Gotta feeling they threw out that Mania match list to fuck with people. Dunno why they would waste Bryan on Sheamus or Cena on Wyatt.

<font color=goldenrod>If I were running things, I'd do the Taker/Cena match EVERYBODY wants to see. I mean Taker has to fight Cena at WM at some point, right? It would be just such a huge match and appropriate of the biggest show of all time.

Meanwhile, Lesnar being brought back by Triple H just makes him seem like a perfect choice for the "corporate champion". Have Bryan win the Rumble and Lesnar win the belt at the Chamber, and you set up a fantastic match and star-making moment where Bryan gets to slay the beast at Mania and finally win the title.

They could still roll with Orton/Batista in that scenario, which would be fine as a middle of the card match. I just don't buy it as the WM 30 main event.</font>

Win or lose, I feel like they're saving Taker vs Cena for Taker's last match.

I like this idea. All of it. Lesnar vs. Bryan may be a risk to run in the main event, but the match would be tremendous and when you have other attractions like Triple H vs. CM Punk and Undertaker vs. John Cena, you can afford to take that gamble. Lesnar has looked like a beast recently, and Brock beating Cena will solidify himself as such heading into WrestleMania.

It doesn't seem very likely to me for some reason, but I do think that it would do good business for the WWE. I'm also not opposed to CM Punk winning the Rumble and then challenging Randy Orton at WrestleMania. It'd be relatively fresh and it'd be a good match. Daniel Bryan would face Shawn Michaels in my perfect world, The Undertaker vs. John Cena would go forward and Batista would face Brock Lesnar -- The Animal vs. The Beast.

First time Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler did commentary together

-From November 1983: Lanny Poffo/Iceman King Parsons vs Butch Reed/Jim Neidhart in Mid South Wrestling

-This was at a time that Lawler and Jerry Jarrett were asked by Watts to look at his promotion and help him out as business had dropped quite a bit

Jarrett/Lawler told Watts he didn't have anyone that would appeal to the female fans

Mid South soon thereafter got The Midnight Express, The Rock and Roll Express, Terry Taylor and Bill Dundee as booker

and of course the feud with the Midnight's and Rock and Roll's ignited the territory once again with some really great tag matches

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Interesting bit of history there, Seth.

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Working tomorrow during the Royal Rumble. Should I purchase and record the event? Would cost me like 20 bucks or something....

Somebody tell me what to do. Order it? Or how fast and what kind of quality can I get with an illegal replay stream?

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Take a shower. Hit the weights. Get a clue.

Call in sick and order the rumble! Unless your boss knows about the Royal Rumble.

Nah, I'm a face, I don't pull heel/tweener stuff like that.

Stop with the pussy Steamboat shit and be a Flair for once.

By that I mean walk into work, yell "WOOOOO!" in your boss' face and walk out only to come back the next day like nothing happened.

So you have a shitty job in the middle of nowhere and you don't even think about calling in sick?

(drops a chair in the middle of the ring)

You know what you have to do to your boss!

with a tear in your eye woooooo.

Who said the job was poopy?

Gonna sleep on this. Will decide whether or not to order it in the morning.

i thought you did.

Lock Jaw's ethics and principles do not allow him to fake a sickness as it will bring great shame to his family.

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On another video one of the comments made me laugh, about how it sounds like R Truth singing. I actually have that CD, I haven't listened to it in a while though.

Here is what I think WWE will do for WM30:

Undertaker vs John Cena
Orton vs Lesnar vs Batista
WWE World Title: CM Punk (c) vs Daniel Bryan
Goldust vs Cody Rhodes
Shawn Michaels vs El Torito
Ironman Hell in a Cell: The Miz vs Kofi Kingston
US Title: Bob Holly vs Dean Ambrose
Roman Reigns/Seth Rollins vs King Mo

That's great IF you can plan when his last match will be. You could end up in a situation like with Edge and suddenly Taker has had his last match and is wasn't against Cena.

As for those proposed matches for Mania, seems like the least attractive line up you could do with the guys involved. Would probably prefer any other combination you could come up with from the 10 names listed.

As I've said before, if the WWE could get Shawn Michaels to work with Daniel Bryan, then it would almost be more prestigious for Bryan to face HBK at WrestleMania than even winning the World Title. But given that doesn't seem like a workable scenario, then Bryan does seem like the best choice to win the Rumble. It's just hard thinking of a suitable WrestleMania opponent for him.

Truth be told, if the WWE wanted to make a shit-load of cash, then they could have The Undertaker return and win the WWE World Title at Elimination Chamber once Bryan wins the Rumble. It'd be an easy way to set up what is allegedly Taker's preferred Mania match. At Elimination Chamber you run Bryan defending his shot against someone (perhaps the rumored Sheamus match), you have CM Punk vs. Kane, and then you have Orton defend the WWE World Title against the likes of John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Batista, Alberto Del Rio and a mystery entrant in the Elimination Chamber. The mystery entrant turns out to be Undertaker, who can be protected in the match. Batista eliminates both Del Rio and Lesnar to look like a beast, but then Brock hits Batista with a bitter F5 and Orton manages to pin him. Cena takes the Tombstone from Undertaker and is pinned, and Taker then locks in the Hell's Gate on Orton for the submission victory to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Elimination Chamber then closes with Daniel Bryan and The Undertaker staring down.

Doing some thinking on the subject, it seems likely that Brock Lesnar would be the obvious candidate to take on whoever is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion at Elimination Chamber. Cena vs. Lesnar fits the face/heel dynamic of things way more than Orton vs. Lesnar, but Orton vs. Lesnar could work as far as heel vs. heel battles go. Heyman would sell the match like a genius. It'd be the youngest World Heavyweight Champion of all-time against the youngest WWE Champion of all-time.

Lesnar could possibly win the WWE World Title there and become the champion heading into WrestleMania against challenger, Daniel Bryan. Orton would be owed a rematch and would make sure that The Authority knows it. But Brock Lesnar doesn't fight for free. A Triple Threat Match is signed between the three competitors for WrestleMania XXX, which also decreases Daniel Bryan's statistical odds, which could make The Authority quite happy. John Cena would then face The Undertaker, CM Punk would scrap with Triple H and Batista and Sheamus could join forces with another babyface to challenge The Wyatt Family. That face could be anyone from Rob Van Dam to Mark Henry to Big Show to Kofi Kingston to Rey Mysterio. Depends just who they want to get on the card. I'd probably go with Big Show returning from a Lesnar-inflicted arm injury and presented as a "big deal" again.

Jeff Hardy could be brought back to the company and he could team with Christian against The Rhodes Bros. at Mania to give the Tag Team Title match a special feel. Two of the greatest tag team competitors of all-time forming a new union to take on the current champions. AJ Lee would also defend her Divas Title on the PPV, and while I would mark the fuck out for Kharma returning to challenge (fuck you all, I still hold onto hope), she could also face Paige, Emma or Trish Stratus and make it feel like a fresh and interesting match-up. Big E. Langston could defend his Intercontinental Title on the show too. His friendship with Mark Henry could lead to a title match, but I'd like to see Langston make the challenge to Chris Jericho, the most prolific IC Champion of all-time, for the show.

That would be a seven match card that would use up most of the talent that you really want to feature at WrestleMania. I suppose you could squeeze in an Alberto Del Rio vs. Rey Mysterio Hair vs. Mask match, since those two guys are likely to make the card too. That's eight matches. Then you can have a Piper's Pit segment with Piper interviewing someone who matters. How about we go with Ultimate Warrior cutting an insane promo. The Miz interrupts and says that this should be Miz TV and not Piper's Pit. Fandango interrupts and dances. Wade Barrett has some Bad News and The Real Americans think this is all stupid and it's a shame they're not the card. Things break down and then Hulk Hogan makes the save and stands tall with Roddy Piper and Ultimate Warrior to close the segment.

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<font color=goldenrod>I'm not one to be overly critical of a lot of WWE's decisions, but even I'd have to agree here. I'm struggling to remember the last time a big "face gets a huge title win to close out WM" moment was this universally wanted. WM 21 maybe? Everybody wanted to see either Batista or Cena get the jump up at that point, and we wound up getting both.

Has some similarities to WM 20 as well in that it's the moment the vast majority of people want to see, yet nobody will believe it'll actually happen until they see it.

Regardless of how long a potential Bryan reign lasts, I just think they're fucking nuts if they don't go with the guy who has been unbelievably shit hot. Can just imagine 80,000 people in Superdome YESing to close out the show. WM was made for moments like that.</font>

Shawn michaels vs el torito would be match of the year and well worth hbk coming out of retirement

Ring of Honor is incredibly difficult to watch at times. Pretty shitty, really.

<font color=goldenrod>I just have never paid any attention to ROH aside from just watching random matches without knowing their backstory, even in their glory days. I know Cliff Compton is working an angle with Kevin Steen or something which is cool as I'm a Compton mark, but other than that I know absolutely nothing about what's going on with the company.</font>

Something about Adam Cole and Jay Briscoe. Pretty boring.

I think ROH puts on a pretty fun "live show", but it just doesn't translate to good TV.

Their fast paced finisher after finisher style is like "Ha ha ha this is fun and crazy" live, but when watching it on TV it's like "slow down, bro. Let it breathe."

So should I buy the Royal Rumble or not? Is it worth the buy or stream?

AMAZING :love:

I am going to stream, but I am also broke as fuck.

I would buy it. The card looks pretty decent and the Rumble match is always good.

classic moment from World of Sport Wrestling

Kendo Nagasaki (Peter Thornley) unmasks for the first time in 15 years
-This unbelievably would actually turn Kendo into a bit of a face for a little while

the guy in the blue robe at the start was Kendo's manager 'Gorgeous' George Gillette

I have always found British Wrestling to be fascinating

British Wrestling back then didn't really have any sort of storyline - It was just Wrestler A hates Wrestler B

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1) it's the Rumble
2) it has a stronger than usual undercard
3) it's the Rumble

That said, I'll be catching an online stream in the morning. Can't stay up til 4am.

Kinda want them to have a 40 man Rumble again tonight.

You'd have chaos in the backstage as guys are fighting left and right, attacking each other trying to gain entry/steal somebody else's spot until The Authority announce that they're expanding the Rumble to keep the chaos in the ring cos that's what's best for business.

Unfortunately the undercard is so stacked they wouldn't have time.

He actually had an awesome look sans mask. Better than many who lose the mask (Juvi)

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How many times was the Figure 4 reversed or countered on Flair? As a "finisher" it seems to have a really bad habit of back firing.

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That's the problem with submission finishers. I know pinfall finishers are going the same way with every main event match almost sure to have a finisher kick out or two but I never really felt like a submission finisher had the same "either this match is over or this is gonna be an epic moment" feel.

Indeed sad. That, and the angle of AJ being the longest reigning Diva's Champion a) is being relegated to WWE App fodder b) wasted on the fact that there is no solid Diva's roster to help anybody give a shit. Her streak is kinda like Helms with the Cruiserweight Title when there just wasn't a Cruiserweight division left anymore, or that time where there was only like two tag teams in the whole scene.

And indeed, Alicia Fox has grown to be decent in the ring... but with her tenure comes what is likely the highest streak of heel and face turns in WWE history and a laundry list of throwaway matches. That has the opposite effect from making people invest: being a perpetual loser who doesn't care what side of the fence she's on.

Needs more Ziggler.

This needs to be an angle. Langston comes out with a barely fitting Lite Brite jacket and everything.

He caught him better than it looked like he did real time, real time it looked like he just drug his fist across Lesnar's chest

from the Florida territory in 1981

Dusty Rhodes tricks The Assassin into signing a Texas Death Match

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Watching Flair vs Sting from Clash of The Champions

They have ring judges and one of them is the brother from The Wonder Years. :lol:

Former TNA executive producer Jason Hervey?

Is that him? All I know is he's the punk brother from The Wonder Years.

Sure is

jason hervey was the nerdy friend, not the older brother

Oh shit Im wrong. Ive spent like the last 5 years imagining Paul from the wonder years not the brother!

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This guy was saying Bootista.

Summer Rae confirmed she's replacing JoJo for the next season of Total Divas. Dirtsheets hinted a few times JoJo is likely to be getting released than get Divas training at NXT.

I'm really not all that in a Cody Rhodes/Goldust feud, especially going into Wrestlemania.

Would much rather keep them as a team for now. Would love to see a TLC match at Wrestlemania. Would get loadsa guys onto the show, and will add another special "big match" to the card. Perhaps Cody/Goldust vs. Usos vs. Real Americans vs. New Age Outlaws if they can take the bumps. If not, then perhaps Kofi/Xavier?

Alicia Fox has been good in the ring in the last year, to absolutely no end.

I like Alicia Fox, she makes me crack up on total divas.

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WWE.com 's new article

Who's your WWE fan favorite?

We might get a WWE Vacant action figure :shifty:


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I would love to see Ryback and Curtis Axel get some chances to develop personalities in backstage segments.

You're wrong.

And you know it.

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Kinda hate that Batista has probably tried (and probably succeeded) to bang Katee Sackhoff and Karen Gillan.

Rey Mysterio should've destroyed Sin Cara tonight, proceed to the mic and say that it was "best for business" and hand over his mask to Stephanie while exiting the stage. Next week, Kane comes out and introduces corporate Mysterio.

Got pritty hot and heavy with the US title tonight.

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That seems pretty cool :y:

Casual forum laying on the hipster "We're gonna watch wrestling, but we're gonna watch it ironically, cause we're too hip too like it." schtick a little heavy lately.

CALLIN' EM OUT

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Probably fake

Do you think, really

Normally I would say that is absolutely fake but then I saw that it was done by Chris Harrington (presumably, THE Chris Harrington) of indeedwrestling.com so who knows really

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It's capable of being verified by just looking at the quarter hour numbers.

I'm not gonna do that though.

Brad Maddox is a bigger draw than Daniel Bryan.

Braddox equals ratings.

That chart provides me with enough trolling material for a year.

Just realized that this is The New Age Outlaws' maiden WWE Tag Team Championship reign.

From the dirtsheets:

Felt like posting this video

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This is like the Augusta National telling local golf courses they can't work during the Master's Tournament. I don't see why they don't instead try to work with various companies and be like "I know you want to do a show this weekend, here's the deal: we won't give you any shit, but you have to hype up our event, you have to one of your guys to put over one of the guys we'll send to get a pay day or allow our guy to do an autograph signing during intermission." Along those lines. Then they can incorporate the "WWE-Sponsored Events" around town taking place during Wrestlemania weekend.

Only downside being that the smaller shows might lose a bit of their autonomy. Beyond that, they can advertise to their usual audience that say "Zack Ryder will be wrestling so and so during our show on Wrestlemania Weekend!" Zack Ryder can tell his fans about how he'll be at this show if you want to see him in action. It works for WWE cause they can get a cut. It works for the boys because they get a payday they wouldn't normally get. It works for the promotion because they'll get fans that wouldn't normally come to their shows to see, continuing the analogy, Zack Ryder, and they're introduced to a new company. Hell, even have a scout come to a show or two to make it look like the workers have a chance to get to the next level.

Thought you might like this too :lol:

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I was just... negative on the podcast. I don't think I can get used to this.

:eek: Poit

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DEATH OF JIMMY SNUKA'S GIRLFRIEND TO GO BEFORE GRAND JURY MANY YEARS LATER, OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY

The Allentown Morning Call reported today that a grand jury will be investigating the 1983 death of WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka's girlfriend, Nancy Argentino.
While the 1983 death remained an open case in Allentown, PA, there had been no movement on it in decades and her family had not aware that the case was still considered open.

Renewed interest in the case was brought about by both the anniversary of her passing last June and Snuka openly stating his side of Argentino's passing for the first time in his autobiography, which was published last year.

According to Snuka's account, Argentino (described as his road girlfriend on the East Coast; Snuka was married at the time to his second wife) was driving him to a TV taping in Allentown when she stopped to relieve herself on the side of the road. Snuka has claimed she slipped while returning to the car and hit her head on the side of the road. They continued on to their hotel, where she complained of a headache and he left her sleeping when he left for the taping. When he returned, he realized she was having trouble breathing and called for the police. Argentino passed away hours later from complications of a head injury.

Argentino's family claims of Snuka's behavior before her passing - including an scary incident involving the couple in Upstate New York where several police officers with canine dogs had to be called to quell and arrest Snuka - as well as changes in Snuka's statements about the circumstances of Argentino's passing over the years leave at the very least, a major question mark over the hows and whys of what happened.

The Morning Call article did not note why the case was now, after all these years, going to be investigated by the grand jury.

Derrick Bateman wrestles with his USA gimmick:

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Well you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit. If the shows sucked, and you have a platform to tell people it sucked (ie- the podcast) then do it. And hell, I'm sure you wouldn't be the only one crapping on the shows. Look at the fans who'll start out a "YES" chant for no reason, or take a one on one match where the biggest pop is for JBL.