2010 Pro Wrestling Thread

Forget WWE. The NXT guys really did a number on ABC Catering. That company will never be the same after that vicious assault on the finger sandwiches.

 

OK, that ending ... sucked.

First, maybe I wasn't paying attention, but was there ever a finish to the main event?

Second, like Gutter said, why did no one come help Bret? I was expecting a huge brawl in the back. Hell, if the WWE really wanted to swerve everyone, they could have had Edge, Orton and Sheamus see the Titantron, then run back, then have either Danielson (or Barrett) nail Cena from behind. Nope.

Third: Another car crash? Especially after one had been done six months earlier? And the editing looked like crap.

Who's booking this thing, Vince Russo?

 

Since all seven NXTers were watching the limo do it's work, one can only wonder who the driver is.

Danielson?

 

Easily my favorite moment of the night was when the WWE roster was chasing the NXT guys out of the arena, and Mark Fucking Henry is one of the two guys on camera in pursuit.

Mark Henry cannot run. At all.

Yet he was leading the charge with Santino.

WWE blew this. A brawl in catering would have sufficed.

Last week was awesome. This week was awesomely bad. But at least it kept me laughing.

 

Not to mention at one point Henry was AHEAD of some of the NXT guys.

 

Yeah, it looked like he was jogging out the door with them. You'd think he'd just take a step to the side and clothesline a guy.

 

While I'll admit the NXT angle wasn't nearly as good here as it was last week, I like what they did with it.

The WWE roster standing up and attacking them was pretty sweet and sets up an interesting angle if they choose to pursue it heading into SummerSlam.

Barrett didn't really impress me much in his NXT time but dude is really opening my eyes here. He's good on the mic, seems to have a good character going and appears to be able to hold his own with a major angle.

I guess I'm just glad they didn't try anything too difficult for Hart. I mean, dude called it the WWF for christsakes.

Aside from that, I thought this was a fairly decent RAW, highlighted by an AWESOME Fatal 4 Way Match for the US Belt.

I usually hate fourway matches but the one between Miz, Truth, Morrison and Ryder was well scripted and had some great spots. Here's hoping they pursue matches like this (and less of the Big Show and random guest host variety).

 

I didn't think this week was horrible. Did it live up to last week? No, but it was going to be tough to match that. I thought it worked out pretty well in the end, though. But I will be disappointed if it wasn't Bryan Danielson driving the limo.

 

They're probably setting up Danielson as the limo driver when they bring him back. If, for whatever reason, they don't, then they'll have someone else claim to be it. Maybe Vince? After all, he did have that weird promo with Bret a couple of weeks back, and it's not like he's ever declared war on his own roster before.

The beginnng of the show was strong. Bret did very well on the mic (WWF error not withstanding), and the NXT invasion in the middle of the show was well done. The ending was late-90s WCW-ish. I'm still wondering how that main event match ended.

 

Yeah, at some point we have to have a WWE person turn out to have been working with NXT the whole time. Lots of possibilities, and I'll even throw Bret Hart out of there.

Seeing as how they don't seem to be dragging this out, going straight from invasion to united front defense in two weeks, I'm guessing we'll get the turncoat pretty quickly.

 

That was the other thing. It's only one week, and already all the WWE guys are united? Too fast.

What they should have done is have the NXT guys invade another match and beat down both wrestlers. Then, the week after that, another beatdown, followed by the babyfaces coming out, and getting beat down, too. After that, then you have a unified front. Four weeks, as opposed to two. Put some drama in 'You never know when the NXT guys are going to invade'.

One of the cool things I remember about the NWO invasion in '96 was a week where Giant/Big Show joined the group, then they proceeded to destroy about five guys. Luger came down, the arena went crazy, but he got beat down too. One of the more effective beat-down segments I've seen.

 

15 days ago, I was thinking I was about bored with my latest spurt of watching wrestling because it is too predictable.

Yesterday, one of the most important moments of Raw was when Santino, R-Truth and Jerry Lawler joined John Cena in the ring to stand up to the NXT rookies. That's still so weird I can barely type it.