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by **rdrsfn82** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:22 am

I thought Skip was a decent name.

I think if he didn't just do the one name thing, Ryback wouldn't be that bad. Like if it was Mike Ryback or something. As just one name it's pretty dumb sounding.

by **fieldy snuts** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:29 am

Skip Sheffield makes sense for a cowboy gimmick.

I read that in OVW Ryback was suppposed to be a Terminator-cyborg like gimmick (gee, wonder who could've come up with that *cough*dustyrhodes*cough*).

by **Juan Cena** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:51 am

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:What I don't get is why WWE doesn't package their high quality, digitized film masters into some kind of sets and sell them. I mean, I get that they sell a shitload of the two or three DVD sets like History of the Championship or whatever, but I have to believe there are hardcore fans just dying to give WWE like $100-$200 per season for TV sets. Do they not like money?

WWE obviously likes money. But the question is whether or not the profit margin is high enough to warrant the costs of production.

You're talking about a DVD collection of 52 weeks of a program that lasts two hours. That's 104 hours or so you've got to put on a limited number of DVD's .

by **Juan Cena** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:53 am

misac wrote:
Skip Sheffield was perfectly fine. Ryback makes me think of Gunner!

Ryback sounds like some kind of Nabisco cracker.

by **syxxpakk** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:46 am

Day 98 (yesterday).

Continued the Kane DVD with one match. It was Kane vs. Kurt Angle from WM18. The match is only decent. Angle does his best and Kane even gets a kick-out on the Angle Slam, but it never gets above the decent-level. I recall they had an even better match around this time on Smackdown. Angle won with a roll-up.

Match of the Day goes to Kane vs. Kurt Angle, of course.

by **syxxpakk** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:24 pm

Day 99.

Started off with Smackdown! this morning. The show was solid, but nothing amazing. I don't like the idea of putting Teddy Long in a series of skits that will be designed to make fun of him, a la Jim Ross. The opener was a fun story, with David Otunga continuing to come off with tons of charisma. I told ya'll it was there. Randy Orton vs. Kane was much better than their WM-encounter. It was a really fun match with the right person going over. Nice to see Randy find that fire again as I was worried it was gone for good. Big Show vs. Heath Slater was a nothing match. Ryback's debut was handled well enough, but it's a dumb name and the singlet is a bad idea. Sheamus vs. Del Rio was a bit of snoozer, honestly. Bryan Danielson's promo was the usual good stuff.

I continued with disc 2 of Kane's DVD. The first match I watched from it today was Kane vs. Triple H, in a match where the winner would unify the World and IC championships. This is during the post-brand split glut where wrestling got really bad for me. Triple H was absolutely dreadful during this time. The match is utterly boring until Ric Flair interferes and then we get tons of shenanigans. This might be a case where overbooking a finish works because my God was I falling asleep before hand.

Next up was Kane/RVD vs. Chris Jericho/Christian. Standard, good, formulaic tag match. The story seemed more to veer towards Jericho/HBK than have anything to do with Kane.

Match of the Day goes to Kane vs. Randy Orton.

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:02 pm

Syxx: How long are you doing this for again?

by **Bianco** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:39 am

honestly I think Teddy has replaced JR as Vince's "let's crap on him" toy...

by **rdrsfn82** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:49 am

Teddy has been the guy doing goofy shit and getting crapped on for a long long time.

by **TROY** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:04 am

WWE announced today that starting in July they will begin releasing a new series of $9.99 dvds called the "WWE:Superstar Collection", the first two to be released on July 10th will be Zack Ryder and John Cena.

Also a new Brock Lesnar dvd set is already in the works as well.

by **TROY** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:37 am

More WWE DVD news, they will also be releasing a dvd on the Undertakers 20-0 Streak in July as well.

by **rdrsfn82** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:44 pm

Interesting. I think going the cheaper route makes sense.

by **misac** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:58 pm

Doc Jon wrote:Velvet Sky is fucking hot.

James Storm has one of the best songs in wrestling.

I miss AJ's old entrance theme. New one sucks.

It's super pandering like everything you hear on the radio.

They had a really good match, I forget how good AJ is.

by **misac** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:00 pm

jeremiahvedder wrote:A thought: WWE needs to partner with a major outlet doing print-on-demand custom DVDs (Amazon's got one) and reinvent the old days of tape-trading. They've got a huge digitized library, why not let fans come up with their own DVD collections? 1 disc = 3 hours = $20 and we'd get "Jeremiah's 10 Favorite Matches" or "Santino's Greatest Hits" etc. It'd be a gold mine.

Probably saving all that stuff for the network. But I think that'd be a good idea, even if they don't really sell that many it's better than just having that stuff collecting dust. :smt102

You should try IVP Videos, it's mostly foreign stuff though.

by **misac** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:09 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:I thought Skip was a decent name.

I think if he didn't just do the one name thing, Ryback wouldn't be that bad. Like if it was Mike Ryback or something. As just one name it's pretty dumb sounding.

Mike.