Phantom Lord

Polish Hammer renamed THE HAMMER OF JUSTICE. I mean it's right there people. In fact why they aren't called the Superman punch that I don't know. Other moves he should do. Jacknife Powerbomb. He's got that Kevin Nash type swag to just pick up a guy and dump him.

He's retired. He doesn't have to live the gimmick anymore.

Holy Hell that first and second round. Matt Brown took a hard kick to his liver that would have downed a normal man and somehow managed now to get ko'ed from it. Eric Silva to his credit must have a head made out of granite. He took some pretty damn hard punches, elbows, knees, and even a couple of head kicks. He was clearly knocked loopy but wouldn't go down. Third Round...Brown just started murdering him with elbows on the ground. Silva shouldn't be cut. These two need a rematch.

I nominate Bubba Ray Dudley/Bully Ray

Man, I hope TNA is ready for New York. There might be some riots if they did some of these shows at the Manhattan Center tapings.

Or The Virgin Connie Swail. waits to see how many people sat through that movie. That joke almost made up for the rest of the movie. This was always my favorite line in the movie Joe Friday: Ah, sure, but just like every other foaming, rabid psycho in this city with a foolproof plan, you've forgotten you're facing the single finest fighting force ever assembled. Reverend Jonathan Whirley: The Israelis?

This show had some ECW qualities to it. The Sheild six man could have been any number of matches held at the ECW Arena. Seth is insane. I was kinda blown away thinking about how Triple H is out in the middle of the crowd (out by the seats I saw Flair beat Sting for the title in 91) taking a dive from Seth Rollins from the lower mezaine. I also really want to see Triple H vs. Ambrose. Let Triple H do his full on Ric Flair cosplay and Ambrose be Terry Funk. Glad that Bad News Barrett is champion again. Big E might have a great personality and stuff, but they handcuffed him and wouldn't let him touch it and people just stop giving a crap about him. I have to watch Bryan/Kane and the post show everyone's talking about. A lack of sleep on my part caught up to me right as the match was starting so thank God the network has everything on demand.

Is anyone else's Extreme Rules broadcast on the 360 choppy? I've had it buffer a couple of times to where I had to exit and reload.

I want to say one of these matches was done in Crockett in 1988. Did the Bunkhouse cage match have people getting handcuffed to the fence? I know I saw a promo when I was a kid and it was a cage match with The Horsemen against Dusty, Barry, and others I can't remember and they hyped up how if someone got eliminated they got handcuffed to the cage. BUT if you eliminated someone from the other team one of your guys got uncuffed. So basically it was the wrestling version of the double switch in Dodgeball.

It would be lots of drop toe holds into steel chairs and run in's. It's a shame Sister Abigail isn't an actual person (at the moment). Beulah or Chastity come in to break up the pin and then Abigail comes in and it's the most blasphemous cat fight in ECW history. But yeah I could watch nothing but whole shows of just Raven and Bray doing promo's. Bryan vs. Brody seems like it would be a massacre with it being a chain match. Make it 2/3 falls like Brody/Flair in St. Louis and then it might be more evenly matched.

I always liked Luger. I'll agree that 91 was probably his absolute peak. It's a shame the deal with Flair happened because it would have been much better for Luger as World Champion if he finally beat Flair for the title. His return to WCW was really good and he was pretty good from 95 up until they threw him into the NWO. I mean Wolfpac Luger was cringe worthy. But the match he had with Hogan and him beating him for the title on Nitro still is one of the best WCW moments ever. I was so sick of all things Hogan at that point and when Luger racked him and won the title it was such a great moment. Then he lost the title back a week later at Road Wild in typical NWO bullshit. WWF Luger wasn't bad...he was just so out of place with them. Personally I would have rather seen him be just Lex Luger as a face in the same role he was challenging Flair when he was going after Yokozuna for the title. Luger/Hart for the title might have been a better feud, but Hogan really screwed things up when he had to take the title and Bret never got his return match.

There really was so much potential for the gimmick. The best part was when he had Jesus as his bodyguard. It was around the time Cena got "puncture wounds" to his kidney in a nightclub. Supposedly they wanted to bring in New Jack to be the body guard but they were expecting him to actually wrestle. Anyway I always like Jesus and he actually wrestled Cena on a PPV with a broken freakin neck. I remember someone said he should have had a job for life with the WWE for doing something so stupid for them. God, I can't believe I actually remember all of that.

Nothing will top the awesomeness of this.

Gentlemen Saul managing two post war German's sounds like it was a lot of fun.

This is far from an investigation. An unnamed law firm is conducting an "investigation" into alleged misappropriations the WWE made in its public statements. There are absolutely no details. The law firm isn't even known. This type of stuff is pretty commonplace. Google "Shareholder Foundation" and look. Most times, someone sees the stock price of a company has taken a hit, tries to get some other investors on board, and claims the company did something wrong in an attempt to get some sort of settlement, etc. They haven't filed a complaint or anything remotely close. If this was the Securities and Exchange Commission leading the investigation, then it's a gigantic story. This is almost certainly a fishing expedition. I saw the headline and thought SEC, but when I read the article I was like who the hell are Shareholders Foundation. So the WWE might have mislead people with earnings and stuff. It wouldn't be the first time a major corporation has done something like that.

So I was just watching some AAA that Cubsfan put up on Youtube. It's been a while since I've watched any Lucha. It's nice to know that Faby and Mary Apache are continuing their eternal feud. That rudo ref in the white shirt (the smug looking prick...I don't know his name). Has anyone ever beaten the crap out of this guy after he fast counted them to cost them a match? Watching some Faby stuff she's gotten him after the match but he just ends up walking away like "Ha Ha you can't get me", but nothing where he's left lying in a pool of blood or anything. It seems like they could probably build a whole major show around this guy being forced into a match and getting what's been coming to him for years. Of course in Lucha/American fashion he would walk out the winner because someone turned heel and helped him win.

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It's too bad Brie and Bryan had to go and get married for real. Kane kidnapping Brie because he wants her to be his wife would have been so much more fun. Okay probably not, but it would be amusing to see Brie try to emote any kind of emotion. I swear there was a shot of her right as Kane grabbed her the first time where she poked her head up and was like "umm...oh yeah I'm supposed to be scared".

Sting with a tag team partner he could trust? That's blasphemy. Haku the car salesman is great. I'm picturing him like De Niro in Analayze That when he's selling the cars. "Look at this trunk. You could fit two or three bodies in it".

Didn't all the Hogan/DiBiase matches end the same way? Virgil gets involved causing the DQ letting Hogan win. They could have probably built up to a steel cage match at Summerslam. Of course no Mega Powers vs. Ted/Andre means no Miss Elizabeth doing the strip tease. What a horrible what if world that would be to live in.

It's because NXT and WWE are different worlds. At the most the writers on RAW/Smackdown probably watch clips of NXT and go by summarized notes for character's (at least the ones they don't care about). They obviously are putting effort into Bo Dallas and Adam Rose.

I like Santino, but he really is a kiss of death. Last night when I posted I simply was stating that she has made the most of a pairing that was designed to fail. The whole bit with the Pink Cobra and them tangling up was pretty damn funny. Sure it does nothing for her, but it was funny as hell to watch. I can't possibly hate on this.

Stephanie had me laughing tonight when she came down to the ring and then a minute later KANE:Destroyer Of Worlds comes out through the crowd and she was doing her best Willy Wonka impersonation. No...Stop...Don't...Please. I mean if she wasn't there, that beat down would be one of the best ever. Gotta hand it to Kane. Dude has shot knees but there he was doing three Tombstones on surfaces not fun for said knees. Bad News Barrett is so awesome. That match with Sheamus was just great. I love the Bull Hammer elbow. It's so much better when he doesn't telegraph it and just levels people with it. Since RVD won, it has to mean we're getting Barrett vs. Big E. I figured Ceasro vs. Big E was a lock, but Barrett as Intercontinental Champion and feuding with Sheamus would be great. I must have missed the Bo promos some posters above were talking about. Most of the 9pm hour I was watching Fast & Loud on Discovery. Saw the amazing Wyatt promo though. I dont know how he came up with the whole world bit...but it so amazing to watch when they are in the right cities. Only thing I was surprised about was The Sheild didnt come out to destroy everyone who was involved in the 11 on 3 beat down last week. I thought for sure Rybaxel was gonna get it. People were hating on Emma, but that friggin pink cobra has me in tears from laughing so hard. This is all stuff that should have made her fail with her call up but she has rolled with it and made it all work. Paige vs. Aksana was BRUTAL. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Aksana should not wrestle. Paige nailing her with that knee had to be payback for that ugly spinebuster Aksana tried to do a minute earlier. Why haven't Paige and Tamina confronted each other yet? At least have Tamina put her down and then the next week Paige returns the favor. The end of RAW was fun. I can buy Bray being Kevin Sullivan for John Cena. The ending with him holding his head was just great.

I would have paid money to see Vince vs. The Sandman in ECW style match with the lights going out and random run in's galore.

Backlund is a weird case, as he left the national scene at a relatively young age, then had a short(ish) return to the national scene. I mean if early/mid forties washed up(and I grant its guy-by-guy) but Flair was going sixty minutes at the 1992 Royal Rumble at that age. . . Backlund is a freak of nature. I would say he was no where near washed up or past prime when he came back to the WWF in 1992. He wrestled the same exactly style of match that he did when he was at the top of his game. The only time I would say he was past his prime was when they turned him into a parody of himself as Mr. Bob Backlund: Presidential Candidate. Hell even when he was in TNA a few years ago when he would just randomly show up and had that odd feud with Alex Shelley, he was still in great shape. But it's not fair to say he's past his prime. He transitioned from serious wrestler to comedy act. It's not like he had to go out and wrestle serious matches. I'm sure if TNA had a clue and used him in a serious legends role he could have done so greatly. He's what...64 now? When I saw him at The Barclays Center at a WWE house show last September (he was doing that take a pic and get it on WWE magazine thing) he looked in amazing shape. Compared to a broken down Ric Flair, Backlund probably could if he were inclined to go 20-30 minutes without looking like hell.