[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:34 pm  

cm punk, becoming full on messiah gimmick,

i noticed he had the stigmata drawn on his coverings last week.


Tell you what, that stuff with husky harris was a bit rough to watch.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:44 pm  

Propogandas wrote:

Ive never bought into the hype of Shawn Michaels. He is awful on the mic to such an extent that HHH carried him during DX and spent most of his career not willing to put people over. It was only during the twilight of his career that he started to put people over. In ring, hes no better than the likes of christian.

Are you insane? He's fantastic on the mic, you're completely wrong about HHH IMO - it was the other way round (Michaels was the guy who HHH learned from and should thank for getting on the map around 1997).

Re in the ring, you must be joking with that too.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:58 am  

Just remembered my favourite WWE moment of the past few years:

Charlie Haas impersonating Beth Phoenix

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:28 am  

Dodo wrote:

Just remembered my favourite WWE moment of the past few years:

Charlie Haas impersonating Beth Phoenix

He did really well with that whole impersonation persona actually. Remember been at the MEN Arena in late 2008 for the Raw taping. The legendary bagpipe music hit, the crowd popped bigtime, and out walked Rowdy Roddy Haas.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:04 am  

Roofs wrote:

:lol:

He did really well with that whole impersonation persona actually. Remember been at the MEN Arena in late 2008 for the Raw taping. The legendary bagpipe music hit, the crowd popped bigtime, and out walked Rowdy Roddy Haas.

It was only the dark match, more fool anyone who actually thought it would be Roddy Piper!

He did Hulk Hogan the night before in Sheffield and some kid at the interval said "I can't believe Hulk Hogan was here"

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:58 pm  

Propogandas wrote:

Ive never bought into the hype of Shawn Michaels. He is awful on the mic to such an extent that HHH carried him during DX and spent most of his career not willing to put people over. It was only during the twilight of his career that he started to put people over. In ring, hes no better than the likes of christian.

Right, ok. This is an internet forum and I respect your opinion, but I must disagree. Shawn Michaels is the greatest in ring performer of his generation. I have never - never seen a bad Shawn Michaels match. And when you consider the limitations of some of the guys he worked with, is quite astounding. He has worked angles with big guys like Diesel & Sid and smaller guys like Bret & Steve Austin. He's worked great brawls namely with Manking & Hunter. Great high glying matches & great technical wrestling matches.

His promo skills aren't the best, and he isn't a natural on the mic, but his promo skills are miles better than most of the roster these days. To say that Hunter carried him during the DX days with his promo skills is ludicrous, it was actually hunter who was made a superstar by associating with Shawn during that era! The push he got after Shawn left DX [After Wrestlemania 14] was astronomical. He was a main event player within 18 months of that.

Shawn's body of work remains there for all to see. He was the greatest in ring performer, possibly, of all time. He could put on a good match with anybody and put on a great match with most. Go back and look at all the Wrestlemania's Shawn was a part of and I bet you 80% of these are the best match on the card. Hell, look back over his singles career and i'll bet you'll see at least 70% of those where the best on the card.

The fact that such established and famous wrestlers cite Shawn as their main influence in getting into the business [Jericho, Lance Storm, Daniel Bryan to name just 3] shows just how highly regarded his skill is. And you forget, he has been wrestling for the last 10 years with screws in his back! Just thinking about that is insane. The performances he put on whilst being almost crippled at one point is nothing short of amazing. Shawn is and will always be one of, if not THE greatest of all time.

I look forward to your rebuttal as to why you feel he is 'no better than Christian'

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:26 pm  

Confirmed matches for TNA Maximum iMPACT! 2011 Tour

Thursday, Jan. 27 - Glasgow Braehead Arena

TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match - Mr. Anderson vs. Jeff Hardy
Tag Team Action - “Nature Boy” Ric Flair & Kazarian vs. Douglas Williams & Matt Morgan
Genesis Re-Match - Rob Van Dam vs. Matt Hardy
TNA World Tag Team Championship Match - Beer Money, Inc. vs. Motorcity Machine Guns
Special Challenge Match - “King of the Mountain” Jeff Jarrett vs. Scotland’s own Lionheart with special guest referee Greg Hemphill

Also Appearing: Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle, TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne, “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero, Mickie James, “Prince of Punk” Shannon Moore, Angelina Love, Tara, Mark Haskins and more!

Friday, Jan. 28 - Manchester Evening News Arena

TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match - Mr. Anderson vs. “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero
First Time Ever!: Tag Team Dream Match - The Hardyz vs. Motorcity Machine Guns
TNA X Division Champion Match - Kazarian w/ “Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Rob Van Dam
TNA World Tag Team Championship Match - Beer Money, Inc. vs. Douglas Williams & “The Blueprint” Matt Morgan
“King of the Mountain” Jeff Jarrett has issued an open challenge!

Also Appearing: Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne, Mickie James, “Prince of Punk” Shannon Moore, Angelina Love, Tara, Mark Haskins and more!

Saturday Jan. 29 - London Wembley Arena

TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match - Mr. Anderson vs. Jeff Hardy
TNA World Tag Team Championship Match - Beer Money, Inc. vs. Motorcity Machine Guns
First Time Ever! - “Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Douglas Williams
Genesis Re-Match - Rob Van Dam vs. Matt Hardy
Special Challenge Match - “King of the Mountain” Jeff Jarrett vs. England’s own Johnny Moss
TNA X Division Champion Kazarian will defend the gold!

Also Appearing: Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne, “The Blueprint” Matt Morgan, “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero, Mickie James, “Prince of Punk” Shannon Moore, Angelina Love, Tara, Mark Haskins and more!

AJ Styles isn't on the tour due to picking up a hip injury while at home with his kids, Kurt Angle has been added as replacement, plus Matt Hardy has also been added.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:38 pm  

Smackdown looks like it could be a interesting show from reading a few spoilers.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:39 pm  

If I could just add an additional foot note to the whole Shawn Michaels thing, the guy could have a good match with anyone. His ladder match at WM10 stole the show. The Ironman match with Bret Hart was an incredible story match. Hell, he even had a good match against the Great Khali

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:46 pm  

lister wrote:

AJ Styles isn't on the tour due to picking up a hip injury while at home with his kids, Kurt Angle has been added as replacement, plus Matt Hardy has also been added.

Gutted, am attending the MEN Arena show, was thinking / hoping I would finally see Ric Flair wrestle live, probably never going to happen now. + never seen Tara wrestle live either. Should still be good though.