2018 Pro Wrestling thread

Some good stuff right here.

 

With the New Day winning a spot for MITB, I wonder if this will start to fracture the group a little bit.

It'll be interesting to see how they go. You've got Kofi, the grizzled vet. Big E, the powerful bruiser. Xavier, the sort of plucky underdog.

 

If they give Kofi the kind of heel attitude he uses on UUDD, he'd get over doing that. Nobody likes playing that guy online/video games.

 

I know The New Day have been so over the last few years, however, I’m surprised the WWE have not pushed Big E to the moon yet.

 

I keep thinking they could have this be a more old-school faction, with Kofi and Xavier holding the tag titles and Big E with the IC/US belt or the world/universal title even. They'd still be over, maybe even moreso.

 

Randy Orton had knee surgery. Doesn't seem to be anything too serious -- he'd been putting it off for a while -- but it seems like he might be out for a while. It'll probably do his character some good, too. He's reached that point where he gets a head of steam from a big return and then fizzles the longer he's around.

Exclusive: Randy Orton comments on recent knee surgery

 

There's video of Cass appearing to reinjure his knee again in the Amsterdam stop of the Europe tour.

Does not look like kayfabe. Hopefully for his sake he's ok, but it was the same knee he blew out.

 

Smackdowns going to Fox on Fridays for literally a billion dollars

 

I'm not surprised that FOX got Smackdown, but I am surprised that NBC / USA is still going to be airing Raw, apparently. I think the best-case scenario for WWE is having two networks airing their content.

 

Oh great, Steph is back.

 

Roman vs. Jinder, in front of the notorious Chicago crowd? That'll go over well.