anyway, it looks like it's MNF for me until this Komen shit is over.

Brock was in control until Punk got a hold of the chair that Brock introduced.

You need a new gimmick.

Lesnar/Punk is better.

This is how Poochie should have left The Itchy & Scratchy Show.

"American Made" Antonio Cesaro.

Didn't Randy Orton break Cody's mask? It was a pretty shitty payoff but a payoff nonetheless.

That Punk promo made me feel like FSW. Fuck the Blackhawks and fuck hockey.

That's what I thought, but than that other guy did his own thing, so I figured it was open season. Whatever, I'm not the one with the banhammer hanging over my head.

EDIT: Are you fucking kidding me?

EDIT: double post

Triple H vs. The Rock Judgment Day 2000 Iron Man Match Before the match begins, HHH sends the McMahons to the back because he wants to make a point about being able to win on his own. The match begins with the two combatants jaw-jacking at each other. Rock works a headlock and HHH bails to the outside. Once HHH returns, he works a headlock of his own, but Rock tags him with a right and he bails again. Back in, and Rock gains the advantage after tagging HHH again, but he catches Rock with an elbow in the corner and takes control with a clothesline. From there, HHH goes after Rock's arm. He has a bunch of nifty ways of going after it; in addition to various armbars, he slams it against the turnbuckle and busts out a single-arm DDT. Eventually, Rock hits the Rock Bottom out of nowhere and gets the pin. HHH rolls out of the ring, and to his credit, Rock has to shake off the damage to his arm. Rock 1, HHH 0. The action moves outside and they start brawling on the entrance ramp. While out there, HHH takes a couple of big boy bumps into the guardrail. I think one of the things that separates 2000-01 HHH from post-quad injury HHH is that the former was a much bigger bumper. Once they get back in the ring, Rock goes to work on HHH's leg. He starts by slamming it against the ringpost and then applies a figure-four leglock. HHH eventually turns it over and rolls into the ropes. Back outside, and we get the olbigatory Attitude Era brawl in the crowd. HHH is still selling the leg, which is pretty impressive. They take it back in, and HHH takes control with a vertical suplex and a couple of elbow drops. Rock tries to get back in it by going after the injured leg, but HHH tosses him over the top rope. He tries to go after Rock, but he gets whipped knees-first into the ring steps, doing more damage to the leg. Rock tries to capitalize with a shinbreaker and legscissors. He tries for another figure-four, but HHH counters and hits the Pedigree. Rock 1, HHH 1. Once HHH regains his faculties, he busts out a Ric Flair-style choke, which leads to a slugest. Rock whips HHH into the ropes, but HHH gets a pin with a small package. HHH 2, Rock 1. HHH is still selling the leg, which is awesome. Rock wins a slugfest, but HHH tosses him out. We get more brawling on the entrance ramp, and both guys hit suplexes and sell the impact to allow them to catch a breather. Rock gains the advantage after back body dropping HHH on the outside and tries to take control in the ring, but HHH counters with a facebuster and hits a piledriver for the pin. Lawler on commentary: "Piledriver always works!" HHH 3, Rock 1. HHH is firmly in control, but he does yet another Flair tribute by going to the top only to be thrown off. HHH is really wearing the Flair influence on his sleeve in this match. We get a teased double countout, followed by Rock busting out LA MAGISTRAL, which gets two. HHH goes into the ropes but applies a sleeper, which he works seemingly forever. He tries to gain extra leverage by putting his feet on the ropes, but special guest referee Shawn Michaels (more on him later) does his best Tommy Young impression by kicking HHH's feet off. HHH gets into it with HBK, giving Rock time to recover. HHH goes back to the sleeper, but Rock counters with a belly-to-belly suplex for another teased double countout. Back up, and HHH tries to go back to the sleeper, but Rock counters with a DDT and gets the pin. HHH 3, Rock 2. They roll out to brawl on the outside some more. HHH grabs a chair, but HBK takes it away from him and puts it in the ring (foreshadowing!). Rock hits a neckbreaker on the outside to allow them both to catch a breather. Once they get back in, HHH suckers Rock in by begging off (yet another Flair tribute!) and kicks him in the gut. He then grabs the chair and blasts Rock in the head with it. Chairshots to the head make me queasy, but at least this one was protected. Anyway, Rock gets a win by disqualification and we're tied at 3. Rock is still on dream street, so HHH rolls him up with his feet on the ropes for good measure and gets the pin. HHH 4, Rock 3. Rock is busted open, and HHH goes back to the sleeper. Rock fights out, but HHH reapplies it, which proves to be too much. Rock passes out, putting HHH up 5-3. HHH refuses to break the hold, so HBK pulls him off by the hair, leading to a shoving match (still another Flair tribute!). This gives Rock a chance to regain his bearings, and HHH takes a Harley Race-style bump over the turnbuckle and to the floor. There's a little more than ten minutes left at this point and Rock needs pins, so he rolls HHH back into the ring, but HHH hits a DDT. He then goes up again, but Rock counters again, this time with a superplex. They go back outside, and HHH sets up the announce table so he can put Rock on it. He tries to Rock Bottom him through the table, but Rock counters and Pedigrees HHH onto the table, allowing Rock to get a countout victory. HHH 5, Rock 4. HHH comes up bloody as the McMahons make their way back to the ring and just beats the count to avoid getting counted out a second time. Back in the ring, and Shane and Vince try to interfere, but Rock knocks them off the apron. He then hits a spinebuster and the People's Elbow and gets the pin to tie things up at 5. Shane pulls Shawn out of the ring, but Shawn slugs him and Vince. Rock hits a Rock Bottom, but Shawn gets knocked out and DX comes in to give Rock a gang beatdown. All of a sudden, some cryptic music starts playing, and Undertaker returns and debuts his biker persona. Once he makes it to the ring, he takes out DX and chokeslams Shane and Vince. He then tries to chokeslam Stephanie, but HHH breaks it up, thus making himself a target of Taker's wrath. He hits HHH with a chokeslam and then a tombstone piledriver, forcing HBK to award HHH a fall by disqualification. HHH thus wins 6-5 and becomes WWF champion. I thought titles couldn't change hands on a disqualification, but whatever. A far bigger problem is that the ending was horribly botched, as Taker didn't hit the tombstone until after time had expired. One big problem with Iron Man matches is that it's hard to keep the crowd interested for the whole 60 minutes because they know only the last few minutes matter. The way I see it, there are two main ways of getting around that. One, have pins come in unorthodox ways so that every high-impact move is a credible nearfall. Two, have the heel build up a huge lead to increase the sense of urgency. What do you know, this match employs both. In all, this match is very smartly constructed. On a macro level, it feels kind of like a series of mini-matches strung together, which along with things like the chair spot setup suggests a heavy Pat Patterson influence. Even so, you have nice touches at the micro level like Rock getting a pin with the Rock Bottom but not being able to capitalize further because of the damage to his arm. And HHH plays the role of top heel to perfection, showing that he's good enough to hang with Rock but still willing to take shortcuts. Make no mistake, this isn't a perfect match by any means. There's too much brawling on the outside. The middle portion drags a bit. And the ending sucked and was botched to boot. The biggest problem I had, though, was Shawn as referee. He didn't do anything particularly bad, but his outfit was atrocious. His ref shirt plus daisy dukes getup was bad enough, but his shirt gets untucked at some point, making it look like he's not wearing any pants at all.Still, the pluses far outweigh the minuses, making this an easy addition to the plus side of the ledger for HHH's 2000. In fact, I'd call it the WWF MOTY for 2000.

Bryan...come to my White Castle of Fear!!!!

At least it's not Comic Sans. Anyway, HHH playing good cop to Steph's bad cop has some potential.

So what's the payoff for putting all this heat on Steph? It's not like she's going to eat a KO punch or get put in the Yes Lock. How is she supposed to get her comeuppance?

You want to know why God hates Cleveland? Because it's inhabited by assholes who try to WHAT Dusty Rhodes.

AJ has 26 years of tenure as a woman. That's good enough for me.

Seeing how non-Americans react to Fandango makes me think that Zeb Colter has a point.

So what ever happened to Ezekiel Jackson? Did Brodus Clay eat him?

I'm not saying that Booker should have won the feud, but you can't book a guy to be a racist heel and have him not get any comeuppance at all from the guy he's insulting.

So WWE officials told Bryan not to come to the town hall meeting and he listened to them? Again, my biggest problem with this angle so far is that Bryan is being reactive, not proactive. Hopefully, this storyline progresses when Bryan realizes that he can't continue to fight exclusively on HHH's terms.