The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Balloon Sod]

"All Shawn Michaels did was take $3000 from him."

It's pretty much true, but what a thing to say on commentary. It's amazing that Punk isn't jobbing to Santino every night.

Danielson is strawberry floating brilliant, isn't he? He really stands out in the WWE. I've never seen him have a bad match, but then again I've never seen the Danielson/Kamala classic for the ROH Title. Yes, that happened.

[Cosmo]

Oh man, that Kaitlin.

*fapping.gif*

[Mafro]

Bryan is over as strawberry float. Listen to the crowd.

[Cosmo]

He's so brilliant in the ring. It's good they gave them time again tonight.

Punk/Bryan feud incoming then.

[Mafro]

Punk/Bryan feud incoming then.

Best thing ever confirmed.

[Balloon Sod]

"In news not related to Linda's campaign at all, the WWE has taught several trillion children to read, talk, walk and set up small businesses. And now, here's a crude stereotype of an Italian and an Irishman. And remember, HHH raped a corpse."

I imagine Wade's proposal is that if Cena makes himself the referee and helps Wade win the title, then Cena can leave the Nexus. That's quite a nice hook.

[Cosmo]

VOTE LINDA

[Cosmo]

Monday Right Raw.

[captain red dog]

I watched Bragging Rights last night, my first main event in some time (I don't bother paying for PPVs).

I thought it was absolutely abysmal. The current stars don't seem to have any presence, the crowds no longer seem into it and it all seems very generic. Nearly every star seems to have the same theme tune these days, some crappy soft rock thing. Take Kane for example, he used to have really cool music that went really well with with the pyrotechnics, now it is utter ****.

Not to mention the way the matches played out. Garbage endings to pretty much all the big fights. Even that first fight played out like a comedy towards the end.

[Skippy]

Watched Bryan/Ziggler last night, very good match. Great to hear such a hot crowd too.

[KK]

TNA iMPACT! Tapings

The arena is set up with all kinds of weapons that you'd have seen in the old ECW days, garbage cans, stop signs, etc.

Ric Flair is backstage hitting on a random woman when Matt Morgan warns him, noting what happened to Brett Favre. Morgan asked if it's true that Eric Bischoff is forcing Mr. Anderson to wrestle with a concussion this week. Flair said wrestling is a tough business and Anderson is going to have to wrestle. Morgan said with all the studies regarding concussions, this isn't right. Morgan said that back in Flair's day, we didn't know what we know now. Flair said in his day, men were men and that Bischoff knows what he's doing.

Robbie E b Jay Lethal in a non-title street fight when Cookie sprayed spray on tanning spray in Lethals' eyes and E used the RKO

Tara and Mickie James have a brawl in catering. They take the brawl outside until the other women are all out there. Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne and Sarita wind up in the building. Tara and James end up in frotn of the people. Ric Flair was one of the people trying to break it up and Tara hit Flair. Then as the brawl continued, Mickie James hit Flair and he does his first first flop. Flair started screaming at them but they continued to brawl. This set up James & Love & Sky vs. Sarita & Tara & Rayne.

Eric Bischoff and Flair are backstage and Bischoff is laughing about what happened to Flair. Flair asked Bischoff where he was and Bischoff said he was dealing with administrative work. Flair asked where Hogan is. Bischoff said Hogan is working on a major acquisition. Bischoff started yelling at Gunner and Murphy because they almost let Kurt Angle get to them last week. David Sahadi came in and asked Bischoff if he's really going to have Anderson wrestle with a concussion. Bischoff said all the key people are in agreement that Anderson is going to wrsetle. Sahadi said how Dixie Carter has pledged to protect the health of the wrestlers and that this is a bad idea. Bischoff makes fun of how Carter isn't in charge.

The Pope does a promo with a casket at ringside. He vowed that he would take the Monster Abyss and put him in the casket. Abyss then came out in the crowd and said Bischoff and Hogan told him to rid the place of The Pope. He's vowed to also take out the fans and grabbed two fans and left with them as Pope tried to go after him.

EV 2 without RVD come out. Dreamer said how RVD didn't return any phone calls, texts or e-mails all week. Funny how that always happens in wrestling angles. Dreamer said he wants to nip this before it goes any farther. He said RVD was the one who told him to come to TNA. Dreamer said the thing with Sabu last week was an accident. RVD came out and said he didn't know who he could trust. Dreamer said he could trust them, and Jeff Hardy was the problem and Eric Bischoff is setting everyone up. While this was going on, Raven started laughing. RVD asked what was so funny and Raven said that Bischoff is just like him, an evil mastermind. RVD and Raven started arguing when Fortune came out. Flair started talking about how EV 2 is falling apart while Fortune is all on the same page. Apparently at the PPV is EV 2 vs. Fortune and the winning team can pick one member of the losing team to lose his job. They also said it's RVD & RAven vs. Styles & Kazarian o thsi show.

Machine Guns kept the tag titles in a three-way over Ink Inc. and Generation Me. The Guns used the skull and bones to pin Jesse Neal.

Team 3-D came out and said how TNA has the best tag team division in the world. Bubba again announced they were retiring and thanked all the fans. He again challenged the Machine Guns for the title. They all agreed to the match at Turning Point.

Matt Morgan came to Bischoff and told him it's not smart to have a wrestler working with a concussion. Bischoff said he thinks it's a great idea. Morgan said people with concussions should be out three months. Bischoff said it's safe for Anderson to wrestle and announced Anderson vs. Jeff Jarrett in a chain match.

Sarita & Tara & Madison Rayne b Angelina Love & Velvet Sky & Mickei James when Sarita pinned Sky

Morgan wanted to talk with Anderson.

Douglas Williams & A.J. Styles b RVD & Raven. Flair laid out Raven with a belt shot. Raven bled. RVD didn't see it, but Raven wasn't there to tag him. Styles and Williams double-teamed RVD and Wiolliams pinned him. RVD was mad at Raven at the end since he didn't see the belt shot, but did see the blood.

Jarrett vs. Anderson never took place. Morgan came out and said he wouldn't let Anderson wrsetle. Morgan said he knows Jarrett wrestled with concussions but that they didn't know then hwat they now know and it's up to the new generation to look out for the current stars. Jarrett acted like Morgan was kidding.

Jarrett b Morgan in the chain match with a low blow and the stroke. Morgan came back after the match, but then Fortune turned on Morgan and put a beating on him.

TNA can't be having casket matches surely, that's synonymous with the WWE.

Despite giving away what the WWE thought was a really big match (WWE Champion vs World Champion), SmackDown pulled in a 1.7 on Friday, down 0.2 from the previous week. 12-17 year old's saved the rating from being any lower.

And in some really good news, the idea of holding Summerslam in LA every year has obviously been binned. For the first time since 1998, Summerslam will be at Madison Square Garden in 2011. This will be the forth time MSG has hosted the event.

[Jam-Master Jay]

But by all accounts he was absolutely disgusted with the angle where Orton crashed Eddie's car, and told Rey he was in hell.

What?

7 minutes 40 seconds onwards.

I still can't believe the WWE would taint the memory of my favourite wrestler with gooseberry fool like this.

Another reason to hate that banana split Orton.

I watched Bragging Rights last night, my first main event in some time (I don't bother paying for PPVs).

I thought it was absolutely abysmal. The current stars don't seem to have any presence, the crowds no longer seem into it and it all seems very generic. Nearly every star seems to have the same theme tune these days, some crappy soft rock thing. Take Kane for example, he used to have really cool music that went really well with with the pyrotechnics, now it is utter ****.

Not to mention the way the matches played out. Garbage endings to pretty much all the big fights. Even that first fight played out like a comedy towards the end.

It's been like this for years now.

[Psychic]

Another reason to hate that banana split Orton.

Was it his idea then?

Anyway, since you love Orton so much...



Have an RKO on me.

[KK]

I don't think when Randy Orton drove Eddie's car into the SmackDown set that it aired over here, did it? It was some Special.

[Cosmo]

Hold on, R-Truth has a move called the Cleaveland Screamer?

[Mafro]

[Psychic]

RKO's everywhere up in this bitch.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Hold on, R-Truth has a move called the Cleaveland Screamer?

R-Truth shouldn't have a moved call anything, in fact he should just not exist full stop.

My Sky Plus didn't work last night for RAW i've read the results and i assume by the lack of real discussion that there isn't much point in downloading it?

[Psychic]

GET GRUNK

[Zellery]

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