Of course this is just IMHO, but everything from WM 5 to WM 8 is worth watching. WM 9 is horrible. Except for a few standout matches, there's a period in the mid '90s that was a somewhat dark time (the company actually almost went under while Diesel was champ). King Mabel, Duke Droese, the Godwinns, ugh. Except for WM 11, every WM since then has at least one match worth seeing. Things pick back up again at WM 14, but things don't get consistently good until around '99-'00, due to the influx of talent like Angle, Jericho, and the Radicalz, along with the second golden age of tag team wrestling (E&C, Hardyz, Dudleyz, APA, Too Cool). Really, it's all worth watching just for the history lesson.

 

Who is she dating that would make WWE want to punish her?

 

CM Punk.

 

well it was nice knowing AJ Lee while she was there. Is this serious or all part of a script?

 

First HBK now Hall

Looks like The KLIQ is going to bury the WWE HOF

 

It's hard to say, I wouldn't be so quick to think AJ is going to drop it, but it's strongly possible. I think a lot of things going on there now are just built to get the whole roster on the card in as few a matches as possible. And the ridiculous lengths they are having to go to to make this happen shows the roster is just bloated, and they need to either do a new rotating show split or start letting people go.

 

Speaking of Scott Hall. . .



Look who I ran into at the Great Atlanta Toy Convention two weekends ago.
I must have said something he didn't like though. . .



He was actually really cool and in good spirits. He had to leave early Saturday because his son was wrestling a match locally. Lita was there too (two 2014 HOF inductees  ) but I got a photo with her last year.
And I can't leave out the Living Legend. . .



Larry was a riot, and loved talking to everybody. I mentioned watching him on the NWA reruns on ESPN Classic and he loved reminiscing about guys like Curt Hennig, Midnight Rockers, Badd Company, Baron von Raschke.
Oh, and the guy over his shoulder on the left is C. Martin Croker, voice of Zorak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast
We talked about when Randy Savage guest starred on the show as Space Ghost's father  

 

Did I miss something. What's happening to AJ Lee?

 

the ending of raw was awesome.. lesner didn't like the mind games taker was playing
when the druids brought the casket down ringside you could see the aprin move he was under the ring, brock kicked the top then opened it empty, then the lid opened taker was inside looks like taker was in form

 

It's easy to blame her lack of push with her ties to CM Punk, but I don't see it that way. The Diva's belt can easily be thrown in together with the US and IC belts. The one's that hold those belts don't really have a winning record.


BTW, was a great RAW, IMO.

 

Eddie as one of those bouncing convertible mex types.
Ric Flair should be a jet - JBL as a Limo!

Undertaker as a hearse

It shouldn't happen.... yet strangely would love to see it just for the implosion!

 

Is that Al Snow in back of you and Larry ?

 

Macho Man played his Grandfather Actually.

Space Ghost's Grandpa

 

Crap, that means it's been too long since I've watched my Space Ghost DVDs.

 

Lucky. I've always contended that Larry Zbysko is one of the most underrated guys ever. Put him on a microphone and within five minutes he's have nuns throwing trash at him. His son is working towards a WWE Developmental contract and a friend of mine* who has seen him says that he thinks he'll be IC/US champion in about five years. (*This same friend once predicted that one of the Hollywood Blondes was going to be a huge star - though he admits to underestimating how big a star. He also predicted Kurt Angle's career path at the RAW taping where that same Hollywood Blonde rescues the boss's daughter from the Undertaker. Bonus: It was a "dark" match. Angle hadn't debuted on television yet.)

But I have to make one correction: The AWA wasn't affiliated with the NWA.

 

Some feel she's being punished since she's dating CM Punk. On Raw they announced an every Diva for herself match at Wrestlemania for the Diva Championship which makes it unlikely that AJ will walk away with the title.

 

Bout Time. After all the crap she pulled, she's getting flattened by a massive dose of Karmic Justice.

 

I am not really convinced she is being "punished" per say. I think a lot of what's going on with these huge multi person matches are more made to make sure everyone on the roster gets to be on the show in some form or another. Especially with Bryan and or Hunter doing *possible* double duty, I am sure there was some folks not thrilled with that. a 30 man battle Royal for the midcarders and jobbers not doping anything, all the Divas in one match, a lot of the tag divsion in what is shaping up to be a multi-tag team contest.

We will see what happens though.


Oh my goodness this blunders countdown is fucking gold!        

 

Ya, I don't see the how fact that it's a multi-person match makes it a punishment. You know... the odds of her retaining/losing the title don't actual change with how many people are in the match. Heck, if she's losing the title it almost 'protects' her more to lose in a 14 person match than in one-on-one.

If booking was set to punish her wouldn't it be that she'd lose the title on TV and lose a re-match on TV and the WM Diva's match would be like Brie vs. Natalya or Brie vs. Nikki and AJ wouldn't even make the WM pre-show.

I think the WM Divas match is what it is because of yes, trying to get everyone on the card for morale purposes after the questions the wrestlers have had about how the network will affect their PPV bonuses and probably partly because creative/booking didn't care/couldn't decide on what to do so said "Fuck it, just put'em all in the match".

 

Probably most likely case. Just a wild guess I see it being Tamina vs AJ as the last standing with AJ still walking away winning. I don't see it changing when AJ is the hottest thing they have.