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The CW Cancels WWE SMACKDOWN!!
I am – Hercules!!
“WWE Smackdown,” a staple of UPN and successor The CW since April 1999, is ending its CW run in May.
The WWE is reportedly now shopping the series to MyNet and NBC.
If “Smackdown” doesn’t find a new home, fans of scripted wrestling can continue to flock to WWE’s “ECW” on the SciFi Channel, “Raw” on USA, and the WWE’s endless string of pay-per-view specials.
Read all of TV Week’s story on the matter here.
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i feel like i just got powerbombed.
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The fact that people watch this shit makes me sad. Good to know that fewer are, apparently.
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I haven't watched pro wrestling in almost 5 years; I had a steady diet of Pride and K-1 DVD's to tide me over; MMA is where it's at. And HDNet's coverage of M-1 Global's Yarennoka New Year's Eve card in Tokyo's Saitama Super Arena (the return of Fedor Emelianenko) may have been the best fight telecast I've seen in many a moon.
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to read in the news?
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Commission a new series of Veronica Mars FBI in its place.
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the writer's strike is finally hit rock bottom...
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Yeah. Vince is FACTUALLY a steroid pusher, while the MMA guys are completely clean.
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the world laughs
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it amazes me how shit liek this wil get picked up- but friday nights light has to beg to stay on
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It's the WHO CARES DANCE!!! If anyone knows the steps, feel free to post them here.
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Hicks to roll over in graves.
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At least Sci-Fi channel is still committed to the genre
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Raw was on a Viacom network (TNN, now spikeTV) but now WWE has 2 shows on NBC Universal along with specials (Saturday Night's Main Event) and appearances on shows (Project Runway and The Apprentice). I could see Smackdown going to a NBC Universal owned network. And Viacom currently has TNA Wrestling over on SpikeTV so I wonder if they may give them a shot on the CW to fill in the void.
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Ralph, I do realize MMA is not drug-free, but there's a whole lot more of WWE guys on the juice than MMA, IMO. jugdish, you speaketh the truth; photoboy, you can have a witness to VM: FBI.
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Sorry rednecks!
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We'll have a 2-hour reality block of Farmer Wants a Wife and Crowned: The Next Crowning in its place. :|
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Feb 08, 2008 5:51:50 PM CST
Nooooo! SD Jones was just about to mount a big comeback!!
by kazamasmokers
...as Barry Horowitz pats himself on the back.
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Right?
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stop watching that crap and read a COMIC BOOK like real men.
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Well probably not, but I like a good "pen defeats sword" headline.
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Anyone?
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Gasp!
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and as far as i can tell, none are really true...most are being stoked by our own resident scumbag, mayor villargosa, who is trying to position himself as a player...he aint
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"Guess I better find a job in the classifieds brother!"
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bottom line, because the CW said so!!
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pro wrestling writers are not part of the wga
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First of all, I'm not gay, but I think use of the word "fag" is about the same as using the word "nigger", and as such should be reserved for bigots and members of the respective minority.
Now, the answer you requested: Why did Bravo become such a gay network? Because "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" was a huge hit, and because Bravo is an arts and theatre-related channel, and as such just happens to have a very gay audience. Anywhere there's art, you'll find the LGBT community.
Kind of like how TNN gets all the dumb white people, and FOX News gets all the dumb white people who think they're not dumb, but really *are* quite dumb and gullible. -
are people who like both. if ur male and like guys ur gay, if ur female and like girls ur gay, if u like the opposite sex ur straight..and then there are those who like both, hence the word BI-sexual.
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Sorry Vince, but the days of The Rock & Stone Cold are done, nobody cares anymore.
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i love the comments on aint it cool news left on a friday night about how people who watch wrestling are nerds.
think about it, think, think about it. -
...I can post a link to MY OWN pro FEMALE wrestling website on a thread and I don't feel like I'm shilling!!!! Check us out at www.sleeperkidsworld.com , y'all!
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It was all part of a masterful plan to eliminate Smackdown.Good show writers. Good show.
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The brand split was complete chaos and in the end, just became another way for Vince to piss on his former competitors for daring to go against him and his grapefruits. Besides, it got boring after Rock left, then Jericho bailed. (Yes, I know Jerky is back but he has short hair now and looks like a dork).§
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How do you suck a desk? You mean suck a d!(k?
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talkbackers do too, apparently
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Tuh-bye WWE.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Or where y'all get yer steroid shots.
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You're the one that wrote d#$k, cocksucker. Hyuk, hyuk.
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I'm not from the South. I don't like NASCAR. My favorite wrestler is Japanese. In the words of The Joker, WHY SO SERIOUS? http://youtube.com/watch?v=gxPbI0TXIG0
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It's pretty damn gay..and full of steroid users. And wrestling is bad?
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just because I love DTV, and wrestling doesn't mean I'm a redneck, it means some people have different tastes. BTW I'm a midwesterner, I work at a newspaper. I just enjoy wrestling, I know it's not real but it's also not "fake"...it's scripted. And the WWE audience isn't made up of fat rednecks in overalls. Why don't you step out of the late 70s/early 80s and relize that. crimminy sakes
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Sorry to burst some bubbles, but it wasn't canceled. Smackdown will be back in the fall. Count on it.
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Honestly, I bet more people in the North watch wrestling than the South. Wrestling makes Vince a lot of money. I bet people are mainly jealous that he is rich and they are poor. Wrestling is fake, people have known that for a long time. It is entertainment. You know all those tv shows you watch, this is just like that. People have different tastes. Like who in their straight mind would watch something like Veronica Mars, even if Kristen Bell is hot? I would just get pics of her online or from a magazine.
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Those rednecks will have to travel far..
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If Smackdown is really done, the ECW guys will be pushed aside so the top tier Smackdown wrestlers get their spots. ECW as a show is pretty bad as is Raw and Smackdown. I hate to say after being a wrestling fan of WWE/WWF, I have to say TNA had a better product overall, including some of the best wrestling talent out there. Cena, HHH, Batista can't hold a candle to guys like Styles, Joe or Angle in the talent department.
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...with out hittin a latent homosexual or a pompus know-fuck-all geek.
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IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I THINK!
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And even then it was sucking pretty hard after WCW folded. It was never high art, but at least it had a few amusing things going for it. As far as I'm concerned, Vince has fucked things up beyond repair and really hasn't put anything that could pass for intelligent or amusing since the Rock and Mick Foley were in their prime. I'll grant them the first couple of Kurt Angle years, but that's about it.
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For the record, I am from Vermont, and have a pretty darn high I.Q. and was very much a wrestling fan for at least a decade of my life (I am now 32). You don't have to be stupid, or from any specific geographic area to be a fan of wrestling. When it's good.
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SHIT?
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what an asshole...the wwe is rolling in caishe, yet he still doesnt have health care or disability for any of the wrestlers...never mind wrestlers basically being forced into using peds without a physician...mcmahon can suck it
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Egads. No 'if' there, friend. :)
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...the show's about over anyway. I do enjoy watching Cane though, plus a few others.
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Word deluxe.
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Match in NYC and it was packed. Being from the south I think its an unfair belief that people elsewhere seem to have that southerners are the only ones that indulge in wrestling and nascar. Well...maybe Nascar, but even I dont understand that one. And ( I know how this is going to sound) but the difference between bi-sexual and gay is that most gays cannot get sexual or emotional pleasure from the opposite sex whereas someone who is bi-sexual can get equal amounts of satisfaction from both sexes.....I only know that because Im college educated and took a class...I swear.
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NASCAR... Circles bore me.
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Look guys... She's skinny, like a teenaged boy. She doesn't have tits, like a teenaged boy. She's got a soft man-jaw, like a teenaged boy. She's got a squeaky voice, like a teenaged boy. She has no hips, like a teenaged boy. She has no ass, like a teenaged boy.
If a woman that has a boy's figure, a boy's voice, and a boy's face is what turns you on, then you're gay and you don't know it (or maybe you really DO).
Women have curves. Boobs, hips, butt... and they don't have lantern-jaws.
I bet the Kristen Bell fans think Ann Coulter is hot, too... Adam's Apple and all.
Yes, I know a lot about the LGBT community. I was a theatre major, among others, and I have been pretty close with a lot of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. I've only known a couple transsexuals... And I laughed my ass off when my former best friend (a raging homophobe) tried to put the moves on a transgendered woman (a man in the middle of a change), and I had to break it to him that he was just trying to get someone with a penis into bed.
You haven't seen funny until you've seen a guy realize he's been jerking off to fantasies about another guy without knowing it!
And by the way-- Bisexuals get a lot of flack from both sides of the fence. Heterosexuals accuse them of being gay but unwilling to admit it, and homosexuals say the same thing, but in a much more catty way.
By the way; Bisexual doesn't mean you find EVERYBODY attractive. It means you find SOME members of both genders attractive. Being open to both genders doesn't make the ugly people any better looking to a bisexual. -
I'm trying to quit.
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When this was adapted after Vince's steroid scandal, it became abundantly clear that it was bullshit. After the incident with Benoit, it became even more so. They've tightened it up since then, but it is still bullshit. I was in the business for awhile - that's were my nic comes from, btw - and it was prevalant and obvious. Drug regiems were discussed outright, doctors names passed on. Guys used to share pills. It's ignored because the sad fact it you have to be a certain bodytype to get somewhere. Yes, you can be athetically talented, but if you don't have the body, your chances of making it in the business decrease dramatically.
When Heath Ledger died, it brought me to mind of a lot a wrestlers who have died because of drugs. They take them at such a high dosage: when they leave off a couple of weeks and their tolerance drops and start again at the same high dosage, they OD. And just as the Pusher..er... Doctor who overprescribed Benoit, they should start looking into Hollywood's pattern of overmedicating talent. You know that their must be some doctor's who are pretty loose with their prescription pads just to get some famous picture on the wall of their office.ˇ -
I grew up and went to college in a very small Kansas town, but when I got to college and studied theatre, I began to run into these homosexuals. At first a little disturbing but hey you realize that they are people too, just don't play for the same team as mebtw this is coming from a Republican *GASP*anyways, you haven't lived...well you have but this is still funny...until you see some macho baseball player who has to get a drama credit to remain eligable so he's filling in backstage. The expression on said players face is priceles when dudes and chicks are running around naked backstageI'll be honest the naked chicks are the whole reason I got into theatre
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When he was getting his ass kicked by Stone Cold and was getting the crowd into the promos and dropping The People's Elbow. Everything that has come after just hasn't been on the same level.
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Didnt see this mentioned anywhere else on the site yet, surprisingly:
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This news would "imply" that CW doesn't believe WWE will continue to cater to its core demographic and psychographic audiences. In the case that McMahon's company concurs with that rationale, we could eventually see a change in their programming strategy. Granted, that particular type of "cause and effect" wouldn't be consistent with McMahon's past behavior, so I see this playing out in a more complex fashion. Whatever happens, if you combine this news with the spate of bitter employees posting "shoot" interviews on YouTube, various aspects of the Benoit tragedy, the decrease in sales of new WWE DVDs and their potential involvement in a future Congressional hearing, you have to wonder if this is the point at which the organization's growth reaches its apex (unless they begin to make some real changes in their product)...
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WWE has not been interesting for years........have stopped watching for about 9 years (although I did often glance when The Rock was there). Vince's franchise maybe coming to a grinding halt which I am very happy about..no more room for drug pushing morons
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Bell in person. Definitely an adult female. And if you were straight, theatre major, you'd hit it.
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Feb 09, 2008 4:43:28 AM CST
Fact: EVERY Wrestling thread has an arguement about homosexuals
by dogsoup
Every. single. one.
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One giant leap for good taste.
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Stupid gay fuck doesn't know beauty when he see's it..Kristin bell owns you m8 , don't forget it..
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I'm talking about real feuds before Vince bought everything. They were fighting for wrestlers, scripts, and who could outshowman who. Back then there was more whuppin' and less talking. I saw ECW in Queens when it was still independent. There were about 500 of us crammed into a "bingo hall" and it was the best wrestling experience I had ever seen.
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I don't really care. It's funny that the most civilized WWF (not FN E) program is cancelled. And the WWF isn't what it was used to be.
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the direction this talkback thread has has gone reminded me of this little promo clip I came across some time back
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It's up to us to make sure heathens like ZeroCorpse ;) don't win here. She's going to be at WonderCon in San Francisco in a few weeks with the cast of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (more proof I live on the wrong coast of the U.S.). There are more of us than there are of the haters. :D
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and so are you.
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He's the man. Fear him. He looks like your dad.
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I am pretty sure Kristen Bell has a vagina, unlike most of the teenage boys I know. Hey, who else here is obsessed with teenage boys? This is a wrestling talkback after all.
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The dude is jacked. Seriously a few years ago there was a McMahon, Austin match. He had a shirt on, but I think it was a black wife beater. The guy has a huge chest, and big guns. I think he could seriously kick the crap out of his smaller wrestlers if he really wanted to.
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i haven't watched the wwe since i was fifteen years old, so i don't give a shit, but i kind of assumed that it would always be around...
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the middle of Connecticut to Queens, New York to find the Lost Battalion hall and watch ECW. It was a Friday night and we got out at noon on Fridays so we got there around 2 or three, found the place and a safe place to park our car, then spent the next few hours grabbing lunch, and hanging out at a nearby mall as there was nothing else to do. Anyway, this was when ECW was only broadcast on MSG and it only performed in Philly and Queens. So when the doors are ready to open we're in line chatting with all these guys around us, telling them we're from CT, and they're like man this is getting crazy, because no one drives two hours to ECW, but we did. I remember Juventud and Rey Jr. fought a killer match, the speed was amazing. The Eliminators were there, I think the Pit Bulls were too, but I don't recall. Dreamer, Sandman, Beulah, the Dudleys were also there. I can't remember everybody. I think Pittman was there. I don't think he had moved on to WWF yet, but this was post WCW time for him. All I can say is these guys gave a hell of a show. The audience was 98 percent guys, and even though they were allowed I don't think I saw anyone under 18. During the last match, or right before some announce comes out and says something like the NYC gaming commission says they need to be out by midnight, and we wouldn't make it. So then he says "You know what, FUCK the gaming commission." Of course we all start cheering and chanting. I had been to big league wrestling matches before, but to this day I have not seen anything better in the squared circle, and since ECW was bought out a while ago, I know I never will. Remember WWF and WCW didn't start to get harcore until they saw ECW siphoning their fans away.
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At the ECW Arena? He was hilarious, along with their own Sign Guy next to him? ECW was teh shit, and it was clearly the best wrestling group in the country in the mid-90's. Country mile-length, even.
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Good fucking gods, they were psychos. Their feud with the Public Enemy was one for the ages.
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and will never know it, YB. :)
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Bell is. And where's mah talkback on that, still??
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Because of them and their 'Standards & Practices', Torrie Wilson stopped doing the stinkface.
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Mustafa and Newjack. Those guys were nuts. Then when Saturn left, and one of the Gangstas left, Chronos and the remaining one (I forget which) became The Gangstanators.
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Somewhere in America, a newspaper has that headline!
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http://tinyurl.com/2oexhz (interview with CW Source, at the Old Navy relaunch during New York Fashion Week)
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Feb 09, 2008 2:11:27 PM CST
For all the idiots who are celebrating this like some great defe
by sick fixx
wrestling fans, let it be known that wwe will have no problem finding a new network for their show which has survived longer than any other sitcom or tv show, even The Simpsons. If nothing else, USA will pick up Smackdown or Vince will just merge the Smackdown roster with the Raw roster. Wrestling isn't going anywhere. Sorry to disappoint you people who think your entertainment is so superior.
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I don't want to see people hurt for real, with swollen heads, concussions, broken bones. Plus, the fights can end in a matter of moments as the last UFC show proved. The personalities of the fighters aren't always that captivating either. Sports Entertainment is where it's at, and where it always has been. People need to stop leaning on the conversational crutch that wrestling is fake, because every form of entertainment, including reality tv, which is ten times more mind numbing than pro wrestling ever was, are also fake.
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on their Networks.I think Raw is the most watched Cable show of all time(check the ratings,it is true).Smackdown will find a new Network in no time.
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Feb 09, 2008 2:43:32 PM CST
Funny how you all cry about Gilmore Girls but shit on WWE...
by darth bauer
it's the same shit! It's drama. And SmackDown had more attractive women.
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Viva La Gladiator!
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But honestly, I'd prefer if Vince just merged the Smackdown roster with the Raw roster, and left ECW the second brand. Except for Torrie Wilson when she was still doing the stinkface and Chuck Palumbo going apeshit on Jamie Noble, Smackdown hasn't been watchable on its own for some time. Now, put all those stars on Raw, you have two or three year's worth of storyline potential.
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Feb 09, 2008 4:10:30 PM CST
Wait, I thought Star Wars was real!
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
You're telling me it's all SCRIPTED?
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Wow. You could have fooled me.
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When you come down on us with that cliche not-thinking-for-yourself line 'Wrestling is fake', you're not telling us anything new. And even though wrestling is 'fake' and choreographed and scripted, it doesn't change the fact that these guys are hitting each other to a certain degree in 'safe places'. They also suffer injuries that last well into their old age if they live that long, because the 'bumps' they take, i.e. falling from a clothesline, going through tables, chair shots to the head, all take a toll on their bodies.
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if you stepped into a ring with a wrestler, even if he wasn't Hulk Hogan, but some little 100 pound Spike Dudley, they would know hundreds of ways to torture you and make wrestling very real for you, ways they don't use on their fake opponents. It's called 'shooting'. See, wrestling is a whole other world, there's no other business like it and no outsiders even care to investigate its fascinating history.
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funny stuff.The man wrote 2(two)New York Times No.1 bestsellers.And the WWE should get rid of Brian Gerwitz,that fucker has no talent at all!idiot!
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The CW Network didn't cancel WWE Smackdown. what happend is that The CW allowed their contract with the WWE to lapse.
I am also rather surprised by the rather bigoted comments about wrestling, and the people that like to watch it.
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To all who say it is fake, let me hit you with a folding chair.
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' would have thought that people on here would have been more open-minded and accpeting of other peoples taste in entertianment.'
Hi. Welcome to the AICN talkback section. This must be your first day here. Somebody will be along shortly to give you the grand tour. Also, what the fuck does NASCAR have to do with Pro wrestling? Did I miss the memo on this one? -
Great marketing.
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WWECW is not ECW. ECW is the ECW wrestling that took place in Philly between 1994-2000. Fuck Vince for not letting WWECW be ECW. I used to be a WWF fan but now Vince is out of control. It's a good thing the Rock left on time.
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No more "Gaydown"? Christ, where will all the inbred, redneck homosexuals get their fill of greased-up man-muscles and homo-erotic 'fight' moves?!? I call shenanigans!
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Proof: www.wrestlezone.com
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I can't believe it!
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Damnit!
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Thank God!
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Crap!
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I can't wait!
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I've been a pro-wrestling fan since I can remember. Even when I lived in Germany for many years I still watched. I've been to many house shows and PPVs...I hope this goes onto NBC.
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The canceling of Smackdown reflects the change in the wind. The age of aggression and violence to solve problems is over...the new age of change will bring communication and understanding between America and the rest of the world. It's the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! Oh, and your taxes will go up and THAT'S the bottom line 'cause President Obama SAYS SO.
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What the hell is wrong with tv to put on more than one show a week for Wrestling.. WTF!!! It's a soap opera without acting skills and morons at every corner... And McMahon and Co should be accountable for all the steroids being sold in his merry bunch of retards. We're right in a middle of a dumbass baseball scandal that even the Senate is now going over but those dumbass politicians aren't even trearing thru this league of 99.99999% steroid abusers, at least in Baseball they used it to help comeback from injuries and not all leaguers are involved, but in wrestling, the only ones not on the juice are ... well.. NO ONE!...
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Because every time you open your mouths, I'm just picturing Rikishi delivering a stinkface.
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that it is the non-wrestling fans that are the idiots, not us.
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Feb 10, 2008 11:39:29 PM CST
AICN gets it wrong, AICN fanboys piss an mona... nothing new her
by only1
first, CW didn't cancel SD!. WWE nd CW broke off negotiations. Trades reported it as such and both WWE and CW are trying to spin it their own way. CW would be retarded to not try to keep it... one of the highest rated shows on it's network since it's inception... yeah, even over Buffy when tht moved over to UPN. Yes, WRESTLING had higher ratings than the beloved Buffy. I guarantee all the fucktards here putting down wrestling ate out of Bischoff's hnd and sucked Hogans cock during the NWO days. And he next time it's on an upcycle, they'll all be in love with wrestling again. Look cool, guys. Buy your John Cena gear now.
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They've flourished under every network they've ever been on and through any adversity, including the Benoit tragedy last year and before that, the death of the beloved Eddie Guerrero.
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Feb 11, 2008 11:17:25 AM CST
To beat it all, Vince found a way to employ writers during a str
by sick fixx
Because technically, it's still a sports program. So he's smarter than the creator of Scrubs or Lindelof/Cuse or that idiot who fought ten years to get Big Bang on the air just to gleefully surrender it and go out and picket.
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That would be my dream come true.
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