The Wrestling Thread

[Jayesh87]

The Japan special is on at around 10 in the morning this Saturday? Anyone going to be watching?

Owens/Balor should be very, very good.

new NXT champ!

[Gingawaria]

The Japan special is on at around 10 in the morning this Saturday? Anyone going to be watching?

Owens/Balor should be very, very good.

[MrShawnMichaels]

The only threat is Vince is going to get Cena to beat him on Sunday and then he ends up in the middle of the card like everyone else. He needs two clean wins, drop the title to Balor in the July 4th Sumo Hall show and build him as the new Authority guy.

[Alex]

Better than Cena/Rollins/Lesnar?

It was brilliant though.

[Gingawaria]

Cena/Owens is my Match of the Year so far.

What a way for Owens to make his main roster debut - shows how highly they rate him.

[MrShawnMichaels]

Well that certainly was an interesting 2 hours.

I thought the NXT show wasn't great. Pretty average bar the last two segments. The opener was a real disappointment to me. I had really high expectations of it because both Breeze and Balor can go.

I'm intrigued, rather than excited, by the Owens v Cena match at the Chamber. It's pretty clear they rate Owens fairly highly in the company. The one thing I can see Vince being stuck on him is his physique, but that's something workable. I mean, Reigns wears a vest to hide his gut.

[Alex]

Well that certainly was an interesting 2 hours.

[MrShawnMichaels]

Anyone heard the Triple H Conference Call from yesterday? He didn't seem too pleased to announce the Baron Corbin v Rhyno match

Decent card overall for Takeover.

I don't see the reason to showcase Owens on a Special as his debut match unless he's going to win.

[Bender]

Scott Steiner calls out Hulk Hogan, issues $1 million challenge
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[Gingawaria]

Really excited for Takeover.

Elimination Chamber looks excellent too...looking forward to Owens/Cena.

[MrShawnMichaels]

NXT Takeover on Wednesday night looks like itll be good. Elimination Chamber in 10 days looks like it might be better.

Owens v Cena announced along with a IC Title EC match. Tag Title EC Match and Rollins v Ambrose Title.

4 brilliant matches on a cobbled together Special for the Network. This is the reason I got the Network, its nice that they are doing different things with it.

it's really because they haven't got a high number for when the next financial results are coming out. They've gimmicked the hell out of the Network and think people will buy because it has Jerry Springer on it! HA.

Austin with Heyman will be entertaining but I've heard enough of Heymans BS to know most of it is going to be fabricated. Brilliant salesman though.

I'm going to try and get a copy of the Global Wars show from Friday - anyone catch it? Apparently Rod Strong and Sydal looked good. I really like the look of Moose. He's got good upside.

[Alex]

NXT Takeover on Wednesday night looks like itll be good. Elimination Chamber in 10 days looks like it might be better.

Owens v Cena announced along with a IC Title EC match. Tag Title EC Match and Rollins v Ambrose Title.

4 brilliant matches on a cobbled together Special for the Network. This is the reason I got the Network, its nice that they are doing different things with it.

[Doc_Piptorious]

For all those saying Austin was giving McMahon and Hunter a free ride, well, having Jericho do the podcast show gives you an indication of what McMahon thought of Austin's questions

I don't know if it does anything of the sort. Could well be a case that Jericho's bland and very safe style of "interviewing" suits Vince more.

Jericho does not swear much on his podcasts, he does not mention hunting or anything else that might involve a firearm, and he tends to kiss the arse of any WWE person that he gets on his podcasts more so than those who have never worked there.

Plus he does not turn up as a guest on podcasts belonging to the likes of Cobana as Austin has done.


Another factor may be that Austin comes across as liking to have his podcast as an independent entity that is under his own control, whereas with Jericho you get the feeling he would be wagging his tail, if he had one, at the thoughts of being the official unofficial Podcaster for the E. I say unofficial official because no doubt Jericho will claim that he will be only speaking his own mind and that nobody will tell him what to do or script his shows, but I don't think anyone expects anything other than an even more WWE friendly approach from his podcast which was very much a pro WWE podcast to start with.


As a semi related aside; I am curious to see how the current lawsuit against Cobana and Punk goes. The one where the WWE/ex WWE doctor is trying to sue them for $1m each over what Punk said on Cobana's podcast. I read that Vince and Hunter gave their statements as part of the proceedings

[MrShawnMichaels]

For all those saying Austin was giving McMahon and Hunter a free ride, well, having Jericho do the podcast show gives you an indication of what McMahon thought of Austin's questions

[MrShawnMichaels]

Job out Adrian Neville in his second match he didn't even look strong.
They could have made him an instant star by giving him a "fluke" victory or an Orton assisted victory.

Wasn't too bad.

Logically speaking, you couldn't make Rollins lose on his 2nd Raw as a champion. Nows the time to put the rocket launchers on him. At least they didn't make Rollins kick out of the Red Arrow. That would have been a good old fashioned burial.

It's fairly clear they don't see Neville as an elite Superstar which I agree with, because of his size and his lack of promo.

If they did it to Balor, different story.