The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Chocolate Jim]

Great job with GRAPL again Rog. muchos

[Something Fishy]

Indeed, thanks Rog.

[Rog]

You guys

[Zellery]

You guys

I love you Rog.

[Adam Pollard]

The blood stoppage shite has GOT to go, it's absolutely killing matches. Punk did fantastically to salvage interest in his match with Rey with the jump on him.

[KK]

I'm glad the crowd aren't standing for it either. If you want to have a no blood policy, fine - WCW had one too (which lead to the ridiculous editing of the King of the Road match at Uncensored '95 & the Flair/Hogan first blood cage match from '99 impossible to build to on TV, because they couldn't say "blood" on air) - but if someone gets cut open the hard way, which strangely seems to be happening more often now than ever before, use wide camera shots. Constantly stopping matches & killing all momentum is absurd.

When you start making 'Turner Standards & Practises' look tame, you're being ridiculous. Hell, even Striker's started using the term "International object", though that's probably Matt Striker just being an epic dork...

[Skippy]

Michaels Vs The British Bulldog... Mr Perfect as enforcer... Owen Hart on commentary.

I miss HBK too....

[IronMaiden]

The blood stoppage shite has GOT to go, it's absolutely killing matches. Punk did fantastically to salvage interest in his match with Rey with the jump on him.

It totally looked like Punk just said 'f*ck this' and ran for Rey. The really annoying thing is they built up Rey/Punk as some deeply personal matter and the blood stoppage totally killed any 'realism' around the angle.

[Skippy]

I'm thinking of ordering another DVD of a wrestler... any suggestions?

I have Batista's and HBK's as I mentioned, both five star releases. I had Brian Pillman's too but my friend I never see any more has it... I have his Marine [John Cena film]

Bret Hart's, Austin's, Taker's, Flair's first set. All sublime DVD packages.

[sw26]

I much preferred the cameras used back in the mid nineties. [That can go for movies too sometimes] They used a different format in some sense, because the picture quality looks warmer, and the audio is rougher too. It reminds me of the saying music sounds better on vinyl than CD.

Nowadays everything seems much cleaner and more clinical. These old matches I'm watching feel more like wrestling... probably because I was brought up with it this way.

Agreed. I've been watching some more late 98/early 99 Raw shows on Youtube recently and I absolutely love the 'gritty' look to the shows. Everything now is a bit too X Factor/American Idol for my liking. Admittedly its the stage designs and graphics as much as the cameras but still.

Oh and get the Eddie Guerrero 3 disc set. Just outstanding.

[KK]

You know what I found hidden away in my house today...a "I like it Raw" T-Shirt.

If I remember it came out to coincide with the WWF's innuendo laden intro for Raw. Has to be around 1995. Ah, memories...

[Return_of_the_STAR]

When are they actually going to let Punk beat Rey

For the GRAPL Champion, you don't know much do you?

Punk beat Rey at Extreme Rules.

Don't roll your eyes at me you fallen champion, I'm aware that Punk beat Rey in that match but what i meant to write was when is Punk going to actually beat Rey when it matters. Fair enough i didn't write this, but rolling your eyes at someone is the kind of thing that a poor pathetic excuse of a former champion would do.

No hard feelings Zellery, i don't hate you like most people on here, in fact i actually like and agree with most of your comments but you've pissed me off!!!

NB i'm not being serious, or am i

[Floex]

You know what I found hidden away in my house today...a "I like it Raw" T-Shirt.

If I remember it came out to coincide with the WWF's innuendo laden intro for Raw. Has to be around 1995. Ah, memories...

I still have my NWO T-shirt I won years ago, baddass

[Return_of_the_STAR]

You know what I found hidden away in my house today...a "I like it Raw" T-Shirt.

If I remember it came out to coincide with the WWF's innuendo laden intro for Raw. Has to be around 1995. Ah, memories...

I still have my NWO T-shirt I won years ago, baddass

I chucked away a load of old wwf shirts i had as a teenager a while back, some great Rock & Austin ones too. Now wish i hadn't.

[KK]

Virgin Megastores was the place to go in the 90s. Along with Clintons, they used to sell all sorts of wrestling related merc.

I've got a fantastic WWF emblazoned frosted glass beer tankard. It's pretty damn heavy. The WWE just don't make this sort of stuff any more - it's all tacky shite these days. What's the current equivalent?



I mean who on earth buys this rubbish?

[Dante]

Kids who like Cena? Mothers who have kids who like Cena?

I think it's more like "Mothers who like Cena" So when the husbands are off they can pleasure themselves with cena's mug



All my wrestling t-shirts happen to be Chikara ones I do have an original Hulkamania shirt, but that was bought for me when I was like 4 years old, doens't fit anymore (I tested, it deffiantly doesn't)

[Jam-Master Jay]

strawberry float sake, Dante...

You just gave me a mental image of some hefty mother squatting over a Cena glass.

[Dante]

strawberry float sake, Dante...

I just got the mental image of some mother squatting over a Cena glass.

Let's hope she cleans it out

/didn'tgothere

[KK]

Kids who like Cena? Mothers who have kids who like Cena?

They should be buying their kids Sable Uncensored on VHS!

[Jam-Master Jay]

http://www.justin.tv/wrestling101_hq#r=pHM5vEk~

Edit: Glad they didn't go with that ass Washington for GM.