In Chris Jericho's newest book, The Complete List of Jericho, Dave Meltzer talked about his top 10 favorite Jericho matches. He was far from the only one, as tons of people in the book gave their top 10 favorite Jericho matches and top favorite Jericho moments. Anyway, in this top 10, he talked about Jericho and Benoit Vs Triple H and Steve Austin. And according to Meltzer, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit Vs Triple H and Steve Austin happened because Vince McMahon was given false information from the cable companies about buyrates.
Here's an abridged version of what he wrote. I didn't include the stuff that talked about the match itself.
"Austin and Triple H did a Pay Per View main event with The Undertaker and Kane that was supposed to start a long program. Then Vince McMahon got the word that the show only did 300,000 buys. While at another time, that would have been a number to celebrate, after 1999 and 2000, it was considered a terrible number. McMahon decided they need to do something new. Heyman was working for WWF by this time, with ECW having just shut down. His suggestion was to make Benoit and Jericho the top babyfaces, and to do so, they'd need to beat the company's two biggest active stars decisively to kick things off. McMahon signed off on it.
In those days, the reporting of Pay Per View numbers was haphazard at best. The company would get an estimate from its cable partners a few days after the show. The number could be off the real number by 20 percent, which is pretty significant. Vince McMahon had told me that his entire business at the time was about drawing big Pay Per View numbers and reacting to those numbers. He was having to make decisions on what was and wasn't working based on numbers that weren't completely accurate. He thought with tens of millions of dollars at stake, how could the cable industry not be able to give him an actual number the day after the event, or at least a few days after. Remember, he came from a business where decisions were based on the live gate, a number the promoter knew midway through the show, and you take that number and tweak your direction based on this.
About a month or two later, McMahon found out that Austin and Triple H Vs Undertaker and Kane actually did closer to 450,000 buys, which wasn't a bad number. Had he known that before, Benoit and Jericho would have never been put over in what was essentially a panic move. Unfortunately, even as great as the match and the ending was, McMahon pivo
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In FPZ's most recent episode of his podcast (Wrestling with Freddie) he dives into his work into the tag team division. He mentioned how he will never get over how he failed in getting The Hart Dynasty (Harry Smith & Tyson Kidd) and the Uso Brothers over.
Vince pulled him aside and told him the quote you see in the headline, which helped Freddie with his booking in the future. Why? "Because it's show business, and the second word is the most important out of the two."
His podcast is decent. Filled with annoying ads but it's little nuggets like these that give us a look into how the mind of Vince and other powerful people in WWE think/thought.
The 2000-01 season has a 99.9999% chance of becoming the only season in NBA history to have 15 Hall of Famers on it's All-NBA teams.
#1st team:
G: Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
G: Jason Kidd, Phoenix
F: Tim Duncan, San Antonio
F: Chris Webber, Sacramento
C: Shaquille O'Neal, Los Angeles
2nd team:
G: Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles
G: Tracy McGrady, Orlando
F: Kevin Garnett, Minnesota
F: Vince Carter, Toronto
C: Dikembe Mutombo, Philadelphia
3rd team:
G: Gary Payton, Seattle
G: Ray Allen, Milwaukee
F: Karl Malone, Utah
F: Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas
C: David Robinson, San Antonio
On GB News having a chummy pint with Farage yesterday, shilling for China. Great look for the Liberal Democrats.
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There were some "desultory" discussions between members of TIG and the Lib Dem leadership about some of them defecting to the Lib Dems, but there was a perception among most of them that they were better off with a new brand rather going with a party with a "toxic" reputation.
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TIG had apparently not been planning to make their move this soon but their hand was forced, apparently, by the circumstances of Luciana Berger.
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Vince seemed very open to exploring deep collaboration with TIG but said he was reluctant to do anything that would imperil the Lib Dems' history and organisation.
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He seemed doubtful that Dominic Grieve would jump ship to TIG, saying that while he shares a commitment to Remain he was committed to dying a Tory.
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He said he put the odds at 50-60% for a variety of Theresa May's deal being passed, only 10% for No Deal, and that a People's Vote still had a real shot. The best chance for it, he suggested, was actually that it emerged as a compromise among Tory front benchers as a way through parliamentary impasse. In such a case he worried that the SNP would actually vote against the motion from a commitment to oppose the Tory government at every step.
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He suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's unwillingness to challenge Brexit stemmed partly from his well known socialist opposition to the EU, but more fundamentally, as a "revolutionary socialist" he believes Corbyn seeks positive change through chaos and upheaval (chaos is a ladder etc).
On a personal note, I was really impressed at how frank Vince was and how many questions he took from the small audience.
Huck Fogan
