2024 Pro Wrestling Thread

Brie and their kids at ringside. Just about guarantees some sick, diabolical shit coming from Swerve.

 

Well, there's the first "Daniel Bryan" from Jim Ross.

 

I’m not watching this PPV. But it sounds bonkers. Christian Cage with a world title shot? Nigel back in the ring? Orange Cassidy in black denim?

 

Holy shit, what a moment. But Christian coming out to screw over Bryan right now would be atomic heat.

 

So they debuted Ricochet and had hin lose to Christian? Really?

 

Ricochet didn't lose. He was just on the outside with Hangman, Okada, Sabre, Nigel and the rest while Christian got the pin on O'Reilly. It doesn't reflect any less on Ricochet -- just the nature of the casino gauntlet match.

Christian just did the dick move and used his muscle to get the win (even though the teasing of Luchasaurus getting tired of Christian is getting a bit old).

Meanwhile, who knew the world ever possessed a Drew McIntyre/Nasty Boys match?

 

I mean if I wanted to present Ricochet as a true game changer and not the same as every other signing they’ve had, I’d put him over

 

Depends on what happens in the next few months. Also, I think they probably asked Danielson who he wanted to face in a title defense at the next PPV and he picked Christian Cage.

 

RIP Sid of the Vicious, Sycho and Justice varieties. Had a great career as the menacing heel.

Glad he got to have some extra moments in the Heath Slater legend bits, and his broken leg wasn't the last memory people had of him on major wrestling TV.

 

If true, damn. RIP Sid, to the great big softball game in the sky.



My earliest memory of him was reading an Apter mag article that quoted Kerry Von Erich on Sid being impossible to beat.

His tag team with Dan Spivey in the Skyscrapers was fun as hell to watch. He was the young up and comer in the Horsemen. Then he went to WWF, where they dropped the ball on what could have been an all-time feud by having Hogan turn heel and have Sid be the new face of the company.

He had a couple of fine runs in WWF in the mid-late 90s, before the aforementioned injury in WCW.

RIP to a memorable character who should have been put in the WWE HOF years ago.

 

Of the legends that Heath Slater encountered, four have since passed away (Sid, Piper, Vader, Animal) and Backlund is apparently dealing with dementia.

We've still got DDP, Rikishi, Doink (Steve Lombardi variety presumably), Lita, APA, Wendi Richter and Cyndi Lauper.

 

Sid and Spivey with one of the great beatdowns ever