2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

To answer the question on Drew McIntyre and his sudden rise:

He has the approval of both HBK and Trips, who sees him as a younger version of himself. Also read that he is probably due a strap sometime within the next year.

Apparently, there is a structure in which HBK, Trips, Cena and Orton determine who gets pushes. Anyone who has the approval of all four (Morrison, Swagger) are on the fast track. Those who fall short of their high standards (Benjamin), well....get to wrestle Shamus on ECW.

Also, last Sunday's Bound for Glory (which was the best PPV of the year, IMO), was Booker T's last with TNA. He is due back to WWE in a role at ECW.

Bound was filled with some sick bumps. Scott Steiner stole the show....he looked like the Steiner of 1992-95, hitting a couple of Frankensteiners and a wicked suplex off the top rope. Angle-Morgan was a show-stopper and may have been the match Morgan needed to elevate himself. All in all, it was a great show. WWE would be wise to take a note or two, because TNA is actually (dare I say it) more compelling than Raw.

 

That was a nice surprise. He looked pretty good, too, although half the crowd had no clue who he was.

 

During the Cena-HHH match, either Lawler or Cole said it was only the fourth time since Wrestlemania 22 (in 2006) that they had faced each other one on one.
No way that can be true, right?
I know HHH was on Smackdown for a while and they've had their share of triple threat matches with Orton, but still ... only four times?

 

That sounds correct to me, because both of them were out with significant injuries at various points, and they also had a couple triple threats as opposed to one on one matches with Orton.

 

Just seems weird that they didn't wrestle each other as a random Raw main event more often than that.

 

I think WWE consciously stayed away from a Cena vs. HHH match-up, because before the injuries, they were hoping to do a long, slow build for a face vs. face match at Wrestlemania.

 

Agreed on Bound for Glory. I was wondering what the hell Steiner was doing hanging around...then he put on that display. Kinda curious what happens with the Main Event Mafia, considering Booker is supposedly out and there are no straps to be found in the stable. I enjoyed Angle/Morgan, which seemed like a main event, much more than Styles/Sting, which really wasn't all that good. If that's Sting's last match and he's going out on a basic splash, that's terrible. if Styles hits the 450 there? OK. But he didn't...and I was like, 'That was it?'

Also, *loved* Ultimate X...assuming Daniels is still alive after the bump he took. Not entirely sure how/why, but Amazing Red is a lot of fun to watch.

 

I haven't check on this thread in a while, but how did Nigel McGuinness end up in TNA? Wasn't he supposed to be in WWE?

 

He failed a pre-contract physical or screen. Not sure why, but that scuttled the deal. TNA has no such deal, and so he signed with them instead.

Didn't see it (usually I try to catch the rerun Saturday) but it sounds like a lot of promising stuff -- Nigel or Wolfe or whatever going after now-face Angle right from Jump Street instead of wrestling Shelton Benjamin in ECW, a Joe-Daniels-AJ title match for the next PPV, more time for the Machine Guns [though Sabin suffered a real scare at last night's tapings for next Thursday, damn near getting paralyzed on a bump against Team 3D -- it also triggered a shoot, possibly, from Kevin Nash about lack of control for not stopping the match right away]. Plus there's no more Booker, who's been calling it in for months, and less stupid shit. I'm hopeful they'll keep in this directon for a while.

 

So, why is Booker coming back to WWE?

 

Alex Marvez speculated that McGuinness might have failed his screening because of numerous concussions.

 

On a story I saw on pwtorch.net about McGuinness, he states that his ring name "Desmond Wolfe" came from "Vince" - apparently a reference to TNA head writer Vince Russo - and he did a Google search to find the most popular British name.
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