December Wrasslin |OT| Shaking Hands, Jerking Knees, Eating Mistletoe, Feeling Energy

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Jesus, they hired back Randy Anderson who was legit battling cancer, was made fun of and bullied for having cancer...

and Randy Anderson died in 2002 from cancer. :(
 
Watching the fingerpoke of doom Nitro - 1-4-99. Trying to pay as much attention that I can do the rest of the card and ignore the poke.

Hogan ran an angle to run for president. :/ I remember this crap.

This is the greatest night in the history of our sport!!!
 
By Gawd, the GAF Rumble currently has 90 participants! Is exactly a month from today so we could end up with over 100 people in it. Didn't think the WrassleGAF Universe was that big.

Did you know wressleGAF has more members then 10 random ezboards forums combined?
 
Another good episode of FCW this week - wish RAW could pack this much wrestling into an hour.

Good opening match between Peter Orlov (Alexander Kozlov from AAA and ROH) and Mike Dalton (a trainee of Lance Storm), then an OK FCW tag team title match featuring Briley Pierce (AKA Dolph Ziggler's little brother), followed by UK wrestler Kenneth Cameron taking on Jiro (Taishi Takizawa from Kaientai Dojo) who has a really good Muta-esque moonsault but doesn't get much offense in during this squash. Then there's a divas tag match, two girls on one side who I haven't seen before against Kaitlynn and Cameron Lynn (that awful girl who got kicked off episode 1 of Tough Enough) and a pretty good main event with Antonio Cesarro & Dean Ambrose vs Abraham Washington & Seth Rollins.

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Let's get nuts...

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January Wrasslin [OT] 100 posters enter, only one survives.

Or

January Wrasslin [OT] Friend vs Friend, Foe vs Foe, It's every man for himself!
 
Plywood and dj both have made excellent suggestions.

Actually, I like sandman's suggestions.

The #WUBWUB shit should stay out of the OT until the month that the WWE network launches.
 
By Gawd, the GAF Rumble currently has 90 participants! Is exactly a month from today so we could end up with over 100 people in it. Didn't think the WrassleGAF Universe was that big.

I read through this thread probably 10-15 times a day, but I don't really ever post anything.

I'd love to get into the GAF Rumble, but I didn't think I should try to get in since I'm not a frequent contributor like Plywood, G-Fex, Keyser, Spindashing, Kraeman, etc.
 
Let's talk about wrestlers that reasonable human beings love that you personally can't stand. (i.e. no Cener characters) - basically unpopular opinions.

I could never stand Shawn Michaels. Ever. Not as one of the shit-tastic Rockers, not as HBK, not as JBL's bitch, not as anything. He's always been dogshit to me. He was a cocky little shit back in the day, and these days he feels, to me, like a hypocrite and should have retired long ago. And it's all related to his character - his ring work is good. I just don't care, because I hate his stupid ass so much.

UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?
 
Let's talk about wrestlers that reasonable human beings love that you personally can't stand. (i.e. no Cener characters) - basically unpopular opinions.

I could never stand Shawn Michaels. Ever. Not as one of the shit-tastic Rockers, not as HBK, not as JBL's bitch, not as anything. He's always been dogshit to me. He was a cocky little shit back in the day, and these days he feels, to me, like a hypocrite and should have retired long ago. And it's all related to his character - his ring work is good. I just don't care, because I hate his stupid ass so much.

UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?

You're just mad he faked a knee injury to beat brotista.
 
HHH, no matter what point of his career it was, I have just never enjoyed his work. He was alright in DX but that was mostly due to those surrounding him. Oh his own, pass.
 
Never liked Brock Lesnar at all, the only time I ever found him entertaining or even remotely charismatic was when he pushed the one legged chap down some stairs and lets face it even Tyson Kidd could look like a top heel doing that.
 
Please no WUB WUB or twitter hashtags in the title?

After how terrible this month's title has been we need to hit this next one outta the park. We gotta take our time and think about it, still a few days.
 
You're just mad he faked a knee injury to beat brotista.

I am mad at that too. What a bastard.

I never liked The Undertaker. If I was ever into an Undertaker feud, it was entirely because of who he was feuding with.

Also, so much of ECW was unwatchable trash.

ECW has NOT aged well under any circumstances. I watch it today and I'm bewildered by the crowd cheering for 30 second squash matches that end in DQs. I guess I'm just getting old...
 
UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT:

I don't like Hulk Hogan. As in I kinda hate his guts. Oh wait that's not unpopular

LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN ALERT:

I don't like Bret Hart much. He's a great wrestler but I don't like the guy himself much. He's self-serving, childish and has an extreme victim complex. His character was also never very interesting outside of the in ring action, except perhaps as an angry heel.
 
Let's talk about wrestlers that reasonable human beings love that you personally can't stand. (i.e. no Cener characters) - basically unpopular opinions.

I could never stand Shawn Michaels. Ever. Not as one of the shit-tastic Rockers, not as HBK, not as JBL's bitch, not as anything. He's always been dogshit to me. He was a cocky little shit back in the day, and these days he feels, to me, like a hypocrite and should have retired long ago. And it's all related to his character - his ring work is good. I just don't care, because I hate his stupid ass so much.

UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?

Attitude Era was the worst thing to ever happen to pro wrestling. It pushed shock value over storytelling and birthed an entire generation of people that left when they stopped blading and beating each other over the head with weapons.

Also, the tag team division should just be abolished. It's clear WWE has no intent to ever make it work again, so why waste the time?
 
Also, the tag team division should just be abolished. It's clear WWE has no intent to ever make it work again, so why waste the time?

Until you see the team of Pig Terminator come out - things'll change. Clay and Ryback, baby!
 
Let's talk about wrestlers that reasonable human beings love that you personally can't stand. (i.e. no Cener characters) - basically unpopular opinions.

I could never stand Shawn Michaels. Ever. Not as one of the shit-tastic Rockers, not as HBK, not as JBL's bitch, not as anything. He's always been dogshit to me. He was a cocky little shit back in the day, and these days he feels, to me, like a hypocrite and should have retired long ago. And it's all related to his character - his ring work is good. I just don't care, because I hate his stupid ass so much.

UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?
I'm also going to have to say HHH. I don't remember ever being totally excited over what Triple H was about to do or say (I did pop for his last WrestleMania entrance, though), and not solely because he practically married the company; it just got worse when he did. For a long time, during HHH's inactivity, I was one of the people in WrestleGAF stating that I don't believe HHH should even be wrestling anymore. What else is there for him to do if he isn't trying to push talent up?

Never liked "Hunter Hearst Helmsley."

Never liked him in the old DX, I preferred Shawn and the other members.

Never liked him period. I'll also give him the Pedigree, which is a pretty cool looking finisher.

To a lesser extent, I've also never liked Alberto Del Rio. The only redeeming quality of his that I see is the running kick to the back of the head while the opponent is seated at the turnbuckle move that he does.

Also, the tag team division should just be abolished. It's clear WWE has no intent to ever make it work again, so why waste the time?

I actually went back to a thread last year and I saw myself saying something along the lines of "dirtsheets are saying that Vince wants to revamp the tag team division" and to this day people are still saying that. It's sad because tag team matches back in the day were pretty entertaining in the WWE. And after the Teddy Long meme, I'm sure a lot of people are actually tired of forced tag team matches. The WWE just lacks credible tag teams: they have tag teams but they're not really prominent on television.

Oh, and I agree with you on the Attitude Era. Sure, through rose tinted glasses it was good, but there was a lot of garbage on there. If I had a nickel for every time a smark/mark would say "lol attitude era was so much better"...
 
Yeah, it's HHH, but I'm guessing that's not an unpopular opinion here, lol. I just can't stand him in any capacity, and I think it's hilarious that he thinks he's on the same level as Austin/Rock/HBK, and I'm sure it eats him up that he never had his own era.
 
Yeah, I've also never been a Triple H fan at all, and I've always thought that McMahon-Helmsley era crap was the absolute worst shit to watch and sit through. But I'm not sure if that really counts as "unpopular" (at least on here).
 
Another good episode of FCW this week - wish RAW could pack this much wrestling into an hour.

Good opening match between Peter Orlov (Alexander Kozlov from AAA and ROH) and Mike Dalton (a trainee of Lance Storm), then an OK FCW tag team title match featuring Briley Pierce (AKA Dolph Ziggler's little brother), followed by UK wrestler Kenneth Cameron taking on Jiro (Taishi Takizawa from Kaientai Dojo) who has a really good Muta-esque moonsault but doesn't get much offense in during this squash. Then there's a divas tag match, two girls on one side who I haven't seen before against Kaitlynn and Cameron Lynn (that awful girl who got kicked off episode 1 of Tough Enough) and a pretty good main event with Antonio Cesarro & Dean Ambrose vs Abraham Washington & Seth Rollins.

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Hey, where did you watch FCW, haven't found it on youtube.

Thanks.
 
Let's talk about wrestlers that reasonable human beings love that you personally can't stand. (i.e. no Cener characters) - basically unpopular opinions.

I could never stand Shawn Michaels. Ever. Not as one of the shit-tastic Rockers, not as HBK, not as JBL's bitch, not as anything. He's always been dogshit to me. He was a cocky little shit back in the day, and these days he feels, to me, like a hypocrite and should have retired long ago. And it's all related to his character - his ring work is good. I just don't care, because I hate his stupid ass so much.

UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?

That's an unpopular opinion?

/canadian
 
NihonTiger90 said:
Also, the tag team division should just be abolished. It's clear WWE has
no intent to ever make it work again, so why waste the time?

I feel the same way about the Divas division. It's like, OK you clearly want women on TV to hit a female demographic, but can't even be bothered to give them more than 2 or 3 minutes in-ring? Isn't that a bit counter-productive? Either have sexy eye candy valets/managers/Nitro dancers, or have women who can wrestle and then show them the respect of actually allowing them wrestle rather than just waste everyone's time.

Hey, where did you watch FCW, haven't found it on youtube.

Thanks.

I had actually hidden the link at the bottom of that post, you should have been able to see it when you quoted me ;)
 
re: diva's division

Gail Kim was saying how she was often told to go out and act girly, to withstand from doing many punches, kicks, or what have you. It seems as the more talented women who are sent out there are sent to basically look foolish, and not purposely wrestle.

Attitude Era was the worst thing to ever happen to pro wrestling. It pushed shock value over storytelling and birthed an entire generation of people that left when they stopped blading and beating each other over the head with weapons.

Also, the tag team division should just be abolished. It's clear WWE has no intent to ever make it work again, so why waste the time?
Funny enough, the tag division in the Attitude Era is the last time we've seen such great tag team wrestling (TNA a while ago had some quality, but not enough teams).

Also what you described is clearly ECW. Attitude Era is more defined, to me at least, by Austin, The Rock, the great tag team matches, Taker-Mankind, and booking was far, FAR above anything now. They pushed guys instead of solely relying on the same two hogs for 4+ years.

The fact they used the entire roster and not just a select number of guys is great. They had a great midcard, a fun tag division, an undercard with guys that worked extremely well, and of course an excellent main event group.

Never liked "Hunter Hearst Helmsley."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQWitPVM9I

Even as cheesy as he sounds, it's still far more enjoyable to watch than 99% of promos/vignettes we see today (on television, at least).
 
UNPOPULAR OPINION. Yours?

Outside of the Summer of Punk, I have never cared for RoH. PWG has always been my favorite indy due to it being conveniently near me when it first started off and I just enjoy it's style more. For a long time i preferred CZW to ROH. Hell, i enjoyed IWA-MS more than RoH since they did the TPI which I looked forward too.
 
Outside of the Summer of Punk, I have never cared for RoH. PWG has always been my favorite indy due to it being conveniently near me when it first started off and I just enjoy it's style more. For a long time i preferred CZW to ROH. Hell, i enjoyed IWA-MS more than RoH since they did the TPI which I looked forward too.

WHOAAAAAAAAAAHHHH wow :O
 
My unpopular opinion: blood in wrestling is completely unnecessary. Blading does not heighten any dramatic tension for me. It just grosses me out. I'd rather not see blood. It's a cop out for people who can't sell.
 
Attitude Era was the worst thing to ever happen to pro wrestling. It pushed shock value over storytelling and birthed an entire generation of people that left when they stopped blading and beating each other over the head with weapons.

I agree with this. The attitude era ruined wrestling. They pushed things so far that it could never be topped. But the biggest issue is that it changed the model of wrestling programming. Everything went from promoting PPVs to focusing on ratings and they've never gotten away from that even though there isn't competition anymore. It used to be that the TV shows were essentially infomercials for the PPVs. Now the PPVs hardly mean anything because they give everything away on TV. Which is why I got so into ROH's TV show because their style of broadcasting was very similar to the way wrestling was pre-Attitude Era. Then again, I thought Final Battle was garbage so all that anticipating didn't really pay off so I don't know what to think anymore.
 
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