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Only one man could be the devil, and he is number wan and the best. NOT GOD!

Given that most of the interviews on these sets appear to be brief excerpts of longer, wide-ranging interviews they did in the past, and they already have the footage of the matches themselves, I can't imagine the overhead on these things is too high. If Full Moon can sell 3 Puppet Master movies for 8 bucks, WWE can't be hurting too much on these.

They could talk about being from the far-future year 2000, and never understand why people are laughing at them.

You were right. I was wrong. I should learn to stop giving the WWE the benefit of the doubt.

I saw part of that one. It was worse than the Lisa Loeb one, #1 Single.

It is more bigger.

I'm going to go on record as saying Cena is back for this PPV but he's not really back. If he were really back, he'd be given a mic and a twenty minute segment to make Montezuma's Revenge jokes about Alberto Del Rio. I figure he comes in for the match (and the buyrate), then gets "taken out" by Del Rio and gets more time off.

Random Question: Who are the best and worst wrestlers with "Tiger" in their name? Offhand I can think of: -Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask II, Tiger Mask III, Tiger Mask IV, Tiger Mask V -Black Tiger I-VII -Tiger Chung Lee -Tiger Jeet Singh -Tiger Ali Singh -Extreme Tiger -Tiger Kid/Tiger -Tigers Mask

I'm not saying Shawn didn't have good matches. But I don't care for his work in general: his over-reliance on structuring almost every post-comeback match around his "surgically repaired back" (to quote JR); his cartoonish selling and posturing; his overlong "tuning up the band"; or his usually unexciting and repetitive offense. To be frank, outside of Shawn/Taker and Shawn/Flair, I don't even remember a single one of the matches people have mentioned. I assume the Shelton one is the one that ended with the springboard into the super kick? Most of what I remember about Shawn post-comeback is negative: -Interminably feuding with/teaming with/feuding with Triple H; -Being inserted into the WM main event with HHH and Benoit; -Shawn-Is-Broke-Has-To-Work-For-JBL; -The comedy match with Hogan; -Hornswoggle's people putting DX on trial; I think he feuded with Batista over retiring Flair? And I guess he and Hunter sent the Spirit Squad back to OVW. The only thing I enjoyed, aside from the superkicking of fry cooks and girl scouts, was him being thrown face first into the obscenely expensive JeriTron 5000.

The first Ultimate X match is definitely an exception to this, since it's pretty embarrassing to watch the belt fall to the mat over and over. First Royal Rumble was definitely not the best Royal Rumble.

I think I would enjoy most of Shawn's matches more if Shawn were replaced by somebody else. Especially post-face-turn 90s Michaels and post-comeback 2000s Michaels. But I was a Bret Hart fan as a kid, so maybe my opinion is coloured by that. That being said, Shawn Michaels superkicking civilians in backstage segments was good.

He was excellent as the Pope. Then... well, TNA did what they normally do.

Yeah, but California is the geographic equivalent of going up against Raw on Monday nights. They want to do it to show they can play with the big boys, but they wind up being the kid in the powder blue tux standing by himself at the prom.

The best thing about Jack Swagger was the Swagger Soaring Eagle, followed shortly by the Swaggie. He'd be best utilized as a midcard, blustering jock comedy heel.

Axel/Heyman/Ryback = Ruthless Roundtable?

Genetics.

Weakest Guerrero?

I think your forgetting the breakout hit that was The Hurricane. Helms was over huge in the late summer/fall of 2001. Now that was a lot of fun. WCW folding killed Helms momentum though, because he was massively over in WCW by the end... he was going to be a bust out star for WCW if they stayed open, and he had to start from scratch as Greg Helms in WWF. I really thought he was going to be world champ in a year or two in WCW if it had stayed open. He was that hot. I thought he was going to be bigger than he was- but you can only do so much with a comedy gimmick, even if it means easy money. Can you imagine, if WCW hadn't tanked, we could've had Mike Sanders vs. Shane Helms main events. Think about how different the landscape would've been. Man, fuck WCW dying.

Kazarian, TJ Perkins, and Daniels? Alternately, the worst names for poker hands ever.

Braden Walker.

I would pay good money to see Wiseau with Daniels and Kazarian as his Executive Vice Presidents. No Wiseau appearance would be complete without him saying, "Oh, hi mark."

I saw the 2 Cool/Rikishi face music turn up as "generic party music" during some 90s/early 00s tv show, although I can't remember which.

I'm really impressed with how things stand right now. You've got the Punk/Heyman Family feud, keeping one of the top faces believably preoccupied enough to not get involved in the main storyline. Then you've got the multilayered "best for business" story: Orton and Bryan feuding over the WWE title, the Rhodes brothers feuding with the Shield over the tag titles thanks to HHH and Stephanie's power trip, and Big Show working out his frustration on the entire HHH/Stephanie power structure. I saw some people saying that Bryan should've been in Show's position at the end of this Raw, but I disagree: Bryan's focused on the the title, his fiancee, and Orton, not HHH or the Shield; Show's issue is more directly with Hunter, and by extension his cronies. They're doing an excellent job of building the face roster up as a whole to carry the weight while Cena's gone, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket. And a lot of the matches are damn good, too.

The greatest wrestling theme Kraftwerk ever wrote.

I hope this movie has a subplot where the parents of the kids she teaches sue the school for letting a former bounty hunter have a job there. That school sounds as inept as the one that let an ex-convict be in charge of a bus full of kids in The Chaperone. Or the one that let Randy Orton call the shots when it came to their hiring practices. I like to think WWE studios are making sophisticated points about the falling standards in the US education system. I'm pretty sure it's against the law to prevent a bounty hunter (a fully legal occupation) from holding a job as a teacher if she has all the prerequisite qualifications.