But if you read the post above mentioning having the idea of Vince bringing out Horny dressed as Bret. Vince never was specific in saying that it would be the "real" Bret Hart. Hell, they could hire the same midget who dressed as Bret after Montreal all when D-X mocked him.
Exceot that they used a graphic to advertise Bret being the guest hostmultiple times. It would be blatant false advertising and lawsuits would fly if they did what you say not to mention the fact they wouldnt have a guest host.
You cannot sue a TV show because they don't deliver. If that was the case, Fox would be sued countless times over for terrible programming such as Greg The Bunny that they quoted as saying it was funny and great. I could see how possibly you could sue if you ordered a PPV to see a boxing match where at the last second they pulled something like this deliberately and knowingly from that they couldn't deliver it, but on a cable TV show which you do not directly pay for (You pay the Cable Provider who pays the Networks who pays the content providers which is four steps removed from you)..
This is why there needs to be a frivolous lawsuit penalty that the Lawyer is hit with. Not the Plaintiff. Lawyers will sue for anything, as long as you pay them... well, a small minority of them, but still.
Definitely "Bret The Hitman Clark" for me, as Buffer wasn't an interview guy, he was just there to read off a freakin card in his hand and he STILL smurfed it to hell.
The sad thing is... it was WCW. There was a damn good chance that he read what was exactly on the card.
I think that with the Borash tweet about Tiger Woods, anyone that tunes in can count on seeing a ridiculously unfunny WWE style Tiger Woods impersonator, interacting with the Knockouts only to have one that resembles his wife chase after him with a golf club. I'd almost place a wager on that happening.
Hey, when the mainstream media doesn't wanna talk to you, might as well go to a pro-wrestling company. Worked for Pacman Jones.
Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 4, 2010 17:16:27 GMT -5
I am so excited to watching wrestling tonight. It's 1996 all over again. I'll be rushing to get home and once I do, my DVR will be fired up and I will be recording both shows and flipping between them.
I cannot wait to get that giddy stupid mark out feeling in my stomach when Bret's music hits and he comes out. It's been 3 years since the ECW revival and that was the last time I was genuinely markout excited for wrestling.
Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 2, 2010 21:00:45 GMT -5
Even though I am far from anything resembling a Pantera fan... I am so excited for this show for the hopes of hearing Walk again as Rob Van Dam's intro.
Someone made the point that this is like the real life Alliance, and it's true. However, it's really how an ECW/WCW alliance would've went, and if WCW wasn't bought by the WWF. You have most of the big name talent that wasn't brought in for the alliance immediatley or if at all...
This is really shaping up to be bigger than we thought before especially if Heyman is on board. These are alot of people that have a completely different version than Vince and have been successful (and failed too) . Bisch, Russo, Heyman and Hogan... and then you have other very smart wrestling minds like Raven and Dreamer who will probably contribute somewhat in the back.
Plus, I'm guessing with my gut that Hogan has a contract full of incentives for success. It will be in his best interest to take advantage of the smart wrestling people on board. A two hour product with 40 some wrestlers on the roster leaves a lot of time for people to book storylines and get people involved with Hogan directing the overall direction of everything.
Everyone thinks it's doomed to fail, I think the opposite.
Okay, so if Hogan really is running things behind the scenes now, why haven't we heard of Russo's departure?
Sorry, but this still smells like a huge work. Even that or Hogan just can't help but overstate his importance in whatever role he has.
Russo is the one putting together the show scripts now, replacing him without a proper replacement who knows TNA's timing and everything would be pretty stupid on their part.
I think in time someone will take the job, but for now, if Russo just shuts up and let's Hogan run wild... he'll probably keep his job.
Post by nerdinitupagain on Dec 30, 2009 0:47:48 GMT -5
It just reeks of something that was thought up for one week and made someone's job easier because it gave Raw even more of a formula. So they made it happen every week. The fact that you get people like the E girls that are so far down on the D list celebrity row, that it makes WWE just looks like an extremely low rent variety hour. Complete with terrible comedy in the form of HHH and his attempt at clean humor which he cannot pull off.
It's giving us Bret Hart, but we'd have got Bret Hart anyways. If we got this once a month leading into a PPV maybe it wouldn't be so bad or quarterly or something.. I loved the Ventura episode, but that was mostly for the ending for McMahon & Ventura.
It's one of those things that just kills my interest in WWE.
Post by nerdinitupagain on Dec 29, 2009 14:48:57 GMT -5
Crappy attitude. Screwed up neck. The Radicalz arrival clearly stole thunder.
The other problem was he was just as over as most of the upper midcard already. Which means he should've been an upper mid carder immediately by crowd reaction... but by doing so, you're given a lot of legitimacy to ECW saying that their departing World Champion is able to hang in at the top of the card right away. Which (in kayfabe) means his challengers should be able to and therefore ECW's talent is on an equal standing with the WWF.
Taz was never going to be a World Champ in the WWF. In WCW or ECW, maybe. There was more of a focus on wrestling in those two throughout the years. Had he gone to WCW, I bet Storm/Taz would've eventually been a major feud over the Big Gold Belt had WCW stayed around.
You really don't get why Flair deserved a sendoff for what he's done for the business, regardless of where he spent most of his time working?
No I dont. Flair was one of the biggest stars but its a WWE show.. Flair deserved a send off at WCW not WWE IMO. Flair did alright for himself in the WWE never great things aside from the 92 Royal Rumble IMO.
WCW sucks. WWF rulz.
What is this 1998 in AOL Wrestling Chat?
Everyone knows Flair is one of the most respected pro-wrestlers of all time. When he chooses to retire, no matter what company he's in, it's not only profitable, but the right thing to do to hype the holy hell out of it and make it big.
Someone (I wish I paid attention to who) basically had Bret admitting the whole screwjob was a work Bret thought up, as McMahon explains thats what he meant by "Bret screwed Bret"
Imagine that happened next Monday.
That's been my theory for a long time. Bret came up with the screwjob idea, pitched it to Vince, and only Bret and McMahon know Bret came up with it.