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...and job it out 6 days later. So let me get this straight: You whiny folk want Bryan to win the title on Monday, job it back to Orton at Night Of Champions, and never win it again? That's better booking than the last few weeks of WWE? GIVE THIS MAN THE BOOK

I guess you didn't catch Summerslam.

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Well, THAT Repo Man could have gotten over as a face. The best thing to come out of that is that Steamboat actually came up with The Dragon himself, when everyone would just automatically assume it was Vince.

Finally dropping out of Smackdown this week, since they will just re-do every match and angle on Raw so they clearly don't want me watching both shows. Kofi getting a pointless win over the Intercontinental champion who is being built up as a challenger to Punk is much, much more aggravating to me than whatever sky-is-falling bullshit the detractors of the Bryan angle are mad about.

Good lord. Can we keep it in the Raw thread?

An understandable pessimism from years of botched storylines leads to thinking the latter, but it's actually the former - Cody called Orton out on this in the backstage segment, saying "You're not afraid of Daniel Bryan" to no response. Bryan has been able to take out The Shield several times almost single-handedly and pinned John Cena clean before two fresh men had to double team him to get the belt off of him.They're booking Bryan fine. It's everyone else they're burying.

Los Matadores is clearly intended to be Epico and Primo, though I wouldn't be surprised if they ran some sort of angle with someone else under the masks. How long has it been? Mr. America? Can we at least all agree that Big Show needs to stop fucking crying?

The dart line was the only good thing Larry ever contributed on commentary that I can recall.

Huh? http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.php?/topic/82-musicianmusic-photo-thread/

July 74, putting it a year and three months before.

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on The Isley Brothers not being considered a rock band being a race thing.

How does he play that character? How is it reinforced in promos and on commentary?Well, he looks grizzled. And last night during his promo he talked about being a survivor of the Attitude era and the McMahon/ Helmsley regime. And the commentators always talk about him being a vet.He also tends to win matches more by subterfuge than brute force. The last month he got wins over guys like Del Rio and Orton by rolling them up after mistakes.Yeah, that isn't character work at all, it's WWE book-by-numbers. "OH, FANDANGO'S MUSIC IS PLAYING? WHAT IS HE DOING HERE? THE DISTRACTION!"

This show sounds awful.

I seem to recall RSPW exploding with hatred for the segment, but that was RSPW

I don't think anyone is complaining about his in-ring work, just the fact that it's all he has going for him currently. He's stale.

Zack Ryder, Sin Cara, Kofi Kingston, David Otunga, Justin Gabriel, Brodus Clay, Darren Young, Khali Miz is also highly debatable.

It looks much more like a transition than a fuck-up. Why the hell would there be a top rope Styles Clash in the match?

I had completely forgotten that angle. Foley selling absolute horror as Mr. Rock-O was snuggling Val's johnson was patently absurd. Thank you for reminding me how ridiculous 99 Russo WWF was Val going over Foley happened at No Mercy 1999. Russo jumped a couple of weeks before that, so he may not have been responsible.

I don't know if Owen could have gotten any higher than he was during the Sole Survivor deal. D'Lo was over and talented, but I can't see him as more than an upper midcard guy. First I've heard of the idea that Venis could have been a top level guy, and I couldn't disagree more.

No it's not

No, it didn't, you obnoxious little toad.

Hennig in 90-91 when he had Heenan and the IC belt.

I think we'd both like that to be true for very different reasons, but it is unfortunately not the case.

Yeah, I don't think the problem everyone has with that match is that it isn't funny.