Rasslin is CHA CHA LA..LA,LA,LA,LA,LA

[Ultra Peanut]

RAW. IS. FANDANGO!
#AJALL

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Originally Posted by Mecca

They have a 3 hour raw on the 21st don't be surprised if it's a draft show and there are 0 plans for Punk to use his MITB on the ECW belt...so he's gonna be moving.

It was announced that the show on the 21st was a draft show weeks and weeks ago. And yes, there've been rumors about Punk moving to Raw.

I'll believe it when I see it. They go back-and-forth on him so much, there's no telling what's next. He could win the title in a 3-way tomorrow night, and then lose 1v1 to Funaki on Smackdown right after, the way they've booked him in '08.

[BigRock]

[Ultra Peanut]

WHAT. DO. MY. CREEPY FANS. SAY?

[Ultra Peanut]

You know what I love about this fake sport? Even when I'm let down, it doesn't feel like I'm bleeding out from a gaping shotgun wound. I just bitch about the people who made those dumb decisions (usually Russo, before I learned not to be let down by TNA) and move on with my life. I can't hate CDR for missing free throws, because I love him too much, but I can sure as hell hate the morons running things in Orlando.

Hopefully Raw was an anomaly, though. Because god damn.

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Mr. MitB...one week you're facing Jericho, the next you're facing the Miz.

lmao @ Nitro on commentary. He and Taz with the "cleveland steamer" reference as Miz's nickname.

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rofl @ colin delaney's entrance. No music, video of him getting beat down with band-aid transitions.

And who the hell was that guy that debuted during the contract signing?

Web says developmental guy Justin "The Ox" LaRouche.

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This weeks SD sounds epically bad:

Smackdown opened with Great Khali coming out with his Indian dancers. Big Show comes out and Khali welcomes him with gifts, including a goat, a chicken and fine scotch. Big Show proceeds to knockout Khali with one punch. "It was truly one of the worst in ring segments of all time."

*WWE Tag Team champs The Miz and John Morrison defeated Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore. The match was solid.

*Vickie Guerrero and Edge were getting massages away from the venue with the night off.

Finlay defeated Matt Striker. There were lots of bad comedy with hornswoggle using a super soaker to spray Striker. He then used confetti to dump on Striker while Finlay came from behind with a bucket of water and dumped that on poor Matt. The finish saw Hornswoggle slam a plastic Shillelagh on striker which he grabbed. The referee took the toy away and with his back turned, Finlay used real Shillelagh and blasted Striker for the pin

Batista and Shawn Michaels had an awesome face off. Michaels promised to kick Batista's teeth in at the Backlash PPV. Michaels teased a superkick but Batista caught him and went for the Batista Bomb. Michaels escaped.

*Vladimir Kozlov defeated Matt Logan. This will never make TV, but Kozlov botched his introduction twice, first by heading out before they were filming and then walking backstage as the lights were on. Absolutely hysterical live.

Matt Hardy defeated Chuck Palumbo with the Twist of Fate. WWE United States champ MVP did commentary at ringside.

They did several vignettes with Edge and Vickie Guerrero to give the impression they were having sex.

*Undertaker defeated Festus with the gogoplata submission. Edge's crew attacked Undertaker, Batista ran in. They beat the faces down and Kane made the final save. They did stereo chokeslams to close the show.

[Mecca]

Smackdown always reads worse than it really is.......I'm usually more entertained by ECW and Smackdown than Raw.

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Originally Posted by Mecca

Smackdown always reads worse than it really is.......I'm usually more entertained by ECW and Smackdown than Raw.

Smackdown's always been the worst show to me. If I miss a show during the week, it's usually that one, never the other two.

Cole and Coachman probably have something to do with that. Hopefully Timmy Baltimore gets into the booth at some point.

[Ultra Peanut]

[Ultra Peanut]

Cryme Tyme's return just made me think of another comeback that would make me mark the **** out:



Kane vs. Cor Von to headline ECW for a bit, mmmmmmm. COME BACK MONTY.

[Swanman]

Here's a nice little kayfabed story hyping the match between the Murder City Machine Guns and Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black) on 4/18 in ROH. Ultra Peanut, you will get a kick out of Alex Shelley's comments in the article. The match should be great and I'll be front row when the MCMGs face the Briscoe Brothers in Chicago on 4/19.


From Myspace To The Main Event
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Jimmy Jacobs and Alex Shelley have always been ahead of the curve. Their in ring moveset, characters and promos have always set the tone. Now in the era of the 'net they have heated up their rivalry on Myspace. It will come to a head on April 18th in Detroit when Jacobs & Tyler Black of The Age Of The Fall battle The Motor City Machine Guns of Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin in the "Tag Wars 2008" main event (tickets now on sale at www.ROHwrestling.com).

The history between Jacobs and Shelley started as each learned their craft in the Detroit area. They drove countless hours to various independent promotions together. They even rode over 12 hours to Philadelphia for a pre-show match at a Ring Of Honor event in an effort to earn a job. From there they won spots as a tag team until Shelley split up the duo and joined Generation Next.

Their in ring rivalry grew with several brutal bouts. However, soon their careers would take separate paths. As each matured they saw their stars shine in different promotions. Jacobs would win the ROH World Tag Team Titles on three occasions. Now Jacobs has reached a new career pinnacle as the leader of The Age Of The Fall with Tyler Black as his tag team partner.

Meanwhile, Alex Shelley formed an enormously successful tag team with Chris Sabin. Shelley & Sabin grew in popularity in the United States while winning titles in Japan for Zero-One. They even returned to ROH last year for a bout against Jay & Mark Briscoe that many fans called the match of the year. Jacobs and Shelley may not have crossed paths in recent years, but each of them have grown up on parallel paths in the wrestling industry.

When word reached Jacobs that Shelley & Sabin were making a special appearance for ROH on 4/18 in Detroit and 4/19 in Chicago, he reached for his keyboard. Jacobs wants those parallel paths to intersect and he figured there was no better place than where it all started for Jacobs and Shelley together- Detroit. Jacobs posted the following message on his Myspace:

"On to something else that is of personal significance to me, Alex Shelley makes his big Ring of Honor return on April 18 in Detroit. My real hatred for him is multi-layered. Our history is well documented, but in recent years our paths have diverged. While he parades himself as a national tv sell out, I have started a grass roots campaign, not in search of fame and money, but a goal to make a legitimate change in this world one person at a time. While he uses his tv time to simply feed his ego, I have touched people's lives in a very real way from the bottom up. And all that aside, I do have so many unsettled personal problems with him. It was a feud that began in 2002 in Detroit, and to this day, has never gotten any resolve in my mind. Beyond that, many people seem to believe that along with his tag team partner Chris Sabin, that the Murder/Motor City Machine Guns are the best tag team in the world. Well, while they failed to defeat the Briscoes in 2007, Tyler Black and I were the team successful to finally dethrone them to become the Ring of Honor world tag team champions. With so much to prove to the world, to society, to myself, to this business, to the fans, and to Alex Shelley, I'm making a campaign to bring our feud back to where it started. In Detroit, Michigan, the home of the Machine Guns, I'm putting the offer on the table to Ring of Honor as a company and to the Murder City Machine Guns to have the match... MCMG vs AOTF." - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=365367608

Alex Shelley was quick to respond via his Myspace:

"There’s a saying, an old one like they always are, that implies life is circular. Or in short, karma is legit.

In 2002, two young men with a love for pro wrestling started at square one and traveled countless miles, made tons of sacrifices, and did everything they could to assure that they’d have a fighting chance in the strange and completely unfair world of pro wrestling. And they did it by beating the s*** out of each other across the midwest.

Flash forward to 2008. Two young-ish men are now on very, very different paths in very different walks of life. While both have done pretty well for themselves, and God willing, will do even better in the future, what lays in front of us are completely different people than the ones who started their journey. That was inevitable and expected. But this? Oi vey.

So the way I look at it is Jimmy just bought glass real estate and I invested in a motherf****** quarry. I’m reading the words sellout, grassroots, hatred, and ego. You know, for a guy who used to be my best friend in the business, which are very hard to come by, you sure did turn into a bit of a c***. I know all about you and Tyler Black and Necro and what you guys have done, but give me a break man. Like, the beautiful thing about wrestling is that you can be anything you want, you can turn your personality up to 11, and low and behold, when you guys do it, you come off like chubby goth nerds who tried to OD on aspirin while listening to Robert Smith albums and wearing long sleeve shirts to cover up cries for attention disguised as poorly attempted suicides. Here’s a tip for free: Take your blade down the road, not across the street, if you pick up what I’m laying down. And you’ve touched peoples lives? You’re so full of s*** your eyes are brown.

(Disclaimer: No offense to any Robert Smith fans/goth kids out there. I like a couple Cure songs too. Please keep buying merchandise. Kthnxbye.)

Okay, petty jokes aside, I can admit you and Tyler are one helluva team, especially when you consider we’ve locked horns before. Jimmy got a helluva lot better since we last wrestled each other, and Tyler’s one of the brightest young wrestlers anywhere, not that he needs my endorsement. His talent speaks far louder than anything I could communicate.

I do agree with you, I can’t think of a better place for this match to take place if ROH decides to let such a contest occur. You keep this in mind though, this is our return to a company who did a helluva a lot for my career. This is our chance to wrestle in front of the most appreciative audience in pro wresting. This is our homecoming. You feel free to prove whatever you want to whomever you want. You just remember the saying about life being circular, what goes ’round, comes ’round.

We’re right back to square one. See you in the D." - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=367870123

The stage has been set. Everything will come full circle. It will be The Age Of The Fall vs. The Motor City Machine Guns on April 18th in Detroit. It will be the main event. This will be epic.

[Ultra Peanut]

I'll be front row when the MCMGs face the Briscoe Brothers in Chicago on 4/19.

Hate you.

[Ultra Peanut]

BIG SHOW YOU ASSHOLE

HE GAVE YOU A CHICKEN

AND A GOAT

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This may be that rare week where impact is better than smackdown.

Which I'll never know, since I stopped watching impact about 2 months ago.