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[Mahonay]

You guys, what if Josh wins the Rumble, because it's all a work?


Would you be legit shook?

You're right, we shouldn't want things that are good, because it's a work. Who cares.

 

[RBH]

What are some good wrestling podcasts?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192650396&postcount=11370
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192650502&postcount=11371
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192650522&postcount=11372
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192651003&postcount=11374
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192652128&postcount=11384
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192656600&postcount=11404

 

[Anth0ny]

WHAT!

Please god no

 

[Bluekaveli]

Is that stawman thing a rumor or a joke or what ? IS the E back to 90's kind of WM match ala Taker/Giant Gonzales ?

Also hyped for Aries. I believe in him a lot, they could do wonders with hm. He has the thing they lost with Punk i think.

Also he's the only one lacking in my prophecy project. Can you imagine i saw ONE only wrestling show in my life. It was a crappy show in France, in basically a garage. It was around 2007-8 i think.
In that show there was: Kevin Steen and El Generico, Brian Danielson.. and Austin Aries. It was said this night each and everyone of them would be on top of the wrestling world one day!

Dude, that's a pretty damn awesome showing when you think about it.

 

[Mahonay]

 

[slightconfuse]

 

[klonere]

Stroman vs Brock? Sunny must be on the booking committee. I'm sure your very happy with that rumour Sunny.

 

[Anth0ny]

Is that stawman thing a rumor or a joke or what ? IS the E back to 90's kind of WM match ala Taker/Giant Gonzales ?

Seriously.

Dude isn't a draw nor can he work a fucking match. They're insane if they go through with it. Even Bray makes way more sense, and a match with Bray would still be the shits.

The fact that there is no consideration towards Owens continues to baffle me. AJ or Nakamura would also be new and exciting options that would result in awesome, memorable matches.

Newsflash: no one on the current uninjured roster is over besides Reigns.

 

[Ithil]

WHAT!

WrestleZone

 

[Thorakai]

Strowman vs God King Bork?

Save us Reigns

 

[somedevil]

nxt time

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

Royal Rumble 2016 [OT] A Bullet Sounds the Same in Any Language

 

[serenewarfare]

Royal Rumble 2016 |OT| Where's Roman?

 

[Bronx-Man]

The 29th Annual Royal Rumble |OT| Roman's Revenge

 

[UberTag]

Newsflash: no one on the current uninjured roster is over besides Reigns.

This is entirely by design. They want no one else over except Reigns... people being groomed to be fed to Reigns... and themselves.

And Cena when he comes back. And the annual part-timers for Mania.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Newsflash: no one on the current uninjured roster is over besides Reigns.

Newsflash: no one on the current roster is over, including Reigns.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

So are Gable and Jordan now called American Alpha? Seems that way from NXT.

 

[somedevil]

So are Gable and Jordan now called American Alpha? Seems that way from NXT.

Yep and they are facing the last former tag team champs next week. Next is the champions.

 

[Sephzilla]

son of a bitch, milwaukee got a surprise kevin owens appearance?

 

[somedevil]

son of a bitch, milwaukee got a surprise kevin owens appearance?

Yeah, he showed up told Sammy when he was injured he was main eventing on Raw and then got kicked in the face.

Baron Corbin Indie killer is great.

 

[Sephzilla]

Okay, I want that Owen Hart dvd

 

[slightconfuse]

Observer awards issue is up

Wrestler of the year

LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD

(WRESTLER OF THE YEAR)



1. A.J. STYLES (299) 2,507

2. Hiroshi Tanahashi (160) 1,674

3. Kazuchika Okada (136) 1,532

4. Shinsuke Nakamura (190) 1,481

5. John Cena (55) 976

6. Brock Lesnar (79) 668

7. Seth Rollins (51) 580

8. Sasha Banks (80) 519

9. La Sombra (35) 228

10. Jay Lethal (21) 214

 

[Anth0ny]

Observer awards issue is up

Wrestler of the year

Damn look at all that WWE representation.

I'm sure Tanahashi will jump ship next year after Wrestle Kingdom, too.

 

[avengers23]

Holy cow, Gary Hart just buries the Jarretts and the other Tennessee wrestling promoters in the book.

 

[slightconfuse]

PROMOTION OF THE YEAR



1. NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING (354) 3,290

2. UFC (383) 2,286

3. Ring of Honor (55) 1,137

4. Lucha Underground (56) 880

5. Dragon Gate (79) 798

6. PWG (17) 439

7. WWE (19) 392

8. DDT (9) 246

9. Progress Wrestling (20) 154

10. Evolve 96

TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
1. YOUNG BUCKS (382) 3,284
2. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly (229) 2,204
3. New Day (167) 1,691
4Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (86) 835 5. Naruki Doi & Yamato (70) 637
6. Jason Jordan & Chad Gable (33) 537
7. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro (2) 189
8. Michael Bennett & Matt Taven (6) 172
9. Matt Sydal & Ricochet (16) 156
10. Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta (7) 125

WORST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER



1. JOHN LAYFIELD (225) 2,016

2. Michael Cole (107) 1,179

3. Jerry Lawler (127) 1,117

4. Byron Saxton (101) 1,005

5. Josh Matthews (93) 815

6. Matt Striker (82) 809

7. The Pope (48) 408

8. Booker T (32) 373

9. Vampiro (1) 117

10. Corey Graves 49

Some more

 

[somedevil]

Samoa Joe has been amazing lately.

 

[Nekofrog]

what's driving Joe now? what made him at least look like he cares (i think he does)? because this Joe can do great stuff on the main roster (please don't go to the main roster they won't do great things with you)

 

[Kaladin]

People actually like Corey Graves?

 

[bigkrev]

Observer Match of the year

KOTA IBUSHI 1/4 TOKYO (319)2,429

2. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 8/16 Tokyo (207) 1,519

3. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks 8/22 Brooklyn (107) 1,173

4. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada 1/4 Tokyo (90) 939

5.Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins

1/25 Philadelphia (57) 619

6. Shingo Takagi vs. Masaaki Mochizuki 11/1 Osaka (64) 588

7. Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville 12/11/14 Winter Park (27) 407

8. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tomoaki Honma 2/14 Sendai (25) 391

9. Minoru Suzuki vs. Takashi Sugiura 9/19 Osaka (29) 287

10. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. A.J. Styles 8/14 Tokyo (11) 229

 

[Mahonay]

what's driving Joe now? what made him at least look like he cares (i think he does)? because this Joe can do great stuff on the main roster (please don't go to the main roster they won't do great things with you)

Going from modern TNA to NXT I think is more than enough to explain the renewed enthusiasm.

 

[somedevil]

People actually like Corey Graves?

Yeah. I enjoy his announcing a lot. Plus in the observer he was voted second best announcer for last year.

Plus NXT beat Lucha Underground for weekly show award.

 

[Angry Grimace]

People actually like Corey Graves?

He's a very good heel announcer on NXT.

 

[Mahonay]

People actually like Corey Graves?

What's wrong with his heel commentary? I find him to be great most times.

 

[Anth0ny]

If AJ debuts and eliminates Brock to set up a mania program

Daaaaaaaamn

 

[Mahonay]

If AJ debuts and eliminates Brock to set up a mania program

Daaaaaaaamn

I would get harder than Brock's chest penis.

 

[Hex]

If AJ debuts and eliminates Brock to set up a mania program

Daaaaaaaamn

I still think that he will toss Sheamus to set up the build to Nations vs B(alor)ullet Club and possibly put some friction with the authority

 

[KissVibes]

what's driving Joe now? what made him at least look like he cares (i think he does)? because this Joe can do great stuff on the main roster (please don't go to the main roster they won't do great things with you)

• Paycheck
• Job Stability
• Popularity
• Good workers to work with
• Gets to largely be himself
• He isn't Chris Hero

 

[orioto]

I now see something. About the problem of AJ being unknown to some of the wwe audience.

I think that's why they do internet hype and rumors. So that even the more mainstream of their audience heard about him and that he's a big deal, so they can introduce him as main eventer directly.

 

[RBH]

 

[somedevil]

Triple H and Ryan Ward won booker of the year. Its amazing WWE has the best booked show and one of worst under the same umbrella.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Damn, Bayley vs Sasha was the best WWE match of the year. Well deserved.

 

[Bluekaveli]

I would get harder than Brock's chest penis.

That sounds like something Freck would say

 

[Kaladin]

Let me put it this way. Corey Graves isn't bad in the sandbox that is NXT and greater WWE, but when put up against other heel commentators, he's not great either.

 

[slightconfuse]

Carny award

Lol at the typo in number 4

MOST DISGUSTING PROMOTIONAL TACTIC



1. WWE USING REID FLEIHR’S DEATH IN AN ANGLE 618

2. WWE Divas Revolution 26

3. TNA having James Storm push Mickie James onto the train tracks 24

4. WWE changing Ultimate Warrior’s words and meaning in giving Conor McGregor the Warrior Award 17

5. Lucha Underground and indie men vs. women matches 15

6. WWE having Michael Cole do a broken neck angle right after Perro Aguayo Jr. died from a broken neck 10

7. WWE getting rid of Hulk Hogan while Lionizing Ultimate Warrior who said things as bad or worse in public 9

 

[serenewarfare]

The fact that the top voted US match of the year was a fucking developmental women's match is astonishing if you look back just a few years ago, but they definitely deserve it.

Also a very key and interesting note from the Obsever:

As of a week ago, Reigns vs. HHH was set as the WrestleMania main event, but it wasn’t a lock it would be a title match.

 

[somedevil]

Let me put it this way. Corey Graves isn't bad in the sandbox that is NXT and greater WWE, but when put up against other heel commentators, he's not great either.

What other heel announcers are there? Lucha, ROH, TNA, New Japan don't have heel announcers. He is technically the only heel announcer on a show that airs on tv or online.

Plus some Smackdown News:

As noted, Brock Lesnar will be working the March 22nd WWE SmackDown tapings inn Boston. He's also working the February 16th SmackDown tapings in Ontario, California. Lesnar will be working more SmackDown tapings in the next few months in an attempt to strengthen the show now that it's on the USA Network.

 

[Kaladin]

Carny award

Lol at the typo in number 4

#3 while disgusting, was in TNA and no one cared.

#4....leave it to the internet to find something bad about that.

#5....I can't say I watched all of those matches, but didn't they usually have the woman going over, or at least on equal ground as the men?

#6....I think you can almost say with certainty, the people responsible in WWE probably didn't know about that.

#7 is classic WWE cherry picking their champions.

My worse would actually be #2. WWE took an amazing thing and turned it into dog shit.

 

[Kaladin]

What other heel announcers are there? Lucha, ROH, TNA, New Japan don't have heel announcers. He is technically the only heel announcer on a show that airs on tv or online.

Plus some Smackdown News:

True, I was thinking more of great heel commentators of the past with that comment though.

 

[slightconfuse]

Top 2 match for Ultima Lucha 2 sounds like hot fire

 

[slightconfuse]

This is hilarious

An interesting note that is beginners promo classes, the wrestlers are broken down into these groups: “Girls,” (you’d think they’d use women as a public company), “Teams” (only two of them), “Big Men” (all those giant recruits including Mada and Josh from Tough Enough), “Smaller Athletes,” (which includes everyone from Patrick Clark to Richard Swann to Christopher Girard/Biff Busick), “Foreign Accent” and “Character” (only one guy is in that category, ZZ)