The General Wrestling Thread

[JimLeavy59]

Its still better then anything WWE has going right now.

[Warner2BruceTD]

The next thing you know, Sean Wheelock, the lead announcer for Bellator and a lifelong pro wrestling fan, was sitting between Mike Tenay and Taz. Little known info is that Wheelock’s hero growing up was Gordon Solie, he always wanted to be a wrestling announcer, but wound up doing soccer and then MMA, and that most Thursday nights when he was a kid, he’d go to Memorial Hall in Kansas City to see Central States Wrestling. Given that Tenay knows just about everything about every territory, they started rattling off the names like Harley Race, Rufus Jones, Bulldog Bob Brown, Bruiser Bob Sweetan, Bob Geigel, Mike George and other area regulars. RVD came out and he wanted a match with Daniels. RVD missed both the frog splash and Rolling Thunder. Daniels got the pin in 4:41 using the ropes. The stuff with Wheelock was hilarious. Totally serious, he noted that he hoped Aces and 8s don’t show up tomorrow night and interfere in all the Bellator matches. Not only that, but during the Bellator show, Wheelock brought that up again, about Aces and 8s interfering, and then they showed Devon at ringside at the Bellator show (it was in Tampa) acting like he’s watching out. They didn’t actually say Devon was there as the ringside enforcer because that would have been silly, but they kind of played it up. Wheelock, during the match also called it a Pier 6 brawl (a Solie cliche) and Tenay joked that he’s probably been waiting all night to say that. Probably his whole life if you want to know the truth.

I missed a lot of Impact last week, including this.

Wheelock deadpanning while putting over Aces & 8's potentially attacking Bellator fighters is beyond awesome. Then the Devon stuff on Bellator, which I did see but it went over my head.

This is fun crossover stuff that Dana White would NEVER do, even while UFC was on Spike and even though there is obvious fan crossover. If you are a fan of both, you probably think it's harmless fun, and if you are a fan of one or the other, it's completely inoffensive and you probably don't even notice.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

So i'm really digging the 'Aces & Eights' thing going on in TNA, but I can't help but think it's going to die the second they finally reveal themselves..."My god folks, that's...that's...THAT'S CLIFF COMPTON! AND MIKE KNOX! And that other guy who was a tard and then a CM Punk lackey!"

Hopefully they have a big name leader in the works, otherwise the 2008 WWE job squad beating the shit out of your top babyfaces for six months is going to look pretty bad.

Wait for it...







Wait for it...

 

[JayDizzle]

I'd retire from wrestling if that happened, Larry.

[IamMedellin]

AJ!

 

AJ!

 

AJ!

[IamMedellin]

Former TNA Knockout Velvet Sky did a photoshoot

[Warner2BruceTD]

The debut of the new Mistico (Dragon Lee) drew 12,000 in Mexico tonight.

[Derrville]

Velvet Sky in a semi bondage shoot

[BigBiss]

Former TNA Knockout Velvet Sky did a photoshoot

wrong side

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'd bring my A-game with ol Velvet.

Destroy that.

[Derrville]

wrong side

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

DO THE RIGHT THING, AJ!!!!

[JimLeavy59]

Quit and go to WWE?

[Warner2BruceTD]

Quit and go to WWE?

He could have done that a long time ago.

He didn't grow up a wrestling fan, so he has no emotional attachment to things like Hulkamania or Wrestlemania or this idea that most guys have that cementing a WWE legacy is the ultimate goal. He's happy in TNA, makes a good living, and probably has heard of how stressful and competitive the WWE can be, and probably wants no part of that shit at this point in his life.

[EmpireWF]

AJ wouldn't be treated at all like a star in WWE. Why bother? He's probably one of the highest paid non-WWE guys over the past decade and they're based out of the south.