Rolling Wrestling Thread

Jamos · 2017-04-18T16:49:48.324Z

think the benefit of cena going part time / roman not being as over as cena was, is that they might actually do a proper job with their new monster this time (cut to 12 months from now when braun has a comedy dancing gimmick smh)

Severed799 · 2017-04-18T17:04:54.629Z

praying you are right BUT

Severed799 · 2017-04-18T17:06:56.586Z

it’s not even a solid enough joke to have warranted this amount of work/edits

Severed799 · 2017-04-18T17:08:50.232Z

appreciate the sympathy “like” @Jamos but in truth I don’t really deserve it

Jamos · 2017-04-18T17:10:02.920Z

did enjoy seeing the evolution of it when I clicked through all the edits

anon580508 · 2017-04-19T01:23:53.431Z

Only saw the last hour or so of Raw (can never be bothered to watch it other than when it’s on live), but Jeff vs Cesaro and Big Show vs Strowman were pretty good (ring break spot was made by the ref’s sell). Caught the end of the women’s fatal four way - Alexa isn’t as good a wrestler as some but she has genuine star power imo (‘it’, so to speak).

The Strowman backstage stuff feels like a bit of a throwback.

safebruv · 2017-04-19T06:31:31.599Z

Jinder mahal proving if you take enough juice you’ll still get a rocket strapped to you in WWE

Jamos · 2017-04-19T18:40:31.540Z

yeah dunno how I feel about that. I’d be into it if the title match was on smackdown next week (it’s the kind of randomness they should do more of imo), but to set up a ppv next month? a 5 week build for jinder vs randal?

Yesiamaduck · 2017-04-19T18:53:54.812Z

Overall I’m FOR this because everyone on the roster should be realistically in with a shot of being champion.

Severed799 · 2017-04-19T18:57:04.969Z

It would be better if it was vs Lesnar though

Jamos · 2017-04-19T19:01:45.294Z

yep, particularly with those multi person matches (and even more so with battle royals), sometimes someone unexpected should steal a win from out of nowhere. would just be a lot more enthusiastic about it if it was to set up a stopgap title defence between now and the next ppv though

pip · 2017-04-19T21:54:28.419Z

Don’t Hinder Jinder!

Yesiamaduck · 2017-04-23T03:00:53.856Z

Dave Meltzer saying that the Broken gimmick is definitely going to be used by WWE at some point

TKC · 2017-04-23T21:52:44.933Z

still watching old Raws

had no idea Albert was once nicknamed The Hip Hop Hippo

Severed799 · 2017-04-25T13:45:48.085Z

WWE

Roman Reigns is ready for payback against Braun Strowman: Raw, April 24, 2017

Relive the hard-hitting history between The Big Dog and The Monster Among Men as their clash at WWE Payback approaches.

the actual state of this

Jamos · 2017-04-25T13:52:36.826Z

needs ‘my way’ but other than that it’s fine

Severed799 · 2017-04-25T14:09:54.395Z

really, re-editing nuclear heat into some stock footage/sound of people cheering is fine?

Jamos · 2017-04-25T14:21:41.368Z

I’m fine with it, yes. of all the shitty things wwe does, this doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy either way

Severed799 · 2017-04-25T14:22:43.242Z

other than that they’re crazy not to take advantage of good heat and pretend it never happened?

Ruffers · 2017-04-25T14:27:50.541Z

The weird thing is, bad booking doesn’t effect them anymore.
They’ve become self sufficient now they don’t bother with ppvs. They sell out arenas months in advance, far before they’ve booked a card. And while their tv ratings are relatively poor it’s still great compared to a lot of other forms of programming so more or less untouchable.
And they have ready made excuses for falling levels of attention - it’s the ‘lull after Mania’, it’s ‘Monday night footballs fault’ after summerslam, etc. Never heard them trotting out that bullshit when Austin and Rock were around.
So there we are. They can edit history, ransack the wider industry, foster a toxic culture, make nonsensical decisions and get away with it.
Weird things, monopolies.