The General Wrestling Thread

[Kuzzy Powers]

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.

Im amazed that you follow this in detail weekly.

 

[EmpireWF]

What's Samoa Joe up to these days?

 

[Bigpapa42]

What's Samoa Joe up to these days?

Shogun can hopefully give a more detailed and insightful answer than me, but from what I've seen recently, a midcard feud with Matt Morgan and Crimson.

 

[SHOGUN]

What's Samoa Joe up to these days?

Being his usual fat and sloppy self while feuding on the midcard with Crimson/Tommy Mercer. Feud so far has been somewhat decent, but since Crimson is TNA's chosen one and Joe doesn't give a fuck, expectations have been low.

 

[SHOGUN]

Im amazed that you follow this in detail weekly.

It's not because I'm that entertained by it. Old habits just die hard. :dunno:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

gtfo, really?

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

yikes

Hogan never plugs TNA. When he first signed, he was on a book tour, and everyone would ask him where he's been. He would tell them TNA on Spike and they would look at him like he had two heads and had no idea what he was talking about. He hates being associated with the second fiddle so he largely ignores TNA when he does media spots now, and people at TNA don't like it but don't really have the balls to confront him on it.

He's collecting a check, he doesn't give a shit about the promotion.

Hulk Hogan & Eric Bischoff have had their contracts renewed. Their deals expired on 10/10, just before Bound for Glory, so from a timing standpoint, they had the greatest leverage to get a new deal, just like happened last year. So now we’ll get the year with the babyface Hulk Hogan and the return of Hulkamania as opposed to 2010 which was the year of the babyface Hulk Hogan fooling us all since he was really a heel and we didn’t know it. Hogan & Bischoff have played Dixie Carter like a well-oiled fiddle, the first year building the storyline around her so they had to keep them a second year because of the ending of Bound for Glory where they screwed her out of her company for one year. This year they have to keep them because Sting has to beat Hogan with the stips that Dixie returns to run the company, not to mention they’ve spent basically two years building the match.

More regarding the Hulk Hogan situation with him agreeing to the new deal. Even if the timing wasn’t the way it was, I’ve got no doubt Dixie Carter would have and will continue to sign Hogan for as long as she can, as evidenced by the situation with Sting. The majority of those in power in the company were a few years back against signing Sting after the second year or so, because the price was so high, he never worked house shows and the feeling was they had done all they could with him. But Dixie Carter saw him as a star, and in the case of Hogan, he’s a far bigger star than Sting and it can be argued is the biggest “star” of the era. Hogan agreeing to the deal is more telling because Hogan has never been strongly behind TNA, as evidenced by his reluctance to bring up TNA when he’s doing national media. Internally, the belief is the ratings would be virtually the same with or without Hogan, the company doesn’t have a lot of new licensees and Hogan has only done one match in two years, getting ready to do a second, and doesn’t go to the big shows for appearances like the European tour because of the expense it would cost. Plus, him being all over the TV show as the biggest star gets in the way of making the core talent portrayed as the biggest stars. Hogan agreeing shows that there must have been no interest from WWE, similar to Angle, which is telling because a Hogan return would be an easy few week pop (and, as history has shown, very quickly diminishing returns from there). Even if he can’t wrestle, there are always roles you could put him in for short periods of time as a television character. There is also potential roles for his involvement in the new WWE Network since so much of the old highlight footage would be his stuff and he’d be a good person to push the marketing of the nostalgia wrestling aspect of the network. It shows how badly WWE doesn’t want to work with him if they didn’t make a play for him given next year is the start up of the network.

 

[IamMedellin]

LOL TNA History

 

[manchild24]

Ive been out of the loop here. What was Hogan big announcement or something the week after TNA went off the air.

 

[SHOGUN]

Ive been out of the loop here. What was Hogan big announcement or something the week after TNA went off the air.

He was "retiring" and saying his final farewell. Sting then comes out shows some security cam footage of Hogan talking to Bischoff about his plan of faking retirement to avoid facing him. Hogan got so angry about the reveal that he agreed to face Sting and if he lost he'd give the company back to Dixie Carter.

 

[EmpireWF]

When Bob Carter shows up to tell all these fools to hit the bricks, then things get interesting.

 

[IamMedellin]

how do u fuk this up ?

another mcmahon power struggle? Yawn...

7/16/2011

Called IT!!

 

[FedEx227]

Article I wrote for Bleacher Report's WWE section. Welcome any and all comments, arguments, criticism, etc.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-punk-evolved-into-the-fall-of-disappointment

On Monday, June 27, 2011, CM Punk turned World Wrestling Entertainment upside down with just one eight-minute promo. The promo, arguably one of the best ever, was the unleashing of aggression for employee that felt wronged.

CM Punk's promo was also a voice for an older fan base disconnected and disappointed by a product they once loved. With just one eight-minute promo, the Summer of Punk began.

Now, just five months later, the once groundbreaking promo is a distant past. The star, CM Punk, is now a secondary piece of a company-wide conspiracy angle he began. While five months may seem like a long time, WWE was once a company that perfected the art of the yearlong feud (Randy Savage/Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior, Vince McMahon/Steve Austin).

 

[EmpireWF]

RAW was beyond awful....

In other news, Danielson got to meet Danny Hodge at the show tonight...

 

[SHOGUN]

Article I wrote for Bleacher Report's WWE section. Welcome any and all comments, arguments, criticism, etc.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-punk-evolved-into-the-fall-of-disappointment

Good read. Very disappointing at how its turned out now.

BTW, I finally saw you and your sign on ROH.

Last night's RAW was wack and felt rushed.

And when the hell did New Batista turn face?

 

[IamMedellin]

could Batista 2 be any more generic?

watever happened to Alex Riley?

 

[FedEx227]

BTW, I finally saw you and your sign on ROH.

Pretty sexy, huh?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Article I wrote for Bleacher Report's WWE section. Welcome any and all comments, arguments, criticism, etc.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-punk-evolved-into-the-fall-of-disappointment

You have some set of balls posting this on the Meltzer board.

Those cynical fucks went pretty easy on you, though. Only one or two typical "LAWL bleacherreport" comments, and you fought them off pretty easily.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Smh..

TMZ.com reports that Travis "Tyson" Tomko, 38, was arrested in Florida on Monday after law enforcement discovered the former WWE star injecting himself with stolen pain medicine while hiding inside the bathroom of a Chili's restaurant.

He is accused of robbing a CVS Pharmacy of 210 tablets of Oxycodone on Monday. A pharmacist claims Tomko threatened to attack him unless he was supplied with "several bottles" of Oxycodone.

The pharmacist complied and Tomko left with 210 tablets of the powerful painkiller. Tomko, however, claimed he did not threaten the pharmacist

According to the police report obtained by TMZ, Tomko went to a nearby Chili's restaurant, where he allegedly injected 178 "crushed up and melted down" pills into his system while spending 30 to 40 minutes in a restroom.

After police were informed of his whereabouts, Tomko was arrested and taken into custody on a robbery charge. He allegedly told police that he has a "severe drug problem." One officer says Tomko had "needle marks and blood running down his arm." He also flushed "something" down the toilet.

Tomko was taken to a nearby hospital and subequently transported to a nearby jail, where he was booked for robbery. He's currently behind bars in St. Johns County Jail -- bond was set at $7,500.

 

[IamMedellin]

noproblemsolverpuns......noproblemsolverpuns....noproblemsolverpuns....

 

[FedEx227]

You have some set of balls posting this on the Meltzer board.

Those cynical fucks went pretty easy on you, though. Only one or two typical "LAWL bleacherreport" comments, and you fought them off pretty easily.

I just got done writing this shitbox, no fucking way I'm posting it on The Board.

It's basically my make an awful list because the mouth breathers love them. I have some ideas for actual good columns in the next few days.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ing-wwes-tag-team-division-from-the-ground-up