blackaroni
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Fuck. The divas division will always be shit. I guess she's back for some Total Divas money?
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March Wrasslin' |OT| The NXT Era Has ArRIVED
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Fuck. The divas division will always be shit. I guess she's back for some Total Divas money?
It was just a signing......blackaroni
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You have a sick sense of humor. Stop scaring people. I wish Kelly Kelly all the luck in her singing career.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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blackaroni
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There's only one singer worth talking about
Hahaha. That gif is glorious.
The Mango Sentinel
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I really wish any of those companies were actual competition for wwe.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I did my part brahs my Paige shirt came in today! DBrine got two more new shirts today. Guess they just trying to see what sticks.
ertitoagus
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Bryan should be the new EDGE
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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I can't wait for his romance angle with Vickie.
lovely ladies
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lol, the JARRETT world championship belt
ertitoagus
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Better with Steph
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Can I ask something?
I've been out of wrestling for over a year and only came back around the time WWE Network was announced. I knew somewhat about Ryback being this Goldberg type character who was going through wrestlers left and right with a "feed me more!" catchphrase.
Now he's jobbing to "Los Matadors" on Superstars.
Question is, who the fuck did this guy piss off to sink so far down?! I mean, he at the bottom of the barrel right now, but has a body not unlike Brock Lesnar. You gotta REALLY fuck up to be buried that badly with that kind of physique.
I've been out of wrestling for over a year and only came back around the time WWE Network was announced. I knew somewhat about Ryback being this Goldberg type character who was going through wrestlers left and right with a "feed me more!" catchphrase.
Now he's jobbing to "Los Matadors" on Superstars.
Question is, who the fuck did this guy piss off to sink so far down?! I mean, he at the bottom of the barrel right now, but has a body not unlike Brock Lesnar. You gotta REALLY fuck up to be buried that badly with that kind of physique.
He might look built, but he can't work at all ,and he's weak as fuck.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Oh. Like the Great Khali?
British Monsoon
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I think his current status is just the culmination of a bunch of failed pushes - the guy might look built, but he's demonstrated on multiple occasions that his muscle is just for show and has struggled lifting opponents that guys like Cesaro or Henry would lift with ease. Plus, he was very green when they gave him his first big push and, really, it was too much, too soon. Add to that the Goldberg similarities, which the crowd constantly reminded him about, and it's easier to see why that first push didn't work. He was just used as fodder for Cena.
Etrian Oddity
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And there was a period where TNA was legitimately entertaining with all the indy guys and X Division folks they had signed.
He's too dangerous in the ring, he also has a really poor backstage attitude
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Shit I love Ryback. Dude is hilarious. Wish he still had that bullying gimmick.
Lambda Pie
Banned
Ryback is not fit to shine Goldberg's boots.
shame cause his bully stuff was hilarious.
shame cause his bully stuff was hilarious.
JesseEwiak
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Yes, the backlash is beginning. Oh yes. I remember when everybody was happy that Cena was "finally getting a push" as well. I look forward to people in five years chanting Bryan sucks as he does his Yes chant move.
Time is a flat circle, after all.
Time is a flat circle, after all.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Or it's because these people aren't themselves anymore after they get the push. Austin was always himself and Rock was always himself until his recent return. And overexposure and a lack of growth will cause the crowd to turn on anyone, and Austin and Rock both dealt with that at various times, too.
Mr. Luchador
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There was a time when it was right, this isn't the time. Now it's forced.
Lambda Pie
Banned
what Bryan stuff happened? i'm completely out of the loop.
Mr. Luchador
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He's finally over... the shark. lolololololololol tv trope reference.
JesseEwiak
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Rock was the same as he was in 2013 as he was in 2003. You were just younger and liked poop jokes and oblique references to pussy more back then. Austin was also a totally difference character, by the time of his heel turn compared to the near sociopath that fueded with Bret.
Also, they tried the Daniel Bryan is a serious wrestler who won't slap John Cena pure sports build at Summerslam. It failed. So, they're going with what they know works - an over the top character who has a simple catchphrase so the marks will lap it up. I bet you they'll have new Yes Movement shirts by Wrestlemania you can happily buy at the stadium for 29.99.
Lambda Pie
Banned
Jesse shootin', damn.
if Bryan is getting some backlash, good, predicted this like a year ago. absolute shite character with no defining traits outside of chanting YES and looking like someone who smuggled moonshine in the 70s.
if Bryan is getting some backlash, good, predicted this like a year ago. absolute shite character with no defining traits outside of chanting YES and looking like someone who smuggled moonshine in the 70s.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Man this is worse than the TNA thing.
JesseEwiak
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He was. Go back and watch some actual Smackdown or RAW's. Not the ones included on numerous DVD's or highlight packages, but just random Rock interviews. If you just read the words on the page, they aren't that great. In fact, if Cena said a lot of them, they'd be rightly torn as bullshit. But, the Rock is so damn charismatic, he could pull it off.
The truth is, WWE writing, especially comedic stuff, has always averaged out at below average, because ya' know, wrestling. The Rock had lots of great weeks, but there were a lot of weeks where he just went catchphrase catchphrase city wrestler lalalalalalala catchprase is cookin and that was it.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I'm right there with you, and I think all of us remember being really down on his repetitiveness and going-through-the-motions moments. But #Rock2013 is not at all the same as the Corporate/People's Champion. Daniel Bryan right now is not the same as Fave Five D-Bry. He's out there cutting pandering Cena promos, and his words are management's. The "WTF" and "NO" reaction of the Chicago crowd to his insistence that he get a match with Trips shows that his character's motivation isn't authentic anymore.
WRESTLEMANIA 8
Yes sir we promised you a great event tonight, live from The Hoosier Dome, it's Wrestlemania 8! I've seen very few Wrestlemanias so I'm pretty excited to see this one.
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are our commentators tonight.
Reba is out to sing the national anthem with some of the best hair I've ever seen.
"El Matador" Tito Santana vs Shawn Micheals w/ Sensational Sherry
Match starts off fairly slow so Monsoon takes the opportunity to pimp the hotline, I'm already not a fan of these two.
Shawn hits Sweet Chin Music which I guess isn't his finisher at this point. Santana seems to be the king of the headlock as he's done almost nothing but that one move so far. Tito tries to bring Shawn back into the ring but falls and gets pinned, terrible.
MEAN GENE TIME! He calls out the Road Warriors and Paul Ellering, they scream and scream and scream at Dibiase and I.R.S. for way too long, this is atrocious.
Backstage segment now with Jake Roberts cutting a great promo on Taker, this guy is gold.
Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs The Undertaker w/ Paul Bearer
Wow, Taker is over as shit even here. Roberts throws punch after punch at Taker but can't faze him. he even punches him over the rope but he lands on his feet. Jake hits a DDT but Taker sits up.
Jake goes after Bearer and tries to take the urn, but eats a tombstone on the floor, he throws Jake back in the ring and pins him.
MEAN GENE TIME! Roddy Piper and Bret Hart are here as Piper rambls incoherently, Piper pushes Bret and they almost come to blows but Bret eventually walks away.
Intercontinental Championship: Bret Hart vs "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
Piper loses a few exchanges and spits at Bret after getting pushed, what a heel. Bret fakes a shoulder injury and tries to steal the win with a roll up...so I guess he's the heel too? Piper slaps the hell out of him and they fight to the outside. Piper punches Bret in the head and he's bleeding now for some reason.
Bret looks like fucking Ric Flar right now but manages to catch Piper on the top rope and drive him into the mat. Bret catches a boot right to the face as he dives off of the top rope, Bret goes for a bulldog but Piper shoves him into the ref, "clothesline" by Piper who gets a ring bell but decided not to use it, Piper locks in a sleeper but Bret reverses it into a pinfall to win the title, pretty good match.
Stupid segment with Lex Lugar that ends with him drinking milk, snore.
The Nasty Boys, The Repo Man, and The Mountie scream and yell and whatever, awful.
Slaughter and some other people scream as well, whatever
Big Boss Man, Virgil, Sgt. Slaughter, and Jim Duggan vs The Nasty Boys, Repo Man, and The Mountie w/Jimmy Har
This match is essentially the personification of my worst wrestling nightmare, one of The Nasty Boys flops around with Duggan, then Slaughter, everyone flops around,I'm not giffing this, one of the worst matches I've ever seen, the faces win.
Backstage! Mr Perfect and Ric Flair now, apparently they have a big photo of Elizabeth that they're showing off tonight.
WWF Championship: Ric Flair w/ Mr Perfect vs Randy Savage
Savage gets a standing ovation from the crowd. Savage attacks flair on the ramp,Perfect attacks Savage which doesn't result in a DQ for some reason, very back and forth match despite the terrible commentary.
Crowd goes nuts for anything Savage does. Savage hits a flying elbow but Perfect grabs Savage and breaks up the pin, once again not resulting in a DQ for some reason,Flair hits Savage with knucks or something while the ref is distracted but Svagae kicks out, crowd loses their shit at this. Elizabeth comes out and gets a huge pop, there's a group of people around Elizabeth trying to convince her to leave. Flair tries a figure four but Savage rolls him up to win the title, fantastic match even if the ending was pretty lame.
Flair kisses Elizabeth after the match and the two keep fighting before getting pulled apart
Backstage promo with Flair who insults Elizabeth and says Savage can't beat him again
MEAN GENE TIME! He's got Savage and Elizabeth, Savage says he's not done with Flair
Tatanka vs "The Model" Rick Martel
Tatanka has a bunch of indians at ringside for some reason. Match was nothing, Tatanka wins with a cross body
WWF Tag Team Championship: Money Inc vs The Natural Disasters
Dibiase tries to overpower Earthquake and it goes about as well as you'd think. I have no idea how these ropes aren't collapsing whenever Typhoon bounces off of them, Money Inc grabs the titles and walk off to retain by DQ, worthless.
"The Rocket" Owen Hart (seriously?) vs Skinner
Owen gets some disgusting stuff spin in his face at the start, Owen rolls him up and gets the win in less than 2 minutes, ridiculous.
Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice
Harry Whippleman who i guess is aligned with Sid decided to introduce him. Crowd goes nuts for Hogan, Hogan's music plays for a long time even after the match starts, crowd is losing their shit,
Sid hits a cool looking one handed choke slam.
Sid is essentially beating the shit out of Hogan, he hulks up and hits the leg drop but Sid kicks out, Whippleman gets in the ring for the DQ, Papa Shango comes out and they double team Hogan, Warrior makes the save and they drive off the heels, they celebrate FOREVER to go off the air, kill me.
This was a 2 match show, Bret vs Piper and Savage vs Flair were the only matches worth anything, and both of those ended with roll ups, the amount of filler matches and awful talent on this show is off the charts, Mania 8 is no doubt one of the worst. (sorry for the really big gifs, i tried to cut the number of them down since i couldn't figure out how to reduce their size)
Yes sir we promised you a great event tonight, live from The Hoosier Dome, it's Wrestlemania 8! I've seen very few Wrestlemanias so I'm pretty excited to see this one.
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are our commentators tonight.
Reba is out to sing the national anthem with some of the best hair I've ever seen.
"El Matador" Tito Santana vs Shawn Micheals w/ Sensational Sherry
Match starts off fairly slow so Monsoon takes the opportunity to pimp the hotline, I'm already not a fan of these two.
Shawn hits Sweet Chin Music which I guess isn't his finisher at this point. Santana seems to be the king of the headlock as he's done almost nothing but that one move so far. Tito tries to bring Shawn back into the ring but falls and gets pinned, terrible.
MEAN GENE TIME! He calls out the Road Warriors and Paul Ellering, they scream and scream and scream at Dibiase and I.R.S. for way too long, this is atrocious.
Backstage segment now with Jake Roberts cutting a great promo on Taker, this guy is gold.
Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs The Undertaker w/ Paul Bearer
Wow, Taker is over as shit even here. Roberts throws punch after punch at Taker but can't faze him. he even punches him over the rope but he lands on his feet. Jake hits a DDT but Taker sits up.
Jake goes after Bearer and tries to take the urn, but eats a tombstone on the floor, he throws Jake back in the ring and pins him.
MEAN GENE TIME! Roddy Piper and Bret Hart are here as Piper rambls incoherently, Piper pushes Bret and they almost come to blows but Bret eventually walks away.
Intercontinental Championship: Bret Hart vs "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
Piper loses a few exchanges and spits at Bret after getting pushed, what a heel. Bret fakes a shoulder injury and tries to steal the win with a roll up...so I guess he's the heel too? Piper slaps the hell out of him and they fight to the outside. Piper punches Bret in the head and he's bleeding now for some reason.
Bret looks like fucking Ric Flar right now but manages to catch Piper on the top rope and drive him into the mat. Bret catches a boot right to the face as he dives off of the top rope, Bret goes for a bulldog but Piper shoves him into the ref, "clothesline" by Piper who gets a ring bell but decided not to use it, Piper locks in a sleeper but Bret reverses it into a pinfall to win the title, pretty good match.
Stupid segment with Lex Lugar that ends with him drinking milk, snore.
The Nasty Boys, The Repo Man, and The Mountie scream and yell and whatever, awful.
Slaughter and some other people scream as well, whatever
Big Boss Man, Virgil, Sgt. Slaughter, and Jim Duggan vs The Nasty Boys, Repo Man, and The Mountie w/Jimmy Har
This match is essentially the personification of my worst wrestling nightmare, one of The Nasty Boys flops around with Duggan, then Slaughter, everyone flops around,I'm not giffing this, one of the worst matches I've ever seen, the faces win.
Backstage! Mr Perfect and Ric Flair now, apparently they have a big photo of Elizabeth that they're showing off tonight.
WWF Championship: Ric Flair w/ Mr Perfect vs Randy Savage
Savage gets a standing ovation from the crowd. Savage attacks flair on the ramp,Perfect attacks Savage which doesn't result in a DQ for some reason, very back and forth match despite the terrible commentary.
Crowd goes nuts for anything Savage does. Savage hits a flying elbow but Perfect grabs Savage and breaks up the pin, once again not resulting in a DQ for some reason,Flair hits Savage with knucks or something while the ref is distracted but Svagae kicks out, crowd loses their shit at this. Elizabeth comes out and gets a huge pop, there's a group of people around Elizabeth trying to convince her to leave. Flair tries a figure four but Savage rolls him up to win the title, fantastic match even if the ending was pretty lame.
Flair kisses Elizabeth after the match and the two keep fighting before getting pulled apart
Backstage promo with Flair who insults Elizabeth and says Savage can't beat him again
MEAN GENE TIME! He's got Savage and Elizabeth, Savage says he's not done with Flair
Tatanka vs "The Model" Rick Martel
Tatanka has a bunch of indians at ringside for some reason. Match was nothing, Tatanka wins with a cross body
WWF Tag Team Championship: Money Inc vs The Natural Disasters
Dibiase tries to overpower Earthquake and it goes about as well as you'd think. I have no idea how these ropes aren't collapsing whenever Typhoon bounces off of them, Money Inc grabs the titles and walk off to retain by DQ, worthless.
"The Rocket" Owen Hart (seriously?) vs Skinner
Owen gets some disgusting stuff spin in his face at the start, Owen rolls him up and gets the win in less than 2 minutes, ridiculous.
Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice
Harry Whippleman who i guess is aligned with Sid decided to introduce him. Crowd goes nuts for Hogan, Hogan's music plays for a long time even after the match starts, crowd is losing their shit,
Sid hits a cool looking one handed choke slam.
Sid is essentially beating the shit out of Hogan, he hulks up and hits the leg drop but Sid kicks out, Whippleman gets in the ring for the DQ, Papa Shango comes out and they double team Hogan, Warrior makes the save and they drive off the heels, they celebrate FOREVER to go off the air, kill me.
This was a 2 match show, Bret vs Piper and Savage vs Flair were the only matches worth anything, and both of those ended with roll ups, the amount of filler matches and awful talent on this show is off the charts, Mania 8 is no doubt one of the worst. (sorry for the really big gifs, i tried to cut the number of them down since i couldn't figure out how to reduce their size)
maybe one day he can end somebody's career with a reckless move , then he will be appreciated
Lambda Pie
Banned
Bret was done before the kick. stro reviewed the match, he might remember better than me, pretty sure Bret lands face first on the floor at some point during the match and gets fucked up there.
The Mango Sentinel
Member
There's probably no chance I'd turn on Daniel Bryan. He's just too good of a wrestler.
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Seriously though. I was actually starting to look forward to Batista/Orton.
Batista is still winning the title though.
She doesn't get a match at Mania lol.
Amazing way to spite Punk too, give Bryan his spot at Mania against HHH, give Bryan the main event as well and make sure his girlfriend is buried and nowhere near TV or WrestleMania for all of March and April while Eva-Marie, Nikki Bella, Cameron and Natalya have a fatal Total Divas four-way for the belt at Mania.
Oh fuck you're right, they are that petty
They dragged this storyline out way too long. It either needed a break from the Randy/Bryan main events for a few months OR they needed to pull the trigger at Rumble and do Bryan/Cena II at Mania. This just became an endless case of blueballs for the fans.
British Monsoon
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Hey UK folks, the documentary about ICW in Scotland is on BBC1 tonight at 22:35;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qv39d
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qv39d
British Monsoon
Member
Nope, not until March 30th.
Good, thanks. I'll check it out then.
Serpentine
Banned
damn that Bryan segment could've been corny cringe crap but it got awesome
too bad the WM 6 and 7 reviews were delayed, because i've lost count of Tito Santana's record
catching up on this thread and this got me for some reason
i love when stro has to review michael hayes matches
this is wwf alrightWRESTLEMANIA 8
Tatanka vs "The Model" Rick Martel
Tatanka has a bunch of indians at ringside for some reason. Match was nothing, Tatanka wins with a cross body
too bad the WM 6 and 7 reviews were delayed, because i've lost count of Tito Santana's record
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