2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

Jim Ross blogged that Angle would be best served getting away from wrestling for awhile.

I couldn't agree more.

 

The Beautiful People.

Wow.

 

Has there ever been a more appropriate name in wrestling than "The Beautiful People" to describe those three?

 

They probably could have also used "The Whores," too.

 

Also, the real reason why I checked in here: TNA kept the strap on Angle tonight.

I only watched the last 20 minutes of a feed just to see what would happen. I promise.

They played an injury angle with him, too, near the end, with Morgan giving him a massive big boot into the rail outside of the ring. He took a fall on his shoulder and had the referees' attention, but ended up winning.

I was really hoping they'd have played it smart and taken the belt off him and sat him. Instead, they're setting up what might be the making of that excuse later on.

 

Holy fuck ... this guest host shit needs to stop.

 

Freddie Prinze Jr. was doing well before this whole Santino crap began...

 

I dunno. It doesn't advance anything, but every once in a while it doesn't hurt to have something funny for the sake of being funny, and this is a little better than WWE's recent average (even if the references are a bit old for most of the crowd and King and Cole are hopelessly lame). And Prinze is taking this pretty seriously, so that's a positive. Just don't let this get to ZZ Top levels, is all.

Orton still carries himself like a star, no matter how much he gets made to look like a chump. Imagine him on Smackdown, where they aren't as encumbered by the sports entertainment end of it, and having him defend the top title against Punk, either Hardy or Morrison.

 

Given Raw's poor ratings as of late, and the return of Monday Night Football, WWE needs to figure something out.

 

Speaking of guest hosts, a few more have been confirmed according to PW Torch -- Bob Barker, LeBron James, Nancy O'Dell (from Access Hollywood) and ... Al Sharpton?

http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_34499.shtml

I have no idea who Nancy O'Dell is. That's a fail.
Bob Barker could be entertaining. Maybe they can bring back an old WCW gimmick and have a "spin the wheel, make the deal" match.
LeBron James will be like Shaq, except he'll book himself into a tag match, try to take on five guys at once, lose and then leave the arena 15 minutes early.
Al Sharpton has the verbal skills to be entertaining. But by the end of the night, we'll have Cryme Tyme as the tag champs, Kofi Kingston retaining the U.S. strap, MVP beating the Big Show in a 2-minute squash and Mark Henry crushing Randy Orton in 15 seconds.

Other potential guest hosts are Ashlee Simpson (the show would, apparently, be a rerun of the previous week's show), MC Hammer (the show would be a series of cheesy gimmick matches and the WWE would be bankrupt at the end) and Regis Philbin (expect the return of McMahon's Millions, with a whole new twist!)

 

Floyd "Money" Mayweather is the guest host next week.

That'll be a fail.

 

Do I smell a rematch with Big Show?
Old Floyd could use another $20 million, you know.