Way to bury one of your best workers+promos and treat the WHC like it's the ECW or US title, idiots.

Why?

Because **** THE INTERNET or **** THAT INDY SCRUB or who ****in' knows. Vince is right and everyone else is wrong, the end.

Because you can keep the program going after that, Bryan calling it a fluke, and because the Royal Rumble winner lost last year (ADR).

Not that I don't think it's a little goofy to give the best worker in the company 18 seconds on the biggest show of the year. And I would have had him go apeshit and attack Sheamus from behind after.

Oh cool a shitty Kane-Orton match to fill twenty minutes.

They keep coming so close to actually legitimizing him but they always pull back at the last moment. Their inability to even give him ten minutes at Wrestlemania just makes me feel like there's no way they'll ever consider him one of "their guys," or at least not until it's too late.

I mean, yes, if he'd gone apeshit on Sheamus or started berating AJ, I'd have some hope, but it's going to be so easy for them to just shunt him right back down the card and forget about him now.

And it's also just, holy christ, how dickish can they be to those two guys? Their US title match gets moved to the dark match last year, and this year their WHC match opens the show (not a bad idea, in theory) and lasts five seconds.

Hopefully it goes 5. I figure the shorter this early shit goes, the more time Punk and Jericho get. And as much as I love Danielson, I'd rather see that match get a half hour than any match Sheamus is in.

What scares me is that they're cutting all this time early on to give the Team Johnny bullshit more time.

The "this is bullshit" during the backstage bs and "Daniel Bryan" chants during this match make me love the crowd.

I mean, I'm not super-smarky anymore. I don't get mad at too much in wrestling beyond the rampant racism, homophobia, and (astounding, nigh-constant) misogyny. But wow, that was the most petty shit imaginable.

Wrestling and family go together, as strange of bedfellows as they may seem. Parents take the kids and make memories that last a lifetime. My old man took me to Joe Louis Arena to see the WWF in the mid-eighties. What a thrill! "The Polish Power" Ivan Putski(my personal fave of the day) vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orendorff. One of the early matches featured two new comers, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhardt vs. Brett "The Hitman" Hart. Hulkamania was runnin' wild for sure!

According to Meltzer "This had been planned for a while but there were people trying to get it changed."

The funny thing is that you have a guy who has a chant over everywhere all weekend, 'yes' at all the indy shows, 'yes' signs all over mania, and that's the guy you beat. And will inevitably be the guy that gets blamed in 6 weeks for not being over.

McMahon logic...

... is this match still on?

I remember watching Nitro at a neighbor's house with my paternal grandfather. The moment I realized I was a big DDP fan was in late 1995 while visiting my grandmother at the hospital and catching a match of his on WCW Saturday Night.

Plus we went to USWA shows on occasion, lol. Can't wait for Flex Kavana vs. John Cena tonight (because I'm curious how they're gonna **** it up)!

Wow, Kane beat Orton?

Didn't see that coming.

I actually like Cody Rhodes a lot now. So I guess he gets knocked out in two seconds and Show makes a poo on his chest.

(This would be a reasonable time to relieve him of the IC title and elevate him to the main event, but WWE)

I laughed at santino giving the cobra to crab legs. I am ashamed...