The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

What makes the style so hard compared to others? The bumps? Or just in general?

It's just very physical. Stiff.

But the biggest difference, is if these guys were in WWE they would have surgery and be given time off. In Japan, you work through injury unless it's impossible to do so. The mentality is with the touring system, you get a few weeks on, a few weeks off, and you are expected to work the tours and do one or two really hard physical matches per tour unless you are seriously injured. Even then, if you blow out a knee or something, you are expected to finish the tour before you get surgery. This happened to Tetsuya Naito last year. He tore an ACL and worked all of his advertised dates before he got it taken care of and took time off to rehab.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Fan in South Africa low blowed Orton after match....LOL @ Orton selling it for a couple of secs til he realized it wasn't a work. Apparently he has no balls.

I LOVE how the guy goes for the wrestling style low blow.

[krulmichael]

I LOVE how the guy goes for the wrestling style low blow.

It's like he was training for months just for that moment. Hopefully the E signs him.

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[EmpireWF]

Source from prowrestling.net

ROH has reportedly forced several wrestlers under contract to remove their shirts from direct sales via One Hour Tees. According to a source, the wrestlers were told to take down their shirts or ROH would stop selling their merchandise on the ROH website and at ROH events.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Source from prowrestling.net

I had a feeling that was going to happen.

Can't blame ROH, they are losing merch sales.

Michael Elgin has tweeted non stop about this, I think they gave them 24 hours to close their stores.

[Kuzzy Powers]

With Ortiz signing with Bellator, there is already a lot of speculation that he signed a deal with Spike TV, Bellator & TNA, (similar to that of Rampage) - and that he's the man behind the ongoing #August1Warning campaign.

Seen you bums speculating about this..

[Kuzzy Powers]

It's like he was training for months just for that moment. Hopefully the E signs him.

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The WWE fan who attacked Randy Orton in the ring at Tuesday night's WWE Live Event from Cape Town, South Africa is 20-year-old pro wrestler Tshepo Sekhabi, known in the ring as "Jozi the Wrestling Machine."

In an interview with South African news website ENCA.com, Sekhabi claims he quit his job in order to attend the event. The attack was premeditated - and he ended up with a black eye and a swollen face as a result of Randy Orton kicking him in the face as he was being pulled from the ring by security.

As for why he decided to jump the security gate, hit the ring and low blow Randy Orton, he told ENCA:

"I just don’t like Randy Orton, this was an opportunity for me so I got up there and made a name for myself.”

Contrary to previous reports, Sekhabi was not "formally" arrested but was given a five year ban from the casino resort where the WWE event was being held.

WWE was contacted about whether Randy Orton would apologize for kicking the fan in the face. They issued a statement, saying:

"Randy Orton was the victim in this incident and suffered an injured groin."

[Kuzzy Powers]

Awesome.

[Guest]

So two TNA live events (I guess over the weekend) ended up with combined attendance of 2500. The Wednesday morning walk-through practice with bad weather for the Redskins had over 2600 people.

[s@ppisgod]

That's actually a respectable number for them. Look back a couple of pages and see that picture for the show they did in Missouri where guys failed to get their license. Awful attendance.

[Guest]

That's actually a respectable number for them. Look back a couple of pages and see that picture for the show they did in Missouri where guys failed to get their license. Awful attendance.

I just posted that for a little "lulz" but I get the point. For house shows, those are good numbers. Probably the better number is that most of the "live" audiences don't match up to the actual practice for the Redskins that day, which was over 5,000 people.

[JayDizzle]

I honestly want to know why we continuously hear stories about why wrestlers neglect to get work-Visas and licenses and the like before shows, etc.

To me, it's a built-in excuse to no-show and piss off the people who paid money to see you.

Now if you can't wrestle in certain countries because of having a record (like R-Truth and MVP), then I can see getting a free pass.

[FedEx227]

My thought is it's not on the wrestlers to do that necessarily. Sure, you SHOULD know about all the facts about every state you wrestle in but not if you're tied to a company. If you're a freelancer, yeah, you should know that Missouri has this, Illinois has this, etc. But for TNA and WWE, they need to clear these guys from a corporate level.

[Leftwich]

I really enjoy this smiley

[Warner2BruceTD]

I really enjoy this smiley

WWE's biggest personnel mistake in many years was passing on this guy.