2023 Pro Wrestling Thread

Danielson vs. Thatcher next week. That will be a big-time banger.

Thatcher was impressive in NXT, but he was a casualty of the youth movement and the elimination of all the indie sweethearts.

 

Man ... Jay Lethal is already crying walking to the ring.

 

Lethal just bawling pre-match.

 

After all the Briscoe stuff settles someones gonna have to explain how Ruby is more “homegrown” than Toni Storm ….

 

He looked like he was crying after the match too.

Damn, that was emotional.

 

He was. Hangman Page and Adam Cole were trying on the stage at the end too.

 

I could see it eventually become a swerve where Ruby goes heel and we eventually get stable warfare (maybe a Blood & Guts match).

Saraya, Storm, Ruby, Athena vs. Willow, Britt, Shida, Rosa maybe?

 

3 hours long. Filled with interviews and highlights.

 

I guess some PPV deals might be preventing it, but it’s weird they didn’t include a Briscoes vs. FTR match from their epic trilogy.

 

They were also all so recent, so they probably wanted to keep it to the more classic matches, like vs. Cole, Daniels and Joe.

Crushing to watch the interviews with Joe, Daniels and Kingston.

 

I'm convinced who needs to be the ones to take the belts off the Usos.

OK, maybe not, but these skits have been glorious.

 

My thought: have Roman and Heyman sabotage Sami during the Rumble. Somehow Sami wins (with KO’s help?) and gets a WM match against Roman, who becomes even more of a monster heel while Sami gets way over as a face. It would be Daniel Bryan-ish years ago with the improbable underdog. And then the Usos are caught in the middle with some resolution at WM, perhaps with Solo picking a side or striking out on his own.

I’m sure there’s a better plan for this Bloodline storyline than that, but I would love to see that happen and see where they take it.