The General Wrestling Thread

[SHOGUN]

Was Haskins the guy who bombed on the PPV a few months back against Doug Williams? Or was that Robbie Brookside?

Yup, that was him.

[Derrville]

Awesome Impact tonight.

[IamMedellin]

Hulk Hogan Lulz

Can anyone name me one single person on this earth who tells more tall tales than Hulk Hogan? ANYONE? Hogan’s latest is that before he broke into wrestling, he was a bass player in a band which is a true story. What people do not know is that he was approached by Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and asked to be the bass player for Metallica but he declined. He said this. In another doozy, he claimed that he was originally contacted on three separate occasions to play the lead role in the Academy Award nominated movie the Wrestler but he turned down director Darren Aronofsky due to the fact that it was such a great script and he felt the movie would get unfair criticism since critics do not like him personally. WOW.

[JayDizzle]

Hogan is KING BULLSHITTER... but I'd still love to pick his brain before he goes senile.

As for IMPACT, Bully Ray may be an asshole in real life but the gimmick of "The Largest Calves in the World" is gold through him.

Also, Haskins shouldn't be building the same ring Aries wrestles in, let alone fight him in it...

[JayDizzle]

Watch while you can

EDIT: Link to Botchmania 200 with Steen intro

[SHOGUN]

Bully Ray has been on fire since he went solo. I actually look forward to his segments.

[s@ppisgod]

Bully Ray is great. A lot of it is just him having ridiculously good mic skills. But I think what's lost nowadays is the straight up and down asshole heel. I mean, in an age where everyone is either a monster heel or a subtle or condescending heel or a cool heel, no one seems to want to be the guy that people want to reach through the TV screen and slap around. That was something that wasn't in short supply when I was growing up, but none of the big boys seem to want to do it anymore. WWE's heels are all canned. Henry is a monster. Kane is a monster (though technically a tweener because he's giving face Cena advice and he brought fire back from his trip to hell to share with everybody). Miz is a chickenshit heel/3rd rate serious Jericho. Jericho isn't even a heel yet. Barrett is a smarmy heel. Dolph is a cocky heel. None of these losers could/would pick a fight with an old lady. Where as I could easily see Bully Ray doing that as a hobby in his down time. Call me old fashioned when it comes to heels, but that's downright endearing...

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Bubba is just a natural NY ass hole. One of the greatest instigators on the mic in wrestling history.

Bubba would have smart marks at the ECW arena wanting to whoop his ass at house shows after he'd go all-in on them on the mic...he's just a NY ass hole.

He's bad in the ring, but he's always good as a character, either in a team or as a singles guy, just as long as you let him be his natural NY ass hole self.

[SHOGUN]

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W2B and I talked about this in the CB earlier, but The Bravado Bandwagon not off to a hot start in NOAH. They look really off compared to their ROH work for some reason. I think they'll adapt sooner or later.

[Warner2BruceTD]

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W2B and I talked about this in the CB earlier, but The Bravado Bandwagon not off to a hot start in NOAH. They look really off compared to their ROH work for some reason. I think they'll adapt sooner or later.

Thanks for this.

I believe this is from the 1/21 show. This is the one show from the tour that I hadn't downloaded, because I hate that depressing building that they run when they do this particular spot show.

This is the only televised tag they did on the tour to my knowledge, and it was significantly better than the singles matches that I watched (yes, I realize it's clipped, but still). Maybe they just seem lost when they aren't working together. Who knows.

Anyway, working this tour will only make them better.

[krulmichael]

The admission of trolling by Y2J. This feud with Punk is going to be epic...stealing the show at WM.

[EmpireWF]

Well looks like R Truth got a concussion because Miz failed to catch him.

[krulmichael]

Well looks like R Truth got a concussion because Miz failed to catch him.

Yep. Wonder who they replace him with.

[JayDizzle]

Looks like light work for Killings the next 2 weeks while Miz continues his descent back to the Mid-card then.

It's shitty but who else can they swap in if Miz gets punished and Killings can't go?

Maybe Henry unless he's still legit hurt?

[Warner2BruceTD]

Henry is legit hurt.