The General Wrestling Thread

[JimLeavy59]

Awesome an all out brawl.

RAW needs to end with more of that.

[Guest]

Been a long time since we've seen one of those. Only thing is, I think they could've made things interesting if Ziggler cashed in MITB after the spear through the table.

[krulmichael]

at the Royal Rumble preview esque ending. A month too early there WWE.

[SuperKevin]

Big Show no sold the hell out of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle

[JimLeavy59]

Big Show no sold the hell out of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle

Seeing how Cena completely missed his faced I don't mind him no selling.


And its nice them kinda back off on HGHback as of late instead of having him come out and just bury The Shield he had a nice back and fourth between him and Reigns.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I legitimately watched RAW in 25 minutes.

WOW...an awful go-home show with nothing of note.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

My guess is that he's just being a placeholder for some random guy. I think the group ends up being about five or six guys as a stable on the roster, with the rest of the group being masked guys as fodder. I'm actually surprised that they wasted 10 minutes at the end of this PPV by ending it how they did- that was a perfect chance to unmask someone else, especially since the "VP" showed up.

I'm pretty sure the "VP" is D'Lo Brown...not sure he'll ever be unmasked.

[EmpireWF]

I legitimately watched RAW in 25 minutes.

WOW...an awful go-home show with nothing of note.

Sheamus & Ziggler
Kofi & Cesaro

Both good matches, probably 20+ minutes between them. Throw in Rhodes/Sandow, Punk beginning the bridge to Rock and who needs the Cena crap?

[Warner2BruceTD]

Cesaro is getting to that point where he delivers every time (as long as you ignore that GOD AWFUL match vs Truth at Survivor Series).

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

One issue I'm having with the RAW matches that are "good"...they are completely nondescript...good, but with no purpose. I could skip them and outside of missing a decent TV *** match, I'm not missing anything in particular.

[Warner2BruceTD]

catching up on the DVR, and EL LOCAL made another appearance on Saturday Morning Slam, doing the honors for Justin Gabriel

[Warner2BruceTD]

Just burned through six episodes of SMS.

They've kinda cooled off on the kid friendly stuff. Yes, they still blur out t-shirts in the crowd, yes they still do goofy segments. But now they do two matches per show, using guys that don't get enough A-show play like Uso's, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kid, Primo & Epico, EL LOCAL (YES!), etc. The matches are just long enough to tell a little story, and just short enough to keep you attention.

edit - just as I say that this show gives the lower card guys some rub, the last ep I watched had a Sheamus match & a John Cena match, with Booker T on commentary.

[JimLeavy59]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/12/11/monday-cable-ratings-monday-night-football-wins-night-catfish-teen-mom-2-wwe-raw-pawn-stars-more/161135/

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/07/03/monday-cable-ratings-wwe-raw-pawn-stars-love-and-hip-hop-atlanta-single-ladies-2-american-pickers-more/140347/

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/01/monday-cable-ratings-monday-night-football-wwe-raw-american-chopper-housewives-of-beverly-hills-more/109328/

Is it safe to say that blaming poor RAW numbers on MNF is a bit silly? Link 1 was from this past Monday, Link 2 is from earlier in the year, and the final link is from last year during a MNF game between The Chiefs and Chargers. I think its safe to say the move to 3 hours on a weekly basis has killed off about 750k-1M viewers.

[FedEx227]

Rich Kraetsch (Joe Lanza DNP-Sick) welcomes hip-hop artist Jon Connor to the program to talk his upcoming projects, where his love of wrestling came from, favorite matches, favorite wrestlers, why he still loves it, how he watches on the road and so much more.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2012/12/12/jon-connor/

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[Warner2BruceTD]

Smackdown tonight, in a small arena with no second deck: