2015 Pro Wrestling Thread

Just tap the guy with your fingers, don't shake him.

 

Tijuana has a long history of doing their own thing with the indy there and getting guys out there for a payday. Secondly he's well known for his out of it, "punch drunk" inspired selling that probably threw everyone through a loop until it was too late.

Just in terms of charisma and getting heat he was STILL top 10 in the world at worst and there's a case for him being the #1 heel in the world at the time of his death, along with his impact on the mid-2000s Lucha Boom spearheaded by Mistico, Perrito might have been the second most important part of it. He started wrestling at the age of 15 thanks to his dad who is a huge legend (Perro Aguayo Sr. )and him and his stable (Perros del Mal) got so big after the aforementioned boom he jumped from CMLL to let the stable become it's own promotion, headed by Perrito himself. He begun wrestling in AAA in 2010 until now as one of their top bad guys. For better understanding, he was feuding with Mistico when he jumped to AAA and was Alberto El Patrón's 1st feud when he debuted as well.

Everything about this is extremely sad, even on top of the extreme sadness of a 35 year old guy dying. ...RIP Perro Aguayo Jr.

 

Actually enjoyed Bill Simmons on commentary. He's just enough of a wild card in that spot that I kept waiting for him to ask some "behind the curtain" question that would've made things uncomfortable. He sort of did when he asked JBL about standing around waiting to be tagged in during a 10-man match, and JBL admitted he was mostly concerned about pulling a muscle.

 

Don't know if they announced it on TV yet or not, but Kevin Nash is the final inductee for the Hall of Fame.
So the final roster for the Class of 2015 is Savage, Schwarzenegger, Alundra Blayze, Rikishi, the Bushwhackers, Nash and Connor Michalek.

 

They did, and they addressed his WCW career (nWo and on, not Vinnie Vegas), which I wish they had done for Scott Hall last year.

 

THAT'S how they end the final Raw before WrestleMania? Like two kids in my son's daycare yanking at the same toy?

 

Yep.

Could have ended it after Heyman's promo, which was -- yet again -- pure gold. But ending it like that is just asinine.

 

It's so friggin cheesy. It's not 1985 anymore.

Have Brock put Reigns through a table or something. Or F5 him and have Reigns pop right back up to scare the hell out of them both.

Do something. Not a little tug of war. Zzzzzz

 

I get that they're trying to protect both of them -- especially Brock, whose contract status beyond Sunday/Monday is still unknown -- but the tug of war was lame.

 

Fuck this show. Hard.
Tonight's RAW was supposed to be the go-home show for Mania, the one that makes you "go home and order Mania."
In actuality, all I wanted the WWE to do was go home and go away.
I can't remember a Mania that's ever been built this poor. If it wasn't for the fact that is MANIA, and the fact that it's only $9.99 on the Network, I legitimately don't think I'd order Sunday's show.
I haven't been this bored with a Mania in years. I'll watch but I can't see it being good.
Shame. They've got a great roster and this is the best they can come up with? Gross.

 

If Snoop and Hogan were on every week, I'd watch. That was hilarious. And I actually thought Simmons handled himself pretty well. That said, Raw is entirely too damn long. I was done at 10. Might find a video of the Lesnar-Reigns showdown thing, but it sounds like it was a big dud. It was cool seeing Sting open the show.

 

That ending was pathetic. It's also pretty pathetic that you don't trust either of your main eventers to give a promo in front of a live audience.

I don't understand how WWE can simultaneously be so high on Roman Reigns yet so bad at building him up.