2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

I have to know this: When they went to break during the Funkasaurus match, how exactly did they waste the time? I couldn't believe they went to a break during one of his matches. Dude has like four moves and he had already done three.

Also, I don't think I could be more disappointed than I am with the way they are booking Ziggler and Cody right now. Those two should be getting pushed to the upper card and they are both getting squashed every week. Nobody cares to see Cody/Big Show part 2. Nobody wants to see Ziggler with Swagger getting squashed by Clay.

Get Ziggler away from Vickie and Swagger and put him in a good program, maybe with Orton?

Get Cody away from Show and the IC title, put him in the mix with Sheamus. Maybe he's not ready for Goldy but he could at least be in the mix and get in that territory so you can put it on him by year's end.

I'm sorry, I just think the heel faction in WWE right now is any good, save Jericho and Bryan (who barely qualify). Henry does his job fine but Del Rio does nothing for me, neither does Kane. Cody, Ziggler and Barrett should be the top heels or at least getting pushed toward that status.

 

So was Goldu ... er, Dustin Runnels (at least I think it was him).

 

And a Hugh Morrus sighting.

 

I thought Raw was a mixture of good and bad, but the stuff that was supposed to deliver (i.e. Lesnar) was done really well. I admit, I thought Cena had bitten a capsule but that doesn't appear to be the case and it worked brilliantly for the feud (it would have been good regardless of whether it was a legit injury or not).

The Punk/Jericho stuff is still good and more Henry/Punk next week is also good. The rest of the show was largely inoffensive outside of the ****ing Three Stooges segments which was terrible comedy even by WWE's standards.

I'm surprised, but not disappointed, that they're already going with Lesnar/Cena.

The opening segment felt a lot like Mayweather/Show from No Way Out. Slightly less awesome, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

Lesnar-Cena fell a bit flat for me - I liked the confrontation, but I dislike the presence of Johnny Ace in it. I think they're aligning them so that they'll get the desired reaction from the crowd, the booing of Lesnar, as opposed to a more mixed to positive reaction for Lesnar.

Punk-Jericho is by far the best thing going from a booking standpoint.

The burying of the middle to upper middle card continues. Ziggler lost clean to the Funksaurus about two months after giving Punk everything he could handle. Zack Ryder is now a jobber to the stars. And the stuff with Cody Rhodes only makes sense if he puts Big Show out of commission for a couple months at Extreme Rules.

 

That's the only thing I hate about Brock-Cena as well. Johnny Laryngitis shouldn't be involved in this at all. Lesnar, though, does need someone to speak for him a la Paul Heyman in his first run through the WWE. Lesnar still can't cut a decent promo to save his life.

 

And here we go with AJ saying Bryan losing the title was her fault.

 

Bella Twins leaving the company.

http://www.twnpnews.com/2012/04/news-for-tonights-live-wwe-smackdown-more-on-the-bella-twins-leaving-wwe/

I can't say I'm all that surprised and disappointed at the same time.

 

And the death spiral continues....

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-10/news/os-wrestler-scott-hall-arrested-20120410_1_espn-documentary-charge-of-domestic-violence-strip-club

 

They had a nice run, and were, of course, very nice on the eyes. Maybe some day they'll return.

 

See, that's the thing I hate. They like to turn these guys like funkasaurus from monsters to jobbers, which is fine. but then they try and turn them back to monsters again. See Henry, Mark. So, in the meantime, guys like Dolph, who has a hell of a long-term future if played right, has to job to guys like this idiot when we all know with a pretty high degree of certainty that once they give up on the character (which is pretty lame anyway), Funkosaurus will be jobbing to an up and comer on the Smackdown dark match this time next year. There's just a hell of a lot of carnage with guys with futures along the way.

 

I kind of feel like they backed themselves into a corner with Cena losing to Rock at WM. Either they turn Cena heel, put him on a redemption storyline track or shift him immediately into another feud. The thing I like about this is it almost combined two of them . . . moves him into another feud while possibly playing the "piling on" angle that threatens to turn Cena heel when he finally snaps. On Monday, he immediately went from trying to deal with Rock's win into getting humilated by Lesnar.