2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

Congratulations ... in the matter of weeks, you've been beaten down by The Shield and Aces & Eights.

 

Okay, I'm definitely curious - How did you become a voting member? Do you have to be an Observer subscriber, or just someone who covers wrestling regularly? The Observer is one of those things I've thought about getting a subscription to for years - Whenever I get a copy secondhand, I'm riveted for the 30 minutes or so it takes to parse through it.

 

Hahaha. That guy almost looks like my dad.

 

Yeah, but A&8 didn't throw me into a wall where a rivet was sticking out, puncturing my head. (True story, pics I saw on Twitter). Ouch!

 

I don't know. I was an Observer subscriber from 1992 until about the time Eddy died and Chris Benoit did what he did.

I write an occasional column on pro wrestling, and we just sort of started doing the voting thing.

 

Just saw the video from Monday Night Raw where Rock sings to Vicki. Best and funniest skit I've seen in quite some time. It was just as enjoyable hearing Lawler and JBL bust up naturally.

 

SmackDown ... uh, I'm just not digging the new direction. So Super duper good guy Sheamus, who makes Cena look look a Sociopath, is now Del Rio's buddy. And why am I supposed to get behind Del Rio? Not be be all racial, but unless I'm a Latino I have no reason to cheer him. What's the motivation behind his face turn? Where's the logic? He was the dick who ran down Santa Claus barely a month ago, remember? At least when Sheamus turned a few summers ago, it was a slow burn. Del Rio has changed literally overnight. Even Punk's turn this summer simmered a bit. Remember how Eve taunted him for being champion without ever being in the main event? Little moments, but they built toward something. Now ... fuck it, Let's have lifelong heel Jesse Ventura come out to do the kiss cam and launch some T-shirts into the crowd!

 

I don't mind Del Rio turning. But having him run down Santa was idiotic at best because it was right after he had turned.

 

Del Rio's turn, like Miz's had no rhyme or reason to it. I can see Del Rio as a babyface if he tries to be somewhat of a rich Latino Rick Rude who makes the women fans happy because of his looks, but keeps the male fans happy with his in-ring work and the kids happy with antics with Ricardo.

 

Which main event at Wrestlemania, in your opinion, was the best of all time?

 

If we limit the discussion to the billed main event, the last match on the card, this is my short list:

1. WrestleMania XII, Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart, ironman match
2. WrestleMania XIV, Stone Cold vs. Shawn Michaels, with Mike Tyson
3. WrestleMania X-Seven, Stone Cold vs. The Rock
4. WrestleMania XXVI, Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels
5. WrestleMania III, Hulk Hogan vs. Andre
6. WrestleMania XXIV, Undertaker vs. Edge
7. WrestleMania VI, Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior

 

the simple way to turn del rio babyface would be to have him go broke. or maybe they can play him as a tony stark-style playboy.

but in any case the announcers need to stop calling Del Rio, as I heard JBL do, "a mexican artistocrat" an aristocrat of any ethnicity is not really someone you want to cheer for.