The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

I watched that entire Impact, and there were three matches, one of which was a squash, one of which was a women's match.

One one hand, the pace of the show was better, allowing you to digest things. On the other hand, some of those endless segments could have been matches.

Overall the show was boring but was also one of the least offensive recent Impacts.

I like ECIII.

I'll leave it at that.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

Three-time NFL Pro Bowl and All-Pro selection Shawne Merriman is looking to enter the world of professional wrestling after retiring from the National Football League in March at the age of 28. He participated in a multi-day tryout this week at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

 

[FedEx227]

Over/under on torn tricep within two months of training?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I can't believe he's only 28. I would have guessed 35.

 

[BigBiss]

We aren't even criticizing them anymore though, we're just throwing out inside jokes and über-sarcastic backhanded compliments.

so we have become wrestling hipsters?

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I watched that entire Impact, and there were three matches, one of which was a squash, one of which was a women's match.

One one hand, the pace of the show was better, allowing you to digest things. On the other hand, some of those endless segments could have been matches.

Overall the show was boring but was also one of the least offensive recent Impacts.

I like ECIII.

I'll leave it at that.

The first segment with Dixie, AJ, Bubba, and Anderson went on for like 35 minutes.

 

[TheImmortalGoud]

Three-time NFL Pro Bowl and All-Pro selection Shawne Merriman is looking to enter the world of professional wrestling after retiring from the National Football League in March at the age of 28. He participated in a multi-day tryout this week at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

For some reason I always thought he would give wrestling a shot. Not sure why.

 

[SuperKevin]

Shawne Merriman is a Vince McMahon wet dream. Will be the top black guy in the company within 3 years from now

 

[ThomasTomasz]

What is there to discuss. Its a fucking trainwreck.

It's Bobby Roode, Austin Aries and a whole load of crap.

EDIT: Bubba's performance has surprised me, but many who only see wrestling in terms of WWE will only see him as a tag team guy.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

After seeing Liger & the New Japan crew live last week, I was making a list of all time great wrestlers i've seen and classic cards that i've been to in my life for a potential VOW article, and came across this awesome & topical video from the 2009 King of Trios:

This was the last Chikara show I went to, a few nights before I moved to Texas.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Not to mention that Okada was lower than dirt in TNA. Now both acts are headlining the hottest promotion & second biggest promotion on the planet.

lol TNA

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

TNA had access to The Young Bucks, Jay Lethal, Roderick Strong, Tanahashi, Okada, Naito, Volador Jr, Takahashi, among others 4 years ago. And they essentially traded it all in for Hulk Hogan and Eric Biscoff.

What a piece of work that company is.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

TNA had access to The Young Bucks, Jay Lethal, Roderick Strong, Tanahashi, Okada, Naito, Volador Jr, Takahashi, among others 4 years ago. And they essentially traded it all in for Hulk Hogan and Eric Biscoff.

What a piece of work that company is.

Relatively speaking, it's a deal that's about 10 times worse than Glenn Davis for Schilling, Finley and Harnisch.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

So, CM Skunk was on Smackdown...was CP Munk not available?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Meltzer flat out said on tonights audio that TNA is for sale, and that there are potential buyers looking at it. He said people are going to get on him for saying it, but that he knows for a fact that the Carter's want out.

Alvarez asked if Bischoff is in the mix, and Meltzer said he wouldn't be surprised at all, provided he could find backers.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Meltzer flat out said on tonights audio that TNA is for sale, and that there are potential buyers looking at it. He said people are going to get on him for saying it, but that he knows for a fact that the Carter's want out.

Alvarez asked if Bischoff is in the mix, and Meltzer said he wouldn't be surprised at all, provided he could find backers.

Cutting the costs they did, this isn't a surprise either. When you cut the extreme costs like they did, its to make the company more profitable by subtraction...looks good to potential investors.

 

[FedEx227]

Meltzer flat out said on tonights audio that TNA is for sale, and that there are potential buyers looking at it. He said people are going to get on him for saying it, but that he knows for a fact that the Carter's want out.

Alvarez asked if Bischoff is in the mix, and Meltzer said he wouldn't be surprised at all, provided he could find backers.

Get the Fusient Media Venture crew back together!

 

[FedEx227]

Cutting the costs they did, this isn't a surprise either. When you cut the extreme costs like they did, its to make the company more profitable by subtraction...looks good to potential investors.

Much like WCW, the key will be Spike TV and if they want to keep wrestling programming on their channel. Given their (Viacom's) investment in Bellator and the correlation in Bellator ratings to TNA, things look good for the sale.

 

[Leftwich]

 

[Leftwich]

Also, WTF?