The Wrestling Thread must be burned down so it can be reborn!

[the_ultimate_evil]

Been thinking of a way of saving both santino and Emma's careers and the answer is simple. One word


Rusev


Have a match where santino faces rusev, and get destroyed and I mean destroyed, lana approaches santons and berates him for being less than a man, a comedy act and asks what happens to the legend he used to be the ultimate fighting machine

Build it up for a week or 2 then have santino dump Emma hard and turn heel and side with lana and rusev bringing back his persona from ovw but keeping the santino name for a tag team/stable

Watch this old promo to see what I mean

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qqhi_boris-alexiev-promo_sport

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Warhammer]

Been thinking of a way of saving both santino and Emma's careers and the answer is simple. One word


Rusev


Have a match where santino faces rusev, and get destroyed and I mean destroyed, lana approaches santons and berates him for being less than a man, a comedy act and asks what happens to the legend he used to be the ultimate fighting machine

Build it up for a week or 2 then have santino dump Emma hard and turn heel and side with lana and rusev bringing back his persona from ovw but keeping the santino name for a tag team/stable

Watch this old promo to see what I mean

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qqhi_boris-alexiev-promo_sport

That makes no damn sense.

 

[Lobo]

 

[DX]

Just watched WWE's tribute to Connor Michalek. Many man-tears were shed.

R.I.P. Crusher.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Now, Wrestling Thread, Rise!

 

[X Knight]

Been thinking of a way of saving both santino and Emma's careers and the answer is simple. One word


Rusev


Have a match where santino faces rusev, and get destroyed and I mean destroyed, lana approaches santons and berates him for being less than a man, a comedy act and asks what happens to the legend he used to be the ultimate fighting machine

Build it up for a week or 2 then have santino dump Emma hard and turn heel and side with lana and rusev bringing back his persona from ovw but keeping the santino name for a tag team/stable

Watch this old promo to see what I mean

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qqhi_boris-alexiev-promo_sport

Holy ****!! That was Santino??!!

 

[Wheels]

Cena's promo on Main Event was horrible. For as much as I praise Cena sometimes he annoys me a lot. He's s such a no selling heat killer on the mic. "Oh,I can't stop you from following Bray so I'm just going to be me. I'm soooooo not freaked out by a member of my core fanbase helping this lunatic beat me. I mean manipulating children is not my problem".

 

[The Hill]

But he's trying to rise above it all....

 

[Slushy]

 

[Pink Ranger]

Little Johnny and Little Jimmy need to form a tag team.

 

[E-Man]

Little Johnny and Little Jimmy need to form a tag team.

I would agree if it weren't for the fact that Hornswoggle would be involved somehow.

 

[Frico]

A really sad, but heartwarming video tribute to Connor Michalek, the young Daniel Bryan fan who recently died of cancer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RAhxhIHdpM

Major props to WWE for that tribute. He touched a lot of people and was an amazing kid. RIP Connor.

SmackDown! Spoilers 5/9/14

Spoiler

* SmackDown kicks off with a look at The Shield and The Wyatt Family from RAW.

* Dean Ambrose vs. Sheamus for the WWE United States Title is up first. Sheamus gets the win clean with a Brogue Kick. Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins were not at ringside. This was a good match with the crowd behind Ambrose. Ambrose did a dive out of the ring at one point and barely made it in before the 10 count.

* Cesaro and Bad News Barrett vs. Rob Van Dam and Big E is next. Paul Heyman is on commentary. Barrett runs down climate change on way to the ring and says like Big E, when the storms hit, he will be forgotten. Crowd is behind RVD and there are some Barrett chants. Cesaro pins Big E after hitting his finisher. Before that, RVD accidentally kicked Big E in the head. The match lasted less than 5 minutes.

* We get a Daniel Bryan vs. Kane recap from Extreme Rules.

* Lana comes out and says America should change and follow Vladimir Putin. Rusev squashes Kofi Kingston. Kofi got in little offense. A loud USA chant broke out during the match.

* The Wyatt Family appears on the big screen. Bray Wyatt rambles about John Cena.

* A Bo Dallas vignette airs.

* Fandango and Layla defeated Santino Marella and Emma when Layla rolled up Emma.

* Roman Reigns vs. Mark Henry is next. Reigns lifted Henry over his shoulders to show his strength and then dropped him into a Samoan Drop. Reigns hit a spear for the win.

* Los Matadores come out with El Torito to a big pop. They're going to face Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Hornswoggle. Torito pins Slater for the clean win.

* Seth Rollins vs. Batista is next. Crowd chants "you can't wrestle" at Batista. Rollins tried a baseball slide, but Batista scouted it and got some offense in. Batista with a few more power moves including throwing Rollins into the steps and then back into the ring. Batista hits huge suplex and is being methodical. CM Punk chants start. Rollins turns the tables and gets going. Rollins runs into spinebuster. Rollins counters Batista Bomb and Batista rolls to the outside. Rollins launches over the top rope and lands it. The second time he comes from the top rope, Batista sees it coming and sidesteps it. Rollins hits the table. Batista rolls in ring, wins by count out.

* After the match, Batista hits a Batista Bomb on Rollins as fans boo. Rollins sells an injury.

* The Wyatt Family vs. The Usos and John Cena is next. The crowd was more pro-Cena than not. There was also a loud Usos chant. The match ends when a big brawl breaks out on the floor. One of the Usos gets hit with the lariat by Luke Harper for the clean win. Cena cuts a promo against The Wyatts after the match. He says Bray is afraid and didn't get the pinfall, he got his goons to get the win for him. SmackDown ends.


Read more at http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...-this-week-wwe-smackdown/#p22CAXGUW1zGWVlp.99

Spoiler

Cesaro and BNB on the same team is a win. Looking forward to that as well as this might be a start of a possible heel turn for Big E? We'll see.

Figured Ambrose would get his rematch and Rollins vs Batista is good for storyline purposes so it makes sense and atleast he didn't get pinned. Reigns vs Henry again? Fully expect that to be atleast 3 minutes.

But I hope this is an indication that all three Shield members will be involved in a lot more singles matches these next few weeks. Triple H seemed to hint at that in his latest interview with Cole this week.

Cena's promo on Main Event was horrible. For as much as I praise Cena sometimes he annoys me a lot. He's s such a no selling heat killer on the mic. "Oh,I can't stop you from following Bray so I'm just going to be me. I'm soooooo not freaked out by a member of my core fanbase helping this lunatic beat me. I mean manipulating children is not my problem".

He should've just kept it short and sweet - "Buy my stuff!" *drops the mic*

 

[Frico]

http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_78252.shtml#.U2qCKRjn_mQ

WWE World Hvt. champion Daniel Bryan retained his position as WWE's top draw in the males 18-49 demographic Monday night on Raw.

During the main three hours of Raw (pre-overrun), Bryan's match with Alberto Del Rio included the most-watched minute of the show and delivered the highest quarter-hour rating.

The other top draw of the night was The Shield vs. The Wyatts six-man tag main event extending from Q12 to the overrun.

The overall show was down considerably from last week's Extreme Rules lead-in episode. By comparison, last week's Q1 scored a 2.28 rating and this week's Q1 scored a 1.65 rating the night after a PPV.

Raw Break Down - m18-49 demographic

- Overall: 1.89 rating / 1.187 million viewers

- Q1: Raw opened with a 1.65 rating for the first-half of the U.S. Title battle royal and one mid-match commercial.

- Q2: Raw increased to a 1.77 rating for the conclusion of the battle royal and one commercial. The peak audience was 1.330 million viewers at 8:18 p.m. just before the finish of the match.

- Q3: Raw fell back to a show-low 1.64 rating for two commercial breaks and the first-half of Rob Van Dam vs. Cesaro.

- Q4: Raw inched up to a 1.69 rating for the second-half of RVD-Cesaro, one commercial, and the first-half of Bray Wyatt's monologue.

- Q5: Raw got a slight top-of-the-hour bump to a 1.79 rating for the second-half of Bray's monologue, one commercial, and a full Cody Rhodes vs. Ryback singles match.

The match actually fared better than the end of Bray's monologue, as Bray peaked with 1.211 million viewers at 9:02 p.m. and five minutes of Cody-Ryback were above Bray's peak. The match peaked with 1.291 million viewers at the conclusion.

- Q6: Raw began a steady incline to a 1.81 rating for two full commercial breaks and Los Matadores & El Torito celebrating Cinco De Mayo.

The peak audience was 1.339 million viewers at 9:23 p.m. in-between two commercials.

- Q7: Raw increased to a 1.97 rating for Rusev's latest squash match, one commercial, and the continuation of Daniel Bryan & Brie Bella terrorized by Kane.

The match grazed 1.3 million viewers, then Bryan & Brie backstage hit 1.364 million viewers heading to break.

- Q8: Raw hit a show-high 2.10 rating for Daniel Bryan vs. Del Rio in the ring, plus one commercial. Included was Raw touching 1.4 million viewers for the first time in the show at 9:58 p.m.

- Q9: Raw slipped to a 2.01 rating at the top of the hour.

This was the product of the Bryan-Kane feud spilling over to the third hour, which included a show-high audience of 1.542 million viewers at 10:03 p.m. Raw then cut to break at 10:04 p.m. and lost a significant chunk of viewers on the other side of the break for the first-half of Wade Barrett vs. Big E.

- Q10: Raw fell to a 1.77 rating for two full commercials and the second-half of Barrett vs. Big E. The match's peak was 1.212 million viewers at 10:22 p.m.

- Q11: Raw re-built to a 1.91 rating for Zeb Colter setting up Adam Rose's debut, plus one commercial before the main event. The peak was 1.310 million viewers at 10:35 p.m. at the end of the debut.

- Q12: Raw jumped to a 2.09 rating for the first-half of Shield vs. Wyatts, plus one commercial. The peak was 1.414 million viewers at 10:56 p.m.

- Over-run: Raw finished strong - for this week - with a 2.35 rating for the end of the six-man tag main event and post-match beat down from Evolution.

The segment peaked at 11:03 p.m. with 1.562 million viewers when the match ended. During the post-match involving Evolution, Raw went down one stair-step, finishing with 1.451 million viewers at 11:06 p.m.

Caldwell's Analysis: Bryan is over, The Shield vs. The Wyatts is over, there's a gap in starpower when John Cena is off the show, and long-form matches that build to a conclusion are a draw if there is an established issue or something on the line. Unless it's Big E. vs. Wade Barrett for the IC Title, which suffered from audience indifference toward Big E. and WWE quickly trying to heat up Barrett and waiting for the audience to catch on.

 

[Frico]

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[Hotwire]

Pair them up?? Hell, yes!

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Little Johnny and Little Jimmy need to form a tag team.

Bork Laser killed Little Jimmy on Raw.

 

[Hotwire]

Holy ****!! That was Santino??!!

I was thinking the same thing!!

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

seriously no joke, i'm a 31 year old grown man but i would not be able to speak rationally if she gave me that look

 

[Hotwire]

Since we all love lists, I figured I'd make one on a relatively slow day. What are 5 changes you'd institute in WWE to help improve the product? I'm going with smaller details and less of the "fire creative, hire ___" type statements for reference. Here's my list:

1) If you're backstage or come to the ring without a scheduled match, you must wear street clothes or athletic attire that covers your ring attire. By having performers dress in something other than their ring attire and latest t-shirt, it tells you a lot about their character. Also, it would ideally bring a little unpredictability back to the product, as someone who's dressed in street clothes can be placed into an unscheduled match and it will actually FEEL unscheduled.

Whish is why, when playing the various WWE games, I'd always make my character's backstage/promo outfit something like jeans and a nice shirt.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[The Hill]

Whish is why, when playing the various WWE games, I'd always make my character's backstage/promo outfit something like jeans and a nice shirt.

Didn't they do that quite a bit in the late 90's early Aughts?

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Wait, Kota Ibushi is gonna face Tomohiro Ishii on the 25th? Body ain't ready for that...

 

[Dr. Evil]

So are the going with Hornswoggle vs. El Torito 2 at Payback?