[quote name='MrNEWZ']The jokes are flat. The Kurt Angle/Borash stuff is insane. You realize that Jay Lethal is X Division Champion and hasn't wrestled on the show since the last PPV? (he does work a tag match teaming with Abyss next week)
Or--- where'd Triple X go?
Why is the WORLD TITLE on the line in a TAG TEAM MATCH where the champion's partner can WIN THE TITLE?!
Joe and Roode have no real reason for the violent brawl (Roode interfered in a Joe match, but EVERYONE interferes in matches! Why isn't Joe attacking Styles/Tomko too?)...
Chris Harris is whining out of no where after essentially just not being used...
Black Reign is Dustin again for some reason, despite Dustin not being seen as Dustin for a long time...
Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin don't get to continue in a tournament because of the actions of SOMEONE ELSE, but Christian Cage and Chris Harris go right into the semis despite not taking part or not qualifying... the FINALS of said tournament have been labeled as at GENESIS for 4 weeks and now they're saying it's next week? (not giving spoilers here)...
The Motor City Machine Guns can only get revenge on the "mean" Team 3D in a 100 on 2 attack. And hey, even then Team 3D leaves on their own power. Yeah, this is wonderful...
The two hour shows have done nothing more than show us just how limited their writing staff is, honestly. (no personal attacks).
I want to talk positively, I want TNA to succeed...[/quote]
Well...I would like to see more of lethal and xxx but maybe they've got something so innovative for them planned out haha
Yea...I didn't get the whole, let's have a tag match for the title when it would make more sense for it to be a 4 way or something (unless they don't want a guy to have a loss on his record?) Speaking of things that don't make any sense, that fatal 4 way for the women's title at genesis doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. If Kong has beaten each of the 3 competitors, shouldn't she have a singles match with Gail Kim?
Maybe because Roode came out on his own time? Aj and Tomko were prolly expected to come out, and they did. Roode came out and started a feud, so yea.
Personally, I don't see anythign special about Harris...good thing he's not main eventing imo - Christain on the other hand was awesome last night
leave the "crazy" storyline alone
leave the "why aren't shelley and sabin still in the tourney" discussion alone
I thought that was great when the entire x division went against Team 3d...if you think about it, it could help build-up to some fantastic matches in the months to come
These 2 hour shows at least "show" TNA can at least maintain an audience/fanbase bigger than the new ECW
anyways. is there anything about scott hall I should know?
How have these two hour Impacts shown that TNA can maintain an audience larger than ECW when ECW GETS HIGHER RATINGS?
Impact was more frustrating than usual, and incredibly boring at times. The opening stuff with Angle and Sting was mostly worthless except for Angle's rant about CSI, which led to some horrid, but amusing skits involving Angle, J.B., a smoky room, cigars, Jay Lethal putting WWE over like a million bucks, and Chris Harris burying TNA.
It took a dozen guys to beat up 3D - wow, the X division sure does look like a bunch of winners now, they left Team 3D walking backwards slowly! I can't wait to see 3D's idea of selling in the actual match - it should be glorious. I loved Ray doing his best Mike Tenay Bewildered face though.
The Dustin interview was... weird, as was the Harris match. Don and Mike went from putting him over as a guy who was trying to break the glass ceiling to whining about him. No point in doing that, especially since he ended up losing. And why was Mike mad at Chris still when he had no problem this week with "TNA management", who he was ANGRY about last week?
There was too little wrestling on this show, and too many roll-up endings. Harris-Cage had a new unprettier counter into the unprettier from Harris and does that finish the match? Nope, a reverse sunset flip with the ropes ends the match. The opener was finished with a reverse sunset flip only Kaz jumped up and bridged to end it. Gail did a schoolboy to finish her match, which was just a backdrop to the storyline with Roode and Joe that I'd completely forgotten about. Then they went to a break, and when we come back, Joe's covered in blood, which eventually spills all over Roode's body as well. That was definitely the best part of the show up until this point.
Harris-Cage was decent, but hurt by the ladder just being a spot (during the commercial break, just like Joe's face being sliced open), and Don and Mike alternating between liking Harris and hating him at various points.
Awesome Kong's squash was enjoyable, and I'm glad they're at least doing something to explain why Rave is there - he's a shit-stirrer, fine. That's slightly better than just being the partner of Hoyt for no apparent reason. He at least now has some kind of character, and a bad haircut.
Black Reign announcing the Shop of Horrors (no idea what this actually is) match was amusing just due to Tenay looking astonished. It was made much better by Tenay stating that we just saw Dustin a few minutes before, and now he was Black Reign. I guess TNA Impact is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers now.
Very, very annoying show. They also picked tonight's show to start cutting everyone's entrance video, and everything else, up with a big shot of a swirling TNA logo. So now Impact is both the Power Rangers AND the '60s Batman show. Why couldn't they have done this when they still had the Batphone? Then this show would be a PERFECT camp wrestling broadcast, instead, it's one that doesn't know if it's real or fake, nothing makes sense, and it's gotten to the point where both faces and heels are pointing out how illogical this show is.
This past week's ECW was an excellent example of how to do campy stuff in wrestling - the campy stuff is self-contained, and the things that should be taken seriously is given its own time to be taken seriously. Here, everything's got some kind of wacky twist to it, and everything is supposed to be taken seriously, despite it being only appealing as camp.
To be fair about the spinning logo dealie, at least it was used to keep track of key plot points that we may have forgotten about completely due to the show being rushed beyond belief. Unfortunately, they did this for only a few feuds, and not all of them. As a result, I was left with no idea why Joe was facing off with Roode until I remembered that Roode cost Joe his possible shot at the world heavyweight title, which SHOULD mean something, so that moment should have been replayed.
They also used that cut device for EVERYTHING ELSE on this show, to the point where it became impossible to follow anything that happened. They have two hours to work with, and instead of letting a moment breathe for even five seconds, they cut somewhere.
Maybe to the back, maybe to THE SMOKY ROOM, OR the toolshed area with a break in the wall that's apparently Sting's part of the Impact Zone, but they're always cutting somewhere to advance a plot that most people couldn't care less about instead of allowing the plot they're leaving to breathe and therefore mean something to viewers.
Also, why is Matt Morgan suddenly part of TNA management? Isn't he just Cornette's bodyguard? Why is he now allowed to make executive decisions? Why isn't Jay Lethal more upset at a tag team trying to kill the division whose title he presently holds? Why'd the guru get so angry, isn't he supposed to be a peaceful man? Why can't anything on this show make sense on a consistent basis?
Quotes -
Announcer - TNA - WE ARE WRESTLING! (first 10 minutes of Impact = talking)
(show opens)DW - For unknown reasons, Junior Fatu will NOT be in the Fight for the Right tournament, and Christian Cage’s opponent will be determined by TNA management!
Tenay - Think of what we’ve seen over the past few weeks - the jacknife by Nash, and then Angle gave him THE FINGER! YES! HE FLIPPED HIM OFF!
Angle - At Genesis, it’s a 12 time world champion and Olympic champion, and all around great guy, me, has to team with a man who wants to tear my throat out, Kurt Angle, against angry parent AND ICON, Sting! That broken down has-been, Nash, has been riding my coat tails, so what’s the general manager do? Jim Cornette makes him my partner. THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!
Tenay - IT SURE IS INTRIGUING THOUGH!!!
Angle - I’m a Rhodes scholar. I have two degrees - one in physical education and one in language arts, which PRETTY MUCH MAKES ME A GENIUS! PLUS, I WATCH CSI, Law and Order, and 24, so I make a pretty good case, too!
Sting - Kurt, my mystery partner is someone you… rubbed the wrong way. He’s been a world champion in many different organizations, including WWE and WCW. (crowd chants boring)
(immediately after)DW - THAT’S A CLUE!!
(Kaz wins with a rollup)Tenay - THAT. WAS. HUGE!!
Tenay - Last week, Eric Young put a lip lock on a long neck!
(Storm and EY drink after Storm loses)DW - This has gone from being about the fight for the right to being a drinking contest about pride!
Tenay - Eric Young has MUTUAL RESPECT from James Storm!
(Kurt is in a dark, smoky room with J.B. looking seedy)Karen - Kurt, why do you have a cigar? YOU DON’T EVEN SMOKE!
Kurt - Shut up and light up!
Tenay - KURT ANGLE IS IN THE PROCESS OF INTEROGATING THE TNA ROSTER!!
BRD (after entering) - COME ON YOU IDIOTS, CHANT “THAT WAS AWESOME!”. You say that during X division matches and don’t know why you say it.
Tenay - BECAUSE THE X DIVISION ACTION IS AWESOME!
BRD - The only thing awesome is the tag team job we did on Sabin and Shelley’s mothers about three hours.
Tenay - Lowest common denominator!
BRD - Now they got this thing called the star rating system - 4 stars, 5 stars, THE ONLY TWO STARS ARE RIGHT HERE!
Shelley - ANYONE ELSE WANT THESE GUYS TO SHUT THESE GUYS UP!
Tenay - OH, THAT’S ALEX SHELLEY ALONG WITH HIS PARTNER CHRIS SABIN!
Shelley - Over the last few weeks, you’ve been talking about things you hate - like low-carb diets and X-cerise! News flash, tons of fun, the X division hates you too!
Tenay - OH, THERE’S MUTUAL DISRESPECT BETWEEN TEAM 3D AND THE X DIVISION!
Shelley - Sabin, put your hand up. This is the hand that not only represents Michigan, it’s the hand that’s gonna bitch slap you!
BRD - DEVON, GET THE TABLES!
Tenay - THAT’S THE TRADEMARKED MOTTO OF TEAM 3D, WE’VE HEARD IT FOR YEARS!
(after the X division steals their tables)BRD - GIVE US BACK OUR TABLES!
(X division kills Team 3D)Tenay - THE X DIVISION IS GETTING IT BAD!
(Angle interrogates Lethal) Lethal - THE SNAKE! WARRIOR! WRESTLEMANIA! A MILLION PEOPLE! STANDING ROOM ONLY CROWD!
Angle - Who’s Sting’s partner gonna be at Genesis?
Lethal - Wahoo McDaniel?
Angle - Wahoo McDaniel? YOU’RE AN IDIOT! GET OUT OF HERE!
(outside the interrogation room)Hemme - Jimmy, I heard you talking about me! RED SNAPPER!? I KNOW YOU WEREN’T TALKING ABOUT FISHING!
Jimmy - What else could I be talking about?
Hemme - SHUT UP, STOP LAUGHING LIKE AN IDIOT!
Hemme (before match with Kong) - I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW! I GOT IT!
(Kong clotheslines Hemme)DW - Boy, you can see what happens when a little Volkswagon hits a big wall!
(during torture rack)DW - SHE’S MAKING HER HEAD TOUCH HER FEET! LOOK AT THAT!
(after the Kong power bomb)Tenay - Stick a fork in Christy Hemme, she’s done! WELL DONE!
(to Roode)Angle - I like the way you treat women.
Roode - You can learn a lot from me. Where’s your wife? Get that leash on her, put her in the kitchen where she belongs!
Angle - J.B., where’s Karen?
J.B. - I don’t know…
Angle - OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GODDDDDDD!!
Dustin (to Cristal) - I told people I wouldn’t be responsible for what Black Reign did! IT’S GETTING BAD! HE HAS NIGHTMARES!(Abyss attacks Dustin)
Tenay - IT’S MORE OF THE SAME!
DW - HE SMASHED HIM INTO A WALL!
Tenay - HE’S SMASHED THE BOX!
DW - IT’S GOT A KEY IN IT!
Tenay - NOW LET’S GO TO THE BACK FOR ANOTHER KURT ANGLE INTERROGATION!
(to Kurt)Harris - I have a list of complaints - I don’t appreciate the same guys being on Impact every week. I don’t like the way your buddies Don and Mike are always talking about Kurt Angle. I don’t care about your family drama! Should I continue?
Kurt - ENOUGH!
Kip (to Kurt) - Are you smelling me?
Kurt - No, I’m interrogating you!
Kurt - Who are you, Kip? First, you do this thing where you promote your ass… then there’s this whole marriage thing - there’s no room for that in wrestling!
Kip - I’m gonna put my size 14 up your…
Kurt - See, there’s the sexual harassment thing again!
BG - Does this have anything to do with your father?
Kurt - YES! HE NEVER SAID HE LOVED ME! WHY!!!??? (Kurt cries, the TNA logo fills the screen, and then they cut immediately to Christian)
Christian - Can someone please tell me what’s going on here!? Instead of going around playing Reno 911, why don’t you wonder why Christian Cage doesn’t get a bye when his opponent decides to not show up! WHERE’S TOMKO!? WHERE’S AJ!? WHAT THE HELL’S GOING ON AROUND HERE TONIGHT?!
(Roode and Traci come out)Tenay - Oh this is gonna be interesting, A MIXED TAG MATCH!
Tenay - There’s that Robert Roode fan…
DW - I think that’s the same fan who’s been here for a few weeks.
Tenay - MISS BROOKS JUST GAVE HER A LOOK!
(Roode throws Traci into the ring)Tenay - DIDYA SEE THAT!? HE JUST THREW HER TO THE WOLVES! (Gail and Joe look on calmly)
Tenay - Tonight, we’ve got LAX versus AJ and Tomko, and yes, THAT’S A TITLE MATCH! The fight for the right tournament continues. Semi-finals. Junior Fati’s gone for unknown reasons, but we’ll know who Christian’s MYSTERY OPPONENT is come match time.
DW - And I think people would like to know who Sting’s mystery partner is at Genesis, too.
(Roode berates Traci)Tenay - WE KNOW HER SITUATION!
Roode - I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR MOTHER!
Tenay - THAT’S WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO!
Gail - I’m sick of seeing you treat her like this! Bob!
DW - WE’RE SICK OF THIS!
Tenay - Samoa Joe’s going to the crowd to take care of Robert Roode! WE NEED TO TAKE A COMMERCIAL BREAK!
(show comes back, Joe is covered in blood)Tenay - THIS RIVALRY HAS BECOME A WAR! LET’S GO BACK TO KURT ANGLE IN THE INTERROGATION ROOM!
(two women are interrogated)Women - We know who Sting’s partner is.
Angle - WHAT!? WHO IS IT? (J.B. shifts light to the girls)
Kurt - What’s in it for us? (J.B. gives them his hotel key, gets hit in nuts)
Kurt - WHAT’D THEY SAY?
J.B. - PAIN!
Kurt - POWERS OF PAIN!?
J.B. - No, PAIN!
Kurt - Next time you try to get a date, wear a cup.
Tenay - Christian wasn’t even in the fight for the right tournament, but he got in because he WANTS the TNA title!
(Harris comes out)Tenay - OH, IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW! TNA MANAGEMENT’S MATT MORGAN HAS OBVIOUSLY PLUGGED CHRIS HARRIS INTO THIS SPOT!
Tenay - Remember when Chris Harris and James Storm had that stalemate in the battle royal? I’ve gotta think THAT PLAYED A PART in TNA management, and Matt Morgan specifically, viewed that. What about that list of complaints he had earlier?
DW - He even complained about us, can you believe that?!
DW - Christian had Harris trapped in the stairs and went to hit him with the ladder, but referee Rudy Charles warned him that he’d be DISQUALIFIED if he did it, so Christian SLAMMED IT DOWN!
Tenay - Next week on Impact, IT’S THE FINALS OF THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TOURNAMENT!
(Harris reversed the Unprettier into the Unprettier)Tenay - OH, THAT’S THE PERFECT COUNTER!
(Angle beats up EY)EY - He’s gonna shock the guy… the shock master…
Angle - SHOCKMASTER?!
Black Reign - THIS ISN’T TLC, YOU CAN’T FLIP MY HOUSE ABYSS! YOU SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE KEY! I WANT A SHUFFLE WAR MATCH AT GENESIS!
Tenay -WOW! WOW! Just a few minutes ago, he was Dustin Rhodes, NOW HE’S BLACK REIGN! IT’S MAIN EVENT TIME ON THURSDAY NIGHT IMPACT!
Tenay - AJ’s taking him to FAMILIAR COUNTRY - his side of the ring!
DW - PELE! This shows you how high AJ can get!
Nash - I know who Sting’s partner is next - Scott.
Kurt - Scott who?
Nash - Scott Hall.
Kurt - OH MY GOD! DOES IT GET ANY WORSE THAN THAT!?
Screenshot ZIP file - 50 screens of Mike and Don, some stuff with the SMOKY ROOM, Black Reign/Abyss/THE KEY, Jimmy Rave being a dick, Cristal being awesome, and some shots of a child being scared of Awesome Kong. http://www.sendspace.com/file/n61s1g
GHC Heavyweight Champion Mitsuharu MISAWA in USA to participate for ROH shows 11/2 Philadelphila &
11/3 in Manhattan NY. He has arrived at Philadelphia today along with Takeshi MORISHIMA, Naomichi
MARUFUJI & KENTA.
Cool covers, I'm watching some '05 ROH and loving every bit of it. I'm looking forward to seeing Misawa's ROH work, mainly to see if he's going to go all-out, or just continue to be the broken down middle-aged guy he's been in the ring more often than not over the past few years.
I just picked up the new Rey DVD set, and I'm skimming through it now. The match collection is fantastic, although it is by far the most typo-filled WWE DVD release I can recall. Beyond the Guerrero-to-Guerrera screwups that have been mentioned online, Halloween Havoc became "Halloween House", and they really do make this seem like a B-rate release from WWE.
Before, I'd say the packaging for the Stone Cold Truth (with its "WCW Team Tag Championship Match" screwup) was the worst offender, but this is much, much worse. It's about the only issue I have with the set so far, as it is an incredible compilation, and even included the Eddie-Rey WW3 match which I enjoyed more than their Havoc '97 match at the time.
[quote name='Matt Young']Add me on XBL to finish Halo and play Madden (which I recently got).[/quote]
Ok I will, but it'll be a little while before I can get on XBL. I don't have broadband out where I live, and I have to take my 360 over to my moms house to play online.
Right now I'm busy as hell with school/work and there's a small chance I can play next Thursday afternoon/night. If not, it'll be when I'm on my Thanksgiving break from Nov 15-26.
[quote name='JaytheGamefan']How have these two hour Impacts shown that TNA can maintain an audience larger than ECW when ECW GETS HIGHER RATINGS?
[/QUOTE]
Thank you for saying it so I didn't. And this was BEFORE ECW added the Smack Down! stars and jumped their rating to 1.6s.
The card has potential to be one of the best Philly shows yet.[/quote]
Hope you guys have a great show! Be sure to let us know how it went when you get back!
[quote name='JaytheGamefan']Cool covers, I'm watching some '05 ROH and loving every bit of it. I'm looking forward to seeing Misawa's ROH work, mainly to see if he's going to go all-out, or just continue to be the broken down middle-aged guy he's been in the ring more often than not over the past few years.[/quote]
The Misawa/Joe match you put up has put my expectations in check so I'm just expecting a fun match but not much more than that.
[quote name='JaytheGamefan']Cool covers, I'm watching some '05 ROH and loving every bit of it. I'm looking forward to seeing Misawa's ROH work, mainly to see if he's going to go all-out, or just continue to be the broken down middle-aged guy he's been in the ring more often than not over the past few years.[/quote]
The Misawa/Joe match you put up has put my expectations in check so I'm just expecting a fun match but not much more than that.
[quote name='mykevermin']Oh, I like the idea of a nerd-with-belt face off. That could even be the coverart!
Your description reminded me of the cat what sat in front of me at Cyber Sunday last year - he didn't have any teeth. He had these little emerald-colored things, either discolored gumline/rotted teeth, or something else. Imagine meth mouth on someone way too fat and unmotivated to smoke methamphetamine.
Dude was gettin' all Rainman on me. I know a lot, and I talk a lot (I'm sure you're shocked!), and I was having a discussion with someone sitting near me about some wrestler...Ken Dykstra, maybe? IIRC, they were still all Spirit Squad at the time. Anyway, I made some mention of Dykstra being very young, but not sure. "Oh, he's 20, or 22...real young" is what I said (roughly).
Suddenly, I hear this monotone blathering. "Ken Leon Dykstra was born September 18th, 1986 in Missoula, Montana, the son of a coal miner and housewife. He trained in Abe Vigoda's All-Star Wrestling in Peoria, Illinois, at age 15...blah, blah, blah." First, I was stunned that someone would know that kind of shit about any wrestler, let alone a nobody. Second, he said all this without looking up or making eye contact with anyone - like he was correcting me, but took little to no interest in whether or not anyone was paying attention. Third, he said it in that sort of disdainful way when someone says something very, very incorrect. Y'know, like if I said "Yeah, I think Triple H beat Magnum TA for the ECW championship in Rio De Janeiro in 1987, when Rugged Ronnie Garvin powerbombed Kevin Sullivan in a Junior division match." Instead, I was merely guessing the age range of a nobody wrestler (and was within 2-3 years!).
I did manage to stump the guy, and get a laff out of the people around me, when I asked him who Dykstra's third grade teacher was.
I need to buy a video camera now.[/quote]
Those are the fans that make me wonder why I like wrestling so much... what is the exact separation from me and them aside from the usual - teeth, 100lbs or more, hygiene, etc - seriously, how can I enjoy something that appeals so much to these borderline inbred individuals? Who the hell would know that about Dykstra. Dammit, we need to make that documentary to find out the answers.
[quote name='Zenithian Legend']Those are the fans that make me wonder why I like wrestling so much... what is the exact separation from me and them aside from the usual - teeth, 100lbs or more, hygiene, etc - seriously, how can I enjoy something that appeals so much to these borderline inbred individuals? Who the hell would know that about Dykstra. Dammit, we need to make that documentary to find out the answers.[/QUOTE]
Tell me about it. When I go to ROH events, I always debate on whether or not I want to wear a suit and tie, just so people don't get the damnfool idea that I'm anything like them.
My heart was broken at a recent show where this guy that looked like a mutant Louie Anderson from hell tried to compliment me on my sleeve tattoo...like he wanted to talk shop with me. Yech!
I don't think Zen minds. I think that each league has awful fans, but they just vary in certain degrees.
ROH fans remind me of the punk rock kids who thought that "The Casualties" were the preeminent punk rock band of any and every era, and wouldn't suffer any discussion of bands that more than 9 people had heard of. The more obscure, the better, in their opinion.
The ultra-hardcore ROH fans are definitely a bit too much to take. I can agree with that. If you closely watch the majority of the ROH shows I put up, you'll start seeing the same people in the front row regardless of whether the show takes in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, or Boston. It was one thing in ECW when the shows were always in the same place every week but when these shows are going from state to state, it tells you that people are spending every red cent they have to their name to go to these events.
Now I could sort of be all right with that but these guys take any sort of remark against ROH ultra personally. To the point they will wish death on your mother and rape on your father. There is no room for discussion of wrestling that is not ROH. If you look earlier, I posted that I enjoyed the last Monday Night Raw. You would never see anything like in a discussion between ROH fans and so they become involved in an alternate sort of ignorance and I just dislike ignorance of any kind.
I think the company kind of perpetuates this kind of attitude by not allowing anyone on the ROH boards to talk about any other wrestling company (or risk being banned), but this sort of... well inadequacy on ROH's part hurts the company in my eyes. The fact that their messageboards are usually locked down and only open to registration once in a while limits the discussion people can have regarding the company and it hurts ROH in the long run.
Anyway I've been extremely lucky to be around the NYC area.
For the most part I'm able to avoid the kind of ROH fans Myke faces in Dayton. There are some of those guys there but for the most part its a big mix of businessmen (with hotties), urban street kids, and various other people that give NYC the big show feel that other ROH shows lack and my experiences are usually all the better for it. Basically people who aren't too cool for wrestling (yet aren't losers either).
WWE has suspended Chris Masters for 60 days and Harry Smith for 30 days for violating the Wellness policy. It's a shame about Smith because he's had a good start.
[quote name='pitfallharry219']WWE has suspended Chris Masters for 60 days and Harry Smith for 30 days for violating the Wellness policy. It's a shame about Smith because he's had a good start.[/quote]
Great!
I thought that would be Masters' third offense. He was suspended during the last round, right?
Zen, I think there are reasonable ROH fans, such as yourself, who recognize that their contribution to the product is limited to keeping it in business. You don't take offense if people say bad things about the promotion, or this or that. I can respect that.
You would think that after his dad died early he'd know better. This is the crap that makes me not want to watch wrestling, not HHH's politics or Vince's booking.
What makes me want to stop wrestling is the fact that Masters just keeps doing it and yet they keep him on the roster. He's nothing. He'll never be anything. yet they'll keep him on the roster.
"What would he do around a fire truck, or an ice cream truck?" - JBL rules. God bless Festus, too.
"I've never taken steroids, I don't plan to. I loved my Dad, and yes he made mistakes, but I have learned from them. I won't go down that path." -- Harry Smith
The thing about Masters is this: he was suspended now, and I *know* he was suspended sometime last year for a month. He was one of the first suspensions after the post-Guerrero wellness policy was established.
So, if we can be 100% certain that Masters was suspended a month ago in the wake of the internet drug scandal, then we can be (even more) certain that the wellness policy is a total fraud, since Masters is on his 4th chance. 4 chances on a nobody? How many chances would Cena get? 75?
EDIT: Two more things: how nice is it to think "I won't see a single moment of Chris Masters until 2008"? Awesome, IMO.
[quote name='JaytheGamefan']"What would he do around a fire truck, or an ice cream truck?" - JBL rules. God bless Festus, too.
"I've never taken steroids, I don't plan to. I loved my Dad, and yes he made mistakes, but I have learned from them. I won't go down that path." -- Harry Smith
[quote name='mykevermin']The thing about Masters is this: he was suspended now, and I *know* he was suspended sometime last year for a month. He was one of the first suspensions after the post-Guerrero wellness policy was established.
So, if we can be 100% certain that Masters was suspended a month ago in the wake of the internet drug scandal, then we can be (even more) certain that the wellness policy is a total fraud, since Masters is on his 4th chance.[/quote]
Maybe it was some kind of steroid for hair growth and the WWE felt sorry for him?
~Misawa came through the door at 5 to massive applause.
~ROH returns to Philly 3/15/08.
Preshow
1) Alex Payne defeats Kyle Durdin with a fisherman suplex.
2) Shane Hagadorn defeats Rhett Titus holding the ropes on a sunset flip reversal. Botchy but OK.
Main Show
1) Kevin Steen & El Generico defeats Brent Albright & BJ Whitmer with a Swanton Bomb. Hangm3n attack afterwards.
2) Claudio Castagnoli defeats Hallowicked with a European Uppercut in a good match. Crowd was on fire. Larry Sweeney offers to buy out Claudio's contract, but he refuses.
According to the WWE - It's the second violation for Masters.
3) Davey Richards defeats Delirious via submission. Great match.
Mark my words.
Davey Richards is going to be HUGE one day. Like Eddie Guerrero huge. He is pretty much like my favorite guy ROH. Guy has a ton of charisma in a badass funny heel kind of way. Right now since he is part of the stables war ROH is holding him back from putting the kind of matches he is capable of.
[quote name='JJSP']Is it wrong if Delirious is one of my favorite ROH guys? He came out here for BOLA, and his match with Generico was awesome.[/QUOTE]
Delirious is awesome but sometimes he can like spot happy and then all his matches become the same. It's not that it's bad but you just always know what's coming next.
According to the Wiki for Chris Masters, he was suspended in May of 2006 for "undisclosed reasons", and came back several months later about 20 lbs lighter (leading to DX ripping on him backstage on Raw). He was suspended for a violation of the wellness policy in September 07 for a month during the big sweep, and returned last month. I guess technically this is his 2nd, as the first suspension wasn't called a wellness violation.
"Crystal Meth" Chris Masters could even hulk up because he could be so high that his body doesn't even register pain. The booking would make perfect sense!
JR: "BAH GAWD! THE CRYSTAL METH IS KICKING IN! THE CRYSTAL METH IS KICKING IN!"
KING: "Boy I could sure use some of that eneergy when I'm picking out young hot 19 years from the audience after the show. Better talk to Chris after the show."
[quote name='Zen Davis']"Crystal Meth" Chris Masters could even hulk up because he could be so high that his body doesn't even register pain. The booking would make perfect sense![/quote]
Give him junkie teeth and he could tag with Snitsky. Voila, new opponents for CM Punk.
[quote name='JJSP']Give him junkie teeth and he could tag with Snitsky. Voila, new opponents for CM Punk.[/QUOTE]
While tripping "Crystal Meth" Chris Masters could think Punk, with his long hair, is some really ugly chick. He could then try to rape Punk in the middle of the ring leading to Punk immediately tapping the out. Non title of course.
Now that would be extreme!
I feel for some reason everyone has run away from this thread...
4) Jay & Mark Briscoe defeat Roderick Strong & Rocky Romero to retain. The Age Of The Fall attack The Briscoes afterwards.
5) The Age of the Fall defeat The Vulture Squad in a great fast paced match that had the crowd on their feet.
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