The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[KK]

You could A) spend $35 on watching 'ECW' being recreated, poorly, on TNA's next PPV, B) spend $20 & buy ECW One Night Stand 2005/2006 on DVD or C) $10 for Classics on Demand, which ironically enough is currently airing ECW's first ever PPV from 1997.

[Baron Zemo]

BTW, anyone else sort of, how do you put it, tired of Orton's crazy equivalent to Hulking up?

Edge tugging on his hair is far more annoying.

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Edge can strawberry float off. He's by far the most irritating, untalented and over-rated member of the active roster.

Orton on the other hand. Well, I absolutely love everything about his character.

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[KK]

For those that want to take the risk, TNA Impact! Cross the Line is up to download on the PSN Store. It's £23.99.

GamesMaster reviewed it & gave the game 35%, stating "Let's hope Hogan wraps his 24-inch pythons around the neck of the guy responsible for this."

[A J Styles]

BTW, anyone else sort of, how do you put it, tired of Orton's crazy equivalent to Hulking up?

Edge tugging on his hair is far more annoying.

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Edge can strawberry float off. He's by far the most irritating, untalented and over-rated member of the active roster.

Orton on the other hand. Well, I absolutely love everything about his character.

Over rated?, Orton is over rated. Edge is an amazing heel, does good promo's and is always there for the compnay. Orton is average as a face and as madman (heel?), had problems before with everyone while Edge has been with the company for years and never had a problem.

[Double88]

Excellent read, Rog!

So WHO, if any, would you like see return/jump ship to WWE once TNA fails?

[KK]

In regards to Smackdown...

Why have they got Kane beating up Jack Swagger's Dad on the go-home show? It'd make sense if they were feuding, but they're not; it hasn't got any correlation with the PPV whatsoever. Shouldn't he have been going after Drew McIntyre or Cody Rhodes? Is Kane even interested in the MITB match, at this point?

Everything was going great for Swagger last week on Smackdown. They'd booked him as a real arsehole, & then they ruined it all by having him locked in a room with Kane comically crapping himself.

[Prototype]

Orton has always been over with the crowd. Either as a face or as his viper character.

What does Edge do to get over? Make a silly face and tug at his hair? Pathetic. Edge is borderline low-card for me. Don't rate his work at all.

He's that bad at getting over, they had to put Vickie on him.

[KK]

WWE have posted this on their website...

Upcoming Raw guest hosts
Written: July 12, 2010

From comedians to politicians to musical performers to professional athletes, Monday Night Raw's guest hosts are some of past and present's finest entertainers. The WWE Universe, therefore, can expect this trend to continue as more and more of the most popular celebrities are hopping aboard to serve as Raw special host.

Check back here as new Raw special guest hosts are announced, and be sure to tune in Monday nights when the biggest stars from all over the world have the opportunity to take over as Raw's special guest host.

Groan.

[Cosmo]

Just get The Rock in and kill it.

[KK]

Bill Goldberg has waded in on the removal of Jim Ross in the opening WWE highlight reel...

So I hear the WWE made an example out of JR because he was on-camera being interviewed at Brock 's UFC event. Things never change do they. Sounds like something they would do. Just speaking out for my buddy JR. Give'm hell JR!!

[NBK]

Orton has always been over with the crowd. Either as a face or as his viper character.

What does Edge do to get over? Make a silly face and tug at his hair? Pathetic. Edge is borderline low-card for me. Don't rate his work at all.

He's that bad at getting over, they had to put Vickie on him.

Good entrance music though......

[Prototype]

Orton has always been over with the crowd. Either as a face or as his viper character.

What does Edge do to get over? Make a silly face and tug at his hair? Pathetic. Edge is borderline low-card for me. Don't rate his work at all.

He's that bad at getting over, they had to put Vickie on him.

Good entrance music though......

Alter Bridge track is good, but it's no Rob Zombie...

[KK]

The Nexus invasion really helped WWE NXT this week - the show pulled in 1,446,000 viewers & a 1.1 rating. Yes, it's still an appalling number, but it's better than nothing.

[Adam Pollard]

Fozzy end their October UK tour in Yeovil

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Just thought i would weigh in with my two cents on the Orton/Edge debate. I rate btoh highly. They have both been great as top heels. Both playing the psychotic heel well. However i'm currently bored with Edge. His recent face turn was a big flop and he currently has a pretty much nothing character. I they wanted to make him a face then they should have allowed him to team back up with christian and go back to their goofy funny ways. That was entertaining. They don't have to be a tag team all the time but they could have just hung about together, helped each other out and still gone for singles titles if they wanted.

Orton at the moment as a face is interesting. He's pretty much always been a heel, so seeing him as a face at the moment is interesting, and i'm intrigued to see how they are going to use him. Currently it is very hit and miss though, but there is no doubt that he is over with the crowd. His reactions are often second to only John Cena. Plus everyone loves the RKO, Personally i've always enjoyed Orton, i liked him as a heel and as the leader of Legacy. Although his fueds with Cena & DX did go on too long.

On this weeks RAW, i thought it was alright and it progressed the Nexus storyline well. I've been crying out for years for a big stable storyline in WWE. I'm hoping that they don't balls it up. Now they have took the effort to make them a T-Shirt i'm hoping they stick with the storyline.

[Double88]

I didn't mean for such a debate when I asked if people were tired of Ortons in ring snake impression but I definitely prefer Orton to Edge. I even prefer Christian to Edge.

[KK]

Eric Bischoff on his Facebook page is adamant things aren't going to gooseberry fool, & denies reports that he & Hogan wouldn't be able to co-exist with Heyman (they apparently weren't at Victory Road to "make a point"):

You are buying in to IWC b.s. We are rock solid w TNA!

[KK]

Though there are only six episodes, ABC has decided to pull freshman game show Downfall one week early.

Hosted by Chris Jericho, Downfall hasn’t been performing well in the ratings and continues to ire some viewers. Though viewers are reminded that the prizes being smashed are replicas, many still view the practice distasteful in a struggling economy and for environmental reasons. ABC is owned by Disney, a corporation that’s been touting a “go green” initiative.

Downfall will air on July 20th but the following week’s episode will be replaced by the first half of a two-hour edition of Wipeout, called “Wipeout Blind Date.” Beginning August 3rd, the timeslot will be filled by the returning Shaq Vs. reality series.

No word on when or if the remaining episode of Downfall will air but it doesn’t seem likely. A second season is doubtful as well. The ratings for the show have been poor and it isn’t exactly a positive show for ABC’s image.

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Jericho has since responded on Twitter with:

Downfall wasn't pulled or canceled. Due to a faster paced edited show, we simply ran out of contestants after the fifth show and didn't have enough material for a sixth show. We're gonna film more episodes in the fall.

[Balloon Sod]

TNA just can't help screwing with finishes, can they?

The ECW invasion looked like gooseberry fool, like a badly-dressed jobber battle royale.

[Cropolite]

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