Heh. Imagine if Undertaker were to challenge for any kind of championship he wanted to:

Joe Buck: Its over! The St. Louis Cardinals have won the World Series!
*lights go out*
*GONG*
[/chokeslams Pujols]


Stern German Professor: Congratulations to all of the 2007 Nobel Prize winners.
*lights go out*
*GONG*

etc.

Which could go down as the worst match in the history of mania.

Not to mention, his inability to work in the right right now aside, if Batista won, they'd be allowing a 38-year old wrestler whose body is falling apart to end the streak. I doubt he's still working in 3 years. Ridiculous.

Yup, on all points. It's a damn shame.

So, basically, they are all jealous that he gets to bang Maria Kanellis. :shake:

i like the herpes.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota high school wrestling programs were suspended Tuesday because of a widespread herpes outbreak.

The Minnesota State High School League banned competitions and direct contact between wrestlers in practice until Feb. 6 after 24 cases of herpes gladiatorum were reported by 10 teams. The virus is spread by skin-to-skin contact, and symptoms include lesions on the face, head and neck.

The suspension is meant to control the current outbreak, allow time to diagnose new cases and prevent disqualifications at the state tournament, scheduled for Feb. 28-March 3.

The Minnesota Department of Health has been tracking the virus, caused by herpes simplex Type 1, the same strain that causes cold sores. Officials first became aware of the outbreak at a tournament in Rochester in late-December.

Scot Davis, who coaches wrestling at Owatonna High School, has been involved in wrestling in Minnesota for more than 40 years and can't remember the league completely shutting down before.

Davis' wrestlers, who get checkups several times a week, competed at the Rochester tournament where the outbreak was first detected, yet none of his wrestlers has been infected.

"I think it's a bold step," he said. "How else are you going to get this thing cleared up? How do I explain to a mom that her kid has herpes forever?"


Steve Larsen, wrestling coach at Century High School in Rochester, said his team will miss three competitions because of the eight-day suspension.

"It's going to make scheduling interesting," he said. "I hope some of it will get rescheduled."

The Century team has had no skin problems this year, Larsen said. But in the past, when a few of his wrestlers came down with ringworm, his team was suspended from practice and competition as a precaution.

Infected wrestlers have to sit out matches and get cleared by doctors before they can resume wrestling, he said.

Dr. B.J. Anderson, a former wrestler who acts as a health adviser to the high school league, said the greatest concern is an infection of the eye, which can, in rare cases, lead to scarring or blindness. The virus can remain in a body indefinitely, he said.

A similar outbreak occurred in 1999, affecting 63 wrestlers and disqualifying several of them from the state tournament, Anderson said.

Dr. Henry Balfour, a national expert on herpes who works in the department of virology at the University of Minnesota, said wrestlers are at a high risk for this sort of infection because of the nature of the sport.

"Usually you have to have damage to the skin," he said. "If there is a break in the skin ... then the virus could take and cause a skin infection."

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

RVD is jobbing because his contract is up in July and he's made no secret of the fact that he's probably leaving because he isn't happy there.

Shit, my TiVo didn't catch it. Stupid MTV.

Good thing they show repeats of everything a thousand times a week.

I actually didn't mind that too much.

I'd rather have seen some sort of Punk-Burke midcard feud rather than having him curtain jerk every week and feud with someone like Striker, but he had plenty of offense and lost by being screwed, so it doesn't really make him look bad. It was better than having the streak end in a clean loss to Holly, that's for damn sure.

From what I've seen about the Punk situation, HHH actually doesn't seem to hate him as much as some think he does. Not to say he's ready to back a Punk world title run or anything just yet, but most of the anti-Punk stuff in the back seems to be more from the old-school guys who honestly think he's crap and only on the roster because of Heyman, in addition to reeruns like Lagan.

That whole speech might as well have been a shoot, because Mr. McMahon was saying what Vince really thinks.

Yeah. At this point, the only thing to do when it comes to RVD and Sabu is to bide your time and wait until they're in TNA.

In closing, here's a picture from the mixed-up files of Mr. CM Punk:

Please, Arn, don't put him back on the streets!

I don't get why Striker is even on the air. Feuding with Balls and now Punk, when he's not drawing any heat. He's a joke. How they fired all those other guys and not him is a complete mystery.

Punk jobbing his streak to Jobber Holly was just unfrickingbelievable. It's hurt Punk, he's not getting the same pop he did after his debut. People are starting to not care and that's death in wrestling. But it's the typical WWE "promote a guy big when he arrives and then dump him to the undercard" approach. I'm sure Monty Brown will get the same thing.

And Holly is a joke. I guess they're *finally* putting him out to pasture, mr. career jobber, so they're going to give him some wins in the new developmental ECW as a pat on the back. I wonder if he's training anybody there?Yeah, although I do think (duh) it was all designed to start the old vs new angle.I think RVD stays if they offer him enough money. We'll see. I'm not sure it's as cut-and-dried as everyone says.

I don't know what's up with Sabu.

Bit of spoilage from the Smackdown taping last night:









(can't remember the number for the background color, so scroll down if'n you want to read, otherwise, you've been warned)

Tornado has a match on WSXExtra so if you feel the time to pull up MTV's website you can give that a watch.

Sadly Lagana didn't want to do some of the things he's done......he was firmly against giving Holly any kind of push. Finlay and Anderson keep going above his head......

Stephanie McMahon hates Punk, and she hates Heyman too.........the reason the agents and old school guys are saying shit about Punk is they now where their bread is buttered and they're just being yes men to appease her.

ECW has been dead to me since the ppv in December. I haven't even bothered to read recaps of the shows online. Vince took every original ECW member and buried them beyond recognition so he could get stiffs like Hardcore Holly, Bobby Lashley, Test, etc. "over". It's pretty telling that during the ECW title match at the Rumble, the fans were booing both Lashley and Test. Then they took the one surefire star in the making in CM Punk and buried him because the old farts are jealous that some young new kid was getting huge pops. Even if he has the worst attitude ever (which I doubt, workers in ROH and TNA all loved working with him), the crowd wants to see him and that's all that matters in the end if you want to draws fans/make money.

Thank goodness the original spirit of ECW (great wrestling, long matches, simple storylines that make sense) is alive and well in Ring of Honor. Even with a decent rate of turnover, they consistently put on great shows because they use their top stars correctly and are always looking to get some new guys to the top of the card.

I watched WSX, and it could do pretty well, especially if the ROH guys get a lot of camera time. I'd also like to see the Dragon Gate tag team get a lot of tv time, they'll wow some people. The announcers were beyond awful, but so are all the other announcers around today except JBL and Joey Styles. Also, they made a great choice picking Evans vs. Sydal as the first match. Those two guys have great chemistry because they've worked together a lot in ROH. I don't like seeing XPac again, but I understand they need some recognizable names to start the show.

If Stephanie McMahon hated CM Punk, he never would have gotten pushed in the first place. Like Heyman had more say than she did? And if HHH and HBK hated him, name one rational explaination for why they would have agreed to team with him at Survivor Series. They could have had him off the show entirely if they wanted to, and instead he ends up working with them in one of the most high profile matches on the card. Yeah, they really have it out for that guy.

That stuff is the worst of the internet wrestling BS, where certain people are always to blame and others can do no wrong. CM Punk is no angel. Guys in ROH definitely did not all love working with him, as more than a few made off-the-record comments to the sheets as far back as when WWE first sent him to OVW about how Punk had a lot of karma waiting to come back on him.

And the claim about someone like Dave Finlay being a spineless yes-man is laughable.

Go listen to Matt Hardys shoot from the time he was unemployed he paints Finlay as a total jackass.

Punk was fine on the 3rd brand with Heyman going to bat for him in meetings.....he was ****ed when he GOT OVER on DX at SS. There's a big difference in not caring about another guy on a show than what you do when that guy gets over on you.

Triple H has been burrying people for years.......it's not some huge shocker that he'd be pissed the new guy got a bigger pop than him.

Holy shit.

It's similarity to Kabuki theatre.