Pro-Wrestling: You are the face, yay! You are the heel, booo!

[lodi0032]

The thing with Drew is that he actually did get deported for not filing his paperwork fast enough. That did get to me seeing how he is actually married to an American, but meh whatever float Immigrations boat. Same thing happened to Barrett. I read all is well though and they got everything figured out, it is now just a waiting game until they figure out a storyline to bring Drew back. I just hope he gets a better feud than Matt Hardy. I have nothing against Hardy, but if they really want to put Drew into the main title picture, putting him up against a mid-lower jobber isn't the way to do it. I doubt the Rock is the GM of raw, I don't think WWE is willing to pay him what he thinks he is worth seeing as he is a "movie star" and all. I could see it being Cole, seeing as he "reads" the e-mails. I could also see it being another old timer like Hart. Anyways who cares, the GM doesn't do much. Look at Long, between being abused by Drew and constantly being overshadows by his consultant, they're nothing but a time filler. TNA is still around, good to know, after they left monday nights I lost track of them and thought maybe they finally gave up. Not really, but right now the best thing about TNA is Hogan isn't on Impact for a couple of weeks. Other than that, its pretty much the same old lets push the WWE rejects and hold back the people who helped make this company what it is.

[axehandle-stain]

As RAW proved, Barrett's VISA issue wasn't too serious, were it so it would have mightily scuttled the NXT program. I was also amused by Cena's flipping out on NegaCena, it was pretty obvious he is compelled to battle his dark half, probably due to a subconscious resentment over there being an even blacker Cena out there. The divided roster heels/faces was pretty clever, the arrogant heels look to allow the spread of the NXT plauge if only because it offers the short term upside of their enemies' embodiement (Cena) being crippled. But it seems the game they play will undo them through their hubris, Double A's little speech looked like it might've actually gotten through to the pasty one. Dug the subtle NWO reference too.

[Mighty Earth Sage]

I think signs point to Steve Austin being the GM hence the quote in the email 3 weeks ago, "and that's the bottom line because the gm said so."

although I heard that Abraham Washington was WWE's first choice. (yeah, I know, pretty fucking stupid)

[axehandle-stain]

Bleh. It'll probabaly end up being Coleslaw or someone completely random (It's...Tatanka?). At least RAW has Miz looking to break into the uppercard, and ef-yeah, WHC Kane for Smackdown! I tells ya, Big Red is a promo machine!

[Mighty Earth Sage]

Kane deserves the WHC seeing as how this is his first (real) world title run in like 12 years or so. (no, the ECW title doesn't count)

and I also just saw that Smackdown is moving to SyFy on October 1st! w00t w00t! this is seriously awesome!

oh, and on a side note, what do you think about TNA actually doing ECW right? with the combination of the ECW originals in TNA and guys who can get just as, if not more extreme than them like Jeff Hardy and Abyss, this should prove to be the best thing for TNA.

I just wish Dixie, Hogan, and Bischoff would ditch the whole Orlando Jordan thing....that's just fucking creepy.

[axehandle-stain]

Yeah, I'm pleased that Kane has the title, though seeing him and Swagger get taken advantage of by cruiserweight Cena all the time is a skosh upsetting. As for TNA, I'm not sure the last second switch to a reunion theme for the original E-C-dubbers at the expense of their homegrown talent for storyline purposes is the most practical, but hell, I'm sure a creative genius like Vince Russo will certainly deliver the goods at the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded. Now that O.J. bidness, I haven't been watching too terribly much of TNA, but from what I recall was the poor fellow covering himself in prop-spooge. I'm sure the context would be clearer had I all the facts, but suffice to say I'm not particularily enamored with the whole affair.

One more thing, I fully expect Waaay Bear-uh to become champ before the Miz even cashes in his Money In The bank briefcase. Most of the previous winners tend to jump into things, but a slow burn will allow Miz to transition himself comfortably into the uppercard. I just hope they don't have him blow his cash-in. That would be bad news bears.

[axehandle-stain]

Oh, and on another very important point, Edge is starting to look like the EPA guy who turned off the containment unit in the first Ghostbusters movie. Take of that what you will.

[Mighty Earth Sage]

and Lance Cade has passed away...he died WAY too soon.

[axehandle-stain]

Was it a "lifestyle" passing, or a freak accident? Either way, it's unfortunate. I here he was one of Shawn's boys.

[lodi0032]

TNA is still being TNA. It reminds me more and more of a crappy wwe with each passing day. The One Night Stand rip-off didn't help. I didn't see it, but I hear it was craptacular. This is the first I've heard of Lance Cade passing. Damn that means no reunion between him and Murdoch. What a shame. Miz as world champion, now that just doesn't seem right. That sounds almost as crazy as Taker winning the RR facing Raws champ at WM, lets say probably Cena, beating them only to have Miz cash it in and beat Taker for the title at WM. Oh and I keep hearing about Cena jumping ship to Nexus tonight... I'm going to have to side with the I don't think so side. The only way Cena would join them is as their leader. That would make Wade a mute point and do absolutely nothing for Cena. Does he need a faction to give him a push, not that I know of. Hell I'd think it would be more likely that Nexus eliminates every member of team WWE and Cena then eliminates them one by one to win the match by himself, or a Hart attack costing team WWE the match.

[axehandle-stain]

Naw, Cena Super Cena'd and wonked out Bare-it. Neat of them to at least make Kane look credible against a pretty haggard lookin' Undertaker, not too mention a clean win of Rey. Of course it was quite a shock to the system to learn that Kane was the mystery attacker. I could not have forseen this. Oh, and none to shabby also on Daniel Bryan, his fued looks to be primarily revolving around Miz with Nexus at the outskirts so there won't be too many DQ aspects to worry about. As for this Raw, good on Miz, shame about the anti-matter homunculous.

[davidae]

what about john cena's mother revealing to him a long lost sibling, who then got a post match beat down by his buddies? kinda like lawler comparing jillian halls win with the boogey man eating her facial deformity as well. Never would have thought they'd remember something that gawd-awful funny. Wish they'd bring back boogey man, he was more fun than watching vince get the smack laid down by mae young. Some one should stop TNA before they become WCW and go AWOL. TNA makes me miss the glory days of AWA, At least Verne Gagne TRied to compete with NWA/WWF unlike what TNA is trying to do. They can't compete until they drop hoax bulker and awreck bizzoff and return to what brought them to the game: 6 sided ring and world class action, not old forgotten WWE rejects needin paychecks with no talent or WCW fumes. Just My Honest opinion.

[davidae]

Well, TNaint just ended and Fortuneless is Being all nwoed jumping people as one would expect. Van dam had to vacate the title, no explanation as to how serious his injuries were and cpt morgan jobbed to deniro. angle anderson and hardy won their respective title tourny matches so the final fare are deniro, anderson , hardy, and angle. Dixie carter got the ev2.0 crew all official TNaint contracts so they will be around for a while.There was a time when TNaint had some action, but after the hoaxer/buzzoff era began and the six sided ring vanished, the quality of TNaint became WCW-like just before the WWE buyout,ie, almost non-existant. If it had just been hogan coming into tna, It might have worked, but Buzzoff has not had a decent Idea since NWO. He is the reason for the sinking of TNA and it should now be TNT:Total Non-stop Talking.I'm beginning to want to see more of cena's illigitamate brother than i do of ric flair and his flairbies. Flair may be a wrestling legend, but he's only diminishing his legacy and insulting every decent worker in the business, all at once. It must be said that hogan at least is willing to put his ego aside and work with other people, but not flair. He killed WCW and's gonna be the death of TNA.

[axehandle-stain]

Does Flair even have any real pull? I'm pretty sure it's Miss dixie, Easy-E, and the Orange Goblin that have the influence, not too mention our good buddy Vince Russo. Hell, how many of the TNA originals are left since they suspended Joe? It's basically just Styles in a sea of castoffs isn't it? At least WWE treats their top guys like stars, and their lazy and slipshod booking is at least sensible for the most part (Disregarding Kane), and their current "Invasion" angle works better with a bunch of FCW guys than the geriatric jobbers of Heyman's old haunt.

Oh, and apparently Skip Sheffield busted his leg at a house show. Guess the Universe really has it out for this angle.

[lodi0032]

We can only hope it will help move along the much needed death of the John Cena vs Nexus storyline. After all it is pretty much just a lets keep Cena busy and away from the title for a while without taking away his superman status storyline anyways. Speaking of out to get, looks like Serena got the axe for having a little problem with alcohol. If WWE's history tells us anything, when it comes to dealing with alcoholics, she will be back in no time and hold the womens title three times before going to TNA/ maybe prison. On a final note, I read that TNA hasn't resigned two top talents yet. The shock came when I realized that people actually consider Team 3D top talents in the company. If you run a company that ranks the Dudleys, especially in the shape they're in, as a top talent, you're in trouble. Then again they did bring back the Nasty Boys and Hall and Waltman and gave them a push, so all bets are off when it comes to their talent ranking system. Almost forgot about ... crap whatever Val Venis called himself for a short stint too.

[axehandle-stain]

I inagine there are big things in store for the Impact dome when they get fresh talent to push into title contention over their homegrown stars. MY god, it's Zack Passenger! Wooo, wooo, wooo, you guessed it!