2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

Loved the Steve Austin rip on scum Hogan best.

Of course, Sabu is an all-time favorite.

 

Austin's rips on Hogan were incredible.

One of my favorite ECW moments came at the Guilty as Charged PPV in 99 maybe. The one they held in Kissimmee where The Franchise dropped the belt to Taz for his first title reign.

I sat second row for $100 a ticket.

One of my signs made the next week's ECW broadcast of highlights when Douglas tapped out to Taz.

That was fricking awesome for me.

Also, I just remembered. We had a fan that used to dress up as Little Spike Dudley (LSD). He looked exactly like him. Funny as all hell.

 

Someone posted that video here, or maybe it was another forum.

Either way, that was one funny video.

 

Sting beat Jeff Hardy in the main event of tonight's PPV.

In 94 seconds.

Because Hardy was "in no condition to perform."

Sucks for TNA. They've actually been showing signs of increasing TV ratings. Their PPV numbers are awful, but they don't seem terribly concerned about that. May be time to give Hardy the heave-ho and let him go back to WWE to clean up -- or fool himself into thinking all is well and make a Sheen-esque descent into a drug-fueled death. And RVD apparently phoned it in during his match against Mr. Anderson, so tonight's afterthought PPV was particularly wretched.

Not sure what you do in this spot. Maybe put Anderson in Jeff Hardy's spot as the main heel in Immortal? Or Matt Hardy, now that he's gotten himself into respectable shape? It's a mess down in Orlando, that's for sure.

 

A lot must've happened in a week. Jeff looked fine (and performed well) when I saw him live, and Matt still looked like a total fatass.

 

Two weeks (they taped two weeks worth of shows in Fayettenam). Matt's looking better is relative to how he looked the first night. And Jeff was almost pulled from a recent PPV for not being in condition to perform. On the other hand, while the pwtorch.com review blames Hardy for the short match, Wrestling Observer puts it on Sting for being out of shape. Who knows what the fuck is happening in TNA?

 

I meant a week between the house show I attended and the PPV.

 

I had to quit watching TNA a few months ago. They really need to hit the reset button on the whole organization.

 

Yeah. I'm a wrestling fan, and I've lost all interest in it.

They've made exactly the same mistakes that late WCW did.

 

Jeff Hardy=Jake Roberts 2.0.

 

Here is a link from WrestlingObserver.com detailing the main event of Sunday night's TNA PPV:

http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/19819/

My feeling is this: What the hell are guys like Sting and Jeff Jarrett battling over the main title for anyway?

This company is so far in the shithole it makes WCW look like an improvement. And it's no coincidence that the same guys (adding Jeff Jarrett) are running it: Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan and Vince Russo.

Two of their most valuable wrestlers, Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe, weren't even on the show. Another, A.J. Styles, is in a nowhere feud that even Ric Flair can't save. They push bland nobodies like Matt Morgan, Hernandez and Abyss, who couldn't draw flies at a picnic.

And they wonder why nobody gives a shit about their product.

 

Here's a way to fix TNA:

Kill the PPVs, at least for the forseeable future. The buyrates are microscopic, they already spend more time goosing a strong TV rating once a month than promoting the following PPV, and they may have killed that market with last night's Hardy debacle. Go to a Clash of the Champions-style monthly show, which they're sorta already doing, only actually promote it as a special show.

Suspend, not fire, Jeff Hardy. He's still good for drawing at house shows and when he's on, he's a strong performer. Clearly he's besieged by personal demons right now. TNA would do well to get him off TV and force him to dry out or rehab or whatever it takes to get his mind right. Write him out of TV with an en masse beatdown by Immortal during tonight's taping, then he returns a few months later, clean (you hope) and ready to do battle as a face.

Create a new Immortal in-ring leader. There's three ways you can go about it: Matt Hardy, who turns on Jeff out of frustration and jealousy (again, so at least he's being consistent), Mr. Anderson (who has been steadily reestablishing heel ticks in the last few weeks and could make a deal with the devil to get the title shot he's been complaining about for weeks), and in a long shot, Robert Roode (have him say he took the opportunity for gold/money/whatever, because he's got a lot of potential as a heel champion).

Do whatever it is they're going to do with the Beautiful People and Winter. And do it quickly, for the love of God.

End the Angle-Jarrett program. It's gone on plenty long enough.

Ditto the Pope-Joe program. It's not doing either of them any good.

Ditto the Bully Ray-D'Von program. One big bloody beatdown of a match and move on.

Once and for all, have AJ Styles be the center of the company. Do a face-face match with Sting where he wins the title, Sting puts him over as the heart and soul of TNA and becomes an Undertaker-style special attraction.