The General Wrestling Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Tanahashi-Okada II got an 80 SHARE?!?!

Holy fuck.

[FedEx227]

Japan keeps it simple.

You need not to know ANY Japanese and you can follow storylines. Finishers are sold like a million bucks and protected. Programs are simple to follow and based on something tangible to athletic competition. Heels and faces are easily divisible.

Imagine a gook trying to watch the WWE with subtitles or the gook announce team...shit is too complicated to follow.

It wasn't always that way...even in the 80's, the WWE kept the main programs ridiculously simple. Hell, you need very little explanation to explain the most complex 80's WWE storylines. Now...try explaining Bryan/AJ/Punk/Kane to someone...hell, we can barely make sense of it.

They did a year build of Savage growing weary of Hogan. They had one brawl but otherwise it was literally a year of Macho looking curiously and just moving on. A year. And it drew HUGE.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

They did a year build of Savage growing weary of Hogan. They had one brawl but otherwise it was literally a year of Macho looking curiously and just moving on. A year. And it drew HUGE.

Mega Power Explode storyline was 1y of story and it could be summed up as such...

#1 and #2 face (champion) join forces. #2 face becomes jealous of #1 face and suspects him of trying to steal his girl. #2 face heel turn. Match at biggest event of the year.

FIN.

That took 1 whole year.

80's WWF was very simple. 80's NWA/WCW was very simple. I mean, look at Flair v. Dusty...the characters wrote the feud themselves!

Simplicity of the beauty of good wrestling programming.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Megapowers would form, explode, wrestle twice, and do the blowoff, in the time span of three RAW's & one ppv if it happened in 2012.

[s@ppisgod]

Megapowers would form, explode, wrestle twice, and do the blowoff, in the time span of three RAW's & one ppv if it happened in 2012.

Nah, they'd face off at 4 consecutive PPVs and the crowd would be bored to death with it....

[s@ppisgod]

Megapowers would form, explode, wrestle twice, and do the blowoff, in the time span of three RAW's & one ppv if it happened in 2012.

Nah, they'd face off at 4 consecutive PPVs and the crowd would be bored to death with it....

[FedEx227]

Megapowers would form, explode, wrestle twice, and do the blowoff, in the time span of three RAW's & one ppv if it happened in 2012.

Don't forget Elizabeth would be forced to manage Hogan or something and Savage would put his career on the line.

Also lots of poop jokes.

[Warner2BruceTD]

EVOLVE tonight, tomorrow, Saturday

Tonight (I believe the FUW show is airing too, all for one price)

EVOLVE 14: Generico vs. Del Sol
Florida Underground Wrestling
Thursday, June 28th
The Orpheum
1915 East 7th Avenue
Ybor City, FL 33605
Doors: 7pm
FUW Belltime: 7:30pm
EVOLVE Will Follow FUW Show (approximately 8:45-9:00pm)

This is a double header with EVOLVE and Florida Underground Wrestling. FUW will present a full show at 7:30pm. After FUW, there will be a brief intermission and then a complete EVOLVE card. You get both events for one ticket price!

Tickets will be available at the door tonight!!!
Order the live iPPV now here


EVOLVE Lineup:

The Main Event
El Generico (1-2) vs. Samuray Del Sol (0-2)

Special Attraction Match
Chuck Taylor (8-3) vs. Colt Cabana (0-0)

Style Battle Tournament Match
AR Fox (4-1) vs. Bobby Fish (3-4)

Style Battle Tournament Match Jon Davis (1-3) vs. Tommy Taylor (0-0)

Four Way Freestyle (Non-Title)
Open The Freedom Gate Champion Johnny Gargano (6-4) vs. Tony Nese (0-3) vs. Alex Reynolds (3-0) vs. ??

Shine Preview Match
Sara Del Rey vs. Santana Garrett

Tag Team Action
The Scene Of Caleb Konley & Scott Reed (2-0) vs. Mike Cruz & Cheech (0-0)

In Need Of A Win
John Silver (1-1) vs. Jake Manning (1-1)


Florida Underground Wrestling Lineup:

FUW Main Event
Champion vs. Champion - Belt vs. Belt

FUW Heavyweight Title vs. NWA National Heavyweight Title
Bruce Santee vs. Kahagas

FUW Bruiserweight Title Match
Former WWE Nexus Member Michael Tarver (Champion) vs. The "Greek God" Deimos

Wes Brisco vs. Sam Shaw

FUW Tag Team Title Match
The James Boys (Champions) vs. Kennedy Kendrick & Johnni Armani

Dakota Darsow vs. Maxwell Chicago

FUW Flash Title Match
Lince Dorado vs. Rocky Santiago

[Warner2BruceTD]

Silas Young was a no show, so ?? in the four way is Lince Dorado, who is working the FUW show and is a part timer with EVOLVE/DGUSA anyway, so it was a good fit.

Young was scheduled to face Gargano on the third night, so he may have blown the biggest match of his career. I don't know the story of why he isn't there tonight, might be totally legit, who knows.

[Guest]

Gotta love the simplicity of "can anybody beat this guy?" and "everybody wants titles". Refreshing. Nobody gets 'fired' or 'gets control of the company!!!11' if either man wins.

Though I did love the Triple H/Jericho/Stephanie feud with the undisputed titles and how it culminated in her being fired.

While I get having a storyline or two like that around, no way should they be taking precedence over the main titles, and no way should the past couple John Cena "main events" be put over Punk/Bryan matches. Absolutely stupid, and you would think with the tanking Raw ratings they would get a clue.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Night 2 for Chucky T v. Johnny Gargano and AR Foxx v. Jon Davis looks solid.

[Warner2BruceTD]

JIGSAW making his TNA debut. Same exact look, they called him "Rubix".

[Warner2BruceTD]

Jigsaw and a returning Sonjay Dutt tore the house down.

Dutt's new finisher is awesome. He does a moonsault rotation, but lands with a Low Ki double stomp. Jigsaw looked great.

Impact Wrestling is on fire.

[SHOGUN]

Sonjay Dutt is back and I missed it? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Sonjay Dutt is back and I missed it? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Yeah man, they are doing an X-Division tournament at Destination X for the soon to be vacated belt, and this was a qualifying match. One more tonight, two more next week.

Destination X is shaping up nicely.