The General Wrestling Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

True story...Rock loves all kinds of wrestling.

When I interviewed him a few years ago, we talked wrestling after...guy knows his shit...doesn't follow it like W2B, but always open to new guys overseas and Indy talent.

 

[EmpireWF]

Just tried to watch RAW on DVR...almost painfully boring and just a waste of a show. I swear, if the 1000th episode is anything close to this shit, fuck 3 hour Raws. I'm done. It's worse than the period where boring heel HHH (2003ish) was ruling the top and comparable to the drizzling shits that was 1995 and into 1996.

Just to reel off the retarded aspects...

-Michael Cole-centric episode, featuring segment after segment where he's used to get nothing over besides a meaningless waste of a match with Lawler
-90 second, rushed matches up and down the card
-Over the top (and not in a good way) soap opera storyline consuming what's suppose to be the top prize
-Jack Swagger, enhancement talent
-John Cena in his usual annoying, corny, BUY THE PPV AND SEE IF I CAN OVERCOME THE ODDS voice
-Sin Cara beats Slater to get a MITB spot...seconds later, Slater is jobbed to Backlund. Does Slater really have to be put in what should be a semi-serious spot moments before a full on comedy role?
-Did I miss the memo on Kane's 1000000th face turn?
-How does Big Show keep sneaking up on people backstage?
-The anonymous GM just reeks of we don't know what to do until 1000th episode so lets get this retread back and pawn it off on someone for a cheap pop in a couple weeks
-When Cole does his corny, old, tired shtick in front of the notebook....can he at least make a fucking effort to appear as though he's not reading off a sheet of paper that's nowhere near the monitor? If Jerry "I don't give a shit, where's my check" Lawler can do it, Cole should be a pro.
-Anything where they think the audience is full of mouthbreathers so they treat Hornswoggle like he's a 5-year old kid. Do the little kids who watch their programming (and whatever WWE may say, the majority of their viewing audience are NOT children) really think the guy is a child? Maybe it's just carny wrestling that Vince actually gets off on and I don't remember them doing it to Dink or Little Beaver. It's just stupid.



Btw, the only way this whole AJ deal can make sense is if she ends up turning on both Punk and Bryan and aligns with someone else. At least, I hope it's that so we don't have to deal with another month or more of the same repetitive shit week after week.

/rant

Impact and RAW have totally done a 180 over the past month :runaway:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Kharma has been cut.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Awful..

 

[EmpireWF]

Looks like she hasnt been cut after all.

 

[Bigpapa42]

The best part of the WWE going full-retard of late is reading the justifications and explanations by a pure WWEphile on another site I visit. The best he could manage this week was "I didn't dislike the show". Every other post of the 400 or of the Live Discussion thread is trashing it.. then that.

 

[SuperKevin]

how is Impact tonight? I missed it

 

[IamMedellin]

Amidst rumors that WWE released Kharma after their official Twitter feed moved her profile to its list of Alumni on Thursday, TMZ.com reporter Ryan Satin says she has been let go by the sports entertainment organization.

He wrote on Twitter Thursday evening, "A source close to Kharma tells me the rumors are true and she was indeed released from WWE today. Dumbest WWE release in SOOO LONG!!!"

Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer addressed Satin's claim on the F4WOnline.com message forum and stated that WWE had planned to finalize her termination on Friday. However, he speculates the organization may switch course due to the news prematurely surfacing online—similarly to how they briefly reinstated Florida Championship Wrestling tapings in March to save face after news leaked prematurely that they were ending and because they weren't ready to announce the changes to NXT.

"I don't want to say anything, because it's WWE and they change their minds if stuff gets out," he wrote. "But she was to be released tomorrow, and they're pissed somebody screwed up and it got out a day early."

Kharma is currently listed as a member of the active roster on WWE.com, but as a former Superstar on the organization's Twitter account.

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe...atus_With_WWE_Lilian_Garcia_Releasing_CD.html

 

[JimLeavy59]

Impact was so much better than RAW.

 

[Derrville]

how is Impact tonight? I missed it

Awesome.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

how is Impact tonight? I missed it

Caught the second half of the show on Pacific time, and so far, not bad.

Usual post-Destination X shenanigans with Roode/Aries that will lead to the rematch.
Chicks match...didn't pay attention.
Backstage shenanigans with Hogan/Sting and a cast of characters.
Good TV match with Angle/Anderson.

Final segment coming up...

The AJ-Preggers chick angle looks like fucking ass, but I only got the recap though.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Ay, Warner2BruceTD...

Have you caught some Ring Ka King yet? TNA's India promotion...supposedly the promotion has been a success. I've been checking out some shows...its not awful.

Jeff Jarrett, Nick Dinsmore, Sonjay Cutt, Brutus Magnus was the champ now its some dot head, Chavo, Angelina Love, buncha dot heads I'm not really familiar with, Zema Ion, Diavari, Chris Masters,

Ladder matches for WINGS!

Jeff Jarrett led heel stable with Abyss, Sonjay Dutt, Scott Steiner, Brutus Magnus, and THE DEADLY DANDA!

Harry Smith was it at the beginning.

 

[EmpireWF]

Awesome.

Not as good as previous Impacts, but it wasn't a pain to get through it...so that's a positive.

Bully/Park was fun

Aries' first promo as champ was passionate and exactly the sort of thing it should've been. Wished they wouldn't have had Roode do his thing immediately after with Aries in the ring, but perhaps small potatoes.

Gail/Brooke was a good match

Can't stand Anderson, so I only caught the end of the match which left Angle with a busted lip (because Anderson is still shit). Funny how there is only one guy in all of wrestling who is still an active weekly guy who still maintains the aura of being a bad ass not to be messed with. Angle is still awesome.

A masked gang of 7 or 8 guys kill Hogan, then kill Sting again. This better not be a group of old guys or Hogan buddies to get back on TV again.

Missed the Joe/RVD match. The new X champion Zema, has some potential to be that type of Honky Tonk Man type champion (meaning, over time, you want to see the guy get the absolute biggest asskicking of a lifetime) leading up to when he drops it to the broken neck dude down the road.

Overall, even with the one horrifically bad storyline with the actor chick, AJ and Daniels (obviously the chick will end up swerving AJ)....they give their 2-3 TV matches time to actually develop over the course of the 2 hours and nothing else is insulting. I'll take that every time out of a national product in 2012.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Ay, Warner2BruceTD...

Have you caught some Ring Ka King yet? TNA's India promotion...supposedly the promotion has been a success. I've been checking out some shows...its not awful.

Jeff Jarrett, Nick Dinsmore, Sonjay Cutt, Brutus Magnus was the champ now its some dot head, Chavo, Angelina Love, buncha dot heads I'm not really familiar with, Zema Ion, Diavari, Chris Masters,

Ladder matches for WINGS!

Jeff Jarrett led heel stable with Abyss, Sonjay Dutt, Scott Steiner, Brutus Magnus, and THE DEADLY DANDA!

Harry Smith was it at the beginning.

I watched it the first few weeks back when it was airing originally. It wasnt terrible, but I lost interest after awhile. New Japan, DG, All Japan, even NOAH were pretty good at the time, not to mention U.S. stuff I always keep one eye on, so I just didn't have the time to track it down every week and threw in the towel.

It was pretty simple stuff, which was the way to go in a fresh market, but last I heard it's DOA now.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I thought it was going in seasons...as in, season one is over, and it'll have a season two.

No idea.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I thought it was going in seasons...as in, season one is over, and it'll have a season two.

No idea.

It was, but I think I read something about the project being close to dead.

I could definitely be wrong, so don't hold me to that.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

It was, but I think I read something about the project being close to dead.

I could definitely be wrong, so don't hold me to that.

Last I read was it was considered a "success", but nothing was renewed yet.

 

[SHOGUN]

Kong could have been the spark the Divas division needed. She was already hot with the crowd.

No Beth Phoenix/Kong.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Lame. Kong could have been the spark the Divas division sorely needed. She had everybody going crazy for her from jump street.

Kong needs to go to TNA, NOW.

One of the few women that I actually want to watch. Obviously, no "diva"...but she's got a ridiculously unique look and a great in-ring charisma and is actually good in the ring.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Nobody even knows if she's fired or not. They may end up retaining her just based on the fact that it leaked a day early and she didn't find out from the company before it went public.

Say what you want about the WWE, but they are pretty good about making sure the person knows they are shit canned before they put up the "future endevoured" notice on the website.