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March Wrasslin |OT| Road To WrassleMania
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Fun fact of the day: Cody Rhodes' current reign as Intercontinental Champion is the longest title reign for the belt in almost 7 years.
You have to go back 30 title changes to find one longer. Shelton Benjamin held the title for 244 days before losing it to Carlito in his Monday Night RAW debut match back in June 2005.
If Cody manages to outlast Big Show's terrible Mania track record and the following week of Florida TV tapings, he will eclipse Shelton's reign and set his sights on Dwayne's IC title run of 265 days from 1998. (After that, he'll be chasing Mr. Perfect and finally the Honky Tonk Man.)
You have to go back 30 title changes to find one longer. Shelton Benjamin held the title for 244 days before losing it to Carlito in his Monday Night RAW debut match back in June 2005.
If Cody manages to outlast Big Show's terrible Mania track record and the following week of Florida TV tapings, he will eclipse Shelton's reign and set his sights on Dwayne's IC title run of 265 days from 1998. (After that, he'll be chasing Mr. Perfect and finally the Honky Tonk Man.)
Cody Rhodes will loose the belt to the debuting Seth Rollins on Monday Night RAW in Miami.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Spot on, sir.
Perspicacity
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Of the "favourite" prospects in FCW right now I have the least confidence in Seth Rollins
That's why he's going to win.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I'm not sure if he still does, actually, but I do remember him doing it in TNA. :lol
I hope he beats Big Show, but the whole feud is basically how Big Show has never had that Wrestlemania moment.
Apparently burying The Corre in 90 seconds doesn't count
I said Seth Rollins because he is the only one that is ready to debut and would be a babyface.
Perspicacity
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Fair point, although how fast can Kassius Ohno get back into television shape?
UberTag
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Big Show can still have his moment while still winning by DQ or pulling off some ridiculous power spot at the end of the match.
Incidentally, I'd sort of like to see a heel-heel feud between Rhodes and 9-time champ Y2J.
Would be fun having them try to out-arrogant one another and see who the crowd rallies behind.
Evening Musuko
Black Korea
That's quite impressive but his reign as IC champ has been pretty disappointing so far. In fact, I can't even remember the last time he put the title on the line. (Hell in a Cell?)
Still, Cody's great to watch and has improved a lot since I started watching WWE again in 2007. I remember back then people were calling him CAWdy Rhodes
Would you really want Chris Hero as a babyface in WWE?
Host Samurai
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I still can't take Cody serious with that terrible lisp.
UberTag
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Still better than that other champion's all-American American lisp.
Yeah WWE fails to realize that a long title reign doesn't actually mean anything unless the belt holder is actually defending the title against people. Has he even defended the title against anyone except Booker T since they turned the thing white again?
FallingEdge
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that's me in the bottom right hand corner cheering for my boy, D.Bry.
They've been doing recaps of the HHH/Undertaker stuff too.
It sounds like somebody forgot the Road to Wrestlemania last year.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Our favorite COO actually gets rating increases for his recaps.NoRéN;35662824 said:
Net_Wrecker
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Jim Cornette stops The Briscoes and Adam Cole from going to WWE. LITERALLY!
This is great.
BoboBrazil
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Looks like no Russo is killing TNA. Ratings have been dropping every show since he left and the drop has been considerable since October when he originally lost some of his power. This is the lowest rating of 2012.
The main event drew the lowest rating of the night. OUCH.
prowrestling.net said:
The main event drew the lowest rating of the night. OUCH.
UberTag
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Sort of makes you wonder why they even bother keeping anyone else on payroll.Our favorite COO actually gets rating increases for his recaps.
They could run a 2-hour show of Trips wrestling brooms and it would still pop a bigger rating than what they're getting now. They could even work in a subplot where Trips must coexist with the broom so he can win the curling gold medal at the Olympics.
Professor Beef
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So that's what Leslie Nielsen has been doing since he stopped searching for the Undertaker, huh?
*sigh*
*sigh*
Net_Wrecker
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:lol TNA. A month of solid episodes and nobody seems to care. Oh well, they did it to themselves.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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You know, an entire show of wrestlers cutting promos and then having Triple H come out, pedigree, and leave would get the biggest ratings since the Attitude Era.
And lol TNA. Not much else can be said.
Sting + Jeff Hardy = ratings
UberTag
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Now he haunts Mark Calaway from beyond the grave.
Which isn't such a bad gig. Leslie gets an eyeful of McCool each and every night.
Professor Beef
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Probably better than staring at Anna Nicole.
BoboBrazil
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I think the problem is the shows have been better as a whole, but there has been that lack of must see tv or crash tv that Russo is known for. Nothing really happens on the show if you miss multiple episodes. It's weird ratings are going down though as attendance at their house shows seem to be improving lately.
well he has to blame somebody for his shortcomings and for giving into Gestahl. I am truly a blight on this thread with my 1000+ meaningless posts. I guess I have no choice to but to continue on with being the best damn blight I can be. I jumped the gun and took Dream and Uber off ignore too soon but I won't put them back on it I guess.
Pristine_Condition
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BoboBrazil
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How long until TNA hires Russo back?
After they fire the other 17 writers from creative.
If what Russo said is true, and he left because he wasn't going to be used to his full potential, I'd image never. I imagine they probably wanted to demote him to just writing scripts and having no say in the product at all.
BoboBrazil
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Yeah, that's basically what happened a few months ago apparently when Pritchard took over as head of creative. Russo likes to have full control. I think he got the blame for alot of the bad stuff that actually wasn't his fault like match finishes(just look at the shows without him so far and the spoilers the next couple of weeks.) It was a much more entertaining show with Russo and Ferrara at the helm before Hogan and Bischoff came in.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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In Russia, hair shave you.and last but not least...
Perspicacity
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Wait, TNA is getting good again?
Don't you fuck with me GAF
Don't you fuck with me GAF
BoboBrazil
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Last night's show was great, except for the 2 women's matches. I fast forwarded through those. Things are slower now and they are putting more emphasis on in ring work with matches getting more time now. The 6 man tag last night was really great in the main event and got a good amount of time. They are gonna need a few more months of rebuilding and good booking before things start to turn around though.
It has been good for a while, where have you been?
Net_Wrecker
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It hurts watching prelims on Fuel with their horrible SD feed that's still letterboxed.
Stupid UFC and their stupid Fuel and stupid Time Warner for not carrying Fuel HD.
All of the above.It hurts watching prelims on Fuel with their horrible SD feed that's still letterboxed.
Stupid UFC and their stupid Fuel and stupid Time Warner for not carrying Fuel HD.
Professor Beef
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Not falling for your lies.
Joker Sting was even back. But he has to do a balancing act between Crazy Joker Sting and Sane GM Sting.....so it's weird.
BoboBrazil
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Aries always delivers. If WWE does that cruiserweight show I'd hope they'll bring him in. One of the most entertaining wrestlers in the world today. Unfortunately the next two weeks of Impact seem to be about trying to get Garrett Bischoff over.
FallingEdge
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Also, since it got buried in a bunch of other posts.....
This pic is just too awesome.
you should read the facebook comments.
smh.
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