2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

Mae Young?

FIXED!

 

Do you mean Mae Young? *having flashbacks of that bikini contest at a PPV...thanks, jerk*

 

I'll give you a hand for correcting me on that. (ducks!)

 

OK, here's my scenario for Raw. Because it's the flagship show, the losers and hangers-on can go over to Smackdown! and ECW for all I care:

One world champion. WWE World heavyweight champion. Nostalgic-looking belt (no spinners, fat-ass gold belts, or plain-looking belts that you can't even read it).

One WWE Intercontinental champion. Only because of its history. The IC champ is the No. 1 contender to the WWE World champion (the way it should be).

One WWE Cruiserweight champion. Because I'm pushing the hell out of the division, dammit.

One set of WWE World Tag Team Champions (See "Cruiserweight")

Here is my roster:

Kaz (Not Hiyashi, the TNA Kaz. Of course, I'd give him a new gimmick)
MVP (Tons of heel charisma and can work)
Johnny Nitro (He can call himself what he wants, but I'm not crazy about the Morrison gimmick)
Christian (See MVP)
Randy Orton
Edge
Chris Jericho (All as heels)
Shelton Benjamin (face, and without Mama)
Rey Misterio (I do really like the guy, and my son is crazy about him)
RVD
Sabu
Kurt Angle (heel)
The Hardy Boys (faces)(I don't like Jeff Hardy, really, but I need a tag team division and it should RULE.
Carlito and Primo (As heels)
Ted DiBiase Jr. (That's his name, too.)(Heel)
Jack Swagger (heel)
Santino Marella (Because I love the guy)
Dolph Ziggler (With a new gimmick)
Finlay (As my enforcer)
William Regal (see "Finlay")
Tommy Dreamer (Because he works his ass off)
Robert Roode (He reminds me of Ravishing Rick, so there's his gimmick)

There's my team.
Ricky Ortiz and Tyson Kidd

 

You know what's funny in a way. We always bash HHH on here, but after PPVs, we almost always say he's had a great match. And he's jobbed to plenty of guys. If he wasn't married to a McMahon, there wouldn't be any issues with the guy. He's done a lot to help push guys like Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy. But instead of praising him like we do HBK, people say Trips should be put out to pasture. True, he doesn't bring it every match like HBK, but who does? I just don't see why everyone hates HHH so much. Is he the best thing going? No. But there are a lot of issues that need to be fixed before him.

Go ahead, rip me.

 

R-I-I-I-I-I-P-P-P!!

 

Awesome.

That would never work. You're lumping 'logic' and 'professional wrestling' together

 

On the heels of Harley's proposal, how would you guys run RAW? Let's say you get 24 Superstars and your choice of belts. You choose the role/gimmick for each one.

 

Nah, I won't rip you. Trips has his positives. He's fought through numerous injuries. He respects the history of the business. And, even if he didn't marry Steph, he probably would have had an excellent career, in any era.

Having said that, he should have given up his spot in the pecking order several years ago. He's delibrately made wrestlers look weak. One example ... the Spirit Squad. Yeah, their gimmick was lame. But why the heck was Trips allowed to beat 5 guys up at once? I could see Andre the Giant doing that. But not some guy that's 260-280 pounds.

And for a long time, he didn't job to anyone. He's only had some losses in the last couple of years. And that, we can now take with a grain of salt because Trips has said he wants to beat Flair's record of 16 title reigns. Flair didn't need to marry the boss' daughter for those title reigns.

And I'm tired of seeing every babyface get beat up by the heels, only to have Trips come out with the sledgehammer to clean house. It was fine the first 1-2 times. Seeing it about 10 times now, no.

He's also much better as a heel. With all the evil (on camera) has done in his career, I can't be sympathetic towards him.

 

Yeah, I'm post padding. But I find the question very intriguing. Here's my 24, although I'll stick to the men for now:

World champ: Randy Orton (the best in the business right now)
No. 1 contender: Shawn Michaels (I don't think him and RKO have had an extended run)
No. 2 contender: Cena (yeah, he has his critics, but the kids love him)
IC champ: Jeff Hardy
No. 1 IC champ contender: CM Punk
No. 2 IC champ contender: Shelton Benjamin
Tag champs: Edge and Jericho (these guys should have an extended run)
No. 1 tag contenders: Miz and Morrison (make them cool babyfaces)
Comedy: Santino
Special attraction: Undertaker
Orton's Horsemen: DiBiase, Swagger, Big Show (as the Enforcer)
Young heels: DH Smith, Tyson Kidd, MVP (he's better as a heel), Ziggler.
Young faces: Evan Bourne, Kofi Kingston
Longtime veterans: Mysterio, Christian, Henry

Also, we need some Divas. I'll add them to my 24:
Champ: Beth
No. 1 contender: Gail Kim (she has some cred after her great matches in TNA)
No. 2 heel: Michelle McCool
No. 2 babyface: Mickie James
Jobber heel: Jillian (I always find her lousy singing gimmick to be pretty funny)
Jobber face: Maria (because she's hot)

 

Ladies and gentlemen, RAW is Petrie:

WWE TITLE PICTURE (Attitude Era belt)
Champ — Randy Orton
No. 1 contender — Shawn Michaels (Still the most entertaining worker and deserves one more title run. Can be the heel if we works with Cena)
No. 2 face — John Cena (Hey...dude equals ratings. Plus he and HBK seem to have pretty good chemistry, and his presence allows HBK to turn heel if I so desire)
No. 2 heel — Edge (Great matches with Orton and Cena in the past. I'll keep the tag belts on him and Jericho, and possibly throw in a comedic face run along the way)

IC TITLE PICTURE
Champ — John Morrison (Or possibly Johnny Nitro and reunite him with Melina. Either way, I'm giving him the strap because I love his matches.)
No. 1 contender — CM Punk (As a tweener)
No. 2 face — Shelton Benjamin
No. 2 heel — The Miz
No. 3 face — Kofi Kingston
No. 3 heel — Jack Swagger

CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE PICTURE (225-pound limit, so Kingston, Punk, Rhodes, HBK and J. Hardy also eligible.)
Champ — Rey Mysterio (The prototypical champ in this division.)
No. 1 contender — Chris Jericho (Dude's got room to drop a pound. Plus he, like Mysterio, was synonymous with the WCW cruiserweight belt)
No. 2 face — Evan Bourne
No. 2 heel — Dolph Ziggler (I think he's like 223)

TAG TEAMS
Champs — see above
No. 1 contenders — Hardy Boys
No. 2 faces — Primo and Carlito
No. 2 heels — DiBiase and Rhodes

THE REST
Face — Christian
Face — MVP
Heel — DH Smith
Heel — Tyson Kidd

And let's add 6 Divas...
Champ — Melina
No. 1 contender — Beth Phoenix
No. 2 face — Mickie James
No. 2 heel — Maryse (Love the character)
No. 3 face — Kelly Kelly
No. 3 heel — Michelle McCool

 

Okay, new topic. Sort of.

If you were the GM of Raw, and let's say Smackdown, ECW or SuperStars doesn't exist (i.e. circa early 1990's), who would your roster consist of? You can use any wrestler of past and present. Who would be your champions, contenders, etc.

Go.

I'm too lazy to put together my list right now, but I'm sure some of you geeks are going to have a field day. ;D

EDIT: Oops! I didn't see Petrie actually started this. I thought you were all just rambling. I'll keep this, though. I'm interested if anyone adds any past wrestlers.