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Well, his program with Jeff Hardy was scrapped, and I think there were plans to turn Umaga anyway. It could be just Umaga being Umaga, but they planted the seeds of the double turn when Umaga mauled Morelli at Vengeance, and the crowd was totally behind Umaga.

Plus he'd just so damnded adorable holding the belt by his teeth.

 

It wasn't all that grand of a turn.

 

Who wants to hear some awesome news about WWE? And by "awesome," I mean "oh Jesus why do I still watch this shit!"?

[quote author=Dave Meltzer]There are meetings today and tomorrow regarding what to do about the Raw rating on Monday. Vince is encouraging ideas out of the box to turn things around. The writing team is said to be under major stress. I guess the big idea is Vince returning to Raw in the opening segment of Monday's show. [/quote]

 

So wait, Vince isn't dead?

 

Looks like it's a steady diet of ROH DVDs and old-school tapes for me.

 

At this point, fuck being classy. Go out with a bang.

Chris Benoit murdered Vince McMahon.

 

Meltzer is on the Bill Simmons Podcast today. Its real good.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/player?context=podcast&id=2958922

 

Good lord I hope they don't bring back that tired angle. Didn't they learn anything from the Benoit tragedy? Like, don't fuck with death, perhaps?

If they do bring it back, like Mystery Meat said, do it with a bang -- say Benoit did it, or was the co-conspirator or something. Or if they really wanted to go classless, say that Benoit tried to kill McMahon, failed, and then McMahon drugged Benoit into doing what he did and he'll similarly fuck with anybody that gets in his way in the future. What's sad is I could totally see the WWE do something only slightly less obscene than that.

Why does the WWE have to do this kind of crap? I really want to like their product, and there have been times in the past when I very much have. But they'll really be making it hard if that's McMahon's announcement.

 

As for Pacman Jones in TNA, here's Meltzer's take from wrestlingobserver.com update:

-TNA announced Pacman Jones' signing late last night and announced his debut on Impact on Thursday. The story was in, among other places, USA Today and the front page of Yahoo. Jones will be in a taped inset on the show where he'll announce being at the Hard Justice PPV on Sunday. He will announce more during an interview on the PPV. They announced he will be wrestling, even though the Titans have claimed it would violate his contract, and Jeff Jarrett is training him in a ring TNA has set up in Jones' backyard . We had heard all along TNA expects him to wrestle at least twice, if not more. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about Jones wrestling and said it's up to Jones to decide what he wants to do. It's said the Titans don't want him actually wrestling saying it's a contract violation.

 

I don't care what anyone says, that move by Benjamin was hellacious.

 

While in TNA, will Pac-Man be allowed to make it rain?

 

OK...Is this IRS shit just part of the storyline they're trying to develop?