Re: Smackdown Slappings, 3/10

Benjamin Pavsner wrote:
> <hobbyfan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > We open with a recap of last week's angle involving Mark Henry &
> > Undertaker. No opening theme. Henry & Daivari are out to start the show
> > proper. I called that. Daivari generously called last week's title
> > match a classic, then complained that it really wasn't because Henry
> > wasn't in the match. Daivari is doing his best work, but he really
> > needs to bring his wardrobe back to the 21st century. Still looks like
> > a 70's type dude. Henry claims to be a forgotten guy. Riiiiiight. He
> > calls out Kurt Angle, who complies and cuts a quick promo before
> > starting a fight with the strongman. It doesn't take long before first
> > Randy Orton, then Rey Mysterio, make the scene. Teddy Long comes out
> > and we have our main event.

> 1. Henry said that if it weren't for him, Angle wouldn't be champ. That's
> true, since Angle has beaten the guy 2 or 3 times already, so he has a
> point.

What he should've said was that he saved the title for Kurt, who would
repay with one more title shot.
>
> 2. Forgotten? Considering that he was a midcarder (at best) during previous
> stints with Uncle Vinny's Flying Circus, he's getting the red carpet
> treatment.

Not going to even argue that point.

> > J-Me-L cut a promo setting up a beer drinking contest vs. Stone Cold
> > Steve Austin on Saturday Night's Main Event, and tried taking credit
> > for last year's Wrestlemania being a success. He wishes. There's a
> > reason J-Me-L was left off a list of great wrestlers from Texas that
> > Austin came up with on WWE.com. J-Me-L only wishes he were up there
> > with the Funks, the Von Erichs, Stan Hansen, and the late Bruiser
> > Brody. Seems either he or Austin forgot about the Guerreros. Austin
> > will drink J-Me-L under the table, trust me.
>
> Austin should have brought up Barry Windham. Weren't Bradshaw and Windham
> billed as being cousins a while back?

Bradshaw & Windham were a short-lived reincarnation of the Blackjacks.

> > Road Warrior Animal, for the longest time, couldn't work singles for
> > insurance reasons. I guess his policy w/Lloyd's of London is expired or
> > something, because now he'll face Matt Hardy next week. Called that
> > one, too. No face paint. Claimed Jon Heidenreich, with whom he won the
> > tag titles last year, was a joke. Nice way to bury the poor guy after
> > he's gone. Animal's the only Road Warrior left, and I guess he'll be
> > known as Road Warrior from this point, though still billed as Road
> > Warrior Animal on the chyron, so' s marketing can't confuse him with
> > Batista, nicknamed "The Animal". Speaking of Bats, he was at the Arnold
> > Classic last week in Columbus. 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Rulon Gardner
> > in the house. Henry was at the Classic a couple of years back. Heck, he
> > even competed in it! Ahh-nold is heard from.
>
> Historical note here: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY back, when Animal was starting
> out in the early 70s, he was put into Paul Ellerings Legion of Doom, which
> was a stable of wrestlers that included King Kong Bundy and Jake Roberts, as
> a singles wrestler named the Road Warrior. Wasn't until he teamed up with
> Hawk when he took the Animal name.

Actually, it was the early 80's, Ben. Never knew he started as a solo.
Didn't start seeing Georgia wrestling 'til '82.

J. C. Gilbert