And even if Sting wasn't in great shape (I think I read that Hogan said that; dude looked great to me), he would've entered a feud with Bret Hart. You don't think Bret Hart, with a chip on his shoulder, immediately chasing the title, wouldn't have put on some classics with the Stinger? C'maaaah.
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Wow, sounds like an absolute trash show
15 months is a long ass hiatus, I suppose. The real reason he looks like shit though is that Hogan was booked (actually for the first and last time in his NWO run) as the old immortal Hulk Hogan. He gets all of the offense, no sells anything Sting does, and basically wins clean. The same guy who just a year ago allowed Piper to beat him clean twice in a row, a guy with no knees and who wrestled about as much as Sting did in his hiatus. They're better matches too!
I feel like there isn't enough to vote for or against people.
slightconfuse
Banned
HOLY SHIT PWG DROPPING BOMBS
RICOCHET VS TOZAWA
ANGLEICO AND JACK EVENS VS THE YOUNG BUCKS
HOKY FUCKING SHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
ALSO they posted a video of Mount Rushmore 2.0 forming
https://youtu.be/yPyJlKEQn9E
RICOCHET VS TOZAWA
ANGLEICO AND JACK EVENS VS THE YOUNG BUCKS
HOKY FUCKING SHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
ALSO they posted a video of Mount Rushmore 2.0 forming
https://youtu.be/yPyJlKEQn9E
I wouldn't mind watching the first episode of Nitro next week with the rest of you guys. 8PM EST or something like that.
bean breath
Member
Why is the MMA thread so active right now?
I agree. And it's incredible, really. Sting/Hogan was probably my most anticipated match of all time. That was it. There will never be a match in my life that I'm so into. And it was atrocious and so incredibly disappointing to 13-year-old me. Heck, I'm disappointed right now. Ha!
I barely know these people exist, let alone have an opinion beyond 39 seconds of forced reality show fighting. Watching the big dude gas himself swimming and talk about how he doesn't know The History of The Business felt like a metric ton of knowledge. The whole show is simply rushed.
Kimbo-Ken was the fight to revive the business.
Reebok deal will kill UFC and Bellator will soon advertise Kimbo-Herschel Walker and Ken Shamrock vs Bill Goldberg.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Aldo pulled out of the biggest-hyped fight of the year for a broken rib while Noble was able to show up a week after 3 broken ribs, and they're coming to terms with the best champ in their company being a bigger scrub than a mostly-retired comedy wrestling character
Officerrob
Banned
Tough Enough looks like the result of a Vince McMahon 30 second meeting where he decided the show needed to be as much like American Idol as possible. Format wise, the Tough Enough with Austin was perfect.
The problem is there is no "face" of the show, no Simon Cowell, no Adam Levine vs. Blake Shelton, etc. If you don't have that, you need to go all in with the actual contestants and they sure as hell are not doing that.
The problem is there is no "face" of the show, no Simon Cowell, no Adam Levine vs. Blake Shelton, etc. If you don't have that, you need to go all in with the actual contestants and they sure as hell are not doing that.
bean breath
Member
You mean that press conference in Ireland was all for nothing now?
sf2fanatic
Member
Tough Enough already a failure. How is
still in it?
Diana
Sport still is in dire need of real star power for the 40 billion fights they put on.
She creates drama and that drives the show's ratings
off the road and into a ditch
Sweeney Tom
Banned
They did 6 months of ads, TV show hype, plugs, and Youtube videos and pressers streams, all for nothing. There's a replacement fighting Conor, but people legit booked international flights and hotel stays just to see Aldo fight their boy. Fans lost thousands, and the company lost at least a few million, all for nothing.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
That's another thing. In 2 weeks, they have a full week where there's 4 events (1 of which is a PPV), and as much as I like the sport for the life of me I can't fully recommend seeing anything but the PPV. And there's a fifth event the week after that!
I know they have like a roster of 300+ at this point but come on, pacing yourself ain't bad. Jeeeezus and we thought 2 2-week PPVs in a month were bad
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
July Wrasslin' |OT| Too Swiss for Television
So what is the better bleak future?
It ending up like boxing, fixed at the highest level with one big fight every few years (that still won't draw as well as boxing because it doesn't have that prestige)
or
ends up as pro wrestling with strict time limits in a cage.
I wish they would bring back the one that was trying to be MTV's The Real World. Not this Big Brother/American Idol crap we see today.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
I thought we were livin' it.
Viacom buys UFC when the bottom falls out, Scott Coker takes us back to the basics. It's not sport, its spectacle. Human cockfighting with washed out pro wrestlers, athletes and celebrities.
This ain't even the darkest timeline yet, friend.
Al Bundy hasn't fought the green Power Ranger yet.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Would like to see Al Bundy vs "Hey" Phil Brooks
Too much editing. I don't think this is on the level.
Dan Severn will always be remembered for two things, neither of which are related very much to his WWF career.
1. His theme song is awesome.
2. While he is actually a nice guy he's also so fucking weird that he's the only person I've ever heard cutting a promo that made a competitor seriously sound like the classic nice quiet serial killer who murdered 400 people up and down the coast. Someone should have sent Sam Shaw the complete promo works of The Beast.
1. His theme song is awesome.
2. While he is actually a nice guy he's also so fucking weird that he's the only person I've ever heard cutting a promo that made a competitor seriously sound like the classic nice quiet serial killer who murdered 400 people up and down the coast. Someone should have sent Sam Shaw the complete promo works of The Beast.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
That look you can only get when you're calm and resolved from 1000 fights.
Bundy got the Brock stare down...
Just watched Cena vs. Cesaro. So good. Cena whipping out the Canadian Destroyer was pretty rad.
Edit: Just watched the Ziggler/Lana segment. They need to stop this right away. Rusev walking with one crutch is a pretty captivating visual, but I feel bad for him and Lana in real life here.
Edit: Just watched the Ziggler/Lana segment. They need to stop this right away. Rusev walking with one crutch is a pretty captivating visual, but I feel bad for him and Lana in real life here.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Rock with young Bo Dallas
You're not wrong.
Cheetos is Pretty Awesome
Member
Wow. I say this with a tear in my eye, "you still got it."
dream
Member
3. Trained for UFC 4 by having Al Snow throw slow hooks while he ducked them.
I just watched the Owen/Shamrock fight in the Hart Dungeon earlier tonight. What a weird thing that was. I can't imagine how dead a modern crowd would be if they took twelve minutes out of a PPV to show a match via satellite.
It felt like a precursor to those weird apartment wrestling matches BronsonLee likes to film.
