2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

Wow, completely anti-climatic. At least it was clean.

 

What were the biggest spots out of Hardy v Hardy and Taker v HBK?

 

I was so hoping for a Stephanie turn on HHH.

 

I think the Austin celebration was more entertaining than those two title matches.

 

Crowd seemed dead through that whole match, too. They really dropped the ball there. Should've made it no DQ and just let them tear each other apart. Other than hitting both finishers in the first two minutes (which was interesting), it was just a basic match. For a feud that good and heated, that was an incredibly shitty payoff.

 

- Jeff vaulting off a 15-foot ladder and landing on his spine when Matt moved
- Jeff putting Matt on a table, then stacking a second table on top of him before leaping through it.
- Taker jumping head over heels through the ring ropes and landing on a camera guy.

 

GREAT show from top-to-bottom.

 

Taker hit the chokeslam, powerbomb and a tombstone and Michaels kicked out of all three. Taker kicked out of Sweet Chin Music twice I believe. The match was fantastic.

I thought Jeff chair shot to Matt's head was pretty damn solid, too.

And that final match was just eh. I've never really been entertained by HHH's in ring work.

 

Hardy vs. Hardy:
Jeff set Matt up on a table with a chair on top of him, then put another table over top of that. Then Jeff did a splash from the top turnbuckle onto the floor through both tables.
Later, Jeff set up two ladders. He got on top of the shorter one, vaulted over the taller one (a 15-footer) into a leg drop that missed. That set up Matt's neckbreaker finisher -- which he hit after sticking Jeff's neck through the opening of a chair.

Taker-HBK:
Shit, pick one.
HBK caught himself on the ropes after Taker threw him out. As HBK tried to pull himself back in, Taker pulled him back in and planted him with a tombstone.
Taker did his suicide dive onto a cameraman that HBK pulled into the way.
HBK tried a moonsault off the turnbuckle, got caught by Taker and planted with another tombstone.
And there were a couple of superkicks, powerbombs, chokeslams and submission moves mixed in there. It was a phenomenal match that lived up to expectations in every way possible.

 

Hey ... it's on again!

The chick from the Pussycat Dolls is pretty hot.

 

I know you couldn't possibly expect it to match HBK-Taker, but that HHH-Orton match was really underwhelming. The triple-threat match was at least decent on its own merits, IMO, but HHH-Orton just didn't have the feel of a PPV Main Event or a heated grudge match. I kept waiting for an unexpected swerve because of the use of the sledgehammer or something. And the aftermath, outside of the extra pyro, just felt like it was the ending of a RAW match -- that ended the first hour of the telecast.