Folks, don't believe what you read on Yahoo Answers and other websites. They are posted by fans - mere fans - and nobody else. They might even be knowing lesser about wrestling than you and I do, so just ignore them. Its all their wish and speculation which they post there like a "probability" or a "certainity" but it remains just a "possibility" and nothing more. A lot of wrestling websites themselves are often wrong, leave alone Yahoo answers. Trust the WWE to maintain some amount of suspense in events like the Rumble - I was very surprised about Cena's return last year and no wrestling website that I remember had predicted it. If anyone posts on those websites saying that their relatives or they themselves work in the WWE, you can tell them that Mayank Shridhar is the new backstage storyline writer for the WWE and he told you that they are lying ;-) of course, I wish I was a backstage storyline writer.... *wishful thinking* :-)
Ah, Taker won't retire at Wrestlemania 25 - otherwise he wouldn't have been building muscles like he did last year during his leave. He's got a good 2-3 years left in him, if not more.
I must say I like Randy Orton's new theme music!
I agree with you completely. Taker brought a lot more variety into the business also as he perfected the image definition of terror and the personification of dominance or destruction. His variation in characters (dead-man, ministry, bad-a**, etc and the way they maintained links between each other), the arsenal of wrestling moves he introduced to the WWE from the tombstone to the last ride to the gogoplata (Hell's Gate/ Death Valley Vice), etc are amazing. He has defined "Evolution" in its literal sense in the WWE. His level of fitness is just so great. The fact that he is still there and still there on top while so many other guys (who joined after him) are already retired speaks for it.
Kane might not win the Rumble because I think he is not Mania-level main-event material anymore. He was that good when he was the masked Kane. But now, he is becoming fat (notice his belly), slow and clumsy - that is the reason why he is a mid-carder and is losing matches to guys like Rey Mysterio. I don't think Kane can put up a main-event match on Mania like Taker or the other main-eventers can. I am a Kane fan myself and hate to see him losing to these guys but I can't help it if he is not at his athletic best at this age.
Taker is not in the hall of fame because he is still wrestling and is not close to his retirement. Austin enters the hall of fame because he has retired. The only person who entered the Hall of Fame while being an active wrestler was Ric Flair, and we very well knew that was because he was going to retire the next day at Mania aganist Shawn. Since the event is in Texas this time, it might make sense to induct Austin into it.
Michaels is not in the Rumble match - the only way he could get there is if JBL demands him to go and cause interference.
The comment size is really restricted - I just posted a comment at the bottom of a page with 2 paragraphs and it said it won't allow me to post such a long comment. It was 1/4th the size of the comments I was used to posting earlier ;-) and the error message which came was displayed way up in the page (I had to scroll up to see it) instead of being displayed where I was posting it so I couldn't even see it in the first 2 attempts. Well anyway, if the reason is that the plugin is cheaper then I guess I can't say much but have to be happy with it :-)
As for the [quote][/quote] comments we had earlier - isn't there a way to make them adapt to this, like replace it by the text "Ed said" or "Andres said" or something like that by checking from the back-end and replacing it? I guess it will need some programming though. Have the old comments been transferred BTW?
Kingpin - your idea of You-Mangah eliminating Taker also sounds good because You-Mangah is due for return and might show up at the Rumble but I sincerely hope that feud gets delayed till beyond Mania. I hope that the only one who eliminates Taker from the Rumble this time would be Shawn Michaels through a cheap shot (upon instructions from JBL, as he is not in the Rumble match otherwise) and then reignite the 12 year old rivalry to finish it at Mania with Taker going 17-0. If Taker gets into a rivalry with You-Mangah, it will be too short if it has to end at Mania. Taker's rivalries are usually longer as he sells the opponents and lets them win some matches. The rivalry with Michaels need not be long as Michaels does not need any selling and it will be only refuelling of an old rivalry, the sparks of which we saw in the 2007 and 2008 Rumble matches too.
takerrocks1990 - just because somebody said that they don't see Taker winning the Rumble, it does not mean that they are not true Taker fans. We all want Taker to win everything but we very well damn know that it won't happen that way otherwise the WWE will never be able to create rivalries and story-lines. I want Taker to win too, but I think that he will not win it because unfortunately the WWE don't want him to win it - and that does not mean that I am not a Taker fan by heart and soul (which I can bet that I am as much as anyone on this website if not more). We are just trying to think what could happen in real considering the way the WWE is going these days (where even Vickie slaps Taker and Big SLow knocks him out with one punch).
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