Eat. Sleep. Suplex. Wrestling Thread. Repeat. - Part 180

[bullets]

The Bellas suck. AJ is much better in and outside the ring. The only interesting thing a about the Bella's is who they are married to.

 

[runawayboulder]

The Bellas need to get in touch with reality. Cena and Bryan need to impregnate those two nitwits immediately and get them away from the company.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The Bellas need to get in touch with reality. Cena and Bryan need to impregnate those two nitwits immediately and get them away from the company.

That might be difficult if Cena's sperm works as well as he does.

 

[runawayboulder]

 

[chamber-music]

 

[Kaleb]

Possible Sign Daniel Bryan Needs Another Surgery, Update on Why He Was Pulled from Tour

We noted earlier that Daniel Bryan is no longer being advertised for WWE's European tour in November. It had been reported that Bryan would not be wrestling on the tour but would likely do an in-ring promo or a ringside angle.

For what it's worth, a source noted to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter this week that if Bryan wasn't going to be able to appear due to the injury, then he would be pulled from the advertising and that's what happened on Wednesday.

Bryan being pulled from the tour could be a sign that he has received an update from doctors and will need another round of surgery. That has not been confirmed yet.
Read more at http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe

 

[Zeus]

AJ Lee is the best thing in female wrestling right now.

The Bellas look good but are terrible wrestlers and are nothing to brag about on the mic. I shake my head more often then not when they are talking.

This sister feud is so stupid

 

[sweetre15]

Thankfully for Paige, she managed to sink her teeth into this feud with AJ and somewhat turn the tide but I'm sure everyone that knows of her NXT work would prefer her original angry anti-diva persona much more and Emma needs to be given a chance on the mic and in the ring now that there is no Santino to suck the life out of her.

Same goes for Summer Rae, at some point she can easily take the reigns as top diva heel effortlessly when given the chance.

 

[sweetre15]

Speaking of something else, Would you guys agree or disagree that there are more memorable/quality StarrCades than their are Wrestlemanias?

Feel free to discuss

 

[runawayboulder]

So I'm reading this article about Ronda Rousey and the WWE wanting to work with each other and something jumped out at me that makes me want to slam someone's head into a wall.....

Dave Meltzer writes in his latest column:

From what I was told as far as WWE went, there were people in WWE who had talked about a Four Horsewomen thing at SummerSlam, but the ideas fell on deaf ears because the key people in WWE now know nothing about UFC, even though several of the wrestlers are huge fans and Natalya has trained with them. But now everyone knows them, and Stephanie, in particular...was talking them up and the feeling is Rousey will get an offer to do something.

Seriously.......WTF?

How are you able to advance that far with the company and be completely oblivious to the main competition for the entertainment dollar? The people running that company truly live in their own little bubble.

 

[Human Torch]

Best wishes and prayers for Jake the Snake to make a full recovery.

 

[H.U.S.T.L.E.]

So I'm reading this article about Ronda Rousey and the WWE wanting to work with each other and something jumped out at me that makes me want to slam someone's head into a wall.....

Dave Meltzer writes in his latest column:

Seriously.......WTF?

How are you able to advance that far with the company and be completely oblivious to the main competition for the entertainment dollar? The people running that company truly live in their own little bubble.

Many people have gone on record and said that Vince isn't a sports fan in the slightest and has no idea what's going on outside his bubble.

So, "key people" is likely referring to Vince (and probably Kevin Dunn as well). Couple that with the fact that Cena's booking on Raw this week was supposedly handled by Vince personally... I think it's all the evidence you need to present that he doesn't understand his audience any more.

 

[OnTheAir]

If we have any old school Jim Crockett Promotions fans on this board, I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend getting this DVD or buying the download on highspots.com...It's called Jim Crockett Promotions:The Good Old Days

What makes this documentary standout to me, is how much soul it seems to have put into making it from fancam footage of old house show matches, involvement of several notables from the Crockett Era of WCW being interviewed, and the fact that it isnt WWE produced but provides the insight in a way that'll make you feel like you lived this era whether you did or not. That's a ringing endorsement considering this was a crowdfunded kickstarter documentary that accomplished all this.

The documentary includes interviews with Baby Doll, Jim Cornette, Ole Anderson, Ivan Koloff, Jimmy Valiant, Jim Crockett Jr, David Crockett, Dusty Rhodes, Magnum TA, The Rock N Roll Express Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Tully Blanchard. Some of you guys that have atleast seen "The Rise and Fall of WCW" might feel like some of this info is revisited but it expands on this era of WCW so much more than the WWE produced DVD did. It discusses everything from the days of Jim Crockett Sr, Johnny Ringley originally being set to inherit the company, Jimmy Valentine as one of the top heels and later being suceeded by Black Jack Mulligan, the time of George Scott as the booker, the involvement and contributions of Dusty Rhodes, the Black Saturday event, the overexpansion, who was responsible for JCP's downfall, the injury of Magnum T.A etc etc. This even included pics of the newspapers of when the events were revealed.

I think it's a very beautifully made documentary especially for a crowdfunded Kickstarter project and the best non WWE produced doc to come out in a while.

So I recommend that you guys please dont overlook a great watch like this.

No JCP fans lurking atleast?

Well I definitely hope you consider watching the documentary I mentioned. The doc can be described in these words "The feels bro....the feels"

I grew up in Massachusetts, which was a WWF stronghold, but I watched as much JCP as I could. On Saturday afternoons, I caught their syndicated show "World Wide Wrestling." On Saturday nights, I would watch World Championship Wrestling (the predecessor to WCW Saturday Night) on "The SuperStation" WTBS.

Question #1: Do any of you JCP fans still wonder and think about how far Magnum T.A could have taken the ball as the face of JCP had he not gotten injured?
Crockett, Rhodes etc all think that he would have been their answer to Hogan and Dusty is convinced that he would have transcended the business in a similar way to The Rock. It's a shame we'll never get to know that.

Question #2: Bischoff Era fans, Do any of you guys ever wish that the NWO storyline would have ended or been the beginning of the end at Starrcade 1997 and WCW would have then went on to build up guys like Eddie, Jericho, Booker T, Raven etc while still utilizing guys like Bret Hart?

Imagine what a feud between Bret Hart and Chris Jericho could have been like on the mic and in the ring for instance. We never got that due to over reliance on the NWO amongst other things

1) Magnum would have been huge...but he wouldn't have been Hogan or the Rock. Crockett was a good wrestling promoter, but he didn't think outside of the box like Vince. If Crockett still ended up selling to Turner, maybe...but Turner didn't really make any of his guys multi-media stars either.

What I have always wondered about Magnum is what his role in the company would have been if he was still active when Crockett bought the UWF. How would Magnum have handled having another young superstar babyface like Sting around? (Sting is actually a few months older than Magnum) Would it have been a situation with room for both on top, leading to an eventual babyface match like Hogan/Warrior? Or, would there have been a heel turn for one or the other, leading to an Austin/Rock type of encounter?

Would Vince have stolen Magnum from Crockett (or Turner)? If not, assuming he hung around JCP/WCW until the mid to late 90s, what would his role have been in the NWO storyline?

There are just so many possibilities...it's sad that we never saw him realize his potential.

2) Starrcade '97 absolutely should have been the beginning of the end of the NWO storyline. Sting should have beaten Hogan clean. The next night on Nitro, Hall and Nash should have called Hogan out for not getting the job done, beginning the split between the core members of the faction, causing it to implode.

WCW had an absurd amount of in-ring talent in their mid-card during that time, but never elevated any of them. It's a huge part of their downfall.

 

[Specter313]

Based on their immediate response to Lee's promo via Twitter, The Bella Twins appeared genuinely upset: "AJ remember you would be nothing if WWE didn't partner you up with every top guy. Try being a diva that makes it on your own.



According to a backstage source within WWE, the twin duo feel Lee rode on the coattails of their men, Daniel Bryan and John Cena, as well as other top stars, in order to get to the position that she is in now. Lee is an especially sore subject for them because they feel if she wasn't around, they would be the top Diva stars in the company.

God, I just wish karma and hypocrisy could just take physical form and jump up and smack these two *****es right in the face since the ONLY reason they get any attention is because of who THEY are in a relationship with.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

That might be difficult if Cena's sperm works as well as he does.

5 moves of DOOM!

 

[sweetre15]

After watching Dusty Rhodes' work on NXT since the revamp and knowing that he booked most of the JCP product in the 80s, this sometimes makes me wonder why Dusty has never been able to book for the main shows.

His simple yet dramatic booking style is still fun to watch and gives each PPV or "Special event" bouts a big fight feel. I think the general public would appreciate that style if anything.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I'm really curious to watch this JCP DVD. I'm from North Carolina, so I guess that stuff is in my blood. I remember my brothers and me watching a Jim Crockett Senior Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament tape over and over as kids.

 

[sweetre15]

I'm really curious to watch this JCP DVD. I'm from North Carolina, so I guess that stuff is in my blood. I remember my brothers and me watching a Jim Crockett Senior Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament tape over and over as kids.

Watch and purchase it here if you like: http://www.highspots.com/p/VD_good_ol_days_jcp.html

If you want to just see the documentary portion...you can get the 3 Disc set on there too for about roughly 30 bucks I think.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[Wheels]

JCP is more my bag than 80's WWF. However, to answer the question of memorable Starcades vs memorable WrestleManias? WrestleMania wins hands down.The WCW era wasn't kind to Starrcade then you've got the JCP dud of Starrcade '87 It's not even a fair question because WCW folded in 2000.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Something must be up with Show and Henry. They're going around saving random faces from beatdowns; they must be up to something.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Something must be up with Show and Henry. They're going around saving random faces from beatdowns; they must be up to something.

They're members of the Super Friends/Breakfast Club. It's pretty obvious.

 

[JabarR]

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[Lobo]

Smackdown has been better than Raw so far.