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Yeah, they were in the Saddledome. I just looked it up in his book and it was the 4/17/98 show. I guess at that point HBK was gone. HHH still had some power but clearly wasn't in the position he was before that and this was pre-Stephanie. He said he mainly went to say hi to Owen and a few of his other guys like Shamrock, Austin and Foley. Also the first I'm hearing of this! Very interesting. I can't find anything on the WWF running there between IYH Canadian Stampede and a Raw in 2001. I wonder if he's got the date or building wrong. I wanted to find out who was on the card

He was saying that a lot at the time. I think he was such an obvious lame duck champion and a speed bump in Austin's ascension that they were trying to create intrigue around a shoot deal where Shawn would refuse to job. I wasn't sure if that was the WWF trying to approach it that way, or Shawn himself approaching it that way (and knowing EXACTLY what he was doing)

I vividly remember the line "The Heartbreak Kid doesn't lay down for anybody!" as well

I liked 3 time world karate champion Ernest Miller and all, but give me dying days Commissioner Cat any day of the week. Plus, Miss Jones was smokin

I'll answer the third man prediction like Ive answered all other mystery partner predictions since 2002: Rhyno. I mean jeez, just give the Rookie Monster Man Beast his day in the Sun already.

That would make sense. He just had a long title run, and is no longer Cena's 1A now that the brand split is done. Some time off for him is good for his character too, lest he enter Sheamus/Kane/Show "get off my TV" territory.

Yeah but he had strikes erased due to good behavior for one year so I don't think he's in danger of being let go if it's due to a wellness violation.

I also thought when he was feuding with Cena heading into WM in New Orleans they missed out on having him do weird True Detective inspired shit involving Nikki Bella and deer antlers.

I like Bray Wyatt a lot and I think there's money in him. It's the poor booking of his I'm not a fan of. I think the Bryan, Cena, and Taker matches showed he can go as a singles after all the insanely good 2013 six mans. He would be ten Times the star he is If he were in an environment that allowed him to be truly scary and brutally violent.

I can't read a lick of that, but it makes perfectly good sense to me. Amazing How one graphic can do what 20 writers can't.

Honestly, Hogans claim on Good Morning America that his friends would greet him with "Good morning, nigga" is such a bold lie that, even though I have black family, I just can't stay mad at the big red n yella fella.

That Brock pic, even though he's on a bike, just strikes me as an image that should be used to entice women/gay dudes into signing up for FarmersOnly.com

I get the cussing thing (though I also think it's silly) but why no nut shots? They're gonna have flaming tables in their video game!!

Dude, when did you become Tourette's Guy?

Man good for Chuck Taylor, if that's true.

I was such a huge fan of "The Extreme Giant" Big Show! I'm glad I'm not the only one. The dude was busting his ass, and felt, as you said, like a once-in-a-lifetime talent. I think part of it is overexposure, too, because he was so hot when he came back for the Mayweather angle after being away. A guy like Show just does not need to be on free TV twice a week. He should be in that Brock/Taker echelon of guys where it's a huge deal when he's around. Giants should, and always have, had mystique. When you have him sumo wrestling Akebono, running around as baby new year, doing "the Showster" and "Showkishi", shitting his pants because of bad mexican food or whatever, having Val Venis pecker check him and ask why they call him the Big Show, and all the other absolutely mind boggling shit theyve made him do over the last 20 years, it's a miracle he was able to bounce back from it AT ALL. I think with the proper retirement angle, followed up by him murdering everyone upon his return, and an improved look, Show has one more serious run on top in him.

If you told me when I woke up this morning that I'd be ending my day watching a YouTube video of a guy taking a shit in a bucket, then dumping that bucket of shit on the WWE Peformance Center while the NWO Wolfpac music plays, I'd have said you were crazy, but here we are. I truly hope the guy gets the help he needs-- this could have been much, much worse. Hopefully AJ and/or any other performer he's obsessed with can sleep a little easier tonight.

I can't decide if this hurts his lawsuit against WWE because now a court can see that he's totally insane, or if it actually helps because they'll think he's insane from all the blows to the head.

Wouldn't have been a total waste if Rollins won clean, but I'd argue that it wasn't really that great of an angle. Cena just mowed down the midcard, kicked out of all their finishers, and most of the matches weren't even that good. Even if someone did end up getting a rub, a bunch of guys would've still come out worse. I'm sure the writers thought they were doing everyone a favor by giving them competitive matches with Cena, but when everyone from Rollins to Ryder has the same match, it means nothing. I understand in essence what you're saying but I think that Rollins. Along with Owens and Zayn are over enough and have enough "mystique" with the main roster crowds for it to not affect them, if anything just by way of the lone fact that they're something new

This is slightly off-topic, but speaking of Cenas us title open: was zayn supposed to come up permanently had he not been hurt? I wonder if he would've been in essentially Owens spot if so. He'd be a great guy to fill that likeable underr dog face role in Bryand absence

Did you know Glacier's family were cops? Long line of Georgia State Troopers. His father AND brother. Wasn't sure if you heard. Because Bobby Eaton is awesome. In his book, JJ Dillon talked about how he went to bat for Eaton and kept him employed for a few years. Eaton was gonna get let go at some point but JJ convinced the suits to keep him around to work and train people at the Power Plant. Eaton got fired at some point for failing to show up at the Power Plant. Guys like Eaton are what WWE is missing nowadays. A very good worker with a name but someone that you can have a new guy or a pushed guy beat. Run matches with him on house shows to teach a new guy how to work. Every promotion needs guys like that in my opinion. You turn on the tv and go, "well it's (insert new guy/push guy here). Dunno if I wanna watch. Oh, he's fighting Bobby Eaton. I remember him. Might be cool." So you watch for 5 minutes and the new guy gets over by beating the guy you knew in a somewhat decent match. One thing on this: I agree with you 100%, but the atmosphere in WWE is SO different now that when a guy gets put into that slot (lets say Zack Ryder for the sake of argument) everyone gets upset with the so-called de-push. In another thread many moons ago, I called for guys like Styles, Rhino, Joe, the Dudleyz, London & Kendrick, Haas & Benjamin, Trevor Murdoch, Val Venis, Carlito, Johnny Mundo and others to be brought in for these roles-- these are your modern day Eatons, Armstrongs, Horowitz, Barry Darsow, R&Rs Mike Enos, etc. Every single one is a former champ last decade, and brings the perfect amount of credibility to a match-- it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for one of them to pick up a win against a young guy on a B-show, or get slotted into the Royal Rumble, but they don't lose anything by doing jobs because theyve been out of the average WWE fan's consciousness for 5-7 or more years now.

Selfish, bad chops, Kliq, Christianity, yada yada yada

I'm not a fan of AJs personal views either, but if we judged wrestlers by their lives outside the ring, we'd probably hate everybody except like Molly Holly

Balor/AJ would be sweet, as would AJ/Zayn. In retrospect, I wonder if there was anything behind Okada being in Joe's sky box on Sunday. that would be a badass match.

I dunno I think the Bucks vs. like Enzo and Cass would be loads of fun