2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

Batista's coming back on this Monday's Raw to make an announcement. Let's hope he's about ready to "submit" his wrestling career!

 

God I hope so.

 

Reality, I'm guessing, is a heel turn.

 

I don't see the hate with Bautista.

I mean, you've got The Big Slow and The Great Uglhi running around, and The World's Fattest Man, Mark Henry.

You've got drips such as Chris Masters. You've got Eddy Guerrero's nephew jobbing to a midget.

At least Bautista can actually put together a coherent match. Maybe he can't work, but sheesh, there are a lot worse out there.

 

If it wasn't for the juice, Batista wouldn't be where he is.

 

Neither would a lot of those guys, though.

Trips has the best drug-testing method of anyone. Shoot your father-in-law in the ass, take one from him and nobody is the wiser.

 

I can think of four people who will most likely never have a failed drug test leaked to anyone: Cena, Trips, HBK and Orton.

 

HBK actually had one in '93 or '94, IIRC. Suspended for a while and forced to give up the IC title, but he kept the physical strap. That's why there are two IC belts at that WM10 ladder match with Razor Ramon.

I wanna say Orton also has a suspension on his record. Think he was caught smoking weed in the back when he was on SmackDown! in like '06.

 

The only suspension I remember Orton serving was when he supposedly crapped in someone's suitcase.

Also: Didn't HBK have the white IC strap? Or did that belt come later?

 

Orton was suspended in April 2006 for smoking a joint backstage, and he was suspended in August 2006 for another "Wellness Policy" violation, though the story I read on it says he still worked TV shows but wasn't paid during his suspension (they kept him working TV shows without pay so no storylines would be messed up, but they took him off house shows). He also apparently continued taking somatropin, nandrolone and stanozolol through February 2007, but the WWE said he wasn't punished further because he had already been suspended (never mind he kept doing drugs after the suspension).

It would be hard for the WWE to not fire him if he gets a third strike considering the steps they've taken in the past with other wrestlers, so unless he just blatantly screws up, I can't see any failed test results getting leaked. Losing him would be a big hit.

 

They lose Orton, they lose 75 percent of their fanbase.

 

And imagine if TNA snagged him up. The other signings have been big names past their prime. If Orton was a free agent and TNA got him, then somehow lured Jeff Hardy back, they could actually start making more of a move.

Oh wait, they'd still have crappy booking, so they'd still suck.