2022 Pro Wrestling Thread

If she was in the E, they’d be calling her Baker, the cooking sports entertainer.

 

Or, given their recent history with NXT call-ups, calling her Baker, the concentration camp cook.

 

An authority figure overstepping their bounds, and a foreign giant menacing the roster? Love seeing these fresh takes to the Raw script.

 

Why not just say she's a teenage girl named Anne who likes to write in her diary, before she's snuffed out by Gunther and Ludwig.

 

Also,’over the weekend, Shinjiro Otani took a German suplex into the turnbuckle and was unable to move his arms and legs afterward. He’s been a top star in Japan since the 90s, and had some matches in WCW.

Not looking good.

 

Surgery scheduled tomorrow in Japan (sometime tonight here in the U.S.) to “prevent future deterioration.” To me, that says he’s permanently paralyzed.

Shinjiro Otani to undergo surgery for spinal cord injury

 

Yeah, that does not sound good.

Someone on Twitter had a video of the suplex. Pure speculation, but I wonder if those rectangular turnbuckle pads that the Japanese use had anything to do with this.

 

Looks legit to me.

 

He should get a side-by-side with Jason Mantzoukas next.

 

Because a Twitter beef between Buff Bagwell and Braun Strowman is exactly what I expected to see in 2022.

 

This and Samoa Joe vs. Minoru Suzuki? Sign me up.

 

Something to keep an eye on down the road. It'd be might ironic if another media mega-merger took wrestling off of the Turner networks and sank a company.

https://itrwrestling.com/news/dave-meltzer-aew-2023-tbs-negotiations/