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2024 Pro Wrestling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Baron Scicluna, Jan 1, 2024.

  1. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    If anybody has 74 minutes they want to flush down the toilet.

     
  2. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Thursday is TNA Impact TNA Impact on what used to be HDNet.
     
  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Whenever I hear “board of directors”, I’m imagining a Jack Tunney announcement with the Rock then telling him to shut up.
     
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  4. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    AND Kevin Patrick is apparently out as SD play-by-play. Seems like a good guy and was fine with backstage or pre-show stuff, but not really suited as a wrestling PBP guy. Does to a good job with soccer, though.

    Kinda hoping for them to bring Vic Joseph back up to the main roster from NXT. If not him, the only name I could think of, which might be more of a pipe dream, is bringing Mauro Ranallo back.
     
  5. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    I remember sometime last year when Jade Cargill said her guy deserved to be in Cooperstown. Well, she must've been the one person who actually voted for Brandon Phillips.
     
  6. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    On the same day Dwayne joins the TKO board, his daughter becomes GM of NXT. What a day for the family.

    And William Regal is back!
     
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  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    The Gooker winners have been announced. There was a virtual tie in the voting, so the NWA cocaine party and CM Punk's year in AEW shared the honor.
    The NWA induction is already up, and is freaking hilarious. They dive into not only that debacle, but the awful PPV as a whole. Allegedly, it had 212 buys.
    Punk will be posted later this week.

    https://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/nwa-samhain/
     
    Last edited: Jan 24, 2024
  8. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    What ... in the BLUE HELL ... did I just read?! LOL
     
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  9. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    Season 5 Trailer For Dark Side of the Ring Confirms Topics, Premiere Date | 411MANIA

    I get a lot of these, but what is "Dark Side" about Earthquake/John Tenta, other than that he died at a relatively young age (which, sadly, is not out of the ordinary with pro wrestling)? Same with Harley Race, who I seem to think lived a long, esteemed life.
     
  10. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Good to see the Angle one apparently isn't part of this as was rumoured. Can't imagine there would be anything to add to the A&E doc.

    I met Sherri once when she was managing Savage. Interesting woman to talk to.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Tenta’s doc might focus on his time as a Japanese sumo, which had some controversy over his tattoo, which the Japanese associate with gangsters. I’m sure there will be plenty on his shoot match with Koji Kitao, who objected to doing the job to him and walked out of the ring, screaming to the crowd that wrestling was fake. They’ll probably also focus on his illness, which was cancer.

    Harley had a very sad start to his career. He was in a car crash while traveling to a match early in his career that killed his young pregnant wife. There also was talk that his physically abused one of his other wives. And I’m sure there will be a lot of stories on his toughness.
     
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  12. nietsroob17

    nietsroob17 Well-Known Member

    Why watch Vice when I can get the cliff notes from you? :D
     
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