[HellaCopter]

Originally Posted by White Snake

Most of those camps are grappling based. Lashley shouldve stuck with AKA for striking although I could see Daniel Puder, Josh Thomson and Trevor Prangley repeatedly tapping him out in training. Maybe with the 7 figures he made in the WWE last year despite being out the last 6 months, he could also stop by Jorge Gurgel/Rich Franklin in Cincinatti, Lions Den Dallas, Capital City Fighting Alliance, Ricardo Almeida BJJ, GSP in Montreal, Inoki Dojo in LA and AA with POW Kickboxing in Chicago.

AKA's still quite grappling orientated also when you look at the fighters they have, but I agree it would be the best place for him, for learning to strike coming from a wrestling background and how to use his wrestling for MMA etc.

Of course AKA provides a great example in Puder that simply going to a good camp really isn't enough.

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by zane

Quack is a legend on the independent circuit and has all the tools to be a star in TNA, but I don't see him leaving Chikara behind.

I still have a copy of Quack's "Fantastic Finishers" book that I bought as a youngster laying around somewhere

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by DoubleDrive

I worked in the business for 10 years, made it to WCW

Did you get on tv?

What name did you perform under?

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by NasDestiny

It takes 2-3 days for announcers to travel, because they don't just come in the day of, leave immediately after the event. I also severely disagree with JR being traded - he is the voice of Raw, and quite frankly Cole hasn't deserved the opportunity to call it.

Everytime they've replaced Ross it has always been a fucking disaster.

Russo wanted to replace Ross with Cole in 1999 and Cole actually called several weeks of Raw with Lawler and it was horrible. They had no chemistry at all and JR was back in his seat soon after.

They again tried a few years later to replace him with Joey Styles, who was far better than Cole (which isn't saying much), couldn't fill JR's boots.

Apparently they signed Adamle for the express purpose of replacing Ross until the harsh reality set in that Adamle is useless.


Why couldn't they have traded Foley to Raw to commentate with Ross and tade Lawler to Smackdown? It would have livened the show up given how stale Lawler has been for the last few years.

[scoobydoo]

HHH to Smackdown is interesting. Always thought that they wanted to keep him and Undertaker separate.

Wonder if the belts might be switching shows now as well.

[psychomikex]

Since Trips is going to SD, I'm guessing Batista wins Edge's belt on Sunday.

[K++s]

Originally Posted by psychomikex

Since Trips is going to SD, I'm guessing Batista wins Edge's belt on Sunday.

That's what I expect as well but I think it'd be cool as hell if they did a swerve, had HHH and Edge retain their titles (setting up two big belts in SD) and having Cane retain his title to become the champion of Raw and Hardy becomes the ECW title.

P.S. Watching Mickie James and her ass bent over over Melina was a highlite for me.

[D.R.H.]

Originally Posted by K++s

That's what I expect as well but I think it'd be cool as hell if they did a swerve, had HHH and Edge retain their titles (setting up two big belts in SD) and having Cane retain his title to become the champion of Raw and Hardy becomes the ECW title.

P.S. Watching Mickie James and her ass bent over over Melina was a highlite for me.

That was nice for sure. Couldn't for the life of me understand why she would be protecting Melina, but seeing the bubble made me forget all about logic in storylines.

[NasDestiny]

I was around for most of the screw ups regarding JR, including the colonoscopy. It never does work out in the end.

[NasDestiny]

I think that they're gonna do a bit of swerving at Night of Champions, since everyone expects title changes