Big Show says that Henry, Kane and Cena are the strongest for him.
Based on how it felt being lifted by them.
Big Show says that Henry, Kane and Cena are the strongest for him.
Based on how it felt being lifted by them.
From what I can gather Strowman was a competent strongman, and will no doubt be stronger than the rest of the roster, but ultimately he would still be closer to somebody like Cena or Kane (when he was in shape) than peak Henry.
Cena never lifted Big Show with his arms (as if for a slam), did he? I know it's a different sort of strength but while I've seen Kane and Henry lift Big Show bodyslam style I don't remember Cena doing it. May well be wrong though.
EDIT: Really enjoyed Ali vs. Gallagher.
That is a fair shout. Both are underrated as singles as well.Originally Posted by Shindig
Competent is about right. He had some great results as an amateur strongman and a couple of decent results in professional strongman events in 2012 but nothing beyond that. I think he competed once in the Arnold Classic but got injured in one of the earlier events?
Are they any other pro wrestlers that competed professionally as strongman too? There's Henry, I think Bill Kazmaier dabbled in pro wrestling (?) I'm struggling to think of anyone else.
Eddie Hall reckons WWE have been in touch, which sounds like a premature death waiting to happen.
Ken Patera from the early Wrestlemania days was an Olympic weightlifter, Ted Arcidi from the same kind of time too. Pure beef
Bruno Sammartino had the bench press record for a time, and would have gone to the Olympics were Paul Anderson not the pre-eminent freak of his day.
Alexa Bliss
I groaned loudly when somehow Sasha wasn't hurt at all by the twisted bliss and ended up, clumsily, in the banks statement as I thought she was going to take it.
Decent opener and a fairly good first elimination chamber for the women if a little obvious at times.
I thought the entire PPV suffered from the fact there was zero doubt who was winning all the matches.
Nia Jax just seems to suck everything out of a match.
She is just a female Viscera but with none of his charisma or charm.
I think Nia's alright as a bruiser, but she has absolutely no menace about her at all. Plus she's clearly the immovable object rather than irresistible force, Gorilla Monsoon would be turning in his grave.
Alexa Bliss's post-match interview swerve was the best thing on the show. Ronda Rousey should have Paul Heyman doing the talking for her.
The Ronda segment, her crippling HHH aside, was utter bollocks. Mrs Ladyballs gets a slap on her and she doesn't retaliate, and then she does what they wanted all along and signs the contract anyway. Given she got "no perks" in the deal, I'm sure they'd have included "I get to put HHH through a table" in the contract if that's what it took to get it over the line. Ronda is already their bitch.
I did lol at the Rousey introduction (baddest woman on the planet, lol) with these going through my head:
No idea why the crowd were so in favour of her.
Drunk Kurt fucking it all up is always great.
They also couldn't draft up a fake looking contract? They could only get a page with RONDA ROUSEY in 48 point for her to sign?
It really was a thing of a beauty.
Pretty boring all told and no shocks in there.
Men's match was lazy.
We can make Boatman look unbeatable, he can eliminate EVERYONE.
But Roman has to win...
Ok, so he eliminates everyone but Roman. We can even have everyone trying and failing to eliminate him
If everyone gangs up to eliminate him and he shrugs them off how does Roman have a chance?
Err, he can just throw a few more Superman punches and Spears?
Genius
They should have just had Boatman win it or had everyone hit their finisher on him (I think they pretty much did) and have someone pin him. Or just go back to the reliable roll up midway through his destructive tear.
It really did. Not one part of it was ever in doubt. Other than Wyatt vs. Hardy which nobody in their right mind gives a shit about anyway.
Her lobbing HHH through a table was decent but as with a high percentage of contract signings it was largely bollocks. Stephanie only gets her 'comeuppance' once a year at Wrestlemania so that's why that happened.
The PPV was.... fine, but no better. The big issue with the two Chamber matches on top of the predictable winners was that very little happened that actually required the Chamber to be there. A couple of big spots and some token 'lob them into the wall' spots but not much to really make the most of it. It also really feels like it's going to be another pretty lacklustre build towards Mania but hopefully I'm wrong.
I think the women did alright, especially considering it was their first go at the match. Alexa doing a Twisted Bliss off a pod was good but Sasha deciding to no sell it was fucking stupid.
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I was also surprised that more damage wasn't done with Braun using the Chamber. Halfway through I spotted that the 'BULLETPROOF' plastic went up above the pods too and when he chased Miz up there I thought he was going to get put through. So disappointed when he just lobbed him at the others instead.
I forgot that he smacked his head against it a few times but I was really hoping that he'd just launch him through. That would have been great.
Really hoping Juice Robinson gets the nod.
Elgin v Ishii, Naito v Sabre Jr and Juice v Yujiro should all be crackers.
Best thing about RAW this week.
The rest was pretty shit.
Oh and Reigns actually cut a semi-decent promo.
I enjoyed Cena and Reigns. Both promos were good I thought.
If it's true that Cena is facing Nakamura for the title shot, I so hope Big Match John wins, just for the seethe
Fuck Wrestlemania, this is all that matters:
It's nice that he still looks like he's in his 70s.
Whoever James Ellsworth is, he cannot cut a promo.
That's the gimmick.
Also he's shit.
Ronda Rousey was much better on Raw, it's like she learned to speak into a mic during the day. Stephanie squaring up to her and then apologising for her life was ace.
I'd imagine she practised it a lot, or she was just a lot less nervous.
I expect her to be a shambles on the microphone though and they really should give her a manager.
I do like it when people call out Bork for his bullshit on telly. It's just a shame he cares.
Hopefully when Reigns goes over him at Mania he'll fuck off for a long time.
He's got more presence than anyone I've ever seen but I'd rather have the champion actually on the show now, plus once he had that fantastic match with Cena and all the german suplexes that just became his entire repertoire.
Yeah, at the time that Cena match was brilliant, but it basically killed Brock as an entertaining wrestler.
Which is a shame, because as much as he doesn't care he does get it. When he bothers to sell, etc. he's actually really good at it. He has a level of understanding about how to put a sell the match and put it together that is utterly wasted on somebody so colossally lazy and all they've done in the last year is sacrifice pushes at the altar of Lesnar so that it looks "more impressive" when Reigns beats him.
He seems more into it when his opponent is a bit more physical like with Samoa Joe or Braun Strowman clocking him for real last month, whereas everything Ambrose does is light as a feather so he completely phoned it in for that match. I'd guess he's done after WM and back off to UFC.
I decided to listen to the Stone Cold Podcast with Vince Russo as I've heard he had history in the business and thought it may be interesting, BUT BRO, he has some of the most annoying verbal tics in the world I MEAN BRO, he can't go half a sentence without shouting BRO, BRO.
LIKE BRO, I lasted about 8 minutes.
Russo is an asshat of the highest order.
He had Buff Bagwell's mum as tag champion and the object in one of those '____ on a pole' matches, you can't knock ideas like that.
Still better than a Kendo stick on a pole where one wrestler is allergic to kendo sticks.
All the Mexican wrestlers in a pinata on a pole match too, someone in the WCW office must have mistakenly ordered way too many poles.
http://www.wwe.com/videos/sting-vs-j...een-havoc-1992
Coal Miner's glove anyone?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2taco
Or why have 1 pole when you can have 4?
Championship title in a box up one pole, a framed picture of Scott Hall, Coal Miner's glove and of course a blow up doll.
During the Pimp my Ride/meme years, WWE considered getting Xzibit in for a pole on a pole match.
Smackdown was pretty shit.
Best thing was probably the Uso/New Day promo (after The Usos came out) but then it was spoiled by the two dickhead bludgeon twats.
Main event was ruined by finisher spam as per usual and it sets up a shit 6 man tag for next week.
He still made Joe look like a bum so he wasn't that into it.
Did Strowman go down to one F5 too?
Keith Lee rumoured to be joining WWE, he's awesome and you should all look forward to him arriving.
Watching 205 now and I can't stand TJP.
Anyone over 15 who 'dabs' should be shot.
Who would have thought 5 years ago that PWG would be a WWE developmental territory of sorts?
Are you going to this @Disco?
I suspect London will be the closest show so probably not.
Have you seen this yet?
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