2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

Kelly Kelly apparently was released over the weekend.

 

What the hell are they thinking? That's going to kill their ratings.

 

We wish her luck in her future endeavors.
I sincerely hope those include a Playboy spread and a sex tape.

 

A favorite memory of Kelly Kelly was during the first few months of the new ECW, and Kelly's Extreme Expose. Hilarious stuff, with Mike Knox trying to cover her every time the top came off. Then she crushed on CM Punk, the lucky bastard.

Of course, there was the bizzare episode of ECW in which Balls Mahoney hosted a game of strip poker for the ECW divas. Balls offered the ladies some liquor, and Kelly responded that she was "only 19." Oh. My. God. I knew she was young, but not just-a-year-older-than-jailbait young.

I actually kind of miss the vibe they had going with the first few months of the new ECW. I think they were trying to recapture a little bit of the old magic, but it was ultimately doomed to fail. I think The E was smart enough to try to replicate what ECW fans liked about ECW, but beyond that The E didn't have a clue how to do it without guys like Dreamer, RVD, Sandman, Sabu, Heyman. I never figured them for long-term talents, so when they left the well was dry. Were we really supposed to get behind Marcus Cor Von or Elijah Burke?

The only good thing to come out of the new ECW was CM Punk, and they wouldn't do anything with him. Instead, they used the Draft to try to put established stars on ECW. How did that turn out? Big Show bored everyone, Kurt Angle quit, Chris Benoit ... well, anyway.

 

What the hell ever happened to Marcus Cor Von and Elijah Burke?

 

I've heard of the Big Show and Kurt Angle but who is this Chris Benoit you speak of?

 

Cor Von (Monty Brown) is apparently a personal trainer now. Burke is on TNA as D'Angelo Dinero but has been hurt a lot in the last year.

 

WWECW was probably never intended to be ECW-ish for that long. Outside RVD, the main names from that era were will past their prime by the time of the revival. I think eventually they got what they wanted, which was a de facto minor league that used the ECW names to draw in a few viewers they wouldn't have gotten otherwise, at least early when their names still had value. Except of course the ratings were poor and eventually they punted for NXT, which they also punted.

 

I agree. I doubt they were ever going to let ECW be what ECW was that allowed it to get so big in the first place. They wanted it for the name value and that was about it. Back when WWE bought WCW, there was talk about keeping WCW alive as a separately-run entity, but I can't imagine it would've been more than what ECW was.

 

ECW did exactly what WWE wanted it to do. Served as a minor league training ground for CM Punk, the Miz, and John Morrison, two of whom are major characters today. It was basically a televised OVW.

Kelly Kelly is gorgeous but brought nothing to the show. Surprised she wasn't cut a long time ago.

 

My one great memory of WWECW: Batista vs. Big Show at Hammerstein.

One of the funniest matches I've ever seen, just for the crowd reaction.

 

Can we get Booker T to moderate the presidential debates?