2010 Pro Wrestling Thread

Part of me also wonders if she was a plant. They want to get shocked looks, so they have her give an awful face when Orton loses.

A funny plant story: Bobby Heenan's daughter was traveling with him, so the WWF had her sit in the audience with a balloon. When Big Bully Busick comes out, he goes over to her and pops the balloon with his cigar. Heenan's daughter cries on cue, everyone's happy.

After the show is over, Heenan's trying to find her, as she wasn't in their designated spot to meet. He looks all over for her, then, to his horror, finally finds her in Vince's office, with her hand out, asking Vince, "Where's my payoff?" Vince cracks up laughing, and pays her $50.

Next TV taping, Heenan's daughter again gets confronted by Busick, has popcorn dumped over her head, cries on cue, everyone's happy. Again, Heenan finds her after the show asking Vince for money. This time, Vince isn't as amused, although he does pay her. Bobby warns his daughter that if she did it again, she'd be supporting their family because he would be fired.

Afterword, Gorilla jokes that he wanted Heenan's daughter as his agent.

 

Had to look this up to be sure, but it's the first time since the VanDam-Cena match in 2006 that the WWE title has changed hands via MITB. The last few MITB winners have cashed it in to win Goldie.

Just watched the replay on YouTube (

) and this whole thing was so well done. From the set up with Cena running off the Nexus members, to the "you gotta be kidding me" look on Orton's face when Miz's music hit, to that little demon girl's death glare, it was a perfectly executed segment.
The shock was there (hell, at this point it would've been surprising to see Miz beat Orton via shenanigans in a regular match, let alone cleanly in a title match). It was a surprisingly decent match, given how quick it was. The ending was well done and made Miz look competent. He didn't just walk into an RKO like so many others have stupidly done. At the same time, Orton looked like a fighting champion and wasn't weakened by the loss.
By going down fighting, Orton also made Miz look good by earning the belt and not just picking off a beaten down champ in 10 seconds. That was crucial, given how much they've stressed the importance of not taking shortcuts to the top the last two weeks.
Everything WWE did wrong by not having this happen at Survivor Series, they did a complete 180 on 24 hours later. Simply amazing.

 

See, I was going on the assumption that she WAS a plant, which is why I brought up the question in the first place. It makes it strange that WE would plan on doing this knowing Orton's recent history as a heel character. Kids shouldn't be so in love with a character the likes of Orton, given his not so distant storylines. It works for Cena, Hogan, etc. Not so much Orton.

 

I think if she was a plant, she would have been put in a more prominent spot (though I guess having her in the nosebleeds would make it seem less likely she was a plant, if that's what they were going for). Also, do they use kids that young as plants?

I remember in 1995 when Raw did a month's worth of tapings one night when I was in college and I went. I was facing the hard camera, so I got to see my fat ass on national television repeatedly. Almost got ran over by a newly-turned 1-2-3 Kid as he was running from Razor Ramon. Anyhow, the big angle was Shawn Michaels collapsing in the middle of a match with Owen Hart, the one where everyone breaks storyline to tend to him. They showed two women reacting to this over and over again. One of them appeared to move around a lot, but she was sitting in front of me for a while. The other stomped on my foot accidentally, then apologized. She was cute.

 

This x 1000. And what made it even more great is that Orton's injury was to his leg, but Miz beat him with a move that doesn't affect the leg at all. This win completely elevated Miz to another level, better than a cheap win like previous MITBs have been. Probably one of the best 2:30 championship matches WWE has ever had.

And for those who have been familiar with Miz prior to his time in WWE, the emotion he showed at the end on stage with tears in his eyes hit home. Not quite the Shawn-Michaels-boyhood-dream-come-true feel-good version for fans of faces, but strikingly similar.

 

On top of that, he reversed the RKO, so it was just a smart, and smooth, counter.

Assuming he keeps the title for a few months, who does he feud with? Obviously Orton gets a rematch or two, but might get sidetracked by Nexus or possibly Cena. John Morrison is an obvious pick, because their careers have been intertwined for years, but they haven't really feuded that often, so it's still a fresh matchup and probably a good match too. Depending on how the Cena angle plays out, eventually he'll get his shot. Longshot: Sheamus eventually turns face and goes after him.

 

Problem is, this reeks to me of Sheamus' run last year. He got it in December at TLC, successfully defended it at Rumble via DQ and lost it in the crazy Elimination Chamber.

I can see the same thing happening to Miz here.

Gotta think at this point he's still too fresh to headline Mania and, as such, you've got to assume he'll drop it before then, right?

 

I'd like to see them elevate Morrison with a King of the Ring win. IIRC, they never had a legit blow-off match after they broke that tag team up and it'd be something fresh as opposed to the same old stuff.

I just hope WWE doesn't drop the ball with this. They have one of the greatest guys on the mic as champ, and a solid worker waiting in the wings to challenge him.

 

WFW. The KOTR tournament is made for a guy like Morrison to make the leap and, needless to say, the man is due.

 

I kind of think they're angling for this as well, or getting Daniel Bryan involved. Morrison beat Sheamus clean at Survivor Series, and won against Monday night clean.

 

Morrison may win KOTR, but I thought they might give the rub to Jack Swagger. They've put him on the backburner since he dropped the big gold belt, and I think it would be hilarious to have a guy with a lisp try to pull off the royalty gimmick. I think it depends on whether they want to merely use KOTR as a tool to elevate a guy as a world title challenger, or have him go with the "King" gimmick.

 

No one, IMO, can top King Booker.