2008 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

No, but according to Wikipedia he was trained by Val Venis. Hello, ladies.

 

Petey's "there" with most of the gifts, but that body sure as hell wasn't by Jake, if you know what I mean.

I put him in the same boat as Steiner. Scott Steiner was my favorite wrestler when he had long, brown hair, a decent build and got by on his in-ring skills, which were some of the best in the business. But I can't stand "Big Poppa Pump".

 

Is Steiner still wrestling? Or did the drugs finally catch up to him?

 

He does short matches with lots of stalling, and still does an occasional suplex (but no more Frankensteiners).

His back is the shits, though if I were him I'd be more concerned about the size of his nuts.

 

TNA has plenty of talent, but they're wasting it right now. The have a tag team division that makes anything on WWE look bad (Machine Guns, LAX, Styles-Tomko, Team 3D and plenty more). WWE seems to have forgotten a lot of big stars (Steve Austin, Shaun Michaels, Bret Hart) got their starts in tag teams. It's a great way to build up mid-carders. Plus, TNA doesn't throw their good tag teams into squash matches with one guy who they want to push, a la Triple H and Umaga in the WWE.

And in singles competition, TNA's got the talent to put on killer matches. The sad thing is, when they do put on an awesome match (and they usually have at least one a week), it's sandwiched between annoying soap opera crap. I'd love to see a Styles-Kaz series. Those guys could tear the roof off any arena. They've been wasting Styles for too long. I thought the stooge thing was funny at first, but it's gone on too long for a guy who has been a world champion. And they finally seem to be doing good by Angle with the Samoa Joe run right now. A Christian-Roode feud could be cool, too. And I like Eric Young, if just for some comic relief, but this monster Black Reign Rellik stuff is stupid.

 

He did a Frankensteiner off the top rope last year, I believe. I agree though, that he was much better before the Big Poppa Pump era in the ring. Now, he looks like if he takes one bump, his body will fall apart right in the ring.

AndI agree with JRoyal on TNA and the WWE forgetting about the tag team division. What TNA should do is not to try to be WWE, to be the serious in-ring alternative. Instead, they act like WCW in 2000.

 

He still wrestles and got a new chest tattoo a few weeks ago.

 

I just cannot imagine how his body is still holding up after being juiced for so long.

 

Williams' Canadian Destroyer is the coolest looking finisher in a long time. As for his look, yeah, he might not want to be associated with Steiner. Perhaps they have the same dealer.

 

My favorite finisher ever.

 

Williams' finisher is amazing. I turned over to TNA one night about a year ago and saw that for the first time and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

 

Anyone catch Raw tonight? I haven't been able to watch it in over a month. I read that they were going to "play it safe" with all three shows to not make anyone look weak ... but had no idea that constituted a Hardcore Holly vs. Great Khali interpromotional squash.

When I saw Hardcore Holly come out right after the Big Show segment, I hoped they were going to bring Mayweather out for a tune-up bout. Given Holly's workrate, there would have been blood, there would have been punches and someone would have walked out of there ... and the other wouldn't have.