2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

Weeeellllll, it's the Big AIDS!!!

 

I missed Raw last night. Can someone give me a quick update as to what happened? Thanks.

 

Big Show cut a long promo, explaining what he did as a "business decision". He later was told by Johnny that he could choose his opponent. He first slammed Alex Riley into a wall, but didn't pick him. He was about to beat up an already-hurt Santino when Brodus stopped him and challenged him. Show accepted the challenge.

Brodus comes out and dances, Show comes out and cuts a promo about how ridiculous he is. Brodus climbs out of the ring, Show spears him and beats the hell out of him. He stomps the announce table, breaks off a piece, and bashes Brodus a couple of times with it. Kofi and R-Truth try to save, but get their asses kicked as well. Show KOs Brodus as the girls look like they're about to cry.

Otherwise, Punk and Bryan had another excellent match (non-title) in which Bryan won when he pulled the top pad off the turnbuckle. Psycho A.J. tried to point it out to the ref who conveniently missed it. Punk got thrown into the buckle and lost. Kane came down, beat up Yes Man, then Punk bashed Kane with a chair. Basically setting up a three-way.

Zigller and Swagger lost a tag title match to R-Kingston, then Ziggler walked away from them saying he's better than this.

Oh, and they did their flag-waving video with Cena narrating, and not much else.

 

Interesting choice of personnel for him to destroy (Broadus in particular), but it does cement the heel aspect of Big Show if he's beating up lovable Broadus. Somebody better call Broadus's momma.
I think they're hurting the Bryan-Punk matchup by adding Kane, but I do understand the need to prolong/freshen it by adding a third person. Kane isn't too bad of a worker for a big guy, so hopefully he can add something to it.
Ziggler is right that he's probably better than where he was (and Swagger probably is, too, for that matter), but I do think having him with Guerrero as the heel manager was the way to go. That way he could focus on in-ring work and she could draw the radioactive heat by saying just two words, "Excuse me!"

 

The only problem with Big Show beating up Clay is that it makes me realize that I would be much more interested in seeing a match between the two of them than between Show and Cena again.

 

I agree that it's a feud that's been done a million times already. I'd be good with a Clay-Show rivalry as long as there wasn't a Punjabi Prison match involved.

 

It's amazing that Broadus getting squashed does more for his character in one night that it has over the past three months. Maybe it wasn't three, it just felt like three years. Anyway, at least this is one way to "unleash the monster within", in a believable way and do the only thing with his character that has a chance of working.

 

Hadn't thought about that, but this very well could be the trigger to bring back the character he was supposed to be in all the videos. Of course, that shouldn't happen until after the feud with Show has run its course or else you'd have two heels and that would be make no sense.

 

It's absolutely amazing to me that Big Show ends up getting such a monster push out of all of this. Let's face it, it seemed like his run of any sort of dominance was over and he was settling nicely into the upper mid card where he'd stay for awhile. And it was fine. Now, suddenly he basically has his own show. That Raw last night was all Big Show, all the time. I don't necessarily mind it but it's just really surprising that it's gone this way. I'm sure he'll do the job to Cena at the next PPV and then he'll go back to where he was but it's been quite a turnaround for him.

Also, count me in the group that wants to see Clay-Show much more than Cena-Show. I really just want to see Clay in an actual, meaningful feud. Big Show would be a good place to start.

 

Not necessarily. When Show's turn came, I saw potential in it for him to just play a "me against the world" kind of guy. That would include him being against faces and heels alike. They could have played up the "no one cared when I was begging for my job" storyline, which they touched on in his first promo after the turn. But they didn't stick with it. I just don't like the straight heel turn from Show. I would much rather see him playing the wildcard wrestler. I buy him much more as a big-man title threat than I ever did guys like Mark Henry, Broadus, etc.

 

Yes. By the people who grew up with him. The same way those of us who grew up with the greats from 10-20 years ago remember them.

 

Yeah, Cena will probably be romanticized a little bit by the people who grew up with him. I do see the point of people who say he's been shoved down our throats for forever, but he does draw and he does work his butt off, even if he doesn't have the greatest repertoire of moves in the world.