*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[sledger]

Ha, that would explain it I guess. Thought a ban would have been a bit on the excessive side.

That said, apparently what he did was a criminal offence in Brazil, and the police stopped the match until he apologised to the crowd. Assuming that wasn't kayfabe as well...

 

[Agent TBY]

AJ is doing such a good job with this storyline. So entertaining.

And it's always funny when Kane is made to look saner than anyone else, let alone three people at the same time.

 

[Manee]

AJ is doing such a good job with this storyline. So entertaining.

And it's always funny when Kane is made to look saner than anyone else, let alone three people at the same time.

It is quite a nice and engaging WWE title feud. No one can predict who is walking out with the title - logic says that it could pretty much be any of the three.

 

[social]

David Ortunga must have one of the most unusual backgrounds of any wrestler in history - Harvard Law School graduate, passed the Bar exam easily, practiced as a lawyer and married to an Oscar winning actress

Least he cant be accused of doing it for the money

 

[sledger]

Can't be accused of doing it because he's good at it either.

 

[sledger]

Brock Lesnar is now being advertised for the 8/6 WWE Monday Night RAW taping in San Antonio, Texas. This is the same show that is being advertised as "Shawn Michaels Appreciation Night".

Haha, you can feel the chances of HBK getting a serious beatdown increasing with every time it's mentioned that it'll be his "appreciation night".

 

[Jono]

Not enough appreciation for Greg "The Hammer" Valentine

 

[Agent TBY]

Holy ****, AJ!

So, so good.

 

[GIMH]

Not seen any wrestling for about a month or so, can someone please summarise what's going on in about 100 words.

 

[GIMH]

Not enough appreciation for Greg "The Hammer" Valentine

Gun post, was my 2nd favourite wrestler as a kid (after Macho Man) because he was the first wrestling figure I ever got. 8th birthday present off my sister as mum and dad got me the WCW ring with a ****ing great red cage.

Good times, wish I could find the notebook I kept a log of all the title changes in, but suffice to say in the massive Valentine-Flair feud I had, Valentine usually walked away with the gold. And I tended to have Hogan getting ran over by my toy cars, so I knew the drill.

Cool kid me.

 

[duffer]

Honestly, 2 weeks watching is enough to get back into wrestling.

 

[Agent TBY]

Not seen any wrestling for about a month or so, can someone please summarise what's going on in about 100 words.

- Triple H has found a way to weasel into the hot angle yet again
- HEYMAN! And he's great as usual
- Cena's in MITB for some reason
- Punk/Bryan/AJ/Kane (now Punk/Bryan/AJ) has been the exact opposite of what we expected it be, great
- A bunch of legends have been showing up on Raw and squashing Heath Slater in the leadup to the 1000th episode. Vader, Sid, Piper, Lauper, Doink (!) and DDP so far. There was that other influential female wrester too, but I cbf remembering her name. Honestly, it's been great and Slater's doing a good job.
- Fans love Ziggler and Sheamus is in real danger of turning into the next Cena
- Sandow's promo work is hilarious
- Ryback's still doing the same ****
- Tyson Kidd is getting a mini-push for some reason

 

[GIMH]

Oh it wasn't a deliberate stop, I missed one week so didn't watch the next because I wanted to catch up and then boom it's been ages.

MITB is coming up so I'll defo watch that, been a good PPV both times they've done it, in fact last year had one of the best matches ever, Punk-Cena.

 

[GIMH]

- Triple H has found a way to weasel into the hot angle yet again
- HEYMAN! And he's great as usual
- Cena's in MITB for some reason
- Punk/Bryan/AJ/Kane (now Punk/Bryan/AJ) has been the exact opposite of what we expected it be, great
- A bunch of legends have been showing up on Raw and squashing Heath Slater in the leadup to the 1000th episode. Vader, Sid, Piper, Lauper, Doink (!) and DDP so far. There was that other influential female wrester too, but I cbf remembering her name. Honestly, it's been great and Slater's doing a good job.
- Fans love Ziggler and Sheamus is in real danger of turning into the next Cena
- Sandow's promo work is hilarious
- Ryback's still doing the same ****
- Tyson Kidd is getting a mini-push for some reason

Sounds decent until you get to Tyson Kidd

 

[Agent TBY]

Sounds decent until you get to Tyson Kidd

fwiw, the guy's apparently been having some great matches on their b-shows. He pulled off a very sweet finish against Swagger the other night, a modified Buff Bagwell Blockbuster into a pin combo. It's at the end of this match:

Tyson Kidd vs Jack Swagger WWE Smackdown 6/29/12 - YouTube

I think the E are just trying to have him be the token Shelton Benjamin in the Smackdown MITB, so yeah.

 

[GIMH]

I never forgave him for the quiff he used to have tbh

Quality finish though

 

[sledger]

Haha, yeah, that quiff was awful. Always seemed like he could go it in the ring mind you. Had more about him than Bulldog's son.

Anyway, wwe.com has a feature up on the 50 greatest RAW matches of all time, makes for an interesting read. Some strange choices in there, some matches seem unjustifiably high, but there's loads of memorable stuff in there.

Glad the Benjamin matches against HBK and HHH made it in, they were gun.

 

[Agent TBY]

Kurt Angle goes to the Olympics again

WAFG.

 

[Jono]

Hahaha.

Kurt wafg. Love him.

 

[sledger]

Thought RAW last week was quality. Not seen this week's yet.