2021 Pro Wrestling Thread

There's a lot of that going around. McIntyre and Lashley need a break from each other. Pretty much the entire women's division is just recycling the same five or six wrestlers and matches. A lot of the feuds they should have put to bed at Wrestlemania and Backlash are still going for some reason. They should have put Kingston over Drew in the No. 1 contender's match on Raw just to freshen up the main event for a month, even if there's no intention to move on from Lashley as champ.

 

And yet they've chopped about 20 wrestlers in the last two months. But at least we get Eva Marie!!!!

 

Meanwhile, in Tony Khan's kingdom:

 

AEW does a shitty job in debuting new, bigger name talent. Introduced by unintelligible screeching, a 10 second delay and no music.

 

With Lana cut, is there a way to get Naomi into the Reigns Uso family story somehow? She’s with Jimmy, I think, so he’ll have to complete his turn, but her losing the neon for a serious, harder character in line with Jey and Roman could be quite good

 

Vickie Guerrero gets X-Pac heat. Why do they keep trying to find a purpose for her?

 

Don't try to make sense here. That's not the WWE way.

The Network has a countdown going of the top 50 tags, like they had with the women a few months ago. One caveat: they had to have at least some WWE run, so no Harlem Heat.

NXT is included (DIY was 38,), and there's already been at least two teams managed by Jimmy Hart.

Money Inc. rounded out the first batch and Tyler Breeze (host with Fandango) made a good point: Shouldn't someone who loves money not get along with the IRS?

As far as the top, I'm sure we'll get some mix of the Hardys, Dudleys, Edge & Christian, New Day, the Usos, the Outlaws, Hart Foundation ... maybe the Steiners, Road Warriors and Freebirds if they give them enough credit, even though their best days were not in the WWE/F.

 

If they're able to acknowledge them, I would hope Demolition is somewhere toward the top. The Killer Bees might be a fun little surprise somewhere around the halfway point.
Wonder if the Conquistadors will get any love?

 

The story with DiBiase and IRS was that IRS was corrupt, lecturing people about being tax cheats, but treating the wealthy as if they were above the law. In other words, being a heel.

 

An even deeper way for Jimmy to feel conflicted would be if Naomi acknowledged Roman first. Then he would have both his wife and his brother on Roman’s side, and then he’d have to decide if he really wants to be an outcast or to conform.

 

So is Cody’s story right now basically a JV version of Inner Circle/Pinnacle?

who the the hell are all these people? Am I supposed to have ever seen the guy who Bull Roped with Dustin before?

 

I think Cody and Dustin are so busy behind the curtain they aren’t that focused on their characters.

Also, is the overarching theme of these A&E biographies (btw, where the hell is the Ric Flair one!?!) how McMahon is a terrible judge of talent? It seems like every episode there’s a segment where he says how he though the subject wouldn’t get over or wasn’t any good.