2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

Except for that ridiculous dance-off, I found Raw to be quite entertaining.

The Lawler/Miz thing gets blown off at EC. Maybe Riley interferes, and Lawler gets his WM moment with him?

Yeah, I was surprised that R-Truth eliminated Orton, but I took that as Orton being so POed at Punk that the match was secondary to him getting his hands on him. Oh, and Morrison absolutely rocked.

I'm starting to get tired of this Bryan/chick magnet thing. I'm hoping that with Gail, that they turn him a little more serious, and if anything, I'm hoping they're keeping him as a comedy act for now in order to make it real shocking when he suddenly starts kicking ass. And yeah, Cole's commentary took away from what should have been a very good match with Kidd.

The DiBiase segment was pretty strong, although I doubt Maryse is suddenly a face. They'll probably make up in a segment next week.

Edge/Miz was fine, although the Cena part was pretty lame. Del Rio and Santino/Kozlov segments did the job.

 

That was what I was talking about. Could've been a cool spot with he and Morrison doing it side-by-side, but unfortunately it took Truth about five tries to finally pull himself up and over.
Morrison is just sick at this point. I think the man can lift a dumptruck with his abs. I wish they'd have a battle royal every week, just so we can watch how he avoids getting eliminated.

 

I'm thinking Lawler's WM moment is a match against Michael Cole.

Cole was being even more obnoxious this week.

 

Right. I read that too fast ... 2-21-11.

And if they are doing a cryptic return tease for the Undertaker, who disappears every six months, that's pretty lame.

 

Agreed. But Lawler's an old pro. Been throwing that punch for years. I'll bet DiBiase didn't feel a thing.

 

Ah, got it. I refreshed right when I saw Orton get tipped over and then saw the reply. My mistake...

 

My guess on what happens: Lawler gets screwed by Cole again at Elimination Chamber.

Lawler faces Cole at WrestleMania with an "I quit" stipulation. Cole somehow beats Lawler. End of the road for Lawler. Josh Matthews steps into the color commentary role on one of the two programs.

Lawler gets the massive sendoff on the post-WrestleMania Raw. Perhaps with an appearance by good, ole JR?

I think about this stuff way too much.

 

I haven't watched Raw yet, but if we're talking countdown clocks and future dates, we do have to acknowledge that Jericho isn't on either show right now, right? Both times he had debuted, it has been with a countdown clock or a hyped date, so it wouldn't surprise me to see him back then. Has he been gone long enough to come back as a face or tweener?

 

I really don't think Jericho's coming back anytime soon. I found myself rolling my eyes during the past week when some on the Web were speculating on him being one of the surprise entrants in the Rumble.

 

He's releasing his second book so don't count on that happening any time soon.

So, just got finished editing photos from RAW tonight. Good show. Wife had a blast, an absolute blast and it was cool sharing that experience with her. We were third row on the right of the commentators' table and the pictures came out damn good.

I don't know if you have to be my Facebook friend or not to see these but here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=52801349&aid=2097112

Also, I totally took a picture of the notes Lawler was going over at the table. Once I zoomed in, lo and behold, I saw the entire script for the show.

 

Wasn't a countdown clock. The scene fit Sting (or Undertaker) ... an individual in a long, black coat walking up steps in a thunderstorm. I just didn't understand what the significance of the tiny shack of a house was supposed to be.

Plus, it can't be Undertaker ... he's on Smackdown. Brand seperation. :

 

Tremendous pics, Shiez. Looks like you had a great time.

The captions on each picture were very funny. McGillicutty is actually Curt Hennig's son, and Husky is IRS's kid (can't you see the resemblance?)

And the funny thing about Lawler's script. In his book, Lawler said that he never went to production meetings and read scripts because he wanted to be surprised when things happened. Guess he finally joined 2011.