2010 Pro Wrestling Thread

Actually, according to Wikipedia, Saturn is alive and well and married in Minnesota and works for a door company. All this after disappearing off the face of the earth for several years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Saturn

The two Radicalz who are no longer with us are Benoit and Guerrero.

 

I think that's what MMII was going for...the whole 'fell off the face of the earth bit'.

 

Worms.

 

Well, that made me cringe.

 

Rikishi is still alive. However, his brother, Umaga, is no longer among the living.

 

Damn. Can't keep my dead Samoan wrestlers straight.

 

Jay Lethal is my favorite wrestler right now.

He's the only wrestler that makes me laugh and get into a storyline. I can even put up with Fuckhead Hogan being all over the TV just to watch Lethal's shtick. He was great as Macho Man and he's even better as 'Naitch.

 

I just watched the Flair/Lethal promo on DVR. Absolutely epic. 'Naitch still has it on the mic, and Lethal certainly can bring it as well. Say what you want about TNA, Russo, Bischoff, Hogan, etc., but if they continue this Jay Lethal push, they'll hit one out of the park.

 

I was waiting for him to cut a promo on the guy with the accent.

I'm waiting to see who he comes up with next. Doing Hogan would be too easy. I could see him imitating a heel Kurt Angle. Can't wait to see who they program him with next.

 

I can see a turn away from the PG-13 era given how Linda McMahon is being portrayed as the heel in the Senate campaign. Blumenthal was supposed to be dead meat after his Vietnam screwup but now leads Linda by 25 points.
A decent number of Republicans are so piSsed with her that they're begging Simmons to get back in the ring. Simmons suspended his campaign, but remains on the GOP primary ballot and can hop back in whenever he wants.
Linda's campaign has become the WBF or XFL of politics.

 

Here's the Lethal/Flair promo. It was fantastic:

Also a semi-shoot interview with Lethal where he talks about working with Flair, talking about the first segment he worked with him:

 

I think we're both in Rhode Island, but yeah, I also see no way of McMahon's Senate campaign winning. Blumenthal would have to have another couple screw-ups for her to win. I thought Simmons got a raw deal in all of this to begin with, and I was surprised the GOP went with McMahon over him. Linda McMahon has the charisma of the chair I'm sitting in, to paraphrase Jay Bilas. Vince McMahon is a better candidate, even with all of his horrible skeletons, because he would at least appeal to a crowd with his orator skills.