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From: Matt
love the site rajah!!!!!!
having seen smackdown over the past few weeks - ive bin wonderin what direction brian kendrick is heading in. just by watching his matches against shannon moore, matt hardy and jamie noble and the tag match with rey-rey, it is clear to see that he has unlimited potential and his recent promo with john cena was simply HILARIOUS!!!:D
what do you think is in store for him??
from ~#matt#~
Hello folks. Long time no see. Aree does a great job with the mailbag but I want to help out again so here it goes. Personally I think he will end up in the cruiserweight ranks and well you know how much Vince like those guys. A shame really since he is a great talent and finally got to show off some of his mic skills with that bit with John Cena. I watched Spanky(the name he went by in the indies) down Memphis Championship Wrestling and watched wrestle live more than once. He is a great talent and I was upset when the WWE let him go from his developmental deal. Needless to say I am happy man now that he has found his way to Smackdown. I hope he gets a run with the cruiserweight title at some point and maybe even a tag team title run with someone. Beyond that though he will just be in the mid-carder ranks at best unfortunately in my view.
From: Gary
Hi all, Great site, Can you tell me what happened to The Beverly Bros. they was around mid to late 90's, This was the era of great fun tag teams like Money Inc, Bushwhackers, Natural disasters etc, Not like now when tag teams are just made up of single wrestlers with no story lines. What do you think?
I am not sure what happened to the Beverly Brothers. They were a good tag team. I am sure they hit the indies but I have not really heard about them in a while. Maybe someone out there has some info to share with the group.
Now as far as tag team goes I am a big fan of tag team wrestling and I miss the days of the tag teams like Demolition, Bushwhackers and what not. Remember though Money Inc was two single guys put together as well as the Natural Disasters but they put them together well and they became great tag teams. I am like you though. I am not a fan of just pairing two people for a while and then splitting them up and there was never really a good reason for the pairing in the first place. I like the Dudleys and the APA(who are down in OVW I believe). Granted APA was a team put together but they stayed together and formed a great team. I like Kane and RVD but as soon as they lose those belts they will end up going back to singles. Right now though the tag team scene is doing well at least on RAW.
From: The Widowmaker
Just want to say that I couldn't agree more with your insight to going back to the good ol' days of wrestling. I miss the L.O.D. of the mid-80's and the Freebirds. One thing that pissed me off was back when WCW was kicking and the new horsemen were formed was the roster of the horsemen. Now, Benoit made an awesome horsemen in my opinion. But what were they thinking having Mongo in there? I remember the days when only the elite in the NWA and old WCW were allowed to be horsemen. People like Sting, Windham, Vicious, Roma, those guys were at the pinacle of their careers. I was wanting to get your opinion on this, though I know it happened long ago.
I miss those days. I really do. I never ever liked Mongo as a horseman or even Roma for that matter. Mongo should have never ever been a horseman. He was never that talented in my view. Roma was talented but I never thought he truly fit in with the Horsemen. But that may have been just me. I do know that I am probably not the only one out there that hated Mongo as a horseman. Sting, Windham, the Andersons, Luger, Blanchard, Henning, etc. were great talents that used the Horsemen as good jumping parts in their careers. I miss the Horsemen but I do not wish for the WWE to bring them back though. It would not be the same no matter who they put in there.
From: BiggDan
Hey Whats up Aree and Rajah you guys all do an awsome Job on the site keep up the Good work. I am a Huge Kane fan and was wondering if you guys think he will get another Run with the Heavyweight Belt. I think he deserves it. But to me his Charachter now seems to be weaker than the kane that I remeber from back in the day. You know the kane that would sit up from just about anything. I dont know why the wwe made his character look weaker. Will the old kane be back anytime soon.
My 2nd question is How long do you think Austin will be raw Gm for??? Is his wrestlign career really over?? I hope not. I hope he remains a face also. Please Put this in the mailbag I have never had my questions in the mailbag before and wanna see what its like. Keep up the good work on the site.
Well I am not Aree or Rajah but I hope can satisfy your letter here. I like Kane and I do miss the days where he was more of a monster but I think the Kane you see now is better overall as long as they keep him away from doing comedy stuff. Kane is a good straight man to RVD though. No more Kanearoonies. I would like to see him get another run with the World Title but it seems that belt is stuck permanently to Triple H.
And yes it is appears that Austin is done with wrestling. We will probably see some stunners and what not but he will not be wrestling matches. I am not sure how long he will be the co-general manager but he will be on tv in some kind of role for a while still. He may not be able to wrestle but fans still want to see him.
From: Sean
Hey guys, when i was flipping through the Photo's section of Goldberg's WWE website, the only other wrestler, besides Rock, that they had pictures of Goldberg wrestling was Sting. Just thought I would send this observation along with all the current rumors of Sting making a WWE debut in June.
Well remember this though. Vince bought WCW so he has all their media as part of the deal and well most of the pictures and clips you are going to see of Goldberg for a while will be from the WCW library.
Now I want to say my peace on Sting. I would love to see him come back. I would prefer him to Goldberg. I had no interest in seeing Goldberg in the WWE and still don't now that he is here. But as much I want Sting I am afraid that he will get stuck in the mid-card and get buried which is sad because I think he still has some good years left in him. So I want to see Sting but it may be best that he does not sign and get misused.
From: Fraser
Hi, and congrats on such a great site...
With the sudden death of Curt Henning last week, I thought I'd ask a question in relation to Mr Perfect. I seem to remember, years ago, a match with Hulk Hogan and (I think) Lanny Poffo - The Genius, when, Mr Perfect came to ringside and smashed Hulk's World Title belt with the timekeepers bell to the point where he totally destroyed the thing, claiming it wasn't 'perfect'... I'm also 99% certain that very same belt, in it's smashed state (with some duct tape) became Mick Foley's Hardcore Title when Vince awarded it to him as the inaugral champ. Can you elaborate? If necessary, I'll be able to chase up some dates, as it was documented in WWF magazine, and I've got some 20 years worth of them :op Thanx..
Okay one last one and this has been in the inbox for a while if you can not tell from the begging of the letter. Yes Mr. Perfect smashed a title belt but not ringside. He did in a interview or something in the back. I think it was actually a tag title belt but I can not be certain on that. And from all accounts I have heard that yes that belt was forged into the hardcore title belt given to Foley. I do believe we have covered this before in the mailbag so if I am wrong something you can search through the old stuff and see if there is something different there. And with that I really don't have time to do any other letters. I will try to be more helpful with this so Aree and Rajah are not doing all the work.
From: JBlem
Hey guys, great site you got here. I just had a question I was hoping you may be able to answer concerning live events. I was wondering if any of your staff knows how to acquire passwords to purchase pre-sale tickets for some events (most notably, the Maidson Square Garden shows that are on sale soon). Do you have to be part of a mailing list of some sorts? If so, who? Thanks if you know the answer or you know where I can go to receive the answer.
I'm not sure but I'd guess you have to either subscribe to their weekly newsletter or maybe have purchased merchandise from them online or something.
From: peterock1969
hey great site i have a couple questions is bret hart still pissed at vince and i know ultimo dragon is a great wrestler and all but what do you think the wwe will do with him i dont think some of the younger fans know who he is.
I don't think he's "pissed" at him but he's probably still bothered by it and he certainly doesn't seem like he's gotten over it. Lately, Bret has seemed more open to the idea of coming back to WWE and reportedly is also now on talking terms with Vince. So even though he still has issues, they are definitely not as bad as they were in the late 90s. As for your second question, I'm not expecting much out of Ultimo Dragon in WWE. He's a legendary wrestler no doubt but WWE doesn't have a great
track record when it comes to pushing wrestlers like Dragon. I don't think Dragon really cares either, he's accomplished nearly all he can in the wrestling world and apparently only signed with WWE just so he can achieve his two remaining goals: a) wrestle at Madison Square Garden and b) wrestle at Wrestlemania. I guess if he sticks around until next year, he can kill both those birds with one stone.
From: Rvdy2j123
hello rajah i have a question thats been on my mind since the first time i visited this site.WHERE IN THE BLUE HELL DO YOU GET THE SPOILERS???
Usually we get them via reader correspondents, ie. visitors of the site who are actually in attendance and who are nice enough to come home, write up the results and send them in for posting. At various times in the past, we were also able to directly locate a live satellite feed to the tapings (Dan the Man did this for a couple years I think and then earlier this year, I did this too) but it's becoming more and more uncommon.
From: Kris Hayes
Just wondering if u could tell me what the story is with Stone Cold Steve Austin and Debra. Are they still married or did they follow through with their divorce?
I believe they have reconciled.
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