*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[Pratters]

Okay.. I am all for top drawer wrestlers having more matches, I am just concerned more than any thing.

 

[Teja.]

AJ is arguably the best in the world in the ring. He's Rollins level imo. I'm a huge Y2J fan but the reason AJ's matches have just been 'good' as opposed to outstanding is due to Jericho not exactly being in his prime. It's also hard to have great matches when you're wrestling a guy 4 times in 6 weeks or w/e they did unless you have insane chemistry. The match they had on smackdown was still amazing imo and the best non-PPV main event in ages.

 

[Athlai]

AJ is arguably the best in the world in the ring. He's Rollins level imo. I'm a huge Y2J fan but the reason AJ's matches have just been 'good' as opposed to outstanding is due to Jericho not exactly being in his prime. It's also hard to have great matches when you're wrestling a guy 4 times in 6 weeks or w/e they did unless you have insane chemistry. The match they had on smackdown was still amazing imo and the best non-PPV main event in ages.

Yeah Y2J and AJ have had some great matches, and some good matches. It's unfortunate that the WM match wasn't one of the better ones.

 

[Dan]

Pratters, who do you think is the best worker in the biz? Not as an attempt to belittle you, but different people have different concepts of what 'good working' is.

 

[Athlai]

Main Roster

Storyteller: John Ceeeeeeeeena or HHH if we're including part timers
Technical: AJ Styles
Consistent (week in week out, not just PPV): Cesaro
Overall: Seth Rollins


NXT

Storyteller: Samoa Joe
Technical: Chad Gable
Consistent (week in week out, not just PPV): Chad Gable
Overall: Samoa Joe

in the Shinsuke era?

Shinsuke all the way down.

 

[Dan]

Styles, to me, sits in the category where he's extremely good in all categories, but not the elite standout in any of them. Maybe he's the standout in technical wrestling now that we're post-Bryan, but IMO he's still not elite when it comes to hold-for-hold wrestling.

Rank him out of 10 in each category and add them together, though, and he's going to come up ahead of anyone else's total. Maybe Rollins excluded, if we include promos.

 

[Spikey]

The boos reminded me of what Hassan used to get. Nuclear ****. Really intrigued on how they're gonna work this. As I said earlier, the sadist in me is loving this.

at the very start of Raw, Vince, via the mouths of Cole, JBL and the other guy, went on a big speech about how the fans are gonna be crazy tonight and they're gonna boo things they usually cheer, and cheer things they usually boo, but it's ok because they're having fun. it was very sad.

edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2BJBFYZlk

lol

 

[Athlai]

Styles, to me, sits in the category where he's extremely good in all categories, but not the elite standout in any of them. Maybe he's the standout in technical wrestling now that we're post-Bryan, but IMO he's still not elite when it comes to hold-for-hold wrestling.

Rank him out of 10 in each category and add them together, though, and he's going to come up ahead of anyone else's total. Maybe Rollins excluded, if we include promos.

I think Styles combines just enough high flying, striking and mat wrestling that he just about edges out the technical category. Styles is pretty good at everything which gives him the tick from me on a technical level.

 

[SkyBlue]

Anyone else think Stephanie needs some time off TV ?

I dont know,not only she's getting extremely boring with the same promos each week but she's also imo diminishing HHH's 'role' if you can call it with her presence.She's basically making him look like a scrub.

That Punk promo comes to mind when he says HHH carries Stephanie's bags and it exactly looks like it everytime i see an Authority segment these days.
That cringeworthy speech at Mania just topped it off.

 

[Athlai]

Sounds like we'll get a Ambrose vs. Y2J feud. Thats kinda cool actually. Have no idea what they're doing with the IC and US belts, Kalisto's little momentum he had was lost when he stopped feuding with ADR and I can't see The Miz vs. Zach Ryder being seen as a long term money feud.

 

[Mike5181]

I'd probably still have Tanahashi as the best worker in the world, although he is getting on a bit.

 

[duffer]

at the very start of Raw, Vince, via the mouths of Cole, JBL and the other guy, went on a big speech about how the fans are gonna be crazy tonight and they're gonna boo things they usually cheer, and cheer things they usually boo, but it's ok because they're having fun. it was very sad.

edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2BJBFYZlk

lol

Heh.

 

[Athlai]

I'd probably still have Tanahashi as the best worker in the world, although he is getting on a bit.

Talking WWE though, so we don't have to see Spikey post about ZSJ

 

[duffer]

Anyone else think Stephanie needs some time off TV ?

I dont know,not only she's getting extremely boring with the same promos each week but she's also imo diminishing HHH's 'role' if you can call it with her presence.She's basically making him look like a scrub.

That Punk promo comes to mind when he says HHH carries Stephanie's bags and it exactly looks like it everytime i see an Authority segment these days.
That cringeworthy speech at Mania just topped it off.

Yes, this whole Authority era is becoming stale as **** like you said. The other thing she does is emasculate every male on the roster she comes across. It's beyond cringe right now. She needs to vanish for a while.

 

[Athlai]

Yes, this whole Authority era is becoming stale as **** like you said. The other thing she does is emasculate every male on the roster she comes across. It's beyond cringe right now. She needs to vanish for a while.

I''ll defend her a little bit, thought her work in the last 3 months or so was top notch and she has been probably one of the best heel promos for a little while. But yeah, Authority needs to go.

 

[Jono]

Yes, this whole Authority era is becoming stale as **** like you said. The other thing she does is emasculate every male on the roster she comes across. It's beyond cringe right now.

Solomonster (y)

 

[Spikey]

i assume hhh has gotta be turning face sometime soon anyway

and if you still want a heel GM sort of thing, you can 'promote' Cole and put Mauro on commentary!

 

[Athlai]

i assume hhh has gotta be turning face sometime soon anyway

and if you still want a heel GM sort of thing, you can 'promote' Cole and put Mauro on commentary!

I'd love that, I think Cole would kill it and obviously Mauro rocks.

 

[indiaholic]

And worrying about Roman vs AJ being a burial is stupid. He has had just a couple of months in the wwe and has had only one feud but now is being elevated to the whc scene. This is pretty much the biggest opportunity in his career. Losing to a guy who kayfabe is amongst the top 3 strongest wrestlers on the roster is hardly a burial.

 

[Athlai]

The only way AJ vs Roman sucks is if Reigns wrestles as an underdog and they don't seem to be heading that way.