The Wrestling Thread

[Bender]

ok thanks

[Bender]

The first installment of World Wrestling Enter tainment chairman Vince McMahon's "million dollar giveaway" contest took place last Monday on RAW.
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Congratulations to the winners who won some money, but McMahon's poor attempt to stop RAW's ratings slide was a failure.

PWInsider.com's Dave Scherer reported this week's RAW rating as a 3.03, down from last week's 3.06.

McMahon will do his best game show host impersonation again on Monday.

For those who want to put their names in the hat, preregister on WWE.com, because if the ratings continue to drop, the contests may not last much longer.

There are eight prizes, including the $250,000 grand prize, two prizes of $200,000 each, a $125,000 check, a $98,000 check, a $75,000 check, a $51,998 check and a $2 prize.

After pre-registering, watch the beginning of RAW to receive a special code, which viewers must tell McMahon if he calls them during the broadcast.

[Joe King]

Its a ****ing joke. McMahon thinks he can now entice his fans with money.

[Jayesh87]

Bring back THE ROCK

[Joe King]

Chris Jericho [The Guardian]

The WWE champion on inbred albinos, spandex trousers and fighting pirates

Hi Chris how are you? Good, you?

Good, very good in fact. Now, let's get straight to the point. Is wrestling actually a sport? No.

Right. So why is it always on the sports channels then? Well it is a combination of the two things. First and foremost it's entertainment, but it's still very athletic, it's still a contact sport. Or at least a contact exhibition.

Your father, Ted, used to play professional ice hockey. Did you ever play? Yeah, I played hockey until I was about 17, and then I stopped because it was interfering with my wrestling training.

So why did you choose wrestling? I wanted to wrestle since I was eight years old, and I wanted to wrestle for the WWE since I was about 12.

How important was the prospect of wearing lycra trousers to work every day in that decision? That was very, very much a positive. I'm wearing spandex right now as a matter of fact.

Bang goes the question about what's in your pockets. We see you're currently the WWE's Intercontinental champion. What exactly is intercontinental about that title? That means I am the champion of all of the continents. As far as the water and skies go I don't have any jurisdiction, but if it's on land then I'm pretty much in charge.

Right, so what's left for the actual WWE champion? Well the WWE champion's in charge of boats and planes and stuff like that. If you're a pirate, the WWE champion is pretty much in charge. If a pirate comes up to me I really can't do anything about it.

We won't ask about the European champion. You were voted the most hated wrestler of the year in 2002. How does one go about achieving such an accolade? Well when you're a bad guy that's pretty much the highest accolade you can get. It's like the Oscar for bad wrestlers.

How much say do you get in whether you're going to play a bad guy or a good guy? Is that a decision for you or for your bosses? Pretty much the fans decide that. You just ride the wave. The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing.

You're just back in wrestling after taking a break – why did you need the time off? I was wrestling for 15 years straight, so I just needed to take a step back and there were a couple of other things I wanted to work on. I have a band, Fozzy, and we did a lot of touring, especially in England as a matter of fact, and then I wrote my book - A Lion's Tale. But I knew that in a matter of time I'd be back, and I'd be better than ever, and that's kind of how it worked out.

So are Fozzy going to be big in England? Yeah, I think so, I think music fans in the UK like what they like, whereas in America there's very much a radio influence, an MTV influence and people go in for trends all the time. We toured the UK five times in 2005 because we sold out 90% of our shows, because people were into the music and that's very cool.

Do you get heckled by wrestling fans at your gigs? Not really, no. It started out that wrestling fans came to check it out - my fans are very loyal, so whatever Chris Jericho does they come to check it out. And every band has a gimmick - Kiss have make-up, we have Chris Jericho. But that can only take you so far, the music has to be there for people to come back and that's what happened for us in the UK. We sold out the Astoria three times in 2005 and those people were there to see Fozzy, they weren't there to see Chris Jericho the wrestler.

Which is your favourite UK venue? Probably the Astoria. That was great. And the Mean Fiddler, which is the other side of the Astoria. All the shows we had in London were really cool.

You've also did some acting while you were away. We're looking forward, in particular, to seeing your star turn in next year's box office smash Albino Farm. Why would someone want to farm albinos? Well yes, they grow very nice, they're very tasty … No, it's based on a legend, from the early 1900s in the Missouri area of the United States, that there used to be this compound where they would put all the very strange, inbred people. It actually did exist, but it's a legend that's been expanded upon. It'll probably be the greatest movie of all time [laughs]. It'll probably win Oscars for everything.

What's your favourite non-albino themed movie? Well, I mean geez, if it doesn't have an albino in it I don't really want to watch … I really dug No Country For Old Men, that was probably the coolest movie I've seen in a while.

Brooke Hogan or Torrie Wilson? Brooke Hogan.

What's the strangest request you've had from a fan? To sign a tattoo they had of my face. I mean getting that in the first place seems about as smart as getting Ricky Gervais tattoo. In five years time you're going to be asking: "What the hell was I doing?"

Can you tell us a joke? I'm not really much of a song and dance joke man, I'm more of an improv joker, the time has to be right. For you to ask me to tell you a joke right now, it's a little bit rude actually [laughs].

Thanks very much for your time Chris Alright man, appreciate it.

Chris Jericho's book, A Lion's Tale is available now

[MrMichael]

Just watched this week's TNA Impact, MCMG v 2 Japanese dudes (speed and muscle) was absolutely top, whole thing was at 100mph. Those 2 must stay, they were ace

Copy of that match if anyone's interested.... http://rapidshare.com/files/12288730....MCMG.avi.html

[Bender]

watched it this afternoon..sky+ it last night....brilliant stuff....and poor karen angle getting beat by Awesome Kong

[MrMichael]

watched it this afternoon..sky+ it last night....brilliant stuff....and poor karen angle getting beat by Awesome Kong

Kong

An "implant buster" would have been better though.

[Bender]

there would have been too much splashback

[MrMichael]

[rob_247]

Just watched this week's TNA Impact, MCMG v 2 Japanese dudes (speed and muscle) was absolutely top, whole thing was at 100mph. Those 2 must stay, they were ace

Finally caught up with that Impact yesterday - that match was superb - so so quick. Makes my blood boil when watching Big Slow vs Kane or similar on WWE plodding around the ring. Matches like that between 4 guys flying around like mad men are so much better and Vince just doesn't get it.

I'm looking forward to a good long feud between Angle and Styles now - those 2 should be able to producde a couple of absolute classics along the way.

[Imy]

Last Night on Raw was the 3 hour Draft special:

Here are the 2008 WWE draft results:

# Rey Mysterio drafted to RAW.
# Jeff Hardy drafted to SD!.
# CM Punk drafted to RAW.
# Matt Hardy drafted to ECW. (He brings the U.S title with him.)
# Jim Ross drafted to SD!. (J.R was pissed and it showed.)
# Michael Cole drafted to RAW.
# Batista drafted to RAW.
# Umaga drafted to SD!
# Kane drafted to RAW. (He brings the ECW title with him.)
# Mr. Kennedy drafted to SD!.
# Triple H drafted to SD!.

Also at the end of the show:

Million Dollar Mania
McMahon gives away $500,000 to one lucky fan. After he gives away the money, a piece of the Raw set falls down and explodes next to Vince, he doesn’t know why it happened but carried on talking, the piece of set under McMahon’s feet then falls away and he falls down with the money to the floor below, this is followed by the HUGE McMahon Dollar Bill collapsing and falling down on top of Vince, there are a few explosions and the wrestlers run to try and get Vince out. EMT ‘s come from the back, put Vince on a stretcher and try to slide him out, he regains consciousness and says “Paul…Paul” which was directed at Triple H, Trips tells him to relax and not to move, the show ends with Vince saying “Paul, I can’t feel my legs”

[bazza76]

Should this thread be in general sports?
Isn't it more like acting that sports really?

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

seen the draft special myself, tell you what the acting was brilliant when Vince had that accident, has some people believing it was real.

Myself i am very skeptical, surely they TV wouldn't of carried on showing these pictures ?

[shanklyn]

Ultimate Warrior makes his comeback tonight in Barcelona, should be a laugh at least.