2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

I wonder if Vince will catch any flack over that superkick?

Other than another boring tag match featuring the top two guys, Raw was good. Loved the FU/RKO on Jericho, even though it looked like Jericho took a hit from the duo and it looked botched.

Jericho/Cena also botched a spot when Jericho went for a small cradle. Looked like Cena had to bend over twice.

Is Prinze still part of creative? I thought I read that he left the company somewhere ...

 

Last I heard he wasn't on the writing team any more, unless that's changed recently.

 

Raw looked pretty good. I liked the Jericho segment where he comes off all babyface to the Calgary crowd, then starts running them down while talking to Big Show.

The Michaels implied superkick on the girl (I wonder if that was really his daughter in the skit. WWE does those things sometimes), I wasn't too crazy about. Child abuse is no laughing matter. Dumping the lettuce over her head would have been OK.

Legacy coming out and destroying Hornswoggle was entertaining. The women's match started slow, but then picked up really well at the end. Sarge turning on the Canadian crowd was amusing.

All in all, not a bad show.

 

I was on-and-off with the show because I was watching my Tigers lose to the Red Sox, but there were a few spots I liked.

Jericho is great and even though he bad-mouthed the Canadians, he still got a big pop from the crowd. I caught Cena seconds after his entrance but before Jericho came out. The crowd was booing him pretty well. Then halfway through the match they're chanting his name.

The bothched cradle I think was on both guys. Jericho reached up for it but Cena wasn't done with his antics on the You Can't See Me crap. Also, Jericho took a pretty nasty bump on that FU/RKO. He face planted and his back/legs sort of followed. Probably a sore back/neck/possibly face today.

I caught the final like three seconds of that Calgary Kid bit and I ws trying to figure out who it was. Then the mask came off and... well... it was AWESOME. The Miz is quite entertaining.

I hope they don't keep Mark Henry as MarkSwoggle or whatever. Yes, it was nice to see Legacy work that annoying little shit Hornswaggle.

I picked up on the HBK segment right as his boss was yelling in his face. The superkick was great and I was definitely caught off guard by the hit on the little girl. I laughed pretty hard throughout most of it, though. The "SummerFest" reference was good.

 

How do you think he got his push?

Anyhow, I wasn't terribly crazy about Raw. Liked the Calgary Kid/Miz thing, though the contract on a pole match is not only unrepentantly bad deus ex machina, it also made me think Vince Russo took over the show for a week.

The "WWE hates Canada" thing is really old. And how many times have they faked bringing Bret Hart out now? Wonder how many people remembered that Hacksaw Jim Duggan spent a few weeks as a heel in Team Canada during WCW's dying days?

The chef crap was saved ONLY by HBK's acting. It would have been funnier (and more realistic) had HBK tried to superkick the girl, but he missed by three feet because she's so short. Can you even superkick someone so much shorter than you? For some reason, I liked the second fire on the grill, like that was just the natural order of things. But the concept was refuse of the murkiest order.

If Jack Swagger isn't main eventing one of the Big Four PPVs in 2010, something seriously went wrong.

 

I too thought the girl was HBK's daughter. Could be wrong, though.

 

I liked the idea of HBK superkicking that annoying little girl. Obviously it was fake but it had an old school DX feel to it.

Oh, and that's another thing. Two out of five members of a stable shouldn't be allowed to call themselves by the stable name. If Ric Flair and Arn Anderson formed a tag team ten years after the Four Horsemen stable dissolved, they couldn't (and shouldn't) call themselves the Four Horsemen. It doesn't make sense.

As for the discussion of the botched inside cradle by Cena and Jericho, Jericho had to scoot down the ring to get it hooked. Either Cena and CJ had a miscommunication or Jericho underestimated where Cena was going to stop for the move. Either way, CJ had to scoot off the ground and over the Cena and that clearly through his timing off.

I'l like to see those two have an actual feud. That could be interesting.

 

I didn't realize that today was Hulk Hogan's 56th birthday.

I thought he was older than that.

Damn.

 

You know there's no way in hell Vince is allowing the other three to come back anytime soon. X-pac has too many drug problems, and Road Dogg and Billy Gunn (I think) jumped ship to TNA. I just don't see those three coming back at all, and there's no one I'd want to plug in to take over their roles.

If Cena wins the strap at SummerFest, and Jericho/Show drop the tag titles to Cryme Tyme, I could see them developing a nice little feud over the top belt between Cena and Jericho.

It'd at least be something fresh, and it would give Orton some time off after carrying the strap -- not to mention Raw -- for the last few months.

This could also be a perfect time to break away from Legacy and have a singles run, maybe contend for the U.S. title. Then, Orton comes back and convinces Teddy he's nothing without Legacy. Teddy drops the U.S. strap to someone, realizes Orton is right, and rejoins the other two. Orton regains the WWE title shortly after the first of the year, and we go through more months of the Cena-Orton-Trips triple circle-jerk.

 

The Missing Undertaker Case: Day 150, or thereabouts.
Rest. In. Peace.

Where's Festus been lately? Damn, I miss him.

 

Taker has had a few matches on SmackDown and Superstars since Mania. He hasn't been that active, but he hasn't been gone the whole time, either.

 

And, FWIW, I can't stand Festus. His character -- and Jesse, for that matter -- is lame.