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Smackdown's coming to NZ this year. I said to myself I would love to go... except I couldn't see the following four all surviving the draft: Edge Jericho Morrison Punk Looks like I was right. Damn them all to hell!

I must have missed the part where Shelton was in WWE in 2000... If he hadn't busted his wrist after beating Triple H twice in a row in 2004, he would have been on a rocketship to the moon. They just never managed to repeat that Lightning in a Bottle with him. It's kinda funny - a lot of the guys released this year are mainstays in my RW TEW games - Haas, Benjamin, Burchill, Helms, James...

I still believe the body image thing doesn't have much of a place in wrestling. If guys want to be old and rich, do we all look up to Vince McMahon and Donald Trump? Here's my thing - wrestlers are supposed to be athletes. So I'd like the majority of them (male and female) to be or at least be able to pass for athletes. You can have your sticks with balloons scattered about (not my thing, but as people say - it appeals to a key demographic), but ideally unless they can really put on a match they should stick to being managers or other on-screen non wrestling personalities. BTW, making my way through Lockdown - started with the Angle/Anderson match. I liked it, though both instances of blood seemed early and not really important. Also, Angle gave Anderson TWO backdrops that looked pretty much exactly like the one Anderson gave Orton to get himself fired. Good lord the Moonsault was as good as everybody said! I really liked the story of the match (though still cringe every time Tenay says "warrior medal"). Stepping over Anderson to get out of the cage was great, as was the dick-stomp to make a point.

Yeah, whereas male wrestlers are perfectly representative of your average joe. Excuse me while I go grate some cheese on my abs... Seriously though, I've never understood why it's such a big deal to have "realistic rolemodels" for women but not for men. Especially when we're talking about Entertainment. Who's the more appealing character in Zombieland - Woody Harrelson or the scrawny kid? Who would we rather be - Arnie or DeVito? Trish and Lita didn't have bodies mirroring the general populace, but do we seriously think no girls ever looked up to them as strong women they can aspire to be like in some way? Not a dig on you Remi, just that whole societal pressure being applied where IMO it really doesn't belong.

Come on... Inland Revenue are easily the best heels in the Accounting business!

I haven't seen Raw in a while, but wasn't last week a Supershow in London? They'll often change to a non-show specific coloured rope set for those.

I'm definitely going to watch Lockdown. If Angle/Anderson is as good as everyone's saying, it'll be worth it just for that. By the way, about the idea of "no one will remember what happened four months ago"... TNA has been LOSING viewers, not gaining a bunch of new ones who weren't watching before. Chances are almost everyone's going to remember!

Huh? I don't get that at all. Last time I checked, Undertaker has appeared on hundreds of Live events and Raws (before split), and been fine with his entrance. I'm really not sure what you're getting at.

So now going to the opposite end of the inapt comparisons... Guess what link all of those examples are missing? The Gender switch you were trying to justify in the first place! Yes, wrestlers take characters from pop culture. Yes there have been female versions of males *within the same genre*. Making a male version of a female from an entirely separate world doesn't equal success, or history, or logic. And so far his motives seem to not involve wrestling. He just wants to sit down with some friends on a couch he set up with a fake wall in the audience. Or bring Mardi Grad and a money shot to the ramp. What exactly are these amazing motives he's supposed to have, in a wrestling context? He wants to win the Global Championship so he can have more sex with both genders?! I just don't see it.

Lita = in WWF. Hardy Boyz = in WWF. X-23 = In X-Men. Wolverine = In X-Men. Orlando Jordan = In TNA. Lady Gaga = NOWHERE NEAR WRESTLING. Your examples had direct interaction and co-existed with their counterparts. Until Lady Gaga shows up in TNA and has something, ANYTHING to do with OJ, neither example is anywhere near apt.

I love Heyman's perspective on the wrestling industry. He knows the foundations of good booking, and he has a hell of an eye for talent. Also, he is very much like Penn Jillette in appearance and voice. Well maybe mix in a bit of Gilbert Gottfried to the voice

JR: "No one has ever out-performed Shawn Michaels in a big match situation". It's not about his record, it's about the match quality. He has more memorable and excellent performances at Mania than anyone. Didn't they do this on Tough Enough back in the day?

Perfectly hilarious! Um, HBO, Showtime... Little shows like The Sopranos, Californication, The L Word, Penn & Teller's Bulls Hit... I'm not even *in* America and I've seen nudity on American TV.

Jericho? Big Show? Or are we not counting pre-Invasion guys?

Yeah, WWE would *never* have a Women's match as the Main Event of Raw. We didn't see Trish vs Lita for the Women's Title close out the December 6, 2004 edition of Raw. But then, that was a *match* and not some weird striptease thing...

Yeah classicly funny. I knew about the Hogan impersonator though.

It absolutely was the Wolfpac sign. Taz played it off as being respect shown since they were in MEM together. I agree wholeheartedly. To round of my last TEW08 game, I had Wrestlemania's Main Event as Kurt Angle vs Mr Kennedy. But this feud has been really poor up until this week. The promos were good, and Anderson's ending was great. "The better man won't win. You're a better father to your kids.... Thank god I'm an a$$hole..... a$$hole". So good! Interesting idea with the "fight for the key", but um... you *can* go over the top, right? Also, I feel like TNA's camera crew kinda sucks. While the ME was very clustered from the participants' actions, the camera work really made things more rushed and confusing. Good idea for the match's story, they just didn't quite pull it off.

That was simply an awesome wrestling show. Booking that made sense, a great segment with Pope, Anderson cut a good promo (seems like maybe he's finally getting his feet under him in TNA), Lethal's hilarious as always... It wasn't rushed - even the short matches had more time than other short matches I've seen from them, and they concluded nicely. Hell, even Jarrett had a good match that I really enjoyed. Only bad parts: *OJ's segment was out of place. If he had cut a promo or done *anything* wrestling related, it might have been okay. *RVD and Hardy suck at promos. Especially Hardy. "We're gonna have a steel cage MATCH!" Seriously? How long has this guy been a wrestler and watched wrestling, and he can't even put emphasis on the right words? *Abyss and Jarrett closing the show. That was a throwaway promo that should have happened in the middle of the show. Oh, by the way - was I the only one *blown away* by how good Hogan's Macho Man impersonation was? I think he's actually better at it than Lethal. If this had been the 1/4 show instead of the cluster we got, I think TNA's ratings would be in much better shape.

Bill Simmons is awesome. I wish ESPN would let him back on the Adam Carolla Podcast...

Props. This is the best post I've seen you make Do you write have a dynasty on the boards? If you put these sorts of connections in place on a larger scale, that's the kind of thing I enjoy reading.

South Park reference. Fishsticks = Fish Dicks. "Do you like Fishsticks?" "Yeah" "You like putting Fishsticks in your mouth?" "Yeah" "What are you, a gay fish?" The episode's plot involved Kanye West being the only person on Earth who didn't get the joke, and thought people were making rumours about him. I don't know whether they signmakers made the connection of Batista doing the Kanye ripoff at the Slammys or not, but either way I thought the sign was very funny!

Well I guess if Vince happened to be standing directly under TNA Impact's ratings, he might fear that they're falling so fast they could kill him at any moment... Other than that, who's the joke on? That guy paid hundreds of dollars to sit and watch Vince's product. No one pays a cent to get in to watch TNA live.

She was a botch machine on Raw before she went to TNA. That said, I saw it as definitely being her opponent's inability to take the Pull-back Big Boot, but Gail having to throw that low kick twice was kind of embarassing. THIS. Someone challenged me on "why is Cena such a bad wrestler?" a week or so ago. Because he's sloppy as all hell. He was messy getting Batista up, and dangerous with how he threw him off. He whiffed his top rope 5KS, and generally just looked rather poor in the ring.

You might like to separate two different thoughts into their own sentences next time. And yeah, the Blond Bitch project was *such* a hot angle I agree that Pirate Burchill was awesome, but it really is only hearsay that "Vince didn't know what PotC was".

Blair Witch Project release date: July 1999 Kevin Thorn character debuted: July 2006 Kevin Thorn's last televised match: December 2007 Kevin Thorn fired: January 2009 I'm not sure I follow your logic. Also, I haven't seen the BWP, but I don't recall it being about Vampires...