The Wrestling Thread

[johnly]

Excellent weren't they, i'm sure i've still got my Pink Hitman shades and foam finger knocking around somewhere in the loft haha

Hell yeah, I've got mine somewhere. Jimmy Hart signed them. Random I know but he asked to sign them. Saw loads there, got licked by a Bushwacker at one of them, scary times.

Seriously......can i have them hahaha

no but seriously haha i need a pair. Off topic - last year about 15 of us went the cricket in fancy dress, the theme was star wars, and it was class

this year, we are going again - and this time the theme is old school wrestlers

I'm going as Brett Hart

That's an awesome fancy dress idea. Gotta get that sorted. You lot better get on Sky Sports with that

[PTP]

Hell yeah, I've got mine somewhere. Jimmy Hart signed them. Random I know but he asked to sign them. Saw loads there, got licked by a Bushwacker at one of them, scary times.



That's an awesome fancy dress idea. Gotta get that sorted. You lot better get on Sky Sports with that

- we got filmed at old trafford last year in the star wars gear But don’t think they put us on Sky!!! We were gutted haha. It was the old Trafford 20/20 v the aussies and it got rained off after about 25 overs! – we were legends though – easily the best dressed there. We couldn’t walk 5 yards without people stopping us for pictures, must have been stopped like 200 times no joke. My highlight, was me as vader, my mate as stormtrooper, going to get a beer – and about 500 people in the stands doing the star wars death march song to us as we walked along haha

I’ll dig out the pics, i did post them on here somewhere.

This year we are going durham for a one dayer against sri lanka i think?? – and we needed a theme – something original, and that was the best. There will be about 15 of us again – so far we have....

Bret the hitman hart
Animal and Hawk from legion of doom
The Undertaker (which i ain’t happy about as he is still going)
Old school Hulk Hogan
Ultimate Warrior
Big Boss Man
Macho Man Randy Savage


Haha the amount of planning going into it! – the idea is, well firstly other than my mate in the marines, none of us ‘look’ like wrestlers haha, plus it will be ****ing cold. So those that need to are buying these muscle suits we have seen – you can get a full suit or just the top half. So ie, the ultimate warrior will get a full body muscle suit, then but some dodgy trunks over it, get some crazy boots, those strings/tassles he had, get his face painted etc.

My plan is, wear black trousers, get top half muscle suit, put a pink leotard thing over and paint the silver **** on it. Get a leather jacket, those pink shades and a black curly wig. Sorted.

[Imy]

- we got filmed at old trafford last year in the star wars gear But don’t think they put us on Sky!!! We were gutted haha. It was the old Trafford 20/20 v the aussies and it got rained off after about 25 overs! – we were legends though – easily the best dressed there. We couldn’t walk 5 yards without people stopping us for pictures, must have been stopped like 200 times no joke. My highlight, was me as vader, my mate as stormtrooper, going to get a beer – and about 500 people in the stands doing the star wars death march song to us as we walked along haha

I’ll dig out the pics, i did post them on here somewhere.

This year we are going durham for a one dayer against sri lanka i think?? – and we needed a theme – something original, and that was the best. There will be about 15 of us again – so far we have....

Bret the hitman hart
Animal and Hawk from legion of doom
The Undertaker (which i ain’t happy about as he is still going)
Old school Hulk Hogan
Ultimate Warrior
Big Boss Man
Macho Man Randy Savage


Haha the amount of planning going into it! – the idea is, well firstly other than my mate in the marines, none of us ‘look’ like wrestlers haha, plus it will be ****ing cold. So those that need to are buying these muscle suits we have seen – you can get a full suit or just the top half. So ie, the ultimate warrior will get a full body muscle suit, then but some dodgy trunks over it, get some crazy boots, those strings/tassles he had, get his face painted etc.

My plan is, wear black trousers, get top half muscle suit, put a pink leotard thing over and paint the silver **** on it. Get a leather jacket, those pink shades and a black curly wig. Sorted.

post the pics up when you do this.

As for Hitmans glasses you can probably get away with some aviator sunglasses.

[PTP]

http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=63384&highlight=star+wars

[Gaz]

Seriously......can i have them hahaha

no but seriously haha i need a pair. Off topic - last year about 15 of us went the cricket in fancy dress, the theme was star wars, and it was class

this year, we are going again - and this time the theme is old school wrestlers

I'm going as Brett Hart

If I can dig them out mate your more than welcome to them, I'll have a rummage in the loft this weekend and see if I can find them

[johnly]

http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/show...ight=star+wars

Them star wars pics are awesome! Good work. The ideas you have for the wrestlers are top too. Maybe instead of the Undertaker you could get someone to go as The Rock or Austin? Rock would be better cos of the mad shirts you could wear like them minging gold efforts he used to have

[johnly]

So ECW is off inside the next few weeks. WWE NXT will be replacing it, apparently its going to be the home of the next gen talent

[Armchairkopite]

Bret and Vince closed the show. This segment was excellent. Bret told Vince he wasn't even fit to lace his fathers jockstrap, Vince fought back and told Bret he decided that Stu Hart wasn't worthy of the Hall of Fame, this prompted Bret to kick the crap out of Vince and as he went for the sharpshooter, Batistaroids came out and attacked Bret. The show closed with Vince spitting at Hart as Batista held him and the crowd were screaming for SuperCena

It had its flaws but it was one of the best Raws in ages. Next week features a tag team triple threat for the titles. DX vs Straight Edge Society vs Miz and Big Show

Yep, have switched off over the last few years but this was more like RAW Austin era.

The Hitman/Vince pieced was brilliantly done, you have to hand it to Vince, that walk of his flmao.

Hogan and Bishoff have done the WWE a massive favour by reigniting the old rivalry, its a pity TNA dont seem to have any direction. Early days you might say but if RAW keeps up this standard of shows TNA wont have much time to get it right, it was that good imo.

[MrMichael]

Hehe, seen The Rumble at last, amused that I called the winner despite not having watched WWE programming in months

Rumble itself wasn't badly booked though. Shame the other matches on the card rather stank.

Hogan and Bishoff have done the WWE a massive favour by reigniting the old rivalry, its a pity TNA dont seem to have any direction. Early days you might say but if RAW keeps up this standard of shows TNA wont have much time to get it right, it was that good imo.

This does seem to be true. I've been saying for ages that tna making a move might be what it takes to get Vince off his ass. My biggest issue however is still that I'm excessively bored of almost all wwe's established wrestlers, and most of their younger "talent" is extremely drab. Unless there are some big changes upcoming I'm really not convinced any genuine wwe improvement will be maintained.

Impact on Thursday was terrible. Some decent looking matches but in the end they really weren't all that good, wrestling by numbers (and thats not what I watch tna for). The no-dq match with Abyss and Nash was just horrible, and the Foley-Bischoff segments seriously dull. The AJ-Flair combo is just utterly unconvincing, and the Nasty Boys just need to get off tv. Meanwhile, quality talents like Beer Money, Wolfe and Daniels are nowhere to be seen. The shows are less of a cluster**** now, but they've also lost their charm for me, I liked having no idea what lunacy was going to happen next.

I really hope it will go somewhere positive in the end, but a return to 80's style-in ring action with slightly better polished segments in between is not positive in my book. TNA has by far the most interesting, fresh talent in pro-wrestling right now, previously they were being held back by amateur production and booking, now they seem to be being held back in terms of actual wrestling.... and I much preferred the former.

[Armchairkopite]

Hehe, seen The Rumble at last, amused that I called the winner despite not having watched WWE programming in months

Rumble itself wasn't badly booked though. Shame the other matches on the card rather stank.



This does seem to be true. I've been saying for ages that tna making a move might be what it takes to get Vince off his ass. My biggest issue however is still that I'm excessively bored of almost all wwe's established wrestlers, and most of their younger "talent" is extremely drab. Unless there are some big changes upcoming I'm really not convinced any genuine wwe improvement will be maintained.

Impact on Thursday was terrible. Some decent looking matches but in the end they really weren't all that good, wrestling by numbers (and thats not what I watch tna for). The no-dq match with Abyss and Nash was just horrible, and the Foley-Bischoff segments seriously dull. The AJ-Flair combo is just utterly unconvincing, and the Nasty Boys just need to get off tv. Meanwhile, quality talents like Beer Money, Wolfe and Daniels are nowhere to be seen. The shows are less of a cluster**** now, but they've also lost their charm for me, I liked having no idea what lunacy was going to happen next.

I really hope it will go somewhere positive in the end, but a return to 80's style-in ring action with slightly better polished segments in between is not positive in my book. TNA has by far the most interesting, fresh talent in pro-wrestling right now, previously they were being held back by amateur production and booking, now they seem to be being held back in terms of actual wrestling.... and I much preferred the former.

Couldn't agree more, the problem TNA have is Bishoffs ego and the chip on his shoulder with WWE, he never should have went down the road of undermining the Montreal gig using Angle and Hogan. The talent is there for them to create there own material and focus on what they have.

Everything you have said about the Nasty Boys and Nash I completely agree with, its like TNA are being dragged back in time and its not pretty. Hogan and Bishoff need to concentrate their efforts on Angel, Styles , Anderson, Wolfe & Daniels at the minute. They should be maximising these guys talents rather then spending so much time on dead wood.

Who the hell is interested in Nash and the Nasty Boys for Gods sake.

All I can say is Bishoff=one trick pony.

As for the WWE talent pool, I haven't seen much of the new champion Seamus but from what I have seen hes got great ring presence. Ortan is another tremendous wrestler that shouldn't be within spitting distance of Rhodes & Dibiase both of whom have no personalities and drag Ortans character down.

I would like to see Michaels and HHH go head to head in a long running feud ending in a title match in twelve months time or so, the DX buddy segments are cringe worthy at times, let these two at each other.

Some decent feuds to keep us tuning in would be HBK v HHH, Vince v Brett, Orton v Seamas, Monday night was good lets hope they can keep it going.

[MrMichael]

What attracted me to TNA in the first place was the pace of the wrestling. Not just the spot-monkey stuff (fun though that is), but the fact that there wasn't 5 minutes of stomps and slaps and overselling for every damn suplex when genuine technical wrestlers were in the ring. Angle v Wolfe and the Joe/AJ/Daniels matches a couple of ppv's ago were the epitome of this style, fast paced, fun, yet still proper wrestling with story and emotion. Hogan and Bischoff were right that TNA needed to improve its production, solidify its storylines, and raise the profile of its biggest players..... however rather than add those things to the product, they seem to have replaced everything that was good before with them.

I like Seamas. He's being over-pushed though. The rest of them, Masters, McIntyre, Rhodes & DiBiase etc are awfully dull.

Oh, and one other random wwe thought from the Rumble: John Morrisson... seriously though, Starship Pain has to be the worst move in wrestling history, he never even comes close to hitting it, it looks ****ing terrible no matter what the camera angle.

[johnly]

Totally agree with the past few posts RE: TNA, Hogan and Bischoff are burying the real players and whilst TV production values have improved the actual product has not. AJ is **** as a heel, he's done it before and didn't get over, plus Flair will never EVER be booed, that combo does not work. Wolfe is awesome, more of him on TV is needed, mostly because he callers everybody ******s and flicks the V's

Raw was top this past week, it seems they may be pushing for HHH/HBK at Mania. looks like Cena/Batista will happen too.

Jericho/Edge will be a worthy main event, but this leaves Taker with no opponent. Who can he have?

Oh and Starship Pain... awful. He needs to take lessons off Evan Bourne on how to hit moves like that

[spud_gun]

Vince. He's on 'roids right?

He's in some shape for a 64 year old

[javier_monsterano]

Did Bret return again after vince kicked him in the nuts -first week of last month?
Could someone post a link up thanks.

[Imy]

Did Bret return again after vince kicked him in the nuts -first week of last month?
Could someone post a link up thanks.

Yep he came back last week on raw and got spat on