The General Wrestling Thread

[dave]

Is anyone else as bored of Randy Orton as I am?

Everything he does makes me yawn. His stupid shtick of moving slowly, slapping the mat, his monotone style on the mic...unfortunately, we'll see him beat Punk at Mania...

on the bright side, Punk's promos should be fun and in the end, it is a fresh match-up.

Orton has the look McMahon (an obvious homosexual) likes.
It doesn't matter what fans want.

 

[SHOGUN]

Is anyone else as bored of Randy Orton as I am?

Everything he does makes me yawn. His stupid shtick of moving slowly, slapping the mat, his monotone style on the mic...unfortunately, we'll see him beat Punk at Mania...

on the bright side, Punk's promos should be fun and in the end, it is a fresh match-up.

Absolutely. I still like him because he's a local guy, but holy shit is homeboy dry.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I was sick of Orton years ago.

He brings literally nothing to the table. Robotic promos. Boring worker. And has now failed twice to get over huge as the next big babyface.

I just don't get it.

He was most entertaining as the smarmy guy with the bad Bama Bangs haircut back in 2005 (or whenever it was), when he did the "Get Well Randy" gimmick when he broke his arm.

 

[Cody]

Does anyone notice all TNA pretty much is old WWE superstars?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Does anyone notice all TNA pretty much is old WWE superstars?

You don't say?

Exhibit A, as to why TNA can not (and likely never will) gain any traction.

People see them as second rate, people want something new.

 

[Cody]

Well at times I can find TNA more interesting then Smackdown, which I haven't watched for a couple months.

 

[Bigpapa42]

Finally got the Top 100 New Japan Matches of the 80s DVD set I ordered about two weeks ago. 15 discs. Gonna get started this weekend... Can't wait...

 

[SHOGUN]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL6FYFRJb0Q[/ame]

:fuckyeah:

The Embassy is back on the scene! I desperately want ROH to get behind it and make them players again instead of a job squad. Prince Nana NEEDS that mic time. Mia Yim is looking right in that video as well. She can go in the ring, too, so I be interested in how her run goes.

 

[IamMedellin]

TNA has some fyne bitches

madison rayne

"Rosita"

Matt hardy is hitting this

 

[JayDizzle]

So... Booker T won me over tonight with a "Big Bubba Rodgers" reference.

Wade Barrett busted out a Bossman Slam on Rey Mysterio and all Cole could say is "huh?" due to the WCW shout-out.

 

[EmpireWF]

Meltzer's update had a note saying the WWE HOF this year will air the Monday after Wrestlemania, not the night before. Supposedly, they're doing this so they don't have to rush everyone to get the show on the air in editing and cut the speeches so drastically.

If they let everyone talk as long as they want (within reason of course) GREAT.

Wonder what the schedule the night after WM will be. Tough Enough returns that night, too.

 

[adembroski]

Sting/Taker is a match that Would sell a PPV

I know I'd buy it.....but does any1 think that they could actually put on a good match?

Rock vs. Hogan

That's all the evidence you need to know that two big enough stars on a big enough stage will create a great match even if the wrestling is sub-par.

Ultimately, I believe great wrestlers are psychologists and story-tellers. I don't care if you can do a quintuple moonsault, take a bump off a CAGE ON TOP OF A CAGE ON TOP OF A CAGE and sell water to a drowning man, it's all meaningless if you can't tell a story in the ring. Sting and 'Taker have that in spades.

 

[manchild24]

Just read the guest will be the Rock due to some video Vince released that I didnt see. But others are saying its none other then Bob Barker. I saw him in a commercial last night, he looks dead.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

Every time some mystery guest or GM or whatever is announced, everyone immediately floats Rock's name as the guy, mostly out of hope and want for it to be him, and those same people are always let down in the end when it's not him...I will believe it when I see it, not getting my hopes up.

I'm sure it will be someone like Barker.

 

[EmpireWF]

Lawler's mother passed away yesterday. He may not be at the show tonight.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

- In his return blog, former WWE creative team member Seth Mates reveals how he would play out the "2 21 11" storyline:

"Do a Cold Open with the trenchcoat-man video, but instead of ending with '2-21-11,' end with the word 'TONIGHT,' Mates writes.

"Raw theme plays, announcers welcome everyone, lights go out, out comes Taker. Crowd pops big, announcers say that this must be the man in the video.
As he starts talking, lights go out again. Video plays again, only this time instead of ending in 'tonight,' it says, 'NOW.'



"Lights stay low, mysterious music plays, out walks a man in a trenchcoat, face obscured. He walks to ring, stands face to face with Taker, and then unmasks -- it's Triple H."

You start reading thinking maybe this former creative kind of embraces the Sting idea.. but nah, even former creative have a boner for Triple H.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

- In his return blog, former WWE creative team member Seth Mates reveals how he would play out the "2 21 11" storyline:

"Do a Cold Open with the trenchcoat-man video, but instead of ending with '2-21-11,' end with the word 'TONIGHT,' Mates writes.

"Raw theme plays, announcers welcome everyone, lights go out, out comes Taker. Crowd pops big, announcers say that this must be the man in the video.
As he starts talking, lights go out again. Video plays again, only this time instead of ending in 'tonight,' it says, 'NOW.'



"Lights stay low, mysterious music plays, out walks a man in a trenchcoat, face obscured. He walks to ring, stands face to face with Taker, and then unmasks -- it's Triple H."

You start reading thinking maybe this former creative kind of embraces the Sting idea.. but nah, even former creative have a boner for Triple H.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Glamorousones.com are reporting that a deal has been reached for Justin Bieber to perform at WrestleMania 27.

Im sure thats gonna go over well...

 

[Bigpapa42]

Im sure thats gonna go over well...

Can't really be worse than Kid Rock at WM25. Godawful. They cut it out of the DVD, even though it means losing the Diva's entrance.

As for the former creative team guy... its probably moreso he knows what Vince is likely to approve rather than necessarily what he would prefer.

 

[Loco]

Rock is in the ring.