2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

Got a good laugh out of this:

https://411mania.com/wrestling/superstar-billy-graham-calls-vince-mcmahon-cry-baby/

 

Let's hope they don't have to retool the 30 for 30 before it comes out.

Professional wrestler Ric flair hospitalized, 'needs prayers' | Charlotte Observer

 

Yeah, first he was hospitalized for something routine, now they need prayers.

He's put a hell of a lot of strain in his body all those years.

 

If the worst happens, I can see WWE preempting Raw or Smackdown for a Flair clip show. God knows, they have the material for 3 hours and more.

They did the moments of silence for Warrior, Dusty and Piper, but if there was a wrestling Mount Rushmore, Flair would be one of the four heads with Hogan, Bruno and ... Andre?

 

His EKG is like Space Mountain -- a long line.

 

Ric Flair Prepping for Surgery, Medically Induced Coma

 

I don't know if they preempt the whole three hours. I could see them doing the show like normal, but putting some things on hold for the night and with vignettes sprinkled in throughout.

Have a match, Flair memory. Before commercial break, Flair memory. Come back live, Flair memory.

It would be sort of like the first SmackDown after 9/11.

 

Reports say he's out of surgery but far from out of the woods.

C'mon, Naitch.

 

For WWE, you could put Andre, or Austin, or Rock, or Cena with your first three.

 

Yeah, something like that, with maybe wrestlers telling their favorite memories.

Don't forget, tickets and ad time were sold for the show, so it's doubtful,they'd cancel it outright. They either would just make it a house show, or run it as a TV, with the moments interspersed.

Only time I recall them canceling was they skipped some house shows to attend Owen Hart's funeral in Calgary, and the Raw when they cancelled after He Who Cannot Be Named did his deeds, which they did in part because they didn't know if he was murdered or not and he was a current wrestler, plus the blizzard after the Royal Rumble a couple years ago.

 

If anyone has nine, or more lives, it's the Nature Boy. Come on, Ric. We are all rooting for you.

 

If he does go, I hope he rallies out of bed one last time and then does this.