Hello my friends, welcome to another episode of Retro Ups and Downs, my name is Simon

Miller, and because we don't usually sit down, I do need to start these videos by saying

I'm sitting down and had some surgery, standing is very hard, but I will get back on my

two feet very soon, and instead, let's talk about No Way Out 2006.

And we all know what the focus was around about this time, because very tragically the

year prior Eddie Guerrero had passed away, so when we were doing a few between Randy

Orton and Ray Mysterio, we made sure that Eddie was front and center.

Now I know loads of people have always gone, oh this is what Eddie Guerrero would have

wanted, and maybe that's true, I don't know, I didn't know the man, I just felt as a fan,

I found all of this very uncomfortable.

It was clear it wasn't helping backstage either, because nobody seemed to know what exactly

to do with Ray Mysterio, like he was in the main event of WrestleMania, then he was

out in the main event of WrestleMania, even though he had won the Royal Rumble, we were

still playing around with the fact that maybe we should take his title shot away with him,

which is what we actually did at No Way Out 2006.

This seemed to be the case all over the shop as well, as Matt Hardy continued to tease

a special guest tag team partner for the evening, and at one point, it absolutely was

meant to be Road Warrior Animal, but then turned out to be Tatanka and yes, in 2006, is

when the wrestling news sites had these rumours that maybe, just maybe, see a punk had some

eat.

Who even knows what this was all about, but everybody was saying he was carrying himself

too much like a star, even though he wasn't a star, but surely the only way you become

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