Professional Wrestling

I hope Flair doesn't wrestle. They made such a big thing about him retiring at the last Mania that it would spit in the face of that.

I know many, many people who want Jericho to face Austin. I've seen the Hogan rumour once but I haven't seen the 1 rumour to rule them all:

Jericho v The Rock! In the "storyline" Jericho is trashing old wrestlers who can't fade away, so The Rock defending their honor doesn't really work but I would love to see them "fight" at Mania.

Mostly because I think Rock would let Jericho win and I was a mark for Jericho in the late 1990's.

GD - you know that company (Flair Finance) went broke, right?

Nothing surprising there - Flair has lived the life he always raved about (limo, jets, etc)

I'm surprised you didn't post reports of Flair having a fight with his daughter's boyfriend (the boyfriend whipped Flair's ass) in the parking lot of some hotel. The cops showed up and followed the blood to Flair's room, where the daughter and her boyfriend were sitting with Flair. The cops starting asking questions and the daughter went nuts and got herself arrested!

BTW, Flair has divorced another wife (I've lost count). At one point the man that is apparently the real best of the best was sleeping on his son's couch in some shitty hotel!

I just saw that about Flair Finance on wikipedia.

It makes sense that he might want (need) to get back in "the game".

He's still in the game.

He has been going around holding Q&A sessions at independent shows, having autograph sessions and has just signed on to have multiple appearances with Ring of Honor (if you haven't heard of them look it up)

But old guys like Flair and Hogan live for the roar of the crowd. You have to remember that back in the old days (before everyone knew it was fake and before it went really "mainstream") Flair and Hogan learnt how to "work" the crowd.

They would do a move or sequence and depending on the reaction from that crowd the wrestler would know if he should keep the move/sequence or ditch it. Gradually as you move around the country you build up your move set and you learn how to make the crowd react the way you want them to, when you want them to. That's the art of professional wrestling. And Hogan and Flair to this day can still hold a 20,000 crowd in the palm of their hand with simple gestures and movements!

BTW, that's why wrestling back in the 1980's was so "great". The performers knew all that shit. The next boom in the mid 1990's was so great because not only did you have all these better wrestlers (guys not roided to the max) but they combined the verbal aspect to it.

Now? A bunch of guys that are learning how to work the crowd while on the job and portraying characters assigned to them, reading scripted lines like it's a fucking movie.

I actually flipped on Raw last night. It just didn't feel right for me.

Well, if you stopped watching wrestling 3-5 years ago you would remember Triple H, John Cena, Shawn Michaels, Randy Orton, Edge, Chris Jericho and The Undertaker.

Guess what? Those are the guys that will be in the top matches at Mania!

While the NBA has new stars every season the WWE relies on the same old guard year after year after year.

The ONLY reason anyone knows about Steve Austin or The Rock is because Eric Bischoff signed all of the WWF's talent back in the day and Vince McMahon was forced to change his shit up.

And while Vince Russo isn't the greatest booker that ever wrote for a wrestling company I find it fucking hilarious that "smarks" think he's a complete moron when the WWF Attitude/Get The F Out era was because of him. Granted, he stole a lot from Paul Heymand and ECW but at least he had the brains to do that.

I stopped giving a shit in about 04, so yeah, I definitely know those cats.

And here's something else that hasn't changed: my desire to fuck Vince's daughter doggy style.

Triple H gets do that on the regular, so I think you have No Chance In Hell of getting her.

If it makes you feel any better the rumour is that Randy Savage was her first, which is why he has been black listed by the WWE all the years!

I still watch Raw, but WILL NOT watch Smackdown. IMO, things started going belly up when they split the brands up. It was great when you can see a storyline start on one show, and only have to wait about 3 or so days for it's continuation.

Raw just seems to move at a faster pace, especially when they pile a ton of shit up at the intro, to set up the rest of the show. Smackdown just drags and drags and drags. The whole Vicky and Edge thing is unrealistic and lame, and R Truth doesn't need all of that singing in the stands shit to entertain. In short, the writing on Smackdown sucks.

The problem I've got with TNA is that, like German fashion, it's 20 years behind the curve. It's basically the WWF format from the '80's -- lots of backstage interviews with wrestlers who overact (and can't act), and stupid storylines seemingly designed for people with the IQ of a baseball bat. The announcers would rather promote an upcoming PPV than pay attention to the action inside the ring, talking like they've been injected with pure caffine at the same instant. The crowd is small (by contrast, a packed arena of 15,000 fans, IMO, makes a huge difference if you can work them correctly).

The sad thing about TNA is they currently have the best talent in the industry. If they can drop that idiotic 1985 WWF routine and tour a little, they should pack arenas with ease.

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

Triple H gets do that on the regular, so I think you have No Chance In Hell of getting her.

You have No Chance in Hell of being wrong about that!