2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

i hope they roll with the Albert chants. The Lord Tensai character feels idiotic, but they can add a fun layer by having him yell at the fans not to call him Albert. It will be like when Nikolai Volkoff used to ask for silence before singing the Russian national anthem.

 

The problem with Lord Tensai is that once you take off the Japanese garb, he still looks like Albert. Maybe they thought the lack of back hair would throw everyone off the scent.

 

I don't know if it was posted here or if I read it elsewhere, but several sites have said Brock's signing impacted results at Mania.

 

Those two are awesome on Twitter. At least they engage with their fans.

 

I always got the feeling that the Bella Twins actually had something to give, but weren't ever really given much to work with beyond stupid twin storylines. Then again, that seems to be the problem with anything woman-wrestling related on WWE TV. It seems like Beth Phoenix and Natalya were broken up without any mention, since she was teaming with Alicia Fox as a face on Smackdown last night.

 

Wait: they turned Beth face again? Good grief. She's so much better as a heel who beats the shit out of everyone, but I guess they're getting her ready for when Kharma returns and takes over that role.

 

No, I think it was Natalya that they turned face. (Well, they had her wrestling with Fox, so I think that means she's a face now.) Fox got the clean pin on one of the Bellas, so it seems like they're going to job to everyone on their way out.

 

Yep, no explanation for Nattie's turn.

What really is dumb is the WWE thinks we don't notice this stuff. It's not that hard. Come up with a brief thing to explain the fucking turn.

Or, they could have just kept them together and had them continue to kick everyone's asses.

 

Much like refusing to acknowledge the popularity of some male wrestlers, the WWE refuses to acknowledge that Beth Phoenix was more over as a face in the whole "kicking divas' asses" thing of the past couple months. Instead, we get Kelly Kelly as a face, even though she can't get over with a crowd at all even though she is unfathomably hot.

 

I can't believe a good Canuckistani like Jericho would waste all that beer on Punk. Even if it was shitty American crap!

 

I thought the greater issue was last week when he poured Jack Daniels all over him. Isn't he legally obligated as a Canadian citizen to use Crown? Or at least Canadian Mist if he's trying to insult him?

 

Yeah, maybe Five Star or if he really wants to have some cred at home he should have clocked him with a bottle of CN Tower rye.