2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

My thing is, I didn't get it. And I get comedy. But I didn't get it.

Still waiting for a logical explanation for that whole bit.

 

They were trying to go for the clown car/Duggar vagina joke, in which how many people and goats could fit in a limo. It just wasn't funny.

Santino calling him Fredrick the Entertainment was amusing. But the rest of it was meh, at best.

 

I thought the Cena-Orton contract signing was OK. Yeah, he's superman, but there is a base level of competence to everything he does. Outside of that though, there wasn't much to recommend with this episode, and Cedric was a big dud.

 

Ric Flair's scratch-off lottery ticket commercial in North Carolina. Wooo!

 

I did enjoy the Cena-Orton contract signing segment, but I'm kinda souring on Cena. I think he's trying too hard to be The Rock, with his funny lines and funny faces. It seems like every promo he cuts is an audition to show his acting chops.

I guess I'm not a true WWE fan, because I've heard and read nothing but positive reviews about RAW since the celebrity guest host bit started. I've hated just about all of them, with the exception of the Shaq one, which was pretty damn good by RAW standards.

 

For a refreshing change of pace from RAW, may I suggest...of all things...ECW? Good mix of some established guys and young talent on the way up. Last night had a pretty good title match between Christian and Zack Ryder (one of Edge's former lackeys repackaged as a boy-band type of dude, except he doesn't sing).

It's fun watching some of these new talent go 10 or 15 minutes with guys who know how to work. Christian, Regal and Goldust are at points in their careers where they don't seem to have an issue with working alongside fresh faces and making them look good.

Plus no guest hosts, and only enough mic work to advance a storyline. Besides that? Good old-fashioned rasslin'.

 

I may start taping ECW, now that some other shows I usually TiVO on Tuesday have finished up. I used to love watching ECW, but the time slot is kind of funky.

 

ECW hasn't been one of my stronger interests, but I'm really beginning to enjoy it. ECW has manly become the next step up for the young guys from OVW. It's WWE Minor Leagues, of sorts. But it has been great seeing some of the fresh, young talent who can really go in the ring.

I will definitely start watching it more.

 

One warning, though (a.k.a. Shitty Storyline Alert): Paul Burchill is trying to "prove" the Hurricane and Gregory Helms are the same person. Helms should've stuck with the 3 Count gimmick

 

So just like TNA, except Sabin and Shelley are better than Burchill and I would say that Kaz is better than Helms. Unlike TNA, this story won't just disappear in a few weeks.

 

Random sidenote: Sabin and Shelley absolutely *rule* on the mic. The MCMG have a second announce table next to Tenay and Taz, and TNA often cuts to them for bits and pieces in some matches.

 

Just got through Raw on the DVR. As I've said 1,000 times in this thread, the guest host crap needs to end. Like yesterday.

Al Sharpton? Really? That's the best you can do? What, Octomom busy?

Seriously, this is beyond ridiculous and it's taking away from the show.