The General Wrestling Thread

[s@ppisgod]

"In addition to WWE’s main facility in Stamford, Conn., a large portion of the company’s tape library is kept at Iron Mountain, a nuclear bomb-proof cave in New York State’s Catskill Mountains."

http://www.wwe.com/classics/inside-video-vault-photos

Nice to know that the documented career of Mantaur would survive a nuclear holocaust.

God, what I wouldn't give for 2 years off work, living in that vault. It would be epic.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

New Japan 'Dominion' review.

Click it. Read too, if you want. Thanks.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/06/23/njpw-dominion-proves-to-be-more-than-a-one-match-show/

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Impact Ratings

To put it into context, the week prior...TNA had 1.2M viewers.

If TNA has nothing, it at least has about 1M diehards, which is their token baseline as we've discussed a few times before.

 

[calgaryballer]

New Japan 'Dominion' review.

Click it. Read too, if you want. Thanks.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/06/23/njpw-dominion-proves-to-be-more-than-a-one-match-show/

Any clips of the good stuff available?

 

[FedEx227]

If you Google "NJPW Dominion 2013" you can come up with... um...a lot of clips.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Any clips of the good stuff available?

If you Google "NJPW Dominion 2013" you can come up with... um...a lot of clips.

Yeah, tons of rips available for download if you have a spare laptop to infest with spyware or like to roll the dice.

Six man w/Bullet Club & NWA Title match are skippable, the rest of the show is all very good, with a couple of matches being flat out awesome.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Was just thinking about this and posted about it in the 2013 thread, but what a week for shows.

In the span of 7 days, we've had NJPW Dominion which was awesome, WWE Payback which was very good & well received, ROH Best in the World which is getting rave reviews, and the taped Dragon Gate "Dead or Alive" which was also incredible.

2013 as a whole has had some fantastic shows. WrestleKingdom & Invasion Attack from New Japan, ROH SuperCard of Honor, Dragon Gate USA Open the Ultimate Gate, New Japan New Beginning, ROH Border Wars, etc etc

 

[BigBiss]

Yeah, tons of rips available for download if you have a spare laptop to infest with spyware or like to roll the dice.

Six man w/Bullet Club & NWA Title match are skippable, the rest of the show is all very good, with a couple of matches being flat out awesome.

say it aint so

 

[SuperKevin]

Biss I told ACH I was down with Spring Hollow Love. You were right. It did get a good reaction out of him

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

say it aint so

It wasn't terrible, it was "just a match".

Nakanishi is toast as a singles wrestler. Conway had no chance.

 

[EmpireWF]

Saw this in the Observer news bits today about a Bonnie Hammer story (TV exec with NBC, was part of USA's relationship with WWE for lack of a better description) and how a Philly.com attributed storylines and characters in pro wrestling to her genius.

el oh el

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130623_Comcast_s_Bonnie_Hammer_is_a_force_in_television.html

Her USA Network - built partly on the popularity of the World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. - has been the most-watched ad-supported cable channel for seven straight years and in 2012 earned more than $1 billion in profit.

"She doesn't stand on ceremony as some executives do," Vincent McMahon, the chief executive officer of World Wrestling Entertainment, said. "She wants to give the audience what it wants."

Her advice to McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment years ago was to develop story lines and characters, which they did.

Meltzer's reaction

I never knew Bonnie Hammer was around in the 1920s to give that advice. It noted that there is a WWE championship belt in her office that Vince McMahon gave her on her 50th birthday. Well, unless that's one very old belt, that rules out her coming up with the idea of developing storylines and characters. When I get really old, I think I'm going to tell people I came up with the idea of putting gloves on boxers, telling Leo Seltzer to work Roller Derby and came up with the concept of Lucha Libre movies.

lmao

 

[MrBill]

Local RCW update, they had a couple of matches at the Military Appreciation Day set up at Heroes and Fantasies (local comic mecca) for last night. Steve McEnroe took on Sicodelico for the RCW Heavyweight title and defeated him. Possible heel turn for Sico?

 

[SuperKevin]

I took my daughter to the ROH TV taping today. She loved it. It's really interesting to see how a child reacts to everything.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I took my daughter to the ROH TV taping today. She loved it. It's really interesting to see how a child reacts to everything.

Go to a WWE show with a kid or sit next to some kids (/nopedo)...changes your perspective of the WWE.

I sat in the box with some kids at WrestleMania two years ago...just totally different view of what you're watching...also fun, because its fun to egg those little fuckers on about Randy Orton.

 

[SuperKevin]

I love getting my daughters opinion on who is a good guy and who is a bad guy

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

WWE Japan lineups for Sumo Hall double shot:

July 4th:
John Cena vs. Ryback for the WWE Championship
Sheamus vs. Dean Ambrose for the US Championship
Team Hell No vs. Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns for the WWE Tag Team Championships
The Miz vs. Wade Barrett for the IC Championship
Zack Ryder vs. Curtis Axel
Natalya vs. Aksana
Also appearing: The Great Khali, Yoshi Tatsu, Epico and Primo.

July 5th:
John Cena, Sheamus and Chris Jericho vs. The Shield
The Great Khali vs. Ryback
Team Hell No vs. Epico and Primo
The Miz vs. Wade Barrett for the IC Championship
Natalya vs. Aksana
Also appearing: Curtis Axel, Yoshi Tatsu, Zack Ryder and Antonio Cesaro.

July 4 goes head to head with Dragon Gate PPV. July 5 goes head to head with New Japan PPV.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

"I have actually been to the WWE many times. In the span of about six months, they were holding a bunch of tryouts, which all just happened to be in the areas that I was in at the time; that's just the way the schedule worked out. I was actually told that instead of going to all these tryouts, that it might be better to actually go train at the WWE developmental gym. I went to FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling), and I remember at one of the tapings in Jacksonville, I got into a bit of trouble for breaking protocol. I was facing The Miz on Raw one night, and I usually do this thing where I flip into the ring before my matches. So I look over, and Justin Roberts is just screaming at me, saying, 'This is not about you! You're not the star here!' etc. And then for my next match, the referee walks with me to the ring, holding my hand like we're on a date. And they just send me under the bottom rope and into the ring real fast. To make matters worse, I had cracked ribs from the night before and I was facing Sheamus, who's a guy that works the body more than anybody. There was an incident at one of the shows, where Sheamus came up to me and asked about this submission hold that I used on Tyson Kidd at one of the tapings. So I kind of joked around and told him to give me 10 bucks for the move. He didn't really find it funny though, and just kind of awkwardly walked away."

 

[SuperKevin]

 

Team Ring of Honor beat Team SCUM in Steel Cage Warfare at Sunday's TV taping forcing SCUM to disband. Not sure where they are going with that though

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

 

Team Ring of Honor beat Team SCUM in Steel Cage Warfare at Sunday's TV taping forcing SCUM to disband. Not sure where they are going with that though

Getting rid of that awful faction.

Its for the best.

 

[SuperKevin]

Getting rid of that awful faction.

Its for the best.

I agree. Only reason I'm confused is because I don't know what they do with most of those guys on their own. Matt Hardy and Jimmy Jacobs will be fine. It's Compton, Rhino, and Rhett Titus who have no place anymore. Plus they spent all weekend teasing a possible Adam Cole/Steve Corino partnership