Official Pro-Wrestling Thread (WWE, TNA, ROH etc.)

[GIMH]

Yeah, a mate of mine was predicting a TLC of some sorts, but with Jeff & Christian V Edge & Matt

 

[duffer]

Edge v Christian in the ME or nothing for mine. Anything else would be such a letdown.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

At 'Mania? Seriously?

And Y2J-Rourke is a cert IMO. Just showed another promo for it on SD!.

 

[duffer]

Yeah, personal preference I've been up for it ever since I heard he was coming back.

And why you watching SD when there's cricket on?

 

[masterblaster]

I'm thinking now that they don't want to involve Christian with Edge, Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy. With Rourke now going to Wrestlemania, I think it might be one of those deals where Rourke doesn't wrestle, but appoints a representative for him to wrestle.

Rourke could select Christian as his guy. I'm not saying that it's a good way to debut Christian or whether it's the right way to debut Christian, but I have a feeling that they might go in this direction.

 

[alternative]

Also guys whats going on with Randy Orton stuff?

 

[Barney Rubble]

I'm thinking now that they don't want to involve Christian with Edge, Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy. With Rourke now going to Wrestlemania, I think it might be one of those deals where Rourke doesn't wrestle, but appoints a representative for him to wrestle.

Rourke could select Christian as his guy. I'm not saying that it's a good way to debut Christian or whether it's the right way to debut Christian, but I have a feeling that they might go in this direction.

Would hate this more than anything, TBH. It wastes all the work they've done building people's anticipation over the last few months for Christian's return, and it also wastes people's anticipation over seeing Mickey Rourke wrestle.

I do think Rourke will wrestle - the way they've been building it up is that Rourke thinks he could take Jericho in a fight, so I reckon they'll do some sort of Street Fight type thing, which should be fun.

 

[Athlai]

Rourke will wrestle, the guy is fit enough for it. Trained night and day for three months for his role in 'The Wrestler' and he used to be a boxer. The guys tough and dedicated and this is right up his street.

He would also look like a ***** if he chose a representative which is as far away as you can get from the man.

Upon meeting Aronofsky for the film:

"Darren told me they were doing this at a lower budget and they were doing it his way or not at all."

I said okay.

Then he said: "Oh and we're not paying you."

I liked that, showed me that this guy has got some balls.

 

[masterblaster]

Rourke will wrestle, the guy is fit enough for it. Trained night and day for three months for his role in 'The Wrestler' and he used to be a boxer. The guys tough and dedicated and this is right up his street.

He would also look like a ***** if he chose a representative which is as far away as you can get from the man.

Upon meeting Aronofsky for the film:

"Darren told me they were doing this at a lower budget and they were doing it his way or not at all."

I said okay.

Then he said: "Oh and we're not paying you."

I liked that, showed me that this guy has got some balls.

You're right, but wrestling on a big time PPV like Wrestlemania is a completely different thing. In the movie he had the luxury of re-takes and editing. A live PPV doesn't offer that luxury and if you mess up, it's there for all to see.

Chris Jericho's a fantastic wrestler and a brilliant ring general, one of the very best. I'm sure he'll be able to carry Mickey to a decent match without any errors, but to wrestle in front of millions of people worldwide watching live you need more than just three months of wrestling training, you need wrestling experience.

To be honest, I'd hate for WWE to debut Christian this way or to have some other guy wrestle Jericho. Mickey should be the one to do it himself if this angle is to be effective. However, I was just pointing out that performing on the biggest live PPV of the year is a challenging task.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

It is never going to attempt to be a mat classic, though. Rourke has oodles of charisma, and the match would no doubt be booked as an over-the-top, fun cluster**** that the WWE do best.

 

[Athlai]

He isn't going to be a guy who puts on the greatest match in history however he will be a guy who puts on a show.

Micky will try his heart out.

 

[masterblaster]

News just in is that Mickey Rourke will not wrestle at Wrestlemania, but will only be in attendance. Let the speculation begin on who he will appoint to fight for him.

 

[Barney Rubble]

News just in is that Mickey Rourke will not wrestle at Wrestlemania, but will only be in attendance. Let the speculation begin on who he will appoint to fight for him.

I think this is a work, to keep things from affecting Rourke's Oscar hopes. After the Oscars, we'll know a lot more about what's going on.

 

[Athlai]

I don't think this has much to do with the oscars at all and more to do with how the match will be presented at wrestlemania.

Jericho who is one of the finest guys on the mic and brilliant at being a smarmy bastard will call Rourke out (as he will be in attendance). Might even attack him, and Rourke will be 'pushed' into a fight he wasn't 'ready' for. And after a massive match we'll see a Jericho victory (though a respectful win). Rourke will look all the respectful battered underdog and 'real life' will be very similar to the ficitional film.

Thats how I reckon it'll turn out anyway.

 

[masterblaster]

I don't know how accurate these things are but IMDB have recently updated Christian's page and under his filmography it states that he will be participating in Wrestlemania 25.

If this is correct, it looks like he will be returning after No Way Out on Smackdown or there will be vignette's running for him in the weeks leading up to Wrestlemania. They have the opportunity to put him in the MITB match as well if they don't want him involved with the Hardy's or with Rourke and Jericho. Either way, it seems he's signed and heading for Wrestlemania.

 

[Athlai]

IMDB is mostly updated by fans.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I don't think this has much to do with the oscars at all and more to do with how the match will be presented at wrestlemania.

Jericho who is one of the finest guys on the mic and brilliant at being a smarmy bastard will call Rourke out (as he will be in attendance). Might even attack him, and Rourke will be 'pushed' into a fight he wasn't 'ready' for. And after a massive match we'll see a Jericho victory (though a respectful win). Rourke will look all the respectful battered underdog and 'real life' will be very similar to the ficitional film.

Thats how I reckon it'll turn out anyway.

This is pretty similar to what I'd have said too, in terms of the way it'd turn out - except they wouldn't do any kind of physical participation by Rourke unless they were going to promote it heavily going into the event.

As for Christian, it's been pretty much certain that he's re-signed for a while now, and with Edge breaking out a Five-Second Pose on this week's SmackDown, I'd imagine his return is imminent. They're holding out for the right moment which is a good thing, but they need to be careful they book the return correctly. We don't want Edge vs Triple H at 'Mania with Christian just standing in Edge's corner.

Maybe Christian's return will happen at the big dance? There's no bigger place to make your return, and Christian costing Edge the title would not only give a great feud a great start, but would allow Triple H to win at WrestleMania without everyone complaining about how predictable it was.

 

[duffer]

It is never going to attempt to be a mat classic, though. Rourke has oodles of charisma, and the match would no doubt be booked as an over-the-top, fun cluster**** that the WWE do best.

Yeah, agree with this although mb has a point in the importance of actual in-ring live wrestling experience. 90% of matches aren't pre-written so a lot of the stuff the gus do is intuitive based on the crowd amongst other things. I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be wrestling someone who hasn't done anything like that in such a high intensity environment.

That said, I've seen Hogan do barely anything apart from his three moves and have the crowd lap up every second of it. Whether Rourke has that same kind of in ring charisma (though he has incredible screen presence) is yet to be seen.

Either way he will draw big money for them which would make it worth having a shot.

 

[masterblaster]

An incident has occurred with Chris Jericho and some fans after he was leaving a house show in Canada. Apparently some marks started pushing him and shoving him as he was making his way out of the arena, one guy charged at him which caused him to defend himself.

A girl was also pushed at Jericho as he was trying to get into his car causing him to react aggressively. The video link is below and I don't think that Jericho was in the wrong. These mark fans went too far and should've given Chris the privacy and respect to leave the arena. Security didn't do a good job either.

I hope he doesn't get a suspension or encounter any legal trouble regarding this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbnPUegD9f4&feature=channel_page

 

[duffer]

Wow, there are some mongs out there. Reminds me of the time a redneck attacked Daivari and his mom while they were shopping. Bloody hell people take this stuff too seriously.