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From: Jeremy
hey staff, great site. best out there. great job running the mailbag aree. anyway i got a couple questions. im sure at least one of them has been answered before but here it goes anyway. first of all, i read something in the mailbag about stables and groups of people. i think the wwe needs to bring back degeneration x. dx was the coolest. i know it will be hard with billy gunn injured, road dogg and x-pac gone and im sure triple h would rather do other things, but i would love to see dx again. the same old 4 or maybe a new group of guys maybe run by hbk. what do u think? question number 2. when is rvd going to get a world title shot? he deserves it in my mind and he is one of the only reasons i watch raw. when do u think hes getting his turn to hold the gold?

DX is dead. It should remain dead. Seriously, the DX revival topic has been done to death so I don't think there's any need to go over old, stale and boring ground here. RVD certainly deserves a title shot, but due to the Big Bad Wolf Triple H hogging the title and the spotlight, it seems Rob will have to wait his turn. I hope it happens sooner rather than later, but right now it simply doesn't look good with Goldberg on board and Sting looking to sign up to the main event picture.

From: Becky
In your last mailbag, someone asked about how many quality matches Triple H can keep having. Now this is just my opinion but I feel as though I have to say it..It seems to me that Triple H in his matches, has got to have the upper hand. What I mean is that it's like he wants to turn out perfomances that make him look like he is just physically dominating whoever he is in the ring with. (How many matches within the past six months or so has he lost? ) I agree when people say that Triple H doesn't wrestle like he once did. I also have two Jeff Hardy questions. 1) What is the latest news with him is terms of his lateness? Is he starting to get to the RAW tapings on time? and 2)What is going to happen with the story line of him kissing Trish Stratus? Is that just a one time thing (like the WWE did with The Rock kissing Trish) or is that something Vince and crew will build on? Ok. I admit I am a weird one. I think Jeff Hardy is sexy and wild.

Sexy and wild? I have to say I don't think Jeff Hardy is attractive in the slightest. I think he's a strange little man who has talent, but zero ambition and absolutely no direction. As you may have read above, Jeff Hardy has just been cut free by the WWE, so he won't be doing any "sexy and wild" stuff on WWE screens in the near future. I doubt the WWE had long term plans for the Jeff Hardy/Trish Stratus combo. Maybe a brief romance, a few tag matches and the inevitable break up and make up scenario. As for Triple H, I agree. He needs to lose more and humble himself a bit for his opponents. I'm beginning to think that Mr Helmsley has started to believe his own publicity by thinking that he really is unbeatable, and the WWE product is suffering because of it.

From: OGK
Ayo, I've been watching wrestling, and visting your site for the longest. Good Work fellas. Anyways, as of late, I've been getting into disputes over WWE entrance music. D-Generation X. I say it was the Chris Matthews band, or some no-name band, whereas my buddy swears up and down it was Rage Against The Machine.. Now, I remember the performance at WM. but I'm not sure what the name of the band was, maybe you can help me out!

Fellas? Sigh. Your buddy is correct, but then so are you. Rage Against the Machine did perform a cover of the D-Generation X theme for Anthology, but the original theme was composed by WWE in house composer Jim Johnston and sung by the Chris Mathews Band.

From: Gbehe
I love the site and look at it all the time. Everyone keeps talking about eliminating the european belt and the intercontinental belt but what about the hardcore belt. yes i know it was a joke at times but i think it is where the former ECW wrestlers shined. I think that is the reason Bubba Ray Duddley starting dieing in his solo career. I though when they announced they were eliminating 24 hr rule that it was going to be a belt worth winning. Are they planning on bringing it back like the other ones or is this the last belt they want to bring back?

The Hardcore title was never supposed to be a long term thing. Interest in it was revived when the whole 24/7 rule came into effect, but that too became stale, silly and boring. Hardcore matches have gradually been phased out of WWE programming, so the decision to dump it in the trash.um.retire it, wasn't particularly hard. The WWE could bring it back sometime in the future though. Never say never.

From: James Hopkins
You dont have to put it in the mailbag or anything like that but I have some questions. 1. At the No Way Out ppv in 2000 was Mick Foley going through the ring planned? 2. Will the WWE bring back some belts for mid carders and low carders (like Hardcore and IC)? 3. Do you think the WWE will turn Brock Lesnar into another version on Goldberg?

If you send an email to the mailbag address, it goes in the mailbag. We're not running an information service here, kiddo. 1.. Yes. No one in WWF history has ever gone through a ring "unplanned". 2.. I really hope so, but at this point it doesn't seem likely. 3.. I guess they don't have to now that they have signed the real Goldberg, but it certainly looked like his character was headed in that direction.

From: Fraser Heath
I know the question has been asked before, with the answers relatively obscure, but do you know if there's any update on the situation regarding the showing of WWE in Australia? It's getting ridiculous. Not only do we miss out on Smackdown!, but we receive NO pay-per-view coverage at all. I've been a fan since 1985 and this is the first time in years (probably since WM12 or 13) that the "showcase of the immortals" isn't being made available. Instead, we are offered NWA/TNA once a month (not even weekly), and asked to watch this instead. I'm sorry, but my grandmother could piece together a better show, and my minature dachsunds put on better shows. It's really bad. Almost as bad as the situation here. I've even tried ringing the cable company, and they have no answers, so I plead with you to enlighten us. Your site is very popular here, and an informed and comprehensive answer to this problem would be greatly appreciated.&! nbsp; Please try. You dont know what it's like...

The basic story is that after the success of the Global Warning tour in Australia the WWE realized how popular wrestling was down under. When Fox8' s Smackdown contract came up for renewal the WWE did something very silly and asked for a ridiculous amount of money. Fox8 laughed in their faces and instead picked up the lacklustre NWA/TNA show, possibly hoping that fans wouldn't notice. The WWE employed a similar technique when negotiating with Australia's PPV channel "Main Event" over the rights to show WWE PPV's. Main Event would have had to increase the buy rate from A$21.85 to A$40.95 to meet costs and they felt this was too expensive and viewers wouldn't pay it. There's also bad news as far as Fox Sports, the channel that currently shows Raw in Australia, is concerned. If the WWE negotiate in the same way, Australia will lose all wrestling programming and any future WWE tours down under will no doubt suffer because of it. Someone sent me an email a while back pointing out that the WWE had no conception of the Australian cable market. Less than 5% of Australians have cable TV, compared to about 70% of Americans. Note to the WWE: Wake up and smell the coffee.

From:
Hello it is driving me insane i do not know the name to the theme song from wrestlemania 18 the one the always played when hyping hogan vs. rock, lyrics went something like "i will fight till my arms fall off" I am losing my mind please help

Looks like I deleted this guy's name too. Try to put your name in the body of the email when you send in your question, people. It makes it much harder for me to "lose" names. I'm not really sure which song our anonymous friend is referring to. The lyric "I will fight 'til my arms fall off" is actually from the Summerslam 2002 theme which was entitled "Fight". The lyrics are available at www.letssingit.com. It was a damn good song actually.

From: Sam Ferry
Hey Rajah, I don't know if you noticed it but when the Rock was standing next to Hogan in the little No Way Out trailer, both of his tattoo's were on the wrong arms. Are they transfers or not.

Nope, they aren't transfers. The image was flipped, probably for symmetry purposes. It's like looking at your reflection - everything is backwards. So while it appears that the tattoos have switched arms it's all a matter of perspective.

From: Justin Weible
I just got a video of Michael's and Undertaker's casket match at Royal Rumble 98 and I was just wondering at what point did Michaels injure his back. I know it's probably been asked before but I just can't quite remember. Could you help out?

It was when 'Taker dumped him in the coffin and he landed awkwardly, half in and half out of the coffin. It was just one of those unfortunate things. The truth is that it could have happened to Michaels anytime. If he'd never competed in that match, it might have happened in the next one, or the next week or next month. Back injuries like his build up over a period of time and when they finally do occur, it's a "last straw" kind of thing. The real injury was done to his back over a period of almost 10 years of hard wrestling - the fall into the coffin just sealed the deal.

From: Scott
Why is it that all wrestlers seem to have fanny packs?

I've often wondered this myself. Fanny Packs are not cool. They look ridiculous and they should be left to overweight sunburnt retired couples cruising the beaches of Florida. I want to know why Triple H carries a briefcase.what is he, a frustrated banker?

From: Irey
Aree, I was there when the Rockers "won" the titles. (mailbag 57) It never sat well with me so I remember almost everything that happend. Here's what I remember . . . To set things up, it was October 30, 1990 and the Harts had just won the straps at Summerslam from Demolition. At the time, LOD were the #1 contenders so everyone was shocked when the Rockers came out. It was a two-out-of-three falls match. The first fall cleanly went to the Rockers. About halfway through the second fall, the top rope came loose from the turnbuckle in the Rocker's side of the ring. The Harts ended up winning the second fall despite the "unfair" Rocker tag. The match was stopped and the ring was repaired for the third fall, which the Rockers won. As a Rocker fan, I was pumped up for "Superstars" the following Saturday. Nothing was mentioned for a week and a half. The second week, sometime between the squash matches, Sean Mooney said that the match was void due to the illegal tag. The fact that the illegal tag came in the only fall that the sorry Harts could manage to win didn't seem to matter to the WWF. Oh well, I hope this helped.

It all helps. Thanks.

From:
i have two questions for you. first, what did jeff hardy and chuck palumbo do to get on the bad side of vince mcmahon? jeff hardly ever wins a match anymore and chuck palumbo went from a rather lengthy reign as tag team champ to wrestling on velocity against someone called thr river rat. secondly, will the wwe ever have nidia wrestle with any regularity? i thought that the people from tough enough put their self through all they did because the wanted to be wrestlers, you can get anyone off the street and they can do what nidia does. is she happy with this or not

Another deleted name! This has to be some kind of record. Apparently they were consistently late to house shows. The WWE frowns upon that kind of behaviour, especially when it turns into a habit. Despite Jeff's talent, he wasn't at the stage where he could simply turn up when he felt like it. He' s replaceable, and the WWE like to make that point from time to time. Nidia isn't really ready to wrestle with any kind of regularity. That's the major drawback of Tough Enough - it highlights people who (maybe) have the talent to make it in the business, but they've only been training for a couple of months. They're no where NEAR being ready for a full time wrestling slot. It takes years to build up the skills necessary to carry a match and even then, success is not guaranteed. At least by keeping Nidia on TV in a non-wrestling role, the WWE are establishing her as a name and a face that people recognise and that's a lot more than most female wrestler wannabes get.

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