September Wrasslin' Thread

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Linkhero1 said:
"You go home and tell your kids and your wife that daddy will never be Shawn Michaels."

:lol
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rajah.com said:
The rating is in for the September 15th edition of WWE Raw and it's not good news for WWE or the USA Network. This week's Raw did a 2.6 rating. The show did hourly numbers of 2.51 and 2.7.

Not a single quarter hour broke 3.0. The highest rated segment, which came at 10:15, drew a 2.91. Granted - Raw was up against a very exciting Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. However - fall competition from the NFL is nothing new for WWE, which hasn't seen ratings like this in a decade.
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Ouch.
 
Lost Fragment said:
Ouch.
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Apparently Vince is in PANIC mode right now.
Wanting people's heads etc.... when he should be looking in the mirror.

It ain't the talent. You have a hell of a decent roster (WAYYYYY too many fresh faces on ECW and SD though. Bringing up people way too often and too soon).
It's not the writers. They only do what Vince/Steph tells them

There's NO fresh thinking at WWE, and as long as there's Vince around, there never will be.

His "ideas" are usually terrible, his mandated "toning down" of matches and moves have limited the talent and match matches dull.

His love for muscle bound meatheads needs to go away as well.
 
Outcast2004 said:
Apparently Vince is in PANIC mode right now.
Wanting people's heads etc.... when he should be looking in the mirror.

It ain't the talent. You have a hell of a decent roster (WAYYYYY too many fresh faces on ECW and SD though. Bringing up people way too often and too soon).
It's not the writers. They only do what Vince/Steph tells them

There's NO fresh thinking at WWE, and as long as there's Vince around, there never will be.

His "ideas" are usually terrible, his mandated "toning down" of matches and moves have limited the talent and match matches dull.

His love for muscle bound meatheads needs to go away as well.
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I just hope it isn't bad news for Jericho :(
 
Take Batista out of my television and RAW's rating will soar above a 4.

...seriously though, every fucking month Batista demands he be the #1 contender! It's ridiculous.
 
WWE is garbage right now. Really is, don't know how some of you religiously sit here every Monday and watch that crap. CM Punk winning the title a while back peaked my curiosity then I realized it was a joke title run. :lol

On the other hand, I want TNA to succeed and get better but their booking is fucking atrocious.

last week's impact had like 2 or 3 matches, it was horrible. x division is dead, retarded bikini contests, waste of talent with terrible gimmicks (curry man).

uuuugggggghhh, state of wrestling is bad real bad. wish I had a time machine to go back to the late 90s and watch some Nitro.
 
Mike Johnson @ PWI said:
SERIOUS ISSUE FOR TOP WWE STAR

We were told earlier in the day that there was an issue with Jeff Hardy at the Nashville International Airport as he was heading home today from last night's Smackdown taping.

We are still triple sourcing the details because we want to be 100% correct before we go with this story. Watch the site for further updates.

We were told earlier in the day that there was an issue with Jeff Hardy at the Nashville International Airport as he was heading home today from last night's Smackdown taping.

We are still triple sourcing the details because we want to be 100% correct before we go with this story. Watch the site for further updates.
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OH SNAP!
 
Cerrius said:
WWE is garbage right now. Really is, don't know how some of you religiously sit here every Monday and watch that crap. CM Punk winning the title a while back peaked my curiosity then I realized it was a joke title run. :lol

On the other hand, I want TNA to succeed and get better but their booking is fucking atrocious.

last week's impact had like 2 or 3 matches, it was horrible. x division is dead, retarded bikini contests, waste of talent with terrible gimmicks (curry man).

uuuugggggghhh, state of wrestling is bad real bad. wish I had a time machine to go back to the late 90s and watch some Nitro.
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I've watched a few segments since Punk became champ. Nothing interesting. Santino is funny, but he's so fucking corny and over-the-top that it's hard to watch. Frankly everything is corny and over-the-top now. They lost that aggression and unpredictability that Austin brought and the comedy that the Rock had. Santino could be the next Rock, but it'll take years of him toning his goofy shit down and make some comedy above what elementary school kids already find cheesy. He has wit and charm (I died when he called him Rey Mastrio), but he sort of buries that under lame facial gestures and that dumbass unibrow.

Really it isn't even the bland storylines or lack of them that turns me off. It's the wrestling. God it's just the same old shit every fucking match. At least with TNA PPVs you'll have at least one match where some guys will do some high-flying or innovative shit. The WWE style is just so generic and predictable. Even when you have a guy like Evan Bourne, you know all he's really going to be allowed to do is that shooting star press before a pin. He's not going to get to do the sort of things throughout a match that he did in ROH. Every single person is pared down to having their own Five Moves of Doom and never, ever, ever doing anything else, ever, for years.

Good Christ the matches are boring, I'm bored just thinking of them. You guys that sit through this shit every week have much more fortitude than the rest of us. I'm not going to hate on you, but I really just can't imagine what could keep a person religiously watching this repetitive, dull shit. I could at least understand watching TNA weekly because sometimes the matches are worth it when they drop all the gimmicks and horseshit. I think the last one I watched was Styles vs Angle, and it was a blast. Before that was Joe vs Angle where they tried the MMA stuff which didn't really do well, but at least they tried and it was interesting to watch.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Really it isn't even the bland storylines or lack of them that turns me off. It's the wrestling. God it's just the same old shit every fucking match. At least with TNA PPVs you'll have at least one match where some guys will do some high-flying or innovative shit. The WWE style is just so generic and predictable. Even when you have a guy like Evan Bourne, you know all he's really going to be allowed to do is that shooting star press before a pin. He's not going to get to do the sort of things throughout a match that he did in ROH. Every single person is pared down to having their own Five Moves of Doom and never, ever, ever doing anything else, ever, for years.
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Do you actually watch Bourne's matches? Anyone who still thinks the E is telling Bourne to stick to to one restricted move set is either full of shit, or they have no idea what they are talking about.
 
avatar299 said:
Do you actually watch Bourne's matches? Anyone who still thinks the E is telling Bourne to stick to to one restricted move set is either full of shit, or they have no idea what they are talking about.
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EVERYONE is told what they can and can't do.
Go watch Sydal's ROH stuff and compare it to his WWE stuff (which WILL get progressively more watered down as time goes on) then get back to me.

THe talent is limited in their movesets for a reason... 200+ dates a year. To lessen the wear and tear on their bodies from overworking.
 
Yeah, WWE style wrestling is wearing thin on the tooth for me. But TNA isn't any better though they allow more leeway. Problem with TNA is their style can't come to light when all their matches on television is 3 minutes at a time. Not to mention their characters are protrayed horribly. Not to mention they can't book for shit.

I watch RAW, Smackdown, and ECW because I like wrestling and its my passion, I guess. 5 hours a week of wrestling is awesome for me. If I get bored of the WWE shit then I watch feds like ROH, NOAH, AJPW, and I'm starting to watch NJPW. So if North American wrestling sucks for you, there's always Japan, the UK, and Mexico to help you out. Seriously, its worth a shot. Kenta Kobashi is the TRUTH and KENTAR is wak, lolllllll
 
Well, you know what I'll do next month is this (and hopefully get more people interesting in the wrestling thread here in GAF and the OT).

Next month's thread I'll put a top 10 matches of NOAH and AJPW. I'll start watching some NJPW too and see what I can get from there.

Maybe even put some Mexican wrestling on there. I just wish more people would join these threads even if the dubya dubya E isn't all that great right now.
 
Fuzyfrog said:
Id take Thunder over what we are getting now
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If you remember, Thunder was going to be the show that had the young/new stars on it. Then when the Thunder ratings ended up good, Hogan and crew invaded it and made it Nitro 2.

Going back to Nitro would be cool. Remember when the mid-card was so hot and the main event was so stale, the badass cruiserweight matches, NWO? Man, that was awesome. Maybe it is just my nostalgia, but things were so much better back then.
 
WWE wrestler Jeff Hardy was denied boarding a Southwest Airline flight to North Carolina – and no one got body slammed.

Hardy appeared intoxicated at Nashville International Airport's Southwest gate on Wednesday, according to Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz.

A Southwest employee reported it and Hardy was told he couldn’t board the flight, Mainz says.

Hardy was not arrested instead the wrestler was offered to take a later flight.

“He was very cooperative and there was no altercation,” Mainz says. “There was no need to get police.”

Hardy declined Southwest’s offer and made other arrangements, Mainz says.

The 6-1, 225-pound Cameron, N.C., native was part of the WWE SmackDown show at the Sommet Center on Tuesday night.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880918101
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What an idiot.
 
JdFoX187 said:
At least he was cooperative and apparently didn't make a scene.
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True. It's just sad though how many times Jeff has seemingly bungled opportunities to be a fixture of the main event scene by doing things like this.
 
What does the WWE do when they're struggling with ratings? Start Smackdown off with a Divas match, of course. Guh...
 
mightynine said:
Russo writing at its finest - long-ass promo that goes on and on with a 5 second payoff.

And the whole point of the promo is pointless - Jarrett complaining the veterans are being selfish, and the payoff is....a veteran.
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He still seemed out of it since the death of his wife. Cut him slack.
 
SanjuroTsubaki said:
He still seemed out of it since the death of his wife. Cut him slack.
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Wasn't talking about Jarrett. I was talking about the promo. The whole point of it is negated by having Foley at the end - and it was really boring, very drawn out, by all involved, with a very little payoff.

Not something that makes me want to tune in next to see what Foley is doing.
 
Those are some fucking random blurbs that keep popping in for Gregory Helms. He's now calling himself "Hurricane Helms" again, but at least he's ditched that dopey ass costume. I guess they're going to use the Hurricane as a moniker instead of as his regular gimmick. Seems to be face too.
 
This past week, there was some major heat between WWE and Fighting Spirit, a magazine based out of the UK that covers professional wrestling. In the latest issue, the magazine printed a memo sent out by WWE to members of the video gaming press covering the upcoming SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 video game. WWE wants to control how the game is portrayed in previews. WWE told the video game press that they could not show any screenshots of the Superstars bleeding or using weapons. Additionally, WWE said in their memo that they aren't allowed to show screenshots of a digital Triple H "in a defenseless or vulnerable position." WWE was said to be furious that the memo was published. Additionally, Fighting Spirit defied order by posting a screenshot of Kane jumping on a cowering Triple H in the video game.
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Oh WWE :lol
 
JdFoX187 said:
Those are some fucking random blurbs that keep popping in for Gregory Helms. He's now calling himself "Hurricane Helms" again, but at least he's ditched that dopey ass costume. I guess they're going to use the Hurricane as a moniker instead of as his regular gimmick. Seems to be face too.
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Sugar Shane>>>>>>>>>>>>>

having cheerleaders in the ring dancing to your theme song as you walk to the ring>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


WWE giving up on that gimmick <<<<<<<

vertabreaker

gonna break yo spine
 
This weeks TNA was actually good. Matches were fine, and old vs new storyline continues its buildup. I hope that Angle vs JJ will hapen @ BfG
 
K-Truth's entrance has the most annoying lyrics EVER!

EPEOPLE OVA TEHY
WHA WHA WHA WAH
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!

CHICKEN IN A COUP
THERE WHAT'S UP
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!

COOKOO COOKOO KEY
ELTON JOHN KIKI DEE
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!
 
DieH@rd said:
This weeks TNA was actually good. Matches were fine, and old vs new storyline continues its buildup. I hope that Angle vs JJ will hapen @ BfG
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I thought they were doing Foley-Angle at Bound for Glory.
 
Keyser Soze said:
K-Truth's entrance has the most annoying lyrics EVER!

EPEOPLE OVA TEHY
WHA WHA WHA WAH
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!

CHICKEN IN A COUP
THERE WHAT'S UP
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!

COOKOO COOKOO KEY
ELTON JOHN KIKI DEE
WHAT'S UP!
WHAT'S UP!
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I have to agree. :lol

It seems too corny to me. This is the same shit they had him doing when he was K-Kwik several years back, and it bombed. I don't understand why they're doing this again. But hey... you can get with this, or you can get with that. Cookoo Cookoo Keee, Kiki Cookoo Deeee WHAT'S UP!
 
Ron "The Truth" Killings and his goofy theme song are fucking awesome. :)

He was a favorite of mine in TNA, and it pissed me off how he was booked in TNA after he lost the belt in '04. Truth should've been near the main event picture, and instead he was being booked on fucking Xplosion. :|

I'm happy to see him doing good so far in WWE.
 
"You can git with this,
or you can get with that
..the WWE now that is where it's at!
WHATS UP
WHATS UP
WHATS UP"

What's to hate? I see a Cena-RTruth-Cryme Time stable possibility!! :lol
 
The Frankman said:
"You can git with this,
or you can get with that
..the WWE now that is where it's at!
WHATS UP
WHATS UP
WHATS UP"

What's to hate? I see a Cena-RTruth-Cryme Time stable possibility!! :lol
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more like a feud, real broklyn thugs and east coast rappers can't associate themselves with those down south dudes that are killing rap!
 
mightynine said:
Russo writing at its finest - long-ass promo that goes on and on with a 5 second payoff.

And the whole point of the promo is pointless - Jarrett complaining the veterans are being selfish, and the payoff is....a veteran.
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I couldn't figure that part out either.

The sad part about Jeff Jarrett is that his mic work is either flat or damn great. He isn't someone who produces work at a even level night in and night out. I honestly feel this inconsistency kept him from being a top carder in the WWF.
 
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