The General Wrestling Thread

[Derrville]

[Leftwich]

WWE's biggest personnel mistake in many years was passing on this guy.

Aries and Daniels are really the only reason i watch TNA. I said it a bunch of times and i'll say it again, he is my favorite wrestler right now and only outdone for all time by SCSA because of the nostalgia.

[Warner2BruceTD]

For consistency in match quality, Aries is upper echelon in his era worldwide. He's that good. And his charisma & personality has always been underrated. He's the total package.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

WWE's biggest personnel mistake in many years was passing on this guy.

They didn't just pass on him...they passed on him FOR TOUGH ENOUGH.

WTF?!

He's short, and kind of a dick, but he'll show up every night and work his ass off. He'd be excellent in NXT. He's fantastic in TNA and everyone around him basically goes through the motions. Imagine Aries working with talent that gives a fuck. It'd be awesome.

[s@ppisgod]

They didn't just pass on him...they passed on him FOR TOUGH ENOUGH.

WTF?!

He's short, and kind of a dick, but he'll show up every night and work his ass off. He'd be excellent in NXT. He's fantastic in TNA and everyone around him basically goes through the motions. Imagine Aries working with talent that gives a fuck. It'd be awesome.

Aries/Ambrose feud would be epic. Total clash of styles promo-wise, and great in-ring to boot.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Ivelisse Valez gets let go, Matt Cross gets cut week 2, SKID MARKS makes it nearly to the end, that no charisma guy wins the damn thing, and the worst person in the entire bunch, Melina vs Alicia Fox girl, is the only one to make TV.

That show made no fucking sense on any level. Everybody was lost, Austin, Stratus (who really came off badly as a no nothing hack in my opinion), yes men Demott & Booker T, all of them. Horrendous talent evaluations all around.

Maybe they passed on Aries because they knew he'd blow everybody else away. He wouldn't have been intimidated by Austin's act in the eliminations, and he wouldn't have struggled with doing flat back bumps ffs. They likely wanted amateur geeks who would look bad and make good TV. They had Cross & that Martin guy to fill the experienced worker void. So really, Aries probably lost out to those guys, not the scrubs. They needed a scrub quota.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Ivelisse Valez gets let go, Matt Cross gets cut week 2, SKID MARKS makes it nearly to the end, that no charisma guy wins the damn thing, and the worst person in the entire bunch, Melina vs Alicia Fox girl, is the only one to make TV.

That show made no fucking sense on any level. Everybody was lost, Austin, Stratus (who really came off badly as a no nothing hack in my opinion), yes men Demott & Booker T, all of them. Horrendous talent evaluations all around.

Maybe they passed on Aries because they knew he'd blow everybody else away. He wouldn't have been intimidated by Austin's act in the eliminations, and he wouldn't have struggled with doing flat back bumps ffs. They likely wanted amateur geeks who would look bad and make good TV. They had Cross & that Martin guy to fill the experienced worker void. So really, Aries probably lost out to those guys, not the scrubs. They needed a scrub quota.

You might be right...I mean, seriously...you are going to put Austin Aries, already one of the best wrestlers in the world on Tough Enough with bums? But it would have made for fantastic TV. He's such a dick, has acting classes under his belt, he would have been great in a reality TV setting. Stone Cold, too, is good in that kind of environment. It would have made for good TV, especially if they had plans to have Aries go to the end. Having he v. Austin matching wits would have been awesome.

Imagine Austin fucking Aries taking advice from fucking Bill DeMott.

[Warner2BruceTD]

TNA seating chart. My friend @FriscoKTank is there and has access to it. Everything not highlighted is being tarped off. The building is about 120 miles from Dallas, so it's not really close to any big cities.

He has $20 4th row seats off the floor. Not comps, but way discounted and got to move to closer.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Why. Run. These. Buildings. You. Can't. Come. Close. To. Fillling?

$60,000 through the shredder, folks.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Sinclair just bought a bunch of new networks for close to $1B. They could easily burn cash and run ROH shows in basketball arenas for vanity reasons, but I suspect the reason Sinclair is a billion dollar operation is because they don't do shit for vanity reasons.

Tuck that tail and head back to Orlando, brother.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Why. Run. These. Buildings. You. Can't. Come. Close. To. Fillling?

$60,000 through the shredder, folks.

That shit makes no sense to me.

They are like dogs chasing cars, even if they caught one, they wouldn't know what to do with it.

[FedEx227]

Why. Run. These. Buildings. You. Can't. Come. Close. To. Fillling?

$60,000 through the shredder, folks.

Uh, isn't it $600,000?

[JayDizzle]

We're gonna get A.J. vs. Aries tonight and now we have Bobby Roode bitchin' about his spot again.

That's a lot of saliva you got there, John Boy.

[JayDizzle]

Hernandez better win after that fuckin' Superman Plancha from the stage, over the top rope and into Roode.

EDIT: One of the worst finish excuses I've seen in a while.

Ref's clearing the ring of chairs Roode chucked in and then asks why there's all this glass in the ring after not seeing Bobby brain Super-Mex with a beer bottle.

Obviously Hernandez didn't do it to himself, duder.

As close to a DQ as you can get away with that I've seen.

[JayDizzle]

If there was any more glass on the mat, you'd think Axl Rotten, Hayabusa, Foley and Funk had a get-together before a big Deathmatch.