According to 411, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper has been diagnosed with Lymphoma and will begin fighting the disease immediately. He has made the following statement:

"It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life. But this fight, is one I am gonna win!"

Of course, we here at OO wish Piper all the best.

For SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007, which released today (but it could be a while before I can pick it up), Matt and I came up with an ultimate Legends Wrestlemania.

The rules were simple:

1. Each Legend in the game had to be used.
2. Each character could only be used once.
3. Legend vs. current superstar is always preferable.

With those rules in mind, here's what we came up with, we haven't done the finetuning for card order yet:

• Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Snitsky
• The Hart Foundation (Bret "The Hitman" Hart & Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart) vs. Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit
• Cactus Jack vs. Umaga
• Dude Love vs. Booker T
• Dusty Rhodes vs. JBL
• Eddie Guerrero vs. Shawn Michaels (after Eddie's death, Shawn confirmed this match never happened)
• Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin & John Cena vs. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, The Rock & Edge in a "Generations" Six Man Elimination Tag Team Match
• Mankind vs. Rob Van Dam
• Mr. Perfect vs. Triple H

Let me know your thoughts!

Also announced: the specs for WWE's new DVD about the old American Wrestling Association, "The Spectacular History of the AWA."

• Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens vs. The High Flyers - August 23, 1971
• Verne Gagne vs. Baron Von Raschke - July 13, 1974
• Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens vs. Frank Hill & Billy Robinson - May 20, 1978
• Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon vs. Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura - March 22, 1980
• Verne Gagne vs. Nick Bockwinkel - May 10, 1981
• Verne Gagne & Jim Brunzell vs. Jesse Ventura & Adrian Adonis - August 31, 1981
• Nick Bockwinkel vs. Hulk Hogan - April 18, 1982
• Jesse Ventura vs. Baron Von Raschke - March 18, 1983
• Hulk Hogan vs. Masa Saito & Massao Hattori - April 28, 1983
• The Road Warriors vs. The Crusher, Larry Hennig, & Curt Hennig - January 13, 1985
• Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty vs. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers - December 25, 1986
• Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig - May 2, 1987
• Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich - December 13, 1988

The DVD, which also features a two-hour documentary about the promotion itself, will be released a week from this Tuesday.

The specs for World Wrestling Entertainment's new DVD "ECW: Extreme Rules," set for release on January 30th, have been announced.

Disc One - Old-School ECW:

• The Sandman vs. Cactus Jack - July 1, 1995
• The Gangstas vs. The Eliminators in a cage weapons match - August 24, 1996
• Tommy Dreamer vs. Brian Lee in a scaffold match - October 26, 1996 (with optional commentary with Dreamer and Jonathan Coachman)
• The Sandman vs. Sabu in a Stairway To Hell match - January 10, 1998
• Bubba Ray, D-Von, & Big Dick Dudley vs. The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, & Spike Dudley in a street fight - August 2, 1998
• Sabu vs. Tazz in a death match - March 21, 1999
• Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka - December 31, 1999
• Steve Corino vs. The Sandman vs. Justin Credible in a Tables, Ladders, Chairs, & Canes match - January 7, 2001

Disc Two - The New ECW:

• The Dudley Boyz vs. Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman - June 12, 2005
• Rey Mysterio vs. Rob Van Dam - June 7, 2006
• Rey Mysterio vs. Sabu - June 11, 2006
• Mick Foley, Edge, & Lita vs. Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk, & Beulah McGillicutty - June 11, 2006
• The Big Show vs. Rob Van Dam - July 4, 2006
• The Big Show vs. Ric Flair - July 11, 2006
• Rob Van Dam vs. Sabu in a ladder match - August 16, 2006
• Rob Van Dam & Sabu vs. Test & Mike Knox - September 5, 2006
• Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly - July 26, 2006

The third Survivor Series match has been announced:

In a four-on-four elimination match, it'll be Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes, & Sgt. Slaughter, with Arn Anderson in their corner, vs. Kenny, Johnny, Mikey, and Nicky of the Spirit Squad.

The second match for the Survivor Series has been announced on WWE.com: John Cena, Kane, Rob Van Dam, Sabu, and Bobby Lashley vs. The Big Show, Finlay, Test, Umaga, and MVP in a traditional five-on-five elimination match.

WWE.com has announced the first match for Survivor Series this year.

In a traditional 5 on 5 elimination match:

Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy & C.M. Punk

vs.

Edge, Randy Orton, Johnny Nitro, Gregory Helms & Mike Knox

Q&D Cyber Sunday Results

Courtesy 411 for voting results:

Umaga defeated Kane with a Leaping Samoan Strike (Kane wins the poll as Umaga's opponent with 49% of the vote)

Cryme Tyme defeated Murdoch & Cade and Haas & Viscera and The Highlanders in a Texas Tornado Match when Murdoch & Cade hit the Hi-Low on Robbie, and Cryme Tyme steal the pin (Texas Tornado: 50%)

Jeff Hardy defated Carlito to retain the WWE Intecontinental Title with the Swanton Bomb (Carlito: 62%)

Edge & Randy Orton defeated DX (Eric Bischoff special guest referee) when Randy Orton RKOed HHH on a chair (Bischoff: 60%)

Lita defeated Mickie James to WIN the WWE Women's Title in the Tournament Final in a Lumber-Jill Match with a DDT (Lumber-Jill Match: 46%)

Ric Flair & "Rowdy" Roddy Piper defeated The Spirit Squad (Kenny and Mikey) to WIN the WWE World Tag Team Titles when Mikey tapped to the Figure Four while Kenny and Piper were brawling. (Piper: 46%)

King Booker defeated John Cena & The Big Show to win the Champion of Champions Match and retain the WWE World Title when Booker pinned Cena after nailing him with the World Title Belt. K-Fed came into the ring and mocked Cena after the match. (World Title: 67%)

During the event, Booker and Sharmell tried proposing to Cena that they gang up on The Big Show (Sharmell had earlier tried proposing the same exact thing to Show and was rebuffed.) When Cena said that the cost would be a night with Sharmell, it made the two slip out of their affected British accents, and Booker briefly sent Sharmell away. Booker then ACCEPTED the deal, to which Cena asked what was wrong with him. As Sharmell walks back in, Cena then says he wants:

• Sharmell
• A 2x4
• Finlay's midget
• A bottle of Yager
• Booker to watch

This causes Ron Simmons to come in and give us his "DAMN." of the night.

Also, this PPV is now historic as Roddy Piper now has TWO WWE Titles for his career. Matt and I were brainstorming as well, and as far as we can figure it, he may very well be the ONLY person so far to win a WWE title AFTER his induction to the Hall of Fame.

These are my personal picks for the top 5 influential matches on the wrestling industry of all time:

5. Shane Douglas vs. 2 Cold Scorpio, NWA World Title Tournament Final, August 27th, 1994

Shane wins the title, throws it down, NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling dies, and Extreme Championship Wrestling is born, a little company so beloved and imitated that it was actually brought back 5 years after it went bankrupt.

4. Lex Luger, Randy Savage & Sting vs. Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & A Mystery Partner, WCW Bash at the Beach 1996, July 7th, 1996

Here, you have the formation of the New World Order, and at the time, the most shocking heel turn of all time. This is the angle that nearly KILLED the WWF.

3. Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart for the WWF Title, Survivor Series 1997, November 9th, 1997

And here's half of what saved it. At the time, you would think this match would be influential because of Bret Hart's defection, but through no to little fault of Bret's, WCW completely pissed him away. I still say if he could have just gotten over the whole "screwed" thing, he could have seen WWE actually let him go when he CLEARLY never really lost the title... even Hogan clearly laid down before he left.

What this is influential for is that this directly led to the infamous "Bret screwed Bret" interview which created the character of Mr. McMahon, which is still drawing money for WWE to this day. Which leads to...

2. Steve Austin vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts, King of the Ring Tournament Finals, King of the Ring 1996, June 23rd, 1996

The birth of Austin 3:16 and the start of the big ride for Stone Cold Steve Austin.

It wasn't supposed to be anything that made him big and popular. Austin was a heel, and they wanted to keep him that way despite the fans' cheering for him. So as a last ditch effort, they have him beat Jake Roberts, who (at the time) was professing to have found Christ, and have him say the quote as an insult to his religion. You can see Dok Hendrix (Michael Hayes) giving the interview and backing away in revulsion at the statement.

But it just made him more popular than ever, and there were just a ton of Austin 3:16 signs at the next show, so they just made the shirts and started printing their own money... especially Austin, who had the foresight to put a hefty share of merchandise rights into his contracts.

The NWO angle nealy killed the WWE. Austin/McMahon saved it. But it wouldn't be what it was in the first place without...

1. Hulk Hogan vs. The Iron Sheik for the WWF Title, January 23rd, 1984

The birth of Hulkamania.

This changed everything.

Hogan had just recently had a small part in Rocky III and Vince parlayed that minor celebrity, essentially stealing him from the AWA and starting this wave of Hulkamania. on the Ultimate Hulk Hogan Anthology, a lot of superstars talk about how being fans of Hogan was what got them to want to be wrestlers. John Cena in particular said THIS match was the first match he ever watched and it made him a fan, and helped him bond with his parents as they watched together.

Apparently though, Verne Gagne was less than happy with Hogan's desertion/theft. The Iron Sheik tells a story on both the Hogan Anthology and the Greatest Wrestling Superstars of the 80s DVD (in fact, it seems to be the same footage, except the 80s DVD is subtitled since Sheik has a heavy accent) that Gagne offered him $100,000 (a lot of money in 1984 terms) to break Hogan's leg during the match and come to the AWA with the WWF belt. Sheik refused on the basis that it would violate his religious beliefs, particularly because the elder Vince McMahon always treated him well.

That's my five. Comments?