The General Wrestling Thread

[SHOGUN]

[EmpireWF]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but how do you see it playing out?

Mysterio wins and ADR takes it from him.

Unless in his first act as the interim-boss, HHH says screw that and talks about how he will bring back Punk.

[dave]

Mysterio wins and ADR takes it from him.

Unless in his first act as the interim-boss, HHH says screw that and talks about how he will bring back Punk.

Or Cena wins it?

[EmpireWF]

Or Cena wins it?

fuck that shit

[dave]

fuck that shit

Didn't say I want that, it's just a possibility.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'll give props to Mysterio tonight, even as one of his biggest haters of Mysteriold, he brought it tonight. Good work.

They had a perfect set up for tonight's PPV. Off the hot PPV, just have a clean, one night tournament to determine the winner. Miz v. Mysterio would have been strong, I do believe. Have Del Rio come out after and win the title...cool too. Just keep it clean and focus on the tournament. A nice, simple RAW off a great PPV.

But, they halted it all and directed the attention away from Punk, from the world title, to the importance of the belt with a new champion crowned tonight and put it on Vince McMahon, John Cena and fuckin Triple H.

I have no problem with HHH becoming the on-screen power suit, power tie guy, but don't do it on an episode of the show that you dedicated already 1h55m to this tournament to determine the new WWE Champion. Its like I watched this 1h55m for no reason, because it was cut short for that junk.

Do that junk next week, let me enjoy this tournament...

[EmpireWF]

I'll give props to Mysterio tonight, even as one of his biggest haters of Mysteriold, he brought it tonight. Good work.

They had a perfect set up for tonight's PPV. Off the hot PPV, just have a clean, one night tournament to determine the winner. Miz v. Mysterio would have been strong, I do believe. Have Del Rio come out after and win the title...cool too. Just keep it clean and focus on the tournament. A nice, simple RAW off a great PPV.

But, they halted it all and directed the attention away from Punk, from the world title, to the importance of the belt with a new champion crowned tonight and put it on Vince McMahon, John Cena and fuckin Triple H.

I have no problem with HHH becoming the on-screen power suit, power tie guy, but don't do it on an episode of the show that you dedicated already 1h55m to this tournament to determine the new WWE Champion. Its like I watched this 1h55m for no reason, because it was cut short for that junk.

Do that junk next week, let me enjoy this tournament...

Now you have a reason to watch next week, to see the finals.

[Warner2BruceTD]

That RAW sucked out all of the life that Punk infused into the company.

I'm back to not even DVR'ing this shit.

Destination X - very good
Money In The Bank - LEGENDARY

I knew it couldn't last. Back to the japs on youtube. See ya.

[dave]

That RAW sucked out all of the life that Punk infused into the company.

But, again, how can you expect them to live up to that every week?
It's unfair.
He was allowed to break every rule of kayfabe. Doing that every week would diminish its effect. Like I wrote earlier, you can't repeat Rock/Hogan, Austin 3:16, Montreal Screwjob, etc... every week. It's just not possible.

[EmpireWF]

That RAW sucked out all of the life that Punk infused into the company.

I knew it couldn't last.

Being that they're not in front of a hardcore crowd every week, what did you expect?

[Bigpapa42]

But, again, how can you expect them to live up to that every week?
It's unfair.
He was allowed to break every rule of kayfabe. Doing that every week would diminish its effect. Like I wrote earlier, you can't repeat Rock/Hogan, Austin 3:16, Montreal Screwjob, etc... every week. It's just not possible.

Its not even about maintaining the full degree of awesome... Just don't completely tank everything good that's been done. All that worry about Punk leaving with the belt... irrelevant now that they are just going to crown a new champ. The fact that Cena could be fired? The fact that Punk is leaving? All just build to a McMahon feud slash power struggle.

[Warner2BruceTD]

But, again, how can you expect them to live up to that every week?
It's unfair.
He was allowed to break every rule of kayfabe. Doing that every week would diminish its effect. Like I wrote earlier, you can't repeat Rock/Hogan, Austin 3:16, Montreal Screwjob, etc... every week. It's just not possible.

Being that they're not in front of a hardcore crowd every week, what did you expect?

You guys are total apologists.

I'm not asking for MOAR PUNK, i'm asking them to continue the momentum and deliver a hot show. They failed.

[EmpireWF]

Its not even about maintaining the full degree of awesome... Just don't completely tank everything good that's been done. All that worry about Punk leaving with the belt... irrelevant now that they are just going to crown a new champ. The fact that Cena could be fired? The fact that Punk is leaving? All just build to a McMahon feud slash power struggle.

I don't see it as a feud or power struggle. Vince is gone. Hunter is in now.

I do agree that it seemed like shit to make all the uproar about Punk taking the title and then 5 minutes in, everythings okay because you're just crowning a new champ on the same show.

The good thing, it was a wrestling based show and the Punk stuff hasn't even begun.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Its not even about maintaining the full degree of awesome... Just don't completely tank everything good that's been done. All that worry about Punk leaving with the belt... irrelevant now that they are just going to crown a new champ. The fact that Cena could be fired? The fact that Punk is leaving? All just build to a McMahon feud slash power struggle.

Not irrelevent...must needed.

If you are playing off the idea that Punk is actually gone, you need to move on without him and have a tournament to declare a new champion.

I thought it was the perfect way to segment into a new champ and coming off the hot show...a nice base hit, work heavy RAW to crown a new champ.

Then the last 20 minutes was bullshit and it just washed it all away.

[FedEx227]

You guys are total apologists.

I'm not asking for MOAR PUNK, i'm asking them to continue the momentum and deliver a hot show. They failed.

Remember, WWE lately went on a hiring spree of ex-Soap opera writers.

Who do you think wrote the crying "I LUV U POPS!" angle?