2016 Pro Wrestling Thread

Interesting thing, as some of the websites are pointing out, was that Jericho found out Neville was hurt, and rolled him up for the pin, only for ref Charles Robinson to only make a 2-count with Neville's shoulders down because it wasn't the planned finish (which also is a fuck-up on his part because the refs are supposed to count no matter what) Jericho then got legitimately pissed and shoved Robinson for the DQ, and, as they were legitimately arguing, Robinson called Jericho a motherfucker.

Then Jericho grabbed the mic, and gave an unscripted promo in order to get Styles to come out and continue the storyline. The speculation is that likely, Jericho was supposed to beat down Neville in order for Styles to make the save, which couldn't happen, obviously.

Robinson later apologized on Twitter. Jericho is getting praised for how he handled everything.

 

Heel Jericho is so good as generating heat, living the heel thing and doing kayfabe that there's a chance the improvised the whole DQ thing on the spot. You can see the three of them whispering to each other before the rollup.

 

Speaking of Jericho, his podcast with Xavier Woods and Cody Rhodes is pure gold. An hour-plus of Woods and Rhodes growing up as archrivals in Marietta, Georgia talking about their time in high school, and Xavier accusing Cody of stealing the girl he was hot for.

http://www.podcastone.com/embed?progID=593&pid=1635316

 

Imagine if Rick Rude was around during Twitter. He would slide in so many DM’s.

 

He's have a lot of Internet outrage over calling everyone "fat, ugly, inner-city sweathogs."

 

Observer from March 21:

- Heading into Mania, most of the card is set. There is still a chance there could be a special guest referee for Triple H vs. Reigns, or a multi-man IC match, but right now, that’s looking like a single with Owens vs. Zayn. Some undercard stuff could be flexed on or off the show (Golden Truth vs. Dudleys vs. Usos, six-diva tag).

- Roadblock received 93 percent thumbs up, and 7 percent thumbs middle, from readers.

- Bray Wyatt has a “significant” back injury, which is why Luke Harper took his place at Roadblock. No ETA on his return.

- Neville did indeed break his ankle in his match on Raw with Jericho. He doesn’t need surgery, but he’ll be out 2 to 3 months. Oddly, it happened on a simple baseball slide, and not the high flying he usually does.

- Impact, Total Divas and Lucha Underground had all-time ratings lows. Impact had 222,000 viewers, with 58,000 on the replay. Total Divas had 580,000 viewers, down from the previous week’s low of 591,000. Lucha had 95,000 on initial airing and 41,000 for a replay.

- Your new TNA champion is Drew Galloway (McIntyre), after he cashed in his Money in the Bank Feast or Fired briefcase. He used it after a three-way with champion Matt Hardy resulted in a DQ.

- Ken Anderson (Mr. Kennedy) is done at TNA. He was released after failing a drug test, which was given after he worked a horrible match with Eric Young at a TV taping. The match was so bad that they didn’t air it, and he and Young got into a minor fight backstage.

- Konnan is pretty much out at AAA. He had his booking power taken away a couple months ago, but had been functioning as an agent. He’s been openly critical of the company lately though and will probably be let go completely soon.

- Mania is technically sold out at 84,000 seats, as even standing room only are sold out. It’s unknown how many will actually be there – the number can be higher once you factor in press seating, backstage, luxury boxes, etc. Also, WWE’s number will likely be announced as much higher. The gate is $12.8M, breaking the $12.6M record from last year.

- Snoop Dogg might be the celeb inductee into the Hall of Fame, either this year or next. Regis Philbin is the other candidate. The “Warrior” award, for someone fighting against adversity, could go to Joan Lunden.

- Re: The physical Hall of Fame, it was announced on March 14 that a Willy Wonka-themed restaurant would be opened at Universal, in the spot the WWE was eyeing for its Hall of Fame. So apparently, some deal fell through or wasn’t as secure as thought.

- Foley has confirmed that he would be lightly involved in Mania this year. He’s also pitching a comedy show with his daughter for the Network, and wants to be involved in creative for the women’s division.

- On TV this week, WWE pushed all of the Mania week events… Except the NXT special on April 1. This was not well-received backstage.

- NXT writer Ryan Ward has been switched over to Smackdown.

- London mayor Boris Johnson said he’s interested in having Mania there.

- Garza Jr. flew in for a tryout for NXT. It’s unknown if he’ll be signed for the brand, or solely the cruiserweight tournament, or neither.

 

"I feel good and I look even better. I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater."

 

Rick Rude was trolling before trolling was cool.

 

Would you guys be for this or against this?

 

The big obstacle is the time difference.

If they had it at 8 p.m. in London, it would be a 4 p.m. show on the East Coast, and 1 p.m. on the West Coast.

 

The internet would melt down with rage when he came out wearing Lana's airbrushed face on his crotch.

 

Man, that's rough. Having a match that even TNA won't air is like being told you're too ugly to fuck by the methed-up hooker hanging out in Waffle House at 3 a.m.