2010 Pro Wrestling Thread

Edge is getting rid of his theme song. WTF?

It's one of the best entrance songs out there.

 

No, I think it meant he used to have a Rob Zombie theme song. His current theme song is by a band called "Alter Bridge."

 

Oh good. I missed the first part of the segment and I thought that guy was with Alter Bridge. Shows how up to date I am with music.

And this NXT attack on the old guys made no sense. They just drag Arn out of the ring, beat on him, and the other guys just stay in the ring instead of climbing out to help him? Then they drag another guy out. Lame.

If there was one extra NXT guy, then it would have made sense. Instead, it looked stupid.

 

And another thing that bothered me about the segment. Cole mentions Steamboat's great match at WM3. But there's no mention of Savage.

And Arn talks about top five wrestlers and lists HHH, HBK, Taker and Steamboat. The Philly crowd was 'whooo' ing, but he doesn't mention Flair. Even if Flair's in TNA now, it's ridiciulous that the WWE won't mention a part of their history.

They're starting to act like their lame 80s WWF more and more.

 

I liked how that was executed. No doubt the NXT guys could have just bum-rushed the legends and beaten the shit out of them. The way they picked them off one-by-one built some tension. Kind of like a horror movie or, forgive the analogy, a pack of wolves.

 

Good choices on the eight Raw guys for MITB, too. A good mix of capable ladder-match veterans (Jericho, Edge), top talent (Edge, Orton), guys who can do great spots (Edge, Jericho, Bourne, Morrison) and simmering feuds (Miz-Morrison; Jericho-Edge-Bourne; Orton-Dibiase-Edge; R-Truth-Miz).
Should be an entertaining match that they can do a lot of things with. It actually seems like everyone there has a purpose, instead of the random big stiff (like Kane or Big Show) inserted into the match just for the hell of it.

 

Well that's the thing. If there were only five legends and six NXT guys, or six legends and seven NXT guys, it would make more sense. They could have two NXT guys beat up a legend, then the others hold them at bay.

Instead, with 6 on 6, it looked dumb. Three or four NXT guys beat on a legend, and the other five guys basically just stand in the ring.

This Raw seemed very weak. Main event ended, to me, too abruptly with the RKO. No big ending with eight guys in the ring, then the RKO comes out of nowhere.

Other lameness: The briefcase hanging down. Yeah, we know these guys are fighting MITB. Who cares about the one stupid briefcase. And they've done this ending with other MITB hype matches before.

And there's a steel cage hanging up top, then it gets lowered for Cena to stand in the ring, as Sheamus leaves, then that's it? Have one of the two bash the other's head in with the cage a couple of times if they want to hype it, or why bother even having the cage there?
And that's even with the possibility of a cage match after the show goes off the air.

And don't get me started on this mysterious GM that communicates through e-mail. I'm having bad flashbacks of late 90s WCW when Sting beat Hogan on a PPV, then they wanted to show the match on Nitro, but some mysterious unnamed judge had 'impounded' the tape for some inexplicable reason, then let them show it. (In reality, WCW wanted to save the video for a maximum ratings impact. Instead, they looked dumb).

All in all, this Raw was a thumb's down.

 

I took it as the NXT guys toying with them. Pick one off, let the legends feel the fear of turning around and seeing another of their number gone. The legends stay in the ring because they think it's the most defensible position, meanwhile the faster NXT guys are overcoming the problem. And I thought the NXT guys were doing what you suggest. Seemed like two or three would rush the ring, draw the attention of the legends, then fall back as the rest of their crew grabbed a legend.
It also showed some cunning on the part of the NXT guys. Even with a physical advantage, why jump them with even numbers? Why not take them out one at a time until you have such a numerical advantage that your final rush can't possible fail?

 

Look at how the Nexus group is getting over: By beating the hell out of people every single week. Come in as a group, pick a target, beat the target(s) down, hit your finishers one after another, then pose over the victim. In a company that has become so obsessed with even booking and trading wins, it's so refreshingly old school to see a monster heel group come in and just dominate week after week. Once they get their eventual comeuppance, it will be a payoff people will actually be excited about.

 

If Randy Orton wasn't on RAW, I wouldn't watch it. That is all.

 

I'm more concerned about why the Nexus guys would do that. They've gone from "We're desperate to get into the WWE so we'll do anything we can to get our contracts" to "Well, we're just jerks for no reason."

And Miz must win MITB. Please, please, please.

 

Apparently, some of the wrestling sites (like Meltzer's) are reporting that Barrett wasn't at last night's show because his visa expired. McIntyre is in the same boat. The WWE is concerned that they may not be able to return until the end of the summer.

Supposedly, Sheamus was in a similar predicament, but his issues are apparently worked out.