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2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by schiezainc, Jan 1, 2011.

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  1. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    That's not a raise, imo. And I do like Cena.
     
  2. I'll respect your take, but if they build this up correctly, Rock-Cena would be off the charts. Again, "build up correctly" and "WWE writers" tend not to reside in the same neighborhood, but I will give them their due for how they played this tonight.
     
  3. ucacm

    ucacm Active Member

    I SMELL WHAT YOU'RE COOKING
     
  4. Gutter

    Gutter Well-Known Member

    I'm sorry... I love the Miz, but a Rock-Cena feud trumps everything.

    They planted the right seeds tonight ... with Rock mentioning the badass days of him and Austin, to the kiddie shit present today. Hopefully they don't rein in Rock and let him keep getting censored like tonight.
     
  5. podunk press

    podunk press Active Member

    The Rock's promo was ridiculously good. Off the charts. One of the best I've heard in the last decade. Crowd pop was insane. And justifiably so.

    I love how they teased like some woman was coming out to be the host before the break. I was crestfallen, and, then, bam, there's The Rock.

    So many questions:

    1. Is he seriously back? For how long?
    2. Wait, are they really going to do Cena-Rock?
    3. Is this the end of face Cena?
     
  6. clintrichardson

    clintrichardson Active Member

    Know your role and shut your mouth.
     
  7. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    The wife & I haven't watched last week's Smackdown yet and didn't watch tonight's RAW but I made sure to fast forward to the host announcement just because I HAD to know and, holy shit, was it worth it.

    A buddy of mine had spoiled this on Facebook for me this afternoon but the wife had no idea and she freaked out. And even though I was spoiled, I still marked out.

    For a minute, I was back to 15-year old me cheering for Rock against Austin at WM15 (I've always rooted for the heels) and when he ever mentioned a possible feud with Cena, I just about had a nerdgasm.

    I was confident, absolutely confident, that he was going to call out the one man as the 2-21 guy and I'm sooooo glad he didn't. Now, if they build this up the right way, this has the potential to be HUGE.

    Only thing I didn't like? Just like they did with Bret last year, for some reason ($$$), they gave the returning star some crappy remix version of his entrance music. I'm down for that if that's the direction you want to go but the first time you reintroduce a character who's been gone that long, you've got to bring out the classic entrance track.

    Still, what a reveal. Suffice to say if Rock is back for an extended period of time, I might even forgive him for the Tooth Fairy.
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I wasn't that impressed with Raw tonight, except for briefly, the Cena/Punk match and the Bryan/Miz match and I kept switching away to Shawshank on AMC ....


    ... that is, until the end. Wow, that was tremendous.

    I, too, was a little crestfallen about the woman's shoes. I was thinking it was Stephanie McMahon, for some reason. They'll have to explain that, I'd think. Maybe when Trips comes back.

    But holy candy ass, what a promo. From his entrance, to the pops, to being humble as Dwayne, to bringing back the old days of making Cole look foolish to ripping on Cena. That is what it's about, kids.

    I don't know if Rock will come back FT. But I'm thinking at least, he won't be going 7 years between appearances either, with the exception of those few times he made brief appearances..
     
  9. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    Am I the only one that couldn't help but think a lot of the people in that audience were likely cheering for a wrestler they had never seen in a match?
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I was thinking that too, especially when they were showing kids. I'll bet in the kiddies' minds, it's "Oh wow, the Tooth Fairy is on Monday Night Raw!"
     
  11. littlehurt98

    littlehurt98 Member

    Kids, that is how you cut a promo. The line about having just jumped out of Barney's anus was classic.

    A Rock-Cena match would be epic but I'm curious how the crowd would feel about it. This has that HBK-Hogan feel to it when they met at Summer Slam a few years back. They tried to turn HBK heel by Super Kicking Hogan on an episode of RAW but I distinctly remember the crowd not fully buying into the HBK heel turn.

    I think those of us that want Cena to turn heel are in favor of this, but we all know there are tons of Cena fans out there who are Rock fans as well. I'm not sure how this is going to play out and Cena is going to have to sell the heel turn. I don't think HBK did a very good of that when he faced Hogan, but that's just my opinion.
     
  12. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    I think they need do nothing more than set this up as WrestleMania X8, Part II.

    Coming into the Hogan-Rock match, Hogan was a hardcore heel (Well, as hardcore as a heel Hogan could be) but once the bout started, it was clear that the Toronto crowd was going to be split at best. So Rock and Hogan played to it and both guys stayed faces through the match.

    I think you do that here, have Cena stay face and talk about how much he respects the Rock, e.t.c. and Rock just plays that face/heel line the way he did his whole career. He talks smack about Cena, gets the adults on his side and, in the match, both go back and forth as faces.

    In my opinion, if you want to really make this special, you turn this into a feud where the Rock basically spends the whole time saying Cena and his generation are what's wrong with wrestling now. He planted that seed tonight. Rock calls Cena out for being all PG and soft. At Mania, Cena refuses to go to that next level with Rock, Rock and him battle it out, Cena tries to stay clean and the fans tear into him for it.

    Rock wins the bout (Much to the delight of all in attendance) and, from the next night on, you turn Cena into the monster heel he should have been turned into months ago.

    Knowing that I said all this, though, I expect that Rock will come out next week and say he was only kidding. Damn WWE writers. lol
     
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