The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Chocolate Jim]

WWE Vengeance
Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Dolph Ziggler
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Randy Orton
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Beth Phoenix
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): CM Punk and Triple H
Person to lose the match for their team: R-Truth
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): John Cena

[Chocolate Jim]

Amazing to think that Daniel Bryan is supposed to be main eventing Mania but has all but disappeared. Even Rey Mysterio seems to have gotten more time than him this week! I think Bryans lack of mic work and general absence of promos are a major weakness at this level.

He is a Charisma black hole lets face it. I don't get the hype. Hes technically brilliant but you cant survive on that alone in the WWE.

[Mafro]

Amazing to think that Daniel Bryan is supposed to be main eventing Mania but has all but disappeared. Even Rey Mysterio seems to have gotten more time than him this week! I think Bryans lack of mic work and general absence of promos are a major weakness at this level.

He is a Charisma black hole lets face it. I don't get the hype. Hes technically brilliant but you cant survive on that alone in the WWE.

[Codename 47]

Can't believe i never saw that NXT video until now Tarver actually comes off pretty good in that....but Bryan was pretty awesome on the mic. Shows exactly what happens when certain wrestlers throw off the shackles and say what they want. I wish we could see more of Daniel Bryan like that.

I love Regal's reaction though "Miz, miz...he is better than you".

[Codename 47]

Just watching Smackdown Despite a huge rally for Morrison and the commentators get excited about how a shock could be on the cards....Henry kicks out of Morrison's special move on the 1 count

[Dig Dug]

Bryan can talk, they just won't let him.

WWE Vengeance
Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Dolph Ziggler
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Orton
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Beth Phoenix
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): CM Punk and Triple H
Person to lose the match for their team: Miz
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): John Cena

I reckon that they will put the title on Cena for SS to build the feud with The Rock seeing how the mania match is suppose to be for the title.

[KK]

The short Daniel Bryan/Michael Cole feud on NXT was, & still is, the most interesting thing he's done in WWE since he arrived. Maryse is another one who's only been allowed to show her charisma on a programme watched by, literally, nobody. Clearly the people that matter in WWE don't either, because you'd like to think that if they had, they'd have done something substantial with her by now. I have no doubt she'd be better off in TNA from a character perspective. Even Gail Kim realised that, & jacked in the guaranteed money in WWE.

[captain red dog]

I think Bryan was given plenty of opportunity around the time of MITB but since then he has failed to generate any kind of interest in himself. Heck, Jack Swagger was a joke around that time and even he has managed to get himself into the PPV scene.

Must say I loved Swagger doing the US anthem on Raw. That was good old fashioned crowd baiting!

[Codename 47]

Another good Barrett/Byran match up - start of the Barrett uprising - but my good when is D. Bryan going to get himself a win? Has he even won since becoming Mr Money in the Bank?? I imagine they'll slowly start to build up again towards the end of the year, but it's not good for a (potential) future World Champ to be getting beat left, right and center.

[Mafro]

Bryan was really over during the time of his feud with Miz and when he won the US title. Then they strawberry floated him up with the Gail Kim and Bellas angle

[A J Styles]

WWE Vengeance
Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Dolph Ziggler
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Randy Orton
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Eve
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): CM Punk and Triple H
Person to lose the match for their team: R-Truth
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): John Cena

[Banjo]

Thass mah boi D-Bry.

[KK]

I imagine they'll slowly start to build up again towards the end of the year, but it's not good for a (potential) future World Champ to be getting beat left, right and center.

That seems to be their (retarded) modus operandi. Hell, in WWE's world you become WWE/World Champion & then go on one epic losing streak so neither the belt or the champion are over. If you're Rey Mysterio, you'll get away with it because you're so popular. If you're new, like a Jack Swagger, it's obvious death.

[Chocolate Jim]

Impact did a record 1.4 this week

[KK]

Impact did a record 1.4 this week

The comeback is on! No doubt up coming off interest from Bound for Glory and the title change. There was strawberry float all wrestling on this show, lets hope they don't think people now want to see 9000 segments instead, & enforce that 'well viewers don't want wrestling' stereotype.

Several sources are reporting that Vince McMahon has seemed to have developed a love-hate relationship with the WWE Divas. The mentality is that both RAW and SmackDown have to have one segment with the Divas. Vince is convinced that a Divas segment is needed because it draws in a certain demographic, however whenever the Divas segments and matches are going on, it’s said that Vince feels they are a waste of time. This is part of the reason he has Michael Cole act the way he does when the Divas are out.

As you can imagine, Michael Cole is being fed "line after line" from Vince McMahon during RAW. It is said that Vince is constantly in the ear of Cole during the TV tapings which is why he comes across the way he does.

Why even bother having them on PPV then? They're not attracting any 'demographic', as it's Pay Per View; nobody is tuning in and out. Down time for everyone to have a piss & refresh their drinks supply before the main event...I suppose.

It's clear the WWE no longer care though. The storylines are the most formulaic imaginable, & are nearly always throw-away in nature, they're not sold on anything overtly sexual, & the matches more often than not always suck. The last is true of TNA too, but everything else is the complete opposite. They've even brought back the tag belts for the division. And the ratings back this up almost every week. When the Knockouts are on, ratings go up - sometimes the highest part of IMPACT. Compare and contrast with WWE, where they always go down.

[Dig Dug]

It sucks being a female wrestler because you will never, ever get higher than what is the equivalent to a mid carder. Well at least now you won't anyway because none of them are over.

[Dark Ritual]

Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Dolph Ziggler
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Cody Rhodes
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Beth Pheonix
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): Punk & HHH
Person to lose the match for their team: R-Truth
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): John Cena

This will probably go back in my face, but why do people think that WWE will even consider letting Cena win in a "Last Man Standing" match, when his entire run has been abotu him never giving up? (And I seem to remember him winning about 4 last standing man matches between Miz, Umaga, Orton et al)

[Dark Ritual]

Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Dolph Ziggler
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Cody Rhodes
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Beth Pheonix
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): Punk & HHH
Person to lose the match for their team: R-Truth
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): John Cena

This will probably go back in my face, but why do people think that WWE will even consider letting Cena win in a "Last Man Standing" match, when his entire run has been abotu him never giving up? (And I seem to remember him winning about 4 last standing man matches between Miz, Umaga, Orton et al)

and by Win, I mean lose. (Not editing the post due to it being GRAPL etc etc)

[Cosmo]

I watched the Tough Enough episode with Cena earlier on. I nearly spat my drink out when Stone Cold said he was a seven time WWE champion. By Monday he'll have won his eleventh.

Rhodes vs Orton is for the IC title isn't it? I'm thinking either that or Ziggler/Ryder will end in a DQ.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

WWE Vengeance
Sheamus vs. Christian
Winner: Sheamus
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder - for the U.S. Title
Winner (worth 2): Zack Ryder
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
Winner: Randy Orton
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve Torres - for the WWE Divas Championship
Winner: Beth Phoenix
R-Truth and The Miz vs. CM Punk and Triple H
Winners (worth 2): R-Truth and The Miz
Person to lose the match for their team: CM Punk
Mark Henry (c) vs. The Big Show - for the World Heavyweight Championship
Winner (worth 4): Mark Henry
Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena - Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship
Winner (worth 5): Alberto Del Rio