The General Wrestling Thread

[FedEx227]

Was watching some stuff on YouTube last night and came across a Kevin nash round table about the NWO/WCW. He laid the blame for the death of the WCW/NWO at Goldberg's feet because Goldberg injured his arm smashing in that limo window rather than using the baseball bat like he should have. He said the Finger Poke of Doom would not have been that big of a deal if Goldberg was around to play face and take the title back.

Slight flaw in logic in that those happened like...years apart from one another I believe.

 

[JayDizzle]

Didn't, way back when, I don't remember precisely, the WWF used do have a show where they'd cut to various "big" matches from different house shows? Or at least have a SNME segment doing so?

They used to do that with the old "SuperStars" episodes from the early 90s and maybe earlier.

I know they cut the shit out of house show matches and put them on "Best Of" Compilations.

You'd see the same match 3-4 times across several tapes if they had a feature guy.

 

[EmpireWF]

CZW is still around?

 

[JayDizzle]

CZW is still around?

http://www.czwrestling.com/

Yep.

Apparently they have a contract with Big Japan right now.

 

[BigBiss]

Slight flaw in logic in that those happened like...years apart from one another I believe.

I think it was only a few months

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I have never been a HHH fan. Always found him boring, predictable, etc...
I really am curious where his career would have gone without the Stephanie connection. I'm not saying he's not a main eventer, he is, but I find his in-ring style incredibly boring and my assumption is 50% of his success is Stephanie-related (I'll give him the other 50% because he's a hard worker and consistent).
And he can't kid himself, Shawn Michaels is DX, HHH is 30, maybe 20% DX. The New Age Outlaws might take some of HHH's cut here.

When I think of DX, I think of Triple H.

 

[FedEx227]

I think it was only a few months

No, it was significantly more than a few months

Fingerpoke: January 4, 1999

Glass: December 20, 1999

 

[FirstTimer]

Yeah, Nash was unleashing a major heap of bullshit on that roundtable.

First, Goldberg didn't fuck up his hand until many months after Nash alluded to.

The finger poke was stupid and indefensible.

Slight flaw in logic in that those happened like...years apart from one another I believe.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul2Z1u1K_FM"]Kevin Nash (WWE 24/7) Legends Of Wrestling Roundtable, (Speaks On Goldberg!!!) - YouTube[/ame]

There's the part of the roundtable.

 

[BigBiss]

No, it was significantly more than a few months

Fingerpoke: January 4, 1999

Glass: December 20, 1999

yes, i got mixed up with his kayfabe injury for a movie of some kind in april 1999

 

[SHOGUN]

Vince Russo is no longer the TNA creative team head writer. He has been replaced by Bruce Prichard, who also heads the talent relations division. Russo is now considered essentially a senior writer and continues to write the actual shows along with Matt Conway once the direction has been mapped out by Prichard, who also signs off on
the scripts.

Source: prowrestling.net

Signs of life in TNA?

 

[EmpireWF]

Signs of life in TNA?

 

[IamMedellin]

Signs of life in TNA?

Also..

Hogan's contract expires at the end of this month, and all signs point to him not resigning...

 

[Bigpapa42]

Except he's already signed a new deal, Ian. Just no word yet on for how long.

 

[IamMedellin]

Except he's already signed a new deal, Ian. Just no word yet on for how long.

gtfo, really?

he was on good morning america and plugged everything except TNA...

yikes

 

[Bigpapa42]

gtfo, really?

he was on good morning america and plugged everything except TNA...

yikes

Was posted on PWI on the 4th. Still haven't seen anything on thelength of the deal. And Hogan never plugs TNA, which is plain stupid since he could be using his pop culture profile to give the promotion something of a boost... but nope...

 

[adembroski]

I had heard the last several IW shows had been improvements, any word on how long Russo's been having to run his crap by someone else?

 

[Bigpapa42]

I had heard the last several IW shows had been improvements, any word on how long Russo's been having to run his crap by someone else?

I've watched bits and pieces of the last month or so, and it honestly hasn't seemed that much different from the same shit its been forever. You still have full-retard crap like Sting playing the Joker and Angelia Love doing a zombie gimmick. Some fans are making a big dael out of them "making a star" of Robert Roode, but they've pulled that shit before a ton of times and will end up just jobbing him back down, and he'll but just another TNA midcarder in 4 months. Put it this way - one of their major feuds they've been building toward BFG is a match between Hogan and Sting. In 2011. Which makes sense, as that's only 15 years past it being relevant.

So far as I'm aware, the last time Russo had "free reign" in TNA was the stuff in late 2009, right before Hogan and Bischoff came in. Which was ironically one of the best periods of TNA I've ever seen - you had AJ as champion (before he went mini-Naitch) and Wolfe coming in to a huge push and feud with Angle.

 

[SHOGUN]

To be fair, the zombie Angelina Love bit was dropped months ago. :shifty:

 

[Bigpapa42]

To be fair, the zombie Angelina Love bit was dropped months ago. :shifty:

I thought she was still "under Winter's spell and control" on a relatively recent episode...?

 

[SHOGUN]

I thought she was still "under Winter's spell and control" on a relatively recent episode...?

They are still partners/BFFs, but they just phased the mind control bit out. Angelina told her to stop giving her the drug since she "understood" they were meant to be together and has been acting normal ever since.