The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Jam-Master Jay]

I think Sky Sports must have missed a segment on RAW, because I have ZERO recollection of Alex Riley & Chris Jericho spying on CM Punk drinking.

I remember on the Live IMPACT WRESTLING shows they would take a commercial, come back about a minute later with a 30 second segment & then go back to commercial. Perhaps this is what happened here?

Jesus strawberry floating Christ.

I give up.

[A J Styles]

I think Sky Sports must have missed a segment on RAW, because I have ZERO recollection of Alex Riley & Chris Jericho spying on CM Punk drinking.

I remember on the Live IMPACT WRESTLING shows they would take a commercial, come back about a minute later with a 30 second segment & then go back to commercial. Perhaps this is what happened here?

You're right I had to watch an American youtube version of the show to see it, I have no idea why A-Ry was wearing a suit or why he was the only person in the dressing room.

[Jeffrey]

SD

sounds ok although you never know how these taped shows are gonna play out.

On RAW, i would assume that Otunga didn't come out with Johnny as it wouldn't have made sense for him to agree to Lesner's terms if Otunga was there as surely his character would have advised Johnny against it.

http://www.wrestlingnewsworld.com/david ... er-hudson/

[Jeffrey]

Bonus Bellas:

[Jam-Master Jay]

Awesome selling by Beth there. Female HBK.

Also, god damn the Bellas are fine!

[Jeffrey]

WWE SmackDown Tapings

Antonio Cesaro, in a tryout match arranged by John Laurinaitis, defeated Tyson Kidd.

[Jeffrey]

Buff Bagwell is in intensive care after a serious car accident:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/25/wr ... r-accident

Hope he's OK.

[Slimgrady]

Why is wrestling nowehere near as popular as it used to be? I would of thought this PG era would make it even more popular, because they have a larger market to sell to. It can't just be quality.

I dunno if "nowhere near as popular" is too accurate.We're just coming off the back of the most successful Wrestlemania ever after all!I know rating arent as high as they used to be but I think a large part of that is town to DVR/tivo/sky+,downloading and people watching what they want on youtube etc.Im not saying its as popular or as good(nowhere near in fact!) as it was in the 90s but the WWE are hadrly in the gooseberry fool.

[Jam-Master Jay]

Buff Bagwell is in intensive care after a serious car accident:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/25/wr ... r-accident

Hope he recovers. Was always a fan of Buff Daddy.

[Drumstick]

BUFF DADDY! Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Slowly making my way through Raw. So far:

-Good to see Edge back, and I assume he's negotiated a new contract. I've a sneaking suspicion he will appear at Extreme Rules in some capacity.
-I'm really looking forward to Punk and Jericho at Extreme Rules.
-After a month I can safely say that I don't think this Tensai gimmick is going to work, because it isn't the mid-nineties any more.
-And now Kane is coming out. Brilliant.

[IronMaiden]

I now hope to see more from Aksana in the future.

[KK]

The infamous promo from Shawn Michales the night after losing to Hulk Hogan at Summerslam:



Michaels was amazing heading in to this feud though - echos of 1997.

[Bindal]

I dunno if "nowhere near as popular" is too accurate.

Im not saying its as popular or as good(nowhere near in fact!)

Sounds like it to me.

[Skippy]

Michaels was amazing heading in to this feud though - echos of 1997.

The Bret Hart fake-out in Montreal is probably my favourite ever heel promo

[KK]

Viewing figures for WWE online via YouTube:

• Friday Night SmackDown (February 24, 2012): 20,285
• Friday Night SmackDown (March 2, 2012): 9,113
• Friday Night SmackDown (March 9, 2012): 102,456
• Friday Night SmackDown (March 16, 2012): 25,693
• Friday Night SmackDown (March 23, 2012): 30,169
• SmackDown (March 30, 2012): 10,390
• NXT (April 18, 2012): 26,957
• Superstars (April 19, 2012): 26,306
• Friday Night SmackDown (April 20, 2012): 35,780

Clips

• John Cena and Brock Lesnar brawl after John Laurinaitis: 24,767
• CM Punk takes a field sobriety test (RAW, April 23, 2012): 10,782
• John Cena and Brock Lesnar sign the contract for their Extreme Rules Match (RAW, April 23 2012): 26,628

Realistically this would add 0.1 of a point to the Television rating, if that. Don't know what international fans are doing, but on this evidence US fans aren't watching online in any tangible numbers, with March 9 being the only exception. A paltry 12,000 were watching the exclusive WrestleMania Press Conference on YouTube, so you are looking at very small audiences.

[Adam Pollard]

The infamous promo from Shawn Michales the night after losing to Hulk Hogan at Summerslam:



Michaels was amazing heading in to this feud though - echos of 1997.

I went absolutely MENTAL when Masters came out to interrupt him, loved their short little feud.

[Mockmaster]

Review-a-Wai - WWE Backlash 2006



http://fightnetwork.com/data/podcasts/1 ... -04-25.mp3

Featuring:

**John Pollock and Wai Ting review the WWE 'Backlash' event from 2006 in Lexington, Kentucky featuring the debut of GOD

**Your feedback to the show including a fan that attended live

**Follow us at http://www.lawradio.proboards.com and Twitter.com/LAWradio

WWE Backlash
Sunday April 30th 2006
Lexington, Kentucky
*John Cena Vs Edge Vs Triple H for the WWE Title
*Vince & Shane McMahon Vs Shawn Michaels & GOD
*Shelton Benjamin Vs Rob Van Dam - Intercontinental Title Vs Money in the Bank
*Mickie James Vs Trish Stratus for the Women's Title
*Big Show Vs Kane
*Ric Flair Vs Umaga
*Chris Masters Vs Carlito

[IronMaiden]

Wai

[KK]

Listen to Bryan & Vinny (because it's humorous) & Wrestling Observer Radio (news). Catch Figure 4 Daily with Todd Martin (to get annoyed) & Review-a-Wai from time to time, but only very occasionally.

I always end up listening to Bryan & Vinny a few days after they're put up as I like to watch the actual programming first, such as IMPACT.

[Mafro]

Some general thoughts about these review things...

What makes people here listen to them? I can't understand the growing number of links in this thread for the net type shows. I can't imagine these people are saying anything unique, that we aren't all thinking.

It'd be interesting to know too how many people listen to them in this thread - I imagine a lot.

I find them entertaining and amusing, and when it comes to Raw and Smackdown listening to the reviews is often more enjoyable than watching the shows themselves.