The General Wrestling Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Yeah, but Khali has the obvious misfortune of being a giant.

It doesn't change the fact that he is a clearly inferior worker, even for WOATunga.

[EmpireWF]

Giant Silva was no better...or Kurrgan.

[JayDizzle]

I would eat all the chairshots Foley took versus The Rock in their "I Quit" Match to get one evening with AJ in that outfit she's wearing right now.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Giant Silva was no better...or Kurrgan.

that is fine, but all worse than WOATunga.

[EmpireWF]

Okay, just as long as we agree Otunga is turrrrrrrrrible.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

btw - there has never been a better "sent down to developmental for repackaging" for the WWE than that of Damian Sandow.

He's a classic mid-card heel, great character now. A ridiculous turnaround from being Aaron "The Idiol" Stevens...which was such a ridiculous Indy geek gimmick.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Idol Stevens & KC James get sent down.

KC James comes back up as WWECW pasty jobber Kevin Curtis. Promptly cut.

Stevens comes back up with a gimmick that never fails.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

It took Stevens YEARS to come back though.

[EmpireWF]

Post-TV JR Appreciation.....Vince telling some stories

http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/raw-exclusives-oct-1-2012

Highlights include a really old Vince, Danny Hodge, Bill Watts (they don't have his speech though), Lawler and JR.

[Warner2BruceTD]

It took Stevens YEARS to come back though.

Yeah, he bounced around low level indies and had some shitty matches in Puerto Rico before they signed him back.

He's so good doing the euriodite gimmick that his work almost doesn't matter. He never has a match long enough for me to really break it down, but you don't need to be Yuji Nagata to work WWE midcard so i'm sure he's fine.

[IamMedellin]

I would eat all the chairshots Foley took versus The Rock in their "I Quit" Match to get one evening with AJ in that outfit she's wearing right now.

[FedEx227]

Warner2Bruce Book Review time! Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2012/10/02/booker-t-from-prison-to-promise-life-before-the-squared-circle-review/

Flash forward more than a decade, and it has become clear that Foley’s first memoir opened the floodgates to a burgeoning new book market of wrestling autobiographies. The same publishers who laughed Foley and his original handwritten 800 page memoir out the door, were now green lighting mostly ghost written life stories of just about every wrestler with any semblance of notoriety. Browse Amazon or the sports section of any Barnes & Noble these days, and you will find a bevy of wrestling autobiographies, ranging from good (Ric Flair, Eddie Guerrero) to bad (Hulk Hogan) to laughably bad (Chyna) to legitimately great (Chris Jericho, Terry Funk, Lou Thesz).

What sets Booker T: From Prison To Promise apart from nearly every wrestling book on the market, is that Booker T’s book is not about wrestling.

[FedEx227]

Just leavin this here.

[FedEx227]

[EmpireWF]

http://www.wwe.com/f/doc/2012/09/20120928_DL_FLAIR-INVITE.pdf

WWE posted that in a feature by Heyman talking about "his guys" over the years. It's apparently a flyer Heyman used to promote an event at Studio 64 in '85, he brokered with Crockett and also to kick off Bam Bam Bigelow's career.