For balance, I think there'd be a similar furore if a Brazilian wrestler went over to the States and desecrated "old glory".

People commit crimes all the bloody time in WWE.

Such as? Every time they go on about there being an 'assault' in the ring, it's not actually a crime, because a) both parties have signed off on it, and b) it's staged.

You're confusing something that appears to be a crime with something that actually is a crime. Jericho kicking that flag was a criminal offense in Brazil, whether he was acting a bad guy role or not.

I'm not confusing anything with anything. Crimes outside of the ring, running people down with cars, blatantly corrupt people in charge of a publicly traded company, assassination attempts, etc etc. All are 'crimes', and they stage them all the time.

That kicking a flag can actually be a crime is both hilarious and horribly repulsive, especially in one of the murder capitals of the world. That is one part of what I am saying.

if it was filmed for TV somewhere I am sure they wouldn't prosecute the actor. Maybe they should have got dispensation or something. That doesn't change my mind that it's an utterly ridiculous thing to threaten to charge someone with.

Sure. But you said "people commit crimes all the time in WWE". What I'm saying is that no, they don't. Kicking a flag is a crime in Brazil. That wasn't staged - he actually did commit the crime. The fact that it's a moronic law doesn't change the fact that it's a law.

Wasn't someone fired in the last couple of years for dissing the troops in America?

People are patriotic; silly, sadly.

I agree with Curiosity.

I agree with Craster.

I'm struggling with that comparison, solely because I can't think of anything that's a crime in this country that you would actually do for real, rather than faking, while filming. I'll keep thinking.

I agree with My Kissyfur.

Also if anyone's looking to plug their ECW collection with any missing bits, I found a great repository here to Rapidshare links.

For anyone still following Scott Steiner on Twitter, he's being really quite good at the moment. A few days of silence and he pops up today saying someone at TNA he respected asked him to stop, so he did. It's taken him about an hour to u-turn and start again. mazin.

During Dave Meltzer's radio show for The Wrestling Observer, he reported that Paul "Triple H" Levesque is not allowing Mick Foley to be used on TV since his return in November.

Meltzer reported that Triple H slams Foley whenever his name is brought up in creative meetings. Brian Gerwitz, WWE's Senior Vice President of Creative Writing thinks Foley is a creative and good performer, but Levesque says Foley 'doesn't look tough' and can't be taken seriously as an in-ring performer.

A former WWE creative writer said to Power Slam in 2008 that Levesque would always insult Foley when he appeared for the company and hurt his value in the eyes of Vince and Stephanie McMahon.

Levesque was quoted as saying: "Foley is an out-of-shape nobody. No one cares about him at all. Funaki puts more asses in the seats than Foley does. He should pay us for coming on our shows."

It is believed that the reason Triple H does this is because he is irritated over the opinion from his closest co-workers that his matches with Foley in 2000 "made him a star".

Pah, the best performers the WWE has ever had where Foley and Al Snow.

Pah, the best performers the WWE has ever had where Foley and Al Snow.

You never saw Dick TOGO!

It's time....

WTF - just saw last week's RAW. He's 57!