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I doubt in Chicago they do anything to acknowledge the chants if the situation remains as is. Probably open with Daniel Bryan or someone similar who'll make them forget. They might have HHH make one vague remark but given they have yet to berate him on air, I doubt they do much then.

Seems like that Raw is set to be a supershow. Interesting to see who he will face this year, the card seems to still be falling into place.

I mean, just have them do a backstage segment with HHH implying heavily that they are buddy buddy. Have King and Cole point out the obvious as they usually do. Something.

This thread is TNA in a nutshell.

O'Neill-Young makes me wish there was a brand split still so they could actually have a decent feud. Why can't Smackdown always be this good?

If the story is that the Outlaws only got their shot because they are HHH's buddies, it has not played out that way in the ring where the Rhodes have lost clean twice and weren't exactly on the verge of victory when Brock showed up. If that had lead to Brock-Goldust at the Elimination Chamber then I would have been cool with it.

So, who all is going to #Honorcon?

Never got into Mayberry RFD though, just not the same without Barney and in color.

I was gonna mention that but then I realized that is all I remember from Ultimo in WWE.

Husky Harris could have worked...

Don't forget Andy Griffith. Or did they stop running those?

It's a lost cause. He only has 78 posts. Seriously, don't countout Bo in The Shield. Its not like they know how to introduce anyone from NXT.

So, how much crossover is there between the demographics of WWE Raw and TVLand's Hot in Cleveland? Feeling like its not much but then again you all watch Total Divas, so you'll watch anything.

Hey, can we not get the monthly thread shutdown twice to open the year?

I figure they will, for a bit. Bring up someone from NXT to plug into Reigns' spot. Still some tread left on The Shield gimmick. I imagine they could build up to Rollins splitting in year from Ambrose after getting sick of him too. They just broke up PTP so they need to keep a tag team around.

As a honorable mention, Wrestlemania XIX, Shawn Michaels shooting the pyro rifles. The one won't fire, so he just shrugs and moves on to the next. Always got a chuckle out of me, his verbal reaction to it. As another, I always dug the Wrestlemania III mini-ring cart. Probably look stupid if they did such a thing now but it looked cool to me on tape, the wrestlers riding in through that massive crowd.

I agree with everything said on Orton-Bryan in here. I think Orton has to win the EC, Bryan winning there wouldn't be the big moment it should be. I think HHH screws him somehow and they do that match at WM. That is the easiest way to get themselves out of this. I just wanted to add, are we seriously getting Bad News Barrett wasted in a feud with Lawler? Lawler, whose one line was the equivalent of "Hey Barrett, the jerk store called and they're running out of you!" Of course this is leading Barrett to use George's other line and we get a bunch of stale Lawler's ex-wife jokes. Ugh.

Wow, this is Russoific. All six weeks of it.

Doesn't help that their scripts they read from suck. You can go all Daniel Day Lewis on it, he isn't making any of this into interesting material.

Bah, it's a taped TNA show. We're safe.

It also helps that people are frustrated from the big story of the summer fizzling out. The Nexus, Summer of Punk, Punk's reign, and now The Authority angle have all petered out. The Nexus lost the big matches, Summer of Punk somehow ended with HHH-Nash, The Rock returned and beat Punk and now we have been expected to cheer for Batista to return and defeat Orton. A lot of people got into Bryan and never got a even decent conclusion to his chase of the title. I think a lot of the people who booed Cena-Orton out of the gate at the RR were tired of seeing the same time and time again, nothing new ever bubbling up. I have no reason to care for anything else and the feuds I am supposed to really care about, I don't. What did it matter who won the match? I'm also disappointed about how they bring along younger stars. I know little about Big E's motivation, I had hoped they'd have given him a minute to cut a promo after beating Curtis Axel, "Three is not good enough." But nope. Instead each moment must be carefully manufactured so only what we intend to be memorable happens.

WWE hires a lot of reality tv writers right? I feel like some of creative's decisions are based upon feeding untrained actors lines. I wish they would let at least some of the roster go out there and just speak. Ryback unleashed would be far more entertaining than whatever tough guy lines they feed him now.

Let's be real-Batista vs Orton is in reality the 3rd or 4th biggest match on the show. HHH vs Bryan and Lesnar vs Taker are the two real main events. Watch Mania go like this: Bray-Cena HHH-Bryan Lesnar-Taker Orton-Batista, smack in the middle. Eh, still better then when Del Rio won the right to curtain jerk.

I hope he does comeback, because I preferred it when Punk was the voice of the voiceless whereas now I have to listen to what they actually have to say. It is very little.

What was the most successful crossover between an American and a Japanese wrestling company in the last twenty years? Seems like you need more star power for this to work for Wrestle-1 and for their audience to know Puro for this to benefit TNA. We'll see, could be good if it is like previous Global Impacts.