2016 Pro Wrestling Thread

I'm all for an Orton/Lesnar feud if done well. I've really wanted to see that. If it's the same old Suplex City bore-fest, then blech.

 

I sort of get that they wanted to announce before ufc200, but Brock Orton would be way better as a feud that came about because Randy interrupted or attacked him instead of one of these generic "dream match" "because reasons" they seem to be falling in love with.

Physicality of it should be great though, even if it'll probably put RKO back on the shelf when it's over.

 

I've got a rare Saturday off. Think I'll sleep in, then get up, make some food, binge watch some old Survivor season I missed, AND BEAT UP JOHN CENA! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

A great story they could tell, if UFC was willing to go along, would be either have Orton RKO Lesnar after he beats Hunt, or have Orton RKO him before the fight, then Lesnar either wins despite an RKO, or has an excuse why he lost. Or, after Lesnar loses, Orton sneaks into the cage and punts him.

Like I said, though, UFC would have to go along, and have their event become part of a sideshow. It sure would garner a lot of attention, though.

 

As a fan in '95, the good thing about the early Nitros was that there were actual matches, and it was live each week. WWF was still having squash matches, with one main event match and sometimes one glorified squash (like a Yokozuna vs. Koko B Ware match). The first match in Nitro history was Pillman vs. Liger, which was a much better matchup than anything WWF was offering.


But the storytelling on Nitro? Yeesh.

 

That Pillman-Liger match was pretty good, too.

And that's also the night Luger jumped ship. Ten-year-old me was watching that and wondering why in the hell Luger was on WCW when he was just with the WWF.

 

Considering UFC, at its core, is still recognized as legitimate competition, I can't imagine they'd be OK with that on any level. Maybe they let Orton do a staredown. Anything more and they're flushing a lot of hard-earned credibility down the toilet for no reason whatsoever, and it'd probably piss off a lot of MMA fans as well. There's no upside to it for UFC.

 

A staredown after the fight, if Lesnar wins, would be fine. I can't imagine Lesnar wanting to be concerned about a staredown before the fight when he'd want to be focused totally on Hunt. For an RKO before the fight, it'd have to be something taped.

 

The best thing would be to have Randy in the crowd smirking and giving Brock shit, basically carbon copy the Taker-Lesnar confrontation from UFC 121 that was a worked shoot

 

Just finished World War 3 1995, which featured a 60-man battle royal for the title. That match was a clusterfuck from the start, but the undercard had some good matches for the most part.

Macho Man is the champ and being chased by Hogan, who's now back to wearing the red and yellow and has ditched -- at least I hope so, anyway -- the dark phase he was going through. But it was a harbinger of things to come, I guess, with him dressing in all black.

 

On a side note, I am completely avoiding Raw for a little while longer. WCW, even with its stupid storylines, is better than the E at this point. I guess I'll start watching Raw when 1996 rolls around.

 

Brock Lesnar, with a five-year layoff and farting around in fake fighting and only using half of his intestines, won the UFC 200 main event. And he wants world peace. You fuckers better give him what he wants. Or else.