Professional Wrestling (WWE, TNA, ROH, etc)

[koberulz]

Unifying the title at WrestleMania seems far more likely, if they're going to do it at all.

[JaoSming]

SHIT, unification match spoilerz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNV9t-JjTw

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[koberulz]

Who's Bad News Barrett, what happened to his identical twin brother Wade, and did Wade take Mark Henry's hair with him when he left?

[deihatein]

Evidently not; he was in a nothing eight-man tg. You should probably leave the recapping to people who actually watch the shows.

That is my recap, I actually haven't been watching anything other than TNA and random clips of Raw, figures right?

And how on earth did the Bellas win?

They have a reality show about the Divas which I've heard is doing well rating wise. You know the WWE have an agenda against the people the crowd really wants so, yeah.

[JaoSming]

welp, they did it, now be haunted

[Andrew]

Clean finish and a unified champion. Hats off to them for that.

[agolden]

welp, they did it, now be haunted

more:

[deihatein]

Lol they botched the screen you see when there is a new champion. "WWE World Heavyweigh Champion"

[[Q]]

lol yeah i noticed that. they took it off real quick

and pretty sure they botched the finish too. looks like cena was supposed to go through the table, not fall short and hit his head. you could hear cena talking to orton a few times during the match which took away from it, but decent match overall.

[Andrew]

Thankfully, they didn't pull an unnecessary swerve on RAW and declare the result void or anything of that nature. Seems like it'll be Orton and Bryan again; if so, Bryan ultimately needs to go over and look like he's got a chance during the feud. Meanwhile, looks like Punk might be playing an Austin-type role, going up against The Authority.

[koberulz]

By far the biggest loser in this angle is Chris Jericho.

[shadowgrin]

This.

By far the biggest loser in this angle is Chris Jericho.

[Smokratez]

Stopped watching raw about 3 weeks ago because of the obnoxious authority. Will get back into it as soon as people whose judgement I trust tell me it doesn't suck anymore.

[Lean]

Seems like TLC is a decent PPV. Gonna go watch it this weekend.

Hopefully Bryan wins at the Royal Rumble. And for some reason I hope Shawn Michaels return for one more WM match with CM Punk.

Also out of impulse yesterday, I bought this:



...can't find the Elite Series 1 Undertaker figure which sports his Western Mortician deadman look before shaving his head.

[koberulz]

So, I lost. Meh, no big deal. It's just wrestling! Who cares? Give Daniel Bryan a title shot!

So...Orton, Cena, Bryan, and the title all just took a massive credibility dive. Who writes this shit?

I can't imagine we're that far away from a new title belt. Less than a year after the current one was introduced.



EDIT:

Who cares about the match going on right now? Let's take photos!

[shadowgrin]

Haven't you seen Obama during Mandela's memorial service?

[koberulz]

I'm quite aware of what they were mocking. That doesn't make it acceptable.

Punk and Michaels just saved the show.

[shadowgrin]

That doesn't make it acceptable.

Why?

[JaoSming]

Been really enjoying TNA yet again. No idea how long this stint will last, but F it.

[koberulz]

Finally got around to watching Payback. Don't understand how Punk-Jericho is included in the MOTY conversation. I thought it was terrible. Punk was clearly out of shape, and seemed to blow up fairly early. If it was a work, it was done horribly. There was a lot of lying around by both guys for no reason, which made the pace horrendously slow, and not in a way that worked. **

The IC triple threat, particularly looking back now, could hardly have had three worse guys in it. I had no idea who the champion was even after his music started, as Barrett never managed to get a televised introduction, Axel is terrible, and Miz is just boring. The figure-four doesn't suit him in the slightest, and I can't understand why they thought to give him that gimmick. Perceptions around the three guys involved may have been different at the time, though, so it's a bit hard to analyse from that perspective now. Tremendous finish, which managed to get all four guys (including Heyman) over, so from that point of view it did its job. **½

Ugh, the Kaitlyn crying gimmick. Maybe there's a woman out there who could pull it off, but Kaitlyn isn't her. She makes way more sense as a tough asskicker. AJ was AJ, but it's a divas match, so it's tough to really care. **¼

Kane-Ambrose...was there. Honestly, I'd forgotten it happened until I was reading the results to compile this. It was pretty much there to serve the angle breaking up Team Hell No by giving Kane that shot and forcing Orton and Bryan to team. Did its job, in that it happened, but the PPV bit was actually entirely pointless, with everything this match was for playing out on TV. NR

Ziggler-Del Rio was just tremendous. Everyone did their job absolutely perfectly. Ziggler sold the concussion like a motherfucker, AJ looked so concerned for his safety I actually started believing what I was watching, and Del Rio did a tremendous job of beating the shit out of him while occasionally looking at the fans with an expression on his face that was clearly "what are you booing me for?" Terrible booking, and one does wonder how long Ziggler may have held the strap if it weren't for that concussion, but everyone involved went out there and put that match over. Essentially a glorified squash, though, so it rates lower than it perhaps should. ***½

Orton is an upgrade on Kane, particularly with the faster pace worked by the Shield and Daniel Bryan, and the other three had a history of fantastic matches, so I was expecting more from this. Crowd struggled to care early, coming down from Punk-Jericho, which hurt it a bit. Not the best Shield/Bryan contest, but far from bad. ***

I'm torn on the Three Stages of Hell. On the one hand, lumberjack matches are terrible ("we're heels! Let's beat up the face for no reason other than that we're heels!"), as are ambulance matches, so I'm tempted to go with zero stars, particularly given the use of the world's most blatant break-apart ambulance. Cena ripped off the light bar completely, and the lights kept flashing. Ryback going through the roof was just the icing on the cake-soft vehicle. The tables component was pretty much the match they did in Perth. The table spots were identical, at least. On the other hand, Cena diving to the outside deserves five stars. I'll split the difference. **½




So that said, my ratings for all the MOTY contenders I know of (minus Punk-Cena from Raw, which I haven't seen yet):
Punk-Taker: ***
Punk-Jericho: **
Zayn-Cesaro: ***¾
Punk-Brock: ****½
Cena-Bryan: ****½

Punk-Brock edges Cena-Bryan on audible spots.

[JaoSming]

go watch Punk Cena from Raw, like, nao.

[[Q]]

this weeks raw?

[JaoSming]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV33xl6kf70

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[koberulz]

go watch Punk Cena from Raw, like, nao.

I'll watch it when the 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray gets here. Should only be a week or two.

[Lean]

Yeah I think that match is included in that DVD. Fantastic match. A sitout powerbomb from and a hurricanrana from Cena! A piledriver from Punk! Guess the only takeaways from this match is that you can see them talking to each other while being in a hold, and that you'll know from the start that Cena's gonna win anyways. But still a good match.


Y2J vs RVD at a Raw is a good one too.