The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Balloon Sod]

Sin Cara has been suspended for violating the Wellness Policy. His WWE career is off to a cracking start.

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/smackdown/sin-cara/sin-cara-suspended

[Lonestar]

Sin Cara has been suspended

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/smackdown ... -suspended

STAMFORD, Conn. – In accordance with its Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended Luis Ignascio Urive Alvirde (Sin Cara) for 30 days for his first violation of the company’s policy.

[KK]

That explains one of the injury angles last night, then. Wonder what Show's broken ankle/foot - again - was all about. Another Wellness failure or upcoming surgery? Or just nothing at all...

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Sin Cara has been suspended

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/smackdown ... -suspended

STAMFORD, Conn. – In accordance with its Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended Luis Ignascio Urive Alvirde (Sin Cara) for 30 days for his first violation of the company’s policy.

Wow, if he doesn't leave then that will set his wwe career back a year or so. Annoying thing about these press releases is that you never known what they actually did to violate the policy.

[sw26]

Maybe that's the explanation for the constant botching...

[Balloon Sod]

Maybe that's the explanation for the constant botching...

He has plastic feet because he's a krokodil addict. Goodnight beautiful antman

I like Sin Cara, but at the end of the day he's a Christmas decoration that can complicate an arm drag.

[Ginga]

The first few weeks I really looked forward to seeing Sin Cara but he's been shite. MITB should have been a spotfest for him but I've seen DDP pull off more impressive high-flying action.

[KK]

I hope the WWE don't start panicking if the ratings are gooseberry fool again tonight. RAW didn't just suddenly overturn Nitro overnight. In September of 1997, Austin went around stunning everybody & the ratings remained in the 2's. The first time Steve Austin stunned Vince McMahon, the show did a 2.4. The following week, it only went up 0.3. It took until December 1997 for the show to consistently be doing a 3, & until the middle of April 1998 to beat Nitro, & then of course the pace really started picking up.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

I hope the WWE don't start panicking if the ratings are gooseberry fool again tonight. RAW didn't just suddenly overturn Nitro overnight. In September of 1997, Austin went around stunning everybody & the ratings remained in the 2's. The first time Steve Austin stunned Vince McMahon, the show did a 2.4. The following week, it only went up 0.3. It took until December 1997 for the show to consistently be doing a 3, & until the middle of April 1998 to beat Nitro, & then of course the pace really started picking up.

This is my worry too.

[Pontius Pilate]

The first few weeks I really looked forward to seeing Sin Cara but he's been shite. MITB should have been a spotfest for him but I've seen DDP pull off more impressive high-flying action.

Dunno why that made me laugh so much.

[tomvek]

It will be interesting to see what the buy rates are like for MITB.

[Mockmaster]

The Sin Cara suspension does make me wonder whether original plans were for him to win it.

[sw26]

I like Sin Cara, but at the end of the day he's a Christmas decoration that can complicate an arm drag.

[sw26]

So chances are one of the results of this angle may be a new belt, so what do you want to see?

As much as I'm a well publicised mark for the Attitude era WWF Championship, I wouldn't mind a return to a design along the lines of the Undisputed/Pre-spinner WWE title:

[Chocolate Jim]

The RAW MITB was a complete disaster last night - I really didn't enjoy it.
Everyone in there just felt dangerous .. like there was going to be an injury coming any minute. It just felt like it was just a set of stunts rather than an actual match that had a story and some flow to it like the smackdown one.

One guy who deserves a heck of alot of cred for his performance last night was Cody Rhodes. He was fantastic and really held gooseberry fool together at some points. Wade Barrett and Gabriel were similarly impressive I thought. For the first time Barrett's wasteland looked half decent when he launched Gabriel on to Slater on the outside. Sheamus was another stand out performer with his demolition of Drug Cara. I know people are going to disagree with me but I thought the Smackdown MITB was fives the match that the RAW one was.

....a few moot points from the RAW one for people to stew over .... WTF happened to half the people in the match at the end ... where was Alex Reiley? Evan Bourne? when Rey and ADR were on the ladders for half an hour?

[tomvek]

I really loved the look of that belt. It'd be great if they designed a new one along those lines rather than the new tag team or spinner belt.

[Mockmaster]

I'd be quite happy to see an absolutely brand new design for a new era. As long as it doesn't spin.

[KK]

I think it's about time they changed the entire WWE logo. New era, & all that.

[Skippy]

Listening to LAW's review of the PPV. Saying Punk/Cena was about a 3 star match minus the atmosphere is just bollocks, they wrestled a great story in there. It's a 4 star match at least and the atmosphere only adds to that.

[Ginga]

Listening to LAW's review of the PPV. Saying Punk/Cena was about a 3 star match minus the atmosphere is just bollocks, they wrestled a great story in there. It's a 4 star match at least and the atmosphere only adds to that.

Opinions, everyone's got one.