Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:39 pm  

Search 'Ric Flair heart attack' on that popular video-sharing website. It's not him actually having one obviously (thankfully) but is some hilarious editing of a promo him and Foley did face-to-face in TNA a year or two ago. Funniest thing I've seen on that site in ages.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:03 am  

Last night Rock was unrestricted ... and was very much second best to cena.

Punk & Jericho looks to be the show stealer after their match too.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:30 pm  

Can't remember a build up to a match as good as this since the Austin / Rock days.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:18 pm  

Steve51 wrote:

Last night Rock was unrestricted ... and was very much second best to cena.

No chance.

"Johnny Cena went to town riding on a pony, Rock stuck a feather up his ass and called him a jabroni!" Pure genius!

This WM will be one of the best for years. Rock v Cena, HHH v Undertaker and Punk v Jericho are massive matches.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:41 pm  

Random thoughts on Raw.

Jericho v Punk is shaping up nicely and I really am looking forward to the match, likewise for Sheamus v Bryan.

Looks like www haven't quite finished ruining Rydera run and want to make him look as dumb as humanly possible.

How low is Jack Swagger going to go, I like Santino and it's nice to see him getting a push, no matter how short wwe decide to make it, but Swagger used to be Heavyweight champ ffs.

Little bit too much Rock tonight, although throwing Cenas stuff in the river was funny, the rest I foub pretty boring....... Later on they simply reversed last week and had Rock interupt Cena, say a few things, then walk off.

I found Cena really frustrating this week, the video package of him sat in the stands was boring and he went back to his goofy old ways with stupid facial expression when in the ring (this was annoying after 2 weeks of outstanding serious promos)..... Yet the writing on the wrist was classic and a great move.

All in all it was a filler Raw but is building quite a few fueds nicely for Wrestlemania.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:51 pm  

How worthless is the US title now? Not just because it's round Santino's waist, but because until he won it, Swagger hadn't won a singles match on Raw in months. And after winning the belt he hasn't won a singles match on Raw.

It just seems his whole title run was as a place-holder until they could figure out what they actually wanted to do with the belt. Personally, I'd like to see them merge it with the IC belt. In fact, I'd like to see that happen with the World and WWE titles.

There's not enough top guys to sustain interesting feuds over so many belts without repition and staleness coming into the programme (you could argue that that is already the situation WWE faces)

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:44 pm  

Roofaldo wrote:

How worthless is the US title now? Not just because it's round Santino's waist, but because until he won it, Swagger hadn't won a singles match on Raw in months. And after winning the belt he hasn't won a singles match on Raw.

It just seems his whole title run was as a place-holder until they could figure out what they actually wanted to do with the belt. Personally, I'd like to see them merge it with the IC belt. In fact, I'd like to see that happen with the World and WWE titles.

There's not enough top guys to sustain interesting feuds over so many belts without repition and staleness coming into the programme (you could argue that that is already the situation WWE faces)

Yeah like I said a short while ago.
Either drop the IC or US titles.
Create a 'WWE World heavyweight title' and bin the 2 big belts.
Hopefully this latest storyline is the begining of the end of the '2 brand' storyline.
Get RAW and Smackdown on the same page and everything improves.
The storylines are not as rushed between PPV's as they have more time to develop them, Smackdown's figures should reappear out of the toilet they have been sat in for ages due to it no longer being the 'B' show as RAW and Smackdown are a working pair again as opposed to competition with each other.
Infact a few simple changes would help loads.
Get Smackdown off Syfy and onto a channel that it actually has a better fit for and get it back to being 'LIVE' on what ever day they actually want to show it on all the time.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:53 pm  

Here's a thought, of course Vince would never go for it, but how about cutting Smackdown! altogether? There's not an abundance of talent about anyway, but enough for a cracking Raw SuperShow each week.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:30 pm  

Can't see them re-uniting the brands for a while. People have been talking about it for a while and I just can't see it happening. Shame really.

If anyone gets the chance to watch Kofi v Ziggler on Superstars it's well worth checking out. Fantastic match that wouldn't look out of place on a ppv.

On a side note does anyone else find it funny that sheamus is talking about being in the main event of Wrestlemania when in fact he's probably in the 4th most important match and more than likely going to the first match on.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:43 am  

Financially the two shows is probably still worthwhile to them (e.g. when doing European tours they can run two cities in one night) but I agree about the titles - the WWF belt was so, so prestigious back in the day (God I sound old for 28! ), but these days it's just stupid, e.g. I reckon Cena has now had double the amount of World titles that Bret Hart had in WWF.