WWE Backlash: Children of the Corn this Sunday on PPV.

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Is there anything better than two big hosses beating the hell out of each other in the middle of a wrestling ring? Well, sure there is, but this is still pretty cool nonetheless. From WCW in 1994, here’s Vader vs. “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes:

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A couple of days ago, I got back from vacation, so my internet access time was somewhat limited. So yesterday as I browsed all my favorite sites (one being sescoops.com…even though sometimes I feel like I’m playing Galaga with the pop-ups) and I learn that ECW has a new announcer to replace Joey Styles. His name is Mike Adamle. I have never heard of him before, so I begin the google search. A handsome enough guy, though reminds me a tad of William Regal. Anyroad, I read articles about him and how he’s known for fudging lines and being out of touch with the product. Adamle also has a very hefty price: around $300,000 a year. Though the reasoning of the switch is interesting to me. Apparently, Joey Styles made the announcement that he will be the “head of WWE.com”. Though according to PWInsider.com WWE employee Brian Kalinowski will still be in charge of WWE.com, however Styles will assume a “managing editor” role, similar to what Michael Cole used to do.

So here’s the problem I have: they promoted some high-price nitwit and just replaced one of the greatest play-by-play announcers of our generation. Michael Cole used to be an announcer and run the site…so, couldn’t they have just had Styles do both, give HIM the raise, and fire some no-namer? I mean, that would save the company a little bit of money and frees up Adamle’s time to do whatever he wants.

PWInsider.com also notes that while Styles may be gone from tv airings, he will continue to attend the weekly SmackDown & ECW tapings. Along with that, he will also attend WWE RAW every night and will be sitting in on meetings with WWE’s creative team. Management wants Styles to be aware of upcoming storylines and know what to emphasize on the website.

Though with this youtube video made by Burngun50, I’m thinking it will only be a matter of time before Styles returns.

Let’s start out with one of the greatest promos of all time: Mick Foley’s famous ECW “Cane Dewey” promo:

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The show is from the Tsongas Arena, named after former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas. You might remember him as a former 1992 Democratic presidential candidate who ran in third place to Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown.

TNA’s new slogan is “Cross the Line”. Were they unionized?

After about 10 minutes of promos, we go to yet ANOTHER promo where TOTAL NONSTOP SUCK-ASS Don West is asking the most obvious question: will Joe or Angle win? I don’t know, Don… why don’t you cut backstage to Vinny Ru and find out for us? HAR HAR HAR

Now that that’s out of my system…

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Hey, I guess it’s this Sunday, so maybe I should do a preview, right? I mean, I guess I ain’t really got nothin’ else to do today… remember all the matches are gimmick matches with the “6 sides of steel”.

Motor City Machine Guns vs. Latin American Xchange vs. Scott Steiner & Petey Williams vs. The Rock ‘n Rave Infection vs. Super Eric & Kaz vs. Black Reign & Rellik (Cuffed in the Cage Match): The stipulation is that the guys have to handcuff everybody else to the cage. The match ends with the last man with his hands free. If only one guy can win, then what’s the point of having teams anyway? This sounds like an incredibly stupid match with too many guys involved. Steiner will probably win, since he gets a title shot next month.

Angelina Love vs. Velvet Sky vs. Salinas vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Traci Brooks vs. Christy Hemme vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. Jacqueline (Queen of the Cage Match): Another idiotic reverse battle royal where people that obviously should get into the cage will avoid doing so because they’re not going over. The first two Knockouts that end up in the cage will have a one-on-one match then. Sounds terribly exciting… or maybe just terrible. I think Traci and Jackie will end up together at the end, with Traci going over.

TNA Women’s Champion Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Gail Kim & O.D.B.: I’m not sure I really care now. They have beaten this boring feud into the ground long enough now. I would venture to say that Gail and ODB will win.

B.G. James vs. Kip James: The match everybody wanted to see… 10 years ago. I think it’s admirable that TNA employs the older folks… kinda like the 80-year-old guy that greets people at Wal-Mart. It’s genuinely a toss-up, but I’ll say Kip should go over if they want a long-term feud out of this.

Booker T & Sharmell vs. Robert Roode & Payton Banks (Mixed Tag Team Match): Yet another reiteration of this feud with the women involved. It’s about time to either let Booker win the feud and everyone move on or let Roode win the feud and elevate him a little bit. It seems like these are the only matches Booker has done on PPV since he joined TNA in November.

TNA X-Division Champion Jay Lethal vs. Curry Man vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Johnny Devine vs. Shark Boy vs. Consequences Creed (Xscape Match): The rules of this match is that it’s pinfall or submission rules until there’s only two guys left, and then the only way to win is by escaping the cage. I’ll say Lethal and Creed end up against each other at the end with Lethal retaining.

Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino, Sting & Matt Morgan vs. Tomko, A.J. Styles, Brother Ray, Brother Devon & James Storm (Lethal Lockdown): This is TNA’s version of War Games. I think that Team Tomko will win; I’m not really sure why, but that’s what I think will happen. Joe will win in the main event, so they don’t want the crowd getting too hot beforehand.

TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe (if Joe loses, he leaves pro wrestling): Samoa Joe. Is there any doubt?

Scott Steiner cuts the greatest promo ever:

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What the WWE is cookin’ for the Rock’s new 3-disc DVD, tentatively scheduled to layeth the smacketh down on store shelves June 10.*

(Credit to Wrestling Observer)

HHH vs. Rock 3/13/97 for IC title
Rock vs. Owen Hart 4/6/98 for IC title
Rock vs. HHH 6/22/98 King of the Ring tournament
Rock vs. Mankind 11/15/98 Survivor series WWF title match
Rock vs. Mankind 2/14/99 Last man standing for WWF title
Rock vs. Mankind 2/15/99 Ladder match for WWF title
Rock vs. Steve Austin 3/28/99 WWF title
Rock vs. HHH 7/5/99 cage match on Raw
Rock & Mankind vs. Undertaker & Big show 8/30/99 WWF tag title
Rock vs. Kane 12/30/99 Smackdown
Rock vs. HHH 4/30/00 WWF title
Rock vs. Shane McMahon 5/1/00 Cage match for WWF title.
Rock vs. Kurt Angle 2/25/01 WWF title
Rock vs. Booker T 9 8/19/01 SummerSlam for WCW title
Rock vs. Chris Jericho 1/20/02 Royal Rumble for WWF title
Rock vs. Hulk Hogan 3/17/02 Wrestlemania match
Rock vs. Undertaker vs. Kurt angle 7/21/02 for WWF title
Rock vs. Eddie Guerrero 7/22/02 on Raw
Rock vs. Steve Austin 3/30/03 at Wrestlemania

Is it too early to start standing in line at Best Buy? Because that DVD sounds awesome.

*Sorry, I know that was bad. It won’t happen again. At least not tonight…

The Big Bossman beats the shit out of Hulk Hogan:

There’s only one thing better than this:

And that’s this:

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You may have already heard that Ric Flair will be salsa dancing in the new CBS show Secret Talents of the Stars, but there are plans now for WWE to work heavily with NBC Universal to place wrestlers and divas in this summer’s reality TV shows. The reason being is that WWE will have a post-Wrestlemania marketing campaign that will underscore the fact that they were the original “reality” programming and will lead up to casting a new $1,000,000 Tough Enough series to air before Summer Slam. Here are some of the rumored shows and castings:

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I don’t know about you, but I thought all of the news coming out of Orlando last week leading up to Wrestlemania last night was pretty dull.

And then, as if to appease my disappointment, there was Robbie-Gate.

If you didn’t watch TNA Impact last Thursday night, then you probably don’t know what I’m talking about. WWE wrestler Robbie McAllister was in attendance at last Thursday’s live TNA Impact show. It’s been reported that he was there just to visit his friend Johnny Devine, but oops! That’s in violation of an edict sent down earlier in the week from WWE management to stay away from situations where they could be seen with TNA wrestlers.

Obviously, there is a point to such a decision. There were literally thousands of wrestling fans in town for the festivities last week, and many of them probably went to Universal Studios where TNA tapes their shows. Stupidly, WWE asked for some of this by staging events there as well, but hey, I guess you go where the people are instead of expecting them to come to you. I doubt they would get a welcome reception at Downtown Disney. By the way, WWE, there were still TNA guys getting into your events and past your security. Just so you know… hopefully, these guys will not include last weekend in their work experience on their job applications with the TSA. By the way, AJ Styles, Earl Hebner, and other TNA wrestlers got into this event and told fans to watch TNA Impact.

The best part now is that some of the TNA wrestlers are mad at their own TV production people for putting Robbie on camera and outing him in the first place as a cheap publicity stunt. Apparently these guys were never around for TNA’s other cheap publicity stunts with those guys that got kicked off of Survivor, Pacman Jones as tag team champion, offering Bob Knight a job, etc. So, obviously they would be shocked SHOCKED I SAY that TNA would engage in YET ANOTHER cheap publicity stunt like that. Here’s what I have to say about it: if Robbie wanted to watch Impact so badly, do it in your hotel room, but telling a wrestler to stay in his hotel room when everybody else is out partying is like telling a Catholic priest to keep his hands off the altar boys.

You know what? I’m going to use the same argument that I use on my father-in-law every time he complains about not getting to see his grandkids often enough. The roads go in both directions, so do the cars and the airplanes. If Robbie wanted to hang out with his buddy Johnny Devine so badly, then he should have done it some other time in the week that wasn’t a TV night or let Johnny come to him. Don’t do it the week that every jackoff mark is going to be watching your every move and ready to snap every misstep with his jackoff camera phone. Don’t go to the other company’s turf and expect that no one will know you are there. It’s just utter stupidity on his part, and he got what he deserved.

By the way, as far as this “edict” from management goes, it apparently didn’t apply to Jeff Jarrett and Johnny Ace, Edge and Christian Cage, MVP, Mr. Kennedy, Shelton Benjamin, and the Undertaker (who was seen with Booker T). But, hey, I guess only Vince McMahon ordered the wrestlers to do stay away from TNA… it’s not like it was LINDA or anything. She’s the REAL boss.

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He’s the “limousine-ridin’, jet-flyin’, kiss-stealin’, wheelin’ and dealin’ son of a gun,” and there will never be another like him. Thanks for all the memories, Naitch.

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It’s Wrestlemania weekend, so let’s celebrate by taking a look at some of the greatest moments in wrestling history.

First up: From 1990, Sting’s new tag team partner saves him from an attack by the Four Horsemen.

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