The General Wrestling Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Otunga's the worst wrestler of all-time. Any other candidate is #2 and nobody can convince me otherwise.

(all in-ring b/c as a smug gimmick talker, he's great)

From his stale facial expressions to his stiff mannerisms, his slow and plodding movements, and the fact everything he does in the ring has the stench of a bad indy geek...there hasn't been ONE match of his that I've seen and HAVEN'T thought, 'Holy fuck, this guy is the worst ever, why do they continue putting him in the ring?"

He's one of the guys where if they're insistent on trotting him out there to work in the ring, why not match him up with some old vet on the road to teach him?

Otunga isn't even the worst wrestler on the roster right now, excluding the kitchen occupiers. The Great Khali shits all over Otunga for the WOAT.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Ryback FAILING on the finish against Albert was bad.

Showed he was mortal via Kayfabe.

Showed that Albert's too fat and Ryback can't lift that much in real life otherwise.

Dude has the Backpack Stunner as a back-up but went for the Lariat instead when they fucked up the finish.

Ryback was visibly pissed because Tensai sandbagged him legit. He was just acting like deadweight.

 

[JayDizzle]

Dammit.

Why bother having Fat Shit Albert sandbag against Ryback if you're gonna have him come down and be J.R.'s balls when CM Punk took them away not two seconds earlier?

FUCK STUPID WASTE MATCHES THAT MEAN NOTHING AND PROMOTE NOBODY.

Keep the Punk/Ross promo (damn good btw), keep Ryback continuing his crusade to protect the Old Folks Home against Straight Edge and fill that dead shit match from earlier with another filler bout.

Fucking Hornswoggle versus Sin Cara in a Midget Match, I don't care.

 

[EmpireWF]

Otunga isn't even the worst wrestler on the roster right now, excluding the kitchen occupiers. The Great Khali shits all over Otunga for the WOAT.

Yeah, but Khali has the obvious misfortune of being a giant.

 

[JayDizzle]

Ryback was visibly pissed because Tensai sandbagged him legit. He was just acting like deadweight.

I give Tensai two weeks.

One to job to the Champ(s), One to pack up his shit and go back to Japan.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Yeah, but Khali has the obvious misfortune of being a giant.

It doesn't change the fact that he is a clearly inferior worker, even for WOATunga.

 

[EmpireWF]

Giant Silva was no better...or Kurrgan.

 

[JayDizzle]

I would eat all the chairshots Foley took versus The Rock in their "I Quit" Match to get one evening with AJ in that outfit she's wearing right now.

:med:

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Giant Silva was no better...or Kurrgan.

that is fine, but all worse than WOATunga.

 

[EmpireWF]

Okay, just as long as we agree Otunga is turrrrrrrrrible.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

btw - there has never been a better "sent down to developmental for repackaging" for the WWE than that of Damian Sandow.

He's a classic mid-card heel, great character now. A ridiculous turnaround from being Aaron "The Idiol" Stevens...which was such a ridiculous Indy geek gimmick.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Idol Stevens & KC James get sent down.

KC James comes back up as WWECW pasty jobber Kevin Curtis. Promptly cut.

Stevens comes back up with a gimmick that never fails.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

It took Stevens YEARS to come back though.

 

[EmpireWF]

Post-TV JR Appreciation.....Vince telling some stories

http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/raw-exclusives-oct-1-2012

Highlights include a really old Vince, Danny Hodge, Bill Watts (they don't have his speech though), Lawler and JR.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

It took Stevens YEARS to come back though.

Yeah, he bounced around low level indies and had some shitty matches in Puerto Rico before they signed him back.

He's so good doing the euriodite gimmick that his work almost doesn't matter. He never has a match long enough for me to really break it down, but you don't need to be Yuji Nagata to work WWE midcard so i'm sure he's fine.

 

[IamMedellin]

I would eat all the chairshots Foley took versus The Rock in their "I Quit" Match to get one evening with AJ in that outfit she's wearing right now.

 

[FedEx227]

Warner2Bruce Book Review time! Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/20...romise-life-before-the-squared-circle-review/

Flash forward more than a decade, and it has become clear that Foley’s first memoir opened the floodgates to a burgeoning new book market of wrestling autobiographies. The same publishers who laughed Foley and his original handwritten 800 page memoir out the door, were now green lighting mostly ghost written life stories of just about every wrestler with any semblance of notoriety. Browse Amazon or the sports section of any Barnes & Noble these days, and you will find a bevy of wrestling autobiographies, ranging from good (Ric Flair, Eddie Guerrero) to bad (Hulk Hogan) to laughably bad (Chyna) to legitimately great (Chris Jericho, Terry Funk, Lou Thesz).

What sets Booker T: From Prison To Promise apart from nearly every wrestling book on the market, is that Booker T’s book is not about wrestling.

 

[FedEx227]

Just leavin this here.

 

[FedEx227]

 

[EmpireWF]

http://www.wwe.com/f/doc/2012/09/20120928_DL_FLAIR-INVITE.pdf

WWE posted that in a feature by Heyman talking about "his guys" over the years. It's apparently a flyer Heyman used to promote an event at Studio 64 in '85, he brokered with Crockett and also to kick off Bam Bam Bigelow's career.