2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

Do they have enough healthy guys for a Money in the Bank?

Love the Santino push.

Sucks about Barrett. That was definitely a legit injury because there's absolutely no way they'd have all that paramedic stuff in the background distracting from setting up Jericho-Punk. Plus, it was a horrific looking spot.

At first, I remembered how well Ziggler sells everything. But that was quite a bump, even for him.

 

Even without Barrett, you'd have to figure a MITB match at this point could include any of Miz, Kofi, R Truth, Cody, Kane, Santino, Dolph, Del Rio, Christian, Henry (assuming he's healthy enough).

 

The thing is, I doubt any of us have any idea if Santino can actually work. Except for when he first, first came up, I don't think he's been in a match for more than 5 minutes. And even when he came up, it was mostly squash matches with him pulling off fluke wins against Umaga and others. Guys like Jamie Noble and Jimmy Wang Yang were also put in that "5 minutes max!" position, but they could actually work. I haven't been to a house show in ages, so maybe they actually let him wrestle on those and he actually does suck. Regardless, he's so over with the crowd that they should try to make him seem credible in the ring.

 

Would they have two MITB matches this year, or are they going back to just one?

 

Wasn't his first match for the IC title in Italy on Raw?

 

FUN FACT: The Great Khali has lasted less than one minute in each of his last two matches (48 seconds at Elimination Chamber, 55 seconds in the Raw battle royale). He did somehow last 7:29 at the Rumble.

That's all.

 

First internet reports say dislocated elbow for Barrett.

Road Dogg, who now works backstage for WWE, tweeted that the injury was "sidelining, but not career ending."

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/250045-update-wade-barretts-injury-from-raw-main-event

 

Yeah. They tried to have him be a miracle champion, coming from the crowd for a fluke win when Bobby Lashley interfered. I have no idea why they thought that was a good idea, and he got go away heat almost immediately, which forced the WWE to turn him heel. At that point, I think he got paired with Maria, and he started getting popular because he started stealing scenes on the mic.

 

Here's tape of the Barrett injury again (move happens at 3:30 mark:

How Ziggler didn't break his jaw on the announce table is beyond me.

And this is the second week in a row that Show is involved in a botch, after Orton's RKO. Let's see if he gets punished somehow, like Miz.

 

Raises hand.

 

I'll admit it, I liked where they went with Cena last night. Saw a little of the old Cena early, letting him be PG-13 at least instead of just PG. I hope they let him push that some with Rock, because they're going to let Rocky do all his Attitude Era shtick, they need to let Cena come back at him as much as he can. Honestly, I could see myself pulling for Cena.

And the botch by Show and Barrett's injury overshadowed something else about the battle royal -- the WWE AGAIN blew a chance to build Jericho and made him look weak with how it ended since he needed Rhodes' help to eliminate Show. I'm not saying he had to eliminate Show by himself, but get Show out earlier or let Jericho pull the old duck-and-pull-the-rope-down and Show go out after being distracted by Rhodes or something. Instead, someone who will be billing himself as "best in the world" still hasn't shown anything in his return to live up to that moniker. I hope they let Punk call him on it, just a few lines of, "You say you're the best, but you haven't done anything to prove it since you got back. Hell, you can't even win a battle royal without help. Maybe you were the best, but that was a long time ago." Would help add some heat, but I doubt they'll do it.

 

I always have. Plus, much like Jericho's return, this is just a part-time thing.

We keep giving WWE Creative crap for not building up Jericho, but he's literally leaving in less than four months. Why should they build him up? He's here to do one thing: Put C.M. Punk over.

Then he's back to Fozzy.