*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[Dan]

After seeing this, I'm totally not fantasy booking the **** out of next year.

 

[Shri]

After seeing this, I'm totally not fantasy booking the **** out of next year.

Springboard forearm smash to Sweet Chin Music. Calling the spot now if it happens.

 

[King Pietersen]

What was that? After Goldberg's awesome promo last week, I was expecting a good retort from Heyman, but man did that suck. Never seen a Heyman promo so bad.

 

[duffer]

I can't tell the difference any more. All his promos have been the same for years.

 

[sledger]

Yeah, very samey. Always strikes me as a waste of a Lesnar appearance to fly him in just to stand behind Heyman and do nothing, then leave. At least the match at the end ought to be good/different though. I can't imagine Goldberg is going to allow himself to be thrown around like a rag doll for 15 minutes.

 

[Spikey]

man what the ****. i assumed brock wasn't gonna be here. goldberg absolutely should have been as well then. have some kind of face off or something. ugh

maybe they can start the match off like https://streamable.com/wovg

 

[Dan]

Shibata, ****ing hell.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wtf? I think that's the first time I've ever seen an actual bad Heyman promo. Even if it follows the usual template of "Brock Lesnar the CONQUEROR blah blah blah", his delivery is always on point. He was constantly stumbling over his words here, which never happens.

Anyone wanna bet Vince was in his ear?

 

[duffer]

Oh Jinder. Came back to be used like that.

Heh, hopefully the coin is good.

 

[King Pietersen]

Taker is at the Cavaliers game tonight. Apparently to meet LeBron who was seen wearing a Taker shirt. Looks in good shape. I thought he relied on crutches to get around these days?

https://twitter.com/AdamKilgoreWP/status/791020362637205504

 

[Roaring Elbow]

Nine Legends which came out earlier this year, a wrestling documentary profiling Goldberg, Jericho and Bret Hart now has an "Expansion Pack" commentary track on their website with DDP, Ken Shamrock and a bunch of other people. Trailer here: https://youtu.be/mHu_duOHPl4

 

[Athlai]

Smackdown is just so so much better than Raw. It feels like the Attitude era, not in content but in how everyone is doing something interesting.

 

[sledger]

Haha, I wouldn't describe the Attitude Era like that at all tbh.

Anyway, apparently VKM absolutely hated the Lesnar/Heyman segment yesterday, particularly the way the crowd revolted and started with the Goldberg sucks chants. Totally blew his led and cut the segment short apparently, which might go some way to explaining its urgh-ness.

 

[Athlai]

TBF my "attitude era" experience is from very late 1999, had poor reception on the channel that had WWF so I always just watched WCW as a kid. Made an effort to fix the reception after Jericho switched.

I had strong opinions on pretty much the whole roster back then. Loved Jericho, Kane, The Rock, Too Cool, The Radicalz (Benoit most of all), the Hardy's and Lita, the Dudleys, Undertaker (though significantly less than Kane), Angle, Chyna.
Love-Hate Austin, never MY guy but always entertaining
Hated Edge and Christian. HHH, Big Show, T&A (all 3) and Vince

I just felt almost pretty consistently involved in matches, there weren't a lot of times where it was two guys or two teams wrestling I didn't give a **** about one way or the other.
Smackdown is just full of programs I care about, Miz/Ziggler, Rhyno+Slater, Ambrose/AJ/Cena, Wyatt, Becky, Nikki/Carmella, God I think I'm even coming round to the Hype Bros.
Raw though... It's kind of all just mildly interesting. Only Jericho feels especially entertaining to me. I'm now watching Raw on YouTube and Smackdowns full episode +Talking Smack.

 

[sledger]

Yeah fair enough. I guess it's just easy to forget that much of the attitude era was pervaded by total junk. Take a look at the undercards from the PPVs before the Radicalz showed up. Most of those guys/matches wouldn't even get on Main Event these days. Naked Mideon etc...

 

[honestbharani]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJy5RYWHVA


Around the 35 min mark there, they ask which actor they feel should play their roles in Marvel if they cannot play those roles. Sebtastian Stan picks The Undertaker to be Bucky/Winter Soldier. Evans picks Hulk Hogan to be Cap.

 

[Spikey]

god another ppv? and this one doesn't have Goldberg? ugh

 

[Spikey]

oh cool they had the women headline for the first time and completely ****ed it up by, you know, refusing to admit they were doing it

 

[Athlai]

Yeah thought the women's match was very good. Natural selection after being thrown on a table a couple times didn't quite feel like a good enough finish though. Loved all the chair spots.

 

[sledger]

Pretty good show on the whole. Cell matches are a bit of a tired concept in some ways these days (i.e. they're basically just like any other no DQ match but with a few spots that involve people being thrown against some chain link fence), but the people involved in the matches did a good job of keeping it interesting on this occasion.

Really really like the Jericho/Owens dynamic. Such a great bad guy combination. Too bad I guess they're probably going to break them up sooner rather than later.