The Wrestling Thread Is The Only One Who Can Have Me - Part 226

[RetroNaz]

Let's all be honest with ourselves here. The worst thing about Cena is his jorts.

My opinion on Cena is that he's suffered from some bad booking decisions.

I'm not going to pretend to know how it all works in WWE, but they almost need someone that can step outside the square and know when it's time to put another wrestler over and properly commit to it. A lot of opportunities were squandered.

 

[Dr. Evil]

the New Day at Comic-Con!

 

[Warhammer]

I found him to be quite entertaining when he was doing his somewhat tweener-ish rapper thing back on SD. Doing stuff like slapping Mrs. HHH's backside, giving Teddy Long (a face GM at the time) the FU/AA because he got angry, having that bloodbath of a match with JBL, etc. If he were still more unpredictable like that, then I think that he'd work much better.

And not to say that she'd ever reach anywhere near the heights of Hogan (after all very few have even come close to that), but I think that with good booking Bayley could pull off the super-babyface and make it work on the main roster.

I love the Doctor of Thugonomics.

 

[Wheels]

The dirt sheets are working us with the whole "Vince is upset Cesaro and Sasha said they want to be on Smackdown" crap. I wonder what WWE has planned since the videos and tweets are up for all to see.....WWE Draft Center did make a point to characterise RAW as stacked and Smackdown as the underdog.........Hmmmmm something doesn't smell right about this.

 

[Loki882]

I can understand them wanting to be on SD. It's not like Raw has used them brilliantly up until this point (especially Cesaro).

 

[SpideyVille]

It would be interesting if they played up on the "I don't want to work for Stephanie" angle a bit.

 

[Wheels]

I can understand them wanting to be on SD. It's not like Raw has used them brilliantly up until this point (especially Cesaro).

I know but this is coming off like a work now. WWE isn't going to have a legit shoot promo on their YT channel, and Sasha's agreement tweet would be deleted already.

 

[Loki882]

Oh I agree. But as we've seen before, they're not completely opposed to adding a certain element of truth even to a work.

 

[Metallo]

Ahmed Johnson.....LOL. the only thing he did remotely entertaining was his feud with Ron Simmons and The Nation

God he was horrible. I remember when he showed up embarrassingly out of shape in WCW as Big T.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Loki882]

^Yep, Lita still be hot!! Trish to (and I actually like the brown hair on her).

 

[Dr. Evil]

The New Day at Comic-Con:

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[Slushy]

G-1 from Korakuen Hall in four hours is free on New Japan World if you're not a subscriber

 

[RetroNaz]

Man, just finished LU season 2. Someone put the damn title on Pentagon Dark already.

That's how you evolve a character. Tremendous stuff.

 

[nite-owl]

 

[Dr Lee]

heard rumours Nikki Bella has been officially cleared to return, but not seen anything concrete on this. suspect if she does return, it'll be on Smackdown rather than Raw TBH...

 

[chamber-music]

Cool to see Curt Hawkins back. Hawkins is solid on the mic, a good worker and good in the ring. He never really got a good run in the WWE.

Hawkins could be a solid addition to the cruiserweight division or social outcasts type stable or solo midcard heel.

NXT..
-Not sure if the Authors of Pain should keep the shield look but it fits them, I don't recognize the language they speak but it sounds kinda cool with their voices. They are beasts but I hate that American Alpha are their victims although I guess it makes them credible.

Sunny Dhinsa is Canadian with a Pakistani background I think.

Gzim Selmani is an ethnic Kosovo Albanian from the Netherlands.

They were either speaking Urdu, Dutch, Arabic or Gheg.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Nikki could well be Sasha's mystery partner at Battleground.

 

[JabarR]

There's only one word to describe this and I'm gonna spell it out for ya. S-A-W-F-T!!!! SAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWFT!!!!!!!!!

 

[javonstokess]

It's hard for me to hate on The New Day (besides the fact that I am a fan), they were handed a trainwreck of a gimmick and turned it into a gold mine and themselves into main eventers.

I respect that especially with how African American wrestlers are routinely given bs from the WWE and forced to "make it work" (i.e. Sheldon Benjamin, Rodney Mack, R-Truth, Booker T, etc).

 

[Lantern Venom]

Let's all be honest with ourselves here. The worst thing about Cena is his jorts.

The worst thing about Cena is that he is a hybrid of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior, or at least the worst parts of their personas. At the height of his career, Cena combined the forced, juvenile character humor of surfer Sting with the sloppy, dangerous in-ring spot-blowing of Warrior. What I'll remember most about Cena are moments like painting "poopy" on JBL's limo and nearly killing Sabu (as if he needed help in that area) by dumping out of the ring and missing the table on which he was supposed to land. The Fail Era was the fault of many people and circumstances, but the poorly-conceived Cena experiment will always be symbolic of WWE's mid-2000s collapse.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Ahmed Johnson.....LOL. the only thing he did remotely entertaining was his feud with Ron Simmons and The Nation

Uh...no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqgATFlx1k

 

[javonstokess]

The worst thing about Cena is that he is a hybrid of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior, or at least the worst parts of their personas. At the height of his career, Cena combined the forced, juvenile character humor of surfer Sting with the sloppy, dangerous in-ring spot-blowing of Warrior. What I'll remember most about Cena are moments like painting "poopy" on JBL's limo and nearly killing Sabu (as if he needed help in that area) by dumping out of the ring and missing the table on which he was supposed to land. The Fail Era was the fault of many people and circumstances, but the poorly-conceived Cena experiment will always be symbolic of WWE's mid-2000s collapse.

...this is a bit harsh.

Cena has literally been the most popular wrestler in the WWE for a decade plus. While his booking hasn't been great, I'd bet you'd find that even those that boo him respect him and probably still kinda like him. Yes, he's been limited by not being able to turn heel for a stretch to enhance his character, but he's maintained his popularity longer than most.

 

[Lantern Venom]

...this is a bit harsh.

Cena has literally been the most popular wrestler in the WWE for a decade plus. While his booking hasn't been great, I'd bet you'd find that even those that boo him respect him and probably still kinda like him. Yes, he's been limited by not being able to turn heel for a stretch to enhance his character, but he's maintained his popularity longer than most.

Guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk were over with the majority of fans, but didn't last long in the spotlight for different reasons. Cena was Vince's pet project and he force-fed it to the WWE fanbase. The reaction has been 10+ years of declining ratings and dwindling revenue. Cena never caught on like the centerpieces of WWE's past, but after so many main eventers leaving, Vince was so shell shocked that he chose loyalty over popularity. That's one of many reasons that WWE is experiencing low TV ratings and house show attendance. WWE has a monolith to climb if they ever want to recapture the cultural relevance they had in the late 90s/early 2000s.