The WWE Thread

[karamazov80]

Yeesh, Hardy is a complete mess. And I think that video encapsulates a lot of what is wrong with TNA nowadays.

I was a huge TNA fan a few years ago. They seemed to give me what I really loved about wrestling that the WWE didn't care to give me anymore--good wrestling. Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, etc. brought me back to the mid-late 1990s in WCW, which was a golden period of wrestling in some ways.

But, much like WCW, that started to fall by the way-side in lieu of crap like "reverse battle royals," and just horrible storylines, acting, and production across the board. Then they kept bringing in more and more old geezers past their prime to hog the limelight (shades of WCW again), and now. . .they are barely more professional than an ECW show would have been, circa 1996.

I don't care too much for wrestling nowadays. Particularly since the deaths of Benoit and Guerrero (2 of my top three or four favorite wrestlers going back to the 1990s until their deaths). But if I do, I get a hell of a lot more entertainment from watching CM Punk and John Cena than I do the jumbled, badly paced, often senseless garbage at TNA. And TNA still has the talent, but they aren't used in a way that makes me want to see them. I'll just pay for the DVDs and resort to Ring of Honor if I want to see actual wrestling nowadays.

 

[Grenouille]

What was the average price on that TNA PPv?

$34.95. I feel bad for people that actually paid to see it.

 

[Grenouille]

I'll just pay for the DVDs and resort to Ring of Honor if I want to see actual wrestling nowadays.

If you can stand the language barrier I would recommend All Japan and New Japan stuff from the 90s and early 00s. Plenty of it is on youtube ready to be watched. New Japan even has their own channel with lots of new and old stuff.

 

[karamazov80]

Oh, yeah, I'm plenty familiar with that stuff from back in the 90s when I was a HUGE wrestling geek. Some of my very first ever internet searches was looking for bootleg videos of Japanese wrestling and ways to play Japanese wrestling games on my PS1 and N64. Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Otani, Keiju Mutoh, Kensuke Sasaki, the late, great Mitsuhara Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Furnas and Kroffat, even guys like Vader, Stan Hansen, and Scott Norton played major roles in Japan back in the day. Some of great Benoit/Guerrero/Malenko/Jericho stuff was done in New Japan. And the Dynamite Kid/Tiger Mask stuff from the early 80s holds up as some of the best matches I've seen.

Check out the guy in DK's corner here

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[Natrix]

Oh, yeah, I'm plenty familiar with that stuff from back in the 90s when I was a HUGE wrestling geek. Some of my very first ever internet searches was looking for bootleg videos of Japanese wrestling and ways to play Japanese wrestling games on my PS1 and N64. Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Otani, Keiju Mutoh, Kensuke Sasaki, the late, great Mitsuhara Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Furnas and Kroffat, even guys like Vader, Stan Hansen, and Scott Norton played major roles in Japan back in the day. Some of great Benoit/Guerrero/Malenko/Jericho stuff was done in New Japan. And the Dynamite Kid/Tiger Mask stuff from the early 80s holds up as some of the best matches I've seen.

Check out the guy in DK's corner here

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Right there with you on the PS1 import wrestling games. A lot of those PS1 Yukes games were light years better than the other available games at the time.

 

[Natrix]

TNA used to be about innovation, being the other product that gave viewers something different to watch that WWE wasn't offering or doing. X-Division for example was TNAs big selling point because WWE had disbanded the cruiserweights and toned down high risk spots, TNA gave people fast-paced exciting new matches and won big from it. TNA are now so focused on trying to beat WWE and make to force Vince to regard them as true competition that they have totally forgotton what made them good in the first place, WWE will not regard them as a threat no matter what TNA try to do, its like a child begging for attention and getting none no matter how loud they wail or cry. TNA should ditch the has-beens and people who have had the lime-light and refocus on being a product of individuality again and give people a REAL alternative.

I was a huge TNA fan a few years ago. They seemed to give me what I really loved about wrestling that the WWE didn't care to give me anymore--good wrestling. Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, etc. brought me back to the mid-late 1990s in WCW, which was a golden period of wrestling in some ways.

But, much like WCW, that started to fall by the way-side in lieu of crap like "reverse battle royals," and just horrible storylines, acting, and production across the board. Then they kept bringing in more and more old geezers past their prime to hog the limelight (shades of WCW again), and now. . .they are barely more professional than an ECW show would have been, circa 1996.

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[The Ringer]

at Miz-tory

 

[Balsquat]

at Miz-tory

He looked like a chemo version of the rock last week.

 

[karamazov80]

Dull dull dull. The buildup to Wrestlemania is not doing much for me. Triple H, particularly, bored me to tears. The best guy tonight at generating heat is probably Michael Cole, which is sad.

 

[Balsquat]

KILL that belt already...

 

[karamazov80]

Stupid how they have given so many non-Cena champs the Spinner belt. Just a ____ty looking belt.

 

[Grenouille]

Dull dull dull. The buildup to Wrestlemania is not doing much for me. Triple H, particularly, bored me to tears. The best guy tonight at generating heat is probably Michael Cole, which is sad.

Well, until Cole really turned it on in the last few weeks, the most over person in the company was the wife of a dead wrestler. There are many problems that need fixing.

 

[Grenouille]

Slap a WWE logo on the top and bring this back.

 

[karamazov80]

WWE should have never let Colt Cabana go. Tell me this man shouldn't be headlining Wrestlemania:

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[The Ringer]

I did enjoy seeing Trish Stratus's ass a couple times.

 

[xYx]

I did enjoy seeing Trish Stratus's ass a couple times.

Trish hasn't aged a day.

WWE seems to be taking 1 step forward & 2 steps back.
The Miz is such a weak champion & Cena is still a juggernaut.

Once again, Edge gets screwed by Christion on WM!

 

[N2k-swb]

I wouldnt mind if Edge ends up fueding with Christian, its not like there is any tag team division to dominate is there? its been a good amount of years for this to seem like a fresh idea.
The spinner belt is diabolical, even Cena looks stupid with it since his character hasn't been rapper orientated for years. WWE is so odd they can be creative enough to bring back the Rock in total secret and without sucking, but they cant come up with a decent belt for the Miz?

 

[The Ringer]

That belt just defines Cena though,stupid and gangsta.

 

[Balsquat]

My girlfriend goes to trish stratus' yoga studio and mentioned she had not seen her for awhile. Guess she is giving wrestling another chance. What a hottie. Love that black thong she was wearing during raw.

 

[Natrix]

Trish has been a part of the new Tough Enough reality show that starts airing in a couple weeks so she has probably been away filming that which is also why she is back on TV wrestling recently.