Big Weirdo

Gallen please! Stop! Sting defecting from TNA to challenge for the championship? Is it 2006 in your world man?

I'm not trying to crap on you but come on man.

Also enough with the Rock and his rematch clause. He isn't coming back. He makes more money now than he ever did on the WWE.

Goldust is great. I still have his action figure from when I was a kid. It has a removable wig. At a point in time he was the most over heel on WWE 's roster. Drugs caught up to him. But he is doing his best work right now. In great shape and his matches are always top notch. He was always a great ring technician.

They should bring back King of the Ring. That was a good way to have a tournament while pushing someone new. A lot of guys were helped out by it. Most notably Stone Cold.

Ambrose has the ability to be a Mick Foley type wrestler. He makes others look good with his style.

Wyatt and Bryan are good choices but I'd give it to Bryan since he's about as close to Cena as anyone has gotten. The other guys no one cares about in the audience. I love Sandow but he's not going anywhere. And Vince doesn't seem to like Ziggler (Internet darling without the level of talent of Punk or Bryan).

Actually Ziggler would be the last guy in that list id give to. He's the one of the most overrated wrestlers on the roster.

That would be awesome but that is never going to happen. Ever. I'd be willing to bet that Cena snaps the streak one day.

But I have to ask who do you want to be Champion over Cena? The reality is he sells. When he came back the buy rates went up. And that was to see him wrestle Alberto Del Rio. He caters to kids and no one under ten is buying a best in the world shirt.

I thought they had a shot with Daniel Bryan but they killed his momentum with the B+ thing. That's on the writing.

Also I read a story that WWE Creative is completely screwed up right now. They turned Miz heel only to turn him back 2 weeks later because they forgot he had a Christmas movie to promote.

I will never understand the internet's obsession with the brand split. We are looking at a Wrestlemania main event built around Vince McMahon versus HHH for control of the company (the 85th version of this storyline) and have Cena-Orton as the main storyline for God knows how long......and people are still talking about the brand split as if it matters.

It hasnt mattered for 2 years now since they don't have their own rosters. The belt unification will at least convolute things a little less under the major stars. However that requires faith in the writers to come up with compelling storyline for the lower tier guys. That was one of the things that I have felt that was always missing for the past decade.

I'm hoping the Cena/Orton thing is just a one off to unify one belt onto one of them and be done with it. But it could go through the first couple of months of Wrestlemania season. I'm not thrilled about it but you could see it coming when Cena came back.

Looks like the belt unification is happening much sooner than people thought.

No point of the brands arent gonna have separate rosters to have two belts. If anything this might make the midcard that much better.

Best match of SS was Wyatts vs Punk/Bryan of course. I thought the Wyatts would go over but they had Besties In The World take the win.

Go **** yourselves Cowboys

When is Porter going to play? I'm interested to see him.

This is why I kept telling people the Sixers aren't making the playoffs. They're just arent very good. The first week was fun though and I like MCW.

Golden State now has the belt. They squashed us in the cage. Threw us off the top like Mick Foley into the Spanish announce table.

Sixers defend the regular season championship belt against the Golden State Warriors in a steel cage match at Wells Fargo tonight.  

Daniel Bryan is out of the title picture for now they're saying.  He's starting a program with the Wyatts and CM Punk.  That should be awesome.

Big Show vs Orton, I'm thrilled.  Glad it's still 2006 in the WWE Universe.

Also one more thing:  the big rumor going around is that Billy Corgan (yes, of Smashing Pumpkins) is purchasing TNA.  He ran his own independent wrestling promotion in Chicago for some time now and there is a ridiculous youtube commercial with him in it.  I'll see if I can't dig it up.  The guy is a huge wrestling fanatic.

EDIT:  Just read that Hogan has a verbal agreement with the WWE to come back.  So take that for what it's worth.  

GACOLB isnt there. I thought he was going but he didn't. He was texting me about the game earlier. Then he told me to stop watching it haha.

I think my boy GACOLB is there tonight.  What up baby.  Enjoy the game.

Yeah,heard that rumor about Ziggler. That's dumb.They also said they don't like the way he represents the company on interviews and whatnot. And that is done bull because he has the best interviews and he sells the product...

I've heard that, too, but never been able to find anything on it.  I heard he said something during a Summerslam press event.  They even played it up in his storyline with the Shield with Ambrose taunting him and telling him he's going to teach him to respect the business.  But I've never actually seen what was said.

Problem with Sandow was that the crowd would boo. But it wasn't legit heat. It was "We're sick of this guy" booing. He's good on the mic. He's fine in the ring. But we've seen that character before...a few times. It wasn't original and he didn't do anything special with it. His look with the dark hair and the beard was for anything but the scholar. That was just awful writing there I guess. Feel bad for the guy because he could be a few years into a legit character by now. That's his real name, right? I'd change it also.

Wrestling recycles characters all the time.  The issue for Sandow is that he isn't the best at it.  Others have done it better so they need to find something else for him.  They've done the southern preacher/cult leader before but Bray Wyatt is just the best who's ever done it.  Thats why it works for him.

That said they still did him no favors.  You don't give the guy the Money in the Bank briefcase and bury him.  The character loses credibility that way.  His whole shtick is that he's better than everyone except who believes it since he can't even beat half of the midcarders on the roster.

On a side note the most over heel in WWE is probably Vickie Guerrero.  :|

The rumor about Ziggler is Vince doesn't think he is main event quality. They don't think he can draw. But again they didn't give him a chance to do anything. He got the concussion then he dropped the belt to Del Rio and that was that.

The problem is they don't focus enough on the midcard and so there is never any new blood to challenge someone like Cena and Orton.

Bryan is a fantastic wrestler and got lucky with the YES chant but since then they've had him lose or get stripped of the title over the past 4 PPVs. Once again burying a guy who is more over than anyone since Austin.

They need to watch it with that otherwise that B+ level stuff will become a self fulfilling prophecy. If it already hasn't.

Good god no. That sounds awful. No more Rock/Cena, please.

Sandow had no chance to succeed. After he won the briefcase they buried him repeatedly. Did he even win a match after Money in the Bank?

A lot of these guys don't get a chance to cultivate their characters because they wrestle 4 minute squash matches and barely get any promo time. Not that I really thought Sandow was great but he's a dead end because they made him a dead end.

What the hell Philly? With my luck, they'll disappoint just like my other teams and find a way to win just enough games to get out of a top 3 draft pick.

MCW was beasting out there tonight. Really enjoyed the game.

lol Sixers

Not 76ers handle it right and get a little lucky.  Nerlens wasn't going to do a damn thing for the team this season anyway, he's a project that has no offense to speak of and lacks the bulk to be much of a defender, especially while worrying about that knee.  If the 76ers are smart once he heals (around February?) they'll find a gym and a big man coach and lock them in for the remainder of the season.  None of this meaningless "travel with the team" garbage.  By the time next season starts he could be better and bigger than he ever would have this year, even without the knee injury.  If at the same time they get a good pick in this super talented draft, this year could end up setting the team up for the next decade.  

 

As a wizards fan I hope you ****s get the 5th pick at best.  But hey, you never know.  

If you talk to anyone who's a Philadelphia sports fan you pretty much will get consensus that the 76ers are the ones who have the best chance of being good again solely because of Hinkie and what he's trying to do.  I'm not much of a basketball guru so I only enjoy the game on a surface level really but from what I can tell he's doing what needs to be done to turn them around.

On a side note Nerlens looks like Kid from Kid N Play.  For that alone I want him to succeed. 

Nerlens Noel is not expected to play this season.

This season the 76ers have one of the worst rosters I've ever seen. There is a legit chance they go 10-72.

They're going to have like two, maybe three players worthy of playing more than 10 minutes a game in the NBA right now. I've never seen such a baldly anticompetitive strategy from a team before the season even starts.

They don't deserve Wiggins. I hope Toronto dumps Rudy Gay and deals DeRozan and wins the lottery and gets Wiggins.

Dark times for the Philadelphia sports fan.

Oh well.

Also, WWE Battleground sucked.  Easily the worst PPV of the year.  Match of the Night was Rhodes vs The Shield.  It was an awesome match.  Goldust is better than he was 15 years ago.  And I loved the character back then.  He used to get so much crazy heat.  He looks to be in better shape than he was, too.

The writing has gone downhill since summertime.  Presumably because the writer who started the Daniel Bryan/Orton/Helmsley thing has since left and now someone else has to pick up the ball and write something worthwhile.  I have no faith in that happening.

You should've checked out MegaVideo berfore it got shut down, Brave. They had everything, and I mean everything. WCW/NWA/WWF/ECW/TNA/ROH. I don't know how they did it with the WWE stuff. You'd think they'd have had a lot of that stuff buried underground like the Ark Of The Covenant. They had every Raw, every Shotgun Saturday Night/Livewire/Superstars/Heat, every Smackdown, every PPV. Everything

 

You could probably read back like 15-20 pages and see posts by me from 3 years ago on it. Some surreal things I took from the era that preceded the Attitude Era were that some of those characters were just godawful. As bad as things were at one point with modern WWE, they were in rough shape during the pre-Main Event HBK era. Jim Ross was a heel commentator, which was weird as hell. The Rock was a gump (seriously, dude was a super gump), but even though he was given the most generic of generic roles, you could tell that he still had natural mic skills.

 

"Ringmaster" Steve Austin was actually a very good technical wrestler, before his Stone Cold persona made him a brawler. Before the weak ass "Invasion" storyline that ultimately ruined many careers, it actually happened before. It was the ECW Invasion where on one episode of Raw, RVD shows up and has a match with bright Sting tights wearing Jeff Hardy. There was another eipisode where they actually hold Raw at that ****hole paradise in Philly, and all of the ECW wrestlers got some run.

 

Oh, and with all of the memorable Mick Foley matches in his WWE career (too many to list), Mind Games ('96) where he faced HBK for the heavyweight title, is the greatest match I ever saw him in. And he saved the Undertakers career, engaging in a few awesome matches (Boiler Room Brawl, I Quit, Buried Alive, and ultimately, Hell In A Cell) that breathed life back into his career and led him down the Ministry Of Darkness path, along with the arrival of Kane. One last thing also: most people have vivid memory of Sable baring all with the hand paint at Fully Loaded '98, but somehow, Jacqueline showing her gigantic breasts (no gimmick paint/pasties, 100% skin) on live tv (albeit PPV, but you had to know that kids were watching) somehow got lost in the shuffle.

Stone Cold was a great technical wrestler even well into the Stone Cold persona.  His match at Wrestlemania 13 with Bret Hart is probably his best match ever.  Great story, too.  He really had to use the brawler style more after Owen Hart broke his neck in '97.

And I have said for years Mick Foley is my favorite wrestler.  No one, and I mean no one, has put more people over in their career than Mick Foley.  He has made so many great wrestlers look even better with the bumps he was willing to take.  He is the only reason Triple H ever became a main event star.