2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

That Cena looked awesome.

Today's Cena sucks.

 

Speaking of John Cena, he got in to a car accident today.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/john-cena-car-accident

 

Was Rikishi driving the other car?

 

I have a couple of great memories of that match.

I was watching the show, and my mother had come to visit. She hates wrestling, although she has admitted at times some of the theatrics has made her laugh. The Cena/Angle match was on. She watched it, didn't say much, and that was that.

Until a week or two later, she came to visit again, and Cena was on cutting some sort of promo. Mom sees him, and says, "Oh, it's that young guy again." She actually remembered him.

Funny thing was, years later, she'd heard something about wrestling, and I reminded her of watching that match. She vaguely remembered it, and I said, "Remember that young guy?" "Yeah." "He's now the biggest star in the industry." "Ohhh".

The backstory of that match was literally, very few people did know who Cena was. Cena had only gotten the call a day or two before that he was going to start that night, and was told to get a goofy haircut. So, when Tazz is like, "Who is this guy?", he probably didn't know who Cena was.

That, and Angle was at the peak of his game at that point, and could make anyone a star.

 

When the driver of the Civic goes to court, he can say, "I couldn't see him!"

 

Well played, sir. Well played.

 

I was at Cena's first title match, against Brock Lesnar at Backlash in 2003 and I remember saying to myself "This is kind of cool. I get to see this guy's first title match and he's probably going to be a huge star". Still have the chair and DVD from the show.

 

It's been a while since I've seen this one...and I don't know if I'm more impressed with Cena's wrestling ability, or pissed off because he doesn't utilize it nearly enough.

 

Not meaning to ruin your joke, but it was apparently a chain-reaction accident.

 

You think Vince wants that guy on TV?

 

I'm not saying he has to be Kurt Angle or Daniel Bryan. If even he were, say, Randy Orton it would make for high-quality wrestling. Sure, Orton does a lot of the same stuff every match, but he regularly incorporates something different or tweaks a move that already exists in his arsenal. Just throw in something fresh each match and he's golden.

 

Rumors are that the WWE have signed A-Train, but he keeps denying them.

Personally, I rather not have him back with the WWE. Never been a fan.