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By: Bill Cullen
9/23/2003 12:13:00 AM
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After yet another long hiatus I am back with the
September 2003 installment of "Random Thoughts". Again, my apologies
for taking so long, but life has been hectic.
Apparently, last nights Unforgiven pay-per-view was a very good one. It's nice
to see that Vinnie Mac is giving people their money's worth for a change. Raw
has been a pretty solid product but has suffered with mediocre story lines over
the past few months. Hopefully tonight's Raw will show a sign of big changes and
good things to come for the Raw brand.
I recently had a chance (for the first time) to watch a NWA-TNA pay-per-view.
NWA-TNA has some great talent but needs to develop a bigger following. As good
as the matches were, the crowd barely seemed to care. There is just something so
wrong with watching Sting wrestle in front of 200 people.
"Macho Man" Randy Savage recently conducted an online interview where
he had a lot to say about his upcoming "rap" album, a possible return
against Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania and several other subjects. One of the
comments that Savage made was that "The Honky Tonk Man has no in-ring
ability" and basically said that HTM also has an ego. I can't help but
agree with Savage about HTM.
Honky Tonk Man is also one of many wrestlers who also come out on the net and
bash other wrestlers because their short lived careers no longer have any
meaning. I was personally sick when I read that HTM was bashing his own cousin
(Jerry Lawler) when Lawler was at one of the most difficult times in his life.
Personally I could care less if we ever see HTM on television again.
The "Iron Man Match" between Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle last week on
Smackdown was a great one. It seems that Lesnar and Angles chemistry in the ring
is virtually flawless. I must say that I was somewhat shocked to see the World
Title change hands on a Smackdown as opposed to a pay-per-view.
I just got done reading Hulk Hogan's book. It was a great read. I enjoyed it so
much that I stayed up until 5 in the morning to finish reading it. I also
recently read The Rock's auto-biography and it was a good book as well. In one
part of the book, Rocky proclaims that "WWE does not use racism and
violence against women in their story lines". Has The Rock watched his own
television shows in the last 10 years?
The word going around is that Booker T will return to Raw around October 3rd. I
think Booker is one of the federations top performers and more than deserves a
title shot against new WWE "Paper Champion" Bill Goldberg. Same goes
for Rob Van Dam.
I think Lita's return last week on Raw really helped spice up interest in the
Women's Division. I must give credit to every WWE "Diva" for working
their tails off and truly making their mark in the federation as legitimate
wrestlers. I can only see the Women's division growing from this point on.
That's all for now. Be sure to drop me an e-mail at BillyC4w@email.com
and check out my official site for pictures, non-wrestling commentary and more
at http://billy_c2.tripod.com
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