WWE and their Be A Star campaign (anti-bullying) - a very admirable one on the surface, but aren't WWE being just a bit hypocritical when you look at some storylines / characters they've put on TV or took the pee out of in the last ten years:

Matt Morgan's 'stutterer' gimmick
Jim Ross' Bells Palsy
Mickie 'Piggy' James
Vickie Guerrero being 'overweight'
Daniel Bryan's Vegan lifestyle making him a 'nerd'

Don't know how they have the cheek if you ask me.




Please note: I realise that JR's condition is very real (not an angle, obviously), but I meant that it is something that they have recently took the pee out of, from the reports I read (I don't have Sky these days so rarely see their weekly TV shows).

The Piggy James bit was apparently forced on her because she was causing trouble back-stage following the ending of her relationship with John Cena. That was also the reason she was moved from Raw to SD.

Only last week on Raw Vince was taking the mic out of JR's illness...... However, looking a the way JR gets treated it's no surprise. But the guy just keeps letting them get away with it.

The Jerry Lawler jokes about Vickie being fat were pretty disgusting. Also somewhat ironic as Lawler hardly has a rippling torso and washboard stomach.

Still wwe bring hypocritical is hardly something that should surprise.

No Holds Barred is getting a DVD re-release. Brother!
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlwQ_WshIU&feature=player_embeddedLink to the trailer, brother![/url

The one when he played the nanny was always my favourite.

Kenny Dykstra claiming that Cena was also involved with Victoria/Tara not long after he split with Mickie James. Funny how the 3 of them suddenly moved to Smackdown leaving just Cena on Raw...

It's been confirmed that the 1000 episode of Raw will be where the new GM for Raw and Smackdown will be named.

Hopefully it'll be someone who knows what this role should entail and that can get his point across to the creative team.

There should only be 3 candidates, in no particular order William Regal

All of them can get over as face or heel, all of them are brilliant on the mic and all of them have had power roles before.

I'd love to see Regal get it, the guy is brilliant. He was great when he did it (or something similar) a few years ago and had Tajiri as his assistant.

Out of those, if we apply logic to what's happening on WWE tv at the moment, Paul Heyman should get the job. The WWE BoD step in and give him the job as part of the settlement for his "lawsuit" with HHH

Anyone else think the AJ thing is all just to help Bryan win the title?

William Regal would be a great choice for GM.

You only needed to see Raw the other week when Vince was commenting on the 'Kiss my ass club'.
Regal just had to sit there to get a crowd reaction.
He is utterly wasted on NXT.

BTW did anyone else mark out just a little when Pyscho Sid's music hit?

Not as much as for Vader.

True.
I would imagine the new age outlaws must be in the frame as they were a massive part of DX and the attitude era.

SCSA must be on the list as well I would imagine.

Speaking of which I saw a compilation on a certain video website on entry music.
You forget just how good and how load the pop was when that sound of breaking glass hit plus it was a damn fine tune to boot.

Biggest pop ever for theme music is easily backlash 2000 (?) when the rock was fighting triple H and when SCSA's music hit and he came out to help the rock, ive never seen or heard a pop like it, nor will I ever

Saw part of a interview with Matt Hardy and for a change he's seems a little normal.

One of the questions was why tag team wrestling has fallen off the radar:

"We came along during a very special time in the business…the height of the Attitude era. Stone Cold was white-hot and The Rock was a huge megastar. Ratings were great and those guys were selling out arenas everywhere. Management was able to put the top guys on cruise control because they didn’t have to worry, so they had extra time to focus on the tag team division or the women. At the point they’re at now, they’re still scrambling for the white hot guys. John Cena is the face of the company right now but there is no one setting record TV ratings or selling out arenas on a consistent basis. Once they find those one or two top guys that are the franchise players, they can dedicate their attention to tag teams again."

Kind of makes sense.

Yep - hope so. The title needs shaking up. Would love Bryan to be champion. Hope they keep Cena away from the strap for a while longer, leaving the title mix-up to be between DB, Punk, Jericho (if he's there beyond August?) and maybe Ziggler.

Cena in the MitB. I doubt you'd get good odds on him not walking out with the brief case.

I still feel they need to merge the titles together. Go back to just having the WWE title and the IC title. There's not enough talent to sustain two separate shows and the titles to go with them

Great to finally see a female wrestler who can talk and be entertaining.

AJ's a natural. Helps that she's white hot as well.

Quote ="MadDogg"Great to finally see a female wrestler who can talk and be entertaining. AJ's a natural. Helps that she's white hot as well.'" I agree mate. In my opinion there has been too much overkill by WWE over the last ten years in terms of bikini models and 'Divas' who don't know how to work (the Diva Search series were a big factor in this). An almost-endless amount of women have been and gone, so it's great when you get the odd one come along who can connect with people either in the ring or on the mic. The little bits I've seen of AJ she's played her role with Daniel Bryan very well. Hope the mods don't mind me plugging an upcoming wrestling show in Hull. It's happening on Sunday 22nd July at the Bonus Arena (next door to the KC Stadium), and features an appearance by British legend Kendo Nagasaki, as well as TNA wrestler Winter. Have already got a ticket, sounds like it should be an excellent event in what I believe is a very nice venue for wrestling (holding I think anywhere upto 1500 fans): www.hullwrestling.com

Quote ="MadDogg"Great to finally see a female wrestler who can talk and be entertaining. AJ's a natural. Helps that she's white hot as well.'" I agree mate. In my opinion there has been too much overkill by WWE over the last ten years in terms of bikini models and 'Divas' who don't know how to work (the Diva Search series were a big factor in this). An almost-endless amount of women have been and gone, so it's great when you get the odd one come along who can connect with people either in the ring or on the mic. The little bits I've seen of AJ she's played her role with Daniel Bryan very well. Hope the mods don't mind me plugging an upcoming wrestling show in Hull. It's happening on Sunday 22nd July at the Bonus Arena (next door to the KC Stadium), and features an appearance by British legend Kendo Nagasaki, as well as TNA wrestler Winter. Have already got a ticket, sounds like it should be an excellent event in what I believe is a very nice venue for wrestling (holding I think anywhere upto 1500 fans): www.hullwrestling.com

I disagree.

Punk, Bryan, Jericho, Ziggler (ESPECIALLY Ziggler), Rhodes, Del Rio, Sheamus are all good enough to carry off a World Title reign. And that's without adding in your two WWE faces in Cena and Orton.

Punk v Bryan (WWE) and Ziggler v Rhodes (WHC) would be the stuff of dreams at Mania.

RAW last night, can someone please send Tensai back to Japan? I find him incredibly infuriating. On the plus side, Heath Slater's segment again was pretty well worked; everyone expected him to get squashed, but he actually won a match this time - before falling foul of the Diamond Cutter!

I was disappointed by the crowd's response to DDP, can imagine a bunch of kids there asking why Christian's grandad was giving Slater an RKO.

Any word on Paddy Power or any other bookies offering odds on MITB? Or have the pulled it after OTL? I think they took a hammering on Cena v Big Show as they suspended it way before the show.

I have a few inklings on what's gonna happen. (Paddy Power if you read this I don't really)