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Spike & Shaniqua: They're tough!
by Droz
Sept. 15, 2003  

What a week it has been. By starting off RAW with a Steel Cage Match,
the tone was set for the night. Kane and Rob Van Dam went out there
and put on a spectacular showing. What we saw in the end was not only
RVD being thrown through the cage but, in my eyes, a screw job by
Bischoff. I know, you are either supposed to go over the cage or
through the doorway, but technically, he did get down to the floor. As
a result of the match continuing, Kane took total control and
chokeslammed RVD off the ropes for the 1-2-3. These two have been
going at it for quite some time now, and I would have loved to have
seen Van Dam come out on top. The one bright spot is that at this
Sunday's Unforgiven, we get to see Kane take on Shane McMahon, and we
all know what that means: Shane is going to pull something out of his
bag of tricks to make us chant "Holy s****!"

Quite a few people have e-mailed me and asked me why I never talk
about Spike Dudley. I know in the past I have praised him for his
toughness and, as all of you can see, when he is in the ring he is one
Superstar who earns every penny of his salary by giving up his body
night in and night out. Not that everybody doesn't do that too, but
Spike may be 150 pounds with weights added, and I have seen him take
bumps that should have broken his little body in many pieces. I am
sure that some of you remember when he was with ECW and the things
that he used to go through there. One match in particular that stands
out was between Spike and Bam Bam Bigelow. Near the end of the match,
Bam Bam pressed Spike over his head and tossed him over the ropes and
out into the crowd. Even though he was caught by the members of the
crowd, I couldn't believe what I saw. If you haven't checked out
Spike's article on the commentary page of WWE.com, make sure you do
so, because he talks about his 10 greatest bumps. After what happened
to him on Monday night, I think he might add that as the worst bump he
has ever taken. I was thankful to hear that he was able to get up
after having his head smash on the table like it did, and hopefully he
will get a little time off to heal up.

One quick thought on Lance Storm – wow! Did you see the fan reaction
after he celebrated his victory over Rico?

In my eyes, Lance is one of the top-notch wrestlers out there and the
whole boring thing really bothered me, but now it is great to see the
people getting behind him. Hopefully, in the weeks to come, we will
see more of this and the brass upstairs will give Lance more TV time
to show us just how entertaining he can really be.

As most of you know, I have always been very big on the women's
division. What has really entertained me, though, is the fact that we
have female competitors on both shows who are able to bring us the
goods … no pun intended! On Thursday night, we witnessed a match
between Shaniqua and Dawn Marie. After seeing Shaniqua time and time
again coming out with the Basham Brothers, I was looking forward to
seeing her make her wrestling debut on SmackDown! in singles
competition. Although it was short-lived because she was attacked, I
am hoping to see more of her in one-on-one competition. I think it is
going to be pretty tough for any of the other women to really match up
with her, not from a talent standpoint, but from a physical
standpoint. If you can't tell, this is one very large woman, not in a
derogatory way, but she is just put together like no other female
competitor today. Anyway, I wish her the best of luck.

On Thursday, we remembered the two-year anniversary of the travesty
that occurred on Sept. 11. I am sure that all of us remember where we
were and how we felt when this happened. When I turned the TV on this
past Thursday, there was a memorial being held at the World Trade
Center site. I was only able to watch maybe five minutes of it because
it brought back so many emotions and bad feelings. This is a day that
none of us will ever forget, and hopefully as time goes on, we will be
able to heal. On the show Thursday night, Bradshaw and Faarooq gave a
toast to all our real heroes out there, the men and women of our
police, fire and emergency departments who gave their lives trying to
save the lives of others. What this brings me to is something that I
have stressed all along as our troops have been deployed all over the
world. We need to make sure that we keep them all in our thoughts and
prayers as often as we can, because they are out there for one reason
and one reason only, and that is to protect our way of life.

Until next time …

Droz – Peace


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