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[bullets]

Vader was at the Hall of Fame and wearing his mask , which I thought was interesting.


I just watched Rock's promo skit on Snl. Coco Watchout needs to make his debut in WWE lol

 

[Hunter Rider]

Strange to see Ivory cosying up to HHH since she's never had anything good to say about him.....

 

[Dr. Evil]

Just DL the Path to the Warrior DLC for WWE 2K15. The bad news is that 2K15 wasted space for a third Hogan and a second Warrior. But the good news is we get General Adnan, Colonel Mustafa (who everyone knows is just Iron Shiek in the uniform of an Iraqi soldier) and Sgt. Slaughter.

The worst of the DLC is the Mark Henry one. Why on earth do we need four Randy Orton's, Three Sheamus and Two Henry's? That's a very useless pack.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[S. Grundy]

Strange to see Ivory cosying up to HHH since she's never had anything good to say about him.....

She still looks good for her age.

 

[OnTheAir]

One of my all time favorite tag teams!

 

[Urich Leeds]

Just DL the Path to the Warrior DLC for WWE 2K15. The bad news is that 2K15 wasted space for a third Hogan and a second Warrior. But the good news is we get General Adnan, Colonel Mustafa (who everyone knows is just Iron Shiek in the uniform of an Iraqi soldier) and Sgt. Slaughter.

The worst of the DLC is the Mark Henry one. Why on earth do we need four Randy Orton's, Three Sheamus and Two Henry's? That's a very useless pack.

The worst part is that they give ****ing Adnan as a playable character, but not Sid.

Sid can't even be used as a manager outside of the Showcase!

 

[Lobo]

Marked out for this pic.

 

[vantheman77]

Nice to see the Hart Foundation. Only missing is Jimmy Hart and Danny Davis.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Anvil looks like Rip Torn

 

[JabarR]

*Spoilers* WWE SmackDown Taping Results For This Week 4/2/15

Spoiler

The following are spoiler results for this week’s edition of WWE SmackDown, which was taped on Tuesday night, March 31st, in Fresno, California. Results are courtesy of ProWrestling.net.

– WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins came out to open the show. He was joined by Big Show, Kane, Jamie Noble, and Joey Mercury. Randy Orton came out to interrupt Rollins. Orton said he is still owed his title match. He talked crap about The Authority, and Kane made a match – Orton vs Big Show to start immediately.

– Randy Orton beat Big Show by DQ. Kane, Noble, and Mercury attacked Orton as he was going to hit the RKO. Rollins entered the ring and Orton got some offense on him until Kane pulled him off and chokeslammed him. Ryback came out for the save and Rollins ran off. Ryback dropped Kane, Noble, and Mercury…

– Naomi beat Natalya. The Bellas sat in on commentary. Naomi won with an on the ground head-scissors DDT…

– There was a backstage segment in which Kane told Rollins that a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between Rollins and Orton sounds good for Extreme Rules. Dean Ambrose exited Kane’s personal bathroom. Kane told Ambrose he would face Luke Harper…

– A Roman Reigns interview was shown on the big screen. Reigns spoke about WrestleMania, and said that he beat Seth Rollins before and will beat him again…

– The Miz defeated R-Truth. There was a Mizdow chant right away. Miz won by pin. Mizdow ran out and hit Miz with the Skull Crushing Finale and put on his glasses…

– John Cena came out to a huge pop. Cena announced that he will have an open challenge for the U.S. Championship every week. Rusev came out and said he didn’t lose at WrestleMania, and will crush Cena at Extreme Rules. Cena put him in his place and said Rusev did lose and will fight him now. Rusev responded by saying, “Only thing you are gonna see is this.” Nothing happened. Cena said, “You mean this?” The U.S. flag dropped instead of the Russian flag. Cena got a huge pop. No Cena sucks chants.

– Luke Harper put Dean Ambrose through the broadcast team’s table…

– The broadcast team is Tom Phillips, Jerry Lawler, and Byron Saxton… The announced that they will be returning to Fresno on Sunday, August 2… The Prime Time Players cut a promo on New Day that was shown on the big screen…

– Dean Ambrose beat Luke Harper by an apparent DQ. Harper pulled top off table then couple minutes later powerbombed Ambrose through it. They didn’t announce a winner…

– Sheamus came out to a big pop that quickly turned to boos. The crowd chanted “you look stupid” and he embraced it. Daniel Bryan made his entrance to the biggest pop of the night…

– Sheamus beat Daniel Bryan via count out. Bad News Barrett sat in on commentary. It was a very physical match with Sheamus controlling most of the early offense and feeding off the boos. Bryan was knocked to ringside. Barrett hit Bryan with a Bull Hammer while the referee wasn’t looking, and Bryan was counted out. Bryan appeared to be cut just prior to the Bull Hammer. Barrett walked out to loud boos.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

What when where

 

[PacificBoy]

I certainly don't recall that Wrestlemania moment.

 

[baby_webhead]

What when where

Right before they rung the bell for the start of their match.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Giving new meaning to the term "hard" camera.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Right before they rung the bell for the start of their match.

Yeah, it all seemed much faster in real time. I remember seeing the hug and quick tap, but the isolated, seemingly slower gif makes it looks more suggestive.

 

[chamber-music]

 

[runawayboulder]

 

[Superark]

I swear, Vince and his lackeys are the most egocentric petty guys I've ever read about in the business.

Kudos to all of those who stuck to their guns at the HOF

credit www.PWInsider.com

LOTS OF BACKSTAGE WWE HALL OF FAME NEWS AND NOTES
by Mike Johnson @ 10:30 AM on 4/1/2015

While the WWE Hall of Fame received awesome reviews from everyone here at PWInsider.com, I am told that behind the scenes, it was not as well received. WWE management felt the show ran far too long and that it wasn't exciting enough. While it was a long night, I disagree on the latter as I felt there was a lot of legitimately wonderful speeches.


WWE requested that several cut their speeches short, which did happen with Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair.

WWE pushed hard to have Kevin Nash go into the WWE Hall of Fame as Diesel but Nash was having none of that. Nash wanted to go in under his real name so that whatever additional credibility the WWE HOF brought to his outside endeavors, he could use it. I was also told that Nash didn't want to go in under Diesel since for years the narrative was that he was one of the worst drawing WWF champions and now wasn't going to allow himself to be celebrated under that name for that reason. WWE tried to push Nash to cancel his late night Wrestlemania Shenanigans party but he refused.

I was told that several long-time executives, including Vince McMahon, weren't happy about the talk about how Kevin Nash helped transformed the business with all the guaranteed contracts since the feeling at the time was WCW was out to put WWF out of business and that since McMahon took it so personally at the time, this brought up a lot of old angry feelings on a night where things are supposed to be more celebratory.

Shawn Michaels wasn't kidding when he said on stage he was going to end up in trouble as the company wasn't happy with his use of the word "strap" and "wrestler" during his speech. Michaels legitimately tore his prepared speech up and was going off the top of his head when he inducted Nash.

The company wasn't thrilled with Madusa's use of expletives and some weren't happy about Eric Bischoff getting put over.

The company absolutely loved The Bushwhackers speech, feeling it was the perfect meshing of their "on camera" characters and telling old stories.

 

[Superark]

Could be the closest we get for now...Taker and Stinger at the airport...

Would love to have been a fly on the wall during this moment.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I swear, Vince and his lackeys are the most egocentric petty guys I've ever read about in the business.

Kudos to all of those who stuck to their guns at the HOF

credit www.PWInsider.com

LOTS OF BACKSTAGE WWE HALL OF FAME NEWS AND NOTES
by Mike Johnson @ 10:30 AM on 4/1/2015

While the WWE Hall of Fame received awesome reviews from everyone here at PWInsider.com, I am told that behind the scenes, it was not as well received. WWE management felt the show ran far too long and that it wasn't exciting enough. While it was a long night, I disagree on the latter as I felt there was a lot of legitimately wonderful speeches.


WWE requested that several cut their speeches short, which did happen with Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair.

WWE pushed hard to have Kevin Nash go into the WWE Hall of Fame as Diesel but Nash was having none of that. Nash wanted to go in under his real name so that whatever additional credibility the WWE HOF brought to his outside endeavors, he could use it. I was also told that Nash didn't want to go in under Diesel since for years the narrative was that he was one of the worst drawing WWF champions and now wasn't going to allow himself to be celebrated under that name for that reason. WWE tried to push Nash to cancel his late night Wrestlemania Shenanigans party but he refused.

I was told that several long-time executives, including Vince McMahon, weren't happy about the talk about how Kevin Nash helped transformed the business with all the guaranteed contracts since the feeling at the time was WCW was out to put WWF out of business and that since McMahon took it so personally at the time, this brought up a lot of old angry feelings on a night where things are supposed to be more celebratory.

Shawn Michaels wasn't kidding when he said on stage he was going to end up in trouble as the company wasn't happy with his use of the word "strap" and "wrestler" during his speech. Michaels legitimately tore his prepared speech up and was going off the top of his head when he inducted Nash.

The company wasn't thrilled with Madusa's use of expletives and some weren't happy about Eric Bischoff getting put over.

The company absolutely loved The Bushwhackers speech, feeling it was the perfect meshing of their "on camera" characters and telling old stories.

That explains a lot. I was wondering why Hall went in as Razor, but Nash went in as himself.

Good for everyone speaking from the heart and giving their own speeches/saying what they wanted to say. It's supposed to be a night to honor them, so they should be able to speak freely about their careers and feelings.

Madusa/Alundra Blayze gave the best speech. They should realize that.

For what it's worth, I also loved the Bushwhackers' speech. I thought it was funny.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Today is the worst day ever for wrestling rumors.

 

[The Hill]

 

[Superark]

Credit www.pwinsider.Com

The Undertaker was telling those backstage after his match with Bray Wyatt that he felt great and intended to work next year's Wrestlemania in Dallas, Texas.
Given how strong Taker looked in the ring and how well he was moving around before and after the show, a lot of people noted that he really must have been concussed far worse than anyone really understood the year before against Brock Lesnar.

Undertaker shared a locker room backstage with Sting and the two actually shared the same flight back to Texas. There was a lot of "if we do this" talk between the two about a potential match. The original idea when Sting came in was to eventually lead to the Undertaker bout at a Wrestlemania, although WWE management has cooled on long-term plans for the former WCW World champion.