2019 Pro Wrestling thread

What in the ever-loving holy fuck was that? Is this Bray's "Brodus/Funkasaurus" turn?

 

He looks like Strowman with the haircut and he sounds like Bo Dallas with his regular voice and idk what the bloody hell I think about any of it

 

I'm surprised Big O lasted THIS long.

 

Do we really need ANOTHER Flair Lynch match? They couldnt put Bayley over one time?!?

Also I’m worried about Daniel Bryan. Has there been anything about his injury? Is it clear its not head related? Not to be morbid but god damn thats scary

 

Same. I'm glad KO turned ... wasn't a fan of his babyface work (or at least how he's been presented since he returned). And it gives Kofi a hot feud to start his reign ... w/o Reigns in the picture.

I'm looking forward to an eventual KO-Big E feud. Two bigger men who move athletically plus the mic work will make it a great feud, even w/o a title to chase.

 

You'd think Woods and Kofi would have watched the product. Remember Owens/Zayn in NXT? The Festival of Friendship ring a bell?

 

The wrestling biz has subsisted for years on naive babyfaces who are oblivious about the history of serial heel-turners. Hogan, Sting, even Dusty Rhodes have been guilty of the same thing over the years.

Just so happens I was listening to Cornette's 'Drive-Thru' podcast yesterday, and he was talking about Sammartino having Spiros Arion, Bill Watts and Larry Zbysko turning on him over his career. Of course, Cornette pointed on they would do the program every five years almost on the dot -- they would have to wait five years to do it again "so Bruno wouldn't look stupid."

 

IIRC, three of Hogan's feuds in the first five Wrestlemanias (Orndorff, Andre and Savage) were built on that angle.

 

Orndorff’s turn on Hogan program came after WM2. For the first WM, he was Piper’s protege, then turned face after Piper blamed him for the loss to Hogan and Mr. T, then he turned back heel a little more than a year later. Then, after the Hogan feud, he turned back babyface after firing Heenan for a second time. Basically an early version of Big Show in that he turned roughly every year.

But otherwise, Hogan did have a lot of guys turn on him. Tugboat/Typhoon, Sid Justice/Vicious also did. Makes you wonder if there was something about the guy .

 

I still think the E missed the boat with a Ryder turn on Cena. Fans were hot enough in for Ryder, even though the E kept making him look foolish. Cena kept trying to help Ryder, but they could have eventually turned it into a program.

 

Heenan knew about Hogan, he knew the whole time!