The Squared Circle

[BlackLantern]

This is the reaction that transpires whenever the Warrior posts anything.

Yea....pretty much. Warriors' issue is that no one in his little universe will tell him he is bats**t crazy...his family is probably scared s**tless of him and no one reasonably sane will associate with him

 

[The Sage]

ECW is not really a step down. If anything moving main event players like Jericho, Jeff, MVP(eventually), and Kennedy(eventually) would give the roster and the show some serious credibility that it's lacking. Let's be honest Sage, Jeff is not going to get anywhere near the WWE title with Cena, HBK, HHH, and Batista on the shows.

Shelton got a clean win over HHH and look what that did for him. A lot of wrestlers got clean wins over someone like HHH and HBK, yet they still got buried and all their heat was forgotten about in the long run.

Let's be honest: If enough fans rallied behind Jeff, he could easily be made champion. It just so happens that the timing right now is bad for him; it's Wrestlemania, and the execs would rather go the safe route for buyrates with a Cena/HHH II instead of testing out Jeff Hardy in a Wrestlemania main-event, which is understandable despite not liking it. It's business.

I predict Jeff Hardy will win the Money in the Bank match and get another world title shot. I'd be surprised if Jeff was moved to Smackdown since he's a hot commodity and RAW keeps most of the hot talent.

Shelton's career went downhill because he became lazy, complacent, and stopped growing as a wrestler. Because of that, he couldn't sustain his push. Five years and the guy still isn't a good talker, doesn't have a lot of charisma and can't generate excitement from the crowd outside of a flashy move that last for a few seconds. It's really his own fault.

I like Shelton, but the brother is lazy. Heck, MVP's been in the company for a year and a half and he's farther ahead than Shelton.

 

[BlackLantern]

Let's be honest: If enough fans rallied behind Jeff, he could easily be made champion. It just so happens that the timing right now is bad for him; it's Wrestlemania, and the execs would rather go the safe route for buyrates with a Cena/HHH II instead of testing out Jeff Hardy in a Wrestlemania main-event, which is understandable despite not liking it. It's business.

I predict Jeff Hardy will win the Money in the Bank match and get another world title shot. I'd be surprised if Jeff was moved to Smackdown since he's a hot commodity and RAW keeps most of the hot talent.

Shelton's career went downhill because he became lazy, complacent, and stopped growing as a wrestler. Because of that, he couldn't sustain his push. Five years and the guy still isn't a good talker, doesn't have a lot of charisma and can't generate excitement from the crowd outside of a flashy move that last for a few seconds. It's really his own fault.

I like Shelton, but the brother is lazy. Heck, MVP's been in the company for a year and a half and he's farther ahead than Shelton.

silly man, you talk like the wwe or Vince actually care what the fans think....silly silly man

 

[The Sage]

Oh no, is HBK getting the ego-trip treatment in HHH's absense?

As if getting pinned by HBK in multi-man match tarnishes Hardy's clean one on one win.

silly man, you talk like the wwe or Vince actually care what the fans think....silly silly man

Hehe, if they didn't care, Austin, Rock, HBK, Eddy, Cena, Batista or HHH would've never got pushed.

Unless you're talking about "pure wrestling fans" and not the mainstream audience.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Ive not seen Raw but I know the results, for those conspiracy theorists, Hardy has beaten HHH and HBK clean in the last 3 months, they both can't pin him in the EC..........

Also sharing wins is common at the top end when a big name faces and upper mid car guy on the rise, it keeps one strong while putting the other over.

 

[kane9321]

Katie Lea..damn smoking body ya workin with. I'm gonna enjoy this angle.Maria looked yummy. I want jillian hall now. HBK and hardy was a damn great match

 

[AndThePickles]

Really great Hardy and Michaels match last night I was so surprised at the way Jeff won...Vince wants that man to go places!

 

[BlackLantern]

it was a fantastic match and the best RAW main event in a while....im sure the IWC needed a cigarette after the match

 

[Fading]

Jeff really has come a long way tho, he's improved his ring work, and even tho he still could use improvement his mic work has gotten better. To think that last time he was close to the ME was his last RAW match where Taker dominated him, then as Taker walked to the backstage Hardy yelled out in a high pitched raspy voice "Nooooottt yet, I...I...I'm not done yet"...that was awful .

 

[Hunter Rider]

Source - Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- The gate for this year's Royal Rumble was around $1.3 million, which is among the largest non-WrestleMania gates that WWE has done in North America.

- MVP has passed the 260 day mark as U.S. champion which is the longest reigning U.S. champion since Rick Rude in WCW and the fifth longest in history. If he keeps the belt through the rest of this month he will top Barry Windham for the fourth spot.

-- Triple H still has some backstage heat on him for apparently holding other wrestlers back when they get too popular or too over, although nobody says anything about it out loud. One of the most famous cases of HHH trying to hold someone back was Kurt Angle, when he said flat out that Angle was too small for the job. Despite The Game’s politicking, Angle would go on to hold the WWE World Heavyweight, Undisputed, Intercontinental, European, Hardcore, and Tag Team championships during his run with the company. John Cena is viewed as the only guy to really make it big that HHH hasn‘t tried to work against backstage.

 

[Fading]

I do believe HHH politics heavy to get positioned in the spotlight, I mean he's married to the bosses daughter and gets to hold the belt once a year. However I don't believe all the rumors. He occasionally lets a guy get a win over him, tho it's possible that he's willing to give a temp boost but not allow them to go to the very top.

The Cena reports with HHH kinda conflict eachother tho. Early reports said HHH origionally championed Cena's rise as he felt Cena was a face he could go over when he wanted to. Now it's HHH always plotting against Cena. HHH has pull, but I doubt he has enough to make the decisions on who's going to be the face of the company (unless he's currently pushing for himself), and I don't see how the writers of the articles know what HHH wants when I doubt it's something he'd say out loud. I mean I couldn't see HHH walking into a meeting and go, "Hey guys, let's push Cena, eventually when I want back on top I'm sure I can easily get over the guy."

 

[Genesis 1.0]

Cool, MVP deserves it but I'd feel better about it if they could put together some actual contenders for the strap instead of waiting for Hardy to get back.

 

[Mario_Galaxy]

That atomic drop thing Jeff did was great.

 

[Lobo]

Cool, MVP deserves it but I'd feel better about it if they could put together some actual contenders for the strap instead of waiting for Hardy to get back.

Yeah I dont think he'll lose the strap til he faces Hardy at Mania

 

[cabel]

Cool, MVP deserves it but I'd feel better about it if they could put together some actual contenders for the strap instead of waiting for Hardy to get back.

they kinda did that with Rey at Armageddon, otherwise there isn't really anyone else other than Kane.

I can see Jaime Noble getting a shot, only for Palumbo to interfere and cost him the match.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Saw Raw tonight, thought it was a decent show and a good lead in to the PPV, Henry/Cena was a bit short but OK and i love the Cena/Orton dynamic, JBL/Y2J was a good match but what is with the no call on the Codebreaker finish ? good for Jericho to get a big clean win to build some momentum.

The stand out things on the show for me:

- Maria had easily her best match to date, in no way should she be getting a women's title shot at WM24 but it's good to see improvement and hopefully she continues to do so.

- The Flair/Kennedy promo, a classic IMO, just like with the MVP match Flair has had a fantastic promo segment with his young hot shot opponent to build heat leading into the event, this one matched the VIP one but brought even better intensity, perhaps b/c the Flair/Kennedy build already has more of an edge to it.

- Hardy vs HBK was a a Raw classic, one of the best matches in the shows history, it had everything, great story, spot on pacing, superb bumping, good selling and inventive counters, it just clicked perfectly, this is the match to beat for MOTY 2008.

 

[The FallenAngel]

I remember that I couldn't help laughing during the Flair/Kennedy promo. It was just so great to watch. God, Flair is the man. He will be missed.

 

[The Sage]

Flair should do classes on cutting promos.

 

[The Sage]

Wow, Chavo's actually getting noticeably booed.

 

[NDX]

Surprised with the reaction Stevie is receiving.

Damn, no Koji Clutch.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Wonder how long before Layla is fired?

 

[The Sage]

Fired?

Kelly Kelly with the Rocker Dropper. Nice finisher. Pretty decent match.

 

[Donnie Darko]

maybe this could lead to Punk eventually moving to Smackdown and Stevie taking over as top face for a little while until they groom their next one.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Fired?

Yeah, just noticing how dead the crowd was when she came out

 

[NDX]

Knox is sporting a JBL like gut.