2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

I'll give Prinze credit ... he's been good and knowledgable in his segments.

But this needs to end.

 

"Randy Orton, as is his MO, strikes from behind!"

Given Orton's ... ahem ... reputation, that might not have been the best choice of words, Michael Cole.

 

Anyone with a recap?

 

Cena gets the pin of Jericho in the tag team "lumberjack" match and then Orton RKO's him. Then the gang led by Mark Henry playing the lumberjack roles start beating the crap out of Big Show and Jericho until Cena gets his feet underneath him, then takes Big Show and throws him out of the ring.

DX shows up, celebrates their arrival in the ring, and then get the shit beat out of them by Legacy.

Hornswoggle takes out Guerrero again, back stage as the match goes there from under the ring, and it ends with a "Home Alone" stunt, which ends with a beaten Chavo looking at McCauley Caulkin, who looks bad after years of drug abuse.

Couldn't tell you who won the Diva match.

Kofi beats Carlito to retain his title.

Yawn.

 

That Diva match had, by far, the worst finish to a match since Lesnar botched the SSP at WrestleMania.

Mickie James botched her DDT finisher (or did Gail Kim block it? I don't know, but it sucked). Kim then gets up, James attempts a spin kick that misses by 30 feet, Kim falls flat on her back and the most awkward three count in recent history takes place.

Terrible, Terrible finish.

As for the show tonight: Wow. What a bad two hours.

The only good thing was watching Legacy kick the crap out of 33.3 percent (That's my codename for this alleged "DX"). If that reunion promo had run any longer, we'd still be watching it.

 

If you think about it, though, there are only two people missing from the original DX. One's dead (Rick Rude in a non-wrestling role) and the other's Chyna...so having just Trips and Shawn is OK. There was the HHH/HBK/Chyna DX, *then* the DX Army, which actually replaced HBK with 3 people.

 

Yeah, but just having H3 and Shawn is like having Flair and Mongo and calling them the Four Horsemen. Two people alone don't make a stable.

 

Really strange show.

The Divas match was horrendous. John Cena got up way too fast from absorbing an RKO.

The Carlito-Kofi match was OK.

Can't vouch for much else.

 

But like I said, those guys and gal aren't coming back to WWE. At all.

 

They've kinda gotten around that and billed them as a tag team in recent years. Supposedly one of the greatest of all time, even though they couldn't take the straps off Rated RKO

 

Seeing Micki's face after the botched finish was priceless (no pun intended). She wasn't even selling her victory. I wonder what it was like backstage after that match.

Legacy's beatdown of DX came not a moment too soon. It was a good little surprise ending to a crappy segment that went about 15 minutes too long.

Prinze did a good job taking Orton's reverse-backbreaker (or whatever it's called).

Carlito-Kofi was fine. The rest of the show: Meh.

On the guest hosts: Sharpton will either be the best, or the worst. Regis should be fine because he had a long history with Freddie Blassie and knows the business.

Bob Barker should either do the wheel version of Spin the Wheel (as someone suggested earlier) or a Plinko Version. Make each wrestler climb up the Plinko board and drop the discs down into holes either marking the type of match, or their opponent.

 

Actually, as numerous articles have pointed out, ratings are UP 10 percent since the start of the guest host thing.