I'm hoping for:
- Rusev getting owned by a pensioner.
- Roman Reigns going over someone more talented than he is.
- A random 6 man tag made up of midgets no one cares about.
I think I'm going to be happy.
And I realise that all happened last week, but it was so shit it's worth doing twice.
I think we're all just on countdown for Hogan's WrestleMania return now.
That's one pensioner who could beat up Rusev all day every day and I wouldn't get bored of it.
There speaks a man who didn't watch Hogan vs Sting in TNA.
Of course I did. Who wouldn't watch Hogan.
Anyone from Gawker.
Anyone who wanted to see a decent match or hear someone talk coherently. He's been fucking awful since about 1995, he should be limited to hobbling down the ramp once or twice preferably accompanied by someone who can cover for all his mistakes (like remembering where he is or how to count to 10). He needs to disappear gracefully like he should have done 20 years ago.
Why the fuck did Hogan wrestle in jeans during TNA. Surely that's not going to do him any favours.
Also, lol at Sting wrestling in a t-shirt.
Looked up further on this. I remember him winning the court case and then they instantly declared bankruptcy.Originally Posted by Gray Fox
He was awarded $140m from it, but they've only just settled on about $30m. A bit of a jump but still, Hulkamania ran wild.
Grow up, mate. It's not real.
Think it was $36m but they had to remove all traces of the story, which they really didn't want to do. Still, he dominated them the same way he'll dominate whoever gets in his way at Wrestlemania.
Can he actually perform a leg drop, though? If he's just going to point the finger and deliver a 'big boot' to the knee cap then forget it.
Even that would be better than Reigns. Or another Rock return.
I remember on the old board every Monday night you'd get an extra 4-5 pages added onto the thread with the running commentaries of shows. I couldn't even imagine sitting there and watching a three hour Raw now and going through all the old stuff just really brings it to light how bad the product is these days.
Indeed. This thread wasn't even bumped for HIAC until the Tuesday I think. Interest in it is at an all time low.
It doesn't help that RAW is shit and Smackdown is still Smackdown.
20 years ago Hogan had just broken out the beard dye, he was never better.
This sounds better than any RAW in the last 5 years:
We reported at various points this morning that a fight broke out between Chris Jericho and Sin Cara while backstage over the weekend at a Live Event in England. We noted earlier that one first-hand account says Sin Cara struck first and Jericho answered the attack by biting the cruiserweight until the two were separated.
According to Dave Meltzer the incident happened while the RAW crew was traveling from Leeds, England to Glasgow, Scotland for tonight's RAW. Cara was reportedly kicked off the bus the crew was traveling on.
Meltzer noted that Cara was making annoying noises while on the tour bus and while people were telling him to stop, he kept making the noises. This led to Jericho "more forcefully" telling Cara to stop. Cara reportedly told Jericho to "fuck off" and words were exchanged. Cara threw a wilds right hand at Jericho before others jumped in to break it up. Jericho then bit Cara's finger during the pull-apart. Cara was then kicked off the bus.
One account noted that Cara snapped in about two seconds without any warning or reason.
Get the mask off him now.
what's smackdown like? i've read a lot of people raving about it on the f4w board but i assumed partly just compared to the utter wank WWE has been putting out for years.
i basically want the product to be exactly like Heyman-booked mid-2000s Smackdown; wins and losses matter and an intense, slightly dark tone but presented like a real sport.
It's better than Raw but neither are as good as NXT these days.
His in ring stuff was awful (even by WCW standards) by the time the NWO started.
One day I'll binge on the NXT stuff, I'm partly a bit scared that i'll get really into it and it'll take over my life.
Oh, I'm going ROH in Leicester next week I think, which'll be fun. Probably.
What's the card like, any Bucks of Youth?
YOUNG BUCKS (MATT & NICK JACKSON) VS. MARTY SCURLL & WILL OSPREAY
CHRIS SABIN VS. ADAM COLE
ALEX SHELLEY VS. JAY LETHAL
reDRagon (BOBBY FISH & KYLE O'REILLY) VS. JAY & MARK BRISCOE
JOE HENDRY VS. ACH
THE ADDICTION (CHRISTOPHER DANIELS & FRANKIE KAZARIAN) VS. DALTON CASTLE & DELIRIOUS
LIO RUSH VS. DONOVAN DIJAK
I was the first to defend NXT back in the day but it's been steaming shit for about 18 months now.
Comparatively though....
That should be good.
Fuck off and feed your shit dog a bit more mate.
He's asleep.
RAW sounds like same old, same old, but the Bayley chant in the video going around was awesome. Charlotte handled it so badly.
Feels very much part of a production more than a show designed for a live audience but I'm glad I went. Probably a crap show though.
You're right about Charlotte and the Bayley chants.
Also in the post show dark match Rollins busted out Hogan's no sell, Hulk up, punches, boot, leg drop routine which I enjoyed.
I'll be interested to see if the audience is as disjointed/shit as it seemed there. People seemed to struggle to get back into things what with the massive gaps where you're sat in the dark and expected to be entertained by your fifth Total Bellas advert of the night. Seemed pretty dead during some of the bits.
At the Newcastle house show there was an awful lot of bairns in Cena gear. I bet they were gutted.
That's inexcusable for a recorded show to be fair. If it was going out live then they don't really have time to do anything during an ad break (assuming it's not mid-match) but recorded they should be doing something, or skipping them. The first show I ever went to (the first Smackdown ever taped in the UK) has a surprise appearance by THE UNDERTAKER half way through that wasn't on TV as he had been written out at the time. He wrestled Heidenreich and it was awesome.
I had a friend who was in Australia at the time and when I told him about it he got so confused and thought WWE had different storylines in different countries as Undertaker had been written out "there" and he seemingly didn't understand the concept of a Dark Match. I had a lot of fun with that, making up random shit that was going on here until he worked it out.
That era of Smackdown was so good though. Thinking back to that show just makes me sad about what a state the product is now.
Watching this back it's even better with the commentary seeing how desperate they are to explain the concept of a Survivor Series. Mind-boggling. We've seen one before, lads.
The bit I don't get is Zayn Vs Ziggler. That's just mental particularly if you're not going to have Reigns Vs someone from Smackdown.
Makes it look like they know what they're doing with Zayn, I guess.
I assume it's a way to get Zayn over to Smackdown
Well that would just make a mockery of the brand split. The only way to do it is have Ziggler win, but surely they could have got a jobber from Smackdown. A Zayn win ends up with the IC Title moving to RAW, unless they do another BS "HIS CONTACT EXPIRED AT MIDNIGHT AND NOW HE'S HERE!" like they did with Swagger.
Presumably the argument would be that the title belongs on Smackdown, so if he wants it, he has to move. It would be shit, but Zayn should be on Smackdown anyway, they're really struggling for top babyfaces.
I wouldn't really buy that seeing as how they had to draft Miz to get the title. They can do it, but yea, it would be stupid.
Has Swagger done anything at all on Smackdown since he showed up with a new catchphrase that meant nothing?
Given he was THE REAL AMERICAN and he lost the night after 9/11 to Jinder Mahal, anything is an improvement.
To think he was the world title challenger at the same Wrestlemania where Fandango beat Chris Jericho. What an event.
Did Thwagger have a couple of matches against Baron Corbin? That sounds like something I wouldn't care about enough to remember properly.
He did, yeah. When you want to get somebody over obviously you bring in Big Jack Swagger.
I still can't believe he lost that match to Jinder Mahal. It would somewhat make sense if they went on to use Jinder for.... anything, but he just lost to everyone after that. Way to big him up before sending him to Smackdown.
This is why it's a shame there's nowhere else for these wrestlers to go when WWE haven't got a fucking clue what to do with them.
Not all of them want to. There'll be guys there same as every other job in the world who are just happy to collect the best money they can.
One of the guys I went to Raw with yesterday was telling me that NJPW have signed Billy Gunn for some tag tournament thing they're doing.
It's also the first I'd heard of 205 Live. Is the point of that that they get more screen time for promos and shit without Raw having to pretend they think a smaller guy is a real wrestler?
So he got........BIT!
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