Dave's not here,man.
by Dan Titus on 2002-03-26

Maybe some people are right in that I have been a tad over critical of what I see.Perhaps I'm just jaded(Jjjjjjjaded, you got your mamas style, but you're yesterdays child,Jjjjjjaded. Fuck, that was the first song on the radio when I turned on the radio today. Goddamn Aerosmith.) from all the years of watching wrestling. I forgot why I do: To be entertained and (Hopefully)mark out like I did when I would stay up watching Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant vs Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy on Saturday Nights Main Event.

Hearing the ovations Hogan got at Wrestlemania and the next nights RAW really took me back to the days when the opening strains of "Real American" could shake the rafters of any major arena in the world. Maybe some of us underestimated what Hulk had left. I think I'm even looking forward to the inevitable run in the red and yellow.Manson is just hoping Hogan recruits Mr T at some point.

Here is the list of how the draft played out last night:

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RAW

Undertaker
Hall
Nash
X-Pac
Kane
Van Dam
Booker T
Big Show
Bubba Ray Dudley
Lesnar
Regal
Lita
Bradshaw
Richards
Matt Hardy
Raven
Jeff Hardy
Mr. Perfect
Spike Dudley
D-Lo Brown
Stasiak
Terri
Jackie
Goldust
Stratus
Credible
Bossman
Dreamer
Crash Holly
Molly
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Smackdown

Rock
Angle
Benoit
Hogan
Billy & Chuck
Edge
Rikishi
D-Von Dudley
Mark Henry
Maven
Kidman
Tajiri
Jericho
Ivory
Albert
Hurricane
Snow
Storm
DDP
Wilson
2 Hotty
Keibler
Christian
Test
Faarooq
Tazz
Bob Holly
Valbowski
Saturn

Now, I do plan to watch both shows, as both look to have pretty solid rosters, with a good mix of returnees,vets, and guys who deserve the extra push. But, on the forum for this site, what sort of things would you most like to see from this split? Who would you like to see benefit? Besides the obvious different rosters, I would like to see each show have a different flavor, maybe one could take smaller venues for that grassroots feeling. I'm also curious at to whats gonna happen to Heat.

Brock Lesnar. Bring your umbrellas, the rainmaker has arrived. I knew next to nothing about this guy until he did the run in on Spike last week,but man oh man. I love how they're just gonna let him run crazy over everyone. Ya know, I read a while ago this guy actually does a shooting star press. How fucking scary is that?

Dude, I was walking around Wal-Mart today, and I discovered perhaps the greatest idea of modern times. Forget the invention of the polio vaccine, DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET OREO COOKIES IN BREAKFAST CEREAL FORM???!!! My god, lately I've been having a crisis of conscience over which brand of cereal to give my loyalty to, Coco Pebbles was in the lead,but now I'm confused. I'll try this new stuff, and let my heart show me the path.

Also, they have a shitload of new WWF shirts, and wrestling related books. What I love is,whenever a wrestling boom is on the downslide, all the wrestling stuff goes in the clearance bin, and you can snag deals like a bandit. Meltzer's book is ten bucks cheaper than it was two weeks ago, but I'm waiting another few weeks, to see if it slumps to the $15.99 range.

Damn,for the first time in a while, I actually have optimism for wrestling.