2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

Oops. Got to watch what you're doing when you're in a foreign country. Lucky he didn't get the Finlay/Bryan treatment and get fired for it.

 

I missed Raw this week, too bad I didn't miss SmackDown. What crap. Really, we're getting Big Show vs. Cena, again? Ugh.

I did enjoy RyBerg or GoldBack or whatever he's supposed to be. I know they're really trying to build him up as a monster face, like they failed to do with Mason Batista, but the overt brutality is actually hilarious. I mean, watching that guy just kick the shit out of these 150-pounders is funny.

And I don't know if the broken eye capsulary is a gimmick, like Goldberg bashing his forehead against doors, but it should be. Ryback matches, you say? FEED! ME! MORE!

 

And Jericho's lucky he didn't get the JBL treatment from Germany and end up arrested and thrown in a Brazilian jail.

 

Speaking of TNA, they've apparently filed a lawsuit against WWE, claiming WWE is trying to steal their under-contract performers (i.e., Flair specificially).

Apparently, a former TNA employee went to work for WWE, but took info on the TNA wrestler contracts with him and gave them to WWE. WWE fired the guy and told TNA what info they were given. TNA still sued them:

http://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/24846/WWE-TNA-Sued-Us-For-Doing-The-Right-Thing/

And some day, they really need to make Jerry McDevitt part of a storyline. He's been with the WWE(F) since, it seems, forever.

 

I like this character more and more each time I see him. That finisher where he picked up both guys and marched around the ring a bit before dropping them was awesome.

 

I also enjoy Ryback. He also makes me laugh.

His first serious feud should be against a heel who can sell well.

In other words, move that man to Raw and have Dolph Ziggler do a random match run-in.

 

I'm tired of these monster faces that squash everybody and never get put in real feuds. For me, the novelty of Funkasaurus and Ryback is completely worn off in Funk's case and moving close in Ryback's. It's apparent at this point that the Tensai experiment isn't working. Why not have your two "indestructible forces" get in a program against each other, might help push whichever you feel like is going on to bigger and better.

 

And to think, we came damn close to a WWE-version of Locked Up Abroad with Jericho.

Ryback's intriguing, but I'd love to see this guy go heel and be an "ass-kicking machine" like Flip-Flop Brock is/was supposed to be. In a perfect world, they'd turn Ryback at the expense of Brodus Clay right about the time he starts dancing after a win. He'd be a hell of an enforcer for a stable.

Oh, wait, WWE doesn't do stables anymore. Oh, well, more Santino everyone!

 

Actually, they've got the beginnings of a couple of stables going on right now and could easily grow a couple of solid heel groups. Add a couple of guys to Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger with Vicki Guerrero and you could have a solid group. Honestly, I'd say add turn Ryback and add him, pair him with Swagger as a tag team, then put Ziggler back in the singles title picture, and add Cody Rhodes as the "leader" of the group. Could be a hell of a group.

And you have A.W. building a stable. Sure, it's probably going to be a bunch of midcarders, but maybe they'll surprise us and add someone big to the mix. Heck, maybe that's where the Miz ends up, with A.W. selling him on the fact that he's fallen so far he could use some help.

 

Well, so much for Vickie having a full on stable...

On the bright side, it will give Ziggler a chance to get back in the big picture.

Also, nice that they'll finally have a real match for Brodus. I'm very curious to see what they do with him there.

 

So much for that match ...

 

.... or not.

Very effective segment, though. It reminded me a bit of one of Show's early destroying segments as the Giant in 1995 WCW. I can't find it on Youtube, but he nailed a few midcarders, caught Alex Wright off the top rope in a bearhug and squashed him, then Luger came out (which I'll admit, I marked out for), but then Giant/Show squashed Luger.