2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

I'm still on board with Bryan/Punk and I'd like to see it carry through to SummerSlam with something epic like an Iron Man match to cap it all off.

I didn't watch last night but I heard some good things about some guys I'd like to see get pushed into the main event spotlight. I'd like to see some sort of an "Uprising" angle of the young talent. And I don't mean like the Nexus but something where guys like Ziggler, Cody, a returning Wade Barrett, maybe a heel turned Ryback or Brodus (to add a big man) begins going around and destroying things and demanding title shots. Right now is a prime opportunity for these guys to step into the limelight and become main event caliber stars. I'm not sure how you go about it but people call this the "reality" era, maybe they play off the fact that these guys are their best workers but routinely get crapped on.

Regardless, I agree that the product is pretty stale right now though I do enjoy the Punk/Bryan angle.

 

MM, I was just throwing something out there. It was just a blah PPV during which absolutely nothing happened.

 

I dunno about nothing. They fired Laurinaitis (at least for now). I was fully expecting some form of schnozz that left everything in the air yet again. They're making an effort to build intrigue in the tag teams with AW dumping the Colons for those NXT wankers. They moved along the Bryan-Punk-Kane-AJ quadrangle, which will probably go till Summerslam. Most of it was filler and OK matches, and I wouldn't have paid for it, but it could have been worse.

Also, a VKM swerve would have been horribly predictable. I'm pleasantly surprised they didn't go that route.

 

I hope with Laurinaitis gone, they bring back the anonymous Raw GM.

 

Blue font?

 

You mean you weren't upset when they never revealed who it was? Isn't it one of the greatest mysteries of pro wrestling?

Yeah, blue font.

 

Wasn't Darren Young part of Nexus at one point?

And I love that team, no matter if a certain former wrestler thinks they're ripping off a certain former tag team ...

 

He was. He was the first guy eliminated from the original NXT, then joined Nexus, then was turfed out after losing to Cena on Raw. He came out a few weeks later to distract Wade Barrett in some big match on Raw, then disappeared into the Superstars murk for a while until returning for NXT Redemption.

There's some obvious tag teams in the making if they elect to go that route: Sakimoto (Albert's abused lackey)-Tajiri, Funkasaurus-Xavier Woods (former Consequences Creed, doing a disco/soul gimmick in FCW), The Ascention (Conor O'Brian and some other dude doing a vampire gimmick in FCW). Maybe Hunico and Camacho will start teaming regularly too.

 

One you didn't mention but may have been paired as a one-time only thing: Bourne and Kidd. That team could have tons of potential.

 

Kidd is like a walking SI/Madden curse. Two of his tag partners on NXT and Superstars suffered injuries in the last few months. First Trent Barretta, then some other high flyer I forget. I like the little guy-big guy dynamic; maybe they can find some big dude like Eli Cottonwood or Mason Ryan to stick with him.

 

I think I read where they released Cottonwood.

 

Ziggler vs. Swagger could be good.