2024 Pro Wrestling Thread

It's Gooker Time!
Kind of an underwhelming list of nominees this year. CM Punk's AEW run and James Mitchell torpedoing the NWA's potential TV deal by snorting cocaine on live TV are the two frontrunners right now, and nothing else is even that close. Voting ends Jan. 12.

https://www.wrestlecrap.com/inducti...worst-of-the-worst-gooker-award-2023-is-here/

 

I vacillitated between Mitchell and Vince before finally voting for Mitchell. Vince’s ouster, semi-return, and second ouster is historic, but Mitchell’s is just bizarre as hell.

 

I'm not sure Vince's 2023 saga is Gooker-worthy since it largely played out in the background.
I voted twice (on two different devices), once for Punk and once for Mitchell. I think those were big, front and center, and bizarre enough to represent the worst ideas and impulses of wrestlers.
If there was a category for worst single match, though, it was that Texas Chainsaw Match. Good God was that awful. They usually do separate inductions for all the nominees, eventually, and I'm looking forward to that one.

 

So much for Lashley and the Profits as heels.

Ellering and AOP are not exactly the former WWE superstars I was clamoring for a return -- especially coupled with a vacuum like Kross.

 

Meltzer Bomb: Wrestling Observer reporting that MJF has a torn labrum and could be out for close to a year. He’s still trying to avoid surgery.

 

I had a hunch that would be the case. Would be a huge bummer if he's off TV all that time. Having him on the mic would be great, but a little underwhelming if he can't get his physical revenge.

Perhaps an injured MJF can rally his own posse against Cole and Co., but I don't think we'll be seeing him for a long time.

Meanwhile, they BADLY need more threats for the SD women's belt. With Charlotte gone and the Asuka/Kairi allied with Iyo, they need to accelerate Bayley's split from Damage Control.

Also read the rumors that Naomi could soon be back after the end of her Impact deal.

 

Damn. Looks like Knight took a knee from AJ on the 450 and got busted up HARD way.

 

Nice little Easter egg.

 

The reply, though:

 

Seeing Adam Copeland go toe to toe with "Who the fuck is" Griff Garrison is certainly a choice.

 

Dax taking a chair to his head in front of his family takes commitment.

What's next? Julia Hart misting Dax's daughter?

 

With AEW going back to JAX on Wednesday, they've got a compilation of the best moments of Daily's Place. Some great moments (Britt/Rosa in Lights Out, Shaq's great table spot, the Brodie Lee Tribute Show), but they still showed Jericho falling through the "concrete" into the crash pad.