The General Wrestling Thread

[EmpireWF]

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

AJ needs to interfere and cause D-Bryan to win the title NOW NOW NOW.

Crazy girls b crazy.

[dave]

I like AJ. She's a little cutey. Not sure how she's a main eventer, but hey.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Alex Shelley, whose contract with TNA Wrestling is set to expire, is reportedly jumping ship to WWE. This is according to former WCW broadcaster Mark Madden. He wrote on Twitter:

"Good luck to Alex Shelley, WWE-bound. A real talent. Let's c if he's used rite. Shame 2c MCMGs break up. Best tag team in U.S."

[Kuzzy Powers]

http://www.wwe.com/classics/wcw/50-greatest-wcw-stars

WWE.com has released a list counting down the top 50 WCW wrestlers of all-time. Eligibility begins with Ted Turner’s purchase of World Championship Wrestling in 1988—anything from Jim Crockett Promotions and NWA predating this is ineligible. Those eligible were rated only on their accomplishments while in WCW, as well as everything from longevity to cultural impact.

 

1. Sting
2. Ric Flair
3. "Hollywood" Hogan
4. Goldberg
5. Kevin Nash
6. Diamond Dallas Page
7. Lex Luger
8. Booker T
9. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
10. Scott Steiner
11. Big Van Vader
12. Scott Hall
13. Dean Malenko
14. "Psycho" Sid Vicious
15. "Stunning" Steve Austin
16. Ron Simmons
17. Arn Anderson
18. Eddie Guerrero
19. The Giant
20. Brian Pillman
21. Rick Steiner
22. Rey Mysterio
23. Barry Windham
24. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
25. Eric Bischoff
26. Rick Rude
27. Chris Jericho
28. Buff Bagwell
29. Billy Kidman
30. Raven
31. The Great Muta
32. Lance Storm
33. Terry Funk
34. Konnan
35. Lord Steven Regal
36. Ultimo Dragon
37. Cactus Jack
38. Michael "P.S." Hayes
39. Curt Hennig
40. Kevin Sullivan
41. Bret "Hit Man" Hart
42. Dustin Rhodes
43. Saturn
44. Bobby Eaton
45. Kanyon
46. Larry Zbyszko
47. Meng
48. Dennis Rodman
49. Juventud Guerrera
50. Jeff Jarrett

[IamMedellin]

I still think Eve is the most useless diva on the roster...



but her Ass was lookin right in that white skirt

[Warner2BruceTD]

http://www.wwe.com/classics/wcw/50-greatest-wcw-stars

Don't know why im bothering, but Ricky Steamboat, Terry Funk, and Bobby Eaton are grossly underrated on that list.

Steamboat should be higher for the Flair trilogy alone. Funk for the Flair stuff after the Steamboat blow off. And Bobby Eaton was the ultimate WCW glue guy. How Eaton (#44), who was there from 1988-the death of it all, ranks below the likes of Raven, Billy Kidman, Saturn, Lance Storm (who was there for like 8 months), and Dean Malenko (#11??) is beyond me, even though its highly unlikely any real thought went into this.

[Aso]

Easily one of the greatest matches of all time.

[wingsfan77]

Santino always cracks me up, I don't know why he waddles down to the ring like that but every time he does I laugh my ass off.

[IamMedellin]

It's been 13 year's since Owen Hart's death...

JBL shared some stories on FB

One of Owen's favorite funny ribs was when (I wasn't there for the one with Lex) he had someone strong press him, like Lex Luger and Owen would hold on to him and not let him press him and then Davey would come in and would press Owen overhead many times in a row and Owen would scream to the crowd how Davey was the strongest in the world-he thought this was hilarious. I saw him do stuff like this to Henry Godwin when we tagged together-Henry would just laugh when Owen would get him. Davey thought everything Owen did was the funniest thing ever-they were like two little kids, a lot of fun being around. Owen would rib if he felt like it-could be a PPV it didn't matter, the world was just fun to him.

Im paraphrasing this next 1..

So Chief Jay Strongbow took Owen to task for something, We went through a phase in WWE where everything had to be 'real', so you only did things you would do in a fight. So Chief Jay asked Owen if he would do that in a fight and Owen said, "No, I would hop around on one foot and whoop" It was one of funniest things I have ever heard of, Chief was so mad he wouldn't speak to Owen for some time. Hilarious.

[EmpireWF]

[Warner2BruceTD]

Great picture from the Mexican version of Family Feud

[Warner2BruceTD]

Vince McMahon, shoe thief.

Frank Deford, generally regarded as one of the best sportswriters who ever lived, and who was a personal mentor of mine some 22 years back when I worked at The National, released a new autobiography this month called “Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter.” In the book, he spoke about Rodney Dangerfield, who he did a series of TV commercials with, and talked about what a jerk he was. Then he said that of all the people he had come across in his life, Dangerfield was only No. 2 on the list, saying No. 1 was Vince McMahon.

This one relates directly to me and I am mentioned in the story briefly. It actually had to do with a story at a birthday party for John Fillipelli in 1991, a close personal friend of Deford who at the time was one of the top executives in WWF. Deford and his wife were at the party, as was Vince and a lot of WWF execs. At the time, Vince was mad at Deford because Deford made the call to hire me, ironically based on the recommendation of one of McMahon’s best friends, Dick Ebersol, as well as the sports editor at the time of the Los Angles Times, John Cherwa. At the party, everyone decided to go bowling. At the bowling alley, apparently there was someone bowling that night named Dick, and Patterson and Vince kept making jokes about penises whenever he’d bowl, which apparently had the Fillipelli family rolling their eyes because these were all upper class types there. Then McMahon and Pat Patterson stole one shoe from Deford as well as his wife while they had their bowling shoes on. Keep in mind these aren’t 20 year olds. Vince at this point is 45 or 46, Patterson is 50, Deford was 52. So when they’re done bowling, the Defords can’t find their shoes and McMahon and Patterson are laughing. So they figure okay, joke, where’s the shoe. But McMahon and Patterson never gave up the shoes and they actually had to leave the party with one shoe each. It’s one thing to do it to a guy, but then doing it to his wife?

But what Deford actually was madder about is that after the death of Chris Benoit, Deford wrote a piece, based on an article I wrote at the time, about deaths in pro wrestling. Since it came from Deford, when McMahon testified before Henry Waxman’s committee, and they brought up the article, McMahon claimed that Deford held a grudge against him because he and his wife had their shoes stolen at a party. The idea that he wrote an article about dozens of dead wrestlers, and Vince’s explanation of the article is that he stole the guys shoes 16 years earlier and he was holding a grudge.

[IamMedellin]

- WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view with the return of Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena in the main event did just over 250,000 pay-per-view buys, based on early numbers.

They drew about 147,000 buys in North America and 104,000 outside of North America.

The 2011 Extreme Rules show did around 108,000 buys.

Source: F4Wonline.com

[EmpireWF]

Oops. Nosawa and lo Shirai arrested at a Japanese airport for attempting to smuggle in weed from Mexico. The drug were hiding in a painting.