2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

This is all part of a new world order of wrestling or something, I'm thinking.

 

YES!

 

You get massive bonus points for posting this. Just too great for words.

 

For whoever was asking, Figure 4 Weekly will having a running commentary on the PPV and I'll post a link to it whenever it pops up on their Web site. Until then, here's their preview of the PPV.....

For tonight's show:
*John Cena vs. John Laurinaitis, no DQ, no count out, if Laurinaitis loses, he gets fired. The expectation is that Laurinaitis wins, and it's just a question as to whether it's Big Show or Brock Lesnar who interferes, or some sort of other screw job. Everything is set up for it being Show, but it's so obvious in a company built on wanting to surprise people at all times. The one thing is Cena will probably get fewer boos than at any PPV match in a long time.
*C.M. Punk vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE title - These two are expected to tear the house down as you give Bryan 20 minutes and you're going to get a great match almost every time out. Throw in that Punk works very hard and this is probably one of his favorite opponents, and this may be something special. The story of the match is likely built around Punk coming in with injured ribs from the beating from Kane on Smackdown. That could give him an out if losing, or just allow him to sell most of the way before coming back to win. There was talk backstage that Punk was doing to do something tonight as a tribute to Randy Savage, who passed away one year ago today.
*Sheamus vs. Randy Orton vs. Chris Jericho vs. Alberto Del Rio for the world title - Also likely a good match. With Jericho leaving, he's the least likely of the four to win. Any of the other three wouldn't be much of a surprise right now, but I sense the idea was to give Sheamus a longer run than just seven weeks. Originally Orton wasn't even in this match.
*R-Truth & Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler for the tag titles. Most of the other tag teams they've set up are heels, so in theory that favors R-Truth & Kingston. I like the idea of Swagger & Ziggler as pushed tag champs.
*Layla vs. Beth Phoenix for the Divas title. I expect this to be better than most PPV Divas matches.
There will probably be one or two matches added to the show. Cody Rhodes in particular as IC champion and Santino Marella as U.S. champion are conspicuous by their absence.
*Kane vs. Zack Ryder: You Tube prelim match. Likely to be more like a short TV squash style match.

This looks to have a shot at being a good show. Punk vs. Bryan is as close to a sure thing given their previous matches, as you're going to have on a show right now in the title picture. No doubt they will be very careful in booking Cena vs. Laurinaitis, because without it, it would have potential to not be very good. Plus, a crap match wouldn't be good for Laurinaitis' rep as a guy who was never really a big star (because in WWE, Japan stardom doesn't count even if it was in the 90s when Japan was strong).

 

And this answers the question as to where some of the people who aren't scheduled for matches will be....

"WWE will hold a People Power Battle Royal match at tonight’s WWE Over the Limit pay-per-view where the winner will face off against either WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes or WWE United States Champion Santino Marella later on the pay-per-view."

 

Here's the link to F4W Coverage of Over the Limit. Kane squashed Zack Ryder in the pre-show match. Shocking, I know.

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/118-daily-updates/25730-wwe-over-the-limit-live-coverage-from-raleigh

 

Christian's back in the Battle Royal

 

Anybody got a link? That first row sports link Gutter usually posted is gone.

 

The list of people in the Battle Royal is mostly lower-card people except for Khali, Regal, Miz, Christian and that's about it. Not sure what direction they'll go. Maybe Miz or Christian to face Santino?

 

GOATunga gonna be new US champ tonight.

 

Hope not. He's Chris Masters and Chris Nowinski put together.

 

Well, guess I am wrong.