The General Wrestling Thread

[Guest]

If Batista comes back next week and joins the Shield, I fucking quit.

He might join the Shield down the line, but he's leaving to promote the Marvel movie now. If he does join the Shield at all, horrible booking decision. I'm still not sold on the Rollins swerve.

[Kuzzy Powers]

I think they turned the wrong guy. Should've been Ambrose, he works much better as a heel IMO, and would've been a nice contrast of styles to the current Shield members. Ambrose is built to play a heel character at all times.

[s@ppisgod]

Rollins also set up the Trips pin at the end of the PPV. At least with Ambrose, you've got a built-in excuse. The guy has been built as psychotic. Completely unpredictable. You never know which direction he's gonna go. He'd be the perfect guy to flip "just because he felt like it." I still don't like the split at this time. Too early in their face run. Their crowd reactions are tops onthe show. They broke them up due to being conditioned to break up factions and because their creative was out of ideas for them. Those are horrible reasons to break up the best thing on the roster that still has run in them....

[Warner2BruceTD]

I think they turned the wrong guy. Should've been Ambrose, he works much better as a heel IMO, and would've been a nice contrast of styles to the current Shield members. Ambrose is built to play a heel character at all times.

This was my initial thought as well, but then somebody brought up the point of needing Ambrose to talk for Reigns.

[EmpireWF]

Well Legends House took a weird turn in the penultimate episode.

At the end of the episode, Pat Patterson goes off about trying to live his life aside from PP the pro wrestler. Made it seem like he's been stressed about being in the closet....but doesn't everyone know he's gay? Maybe he just had to tone that aspect of his personal life down when he's dropping WWE?


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A few times during NXT, they advertised this match for the main event:



Turns out, it was non-title and NOT a no disqualification match.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Read this now: http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/201...june-5-review/

Dylan Hales of all people reviewing Impact was going to be the best thing ever. And it delivered.

I don’t like TNA. It’s not personal, it’s just that TNA isn’t any good. In fact in my estimation TNA is the worst wrestling promotion of all time. Sure there have probably been hundreds of low rent indies filled with backyarders and half-trained guys who couldn’t work at all, but how many of them have ruined the careers and wasted the time of guys even half as good as Homicide or Samoa Joe? How many have consistently put on television shows so illogical and scatterbrained that if someone misses a week it’s impossible to tell who is a face and who is a heel? How many have blown millions of dollars over the course of more than a decade, only to see perhaps their only home grown star of any significance depart and immediately become a bigger drawing card for random untelevised indie feds than he ever was for them? TNA is uniquely awful and it deserves to be regarded as the absolute worst wrestling promotion in history.

[Warner2BruceTD]

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Welp, Tyler Breeze has won me over 100x. To the moon with him.

MMMGorgeous is the best theme music since Sexy Boy. Its the Bad Street, USA for a new generation.

"Dedicated to all of my fans...even the uggos!"

[Guest]

Read this now: http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/201...june-5-review/

Dylan Hales of all people reviewing Impact was going to be the best thing ever. And it delivered.

It's certainly beating WCW's fall right now. Makes me wonder if any of the few remaining veteran talents can even be persuaded to re-sign when the time comes, even if the money is right.

[EmpireWF]

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[EmpireWF]

That Sting deal has nothing to do with him potentially signing with WWE/showing up on TV.

Bryan won't be competing on the PPV so look for them to vacate the strap tonight.

(IMO, whomever ends up winning the belt should be a transitional champion to get it to Brock Lesnar at Summerslam. Hopefully, Bryan will be able to resume his career down the road and they can build up to a Brock/Bryan match in the fall or whenever. Among the active guys, it's the one match that can push the needle)

[Guest]

So can someone tell me why Cena was paired with the Shield tonight? Has to be something absurd.

[EmpireWF]

A wiki of all that's made TNA a joke, from 2002 to now.

http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=LOLTNA_History

It takes a while to load, but it's painfully funny.

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

A wiki of all that's made TNA a joke, from 2002 to now.

http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=LOLTNA_History

It takes a while to load, but it's painfully funny.

I just read a lot of that, good stuff, a lot of things you forget lol

[EmpireWF]

ROH on LIVE PPV next Sunday night (8pm ET, 5pm PT)

ROH World Champ Adam Cole vs. Michael Elgin
ROH World Tag Champs reDRagon vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Matt Hardy & Michael Bennett w/ Maria
Kevin Steen vs. Silas Young
ROH World TV Champ Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven (Truth Martini will be handcuffed to the post)
Roderick Strong vs. Cedric Alexander (Submission match)
Plus 1 more match to be announced this week

Not a spectacular line-up, but I'm expecting Elgin to win the belt and that tag title match should be fucking awesome. Is this Steen's last ROH match?

Anyone planning on buying it (pricing depends on cable/satellite providers)?