The Wrestling Thread

[Imy]

Otunga's pretty decent on the mic, crap wrestler good talker and ripped - he'll do well then like Cena

[Gingawaria]

Daniels appeared in ROH the other night.

He's been released!

It's amazing that Scott Hall is employed and they've released one of the most talented members of their roster?!!?

[johnly]

He's been released!

It's amazing that Scott Hall is employed and they've released one of the most talented members of their roster?!!?

I think some going to start jumping from the TNA ship fast. Daniels is an awesome wrestler, not sure if he's a WWE fit so ROH is damn good for him, but as you said Scott 'Razor Ruddock' Hall gets a gig and he doesn't. Something is wrong there

[MrShawnMichaels]

Is about right. Last week Impact had more wrestling than raw and smackdown combined Shame most of it was only average,

Wolfe - Dinero again this week, I guess they could be putting over a long-term feud between the two. If AJ drops to him. i hate the Flair gimick so I hope he does.

Angle - Anderson was overdone early with all the troops/patriotism sht so yeah, now it is dull. Anderson's promos are gold through. Lockdown's looking decent.

Daniels appeared in ROH the other night.

As for the "E", yeah, Jack Swagger? Really? He's decent in the ring, but does anyone really care? Ok so he doesn't get Drew McIntyre reactions... ie none, but still. After their odd booking with Seumas I'm not sure how likely they are go get this puch right, but we'll see.

Otunga guest hosting Raw? Seriously, did I read that right?

TNA really dropped the ball on Daniels. His Fallen Angel gimmick was one of the best things on TNA before he became 'Daniels'. I'm hearing Brutus Beefcake is joining TNA

Swagger as mentioned was booked really badly before winning the Money in the Bank and WWE have sort of realised they need to start creating new top carders. I like the idea of Swagger but it's a bit too soon, McIntyre would have been perfect but I think word got out that he would win MiTB and WWE wanted to try something different I guess.

Having watched NXT, I realised the top four guys are probably the only four guys who will end up with a contract at the end of this. Bryan, Gabriel, Barrett and Slater have something distinctively different compared to Sheffield, Young, Otunga and Tarver.

[MrShawnMichaels]

Btw, did anyone care about Cryme Tyme breaking up? And out of all tag teams to break up, they broke up a genuine tag team. They didn't break up Morrison and Truth who lack any sort of cohesion and character which sucks.

[MrMichael]

He's been released!

It's amazing that Scott Hall is employed and they've released one of the most talented members of their roster?!!?

Absolutely. I know they think the nwo/band can still draw, but they're wrong.

I think some going to start jumping from the TNA ship fast. Daniels is an awesome wrestler, not sure if he's a WWE fit so ROH is damn good for him, but as you said Scott 'Razor Ruddock' Hall gets a gig and he doesn't. Something is wrong there

Never a wwe fit.

TNA really dropped the ball on Daniels. His Fallen Angel gimmick was one of the best things on TNA before he became 'Daniels'. I'm hearing Brutus Beefcake is joining TNA

Oh god

Other TNA departures - Consequences Creed, and apparently Rhyno, Raven and Stevie Richards.

Btw, did anyone care about Cryme Tyme breaking up? And out of all tag teams to break up, they broke up a genuine tag team. They didn't break up Morrison and Truth who lack any sort of cohesion and character which sucks.

WWE should just drop tag-team wrestling entirely if this is how its gonna be in future, that whole division and the "unified belts" are just a joke. Are the Harts their only genuine tag-team left?

[MrMichael]

Well, nobody's said it yet so I will, Impact was a car crash on Monday. Some decent wrestling but the show was all over the place and some horrible booking just compounded the problem. What ya gonna do when Vince Russo runs wild on you? Fail, that's what.

Several decent matches, RVD v James Storm and mainly Kennedy v Angle in a ladder match, this was really quite good and reignighted interest in their feud for me. Angle's moonsault was awesome....



Matt Morgan referring to himself as "we" was funny, and Doug Williams is a brilliant X-division heel, his match with Generation Me was ok (Chaos theory is my favourite move in wrestling right now) even if Shannon Moore running in at the end was just poor. That guy is pretty lame. 3D v MCMG was decent until it got ruined by the Band, ffs TNA, enough with the run-ins, especially from that bunch. Oh, and there was no Bischoff on the show, which is a plus.

HOWEVER..... Rob Terry (now aka the "Freak") is getting the Goldberg push it seems after destroying Homicide in a squash during which he no-sold everything. Homicide made him look great actually, whole thing would have been a fail anyway if not for Terry taking an unprotected headshot and shaking it off, he looked badass with the blood (which I think was genuine for once rather than a blade job) trickling down his forehead afterwards. So this wouldn't have been too bad had Orlando Jordan not then appeared covering himself in lotion/spunk. Just really really bizarre, I know controversy apparently creates cash but this angle will just create channel changing. They need to stop that right now.

If you haven't seen it, second half of this is the Terry-Homicide match, chair shot around 9 mins in, followed straight after by the OJ lunacy...

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Otherwise, the opening blew, seriously though, Abyss & Hogan promos suck. Hot wheels Flair can't even save those segments. Pope v Wolfe again was far too short, right result but those 2 could actually put on a really good match if they had more than 2 minutes. Pope debuted a new finisher, its a Codebreaker but boy did Wolfe sell it well, looked very smart.

Oh, and as for what they did with the Knockouts, giving away a title belt in a deal-or-no-deal style segment was just pathetic, whole thing was a total mess. Great job guys, you had a women's division that actually stood out from your competition, proper wrestlers putting on decent matches.... and now you're giving away the title in a box and having striptease stipulations. Superb

[MrShawnMichaels]

Boy where do I start?

RAW sucked. Swagger needs as much help as possible and he gets pinned clean against Orton. David Otunga in the main event. DAVID ****ING OTUNGA. A man who can't even run the ropes properly in the main event. Cena in three segments of the show. This show really sucked and got me angry.

Impact blew. Why have a ladder match with Kurt 'ten broken necks' Angle vs Mr 'Injury Prone' Anderson. A main event where a title is one in a box and Daffney not performing the striptease. Rob Terry taking a really dangerous chair shot to the head. This show has been consistent with the rest of the ****. SUCKED.

NXT. Where do I start? A KEG CARRYING CONTEST. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?! The lack of Pros didn't help this show at all.

[greystoneslfc]

Boy where do I start?

RAW sucked. Swagger needs as much help as possible and he gets pinned clean against Orton. David Otunga in the main event. DAVID ****ING OTUNGA. A man who can't even run the ropes properly in the main event. Cena in three segments of the show. This show really sucked and got me angry.

Impact blew. Why have a ladder match with Kurt 'ten broken necks' Angle vs Mr 'Injury Prone' Anderson. A main event where a title is one in a box and Daffney not performing the striptease. Rob Terry taking a really dangerous chair shot to the head. This show has been consistent with the rest of the ****. SUCKED.

NXT. Where do I start? A KEG CARRYING CONTEST. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?! The lack of Pros didn't help this show at all.

Take it you're not happy this week then?

[Leyton388]

Im just getting back into WWE after about 6 or so years not watching it and it is getting better. Glad to see Bret hart back in some capacity as the WWE have missed people like him.

The only thing that pisses me off is that there are so many bloody titles now! What ever happened to just the one WWE champion.

Now we have Cena as the WWE champion and that Swagger as the world heavyweight champion? WTF is wrong with that picture

Nice to see the million dollar belt back though

Nice to see some legends on raw as well such as the million dollar man, Roddy piper and SGT slaughter.

[MrShawnMichaels]

Smackdown was meh.

[Gingawaria]

Just got back from the Smackdown show at the MEN, was a great night, topped off by Bret Hart turning up at the end to be the special enforcer at the main event, the roof nearly came off the place!

[greystoneslfc]

Just got back from the Smackdown show at the MEN, was a great night, topped off by Bret Hart turning up at the end to be the special enforcer at the main event, the roof nearly came off the place!

Who was on the card?

[Bender]

Who was on the card?

Aces and spades i think

[MrShawnMichaels]

Raw was solid booking towards Extreme Rules. The Hoff was so awesome, he should be on every week. He even booked matches which made sense, more so than the TNA writers

Impact was a disaster, Kazarian and Shannon Moore had a good match but Abyss being run over and a flamethrower (which wasn't even aired) simply doesn't cut it for me. TNA is not a wrestling show, it's a really bad TV show.

NXT was ok. Wade Barrett got a huge pop as did William Regal - WWE was in the o2 arena