Tonight, We Are Going to Hijack The Wrestling Thread!!! - - Part 149

[Slushy]

say......whatever happened to that guy who won the Stone Cold Tough Enough show??

Andy wanted to get back into playing football last I heard.

 

[Donnie Darko]

This one is for HR as I know his favorites are Bret and El Dandy

Still one of my favorite promos of all time. Oh Bret, you are a rascal.

 

[The Chris]

Source: F4WOnline

- For what it's worth, it's said within WWE that current plans have John Cena and Daniel Bryan being pushed as the #1 and #2 guys in the company after WrestleMania XXX, now that CM Punk is gone. No word yet if this means Bryan is winning the WWE World Heavyweight Title.

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0306/571936/post-wrestlemania-plans-for-cena-and-bryan/

So why arent your #1 and 2 guys main event a milestone numbered mania like 30? SMH.

 

[X Knight]

Andy wanted to get back into playing football last I heard.

ah.

 

[Specter313]

The only other one who came out of Tough Enough with a contract was Ivelisse, but apparently she got a big head in NXT & thought she deserved a main roster call up. Then boom, let go.

It really is infuriating that someone who obviously didn't know a damn thing about the business or was doing it without the passion for it ended up with a spot on TV. Very indicative of the Laurinaitis era.

I think instead of "apparently", it should be "supposedly", because the whole "fired because of attitude problems" thing tends to be a stock answer whenever they release decent developmental divas, which means it's likely just a code for "they refused to sleep with someone to get ahead", cause obviously they can't tell THAT to the public.

 

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

I think instead of "apparently", it should be "supposedly", because the whole "fired because of attitude problems" thing tends to be a stock answer whenever they release decent developmental divas, which means it's likely just a code for "they refused to sleep with someone to get ahead", cause obviously they can't tell THAT to the public.

True, you never know what really goes on behind the scenes.

I seem to remember her giving an interview where she more or less said that she felt she was ready for the main roster - who knows how that was conveyed to the brass though.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

- AJ Styles is expected to start working for New Japan Pro Wrestling as early as April. It's not official yet but talks are going on and those in NJPW are expecting a deal to be signed.

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[Wheels]

NXT comes on at 9 tonight guys.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

NJPW [42nd Anniversary Show] results for March 6, 2014

Spoiler

NJPW “Raising an Army Anniversary 2014”, 3/6/2014 [Thu] 19:00 @ Ota Ward General Gymnasium
4,200 Spectators [Overcrowded/Soldout]
~ New Japan held a memorial ceremony for the late Billy Robinson. Robinson died in his sleep on February 27, 2014 at the age of 74.
Robinson first competed in Japan back in April of 1968 for the Japan Wrestling Federation. Robinson is noted as the man who made the “Double Arm Suplex” popular in Japan in which a lot of wrestlers would go in to use in the years following. Robinson made his debut in NJPW in the mid-70’s.

(1) Raising an Army Anniversary Opening Match: Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu vs. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi
◆Winner: Suzuki (7:23) with a Chicken Wing Arm Lock on Komatsu.

(2) Manabu Nakanishi & KUSHIDA vs. Gedo & Jado
◆Winner: KUSHIDA (11:02) with the Midnight Express on Gedo.

(3) Raising an Army Anniversary Special 6 Man Tag Match: Super Strong Machine, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask IV vs. Captain New Japan, El Desperado & BUSHI
◆Winner: Liger (8:32) following a Vertical Drop style Brainbuster on BUSHI.
~ Desperado declared war on Liger and said that he will strip the veteran of his mask.

(4) Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Prince Devitt, Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale
◆Winner: Fale (9:28) following the Bad Luck Fall on Honma.

(5) Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Yujiro Takahashi & YOSHI-HASHI
◆Winner: Kojima (10:16) following a Lariat on HASHI.

(6) Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
◆Winner: Goto (8:58) following the Shouten Kai on Anderson.
~ Goto and Shibata claim the win over the reigning tag champions.

(7) Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii
◆Winner: Ishii (16:20) following a Vertical Drop style Brainbuster on Naito.

(8) Raising an Army Anniversary Special Single Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. Kota Ibushi
◆Winner: Okada (16:41) following the Raimaker.

~ Okada wished the best of luck to his seniors competing in the upcoming New Japan Cup tournament and concluded that gold will continue to fall in New Japan annually.

 

[X Knight]

any more word about Sting and WWE?

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Not happening.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[The Sage]

- It was reported on Tuesday that Paul Heyman went off his script a bit at last Monday’s RAW in Chicago. Another source confirms Heyman did in fact go off-script but said he was careful not to go into business for himself. Heyman received very high marks backstage for the promo.

- Luke Harper was seen nursing his shoulder after the six-man match against The Shield on Monday’s RAW. Backstage chatter was that Harper did not suffer a serious injury and he will likely be fine going forward.

TNA officials are worried about Samoa Joe departing the company when his current contract expires in December of this year. Word going around is that Jeff Jarrett has interest in bringing Joe into his new company.

There’s been talk within TNA that officials realize they need to keep Joe happy because he’s made it “very well known” that he doesn’t plan to re-sign if he’s not used in a more prominent role.

There’s a feeling within TNA that guys like Joe could end up having a very viable alternative if the Jarrett project works out.

- As noted, the February 27th episode of TNA’s Impact Wrestling scored a 0.95 cable rating and 1.06 million viewers. This is the same show that saw WWE’s live NXT Arrival show go up against hour one.

When the rating first came out, there was talk that it was hurt bad by NXT Arrival but the quarter-hour ratings and other data says otherwise. Impact got its usual strong lead-in from Cops and opened at a 1.12 rating, which is down from the 1.4 opening ratings the show had been doing the past few weeks. One could assume that drop was due to NXT but since NXT ended at 10pm, you could assume that would lead to a big comeback in Impact’s second hour but that didn’t happen.

Impact had the usual increase at 10pm but it dropped hard to a 0.83 rating at 10:15pm. This is the lowest quarter-rating in a long time for Impact and by that time, Arrival was already over. One could argue that if there were 350,000 regular Impact viewers that watched NXT instead, which would be hard to believe, that not all 350,000 would come back for Impact’s second hour, but most would, and there’s no evidence that any unusual number of viewers came back at all.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

http://dailywrestlingnews.com/got-praised-promo-raw-possible-injury-raw/
http://dailywrestlingnews.com/samoa-joe-leaving-tna-soon-tna-wants-keep-happy/
http://dailywrestlingnews.com/wwe-nxt-arrival-really-hurt-tna-impact-last-week/

 

[sweetre15]

If y'all are wondering whether or not I have a crush on Renee Young......Yes, I absolutely do

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Renee...hnnnnnnnngggggg!

 

[TX85]

Pretty good start to NXT

 

[sweetre15]

Definitely interesting start for this show

 

[The Sage]

Washington Post has an article about the hijack RAW movement: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...kraw-movement-gains-vince-mcmahons-attention/

 

[sweetre15]

Emma is so fun to watch when she isn't paired up with Santino

 

[sweetre15]

The booking on this show is so simple yet organic that it's hard to not admire it.

 

[TX85]

Charlotte Flair is a bit better than I expected,Simple but good promo by Zayn,Graves vs Yoshi next!

 

[Kaleb]

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[runawayboulder]

This Graves guy is like CM Punk Jr.

 

[TX85]

Graves has a nice little submission

 

[TX85]

This Graves guy is like CM Punk Jr.

Except he may end up having better success in the future since he may become a Trips guy