So, according to many sources, Booker T and Batista decided to play Hart-HBK recently, and then Batista had to go to Kane's gay ass movie premiere looking like he got owned like a little bitch.



I'd really like to see Booker's black ass about now.

I figured it all was just a work.

Why are the filming a SummerSlam commercial in the first week of May? Don't they have (checks calender) aout 5 more PPV's before that to worry about?


I wonder if Batista made a stupid comment, like when he said guys like AJ Styles don't know how to work.

I still say its a work.

well then its a shitty one. i don't want a booker-batista feud

How about this.

Work OR shoot............I still don't give a fuck.

I like Booker more if Batista was running his mouth again. :)

I'd like Booker more if he didn't suck balls.

I'm offended by the Booker hate!... he's better than most of the Raw roster.

BWAHAHAHAH!

He isn't better than HBK, Triple H, Edge, The entire Spirit Squad, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Carlito, Kane, Umaga, Trish, or even (gasp) Cena.

And thats about most of the roster. I'll give you Show, and RVD. But not better than. "As bad as"

He isn't better than HBK, Triple H, Edge, The entire Spirit Squad, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Carlito, Kane, Umaga, Trish, or even (gasp) Cena.


Okay, enough with the jokes. The Spirit Squad have yet to do anything on WWE TV that makes me think any of them are good wrestlers, Carlito is still green, Umaga stinks, Trish is barely good for a womens wrestler, and Cena seems to get worse every year despite being in the "prime of his life." Only my personal bias for Kane is keeping him out of this.

I am not even kidding when I say I prefer the Spirit Squad to Booker T. Especially Kenny. Umaga, while having a rediculously stupid gimmick and no direction, is better in the ring than Booker T. I'll retract Carlito and call that one equal. Trish is hard to compare since it is different and all. And Cena, despite not having any moves, has really good pacing and works really hard to attempt to do it well, more than I can say for Booker T in the last 3 years.

Booker T is almost rock bottom for me in the WWE. I'm not kidding in the least either. I wish Batista had not provoked it, so his ass would get fired.

It is pretty telling when your sidekick wife is about 50 times more entertaining than you are.

So WWE.Com "Broke" this "Story" to scoop smark rags? What possible point could that serve?

That they suck at wrestling.

Good enough for me.

To get back in the good of the smarks. You know, ECW is taking over.

Trying to get back good with the majority of the smarks would be a pretty futile effort, no? I mean... Even if they got them watching regularly again, do you think most of the disalusioned smarks would start shelling out money for PPV's again, since that has to be the goal for this all?

It just strikes me as a really meaningless thing to attempt.

Not shelling out money for PPV's necessarily. But to build a fanbase for ECW or bring back the people that lived for it.

Trust me, you have no clue how much weight ECW holds to some people.

Yeah, I wasn't a smark back then. I see people going all apeshit over some stuff, and when I watch it (they have a "History of ECW" show on 24/7) it's just kinda "meh". I try to keep it in context of "this was the first time this stuff was done", but I just don't get why people are so attatched to it. I mean, "ECW Mutants" are about the only people more die-hard than ROHBots (who I'm starting to detest... another rant for another time.)

The reason why people are so attached to it is because it helped bring back "wrestling" to the US. I know that sounds weird, but outside of the hardcore stuff in 95 (the most important year IMO of ECW) they were doing shit like Al Snow/Benoit and Eddy/Malenko. Basically they were bringing the "wrestling" moreso than any other company in america at the time. WCW had just become the new Hulk Hogan machine and the WWF at that point hadn't totally released the reigns on in ring stuff. They did a bit in 94 but in 95 they were turning into a company with shitloads of goofy gimmicks and nonsense. I wasn't a smark then either, but I loved ECW because it was somewhat of a return to the NWA stuff that I loved as a kid. They were a TRUE alternative to the big two. Although the wrestling there probably started on the decline badly with getting on PPV, but fans still blindly supported them (myself included), but I've come to realize that most of it wasn't as good as it seemed at the time(outside of the matches I mentioned above....they still hold up and are damn good matches.).

Ah. That makes sense. I never got to see ECW until it was on TNN, and even then, that was during my period where I was just kind of sick of wrestling. (Right around the dawn of the Attitude Era I just kind of got sick of it all. ROH and TNA really were the two companies to get me back into it...)

I mean, I've liked someo f what I've seen of ECW, like the Douglass angle and the little bit of Raven/Dreamer I've seen, but by and large it just doesn't do it for me.

You should really check out the Malenko/Guerrero series. GREAT stuff there. Also there's some really awesome angles that ECW did. One that instantly comes to mind would have to be the Raven/Sandman feud that involved Tyler/Lori Fullington (Sandman's real life son and wife at the time) which was really good stuff.

I've seen the "last" Malenko/Eddie match on some ECW DvD my little brother has. It was alright.

And I've heard really good things about the Sandman/Raven feud. I'll keep an eye out for it.

I think The Sandman/Raven feud is one of the best in the past 20 years of wrestling. There's more emotion in that than almost any other angle I've ever seen.

EDIT: Geist, here's a question: Did you ever see Booker T in WCW? Just curious

I don't see the Booker hatred. He's not that terrible.

Unfortunately, the last match was probably the worst way to start.

Also, I will second the Booker hate. He's fucking terrible. Not Great Khali terrible, but nontheless.

Honestly, I think WWE chopped of his knees so bad he can no longer walk.

I was really upset at the use of Sharmell, as the angle with Kurt Angle, and the subsequent one with Chris Benoit could have made Booker T a really strong face, but both times they fucked it up. Now it looks like Booker T HAS to have Sharmell to win. Which is bad booking because it makes him look weak. Kurt trying to attack Booker's wife could have made him a HUGE face, but they didn't work it right and he ended up looking like a pansy. The thing with Benoit could have done the same, but it made him look like shit again.

I blame creative. Moreso than usual in this case

I agree that creative has had alot to do with Booker's demise, but he sure isn't helping himself out in the ring. He phones it in EVERY time. I haven't seen him give a real effort and do something unique in a very long time.

And yes, I watched tons of Booker in WCW, all the way from Kane and Kole till the WCW Title. I thought he was at his peak when he was in the G.I. Bro character. I'm not talking about his character, or booking, in this case. Just his in ring work. I remember watching a Boot Camp match or something like it that was Bro against Sean Stasiak, and it was actually really good.

He's been so mishandled since WCW died (and even a bit before) that I wouldn't be shocked if he just didn't care. He knows he is never gonna be the man in WWE, so why try and as you said, tear his knees up anymore.

I don't dislike the man. Just think he is a horrible shell, and just isn't good to watch at all anymore.

On the other hand, I will say that Booker is a damn entertaining commentator though.

If his ass would stop and breath. He is manic as hell -- but I'm pretty sure it is character based.

He's good when he's motivated, but when he's not, he can be bland.

You call it bland, I call it awful and unwatchable.