2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

I'd switch the tag team and WWE titles, just because of the prominence of the belt and its history. Air Boom has held it for a couple months, but before that you had the illustrious duo of McGillicutty and someone else that I can't even remember right now. They were so bad that you openly had Jerry Lawler making fun of them.

Agree with your take on the IC belt. Cody Rhodes is doing the best he can with what the WWE is giving him, and I love his monochromatic voice.

 

The only reason I put the WWE title so low is because it's been treated like it means nothing. They don't need to switch the belt so often.

 

I don't know about anyone else, but between MNF and Yanks/Tigers, I'm having a very hard time staying interested in this Raw.

 

One of my favorite segments of the year with all the heels trashing HHH. Not so much for that, or HHH being HHH in response, but for those who didn't see it:

The union of Otunga/Rhodes/Ziggler/Swagger/Vickie/Christian/Del Rio come out to bitch about HHH. Del Rio opens, gets ok heat. Christian complains, minimal heat. Zigger complains, even less heat. Swagger complains, absolutely no heat. Vickie says EXCUSE ME ... and the place absolutely comes unglued in hatred. She can barely finish, they're booing her so hard. Then Otunga speaks and we're back to nothing.

Funny as hell.

 

You're out of your mind. Twelve-man tag matches are always great to watch ...

 

Vickie always gets instant heat, no matter what she's doing or saying. But I thought that segment was hilarious.

 

It was the contrast. Nothing, nothing, EXPLOSION, nothing.

 

I saw that part, the end of the 12-man (decent ending, surprising that Sheamus got the pin instead of Cena), and the final no-confidence segment.

The Vickie stuff was hysterical. I don't know if that's a tribute to her, or how poor the heels are at generating heat. I'm guessing it's both.

The no-confidence thing was pretty good, although I thought it would have been more awesome (no pun intended) if, after everyone left, Miz and R-Truth came down and attacked Trips. I liked the nice touch of Ross being the last one left, and the cameramen putting down their cameras.

 

I'm kind of excited about where this is heading. Hopefully they don't screw this up.

 

Considering Punk didn't get mic time tonight, WWE has finally cooled him off so we can all focus on cheering for Triple H, the noble face in charge, who's just trying to do right by the "Universe." Really? That's the top storyline on the A show? Gag.

 

Nah, next week Trips will come out, be all apologetic to get the roster to perform. Then at the end of the show, Trips will come out again and say that if anyone goes on strike again, they're fined a million bucks and fired.

And one other thing with that last segment. I didn't see Cena, Orton, or Punk out there. If you're going to have a segment with the entire roster, then you need the entire roster out there, top stars included.

Plus, although Lawler was fine, I thought it would have been better to have Punk speak, and continue the "You're dragging this company down" schtick.

 

I'm guessing holding back the top stars faces was intentional, and why they hung back will be revealed on Smackdown or the next Raw.

It was definitely an interesting and newsworthy way to end Raw. But how the hell are they going to get to their next PPV in a reasonable fashion? They could have McMahon come back and send one of the disgruntled wrestlers to face HHH in a winner becomes COO match, but Vengeance may be too quick to pull it off and nothing's overshadowing Rock at Survivor Series. Maybe Rock comes back next week and gives a rousing speech to bring (most) everyone back in the fold?