Who Am I, A Lowly Peasant, to Question the Wrestling Thread?!

[TheNextNolan22]

Welp, the Slammy Awards can't possibly be as bad as the Spike VGX Awards were just now right?

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Welp, the Slammy Awards can't possibly be as bad as the Spike VGX Awards were just now right?

They're still trying that? I stopped watching the first year tony hawk won for best sports game and madden won for GOTY

 

[Slushy]

Recent interview with The Genuis on Shinings Podcast.

On whether he was an innovator: “I like to consider myself just a guy that was in the right time and at the right place. Everybody says I invented the moonsault. Well, the truth is I invented it like moments after I saw video of Tiger Mask doing it to the Dynamite Kid. I thought, wow, I think I can do that. I don’t know if he innovated it. And then people say “you mind if I do the moonsault?” I said hey, I stole it, too. Just don’t get hurt and don’t hurt anyone, because those are possibilities. I don’t know if I innovated anything, except I can honestly say that every poem you ever heard me recite, I wrote on my own. I don’t consider plagiarism to be a joke.”

On owing his career to Randy and becoming the Genius: “Let’s get something straight. Anything good that happened to me was indirectly or directly because of my brother. If I weren’t the brother of the “Macho Man” Randy Savage, you wouldn’t know who the hell I was. He opened doors for me. We were in the car discussing gimmicks. And he was always on my team trying to help me. We came up with this Genius thing and he was a stickler for details. He presented it, he got it done. I tried to follow through with it and did the very best I could to try to recreate myself. To reshuffle the deck and try to make the people forget that was ever “Leaping” Lanny by changing my personality. And I did my very best to entertain the people; it is sports entertainment… one of the people I really stole from was Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther… It was a one-joke movie. “I knew that, you idiot. I was only testing you.” I thought the Genius would be a good character if he was not that smart, just thought he was. Because if I was really that smart, I would have to be a babyface. But if I’m a heel I would like to be a buffoon genius- to be something hilarious in a business that was very serious at the time. Now they’ve got other comedians sometimes I’ve noticed, but I was like the only one. I have to say, God bless Bobby Heenan, you know he’s a cancer survivor and I hope he’s doing well. He didn’t raise any objection to me being the Genius. After all, he was already the Brain. But what was I going to do? Point to my arms? I have garden-hose arms compared to Hercules Hernandez, the Warlord, the Barbarian, Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, “Macho Man” Randy Savage. My arms are just as long, but much thinner. I couldn’t point to my arms… I had to point to my head because I didn’t have what they call a body in wrestling.”

The circumstances of Randy’s death:First of all, he didn’t die from an automobile accident; he had ventricular fibrillation… the heart is divided into the left and right atrium and left and right ventricle. That’s four chambers. And the bottom chamber, which is v-shaped, fibrillated, which means it quivered, which meant he wasn’t getting enough oxygen into his blood; the blood wasn’t going everywhere, and he said “I think I’m going to pass out.” And that was his last words… And his wife, she was the hero because when he passed out at the wheel, his foot was on he accelerator, and she grabbed the wheel of the Jeep Wrangler and steered it into a tree, because they would’ve hit a motorcyclist and behind that was a bus. So when they’re going the wrong way going about 35-40 miles per hour- and that’s just what happened. When you have a heart problem, it would be nice if you’re not driving at the time, but that’s what they were doing, and Lynn was the hero.”

On Randy leaving for WCW and his relationship with Slim Jim: “Randy wanted to work with Shawn Michaels. He wanted to have a two-year program with him. They said they were having a youth movement, and that’s why he quit. He said “I think I’ll get a second opinion on that.” He would’ve lost the match to Shawn Michaels, at WrestleMania, but his goal, and one of the things that bothered him the most, was that he was never able to have a match as good as the one he had with Ricky Steamboat. He felt, even his his advanced years, I guess he was 41, that he could have a Ricky Steamboat-caliber match with Shawn Michaels. I don’t know if he could or if he couldn’t any more that if, you know, if he was already too old or whatever, but wouldn’t you love to see him try? He would’ve put him over, in the middle of the ring, and retired to the announce booth… but instead he went to the WCW and guess what he brought with him? Snap into a Slim Jim. And Vince doesn’t like to lose even one round. You know the difference between WWF and Slim Jim? Slim Jim sent to me and my mom and Randy’s widow? A beautiful bouquet of flowers, and best wishes, and condolences. And we didn’t get anything from the WWE. The only condolences I got are from two guys. They are Howard Finkel, and last month I got a call from Steve Lombardi. Now in these two cases, this is not management, this is labor. So there’s a little bit of a difference there. If I embarrass anybody then so be it. You know what? I’m gonna be 59 years old December 28th… and I’m gonna say exactly what’s on my mind all the time.”

 

[TheNextNolan22]

They're still trying that? I stopped watching the first year tony hawk won for best sports game and madden won for GOTY

At least GTA V rightfully won Game of The Year so I guess that's cool.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

A match between HBK and Macho Man in their prime would have been absolutely amazing, especially on a big stage like WrestleMania or Summerslam.

 

[NDX]

Slammys are like MTV music awards. Worthless.


Bryan shouts "Yes, Yes, Yes" and Luke Harper responds "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" t:

I want Bryan to join the Wyatts so he can help lead Harper out of the Wyatts and on his creepy own. Yeah yeah yeah!

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I loved Team ECK.

 

[Wheels]

If you want a good laugh, then talk to a kid who has grown up in the current era about who's the greatest of all time in wrestling.

 

[The Sage]

If you want a good laugh, then talk to a kid who has grown up in the current era about who's the greatest of all time in wrestling.

What was the conversation like?

 

[Hunter Rider]

A Savage/HBK feud with that kind of long build up would have been absolute gold!

If WWE didn't contact Randy's family after his death that is a disgrace, I noticed he wasn't in the WWE title history package either.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

If you want a good laugh, then talk to a kid who has grown up in the current era about who's the greatest of all time in wrestling.

I've had a convo like that. I asked my then 6 year old cousin who Shawn Michaels was. No response. Asked him who Zack Ryder was and he responded with "Zack Ryder is da best!!!"

 

[Wheels]

What was the conversation like?

It was hilarious. Apparently, John Cena is better than everyone else and he's got the best finisher ever. It was one of those smile and nod conversations lol.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

It was hilarious. Apparently, John Cena is better than everyone else and he's got the best finisher ever. It was one of those smile and nod conversations lol.

 

[TX85]

It always gets to me when kids and teens say someone or something is the"best ever",I understand if you grew up in the current generation or only watch wrestling from the last couple of years but don be saying **** if you don't know history.

Also when they bash the legends and past eras just because that is old now and they only really know the current stuff

 

[Wheels]

It always gets to me when kids and teens say someone or something is the"best ever",I understand if you grew up in the current generation or only watch wrestling from the last couple of years but don be saying **** if you don't know history.

Also when they bash the legends and past eras just because that is old now and they only really know the current stuff

The funniest thing ever though is when they think classic songs are from Glee.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

And "Swag" is actually cool. I hate my generation so much.

 

[Wheels]

I've always been fanatical with stuff that I really like. I don't relate to people who say they love something but don't try to find out more about it.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

The new Botchamania Thank you Maffew from reminding me how bad of a PPV Surivor Series was. And how crap CZW has always been overall.

 

[Wheels]

The new Botchamania Thank you Maffew from reminding me how bad of a PPV Surivor Series was. And how crap CZW has always been overall.

Has there been a decent hardcore fed since ECW? I can't think of one.

 

[NDX]

Ciampa's gonna kill you!

When he debuted in ROH he was total ****. Couldn't even hit his finisher right. After about a year he became a hell of an in ring talent.

 

[Hunter Rider]

WWE should be looking at this duo with some Martini!

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[cabel]

It always gets to me when kids and teens say someone or something is the"best ever",I understand if you grew up in the current generation or only watch wrestling from the last couple of years but don be saying **** if you don't know history.

Also when they bash the legends and past eras just because that is old now and they only really know the current stuff

A month or so ago I tried explaining to a teenage coworker who Groucho Marx was. I ended up pulling out the iPhone and showing him the contract scene from "A Night at the Opera."

A couple years ago I had another coworker who said she didn't listen to the Beatles because she only listened to, "awesome music." I felt my dad rolling in his grave, and he's not even dead.

 

[Hunter Rider]

NXT Superstar Alexander Rusev worked the WWE Live Event last night in Stockton, California. He cut a heel promo before his match against Zack Ryder. Rusev would defeat Ryder in a match lasting under ten minutes. He applied a submission move onto Ryder to force him to tap out. NXT Diva Lana was not with Rusev and has not been on the road with the main roster. She works as his manager in NXT events.

I hope this means they may be readying him for the main roster!

In the second day of voting for the Wrestlezone Slammys, we have opened up the Twitter voting for the match of the year within the WWE. The nominations are: John Cena vs CM Punk from Raw in the lead-up to Wrestlemania, CM Punk vs The Undertaker at Wrestlemania, Brock Lesnar vs CM Punk and John Cena vs Daniel Bryan, both from Summerslam.

The Wrestlezone in doing something right shocker!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Some new shirts!