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07-28-2005, 03:40 PM
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Chris Masters is the man, actually.
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07-28-2005, 03:51 PM
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Herp a derp, and so on
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Iif you saw Marty Jannetty in that firing-spree list, your eyes do not deceieve you. He was brought back for two matches, one in a tag with Shawn Michaels on RAW, and another on the following SmackDown! against Kurt Angle, because at the time (just before WM 21), Angle was trying to show up Shawn Michaels, whom he was facing at WM 21, so he brought in his old tag partner.
Oh, on that note, the next week Kurt came out to HBK's theme along with Sensational Sherri (  ) singing "I'm just a sexy Kurt!" Priceless.After, while Kurt was injured (I think), he held a Kurt Angle Invitational against "hometown heroes" where the winner would get his gold medal (the real one) if he could simply last 3 minutes with Angle. The hometown heroes were usually indy wrestlers from that area, except for the end of the Invitationals, where the last three were as follows: (1) Matt Stryker, some teacher that got fired for skipping work to go to wrestling shows/practice, came on and lost to Angle with ONE SECOND remaining. The following week, he called himself Matt Martel, but Kurt saw through it and beat it with like 20 seconds left. Then, the next week, Eugene (the mentally retarded wrestler) REVERSED the ankle lock, which usually beat the other guys, and kicked Angle out of the ring, lasting until the time expired, and won the gold medals. This was this past Monday, so we're waiting on what'll happen next. Also, as was stated above, the Women's wrestling division is now pretty much dead. Trish Stratus is out with an injury and technically holds the title, although it's meaningless now. The women that are left are: Torrie Wilson, Melina (the last "M" in MNM, see below), Stacy Keibler, Christy Hemme (she's training to be a wrestler apparently), Lita, and Victoria (who reverted back to her psycho chick gimmick recently). That's it. The new faces: MNM - A new tag team, stands for Mercury Nitro Melina. Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro (who was on Tough Enough III I believe), and Melina, their valet. The Heart Throbs - A tag team that, while on dark matches and in OVW, had a gimmick similar to that of Billy & Chuck, as "The Heart Breakers". Now, as the Throbs, they seem to be more like the guys from Night At The Roxbury, where they try to hit on chicks (only Lilian after her breakup with Viscera so far) and fail. Not much from these two. Carlito Caribbean Cool - Now just Carlito, he has his own segment on RAW called Carlito's Cabana, where he interviews people. He's a heel, but I personally love him. He's hilarious, spitting apples at people's faces when they "don't want to be cool". His intro vignettes were pretty humorous, but his backstages promos and segments are hilarious. His first match in the WWE, on SD!, was against John Cena for the I/C Title (I think), which was lost back to him, then regained again (I think). Matt Morgan was around for awhile, first as a blond who-cares-about-him wrestler, then as a stuttering big guy with a beard. Never really went anywhere (he was on Tough Enough II I believe) and got released recently. The Hurricane got a sidekck in Rosey, who used to be part of a tag team called Three Minute Warning. 3MW was called to the ring by Bischoff every time somebody's promo went over 3 minutes. Jamal, the other guy, left eventually, and Rosey became a S.H.I.T. (Super Hero In Training). I swear it's the truth. Simon Dean made his debut as a RAW advertising sponsor, for his "Simon System", a weight loss dietary supplement designed to help people lose weight...your typical anti-fat-people gimmick. He used to be Nova in ECW. Jon Heidenreich, now just Heidenreich, was introduced by Paul Heyman as a big threat, and soon after he was discovered to have little talent, was transformed into a fun-loving guy who reads poetry (called Disaster-pieces) and at one point brought kids to the ring to be his "friend". Now he just wants other wrestlers to be his friends, and anybody he faces on RAW apparently didn't want to be his friend (seriously). Chris Masters is a big hoss that Vince probably creamed himself over while hiring him. He first came out and stiffed Steven Richards so bad he broke his nose with a stiff Polish Hammer. Now he does "Masterlock Challenges", in which he offers up money (upped every week, now at $12,000 I believe) to anyone who can break his Masterlock, which is just a full nelson. Val Venis, Tajiri, and Rosey have tried but failed, although the challenge was initially open to fans. Big Show is now the guy that thinks he can beat it, but Masters won't let him get near him and has halted the challenges for the time being. Shelton Benjamin, although not really new in the past 3 years, is doing well for himself as a singles competitor. He was the I/C champ for awhile, untl Carlito beat him for it his first night on RAW (after being drafted from SD!). Stacy Keibler recently started running with Hurricane and Rosey, wearing a mask and calling herself Super-Stacy. Also, Theodore Long is now SmackDown!'s general manager, replacing Paul Heyman, who replaced Stephanie McMahon, etc. Bischoff is still RAW's GM, while Coach was temporary GM for a time (wasn't he? I might be mistaking it for an SvR storyline  )I don't know if this is recent as of 2002 or not, but Jericho also has his own RAW segment, called Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel, complete with a large widescreen plasma TV that gets lowered to the ring, calle the JeriTron 3000. WWE also recently began blurring the line between kayfabe and reality when they brought Matt Hardy back while still released from the company. They made his run-ins to look semi-realistic while security guards and trainers would nearly and legimately beat the crap out of him every time he'd interfere. The announcers wouldn't even talk while he made his appearances, addiing to the realism. He even stated on his web site (which allegedly got him fired in the first place) that he was doing this on his own, not under contract. Just recently, he admitted that it's all a work. I forgot when La Resistance and Rob Conway made their debuts, but ask us if they're new to you. The ECW One Night Stand PPV in June was quite simply amazing. Kayfabe was broken, promos were cut, and, of course, WWE interfered. JBL and Kurt Angle led their anti-ECW teams to the PPV (which, under storyline, was funded by Vince, since he funded the original ECW as well) and interfered physically only toward the end. RVD and Heyman cut the best promos of the night. Joey Styles and Mick Foley were the commentators and everybody who was in the ECW and was still under WWE contract appeared in their original gimmicks. For example, Simon Dean wrestled as Nova in the bWo, and Steven Richards reverted to his bWo character as well (Big Stevie Cool) and stopped being serious. Amusingly enough, Mike Bucci currently plays both Simon Dean and Nova on WWE programming, both on SmackDown! but in separate segments. John Cena and Batista, two relatively new guys, are now the top champs (John Cena = WWE, Batista = World Heavyweight). A LOT of the guys in WWE right now are from OVW, by the way. 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07-28-2005, 04:07 PM
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Herp a derp, and so on
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Also, about the Hassan situation lately...
Hassan, as explained above, is a heel, complaining about prejudice since events like 9/11 took place, against his people (Arab-Americans, although Mark Copani is actually Italian-American himself). His manager, Khosrow Daivari, wrestled a few times, but is mainly a manager and usually speaks Farsi after Hassan rants during his promos. (He's been known to speak English on the show as well.) Three weeks ago, Hassan called upon six masked guys to help him beat the Undertaker in a grudge match (Taker caused Hassan to be unofficially counted out from a six-man match for what was going to be a SmackDown! title, because both World titles were drafted to RAW at the time...Batista was drafted to SD! thereafter, making a SD! Title unnecessary). Anyway, an event occured on Wednesday/Thursday morning in London, as you well know, that made people very pissed off, although the segment was taped on Tuesday. People called Hassan a terrorist, when the guys under the masks were actually white and were simply assumed to be Arabs. UPN, who initially let the segment air, told WWE that they didn't want Hassan to be on SmackDown! anymore, so WWE.com aired a promo (for the site only, not on TV) where Hassan came out to the crowd and called them all hypocrits for believing his associates were terrorists and Arabian, when they simply helped him beat Taker. He made a lot of sense to the smark community, but not to the general mark audience, who began chanting USA! against him, after he reiterated that he was an American! This from the fans who chanted USA! at a Bret Hart/Yokozuna match, or a match full of Canadians and French-Canadians. Anyway, WWE "killed off" his character, so to speak, at the Great American bash, when Taker last-ride'd him through the entrance stage to the concrete floor beneath (a floor panel was moved by Taker beforehand for this spot). Long then put up a promo on WWE.com saying that Hassan can go to hell (for what, I'm still not certain), or to RAW for all he cares. Since UPN only deals with SmackDown! this seems like the most sensible way to bring back Hassan, who was on RAW to begin with. Anyway, more on Hassan. He spurred a shitload of running gimmicks on YTMND.com, where his entrance music would interrupt important events or events that had nothing to do with wrestling. Search for "Hassan" on www.ytmnd.com for examples or search the forums here, plenty of them were posted. This is because Hassan himself would always interrupt promos, starting with his theme music, which begins with a resounding "ALLLAAALLLEEEYYAAALLELEAYELELLALAEYEALELAELYALEA..."It'd also a running gag here as well to "Hassan" threads that suck, or just randomly for fun. I do a lot of the Hassan-ing actually.  EDIT: First watch: http://nobodyexpectshassan.ytmnd.com/ Then watch: http://thisistheendoftheworldfolks.ytmnd.com/ Then, in any order... http://muhammadhassan.ytmnd.com/ http://metalgearhassan.ytmnd.com/ http://hassanone.ytmnd.com/ etc. (they're everywhere) Finally: http://hassanator.ytmnd.com/
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Tedious Inevitability
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07-28-2005, 04:20 PM
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Herp a derp, and so on
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For example:
You know guys, what I really think is— ALLALLLLEEAYYYAAALLLEEYAALLEYALAEYALAAELLAL...  DAMN YOU HASSAN! This thread has just been...HASSSAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN'D!
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07-28-2005, 04:31 PM
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One Man Horror Show
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The only things you need to know, Mitch:
Eddie Guerrero was the reigning Undisputed Champion at Wrestlemania 20. And Chris Benoit won the World Heavyweight Championship on the same show, leading to a classic moment when the two champs hug in the ring. Also, Brock Lesnar was top face/top heel of Smackdown, but he'll probably be best known for his (botched) Shooting Star Press in WM19. At which I was cheering (along with a lot of the crowd) for the top heel, Kurt Angle --- as he was wrestling with a broken neck and was due for surgery, but his commitment to his fans came first and he wrestled a truly life-threatening match. God bless Kurt. |
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07-28-2005, 05:21 PM
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Inno Knows.
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07-28-2005, 05:33 PM
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TPWW's HHH Mark Since '04
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He's Kurt Angle. He can do that.
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07-28-2005, 05:43 PM
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love yourself
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07-28-2005, 06:22 PM
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FIT Challenge Slag People
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Continuing on the Brock Lesnar story, the guy has terrible WrestleMania luck. As mentioned before, he landed on his head at WM19 (and this is a 280+-pound guy we're talking about here). And just before WM20, it got out that he was going to leave WWE to pursue a career in football, so the crowd at WM20 were ruthless toward him during his match with Goldberg. The match itself was terrible, and the crowd made it that much worse.
To add to the title histories (I'm counting every title change in the last three years): WWE Title Vengeance 2002 - The Rock over The Undertaker (c) and Kurt Angle Summerslam 2002 - Brock Lesnar over The Rock Survivor Series 2002 - Big Show over Brock Lesnar after Paul Heyman betrayed Lesnar Armageddon 2002 - Kurt Angle over Big Show after interference from Lesnar WrestleMania XIX - Brock Lesnar over Kurt Angle Vengeance 2003 - Kurt Angle over Brock Lesnar and Big Show 9/16/03 SmackDown - Brock Lesnar over Kurt Angle in an Iron Man Match No Way Out 2004 - Eddie Guerrero over Brock Lesnar after Goldberg speared Lesnar Great American Bash 2004 - John Bradshaw Layfield over Eddie Guerrero in a Texas Bullrope Match WrestleMania XXI - John Cena over John Bradshaw Layfield World Tag Team Titles (RAW) Vengeance 2002 - The Un-Americans (Christian/Lance Storm) over Hulk Hogan and Edge 9/23/02 RAW - Kane and The Hurricane over The Un-Americans 10/14/02 RAW - Chris Jericho and Christian over Kane and The Hurricane Armageddon 2002 - Booker T and Goldust over Chris Jericho and Christian, Lance Storm and William Regal, and the Dudley Boyz 1/6/03 RAW - William Regal and Lance Storm over Booker T and Goldust Royal Rumble 2003 - Dudley Boyz over William Regal and Lance Storm 1/20/03 RAW - William Regal and Lance Storm over Dudley Boyz after Chief of Staff Sean Morley (Val Venis) made an impromptu match after Regal and Storm sneak-attacked Bubba and D-Von 3/24/03 RAW - Sean Morley names himself William Regal's replacement as Lance Storm's partner after Regal's legit illness forces Regal and Storm to vacate the titles 3/31/03 RAW - Kane and Rob Van Dam over the Dudley Boyz and Sean Morley and Lance Storm Bad Blood 2003 - La Resistance (Sylvain Grenier and Rene Dupree) over Kane and Rob Van Dam Unforgiven 2003 - The Dudley Boyz over La Resistance and Rob Conway in a Handicap Tables Match Armageddon 2003 - Ric Flair and Batista over the Dudley Boyz 2/16/04 RAW - Booker T and Rob Van Dam over Ric Flair and Batista after Mick Foley neutralized Randy Orton's interference on Flair/Batista's behalf 3/22/04 RAW - Batista and Ric Flair over Booker T and Rob Van Dam 4/19/04 RAW - Edge and (World Champion) Chris Benoit over Batista and Ric Flair 5/21/04 RAW - La Resistance over Edge and Chris Benoit Taboo Tuesday 2004 - Chris Benoit and Edge over La Resistance despite Edge walking out on the match 11/1/04 - La Resistance over Chris Benoit and Edge 11/15/04 - William Regal and Eugene over La Resistance 1/16/05 House Show - La Resistance (Sylvain Grenier and Rob Conway) over William Regal and Jonathan Coachman (who was subbing for an injured Eugene) 2/4/05 RAW - Tajiri and William Regal over La Resistance Backlash 2005 - The Hurricane and Rosey won a Gauntlet Match to win the belt (other teams were Tajiri and Regal, La Resistance, Maven and Simon Dean, and The Heart Throbs [Antonio and Romeo]) WWE Tag Team Titles (SmackDown!) No Mercy 2002 - Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle over Edge and Rey Mysterio in the finals of a tournament to crown the first SmackDown Tag Champions 11/5/02 SmackDown - Rey Mysterio and Edge over Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle in a best-of-3 match Survivor Series 2002 - Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo Guerrero) over Rey Mysterio and Edge and Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle 2/4/03 SmackDown - Team Angle (Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin) over Los Guerreros Judgment Day 2003 - Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri over Team Angle in a Ladder Match 7/1/2003 SmackDown - Team Angle over Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri 9/16/2003 SmackDown - Los Guerreros over Team Angle 10/21/2003 SmackDown - Basham Brothers (Doug and Danny Basham) over Los Guerreros 2/3/2004 SmackDown - Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty over Basham Brothers 4/20/2004 SmackDown - Rico and Charlie Haas over Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty 6/15/2004 SmackDown - Dudley Boyz over Rico and Charlie Haas 7/6/2004 SmackDown - Billy Kidman and Paul London over Dudley Boyz 9/7/2004 SmackDown - Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree over Billy Kidman and Paul London 12/7/2004 SmackDown - Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio over Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree 1/11/2005 SmackDown - Basham Brothers over Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero and Booker T, and Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak No Way Out 2005 - Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero over Basham Brothers 4/18/2005 SmackDown - MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) over Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero Great American Bash 2005 - Road Warrior Animal and Heidenreich over MNM Intercontinental Title 7/28/02 RAW - Chris Benoit over Rob Van Dam Summerslam 2002 - Rob Van Dam over Chris Benoit 9/16/02 RAW - Chris Jericho over Rob Van Dam 9/30/02 RAW - Kane over Chris Jericho No Mercy 2002 - (World Champion) Triple H over Kane in a Title Unification Match, retiring the belt Judgment Day 2003 - Christian won a battle royal (last eliminating Booker T) to win the re-instated title 7/7/2003 RAW - Booker T over Christian 8/10/2003 House Show - Christian over Booker T after Booker injured his lower back 9/29/03 RAW - Rob Van Dam over Christian in a Ladder Match 10/27/03 RAW - Chris Jericho over Rob Van Dam with help from Eric Bischoff. Co-GM Steve Austin demanded a rematch, so... 10/27/03 RAW - Rob Van Dam over Chris Jericho in a Cage Match Armageddon 2003 - Randy Orton over Rob Van Dam Vengeance 2004 - Edge over Randy Orton 9/16/2004 RAW - Edge is stripped of the title after suffering an injury Unforgiven 2004 - Chris Jericho over Christian in a Ladder Match to win the vacant belt Taboo Tuesday 2004 - Shelton Benjamin over Chris Jericho 6/20/2005 RAW - Carlito over Shelton Benjamin (More coming, I just want to make sure I didn't lose what I've done) |
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07-28-2005, 06:34 PM
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FIT Challenge Slag People
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United States Title
Vengeance 2003 - Eddie Guerrero over Chris Benoit in a tournament final to decide the first WWE US Champion No Mercy 2003 - Big Show over Eddie Guerrero WrestleMania XX - John Cena over Big Show 7/6/2004 SmackDown - Cena is stripped of the title after assaulting GM Kurt Angle. 7/27/2004 SmackDown - Booker T wins an eight-man elimination match (last eliminating Rob Van Dam) to win the vacant belt No Mercy 2004 - John Cena over Booker T in the last match of a best-of-5 series 10/5/2004 SmackDown - Carlito over John Cena 11/16/2004 SmackDown - John Cena over Carlito 3/1/2005 SmackDown - Orlando Jordan over John Cena Hardcore Title The belt is retired on the 8/26 RAW after (Intercontinental Champion) Rob Van Dam beat Tommy Dreamer in a Title Unification Match Women's Title Unforgiven 2002 - Trish Stratus over Molly Holly Survivor Series 2002 - Victoria over Trish Stratus WrestleMania XIX - Trish Stratus over Victoria and Jazz Backlash 2003 - Jazz over Trish Stratus 6/30/03 RAW - Gail Kim won a 7-woman battle royal over Jazz, Trish Stratus, Jacqueline, Ivory, Molly Holly, and Victoria (who she eliminated last) 7/28/03 RAW - Molly Holly over Gail Kim 2/23/04 RAW - Victoria over Molly Holly, Jazz, and Lita Bad Blood 2004 - Trish Stratus over Victoria 12/6/04 - Lita over Trish Stratus New Year's Revolution 2005 - Trish Stratus over Lita Cruiserweight Title Survivor Series 2002 - Billy Kidman over Jamie Noble No Way Out 2003 - Matt Hardy over Billy Kidman 6/3/03 SmackDown - Rey Mysterio over Matt Hardy 9/22/03 SmackDown - Tajiri over Rey Mysterio 12/30/03 SmackDown - Rey Mysterio over Tajiri No Way Out 2004 - Chavo Guerrero over Rey Mysterio 5/4/04 SmackDown - Jacqueline (yes, you read that right) over Chavo Guerrero Judgment Day 2004 - Chavo Guerrero over Jacqueline 5/17/04 SmackDown - Chavo Guerrero Senior over Chavo Guerrero and Jacqueline 6/15/04 SmackDown - Rey Mysterio over Chavo Guerrero Senior 7/27/04 SmackDown - Spike Dudley over Rey Mysterio Armageddon 2004 - Funaki over Spike Dudley No Way Out 2005 - Chavo Guerrero won a Gauntlet Elimination Match against Funaki, Spike Dudley, Akio, Shannon Moore, and Paul London (who he pinned to win the title) 3/29/05 SmackDown - Paul London won a battle royal against Chavo Guerrero, Nunzio, Scotty 2 Hotty, Spike Dudley, Akio, Funaki, and Billy Kidman (who he eliminated last) I guess that's all title-wise. |
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07-28-2005, 06:48 PM
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love yourself
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/gold clap
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07-28-2005, 06:51 PM
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Herp a derp, and so on
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07-28-2005, 06:58 PM
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...IN HD!!!!
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Four words...
It wasn't...my...fault! |
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07-28-2005, 06:59 PM
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...IN HD!!!!
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Oh and a retard has Kurt Angle's Olympic Gold Medals.
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07-29-2005, 12:04 AM
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bonjour
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Thanks guys, you've all been way more helpful than I could ever have even imagined.
 
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07-29-2005, 12:29 AM
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Herp a derp, and so on
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Oh yeah, forgot about Gene Snitsky and Eugene in my detailed report.
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07-29-2005, 12:32 AM
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love yourself
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yes Eugene is Eric Bischoff's "nephew", and he is retarded, but in a manly way.
And Gene Snitsky killed Lita's baby when she was married to Kane, and then she fell in love with Kane, only to reveal later to be in love with Edge, who she then married. And now Matt Hardy is coming back and attacking Edge every week. |
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07-29-2005, 12:32 AM
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love yourself
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And somehow Lita and Snitsky are now "friends". I really completely missed how that happened though.
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07-29-2005, 12:33 AM
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love yourself
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But none of it was Gene's fault.
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07-29-2005, 12:23 PM
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Kiss the blade
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obviously
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bonjour
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Absolutely none of that Snitsky/Kane/Edge/Matt Hardy/Lita angle seems to make sense.
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Taller than Adam Cole
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