Phantom Lord

And this whole investor angle is gonna run right through October to Bound For Glory.

Put them together. Team SNOO SNOO

I'm really confused here. So they up an ended EC3's undefeated streak in a ladder match for no real reason?

He had something. Possibly close to it. Personally, I got tired of the whole "look at me...I can do 50 insane bumps a match" schitck real quick. But hey, if he starts showing signs of life again and can get himself out of the midcard hell hes been in for a while more power to him. It was a pretty good promo. Too bad it was backstage and only on the web and not in front of a live crowd.

Fast FWD almost 22 years later and Jerry has a prophetic line about TNA. What used to be an enjoyable business for me...promoting professional wrestling a nightmare.

Except that Tully and Arn both had charisma. I...what? WHAT? He must be trollin. IRS was a perfect straight man for Ted.

I am all for a Titus heel run if it involves the return of Pancake Patterson. Titus is the one they see money in so of course he'll end up getting released in six months cause creative had nothing for him. Darren on the other hand will battle JTG to become the new Milton of the WWE. On a more serious note, how awesome would it be for Zeb to lead two guys to two straight main event matches at Wrestlemania in back to back years. I say that because I assume Zeb would stay with Antonio if The Real Americans split up. Oooh wait damn it, I forgot they unified the damn title belts. Glad to see Christian back I guess. He always puts on good matches, but he's just so bleh character wise. I guess we'll be getting more JUST ONE MORE MATCH promos from him.

I want to see Brock destroy El Torito. Brock redoing the Rey lawn dart spot with him would be comedy gold. If Brock is in the chamber, he's gonna do that to poor Daniel Bryan and send him flying right through the fence.

So there's this news bit going around. In any other industry, there would probably be monopoly charges thrown around. Credit PW Insider

I'm on my phone so I don't quite know if this has been noted, but this same dude cut an almost identical promo one year ago when Rock beat CM Punk for the belt. Almost the exact same rage and everything; different residence though (I think). I was so taken by the video last year, I knew who this was before I even clicked the link.I want to say that last year's vid was posted with the same "alright, which one of you is this guy?" intro. I checked to make sure. It's not the same guy. But the videos are pretty similar. Are you sure? Same build, same vocal tone, same sounding girlfriend, both of whom call out "Michael!" to him out of concern following that first outburst ... It's the same guy. If you've heard of The Angry Grandpa, he's his son.

I'm on my phone so I don't quite know if this has been noted, but this same dude cut an almost identical promo one year ago when Rock beat CM Punk for the belt. Almost the exact same rage and everything; different residence though (I think). I was so taken by the video last year, I knew who this was before I even clicked the link.I want to say that last year's vid was posted with the same "alright, which one of you is this guy?" intro. I checked to make sure. It's not the same guy. But the videos are pretty similar. Are you sure? Same build, same vocal tone, same sounding girlfriend, both of whom call out "Michael!" to him out of concern following that first outburst ... It's the same guy. If you've heard of The Angry Grandpa, he's his son.

I remember that tape. The Hogan/Race death match was from MSG and The Fink did this whole thing before the introductions about how people in the first couple of rows should get up and stand in the back because they could not guarantee their safety during the match. I seem to remember the Hogan/Race match from Boston being a little better.

Legit heat is the business model since people are hip to kayfabe. As long as Bryan is on the roster, no fan will just up and stop watching in protest because they'll be cutting Bryan's throat. He is the Tommy Dreamer of the fed. Chasing the title is all part of the plan. As long as he is almost but not quite and continues to have five star epics, fans will still watch The thing you guys should be considering is that the catch is never as good as the hunt. So what happens when DB wins the belt and WWE cannot come up with the proper Rogues Gallery of Special Guest Villains to throw at him to make his title run meaningful? Or worse, if the belt just withers around his waist like it did when He Who Cannot Be Named was champ because non-title feuds got pushed to the main event while the title was relegated to the mid-card? Hmm, I did not see the Tommy Dreamer analogy until just now. I'd be all for a Bryan/Wyatt feud lasting half as long as Dreamer/Raven. Brie becomes Sister Abigail. It writes it self.

Well after sleeping on it for a night I can honestly say this is still one of the more infuriating things the WWE has done in a while. Like I said last night, it wouldn't have been such a big deal if it came down to Batista and Bryan. That might have been some actual suspense for everyone. But just the fact they didn't have Bryan in the match at all was just dumb. I remember reading a news bit a couple weeks ago that after the Michigan State video on ESPN came out, it shamed the WWE into changing plans on Bryan with The Wyatts. But people freaking out about Triple H, while he probably has a lot of say...he is not the one with the final say. As long as Vince is living and breathing, it's his vision and he's the one dicking everyone around with Bryan.

Man, when Rey's music hit I could feel the air being sucked out of the building and I live six hours away from Pittsburgh. I think people could have lived with Big Dave eliminating Daniel Bryan in some cheap bullshit way. But this was just the WWE showing they don't give two shits about what the fans want. If it came down to Bryan and Batista, it would have been at least a tad bit more suspenseful even though we all knew Batista was winning. As for the rest of the show, Bryan/Bray might be a legit MOTY candidate and Brock Lesnar beat The Big Show like he owed him money. Brock was just probably imagining it was Cain Velasquez with each chair shot.

MSG is a weird arena in that the locker room entrance for The Rangers and Knicks is right in front of the cameras. But it works perfectly because the way MSG was designed, the huge stage set ups the WWE have really don't fit in the building. I remember the first live RAW they did from MSG in 97 and the Titan Tron and stage and ramp took up half the floor.

Daniel Bryan looks like one of the Mennonite's that do goon work on Amish Mafia.

That would be hilarious. Basically Sin Cara would become the WWE's version of a franchised Krusty The Klown. Have multiple Sin Cara's work on both RAW and Smackdown shows at the same time.

The difference between Bobby and Gary is, Bobby would just keep finding guys to come at you. Gary would poison your home town's water supply just for fun. I always loved that aspect to Gary Hart. In the '80s whenever a manager had foreign wrestlers under his belt, it would usually be someone doing an "anti-USA" gimmick or playing that up for his wrestlers. But with Gary Hart, his character came off more as one of those sleazy dudes that came across these mercenaries while protecting his "business interests" in all of these far away nations like Singapore and Sudan. I always imagined that he hired Kabuki after murdering a rival international arms smuggler or something. I know there's an old World Class of Jim Cornette saying Scandor Akbar took care of Mother Cornette's oil investments. Gary Hart was the guy who smuggled in the pipeline parts because of the embargo against the home country.

The difference between Bobby and Gary is, Bobby would just keep finding guys to come at you. Gary would poison your home town's water supply just for fun.

All this dual disc talk of dvd's when they first came out sounds like when the format was first introduced, it was just a laserdisc scaled down in size. Some of the last generation laserdisc players also played DVD's so I guess that's maybe why they were dual disc. First DVD I ever got was Jurrasic Park 3. Still have the dvd player (it was some generic one), but the laser inside must be fubar cause any disc you put in it skips like its scratched. Lasted well over ten years though before I finally got an Xbox and used that for DVD's before the blu ray.

These investor angles are always so stupid. Unless the investor managed to buy at least 50% of the company (which even in kayfab I can't imagine The Carter's selling that much), it's a moot point and makes no sense. At worst, Dixie would still control 51% of the company so she could always overrule the investor.

They have up Clash of the Champions VI. I am very upset with who ever edited this video because they cut out a fun little Dick Murdoch/Ace Orton match and the Varsity Club/Road Warriors where Teddy Long does the fast count to cost LOD the tag titles. I have the original broadcast (well from JYD/Butch Reed's match) on a tape somewhere. I watched it so much when I was a kid that I still remember some of the commercials that were run during it. The one thing I love about this show is Michael Hayes snarky commentary. I guess he was part of Hiro Matsuda's faction at the time because he called him boss at least once. How the heck did Hiro Matsuda in 1989 end up with a Paul Jones esq army? Hayes was great though. He had some great one liners that made me realize the WWE desperately needs a sleazy asshole heel like him. "Hey girls, just to let you know my plane lands in Orlando at 1:00 tomorrow morning" And one of my favorite lines that was cut out because of them dubbing new entrance music over The First Family's intro, Jim Ross calls Missy Hyatt the first lady and Hayes in disgust says "she ain't no lady". It still cracks me up after all these years.

Hey, he ran down to the ring waving a towel for Bobo Brazil. He paid his dues.

I think Booker T just hangs around. He's kinda like Tony Garea now. As for the GM's. Maddox can make rulings/matches. But Kane can in turn supersede those rulings and matches. I assume the same applies to Vickie.