The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

Mark Haskins will be one of the X-Division try out guys on Impact tmw

 

[EmpireWF]

Who is this fella?

 

[SHOGUN]

Who is this fella?

A spot monkey that almost broke his neck in his last apperance on IMPACT.

 

[st lickem]

does the shit generic evolve entrance music bother anyone else or just me?

 

[EmpireWF]

Son of a bitch, Husky Harris out at least 6 months with a torn pec.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Kenny King, Dakota Darsow (using those names, how refreshing), "Flip Casanova", "Lars Only" are the four X Division competitiors tonight on Impact.

Mark Haskins is expected to be one of those geek names, no word on who the other guy is. Darsow is the sone of Barry Darsow, aka Demolition Smash/Repo Man. He was in WWE develomental for a while. Kenny King is the ROH wrestler who is very very good. He was a TNA jobber in the early Impact days, I guess they will push him as returning since he isnt being given a gimmick name.

Darsow just worked the EVOLVE preshows this past weekend, he looked ok but nothing to write home about.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Looks like ROH dropped the ball on Kenny King. He never signed a new contract after his old one expired, and it appears he is jumping to TNA. Of course, All Night Express are the ROH Tag champs, so thats really embarrassing if he is indeed jumping.

I guess the finish of his match will tell the story. Even if he loses, it looks bad for an ROH champion to lose in TNA.

LOL ROH

 

[SHOGUN]

mg:

And they just won the fucking belts! A potential positive is that we can finally see what King can do when he's given the ball solo. I <3 me some Kenny King and hope he shines in the new TNA.

Poor Rhett.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

LOLROH.

Jesus Christ.

 

[SHOGUN]

Casanova/Darsow was REALLY sloppy.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Kenny King looked good.

Other guys, not so much.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

HOLY SHIT, look at this NOAH show:

Announced for the 7/22 show at Sumo Hall is Takeshi Morishima vs. Go Shiozaki for the GHC heavyweight title, Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Samoa Joe & Brutus Magnus for the GHC tag titles, the return of KENTA vs. Naomichi Marufuji (KENTA has been out since December due to knee surgery and returns against his career biggest rival), Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Christopher Daniels for the GHC jr. title, Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs. Ricky Marvin & Super Crazy for the GHC jr. tag titles, Maybach Taniguchi vs. Tajiri (this comes from an angle where Taniguchi gave Hajime Ohara a beating on a Wrestling New Classic–Tajiri’s company–show), the Japanese pro wrestling debuts of Ross & Marshall Von Erich (Kevin’s sons) vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls, Taiji Ishimori vs. Masahiro Takanashi (from the DDT promotion) plus Kota Ibushi is on the show.

Every single match is interesting for one reason or another. Tons of outsiders (Tajiri, Kota Ibushi, the TNA guys, Takanashi), debut of the Von Erich kids, four title matches, and the return of KENTA. Fuck, that is loaded.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Watching Impact now.

Poor Darsow, he got is ass kicked legit by a guy who was totally reckless and didn't protect him. Casanova is an out of control mess.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Too bad Rhett Titus couldn't make the jump with Kenny King. Just read that ROH has THREE SHOWS booked for the entire summer until the September iPPV.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Flip Casanova was Flip Kendrick, I didn't even make the connection while watching. He's usually a lot better than that.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Kenny King is officially done with ROH.

The appearance of ROH wrestler Kenny King on another television wrestling program tonight has raised speculation on his future as well as how this appearance could occur.

The contract Kenny King signed in June 2011 expired 11 days ago. Before that expiration, an agreement was reached between Kenny and ROH management for an extension of that contract, with a provision to allow him to negotiate with any other promotions so that he could evaluate his options and any potential interest in him elsewhere. When that short extension concluded he would then be free to accept an offer elsewhere, or sign another long term contract with ROH. Under this agreement, Kenny was free to negotiate but not to wrestle for another organization without ROH's permission.

When Kenny was presented with the written extension reflecting this verbal and handshake agreement, he informed ROH he was unsure if other promotions would accept the negotiation clause. He was told he could take the document to be examined by his attorney or other interested parties before executing it to be reassured any other offers would not be viewed as contract tampering. He also informed ROH that he would keep us apprised of any developments.

He contacted ROH on Tuesday July 3 to inform us that he had a meeting in Orlando on Thursday, July 5, which was within the scope of the agreement he had made. Then, early morning on July 5, he contacted an ROH official to say he would be wrestling on the Orlando event that night. He was told he did not have permission to appear live on television as it violated the agreement that had been made. His response was that the deal he had shaken hands on and agreed to in principle "seemed fair at the time", but "others" had told him it was not, so he did not intend to honor it.

Ring of Honor is disappointed that Kenny has chosen to make this decision, after the company had agreed to and followed through on everything he had asked for at the time of our negotiation. However, we consider this breach of his verbal agreement unacceptable, and regardless of his future employment status with any other wrestling company, ROH will not be doing business with Kenny King going forward.

A statement from ROH will be forthcoming regarding the future of the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Co-holder Rhett Titus remains on the active ROH roster.

I'm not sure I understand ROH's gripe, here. They gave him the freedom to find an offer, and he found one to his liking. TNA decided to start him two days later after he talked to them, and he took the deal.

Wasn't that the entire point of granting him a grace period to find a new deal? To let him see if he could find one? And he did.

I guess ROH figured he would agree to a deal with another company, but not start until his short extension with ROH was up. In theory, this would allow them to get the tag team titles off of him before he left. But ROH doesnt have any shows booked until August, and clearly TNA wanted King for this Destination X deal, so if King didn't take the offer, the spot would have went to somebody else. I can't blame him at all for starting immediately, otherwise he may have lost the deal.

Besides, King never signed the deal with ROH anyway. He was clearly a free agent, and free to do as he wished.

ROH goofed by putting the belts on a guy whose contract was expiring in a week, that's the bottom line.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

ROH doesn't explain why they put a title on a guy with an expiring deal...did they think "hey, this guy has the title, he'll do business with us still" nevermind ROH not doing a show until fuckin August.

Too bad Rhett couldn't make the jump...ANX would be a nice TNA tag team.

ROH making dumb mistakes...not good.

 

[FedEx227]

It's just an example of a company that's losing control of their day to day operations. Not unlike WCW or ECW before them. Very crazy and I hope King becomes something good in TNA, I've always liked his look and his ring work has improved tremendously since a few years ago.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

King v. Doug Williams in the finals, plz.

Also, saw they are going to have a "fatal fourway" with the four Indy losers which will probably open the show...so, hopefully Jigsaw wins so he can enter the tournament.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Gotta give big ups to Bubba Ray...

You look at ol boy in 1997 and now...and ol boy has lost a shit load of weight and put on some good size and muscle definition.