I wonder if we'll get Wrestlemania Rumble soon.
I wonder if we'll get Wrestlemania Rumble soon.
Wrestlemania Series
WrestlemaniaSlam
Wrestlemania in the Bank.
Wrestlemania Crown Jewel
Wrestlemania in a Cell.
That last one is too good to pass up.
Get Vince back on TV to say it in his "Hell in a Cell" voice too.
Well Backlash is now WrestleMania Backlash. So sure, make your big marquee thing less special by appending its name to everything. It's the WWE way.
Ah, so they can string the Wrestlemania feuds out another month. Nothing ever ends.
All these names suck. Bring back Wrestlemania Balls of Fire.
The Road To Wrestlemania Rumble: This Time The Sign Is Being Pointed At.
Fridge Raiders vs. Usos at the Rumbles could be fun (after the shit build it'll get) if they just give them 15 minutes to go for it.
I'm rewatching the '01 Rumble because 'tis the season and I love this bit of commentary when Carey is in the ring and Kane is circling before entering:
JR: "Kane is a carnivore and Drew Carey is a big ol' pork chop."
King: "Whaddya think his blood type is, ragu?"
Actual personality from the announcers. Imagine.
And King hasn't even said anything racist or sexist yet!
Surprised he hasn't requested his release sooner tbh.
Another who'll go elsewhere and put on killer matches.
Remember he was meant to be getting a title shot at Mania?
I'm actually surprised Vince approved this idea in the first place but not that he then went back on it and tried to give Ali some other shit.
Whenever he's done these home-made promos to try and get some new creative going for him they're always good and he even did his level best to make something of Retribution.
Ali is great and I hope wherever he ends up has the decency to treat him as a top guy.
Yeah he's fucked.
I was going to give NXT another chance with him going there full time, what pricks.
Named after a Nazi.
Probably unintentionally. Not because I think WWE are above it but because I doubt that much thought went into it.
Scotty talking about being an NXT coach after Vince and Pritchard started changing it all:
Fuck me.Next week it was, ‘Vince wants the coaches looking younger. So we need you guys to start dying your beards and cutting your hair.’
If they were intending to do a Nazi character then they wouldn't be this subtle, he would have a Hitler tache and be called Otto Von Stormtrooper.
Given their frame of reference is the likes of Airbud it's far more likely they're planning to literally turn him into Gunther from Friends.
https://whatculture.com/wwe/wwe-give...k-34-trademark
"Vince McMahon's promotion have abandoned its trademark application for a Nazi U-boat commander."
Going In Raw made the point as a counter to the idea that WWE probably didn't put much thought into it that they'll have had a legal bod submit the trademark and presumably have to have a) searched for examples of Gunther Starks and then b) say to WWE "er, FYI lads..."
What a company.
I don't understand how it isn't the first thing you do but then this is the company who had no idea that Adam Coles contract would run out before days before a big show.
To be fair if I worked in the HR department for WWE I'd probably do my best to not speak to the psychotic half of the company as well if at all possible.
What a horrific job that must be btw.
"We need you to fire these 30 people."
"Hahaha you've misread that and it's 3 right?"
"Sorry, you're right, I misread it, it's 40."
"Fine, I'll fire up the Word template."
"We're trying to save money here. Do it over twitter."
https://whatculture.com/wwe/report-w...4-with-nxt-2-0
What, over-promoting a load of green lads with shit gimmicks and crap names and having them beat crowd favourites hasn't set the fans alight with excitement? Weird that.
lol at Cody’s promo on Dynamite. Pathetic.
I'm a twit
This Bully Ray / Moxley stuff really is one of the worst takes. What the fuck is Bubba talking about?
From the little things i've seen it appears Smackdown was written by the same Manatees who write Family Guy last week.
"Did we ever tell you about the time RICK BOOGS was BACKSTAGE with JEFF JARRETT!"
A tournament where it's the losers who advance because they're all trying to avoid an undesirable stipulation match at the end is a really fun idea.AAA has announced its 30th-anniversary lineup for 2022, which will include three shows promoting the TripleMania brand. The first, TripleMania Regia will take place on April 30, while TripleMania Tijuana is set for June 18, and the premiere event, TripleMania XXX, will be on October 15 in Mexico City.
The company also revealed that it will hold an eight-man “ruleta de la muerte” tournament, where the losers of each match will advance to a Mask vs. Mask Match at TripleMania XXX. Each round of the tournament will be held at the three announced events.
That's a common concept in Mexico. In fact, one promotion used to run an annual event focused on such a tournament. Titles mean fuck all there, it's all about the "apuesta" (wager; eg. mask, hair).
Glad to see some non-WWE talk here.
I've only watched one AAA show, the one with Omega vs. Andrade and couldn't get along with some of the stuff around But yeah I wasn't aware of that being a regular thing but I like it. I only really hear about lucha stuff if Going in Raw dip into it.
We have a few AEW regulars in here (not me, to clarify) and Queenslander and Disco love a bit of NJPW.
It's fair to say I listen to/watch more shows about wrestling at the moment than I do wrestling itself, though I want to watch Styles / Theory from Raw and.............. there was an NXT match I liked the sound of this week too that my elderly brain has already forgotten what it was.
Also just saw this, and it's beautiful:
I don't care much for lucha libre really.
I'll probably not dip in much, I can't get away with WWE at all since about 2014 and although I tried AEW for a few months when it kicked off, again it's not for me, although there has been some good matches. I've always been into New Japan but I haven't watched much since COVID kicked them in the nuts (although they haven't helped themselves with all the Dick Togo and EVIL shit). I do like bits and pieces from most of the other Japanese promotions too. Yeah, so unless there's talk about Japanese wrestling or older stuff (80's, 90's, 00's) you probably won't see me a lot in here.
I love that idea where you have to win to get out of a tournament for something, haven't seen that before.
I haven't given AEW a proper try and keep toying with the idea of giving it a full watch for a month, say, and see how I get on (hush, Baz) but at the moment it's very much a case where I'll dip into shows for odd matches when I hear they're good / interesting. I watched that Omega / Andrade one because Going In Raw were banging on about Triplemania, I think the last four matches I've bothered my arse to watch have been from across WWE, AEW and Impact.Originally Posted by Ben
I'll be watching the Regal Ruckus at the weekend of course. And it's on Saturday too! A Sunday is a much better day to watch a couple of Rumbles.
My problem with AEW is the goofy midcard. I like Danielson, Omega (in the ring), Moxley, PAC, Page, Christian, [edit: and FTR] but I can't watch a full Dynamite unless it's something unique like the 60 minute match.
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This was really good. Theory should be a top guy for them at some point so I look forward to seeing how they fuck it up.
I knew Brock would love the Jackass lot.
heh.
Seth using the SHIELD entrance is brilliant.
Bullshit finish to a really good match. Fun.
As per always. That was such a shit ending.... and then they even acknowledged the fact the referee screwed him on commentary.
Pyro set the sign on fire so they had to evacuate the section, lower the sign and put the fire out.
Glad I didn't stay up for the men's rumble, that was shit (even though I love Lesnar, and he was absolutely the right winner).
A whole lot of nobodies in it, even more so than usual.
They’ve moved PPVs to a Saturday?!
*Premium Live Events.
I don't think I've ever predicted both winners and how they would come about before.
And having Lesnar win a Rumble when it's proven in story he can just turn up and demand a title match whenever he fancies is both a waste and the most boring possible option but y'know, WWE gonna WWE. I've only watched the Rumbles so far but the womens match was very dull but had a solid finish with some good sequences of eliminations, etc. The men's Rumble was a bit better early with some properly planned out segments and then a damp squib of a finish.
No idea who on Raw's going to be facing Bobbo.
To dodge the NFL playoffs I assume.
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