The General Wrestling Thread

[Kuzzy Powers]

Linda McMahon, former president and CEO of WWE, failed in her bid for a Senate seat in Connecticut, losing to Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy on Tuesday. This follows her 2010 loss to Richard Blumenthal in the race for the state's other seat in the Senate.

The total cost of losing two elections has ranged from $90 to $97 million, according to estimates. McMahon spent $50 million of her personal fortune in her failed 2010 campaign, and is believed to have spent $40 to $47 million the second time around.
Between both campaigns, McMahon has now spent a cumulative total of over $90 million in pursuit of federal office. That is more than any other American in history.

When the McMahon's fail.. they look to do it in epically expensive fashion.

[JimLeavy59]

Linda McMahon, former president and CEO of WWE, failed in her bid for a Senate seat in Connecticut, losing to Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy on Tuesday. This follows her 2010 loss to Richard Blumenthal in the race for the state’s other seat in the Senate.
The total cost of losing two elections has ranged from $90 to $97 million, according to estimates. McMahon spent $50 million of her personal fortune in her failed 2010 campaign, and is believed to have spent $40 to $47 million the second time around. Between both campaigns, McMahon has now spent a cumulative total of over $90 million in pursuit of federal office. That is more than any other American in history.
WWE Hall of Famer “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, who worked under the employ of McMahon, criticized her exorbitant spending on two failed Senate campaigns in a series of Twitter messages Wednesday. After asking his followers whether McMahon won her race, he wrote, “Can spend 90 million on a losing election but won’t give the people that earned that money for them medical or retirement help of any kind!”
Piper then re-tweeted a message comparing her failed Senate campaigns to another McMahon family outside-the-ring venture that went bust; the World Bodybuilding Federation: “It’s like the WBF all over again; money spent on alternate endeavors earned from the blood & sweat of the boys.”
Continuing to stick up for “the boys,” while also corroborating a rumor that mid-level WWE talent had to cover their hotel and travel expenses during WrestleMania XXVIII week in Miami, Florida despite the sports-entertainment organization generating a record-breaking $102.7 million in economic impact for Miami-Dade County, he also re-tweeted, “They can spend 90 mill on elections but still make midcarders pay their and their family own way for wrestlemania. crazy.”

[FedEx227]

Basically money spent on everything that's not wrestling:

XFL
WBF
WWF New York
WWE Films
Senate campaign
Sugar Ray boxing match

List goes on.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Johnny Curtis is another level of awful.

[Warner2BruceTD]

I like how one of the words in the Curtis vignette is NAUGHTY.

[JimLeavy59]

Man watching this stuff make me weep for the future.

Can't wait for Impact this week though.

[SuperKevin]

I'm going to tna impact tonight. I'm in a ble shirt and old school toronto blue jay hat. I'm trying to get on the rail

[JimLeavy59]

When was the last time someone got put through a table on a RAW?

[FedEx227]

Jim,

Here you go:

Now you can cream yourself over worked shoot promos, unprotected chairshots and aborted pregnancy angles.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I actually dig the Sgt. Peppers-esque cover. Perhaps one of the better box art the E has done.

[JimLeavy59]

Jim,

Here you go:

Now you can cream yourself over worked shoot promos, unprotected chairshots and aborted pregnancy angles.

I don't want that edited shit.


Can't wait to see what Aries does tonight on Impact dude is the best heel on TV right now.

[FedEx227]

Oh right, they may blur out a middle finger.

Fuck the world.

[s@ppisgod]

I must say, I wasn't a big fan of WWF Attitude era between the US/Canada feud until after the failed Invasion angle. I thought it was a lot of trash TV and style over substance. Having said that, I could watch Kurt Angle's milk truck clip on loop for months and still think it was one of the most epic things ever. It was the perfect satire and the perfect guy to pull it off. Total hypocrite move on my part, though. I thought Austin with the beer truck was cheesy as all hell.

[JimLeavy59]

Honestly the AE is very overrated by fans the WWE product was at its best in 2002-2006.

[JimLeavy59]

Already enjoying this new commentary team they should be full time, The new guy is has really improved these past two weeks.