2021 Pro Wrestling Thread

Orange Cassidy beats Jack Evans with a cradle during a picture-in-picture commercial break. Not sure what to make of that, either it was done to remind people "anything can happen during a match!" or it was an unplanned finish.

 

Someone on Twitter pointed out how insane it is that Bruce Prichard went from telling old stories that may or may not be true and bitching about dirtsheets with Conrad to controlling all 3 brands to get revenge on everyone who fired him the first time.

I’m an eternal optimist with WWE but this is really freaking insane and depressing

 

RIP. An absolutely heartbreaking, heartwrenching and saddening story. She was a fun character in the final days of WCW -- kinda like a spiritual predecessor to crazy-era Nikki Cross.

Sadly, it appears it was a suicide after the video she live-streamed last night.

 

Yeah, I was just coming to post this. Your description of her as an early Nikki Cross is spot-on.

I always enjoyed her work. RIP

 

Wow. And she was a fan of Nikki's.



And a not so prominent part of Daffney's career was her spoof of Sarah Palin. Probably one of the best I've seen this side of Tina Fey.

 

I’d forgotten that she was “The Governor”, and had done a great job with it.

Reading the Twitter timeline, it’s sad as hell. Lexie Fyfe, Crowbar, Mick Foley and others were trying to reach out to her when she posted her suicidal video on Instagram. So very sad.

 

Greatest heel in wrestling.

 

It's the greatest star in the history of professional wrestling ... and some guy named Ric.

 

Good story by ESPN about Punk’s return, and it even goes into the planning for the ice cream bars.

Secret meetings, negotiations and ice cream bars: The inside story of CM Punk's return to wrestling

 

Maybe it's just me, but this Becky heel turn really isn't going over for me. It's like when they tried turning Sting and Goldberg in the dying days of WCW, or Stone Cold siding with Vince.

Becky was so over as a face and the working woman's woman, that people just don't buy her as a whiny heel. Having her be a Stone Cold-esque "don't give two fucks" is one thing, but this just isn't going over well.

 

Yeaj, it’s not working. Which means that Vince and Co. will do something stupid to try to make it work.