2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

This would be brilliant and could really work.

 

I like that idea, a lot. And I had come up with a scenario earlier on this thread (or last year's, who can remember?) that drew it out for weeks. I'll combine the two ideas.

Vince comes out, acts like a guy whose just woken up for a second time from a coma, and talks about how being a coma has given him a new perspective on things and how he's sorry for many things in the past.

Enter Sting, who berates Vince about how he ruined WCW. Vince admits that he was wrong, and to prove it, he's ready to announce his new Hall of Famer. Sting, who is not appeased, said Vince can prove that he's sorry by giving him a WM match against the wrestler of Sting's choice. Vince agrees. Sting then talks about how he's had respect for this one wrestler .... blah, blah... and is about to announce his decision, when he's interrupted by ...

... Kane, who cuts an arrogant promo about how he's the best of all time, how he's sure that Sting wants to face him etc... when Barrett comes out and talks about how Sting is ancient history, that he's the future.. Vince gets POed Kane and Barrett aren't showing Sting the proper respect, that Sting's moment is ruined, so he makes a tag match of Kane and a partner of his choosing vs. Barrett and his Corre member that he chooses for later in the show.

So the match is made, Kane can't find a partner because no one likes him, so he goes at it alone in a handicap match. Just as Barrett and Gabriel ( are about to beat him ... the lights go out. Gong.

Here comes Undertaker, he beats up Barrett and Gabriel. Jackson and Slater come down, start beating on Taker, then the four of them start their destroying act. Then the lights go out again.

And here comes Sting, with the bat. He chases Corre away. Then he goes after Kane for interrupting him earlier. Then, as Undertaker is on his knees near the ropes, struggling to get up. Sting holds the bat over his head, ready to clock him one.

Then he steps back. Taker looks at him with a perplexed look. Then Sting points the bat at the Wrestlemania sign. Taker stands up. Does the throat slash. The two stand nose-to-nose. The end.

 

I love this. So would this all happen on SmackDown, or are we going with the annual neglect of the brand extension this time of year?

 

An alernate idea:

Raw after Elimination Chamber. No Chance in Hell plays and everyone's shocked (or maybe he comes back at the PPV to overturn the anonymous GM on a questionable decision, reveals that it's Cole and ends that angle, and tonight is his first night back in power). He cuts a face promo, maybe makes a Senate joke or two, then announces that at the end of Raw, he will reveal the man behind the 2.21.11 promos.

Typical post-PPV Raw ensues, Cena-Miz gets rolling, couple of other angles for WM sprout up, Santino pins a Nexus member with the Cobra.

Final segment, and Vince comes out again. He takes the mic and announces that it's time for the surprise to reveal himself. Lights go out ... then come back on and it's Sting. Place (you hope) goes wild. Vince hands the mic to Sting, who talks about how good it is that he finally can set foot in a Raw ring, usually good guy stuff. Vince takes the mic back ... and turns heel, telling Sting that now that he signed with WWE, Vince can finally put the ghost of WCW away once and for all because he bought them all. You were the last man standing, Sting, but I wore you down and made you submit to me! Sting is here for one reason only -- so that tonight, in this very ring, Vince can stare in Sting's eyes and say those two magic words ... YOU'RE ...

Lights go out ... then come back on and there's Undertaker, holding Vince by the throat. Chokeslam. Then he stares at Sting as Raw fades to black.

Next week, Sting opens Raw and talks about Vince stabbing him in the back, promising that he'd be treated fairly, only to be used and discarded like so many of his fellow WCW veterans. He then turns his attention to Taker, thanks him for stepping in, then talks about respect and how he always held Taker in the highest esteem, even while he was in WCW, so what do you say to a match at WM? Lights go out ... then come back on and it's Taker. He nods and does the throat slash while Sting points at him with the bat. Lights go out again ... then come back on and it's Vince, screaming at Sting for not leaving when he was clearly not wanted, and Taker for daring to cross the boss. Vince eventually allows for the WM match to take place, but only if both Sting and Taker don't lose between then and the show.

Sting and Taker wrestle every week on Raw, and sometimes on Smackdown. Usually it's handicap matches or ones with loaded stipulations. Vince brings in Smackdown talent on Raw and vice versa. Short matches, sometimes never getting off the ground because of gang attack. But they still don't lose, and at WM they have their match, with Sting getting a visual pin on Taker that gets interrupted when Vince interrupts the count. Sting slugs Vince, both hit their finishers on him, then they resume the match, with Taker winning by tombstone. Taker shakes Sting's hand afterwards as 20-0 flashes on the WWEUniverseTron or whatever they call that thing now.

The next night on Raw, Vince continues his feud with Taker by sending Diesel after him. Taker wins a short feud, then is attacked by another big wrestler (Sheamus? Mason Ryan?) at Vince's calling. Taker faces Sheamus/Ryan/whoever in a cage at Summerslam or Survivor Series, with Taker fired if he loses. But on the go-home Raw, Donald Trump comes out as a one-night GM and announces that while he can't remove stipulations from the Taker-whoever match, he can add them. So if Taker wins, Vince has to get in the cage with him for five minutes. Taker wins, Vince gets smacked around and taken off camera for a while, and Taker takes a break in preparation for the next WM ... and possibly his last one.

 

The WWE should hire everyone who posts to this thread as writers.

 

Which is why it won't work as well now, because if this is going to be the setup for a Taker match, they'll have six weeks to make it happen. That's not enough time for Sting to brood effectively. If they wanted to do Sting-Taker (and it's already changed a number of times (at one point it was going to be Barrett-Taker), they should have brought him in no later than the Rumble, and more ideally late 2010. That gives him time to set it up.

 

If I ever had the chance, I'd jump at it in a heartbeat.

 

Of course, the best entrance for Sting would have been flying down from the ceiling in the trench coat.

Unfortunately, that will never happen.

RIP OJH

 

I did apply once, but didn't get the callback. I believe even an entry-level writing position (it was some assistant thing) wanted three years of experience in television.

 

I watched TNA tonight. Jeff Hardy and the former Mr. Kennedy.

It sucked. Absolutely sucked.

Nice to see Mickie James again though. She's plump but fine.

 

I applied years ago, too. Wrote a long cover letter explaining how I was a longtime fan and understood the storylines and such. Didn't hear back from them.

Interestingly enough, I stumbled across a book by Howard Brody, who's been in and out of the wrestling business behind the scenes for something like 30 years, mostly independent stuff (He was president of the NWA for a couple of terms in the late 90s, early 2000s). Fresh out of college, he applied for a writer gig with the then-WWF around 1983 or so. He had a couple of phone interviews with a woman, who called herself Linda Smith. It wasn't until he actually got to the interview in Stamford that she told him that she used a fake name to see how he would react over the phone. It was Linda McMahon.

He didn't get the job, because some other guy that was running the mag at the time had a friend he wanted to bring in. He didn't find out about that until years later.

 

Gotta say I'm glad they're keeping Booker around.