2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

I'd love to see someone no-sell Goldberg, like Bruiser Brody did to Luger back in the day.

 

I flipped the Raw Talk show off as soon as Lawler mentioned pajamas to Reigns. 'Nuff said.

A better way to do the main event would have been to have Lesnar come out and destroy Goldberg during the entrance, while Owens looks on in glee, which also has some continuity since Joe did the same to Sami before an Owens match. Goldberg wobbles to his feet, the bell rings, Owens gets some punches and a couple bowling balls in, since Goldberg really can't bump that much.

Then Jericho comes out, Owens gets distracted, and Goldberg pops up for the spear and jackhammer.

Match maybe goes three minutes instead of 21 seconds, continues both storylines, and actually puts some effort into the main event.

 

Check out the Steven Regal match in WCW, which turns into a six-minute mess.

The urban legend is that Regal was fired after the match for supposedly shooting on Goldberg, but Regal said he still worked another couple of months, and that he had been told to have a competitive match while someone else told Goldberg to do his usual squash, which created confusin in the ring.

 

Cut the music.

What I'd like to have right now, is for all us fat, out of shape, SJ.commers, to keep the noise down, while we pay tribute to the WWE's newest Hall of Famer, Ravishing Rick Rude.

Hit the music.

 

OK, but if you disrobe and have my face airbrushed on your crotch I'm leaving.

 

i'm an intermittent watcher at best these days, but I have to say—I flipped onto Raw for a little bit last night and saw Goldberg coming to the ring with the belt around his waist, and my reaction was that the belt felt instantly devalued by seeing it around him at this stage in his career. Bordline Arquette-in-WCW kind of stuff.

 

All he had to do last night was cut a promo, listen to another, and eat an F5. Yet he was completely gassed and sweating buckets after just that.

How in the hell is he going to actually work a main-event match in a month?

 

It's a joke that they have him in it. A fucking joke. Maybe he worked it in as part of his deal to come back, but if that was the case, they should have passed on him. That match was going to be what it's going to be with or without the title. Putting it in that match just makes the title look like crap.

 

Here's also what's even worse. He drops the belt to Lesnar, then technically, he gets his return match.

So then the belt is clogged up with another part timer who never wrestles on TV (not always a bad thing, but it's been done with Brock already) and we're stuck with Goldberg back as No.1 contender, and Owens is stuck waiting in the wings for his return match.

This shit may drag on until Summerslam, unless Goldberg just forgoes his return match and Owens beats Lesnar at Smarkamania.

 

That's my whole problem with this, right there. Knowing what we've heard about Goldberg from his WCW days (not putting guys over, not really getting how booking and the business works), realizing over the course of the last 15 years that he was the product of a great but unsustainable gimmick, and seeing the promos he's cut since he's been back, the whole thing seems like a vanity project. Are we sure he's not John Cena's latest Make-A-Wish kid?
Worse, he's mailing the whole thing in.
There are a lot of aging part-timers who bring it or evolve, or at least carry their weight. Undertaker. Jericho. Even Kane and Big Show.
Goldberg just shows up and is handed the title for whatever reason. He looks good physically, but he can't or won't do anything beyond that to rise to another level. Being generous, he's rusty. More than likely he's rusty and he never was that good to begin with. All he has done with this run, to me, is ruin whatever good feelings I had about him from his heyday.
It's like when the Rock came back and won the title, only with a tenth of the charm to cover for it.

I sincerely hope for two things out of this match:
1) Lesnar absolutely destroys him. I'm hoping for 50 German suplexes and 20 F-5s. Give him enough Germans that he'll think it's 1939 Poland, and enough F-5s that he'll think Wrestlemania is in Oklahoma instead of Dallas.
2) The whole mess gets booed out of the building so bad it'll make their WM 20 match sound like HBK-Undertaker. The reaction from the super-smark crowd the next night should be fascinating.

 

Maybe they can sneak in a Money in the Bank match at Wrestlemania -- throw in the caveat that it can be used to challenge for either title, on either show to spice things up and differentiate it from the MITB pay per view matches -- and then use that to make a switch.

 

They were chanting for Nakamura during the HHH/Roman match last year. Whatever they chant during the Lesnar/Goldberg will make that look tame by comparison.

I'm into Taker representing the fans and acting like he wants to crush Roman Reigns. But I think Romans going over so what's the point?

Hell Roman will probably crush Taker at Mania and take the universal from Lesnar the next night on Raw.

At some point Balor has to go back after the title he never lost right? Plus the obligatory Owens and Goldberg rematches.......sheesh