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Sid will always be Sid Vicious to me. Savage in the cowboy hat, tights and vest rather than trunks and that poncho thing he used to wear to the ring..

Totally get where you're coming from, Raid. The Tag belts and American Alpha were used as window dressing in the Orton/Wyatt Family storyline. It wasn't about the belts changing hands, it was about whether Orton hit Harper accidentally or deliberately. Titles etc unfortunately sometimes take a backseat to the storylines being forwarded, which isn't always a good thing.

I daresay Hindley's pout likely wasn't up to that standard.

I'd guess whether they look for a tv deal will depends on how many people sign up for the app.

Agreed, consumption of media has changed so much over the years.

He might have had to fork out for a new TV after his Daniel Bryan rant the other year.

I'm surprised he's not crowdfunding it like Sabu did for his medical fees a few years ago.

 

Maybe it'll be like 2004 when the Rumble was on Smackdown the Thursday following the Rumble PPV that was won by Eddie. I can't for the life of me remember why they didn't have one at the Royal Rumble PPV, though.

That was because Beniot won it in 04 and was on smackdown at the time, he then defected to raw so smackdown had there own mini rumble on tv to crown there own number 1 contender, this set up that belting Eddie/Brock match at no way out.

 

Ben who? I think you've missed the joke. It was a great run into that year's Mania though.

At least stick a tl:dr at the end?

I think lower ratings may be in part to do with how media is consumed nowadays. Why watch Raw live when you can watch a streamlined, edited version on Hulu the day after? By 2020 RV as we know it might be dead, and it may just be that what you want to watch is available to be watched on demand from that time on that day. Let the TV deals expire and stick Raw & Smackdown on the Network. I don't think it's just the Wrestling, but most TV shows. On Demand viewing fits in better with most people's lives nowadays. As nice as it is to be able to channel hop, I  can see a time when new stuff gets stuck online, then the TV channels themselves become even more of a cycle of repeats, with the possible exception of sports and news channels.

Maybe it'll be like 2004 when the Rumble was on Smackdown the Thursday following the Rumble PPV that was won by Eddie. I can't for the life of me remember why they didn't have one at the Royal Rumble PPV, though.

I was pondering this earlier. It'd be one way to keep the Survivor Series as the only place Raw & Smackdown wrestlers can wrestle each other, but then each rumble would have some absolute nobodies involved in it.

Best Christmas Movies Channel 5 could afford the rights to show?

Raw once again felt like a late-era episode of Nitro. The Goldberg plugs, cruiserweights, nothing matches thrown together. Shark Cage match? Will the other horsemen been banned from ringside? Strowman looked great again, but I've got this feeling of dread that he's going to get fed to Roman Reigns at some point. Reigns's persona was great in that opening segment with Steph. They're trying, but I can't help feeling the damage has been done. He needs a proper heel who can get people behind him. Miz, hell see whether Bubba Dudley fancies a little Bully Ray type run against him. Mind you I remember the massive pops Tripper was getting earlier in the year while he was trying to do the same thing. It might just be as simple as giving him new music to divorce him further from The Shield? I can't help but think some of the booing might be because they hear the music and are upset they don't get to see the Shield. It feels a bit like they're trying to get him over on the back of that, while Ambrose and Rollins have carved their own niches.

I used to be Ed Anderson when I was backyarding with my chums. People used to compliment me on my spinebuster.

It was pretty much the same story for this guy. Flubbed the general knowledge round in a big way, after sailing through the piss-easy WWE questions.

 

Edit: Nice avatar by the way.

Cheers. When I grow up I want to be Arn Anderson.

Oakwell Leisure Centre in Barnsley. Establishing shots of the Sheffield-Huddersfield train (single carriage) chuffing out of the station and some pensioners shuffling into the Alhambra Centre/milling about outside The Courts Hotel on Eldon Street. Horwich LEisure Centre as well.

Hoe did they do on the general knowledge round? I always recall Myleene Klass going on Celebrity Mastermind about ten years ago with a specialist subject of "Sex & The City Series 3". She aced the round (17/18) to the point that she was in the lead going into the general knowledge then only got a single question right. And like the guy above said, it's not like the celebrity mastermind questions are anywhere near as challenging as the ones on Mastermind proper. 

That Severn theme was monstrous.

I don't get why they didn't just try to offer it up to Netflix or Amazon Prime instead. I'd maybe partake of a random TNA show if it turned up on there and I wanted to kill a couple of hours because some of them are good, but I don't think I'll be paying a fiver a month for the priivilege. The app probably won't work properly and/or be chock full of ads anyway.

I thought you meant that cup of coffee he had in the WWF at the arse end of the 80s/start of the 90s where he was just called "The Dragon". My mistake.

I think he had it when he teamed with Piper & Snuka against Jericho at Mania, but I didn't realise he'd had it at any other point.

The track listed as Ricky The Dragon Steamboat on that WWE Uncaged album is Ultimo Dragon's WWE music. Steamboat came out to an instrumental version of Eye In The Sky by the Alan Parson's Project back when he was in WWE, they usually dub it over with his WCW music that wasn't his "Family Man" song on the network now. That was a good song. Well, both his WCW themes were interesting, for different reasons. There's a verse in the Family Man song talking about how good his feuds with Flair and Rude were. One of the lines is "His matches with Rude were beyond compare." they rhymed "Compare" with "Flair", but the other lyric escapes me at the moment.

Hopefully the Neville heel turn helps the cruiserweight division, and doesn't come off as "Neville can't cut it on the main roster so has to settle for the cruiserweight division". Sheamus & Cesaro are tag team champions. How long do we count down until they're feuding again now?

KOTR 2000: Vince goes for the People's Elbow on Rock, who gets up and gives him a Rock Bottom for the pin and the belt.

If Balor's fit for Rumble time I could see him maybe winning it to set up a match against Owens at Mania, but can they run with Owens as champ until then?