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**darkpower** · 05-21-2004, 05:10 AM

Personally, I didn't see the match (I had to work that night, and this is the first time, believe it or not, I am hearing about the match being avaliable for download), but from the sounds of things, it was better than expected. We knew we weren't going to get the five star match because JBL's push was extremly quick, and in some people's minds rather desperate on the SmackDown writer's part because everyone that would've been crediable (Lesner, Angle, Edge, hell, even Big Show) were either pulled to RAW, quit completly, or got injured, and they had little else to go on. The emotions that were riding on the match was basically that of pure hatred for each other.

I would REALLY enjoy a street fight between the two, because THAT'S the kind of athlete that JBL is. More of a brawler than a wrestler (at least that's what I think the WWE wants out of him, at least). When they did the Holly/Lesner feud, one of my grips was that they were trying to make Holly look like Benoit or Eddie, when they knew that it wasn't him doing locks and holds that got him to be 1998-style popular. It was actually his hardcore antics (aside from him working with the late and great Crash Holly) that made Hardcore Holly watchable. So I was hoping for a more of a street fight match at the Rumble between the two (I think I said once before that I wished they had let it be a street fight, and just let them go). But it seems that they are doing the right thing with JBL. Not an Eddie, Angle, or Benoit, but he could possibly shine (I know, a longshot, but I'm all for being optimistic) in a street fight.

As for the comments on WWE.com, I have already dismissed it as one of Vince's tactics, because there's been an awful lot of people from WWE dissing the net as of late, and, because of Vince's desires of wanting to stray away from non-kayfabe things on offical WWE "things", it could HAVE been a kayfabe thing that JBL did on WWE.com (a pretty ill-timed one, I would say, if that were true), and we ALL know Vince's logic is different from anyone else's (once you figure him out, we see a brand new side come from him). So I don't really worry about it that much.

05-21-2004, 05:10 AM	#20
darkpower Why So Curious? Posts: 3,408	Personally, I didn't see the match (I had to work that night, and this is the first time, believe it or not, I am hearing about the match being avaliable for download), but from the sounds of things, it was better than expected. We knew we weren't going to get the five star match because JBL's push was extremly quick, and in some people's minds rather desperate on the SmackDown writer's part because everyone that would've been crediable (Lesner, Angle, Edge, hell, even Big Show) were either pulled to RAW, quit completly, or got injured, and they had little else to go on. The emotions that were riding on the match was basically that of pure hatred for each other. I would REALLY enjoy a street fight between the two, because THAT'S the kind of athlete that JBL is. More of a brawler than a wrestler (at least that's what I think the WWE wants out of him, at least). When they did the Holly/Lesner feud, one of my grips was that they were trying to make Holly look like Benoit or Eddie, when they knew that it wasn't him doing locks and holds that got him to be 1998-style popular. It was actually his hardcore antics (aside from him working with the late and great Crash Holly) that made Hardcore Holly watchable. So I was hoping for a more of a street fight match at the Rumble between the two (I think I said once before that I wished they had let it be a street fight, and just let them go). But it seems that they are doing the right thing with JBL. Not an Eddie, Angle, or Benoit, but he could possibly shine (I know, a longshot, but I'm all for being optimistic) in a street fight. As for the comments on WWE.com, I have already dismissed it as one of Vince's tactics, because there's been an awful lot of people from WWE dissing the net as of late, and, because of Vince's desires of wanting to stray away from non-kayfabe things on offical WWE "things", it could HAVE been a kayfabe thing that JBL did on WWE.com (a pretty ill-timed one, I would say, if that were true), and we ALL know Vince's logic is different from anyone else's (once you figure him out, we see a brand new side come from him). So I don't really worry about it that much.