Aha, so perhaps there is hope for Mohammed. Unfortunately, after his “injury” at GAB, it looks like he’s being written out and will be forgotten.
As for TNA: Well, it will certainly work for Velocity’s target audience, especially as it’s main players are ex-WWF jobbers (well, except for Jeff Hardy, I hope they bring him back with Matt).
I also hope Shark Boy’s not holding his breath with his lawsuit.
I think I will attend the next TNA Pay-Per-View taping on August 14th. I haven’t been to one of their events yet, but they’re all filmed here in Orlando, and I’ve been looking forward to checking them out. I don’t know much about them, but I hear the X-Division guys are amazing… everything WWE’s cruiserweight division has the potential to be if Vince cared about them, and more.
The person who played Hassan is going back down to the developmental ranks until creative comes up with a new persona for him. The Hassan character is gone. I think it’s sad, cause he was starting to grow on me.
Well, that was just a HORRIBLE show.
Christian/Jordan vs. Benoit/Booker:
Come ON. If you’re going to give a guy a boot to the head to “Break up the 3-count,” make sure that you roll OFF the pinned guy. In came Christian, breaks up the 3-count, yet Benoit is still on top of Jordan for a good five seconds. Still a pin. And don’t tell me that Christian’s entry into the ring and then self-removal was a work. He was as surprised as anyone else to see the pin-count just starting. He rolled out of the ring because the match was scheduled to end, not for the purposes of plot advancement. WEAK. Bust up the count (like you busted up every one before that) and improv a new finish.
What the hell is this? You let Jindrak, Haas, and a dozen other good workers go just so that I can have the pleasure of watching the riveting display of Regal vs. Scotty 2 Hotty get run-in by some Mexicans wearing coveralls on a lawn tractor? Thanks, Vince- thanks for saving me from myself. You OBVIOUSLY know best. :dubious:
And what? If you’re going to manufacture JBL/Undertaker, don’t use a self-contradicting interview to do it.
JBL: My contract says that if I beat Batista but don’t win the title, (how in the hell would you have the foresight to stick a clause like that in there, unless you’ve been watching Carlito’s matches?) I get the next title shot.
T. Long: The Undertaker is #1.
JBL: I will sue to enforce my contract.
T. Long: Your contract is unenforceable because I say so. My position as GM of Smackdown supersedes contract law, you see. Now fight this guy.
JBL: This doesn’t seem fair, but your logic is unassailable.
WHAT?
(This is right up there with making Charmel get in the ring with Angle in “so implausible it shatters kayfabe by its very existence” quality, as will be the “Dominic Mysterio/Guerrero Custody match” that I predict we’ll see at SummerSlam.)
Someone, PLEASE get your shit together up there in Stamford. Because it’s all going to hell on the road.
I think Vince has the wrong child doing the booking. Shane never would have let things get this bad.
From what I hear, Shane’s in charge of the WWE’s “New Media” department, which has been responsible for all the really nice DVDs they’ve been producing lately. He seems to have a knowledge of and respect for the history of wrestling and what fans actually want to see. My husband is the major wrestling fan, not me (I watch casually and am often just annoyed away from the TV at the stupidity and waste of potential I see), but I really enjoy their recent DVD retrospectives. I even enjoyed the one on the Road Warriors, who I’d never really heard of and had no ready-made nostalgia for. I really don’t want to see Shane or any McMahon wrestling, but I do wish Shane had a hand in the booking and that Stephanie would fall into a live volcano.
Did final numbers ever get released on the ECW pay-per-view buy rates?
Not to go off or anything, but Shane takes as good a bump as anyone in the business, and he was “incompetent” in the ring because that’s what his “character” was. The kid can wrestle.
But I agree that he ought to be doing the booking and not [del]Triple H[/del] his sister.
Shane’s definitely the best wrestler in his family, but that doesn’t change my failure to *care * about seeing him wrestle. There are a lot of guys who worked their whole lives to be wrestlers just standing around backstage doing nothing and being released from their contracts who could be out there putting on better matches than Shane ever could.
And yeah, Triple H can totally follow his wife into that volcano. Once upon a time he was an entertaining character and a good wrestler, but his ego has completely overshadowed anything he has to offer and he just takes up space. Lots of space. I’m just glad he hasn’t been on TV much recenty as the crowd is sick to death of him, and I’m fed up with his prima donna-ing screwing over his more talented colleagues.
They need some good writers on the shows who actually know something about wrestling. They just hired some chick from Nickelodian (sp) who asked JBL how he kept the “fake blood” pouring out of his head so long during a match…
YIKES.
So did he beat the crap out of her like he does everybody else?
Now I heard that one of the new Diva Search contestants asked the writers about making a “Katie Vick” reference (the girl that Kane supposedly killed and had necrophiliac sex with in a horrible angle about two years ago), and the writers had no idea what SHE was talking about! It’s pretty bad when the interchangeable bimbos know more about WWE continuity (even the dumb stuff like Katie Vick) than the writing staff.
Some good news: Vince apparently rehired James Gibson (Jamie Noble) and Brian Kendrick (Spanky), two cruiserweights that left the WWE some time ago to return to the indies. Noble is a solid worker and Spanky is amazing (he and Paul London were one of my all-time favorite tag teams during their too-rare Velocity appearances), and you’d think that with the hiring of the Mexicools and these guys, Vince was planning a big push for the Cruiserweight division. Of course, that runs counter to everything else we know about Vince and his “big man fetish,” so I’m assuming he just wanted to keep Noble and Spanky from appearing on TNA once their TV contract starts pretty soon.
I hope they actually let Noble and Spanky come back and perform. I also loved Spanky and Paul London together, back before Paul London started channeling the Ultimate Warrior’s fashion sense, and I hope they’ll get to tag team again.