The Bell To Bell News Report 07.12.09

Posted by Randy Harrison on 07.12.2009

A painfully slow news week means that you'll get to read my opinions on Jerry Lawler's impending mayoral candidacy in depth, along with a rose-colored look back to the wrestling of my youth. The weekly show recaps are here, as is a story about a road sign you have to see to believe, in this week's Bell to Bell!




Welcome to this week's Bell to Bell folks! As I write this, I'm knee-deep in UFC 100 previews, pre-fight interviews, columns and coverage for my work with Nokaut, but I'm still going to try to bring the goods for this extremely light news week with this week's column. I'll cover all of the shows I saw as usual, and talk about Jerry Lawler's potential run as mayor of Memphis and what it could mean to the WWE's announce teams, as well as Seth Green's turn as guest host of Raw and a trip down memory lane to see what Saturday afternoon wrestling in Winnipeg meant fifteen years ago. There's videos and opinions galore, just waiting for you to check 'em out, so instead of talking about it, I'm going to be about it. Mr. Creed, take it away.


Ding Ding....








Monday Night Raw Results:

Unified Tag Team Championships: Edge and Chris Jericho vs. Primo and Carlito Colon - Winners: Edge and Chris Jericho (pinfall, Edge spears Primo)
Alicia Fox and Maryse vs. Mickie James and Gail Kim - Winners: Mickie James and Gail Kim (pinfall, Gail's big boot on Maryse)
Cody Rhodes vs. Mark Henry - Winner: Mark Henry (countout)
Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase - Winner:Randy Orton (pinfall, RKO)
Kofi Kingston vs. Evan Bourne - Winner: Evan Bourne (pinfall, Shooting Star Press)
Night of Champions Tournament Final:Triple H vs. John Cena - Winner: None (Double disqualification, Legacy-ference)


After a bit of a shock at the end of Raw last week with an apparent Mark Henry face turn, the flagship show of the WWE returned this week (albeit in tape-delayed fashion as the WWE tours overseas) and foreshadowed what could be another face turn as Ted DiBiase stood up to Randy Orton and nearly beat him in a great match that took place on a night when Ted's father, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, was guest host of the show. The show was actually one of the better editions of Raw as of late, with the Legacy problems leading the way. The entire thing, from Ted Sr.'s orchestration of the match, to Ted Jr.'s defense of his father when Randy Orton tried to get out of it, to the actual match itself, it was a nice little one-week piece of business that not only gave a mini-angle from start to finish, but also began some dissension which could lead to Ted Jr. turning and giving Randy Orton a run for his money. With how good the match was between the two of them, I have to say that I would be more enthused by a DiBiase/Orton program than another round of Cena or Triple H vs. Orton and infinitely more excited than I would be for a Henry/Orton trainwreck program.

The main event for the show saw Triple H and John Cena doing battle to decide who was going to head on to face Orton for the WWE Championship at Night of Champions. While I had high expectations for this match based on Cena and Triple H being two guys that can bring it when they decide to, I also figured that it was likely going to be a schmozz finish as it would be hard to have one guy go over clean without damaging the other. I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was half-expecting it to end up being a triple threat match as that seems to be the old fallback when the WWE doesn't know what to do with a champion. The match itself was actually pretty good from the Cena/Triple H trash talk to start the match, to the building that actually made it feel like we might see a winner. Both guys did exactly what they needed to do and they both look strong going into the triple threat. The only problem here is that Orton's reign has meant next to nothing as he's done nothing to seem like a champion since the belt's been strapped around his waist. Hopefully he can have a strong showing and possibly even defend the title somehow because as it stands right now he doesn't have a ton of heat to give to the person who finally ends up beating him.

The other big match for the show saw Edge and Jericho defending their Unified Tag Titles against The Colons. The match was solid as you'd expect from these four, though it wasn't anything that was going to set the world on fire. For five or so minutes, they managed to do everything they needed to do to get the fans involved, including the heel turn at the end that saw Carlito attack Primo for being the weak link of the team, despite him taking both a Codebreaker from Jericho and Edge's spear before the pinfall. I don't know why they split the Colons, especially with so few tag teams (one less after Edge's injury) and I think that if the WWE had it to do over again, they probably wouldn't have. Carlito was spinning his gears before joining up with his brother and I'm afraid that that could end up happening again now that he's back on his own. As for Jericho/Edge, I said last week that likely Priceless or The Colons would get the titles back, but with Priceless seemingly falling apart and The Colons broken up, I think that it's more likely to see Jericho hold onto the titles with a newly-chosen partner (as a ready-made feud for Edge's return as well), carrying the belts for quite some time as there's really no one else that could be considered as a viable option to hold them.

The other thing I wanted to touch on from Raw was the great VIP Lounge segment featuring MVP and Jack Swagger. I was always a little hot and cold with Swagger's mic work when he was in ECW, but he did a fantastic job in this segment, even getting a little shot in on MVP by suggesting that fighting him was "beneath" a man of Swagger's stature. Swagger went the worked shoot route by bringing up MVP's past prison term for armed robbery and kidnapping, and MVP managed to roll right with it, facing it and manning up to get the crowd even further behind him. This could be the future of the brand right here and watching this segment gave me a bit of deja vu as it could easily be looked back on in five years as a feud that launched two stars, much like the Triple H/Rock feud over the Intercontinental Championship in the late-90's. I'm not sure whether they'll be able to sustain the momentum of the feud without a title on the line as it seems like feuds that aren't title-oriented tend to be either forgotten about or booked as unimportant, but I'm hopeful based on how this segment played out.




ECW on SyFy Results:

Nikki Bella vs. Katie Lea Burchill - Winner: "Nikki" Bella (pinfall, X-Factor after Killer Bee switch)
Yoshi Tatsu vs. Shelton Benjamin - Winner: Shelton Benjamin (pinfall, Paydirt)
Ezekiel Jackson vs. Jack Meridol - Winner: Ezekiel Jackson (pinfall, uranage)
Vladimir Kozlov vs. Christian - Winner: Christian (pinfall, Killswitch)


ECW was delayed until Thursday night this week, making it a packed night of wrestling with both Superstars and Impact airing in their usual slots. I have to say that while there were some dead spots here, including the Abraham Washington segment (strike two), and the women's bout at the beginning which was seemingly there only to allow the twins to pull the switcheroo, the two big matches of the show were quite enjoyable for me. The rematch between Yoshi Tatsu and Shelton Benjamin was everything that the match between them last week should have been. They did a great job of letting Benjamin get back his win from last week's debacle without taking away any of the momentum from Tatsu at a time when he sorely needs it. Tatsu looked really good here and showed that he is more than capable of hanging with one of the most athletic and talented wrestlers on the roster. That bodes rather well for his future as it means that he should have the same kind of ability and if he can find a personality that works for him he could be something down the line.

As I mentioned earlier, the Abraham Washington experiment should be on its last legs as he's gone 0 for 2 in his appearances on ECW. Last week's disaster has already been well-documented and this week, he had current ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer as his guest. It was a better segment than last week, but the only way it could have been worse is if someone had dropped dead in the middle of the ring. Washington is just not as good as a "talk show host" as the WWE had hoped and he proved it again this week with more sad jokes and more wooden delivery. The segment ended with Kozlov and Dreamer going nose-to-nose after Washington announced the number one contender match between Kozlov and Christian as the show's main event, and Washington showed a bit of his allegiance by introducing Kozlov as the man who will face Dreamer at the PPV. It's good that they're at least having him pick a side, but he's got a long road to try to come back from the horrible debut. One or two more weeks like this and Washington could be on his way back to developmental in a burial only slightly worse than the one given the Spirit Squad.

That leads us into the show's main event, which saw Christian and Kozlov put on a nice little five-minute match for the shot at Dreamer's title. I would have loved to have the Washington segment cut short or cut altogether to allow these two to have ten or fifteen minutes, but they did the best with the time given. Christian picked up the win and I'd suspect that this is going to lead to him picking up the belt at Night of Champions before beginning a program with Kozlov. They've got a good leaping off point for that type of feud with this match and with what these guys were able to do in five minutes, they could actually put on a decent match if given fifteen or so on a PPV. I would have rather had Kozlov take on Dreamer and win the belt to let Christian chase it again, which he seems stronger at, but I don't think that Kozlov has done enough since moving over to ECW to justify giving him the title shot and the belt in such short order. He's looked great killing jobbers, but he hasn't had a lot of big wins that would put him into contention as someone who deserves a shot. Christian has that credibility and will be able to hold the belt believably if/when he beats Dreamer at Night of Champions.




WWE Superstars Results:

R-Truth vs. Ricky Ortiz - Winner: R-Truth (pinfall, Lie Detector)
Zack Ryder vs. Tyler Reks - Winner: Zach Ryder (pinfall, Zack Attack)
Chavo Guerrero vs. Hornswoggle - Winner: Hornswoggle (pinfall, Tadpole Splash)

Wow. Who knew that the devaluing of Superstars that I've talked about the past few weeks would happen so quickly. This one was a dog of a show from beginning to end and to be honest with you, I probably would have skipped it completely if it wasn't for having to cover it for the column. That's not to say that I somehow don't like wrestling or don't like Superstars, or that I'm expecting every week to be filled with five-star matches, but this was a really big drop-off this week. When your main event sees Chavo Guerrero taking on an Irish midget and the biggest star on the show is R-Truth, this isn't exactly must-see TV. I'm not sure why there was such a drastic quality reduction this week unless it was the glut of TV tapings that the WWE had to put together before leaving for overseas and not wanting to overwork the star talent, but there wasn't much to get excited about here.

The one bright spot for me was to see Zack Ryder and Tyler Reks get an insane fourteen minutes to showcase their talents as part of the ECW contribution to the show. The match was just alright, but the fact that two of the company's young stars got a long television match to hone their skills was part of what is right about a show like Superstars. Yeah, it's probably not going to be the best show of the week most weeks from now on, but we're also going to get to see glimpses of the future of the company like we did in this instance. Touching on the "main event" quickly, it was fun for what it was, but honestly shouldn't have been on TV. This is the kind of thing that is good for house shows as it's different from the usual stuff that fans see on TV and is harmless enough. As the last match of a television show, even one like Superstars that isn't meant to be a huge contributor to WWE storylines, it was bad. I'll give Chavo full marks for being as entertaining as possible, but this has to be a sign for him that his days as a performer in the WWE are numbered and that he should be getting ready to slip into an agent's jacket before too long.





TNA Impact Results:

Ladder Match For X-Division Briefcase: Doug Williams vs. Homicide - Winner: Homicide (briefcase retreival)
Beer Money Inc. vs. The Motor City Machine Guns - Winner: Beer Money Inc. (pinfall, DWI on Shelley)
Velvet Sky vs. Tara - Winner: Tara (pinfall, Widow's Peak)
TNA Knockouts Championship: Tara vs. Angelina Love (C) - Winner: Tara (pinfall, Widow's Peak)
Matt Morgan and Kevin Nash vs. AJ Styles and Daniels - Winners: AJ Styles and Daniels (pinfall, Styles' frogsplash on Morgan)
Non-Title Triple Threat Match: Jeff Jarrett vs. Mick Foley vs. Kurt Angle - Winner: Kurt Angle ("submission", anklelock with special referee Eric Young's assistance)

TNA Impact saw a big return, a big beatdown and a new champion all within one of the more action-packed episodes of the show in a long time. The return saw Homicide make his comeback and gain a small measure of revenge on The British Invasion by taking back possession of his X-Division Feast or Fired briefcase in a ladder match. The good points here are that Homicide is back and ready for business and that he's got his X-Division title shot back. The bad point is that for a company that loves gimmick matches, they sure don't know how to work a ladder match at all. I get that the whole thing was Team 3D helping Homicide get his briefcase back while pushing their issue with the Brits, but a ladder match is usually meant to last a lot longer than two minutes and isn't usually meant to be a match that just kind of pops up in the middle of a feud. Ladder matches are usually built to through the progression of a feud and to have one on the same night as Homicide made his comeback to deal with the British heels was a little silly. At least they didn't try to put this thing on PPV as a two-minute match because I'm pretty sure the internet would have exploded.

Last week in the comments section, I was kind of called out for not talking a lot about the Knockouts or Divas in my recaps of the weekly shows and I'll admit that a lot of times they do get the short shift. It's not because I don't appreciate women's wrestling, but rather that a lot of it hasn't been very good as of late and there's a lot of other angles to talk about in my somewhat limited space. For every solid worker like Mickie James or Gail Kim or Tara or Awesome Kong, there are a bunch of gals like Maria, Layla, Rakha Kahn and Velvet Sky who aren't very good in the ring and don't put on very good matches. When something big happens or there's a good feud going on with the ladies, I'll touch on it, much like I am this week with the Tara/Angelina Love segments. There was the dissension of the Beautiful People with Sky claiming she was done if Love wouldn't have her back and Love avoiding the spider but keeping Sky by offering up a match with Tara for the title. The matches weren't anything special as they were relatively short and mostly kicky-punchy affairs, but the end result of Tara pinning Love and earning the TNA Knockouts title in a tearful celebration was great. Tara/Victoria has always been a favorite of mine and she definitely deserves the reign. My only wish is that she would have been able to get Love to give her the title shot at the PPV to pay off the win with a longer match and a bit bigger stage. She at least deserved that much.

The main angle for the show, as it has been for the past few weeks, is the three-way struggle for the TNA Heavyweight Championship between Jeff Jarrett, Kurt Angle and Mick Foley. They did battle in a non-title three-way main event that was set up by the show's opening segment with Mick Foley deciding that he was wrong all along and wanting to regain the title for the right reasons at Victory Road. He made a match between Jeff Jarrett and Angle and Jarrett took a page from Foley's book, "tweaking" it to the three-way dance with a special referee chosen by Angle. Angle chose Eric Young and it would prove to be the right choice as Angle slapped the anklelock on Foley at the end of the match and Young gave him the old "Hitman" by calling for the bell. The match was mainly there as a reason for what happened after the match, which was a hellacious beatdown of Foley by all five members of the Main Event Mafia with a ton of barbed wire. The whole thing was actually pretty well done from the opening segment to the last and I found myself entertained by it all, with the only thing I'd "tweak" being that the top feud in the company would be focusing on some of the younger stars. Other than that, it was actually a rather good progression for the angle as Foley took his beating like a champion and it will likely lead to a garbage match stipulation for Victory Road since Foley would not be able to pull off a straight wrestling match against Angle.




Friday Night Smackdown Results:

Jeff Hardy vs. Kane - Winner: Kane (pinfall, chokeslam)
Dolph Ziggler vs. John Morrison - Winner: Dolph Ziggler (pinfall, tights-assisted roll up)
Melina and Eve vs. Michelle McCool and Layla - Winners: Melina and Eve (pinfall, roll up)
CM Punk vs. The Great Khali - Winner: None (match thrown out due to Kane interference)
Cryme Tyme vs. The Hart Dynasty - Winners: The Hart Dynasty (pinfall, High/Low)
Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio (C) - Winner: Rey Mysterio (pinfall, springboard splash)




ROH on HDNet Results:



Unfortunately, I was out of town for most of Friday and all day Saturday meaning that I missed both Smackdown and Ring of Honor and I was unable to get the shows watched before the column was due. As is always the policy, if I haven't watched it, it's not open for discussion so the talk CM Punk's heel turn, Austin Aries' title reign and the like will have to wait for another week. Many apologies to you all and I hope you aren't too disappointed by the lack of coverage for the two shows.






MAIN EVENT


You'd think being a King would be enough, but I guess not...

You know that it's a slow news week when the biggest story that you can come up with is Jerry Lawler's potential political campaign. Lawler has thrown his hat into the ring and will running to become the new Mayor of Memphis, TN in an upcoming special election this October. Lawler ran previously in 1999, earning 12% of the vote while beating twelve of the fifteen candidates who ran against him. Don't believe me? Well check out Lawler's campaign commercial from that previous run to see for yourselves.



If Lawler wins the election, which could be a possibility even despite the long odds against him, it would likely mean that the WWE would then be without their top color man and would also mean another reshuffle to the roster of announcers that has already seen plenty of shifts in the past couple of years. It's really a sad state of affairs when you consider that a couple of years ago we got announce teams like Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole and JBL and Joey Styles and Tazz. Now, we're going to be left with Michael Cole, Jim Ross, Matt Striker, Todd Grisham, Josh Matthews and a blank space. Yuck. If you ask me, this should be the perfect opportunity to get someone like Tony Schiavone on the phone to try to give the company another play-by-play man that could actually call things with some excitement. Striker is a decent color guy, but Grisham and Matthews are just hard to watch most times and I find my enjoyment of ECW has diminished greatly since all of the announcer changes took place. Before you all attack Schiavone as a joke of an announcer, he was actually one of the better announcers around in the later stages of the NWA days before he became a living cariacature in WCW.

For as much as the WWE uses their developmental territory to begin to find new talent to wrestle, you'd think that they'd be doing exactly the same thing for their announcers so that when situations like this come up, they would have people ready to move into the slots that were actually prepared to handle them and could do so convincingly. That seems to be the one thing that no one has remembered to do in the past dozen years or so since the take-off of the Attitude era and if the WWE doesn't start building some credible announcing talent soon, there won't be anyone left. I'm not saying that it's some kind of catastrophe that could bring the WWE down from within, but the shows are easily more entertaining when the announcers are at their best. I could watch hour after shitty hour of shows like Wrestling Challenge and All American Wrestling to hear teams like Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan. Sure you had your off weeks too when you got Lord Alfred Hayes and Sean Mooney, but it's looking like WWE is heading towards an entire line-up of Hayes' and Mooney's.

If you ask me, the biggest problem they seem to be having is that the guys that are being brought in now are not old-school wrestling fans for the most part, so they don't understand how crucial announcing can be in making a bad match good and a good match great. Guys like Gordon Solie, Bob Caudle, UWF and NWA Jim Ross and even Gorilla Monsoon and Vince McMahon (yes, even Vince with all of his "UNBELIEVABLE!" nonsense), all knew how to get over the excitement of the action in the ring while sounding like whatever match was in the ring was the biggest match in the world. I don't know if it's because of the WWE becoming so reliant on scripting talent or what, but every one of them, especially Matthews and Grisham, sound wooden and like they barely want to be there, let alone calling the matches. I just don't think that either of them are ready for a national stage, but there's no one left so there it is. If Lawler leaves, that's just one more gap that they'll have to fill, with no replacement in sight. Of course, all of this is rendered moot if Lawler loses and doesn't have to vacate his position, but it shows just how thin the WWE's ranks are behind the microphone and how desperate they are for a shake-up that doesn't just involve sending play-by-play guys to different brands.



Featured Bouts

There's been next to nothing going on this week, and with the positive response the Chris Jericho video from the old WFWA in Winnipeg garnered a couple of weeks back, I'm going to take advantage and show you all some more old-school Canadian indy greatness. Too bad I can't find anyone that has uploaded some of the episodes that had guys like Edge and Ultimo Dragon on them, but these videos still manage to bring back some fond memories for me.

This first one features Dr. Luther, one of the longtime heels in the Winnipeg territory, before he gained fame in FMW and Puerto Rico and just after the WFWA was rebranded as the International Wrestling Alliance or IWA. It still fits because it's the same promotion under a different name, so enjoy....


Dr. Luther Appears In The IWA...Chaos Ensues...



Lance Storm vs. The Natural (Part 1)



Lance Storm vs. The Natural (Part 2)



Shame that Don Callis didn't get over more as an actual wrestler than he did when he was working commentary as Cyrus in ECW. The guy was like Winnipeg's version of Ric Flair and he could actually work and talk very well for the indy circuit. One of my favorite angles in Winnipeg was with Callis and Bad News Allen feuding against Rick Martel. Callis and Allen decided to pull a name out of a hat to pick his opponent for the night and it came out as the masked Mr. X who got the chance to face off against The Natural. During the match, Callis whitewashed and paintbrushed X all over the ring, verbally berating him until X finally yanked off the mask and revealed himself to be Rick Martel. Much ass was kicked and the fans went nuts. I'm sure it was done numerous other times in numerous other territories, but that whole angle was part of the reason I loved Callis so much and part of the reason why I think he could have done so much more in the wrestling business if he'd been given the types of chances that someone like Chris Jericho was given.


Chi Chi Cruz vs. "Champagne" Jerry Morrow (Part 1)



Chi Chi Cruz vs. "Champagne" Jerry Morrow (Part 2)



If it's a slow news week again next week, I'll take a look at some great old footage from the Stampede territory in the early-80's, another one of my favorites growing up.



The Midcard




--TNA Head Official Rudy Charles left the company this week, apparently after being released. There's no word on what the reasoning behind the release was, but the man who (I believe, but don't quote me on it) is the only official to be around in TNA since the days of the Nashville Fairgrounds and weekly pay-per-views is gone. Whether this means a bigger role in the company for former WWE head of officiating Earl Hebner remains to be seen, but it's a shame that a lot of the people who have been with TNA since the beginning are slowly starting to be phased out.

-- Canadian company Cookie Jar Entertainment is looking at putting together an English-language version of the AAA lucha libre company, with Cookie Jar handling the distribution and merchandising for the company. I would LOVE this as one of the things that makes lucha so hard for me to follow is the language barrier. Despite the barrier, I will still sit down and check out a lucha show from time to time for some giggles, and I enjoy it. It's a completely different product from anything put out in the United States and seems like a bit of a throwback to the old days of the sport. My only worry is that once I can understand what they're saying that the product will lose some of its charm. That being said, I'll still give it a chance, if only because I have had favorites from Mexico like Dr. Wagner Jr. and La Parka in the past and would love to get to keep up with lucha week to week.

-- Edge had successful surgery on his torn Achilles tendon this week and it sounds like he's going to be on the shelf for the rest of 2009, which is actually a better prognosis than initially thought when Edge could have been out for up to a year. This is still a long time for the WWE to be without one of their biggest stars and most important performers, but it's still better than it could have been. Look for Edge to either make a big return before the Road To WrestleMania kicks into full swing, or for the WWE to hold him back until after WrestleMania so that his return can have the full attention of the fans. Either way, when he's brought back it would be a pretty safe bet that he's going to be back as a face as he was starting to get some good pops before the injury and he's mostly run his course through this point of his career as a heel. A face turn freshens him up and also gives his heel act a bit of a rest so that he can bring it back in full force in another year or two.



-- Seth Green is set to be Raw's special guest host next weekend, as part of a cross-promotion between Green's Robot Chicken program on Adult Swim. Triple H is set to star in the next season premiere of the raunchy stop-motion animation show, so Green will likely be pimping that while also giving a bit of mainstream publicity to Raw, something that always seems to help boost the ratings a little.



Jerking The Curtain

-- Another light news week....another humorous close to the column, this time from the land of my birth!

OTTAWA — Constance Bay has not designated its downtown a red-light district, despite what a racy new sign might have you believe.

A roadside sign posted outside the village a couple of weeks ago by the City of Ottawa directs travellers to Constance Bay's downtown with some symbols indicating various amenities. One square was left blank. Bad move, apparently. Sometime last weekend, a vandal filled in the blank spot with a pair of stick figures who appear to be particularly engaged. But don't let the saucy illustration fool you, said West Carleton-March Councillor Eli El-Chantiry. It's business as usual in Constance Bay, located about 48 kilometres northwest of Ottawa. He says the city will have to have the sign sandblasted back to its virgin state.

From chuckling photographers snapping pictures to e-mails inquiring about Constance Bay's new swingers' club, El-Chantiry seemed on Thursday to be tiring of all the attention the sign was getting.

He tried himself to remove the corruption, but no luck.

"When I saw it, I took a towel and some water and I could not reach it," El-Chantiry said, noting the sign stood more than eight-feet above the ground. "Then I saw someone taking pictures."

It doesn't help the councillor that the illustration looks professional enough to have been part of the original design.

"There was one spot missing; it was perfect," said Ian Glen, president of the Constance and Buckham's Bay Community Association, adding he may consider a picture of the sign for the 2010 Best of the Bays calendar.

"Everybody just thinks it's pretty funny. I don't think anybody's going to take terrible offence to it."

As of Thursday night, the defiled sign had been taken down, the city said.

The copulating couple could not be removed by usual methods without damaging the sign. Instead, it must be sandblasted back to its virgin state before it can be reposted, El-Chantiry said, and next time there will be no blank slates.

"The community centre or the Legion, whatever. Just put something there, don't leave it blank."

In city council this week, El-Chantiry assured his colleagues Constance Bay would soon be rid of the carnal defacement.

"Then (Councillor) Gord Hunter said: 'What's the big issue? I thought he was just showing her how to waterski.'"

For those of you who want to check out the offending sign in question, go ahead and check out the picture here. Showing her how to waterski. That's some funny stuff right there....



The Final Bell

Well folks, that does it for me this week. Not a lot to talk about, but I hope I still managed to entertain at least a little bit. I'm off to talk some more about UFC 100 for a while, stick around for Randle's take on the slow week that was in tomorrow's news column, and in the mean time and in between time, I'll see you back here next time for a brand-new, hopefully more news-filled, edition of the Bell to Bell!


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