Jmare007

Will you are one cold hearted son of a bitch. Put me on the emotionally invested group that didn't care about the "curtain call" after Sasha/Bayley.

TWO MAIN EVENTS!

Wow. And they announced a lot of dates yesterday on the ROH show to prove that relationship is stronger than ever. Very interesting indeed.

I realize I'm in the minority regarding the G-1 Final, but I liked Sasha/Bayley way better. I'm interested in how that match is received. BTW. Is Kana signed? She might end up killing Eva Marie

They did it, that was a legit MOTYC.

Who the hell thinks they are keeping Bryan out because they don't want him to overshadow the roster? If it's wrestlingforum I'ma legit laugh out loud With Graves I think it's about his acceptance about his situation, at the end of the day he decided to take WWE's offer at the Performance Center/NXT. With Bryan we know the dude is determined to wrestle again somewhere. But with Christian the only thing we know is that he denied and rejected being called "retired" by Jerry Lawler/WWE.

So on March 2014 he suffered a concussion that some claimed was a "career ender". Then late that year he and Edge hosted RAW and both Lawler and Heyman claimed he was retired/had concussion issues. He then denied the rumors of his retirement but we haven't seen him since. I was looking for some news on him and PWInsider reported on December 2014 he had about a year left in his contract. Has there been any news on him since January? Has he claimed he wants or even can wrestle again? His situation is pretty much the same as Daniel Bryan but there hasn't been any coverage on it.

Don't know if he made the report, but Bryan Alvarez always calls it "dong" instead of "gong". No clue why, maybe it's an inside joke.

To those who watch NXT regularly. Why are Enzo and Big Cass not on Saturday's card?

Well, you are getting an 8 man tag on Smackdown at least!

Yeah that Cena promo was kinda of hint that he probably isn't winning on Sunday but I'm not sure Rollins wins either. I guess it depends on the winner of Brock/Taker.

Agreed. It's kinda funny how Rusev has dominated Henry for weeks but backs out from Dolph Ziggler

The CC match against Jumbo was fucking awesome. Watched it after checking both Abby matches from 1980 - which were really fun, specially the one from November that only had the mandatory shitty 80's non-finish as a negative point - and it really shows how Terry could work different type of matches depending on the context and opponent. Loved Jumbo not letting Terry breath and holding him down with headlocks, chinlocks and a good chunk of suplexes. But Funk is Funk and even things outs, from then on it's a great back and forth with awesome nearfalls. I thought the match was over like 3 times before the bell signaled the draw, I was bummed that was it. I think it had like 3-4 minutes edited but it doesn't hurt the match one bit.

Watched the final. Very good match. Shinsuke's spotty selling bothered me though, don't know why they worked the knee when Swagamura wasn't going to change his offense and just pull off the same move without any struggle even though Tana worked it pretty damn well. It was a bummer because they teased working Shinsuke's injured elbow, which could've been much better (more drama and doesn't mess with Nakamura's offense). Watched it unspoiled and didn't really buy into the nearfalls, at no point I thought Tana was losing, it was worked very similar to a Cena "epic" actually. Having said all that, the match was good enough for me to pay attention for 30+ minutes, that's very high praise for modern puro. I don't give a fuck about another "classic showdown" between Okada and Tanahashi. Shit's tired and I'm getting more and more bored about the booking focusing around 3 people for so damn long and with pretty much the same damn story without much nuance or change to it. Okada will "finally" surpass Tanahashi at WK 10 (even though he already did that in 2013, but people tend to forget that) when he should've done that THIS year. The whole "Okada will have to regroup and start all over again" epic angle that some people claimed we were going to witness never really happened. It's frustrating because they've done a pretty good job establishing the uppermidcard as legit threats, but they never pull the trigger on them. I would LOVE for Tana to lose his shot in October, it would be an upset and a breath of fresh air but that's never going to happen.

Not really a spoiler but just in case

WWE may have spoiled the results of some title matches at NXT:Takeover on tonight's tapings. Weird.

It's a habit I can't possibly break. It's obviously not hate reading though, that doesn't exist. I'm just waiting for the board to get better. Cute. I was being honest though, goc keeps bringing WF as a topic when we already know what kind of place that is and the kind of reaction the WWE section has to everything that happens in the company. And it doesn't seem like he has a good time reading that board either.

So can we make this the official WWE thread and have a big one instead of posting 1 every week? I mean, it's pretty clear there isn't much interest in opening one thread every Monday. There is an 18 page thread on wrestlingforum of people crying about Randy Orton poking fun at Kevin Owens' weight in a tiny little throwaway line from last night. I'd rather not even see Daniel Bryan come back if it's just going to lead to a bunch of 'OH MY GOD HE ISN'T GOING TO MAIN EVENT WRESTLEMANIA~!!!" bullshit. I think you need to stop going to wrestlingforum. At least take a break from the "General WWE" section for a while. It's like you are "hate reading" that board

Rusev's face on the Bulgarian flag was an awesome touch.

They are in Bryan's hometown, she was a face by proxy.

Apparently Ziggler got his Instagram hacked and might get Rollins'd.

To be fair, he always called it the "seis diecinueve" when he was in WWE. So I guess it makes sense he just translated that to english.

This summer has been a motherfucker for wrestling. RIP Roddy, 61 is still way too young.

What happened to the All Japan shows?

Yeah, the Attitude Era apologists loved this talking point. Wasn't it unfortunately also parroted by Meltzer? We know that WWE promos are all scripted ahead of time and that the guys have to sit there and wait for the other guy to finish before it's their turn to talk, so I was always confused by the idea of anyone getting destroyed unless they were scripted to get destroyed. Unless people meant he was getting destroyed in terms of delivery or emotion or whatever. Rock has always scripted his own promos, so I don't think Creative was writing his promos for him this time around. Pretty sure he wrote them himself. THe content fell absolutely flat. And I had a problem with the delivery as well. There seemed no charisma in his delivery. He wasn't Randy Orton, exactly, but he sure as hell wasn't the lively charismatic Rock. This is why anytime I talk about that run I say it was Dwayne Johnson playing The Rock. I think he had to spend so much time learning to tone it down when becoming an actor that he just wasn't able to find his way back to that really over the top ultra charismatic delivery from 98-2002. The "he's doing bad promos on purpose" talking point was also fueled by a facebook promo where the Rock on that video was vastly different from the one we got on TV.