Professional Wrestling

[Timone]

Shaq would actually get me watching WWE again.

[Pharaoh]

Jarrett put himself into the spotlight for a long time in TNA because he was the only big name talent. Angle's olympic wrestling may be legit but he doesn't use much of it in the ring. Sorry, the angle slam and the "ankle lock" are far from legit olympic wrestling moves. His ankle lock isn't even real! And he fucking whines and complains about everything in real life. He's part of the reason they lost Christian, the most over guy in the history of that company! If anyone has been built up to be invinceable, it's Kurt. Jarrett actually loses matches......

They lost Christian because Vince offered him a Mania match v Jeff Hardy and a reunion with Edge on Smackdown.

Remember that whole storyline where Hardy was getting attacked? They ended up changing it to Matt Hardy cause everyone knew it was gonna be Christian that cost Jeff the title at the Rumble v Edge.

I;m sure Christian loved not getting that mega payday from his Hardy match!

Also TNA had basically blown their load with him anyway. 2 title runs, battles against all the top guys and they had already used him as a face and heel. He didn't have anything left to do in TNA.

[DennyMcLain]

Just watched the Smackdown main event on YouTube, which will air tonight.

Hardy v. Morrison. Great ending. Of course, Punk enters the ring afterwards, pretends to be complimentary, then bashes Hardy to oblivion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLB2-...eature=channel

[kdawg32086]

They teased a DX reunion with "HBK" apparently turning it down on the phone. Someone is going to end up helping out HHH against the legacy douchebags. I just don't know who.

[Darth Thanatos]

It's gonna be HBK.

[kdawg32086]

I think thats what they wanted us to think. Because they teased HBK. I'm sensing a swerve.....

[DennyMcLain]

HBK has to come back sometime, and HHH needs an ally.

[Pharaoh]

That line about "I know you don't do jobs" is an inside reference for HBK due to the fact that when he was in his prime he refused to "put over" many guys and used his political pull more than even "smart" fans will ever really know.

2 most famous situations of HBK refusing to "do the job"?

When he handed the Intercontinental title over instead of losing to (Shane) Dean Douglas at an In Your House ppv event many, many years ago. HBK claimed he lost his smile or some shit.

Douglas didn't even get to be Champ though, because Shawn's backstage buddy Razor Ramon then came out and beat Douglas for the title.

Second and most famous: when HBK injured his back at the Royal Rumble one year he was gonna pull out of WrestleMania to avoid losing the title to Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Undertaker threatened to punch his lights out if Shawn didn't do Mania so WWE kept HBK off all house shows and let him work a light tv schedule until he did the job to Austin at Mania... after which HBK retired for many years.

Oh, and that line is even funnier if you know that right now HBK is actually helping his wife run her restaurant! He's doing a lot of jobs now lol

[Pharaoh]

Oh, if you didn't know: THE Brian Kendrick got released.

Apparently the guy failed 13 tests in his WWE career - all for smoking pot!

Even wth HHH, HBK and Pat Patterson (and probably Michael Hayes, since his "push" started on Smackdown) pulling for him he just couldn't kick his habit.

How the fuck does he fail 13 drug tests and never get suspended? Simple... the "Wellness" policy stuff tests for heaps of stuff but you only get fined $1000 if you test positive for dope!!!

So Kendrick kept smoking and eventually, despite having powerful allies he got dumped.

This could be an attempt to send a message to the remaining dope smokers though - if a guy ike Kendrick (with his record of failed tests) can be dumped then what's stopping WWE from dumping someone with less powerful allies and with no distinct gimmick?

Personally I like this move for the remaining wrestling companies. Kendrick can work a fine match and can cut a decent promo and now he's available. So is his former tag team partner Paul London - who wasn't shy about trashing Kendrick when he was realesed months ago.

Bring the both of them in and you have a ready made feud in a company like ROH, where 99% of their fans are "smarks" and know all about their history, the bad blood and stuff.

Or, if they're willing to be smart businessmen they could put their differences aside and restart their tag team. Everyone knows they're a fine team and that tag team wrestling is popular in every company except WWE

[Pharaoh]

Now on to TNA stuff.

Go check out youtube and search for "TNA Riot" - the last episode of Impact had a massive brawl with a ton of wrestlers and if you missed the episode the brawl is fucking amazing to watch. More entertaining than anything on Raw.

If you happened to watch the entire episode of Impact you'll know that the whole thing was set up really well through the interview segment to start the show (World Elite and Main Event Mafia unite) and was totally logical from a storyline point of view.

At this point the newsletters are claiming that Jim Cornette was involved heavily with creating the "riot" and I think the word is being spread simply to trash Vince Russo.

With Dutch Mantel and Jeff Jarrett not involved in creative (Fuck Yeah!) Russo is in charge and is unchecked - which isn't really a good thing.

Savio Vega (a road agent) was let go (can't remember if I posted that or not yet) too since he was tight with Jarrett!!

The shit is hitting the fan backstage in TNA and if the last Impact episode is anything to go by then business is about to pick up.

Apparently TNA's creative team (Russo and who? Cornette? Terry Taylor? Tenay? Borash?) chose to build up 3 stars this month. Hernandez, which is a fine choice IMO and while he has flaws the dude could be a gold mine. Matt Morgan - again he has flaws but he could be huge. And Bobby Lashley - WTF? Dude is a part time wrestler and part time MMA fighter. Pick a full time member of the roster...

Anyway, TNA has done a damn fine job building those 3 and pushing Eric Young. It's no secret Sting is on his way out (contract expires and he's wealthy enough to walk away) and that Steiner, Booker and Nash can't last forever. We all know it's about time TNA built some stars and it appears they're moving that way... which is what Russo likes to do.

It won't be long before the Motor City Machine Guns are right in the thick of things either, since they were involved in the riot (who wasn't?) and apparently Russo is a mark for them.

Oh, and in other TNA news they signed Elijah Burke. He's gonna debut at Hard Justice ppv as the Black Pope - his own gimmick.

And finally TNA are in deep shit for taking the IWGP tag titles off Team 3D and putting them on the British dudes. The tables match ended when the distracted ref turned and saw Devon was lying on a shattered table and despite not seeing Devon go through the table the ref awarded the belts to Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams.

The New Japan company (their belts are IWGP, not New Japan? WTF?) is pissed because:

1) TNA did not consult them on the title change
2) Doug Williams actually wrestles for Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan (in other words - the fucking competition)
3) The match ending was shithouse.

Way to go TNA - actually it was probably Russo's idea...

Same old Russo - some great stuff, some decent stuff, some idiot stuff.