There are some really stupid statements in this thread:
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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
lmao @ no one giving a damn about Cowboy Bob Orton and booing him and his son
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I, too, was surprised at the crowd's reaction to an old man who was begging for mercy for his (heel) son. Not to mention that anyone who does remember Orton would remmebr him as the guy who spent almost 5 years wearing a cast (Bobby Heenan referred to him as a 'slow healer.') in order to get tainted victories. Dead air, mild dislike, followed by genuine heat is pretty much exactly what the writers were looking for there.
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Originally Posted by Supermark101
Exactly, I didnt see but if ur a heel u WANT to be booed. Smackdown might be done with UPN that is the rumor. UPN is dead if that happens
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Here's the UPN 'rumor' as stated by this article:
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"I spoke with Susan Young, the author of The Oakland Tribune piece that Mike Johnson reported on yesterday, concerning Viacom's Leslie Moonves' comments about Smackdown's future on UPN. She told me that the quote in the paper was 100 percent accurate but that she incorrectly wrote that Smackdown's contract would not be renewed when she should have written that it may not be renewed. The quote took place when Moonves was talking about Smackdown's future on UPN last week. Moonves said that he didn't know how much time was left on the contract and asked UPN President Dawn Ostroff, who was also at the interview with him. She told him it expired in September of 2006. He then said he wasn't sure of the future of WWE on UPN and said it may not be renewed, with Young saying the tone of his voice and demeanor implying that it would not be.
He then issued this quote, about Smackdown. "It still makes us a decent amount of money," said Moonves. "When you think about the powerhouses of CBS and NBC on Thursday night, it's great counter-programming. (But) it doesn't fit into the overall (programming) strategy." "
Basically, they have more than a year left to renegotiate.
And UPN, like other stations that have carried successful wrestling programs through the years, has learned that sponsors won't pay top dollar to be associated with programming that the mainstream media still views as a little too 'trailer-trash.' UPN gets three times as much revenue from 'America's next Top Model.'