The General Wrestling Thread

[FedEx227]

Is that the WWE Divas title? Awful.

That's the first I've seen of it even though I did read that it looked like a Divas title.

It's worse.

What a joke.

 

[Bigpapa42]

This is probably going to be the worst TNA PPV buyrate ever. Meltzer was saying he wouldn't be surprised if the buyrate is somewhere around 8,000. They didn't even announce the main event on Impact of the last show before the PPV.

It's a total mess.

There was not one match on that card that was a real "PPV quality" match-up. The tag title match was pretty good and I found the Knockouts one not too bad either. But every match could have been on Impact and not felt like any sort of special attraction.

That belt looks fuggin ugly.

Some rumors floating about that Papa Carter is tightening the purse strips and Mama Carter may have gotten involved with the money end. Free money ride for TNA could be coming to an end - time to function like an actual business.

 

[IamMedellin]

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Kaz Hayashi (c) vs. Keiji Mutoh - All Japan Jr Title

Kaz Hayashi (c) vs. Keiji Mutoh - All Japan Jr Title

This is the match where Muta legit cut weight to make junior heavyweight. Video has all prematch hype including the wieght in.

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[Warner2BruceTD]

Well, I just watched this match.

FUCKING. AWESOME.

Muta has no knees, but fuck can this guy still build a match. Great psychology, awesome finish.

Stick around for the postmatch. I like to think Hayashi was saying "Fuck all of you, i'll beat all your asses. Suckas."

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Add Brooke Adams to the list of TNA "stars" working mkinimum wage jobs to make ends meet.

Adams is working part time at an Orlando Hooters.

 

[SHOGUN]

Kurt Angle: "If I lose any of my matches on my way to the belt, I'm going to retire. Title or bust."

*Angle loses*

Kurt Angle: "I may have lost my match, but I didn't get pinned. So technically I didn't lose."

Team 3D: "We've done everything in this business and we want to go out on top. Our match against the MCMG is going the final match of our career."

*Team 3D loses*

Team 3D: "Thanks for supporting us, this is goodbye."

*Bubba suddenly turns on D-Von*

LOLTNA. Why bother to play up retirement matches when you're just going to find some way to make it null and void for these point fucking Russo swerves. They can't even give a legitimate reason why Bubba turned on D-Von, he's just PMSing. What a joke.

Robbie E./Cookie vs. Lethal/Wilde was GARBAGE. It felt like was watching an extended version of a Knockouts match, but the problem was that it was mainly Lethal and Robbie E. in the ring. Yeesh.

I'm so sick of the referee shenanigans. Some silly shit happens every fucking week. They are running it into the ground.

On more positive notes, Stevie Richards vs. AJ Styles was a damn good TV match, RVD vs. Kazarian was solid, The Pope/Bischoff segments were good, Heel Hardy was actually really good and Lacey Von Erich has left TNA to pursue other interests.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Stevie Richards always delivers when it comes to 6 minute tv matches. ALWAYS.

 

[FedEx227]

The ref with all the shenanigans is Bischoff's legit son, right?

 

[SHOGUN]

The ref with all the shenanigans is Bischoff's legit son, right?

:yep:

Which probably means that young Bischoff is going to be the ref to screw Morgan at his next title shot.

 

[FedEx227]

I love TNA.

 

[IamMedellin]

oh christy

 

 

[Bigpapa42]

Still avoiding TNA Impact on TV. But apparently the Robbie E/Cookie/Lethal/whoever match was retaped after the show as over as the something went wrong with the first try. If what they put on TV was the retake and it was atrocious (as I've heard from a few folks), then just imagine for a moment how hard the first try must have sucked.

 

[Cody]

Anyone else watching the Otunga vs Edge lumberjack match?

 

[SHOGUN]

Thinking of buying the Best of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, X-Division, and Raven from TNA.com in December as an X-Mas gift to myself. They are cheap and most of the footage should be pre-Dixie TNA.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I've seen the AJ Styles DVD. If it's the same one i'm talking about, from about 4 or 5 years ago called "Phenominal" (or something like that), it's very good.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

RAW is immense tonight.

They need to do this all of the time.

 

[IamMedellin]

I wanna see michael cole choked out with a strap-on

 

[dave]

RAW is immense tonight.

They need to do this all of the time.

IMO, old school WWF was always better ... because they only needed to concentrate on four pay per views, and the Internet didn't exist - which made the surprises seem like a surprise.
Hell, I remember buying wrestling magazines in the late 80s to read new shit.

 

[Cody]

Loved the Retro theme.