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PPV Predictions – WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010

Tonight’s WWE Fatal Four Way Pay-Per-View is brought to you by the letter F, the letter A, the letter I, and the letter L. What do those letters spell? F.A.I.L.

Five whole matches on PPV. Mind you, three of them are four-way matches and they’re all title matches, but really, five whole matches? That’s the best you can do? Are you going to wing it for the rest of the card?

I guess five matches is enough for them to fit in the NXT invasion bits, which is the origin of our four letters today. I mean, seriously; Bryan Danielson or no Bryan Danielson, WWE had a goldmine with this thing and not even a week later, in the first segment no less, they fucked it up. They’re going to need to do something BIG in order to recover from that.

But enough about FAIL. Let’s talk about the PPV and discuss the matches:

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PPV Predictions – WWE Over The Limit 2010

Apparently, the one game they won in this series was played by another team wearing Canadiens jerseys, because they went back to being shut out again yesterday. Oh well, time to shine up the clubs.

In the meantime, kids, we’re going over the limit, kids! WWE Over The Limit!  Okay, that sucked. My apologies…

Yep… you know the drill. Let’s get this over with…

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PPV Predictions – TNA Sacrifice 2010

Yep. I’m doing picks for a TNA PPV. Go figure.

It’s TNA Sacrifice. The first PPV of the new age where Impact sees a return to Thursdays after being humbled and tapping out (and they can sugar-coat it any way they want, but that is the case) and the tag champs are Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. What a pile of shit. Fuck you, TNA.

Okay, okay. Let’s get this over with. Updated with results.

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PPV Predictions – WWE Extreme Rules 2010

Good news for WWE – The RAW brand had made it back to America this past Wednesday night after being stuck in Europe due to volcanic activity in Iceland. Thus ensuring that the Extreme Rules PPV will continue as advertised.

Bad news for WWE – They lost a potential buyer of their PPV… alright, so I was never planning on buying the PPV, but man, that would have made for a fun time if half the PPV had to be scrapped on the fly due to the RAW crew being stuck in Europe due to additional volcanic activity or something.

In any case, here are my picks for the as-planned PPV. Will update this post with results once the PPV is done with.

Note: Some updated results…

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Classic Bite Commentary #95 – March 28th, 2010 (Wrestlemania XXVI Predictions)

So it’s been roughly forty-six days since the last Bite commentary and rough forty-eight since being laid off due to economic issues. The job search continues at the moment, but I’ve been in somewhat better spirits than I was then. So for those wondering if this was leading to another breakdown, wonder no more. I don’t expect a breakdown to happen anytime soon. Different circumstances from the last time I had one; some would say more severe, but I don’t. It’s not a big deal overall.

To anyone who thinks I’m angry or upset about the circumstances, I just want to say this loud and clear. I’ve got no ill will towards the company and despite the rather abrupt way that I’ve been let go, I tend to see my three and a half years there as the best time of my life. And for what it’s worth, I’m still on relatively good terms with the company. In fact, I did stop by to pick up a printing job that needed to be done for a friend of my brother and I never thought of taking the job elsewhere. There might even be times when I’ll stop by for a visit. Could there be better times in the future? Possibly, but I’m not going to think about that now.

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DTM BLOG Classics #50 – What The F—? (a.k.a. what killed DTM BLOGClassic for good.)

You may have noticed that I’ve been posting links here and there rather than the usual Clickie. I’m not going to lie. The blogging software seems to have some kind of glitch where the linking window won’t pop up or will pop up empty. While I could just post the link and mess around with the HTML code, I don’t really feel like doing that. If the function is there, I should be able to use it without hassle.

It bears mentioning that it could something from my end, but I’ve tried the same thing on some other computer (located elsewhere) and I get the same fucking problem.

I really don’t want to start bashing Tripod because of this, but this has been happening for at least a couple months. It is getting frustrating when I have to go to FRONTPAGE or the like to write my formatted post and then paste it to the blogging software hoping everything works without a hitch.

Some commented if this blog’s going away as a result. That’s not going to happen. As much as I complain, I’ve stuck through worse periods and a little inconvenience isn’t going to hinder my efforts or cause me to go away.

However, it is going to slow down posting on this blog… along with the rest of the shit that’s going on in my life at the moment.

I’ll be going now.

2019 POSTSCRIPT
When I said that this blog was going to slow down on the posts, what I ended up meaning was the posts were going to stop almost cold turkey. There were a couple more along the way, but honestly, this was a long time coming. Eventually, it got to the point where my blogging needs were much more than what Tripod was offering.

That, along with the relative ease of the Blogger system and the whole video thing starting up, ended up being the catalyst to not only making the new blog my permanent blog of choice (but also killed the idea of a “proper” website altogether. The original blog stuck around until this year, but as far as regular updates went… it stopped being a go-to thing ages ago.

PPV Predictions – WWE Bragging Rights 2009

I’m trying to figure out whether this is a decent trade-off.

Last year and years prior, WWE held a PPV called Cyber-Sunday – originally called Taboo Tuesday – where WWE fans would have their say on what happens in certain matches… i.e. who does the champion face, what stipulation between two men are there, what silly costume do the Divas wear in order for us to care about them, and so on and so forth. It was a novel concept, but for some reason – possibly something to do with sales being shit – WWE decided to drop that PPV in favor of Bragging Rights, which is touted as a Smackdown vs Raw encounter, but only ends up being one match billed as such… and a Divas match.

In any case, it’s another generic PPV. So let’s get this over with… UPDATED WITH RESULTS

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PPV Predictions – WWE Hell In A Cell 2009

This is the first PPV Predictions on this (Blogger) blog, where I take a wrestling PPV and make some predictions. Even though this is a scripted form of entertainment, people still make bold bets and predictions as to how the show will progress. I’ve done this on and off on my other blog and decided to continue the tradition here. I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself an expert or “smart fan”, just someone who has followed this style for ten years. With that bit of expository bullcrap out of the way, we begin the tale in question.

So, WWE has gone off the deep end with these stipulation-themed pay-per-views as of late. First it was Breaking Point, where the main events were all either submission matches or I Quit matches. And now WWE has decided to have a Hell In A Cell PPV, where you’re guaranteed multiple HIAC matches in one night… and chances are all of them are going to not very good. Listen, I’m sorry to say, but a Hell In A Cell in this more family-friendly WWE product (if you want to call it such) is not much of a good idea. Unless there’s blood or even an insane stunt pulled off to really emphasis the dangers of the match, it’s just nothing more than a cage match featuring a bigger cage surrounding the ringside area. I mean, does anyone remember the final days of WCW when they had cage matches? Remember the cage they used. It was similar in design to Hell In A Cell, but it wasn’t called that. It was called cage matches. At this point, the Hell In A Cell should be considered a relic of a past era long gone and should be retired as such. But you know those wacky WWE bookers…

Like the previous PPV before it, only main event worthy matches take place in the Cell. The rest are your generic cookie-cutter matches with no stipulations imposed whatsoever. So click on the rollover link to check out some of my thoughts and predictions. UPDATED WITH WINNERS AND MY TALLY.

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PPV Predictions – WWE Night Of Champions 2009

Been a while since I did predictions for a WWE pay-per-view, so why not? Anyway, tonight’s gimmick show has all the titles up for grabs in some for or another. Unfortunately, the sad attempt to make all the lower-tier titles relevant fails as none of the title matches are all that interesting, but who knows? I may very well be surprised.

Um, let’s start with the spares, shall we?

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DTM BLOG Classics #49 – The Wrath Of Crohn

Nasty little stomach virus has kept me incapacitated for the better part of a week… so bad I had to miss two days of work which pisses me off to no end, but I’m starting to feel a little better. A trip to the hospital has shown that I’m not suffering from any ulcers, faulty appendices, kidney stones, or any of that fun stuff. I still have to go back for a CT scan, but you know… I’m not going to jinx it. Bye.

You remember “Encounter At Farpoint”, the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Remember when they’re down on the planet and Deanna Troi is suddenly whimpering “Pain! Pain! So much pain!” Remember that?

Yeah, that’s what I’m starting to feel like right now.

Pain… so much fucking pain…

For the moment, effective pain relievers and herbal teas are helping with my recent episode of torture – and with two weeks off, I’ll have plenty of time to get some personal projects done… because I’m apparently not well enough to travel.

(2025 Update: I don’t go out and explicitly say it, but this was around the time that I first got my diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease, which is something that continues to affect me to this very day. I’m managing, though… that much, I’m thankful for.)