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[quote name='Matt Young']What has Kristal Marshall been doing, you ask? Apparently, following Bobby Lashley's training regimen and generally losing almost all of her hotness (except her ass):

http://www.musculardevelopment.com/browse/index.php?mode=browse&id=18353&eventcode=1340[/QUOTE]
That's a real shame. Why go and mess with what she had going on?
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[quote name='mykevermin']Y'all are complaining about a physical difference that amounts to little more than photoshop vs not photoshop. Christ.[/QUOTE]


I agree. I think Kristal lots hot in those pics. Not too much muscle, just right. But I like the fitness types anyway so I am admittedly biased.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']If Batista did his little ramp pose with a cake in his hand every week, I might be a fan of his.[/QUOTE]

I say we give him a chef gimmick and it can be a different dish every week.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']If Batista did his little ramp pose with a cake in his hand every week, I might be a fan of his.[/QUOTE]
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Looks like Zach "woo woo woo woo" Ryder will be the next breakout star in the next year or so! Good timing on the topic! His match last night was gr8!
 
Tom Robson sent the following interesting stat:

I did a bit of digging around this morning and came up with this terrifying piece of information. In the last five years (starting with the first PPV after SummerSlam 2004, when Orton won the belt for the first time), some combination of Randy Orton, John Cena, and Triple H have wrestled against each other TWENTY-FOUR TIMES. That includes singles, tag, and multi-man matches, but not Royal Rumbles.

That means Cena-Orton at SummerSlam will be the 25th match in the last five years featuring some combo of these three against each other.
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PWInsider.com noted that there is a degree of frustration moving through the RAW lockerroom regarding how the brand has been booked in recent weeks. The feeling is that despite gaining some potential players in the recent roster trade, RAW has stuck to its recurring Triple H/John Cena/Randy Orton main-event scene.

Of interest to the main event monotony is the fact that the situation comes just months after reports broke of WWE firmly committing itself to developing new top stars on its roster
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If chuckleheads would stop buying these $40 re-runs they call PPVs to the point that they were unprofitable, it wouldn't be an issue.

I think the lack of time to build a meaningful, coherent story arc is what harms PPVs - something that UFC successfully overcomes (in terms of sales numbers and profit) by rotating their card from show to show. It's also health and logistics, of course - how many fighters would be capable of having an MMA contest every 4 weeks? But each show is unique, something WWE lacks.

It's quite stunning that they re-run the same fucking thing from show to show. But, again, you can see the "take no chances" attitude of the WWE coincide with them going public. As long as Cena-Orton is profitable, it doesn't matter if there might be more money to be made with a three-month MVP/Orton angle. They will not take that chance. The only time they take chances is when they have to - when someone tears another whatever-they-break.
 
[quote name='neocisco']What kind of camera were you using?[/QUOTE]

For real. I wish my motion shots would turn out like those. Beautiful.

I'm set to receive Allied Powers disc 1 today from Netflix. Should be some good tag team wrestling.
 
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I looked it up, and the camera goes for $750-1,000. No wonder it gets such good shots.

DDP is featured in WWE.com's "Where Are They Now?": http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wherearetheynow/diamonddallaspage?cid=2009EP-00

From the WON:
I don’t know what went down, but as of the afternoon (of the ppv), the finish was Ziggler taking the title. All I was told is that politics got involved. I do know that when Mysterio was making noises of leaving, to make him happy, he was promised a long significant run with the belt, and well, this hasn’t been very long.
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TNA news from the WON:
Elijah Burke has been signed with TNA and will be debuting with a new ring name, that is said to be likely a heavily gimmicked name. (I'm very scared to see what the company has for a gimmick)

Plan for Lashley is to build him up huge and then go back to the Lesnar open challenge. He also won't do any big singles matches until October since he wants to do one more shootfight through the Ultimate Chaos people before he works any big pro wrestling matches. (My guess is they actually expect to try to get some discussions going between them and UFC, and maybe try to do a worked match in TNA and then do the actual fight in UFC, but I think that's slim to none that it will go down like that)

TNA is working with former New Line Cinema exec Jeff Katz’s American Original branding division. Katz got his start working for WCW in the 90s and of late has worked with Paul Heyman in the Crave Online “Heyman Hustle” blogs. Katz, Daniels, Sabin and Shelley made the announcement at the San Diego Comic Con. Katz wrote that he started in wrestling, and has sat back and watched wrestling crumble. He said he thinks it’s time for wrestling to stop living in the late 90s. Particularly when the most successful brand is promoting like it’s the 1920s. (Any help TNA can get in branding/marketing is a plus since they desperately need it)

The Styles vs. Matt Morgan best-of-three series over the next few weeks of TV was said to be surprisingly good. Styles got better matches out of Morgan than Daniels did on the PPV, probably because the first two matches were kept short and hot, and by the time they got to match No. 3, which was the longest and said to have been the best match, the two were used to working with each other

There was a brawl that will air on the 8/6 television show, involving much of the roster, said to be great. Fans in the arena saw some of it and praised it. We were told that they, on a different night, taped more segments from the brawl outside the building that will only make the final product better.

Traci Brooks Playboy shoot will be in the November issue, which will be released on 10/5.

The current booking plan is for Tazz & Samoa Joe to eventually turn back face with the idea the whole thing was a ruse and they had actually outsmarted the Mafia in the end. (I figured this was the case, as it just seems too confusing otherwise)
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Credit for all the WON stuff goes to my friend Jed, who was cool enough to share.
 
Matt, some of that stuff you quoted definitely needs to be spoiler tagged, particularly the last paragraph. That's something I definitely didn't want to read.

Lashley is being billed as "The God of Thunder". Looks Norwegian to me.

I was a big Elijah Burke fan. It was a shame he never got a push in WWE. Hopefully his name and gimmick won't be ridiculous since he has the potential to be pretty big.
 
[quote name='Matt Young']For real. I wish my motion shots would turn out like those. Beautiful.

I'm set to receive Allied Powers disc 1 today from Netflix. Should be some good tag team wrestling.[/QUOTE]

i bought the set a couple weeks ago and its overall really good, and some funny stuff from mizorrison on there
 
[quote name='neocisco']Lashley is being billed as "The God of Thunder".[/QUOTE]

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Thor the mascot of the Minnesota Thunder would like to dispute this whole God Of Thunder name that Lashley has named himself..
 
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Thor the mascot of the Minnesota Thunder would like to dispute this whole God Of Thunder name that Lashley has named himself..[/QUOTE]

is God also suing HHH and WWE for using the "King of Kings" name?
 
[quote name='Matt Young']The last paragraph isn't a spoiler. It's a rumor just like any other, and one that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.[/QUOTE]

It says "current booking plan". Does that sound like rumor terminology? Just put things like that in spoiler tags and be done with it.
 
The Orton/HHH/Cena completely sucks ass but who else do they got? Batista? Rey? Kane? Yeah they got Edge and Jeff Hardy but those guys too are already played out.They really don't have anybody else and they're not making any other stars. Everything besides the main event (and the main event scene sucks too) is worthless because they just throw it out there and do nothing with it. They give no reason for people to care about any of the wrestlers. I can't believe the HHH/Orton thing is still going after that awful Mania match and total botching of that whole storyline.
 
MVP, Show, Jericho, Miz, Punk, Swagger, Morrison off the top of my head would be believable in the world title picture. I'm sure I could name half a dozen other guys that they could push there without much effort if I took a minute to look at the roster.
 
For anyone who cares, here's a list of all the 1-on-1 PPV singles matches between Cena/Triple H, Cena/Orton, and Triple H/Orton...

Cena/Triple H:

1. WrestleMania XXII 2006: John Cena defeated Triple H, for the WWE Championship.
2. Night of Champions 2008: Triple H defeated John Cena, for the WWE Championship.

Cena/Orton:

1. SummerSlam 2007: John Cena defeated Randy Orton, for the WWE Championship.
2. Unforgiven 2007: Randy Orton defeated John Cena, by DQ, for the WWE Championship, (Cena retained the title).
3. No Way Out 2008: John Cena defeated Randy Orton, by DQ, for the WWE Championship, (Orton retained the title).
4. SummerSlam 2009: Randy Orton .VS. John Cena, for the WWE Championship.

Triple H/Orton:

1. Unforgiven 2004: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, for the World Heavyweight Championship.
2. Royal Rumble 2005: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, for the World Heavyweight Championship.
3. No Mercy 2007: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, for the WWE Championship.
4. No Mercy 2007: Randy Orton defeated Triple H, in a Last Man Standing Match, for the WWE Championship.
5. Judgment Day 2008: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, in a Steel Cage Match, for the WWE Championship .
6. One Night Stand 2008: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, in a Last Man Standing Match, for the WWE Championship.
7. WrestleMania XXV 2009: Triple H defeated Randy Orton, for the WWE Championship.
8. The Bash 2009: Randy Orton defeated Triple H, in a 3 Stages of Hell Match, for the WWE Championship.
 
WWE creative is reportedly extremely disappointed with how CM Punks heel turn has gone as of late. One example was Punks promo at Night Of Champions where they were hoping he would draw major heat but the crowd ended up just cheering at every mention of drugs. Creative feels that with WWE's TV-PG demographic, they fear a potential backlash stemming from the idea of living a drug free lifestyle being seen in a negative light. Some even mentioned the idea of scrapping the heel turn and turning Punk back to face. One idea thrown around was to run an injury angle to keep Punk of TV for a couple of weeks to a month and bring him back as a face. pwinsider


I'm not sure if this is true or not.
 
Awesome WON quotes from the 6/22/92 issue -
I would have a WBF PPV report here, however our cable company canceled airing the show because of no orders
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The Body Stars television show the week before the PPV fell to an 0.4 rating, its lowest rating yet, which is roughly the rating of a test pattern.
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Mike "I may look like Vince McMahon, I may dress like Vince McMahon, but I have no money and no power" Samples, the president of the alleged Global Wrestling Federation.
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Eddie Gilbert did an interview for his match with Lawler on 6/15 saying that if he lost, he'd retire from wrestling and move to Lexington, TN and either wash cars or check groceries or book WCW (actually he didn't say the latter).
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Best name ever -
Coconut Man beat Brady Boone
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the Hulk Hogan Vitamin Company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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I still can’t get over how he wrote those long books by hand. That’s probably even more amazing than how TNA has so much talent and gets so little value out of them.
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[quote name='Genocidal']MVP, Show, Jericho, Miz, Punk, Swagger, Morrison off the top of my head would be believable in the world title picture. I'm sure I could name half a dozen other guys that they could push there without much effort if I took a minute to look at the roster.[/QUOTE]

Punk is already in the main event. Swagger is still too new for the push, but I like him a lot. I agree with Jericho and Show. They're being wasted on the tag titles. Jericho is the best in the company right now. Show can be a great monster (like he was on Smackdown when Heyman was his manager), but they never use him right. I really like Morrison but I haven't seen SD so I have no idea what they're doing with him. Probably nothing.
 
Someone tell him at 4:19 so he gets the message.

I'm sure we'll see him in ROH at the least.

Here's the thing: I thought the "The Brian Kendrick" was a great name and gimmick.

Do you think WWE holds trademarks over "THE" such that they'd file a suit if he called himself "TBK" in TNA or ROH?

He could always switch to what I preferred: THEE Brian Kendrick.
 
Not just pot, but a TON of pot.

He'll probably show up at PWG this Friday. That's what happened with Cabana, he was released on a Friday and worked PWG on Sunday.
 
He'll be busy trading stories with Ricky Williams about how The Man is keeping them down and infringing on their "rights".

What a waste of a great opportunity on Kendrick's part.
 
Well to be fair, if he'd kept his act together he could have at least gotten an IC/US/tag title push. Thought really don't think weed is a big deal, is a stupid of him to blow his spot because of it and wind up in the dog house.

I get the feeling Chavo is gonna be next on the chopping block, either via being future endeavor'd or asking for his release. I'm sure he's sick and tired of jobbing to Hornswaggle by now.
 
I love John Morrison, but he sucks balls as a face. His promos with Teddy Long remind me of when he was Eric Bischoff's assistant.
 
[quote name='Iron Clad Burrito']Impressive shots. What lens were you using?[/QUOTE]

Sorry for the delayed reply, folks.

We shot the pictures using a Canon 40D with a 24-105 4/L lens (though some of them were with a 50mm 1.8 lens).

Thanks for the kind feedback. It was one hell of a show to watch. Hopefully they'll put some highlights into tonight's Impact.
 
If you are in a position where you are making lots of money, why in the fuck would you take a chance to ruin it by smoking weed? Forget the argument for or against it, as long as it is illegal its just stupid to risk all you have for a high.
 
Brian Kendrick walked away from WWE a few years ago just so he could travel the world and actually have wrestling matches.

I suspect Kendrick is therefore much happier doing what he does now as opposed to simply working for WWE.

There's more to life than an income - and I say that agreeing that I, personally, would take money over weed, but that's me, and I don't even like weed to begin with.

Kendrick knew exactly what he was doing and what he risked.
 
Yeah, I don't see this hurting Kendrick in the slightest. He's known as being one of those guys who's pretty decent about saving his money, and he's probably pretty well off considering he's been under WWE contract for quite some time.

Given that I don't foresee him OD'ing on pot anytime soon, I figure he's got plenty of years wrestling still in him - he's been working for almost 10 years despite just turning 30, and I'm sure ROH and TNA would be glad to have him (wouldn't surprise me to see him go to Dragon Gate or NOAH either).
 
[quote name='mykevermin']:lol: @ "great opportunity."[/QUOTE]

You know exactly what I mean, smartass.:) He was in the midst of a fairly major push on SD when he was striked. JR was even making it a point to compare him to Pillman and HBK. There was potential there for him to (forgive me) "run with the ball". I agree he'll probably be fine wrestling elsewhere, it's just a waste of an opportunity IMO. I wonder if he has a no-compete clause to wait out.
 
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