The General Wrestling Thread

[JimLeavy59]

Awesome an all out brawl.

RAW needs to end with more of that.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Been a long time since we've seen one of those. Only thing is, I think they could've made things interesting if Ziggler cashed in MITB after the spear through the table.

 

[krulmichael]

:lol: at the Royal Rumble preview esque ending. A month too early there WWE.

 

[SuperKevin]

Big Show no sold the hell out of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle

 

[JimLeavy59]

Big Show no sold the hell out of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle

Seeing how Cena completely missed his faced I don't mind him no selling.


And its nice them kinda back off on HGHback as of late instead of having him come out and just bury The Shield he had a nice back and fourth between him and Reigns.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I legitimately watched RAW in 25 minutes.

WOW...an awful go-home show with nothing of note.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

My guess is that he's just being a placeholder for some random guy. I think the group ends up being about five or six guys as a stable on the roster, with the rest of the group being masked guys as fodder. I'm actually surprised that they wasted 10 minutes at the end of this PPV by ending it how they did- that was a perfect chance to unmask someone else, especially since the "VP" showed up.

I'm pretty sure the "VP" is D'Lo Brown...not sure he'll ever be unmasked.

 

[EmpireWF]

I legitimately watched RAW in 25 minutes.

WOW...an awful go-home show with nothing of note.

Sheamus & Ziggler
Kofi & Cesaro

Both good matches, probably 20+ minutes between them. Throw in Rhodes/Sandow, Punk beginning the bridge to Rock and who needs the Cena crap?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Cesaro is getting to that point where he delivers every time (as long as you ignore that GOD AWFUL match vs Truth at Survivor Series).

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

One issue I'm having with the RAW matches that are "good"...they are completely nondescript...good, but with no purpose. I could skip them and outside of missing a decent TV *** match, I'm not missing anything in particular.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

catching up on the DVR, and EL LOCAL made another appearance on Saturday Morning Slam, doing the honors for Justin Gabriel

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Just burned through six episodes of SMS.

They've kinda cooled off on the kid friendly stuff. Yes, they still blur out t-shirts in the crowd, yes they still do goofy segments. But now they do two matches per show, using guys that don't get enough A-show play like Uso's, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kid, Primo & Epico, EL LOCAL (YES!), etc. The matches are just long enough to tell a little story, and just short enough to keep you attention.

edit - just as I say that this show gives the lower card guys some rub, the last ep I watched had a Sheamus match & a John Cena match, with Booker T on commentary.

 

[JimLeavy59]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...sh-teen-mom-2-wwe-raw-pawn-stars-more/161135/

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...single-ladies-2-american-pickers-more/140347/

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...pper-housewives-of-beverly-hills-more/109328/

Is it safe to say that blaming poor RAW numbers on MNF is a bit silly? Link 1 was from this past Monday, Link 2 is from earlier in the year, and the final link is from last year during a MNF game between The Chiefs and Chargers. I think its safe to say the move to 3 hours on a weekly basis has killed off about 750k-1M viewers.

 

[FedEx227]

Rich Kraetsch (Joe Lanza DNP-Sick) welcomes hip-hop artist Jon Connor to the program to talk his upcoming projects, where his love of wrestling came from, favorite matches, favorite wrestlers, why he still loves it, how he watches on the road and so much more.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2012/12/12/jon-connor/

Follow Jon Connor on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JonConnorMusic
Download his latest project "While You Were Sleeping":http://www.datpiff.com/Jon-Connor-While-You-Were-Sleeping-mixtape.374177.html

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Smackdown tonight, in a small arena with no second deck:

 

[JimLeavy59]

Nobody wants to go to a taped show nowadays.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'm intrigued how TNA will turn out with the taped shows to end the year.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I'm intrigued how TNA will turn out with the taped shows to end the year.

Considering it's at Universal Studios and a lot of people are headed to Florida to see family, I imagine they would fill the place up.

 

[Epidemik]

Former WWE Developmental Talent Suing WWE
Posted by Steve Carrier on 12/12/2012 at 01:02 AM

Fromer WWE developmental talent Brian Jack (AKA Buck Wild) has filed a lawsuit against WWE, Vince McMahon, Dr. James Andrews, John Laurinaitis, Ty Bailey, Kristin Actman, Santino Marella, Beth Phoenix, Shed Media USA and Kwik Trip Inc. PWInsider obtained the documents and below is a summary:

* Jack alleges he told WWE corporate of hazing, sexual harassment and threats while working in developmental but was told to work it out with Steve Keirn. He says Keirn broke his “neck, pelvis, backbone, thumb” and badly injured his leg.

* He claims Santino tried to get him to commit insurance fraud on his homeowner’s policy and WWE wanted him to get into a “staged care wreck” so their developmental insurance wouldn’t take a hit.

* Jack alleges that WWE sent him to James Andrews to get his leg fixed and that Andrews asked him bizarre questions and checked him for a wire. He says he’s still receiving bills from Andrews even though WWE told him to forward the bills to them.

* He claims WWE used Shed Media USA, who produced the revamped version of Tough Enough, to make him believe he would be a contestant on the show to sign a contract that would release WWE of any and all liabilities before, during and after production of the series. Jack says when he asked the clause be removed, WWE told him they would send him a new contract and never did.

As of this writing there has been no response from the suit.

:gooby:

 

[EmpireWF]

Court Bauer's MLW podcast did over 2 hours with Gabe Sapolsky, Konnan and some other dude. It's broken up into 2 shows, I listened to the 2nd one. Fun stuff. Here's part 1.

Bunch of stories from ECW, early ROH, Gabe & Konnan go over how the former plans to book a certain AAA talent, and overall talk about booking. Also, Gabe talked about Paul's ideas for TNA when he was in talks with them (though I think most of that's been talked about before).