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Sup? Sup? This column is coming out on a day they usually don't but that because I don't think I'll have time Friday to review and Monday I did the WCW roster rather than a Monday review. Sorry about the thousands of grammatical and spelling errors in the WCW roster, but at the time I had other things on my mind and frankly didn't give a damn. Onward and Upward.

WWF
Ese Rios (or whatever) really has the coolest look I have seen in a long time, and suddenly Amy Dumas (Lita) got attractive. Cool. Ya know, I have been watching wrestling for quite a long time and a moonsault is nothing new, but I'd be lying if I said that Ese didn't have the prettiest moonsault I have EVER seen in my life, it's so much better than any other I have seen, it's not remotely close. Amy Dumas also does it interestingly as she launches herself as a normal moonsault, but somehow her body looks like she is doing a slingshot moonsault....weird, but I like it. On the subject of cruisers, the WWF Light heavyweight title looks like it could be a really excellent division. Consider the names: Matt Hardy(Jeff must stay heavyweight, he's just too good to get labled as a cruiser), Crash Holly, Scott Taylor, Brian Christopher, Dean Malenko, TAKA, Sho Funaki, Christian, and I know I am forgetting some others. The thing is...all these guys are great cruisers! Not like WCWs old division that, though it had some even better cruiseres at the top, was filled with a lot of fluff 'who gives a shit' guys, WWF doesn't have those.

Rocky Maivia jobbed to Chris Benoit!!!! Props, Rock. I now don't have to defend myself as much for the nice comments I make about Rocky(I make mean ones too so....) because he keeps on proving its true. He said in his book that he hated guys with egos that wouldn't job, and I am glad he lived up to his words, few do that anymore.

Perry Saturns column is really great this week, he shoots VERY raw on Mr. Bollea, check it out. In case you are wondering the wrestlers commentaries that I read and find to be very entertaining are Matt Hardy's at www.MattandJeffHardy.com, Lance Storm's at www.StormWrestling.com, Chris Jericho's at www.ChrisJericho.com, Perry Saturn's at www.perrysaturn.com and Chris Benoit's at www.chrisbenoit.com - they are all nice sites.

MickFoley.Com went up a few days ago but I am yet to haev checked it out because Visual Basic 6.0 is a bitch. Also, Triple H proves he is a fighting champion yet again, as the guy fights EVERY single week, no breaks like some other recent champs took. You know how he does it, hyper extended knee and all? Because to quote Paul Levesque himself "He's just that damn GOOD!" I didn't stay up for Raw, I knew it wouldn't be as good as they hyped. The only mega-hyped show that has lived up to it in recent memory was the Toronto Skydome 'Raw is War' where the Mickster won his first World Hvywgt. title. In a final WWF note, Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle are going to feud! This is really great, and if I said it once i'll say it a million times, Vinny Mac is on FIRE, lately! Angle/Y2J should be just a spectacular feud as BOTH are over, BOTH are great wrestlers, and BOTH are great mic workers. You know, this reminds of the Triple H/Rocky Maivia fued over the IC title from almost 2 years ago. Two people that the WWF wants to end up as main-eventers(and no doubt will) that are have a red hot feud over the IC title. Should be killer.

WCW
Um, I am REALLY sick of writing about the circus fed. Kanyon got offered a pay raise of up to $500,000 yearly for the remaining 14 months on his contract and he passed on it, stating that it is no longer about money. Well. Good! WCW has a lot of fucking lessons to learn, they should go read Lance Storm latest commentary on what it takes to be a booker, becaue they obviously do't know. That makes 8 wrestlers that were fairly over that have all left within a years time...DAMN! Scott Steiner should not still be suspended, he is a top draw and their best heel, and this is getting ridiculous. Scott Hall manages to get drunk/injured or late to everything constantly, for years now. I forgot who said but some other columnist said that could end up like Spicolli, Pillman, or other wrestlers that took it too far and died(I know Pillman was a heart attack, so do't write me about it). WCW should see it coming, in fact its BEEN coming for around 2 years now if not more! If he dies while an active WCWW wrestler, I personally, will put at lest 35% of the blame on them for not taking any action. It's sad really. Triple B had an OK match with the Wall this week, just thought I would mention that. Oh yeah, before I forget, I have to give props where they are due, and the WCW fans were HOT this week in the Hogan-Flair affair. Don't ask me why they schill for Hogan, but MAN, they were a really loud, good audience for that bout.

ECW
Is Sabu Leaving or not? Just get it over with, IMO he isn't that great anyway. Why was Mike Awesome not on TV?? Are these people trying to piss me off? OK match between Credible and Raven. Is Raven still injured? If somebody knows for sure, e-mail me and let me know because he really is horrible in the ring compared to how he used to be. I hear they might do a tournament for the TV title, I think it would be great. This is a perfect way for Van Dam to lose the strap without losing his credibility as a guy who knows how to win when the pressure (belt) is on. Personally, I would have Jerry Lynn come out of it as the champ, he earned it last year. Another guy who I would like to see wear it would be Tajiri, I can picture him with a belt and I think it would work really well. I can't forget the rookie-monster RHINO, he is the shit, but I want him to develop more, and I can kinda tell that Paul E.H. does too.

Random Thoughts

  • Once again, thanks to Rocky for putting over Benoit and making Goldberg, Hogan. and others seem like assholes.
  • Dawn Marie, mmmmmmmmmm
  • Speaking of sex, did you see Ms. Hancock dance on the announcers table on Nitro? To quote Joey Styles "OH MY GOD!!", talk about a stiffie. Dawn Marie, she's gaining on you.
  • Obligatory HHH refernce for this column
  • Malenko and Saturn got a face full of ass, eww. Is that part of the job????
  • Flair-Hogan sucked
  • Rocky hasn't been doing interviews EVERY show, nice.
  • Is he growing on me? I used to hate him...ever since I read that damn book.....
  • That tattoo Saturn has across his stomach is rad
  • 2 seconds ago I just read that Scott Steiner has asked for his full release, excuse me while I schill....YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
  • Everything the Mamalukes did on Nitro this week was just plain awful. A wedding? A wedding BACKSTAGE??
  • WCW is screwed, the count is up to 9, lets see them hit the double digits
  • Get well Droz

    There won't be a wrestler of the week this week, sorry. By the way, when I wrote that WWF roster column it seemd like for everytime I answered 1 e-mail 2-3 more showed up. Guess how many I got for WCW?? ZERO. Maybe it's the fact that I had so many grammatical/spelling errors in it too. Maybe not Nitro got beat by a fucking Dog show, so maybe nobody read the column when they found out it was on WCW. Anyhow, CRITICIZE ME! PRAISE ME! JUST WRITE ME! Thanks. My new e-mail address for this column readers(sorta like Hogan has his own dressing room) is....BenoitJericho@Yahoo.com . Thanks for reading.

    Until we meet again.......

    Justin Transue
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