Ouch, I'm surprised that the Backlash buyrate was so weak considering that it was a well promoted show. It's impressive that Judgment Day even did that well considering how it had virtually no buzz going into the event and everyone figured that it would have ended with JBL celebrating a second world title victory.

Get over it. If you'll do a tag team match where your partner is supposedly God, you can handle this.

My first reaction to that was "who?"

I'm still having that exact same reaction.

He sounds like a jackass either way.

I also want to know how you have fucking Jerry Lawler and Ted Dibiase sitting around backstage at WWF shows and not a single worker on the roster can throw a good punch. Every person signed should be required to learn from Lawler in this area.

Not to mention Dean Malenko, Fit Finlay(before his return), Arn Anderson, and Ricky Steamboat as well......and how many guys can work on the entire roster?

OK...this has been buggy me...

How can Russia and Iran be numbah one?

How can there be a disqualification in an ECW match? Huh?

I'd say that would be yet another nail in the coffin for this bastardized version of ECW.

Because it wasn't "extreme rules". Or because the WWE hasn't a clue about anything?

No, I'm pretty sure they spent the entire evening advertising it as "extreme rules."

Not Sabu vs. Credible. They were advertising Flair/Show as "extreme rules".

Yes, but it's fucking EXTREME Championship Wrestling. Every goddamn match should be "Extreme Rulz", and they shouldn't have to tell us if it is or not.

EXACTLY my point.

Yeah, that made me want to stop my DVR and just turn it off.

Styles over there saying "And just so you know, this match is NOT Extreme Rulz". Just fucking lame.

Lame that they ever mentioned it to begin with, and now super lame that they're saying when it is or isn't in effect.

I honestly think that if this IS the case, there should never be another no DQ match on RAW/SD/WWE PPV's ever again.

Ah, I turned the television off as Sabu/Credible was starting, so I thought the DQ conversation was in regards to Show/Flair. I guess that makes it less lame, but lame still.

Especially because not only did they play Sabu's music after the DQ, I didn't hear the announcer even say that Credible was the winner. But Tazz/Styles mentioned that he was DQ'd.

When Bret Hart wrestled Yokozuna, why did the crowds chant "USA" to cheer on Bret?

Look at rule #511 in your Wrestling Handbook.

Wrestling Handbook

Rule #511 - Wrestling fans are stupid.

If you're talking about WrestleMania IX, then I have no idea why the crowd chanted "USA", even though Hart is Canadian.. But I guess since Yokozuna was the evil foreigner, they must've had some reason.

I just realized that anyone on wwe.com can clearly read that plate number from when Orton RKO'ed Hogan on the car trunk.

Gregory Helms is now the longest reigning Cruiserweight champion.

Last week was a good week to be a wrestling fan with cable.

Monday - Raw

Tuesday - ECW

Thursday - iMPACT

Firday - SmackDown!

Saturday - Saturday Night's Main Event

5/7 days with wrestling. Plus Victory Road on Sunday for a PPV (6/7), plus a couple of web-shows, a replay of iMPACT on Saturday night, AM Raw, and any lucky person with local wrestling and OVW in their area.

Speaking of Helms and the CW title, if you count his run as WCW and WWE CW champ, he's now held the title under three different names: Shane Helms, Hurricane, and Gregory Helms.

After watching Kane/Show last night on ECW, I've come to a conclusion.

Kane needs to retire pronto.

How'd you come to that?

Because he's god awful.

I think I see what you're doing here.

In all honesty, Kane sucks, but he's not nearly as bad as Hogan.

Fuck you, you fucking homos! KANE RULES AND YOU KNOW IT!

Kane > Samoa Joe

Welcome back Scrooge.

Uh, Plague, this is Comments that DON'T warrant a thread. Welcome back Scrooge is in General Discussion

There, edited.

ECW house show recap (sort of, my memory sucks). The show was held at the Whittemore Center in Durham, NH.

The crowd was depressingly small. There seriously couldn't have been more than 400-500 fans. I would blame this on poor advertising for the event, a location that really isn't into wrestling, and that only a short drive away Raw was doing a show in Hampton.

Balls Mahoney beat a Puerto Rican wrestler, whose name I couldn't quite catch. Crappy match, but the crowd loved Balls.

O'Reilly and another guy (Derick something) beat Nunzio and Tony Mamaluke. Pretty good match, crowd really appreciated the FBI.

Mike Knox beat Stevie Richards. The match was meh, but it was fun listening to the crowd give Knox shit. Lots of "you can't wrestle" and "we want Kelly" chants.

Next up was a swim suit contest between Francine and Kelly. Francine wore a plaid bikini and Kelly wore a glitter covered piece of fabric. Francine had more crowd support, but Jazz ran in and beat the hell out of both of them, which brought a smile to my face.

CM Punk beat Kevin Fertig in a good match. Punk was VERY over with the crowd. Punk crossed his fingers, which scared Fertig out of the ring. Some little kids in the audience did the same thing and Fertig acted terrified, which was quite the hilarious visual. This match gives me hope for Fertig's vampire gimmick.

The Sandman drew Justin Credible in a cane match when Mike Knox interfered. The match was the usual cane shtick. Beforehand, Justin Credible cut a totally bad-ass promo (he called us fans "pieces of garbage" how hardcore). Sandman came down right by we were sitting, and we narrowly avoided being doused in his beer (which stunk up the joint). Tommy Dreamer ran in to help Sandman, which brought out Test, which lead to...

The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer beat Test and Mike Knox. I don't know what we did to deserve having to watch Knox wrestle twice. Very entertaining match, with the crowd chanting "Test is sterile" and other fun things. Test cut his arm somehow about halfway through and wasn't happy. A fan happened to spit on him too, which lead to security getting involved.

Big Show beat Sabu to retain the ECW title in an extreme rules match. Big Show spent considerable amounts of time interacting with some mouthy fans in the front row, which was amusing in itself. Sabu succeeded in smashing Show through a table at one point, but ended up being chokeslammed through another table. Afterwards, Show got out of the ring as fast as he could to avoid having things thrown at him.

All in all, it was an okay show, though on the short side (it barely went two hours, and that's with an intermission included). It was nice seeing CM Punk and Tony Mamaluke in person, and it had been a while since I'd seen Dreamer, so it worth going to me.

It was a great show where people should up by the tens!

*****~~!!! OMG!

No, it sucked. I want my money back.

Here's a second write-up about the show, from someone else who went, who isn't me - because I suck at these reviews (and too lazy to even care).

Damn, that's a small crowd... but I bet WWE sold more tickets to it than TNA has to any show they've ever done. :D

TNA's sold in the 2000-3000 range. 300 showing up for a TNA show would be a disappointment by their standards. Hell 300 is bad for several indy feds out there.

Sold? I think you forgot the definition for that word. To sell something, you exchange the object in question (tickets) for money... and TNA has papered their crowds since day 1 for locations that hold maybe 1,000 people.

And anyone who actually buys tickets to their shows must have nothing better to do with their money.