2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

Last night was fool's gold. One of the worst shows in the three-hour era.

 

It was awful. It's the last show before one of the biggest pay per views of the year, and that's what we get? Nothing happened in any story line outside of Rock-Punk, and you could see what was coming for miles.

The WWE writers are stupid.

 

I actually turned off Cena's interview halfway through and went to bed so I missed the brawl to end it all.

 

You didn't miss much. It was the same bullshit they've been spewing for the last few years.

 

Yes, I know.

 

I think for Halloween Havoc one year, the WCW did actually go with random spins, which resulted in lunacy like coalminer's glove matches for world titles and what not. I can't recall the exact details right now though - It was in one of the Wrestlecrap books.

 

I think it was the '92 Havoc. Sting and Jake Roberts had a coal miner's glove match, which ended when Roberts somehow was bitten by his own snake.

Should have been better than it was.

 

I remember the vignettes for those. As a kid, they genuinely scared me. Kinda cheesy but I enjoyed that stuff.

 

And here it is: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pree_jake-the-snake-roberts-vs-sting-coa_sport#.UQA6bqHvTWU.

 

Rumble predictions? Here are my cynical picks ...

The Schlock beats Punk for the WWE title. Schlock will only defend it twice, once at Elimination Chamber and at Wrestlemania. Punk goes back to the midcard after EC and is buried in a worthless WM match.

SuperCena wins the Rumble match to set up Twice in a Lifetime (tm).

Snore.

 

In other news, if you haven't picked up WWE 13 to play, might wanna grab a copy. THQ was sold off in bits this week, and there's no telling yet what it means for WWE video games. THQ had the rights through 2017 and were already working on WWE 14 for later this year. THQ employees were told to stop working on their various projects.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-thq-auction-20130124,0,4551883.story

After reading more about THQ, I realized it was the publisher of the superior WCW games for N64 back in the day. My brother and I used to play the shit out of WCW/nWo Revenge. The WWE games were pretty back back then, mostly because the grapple system THQ used worked better. The wrestling flowed better and appeared more natural, rather than pushing buttons for combos, and then a random move comes out of nowhere because it's just a cut scene within the gameplay.

I just hope a decent publisher picks up the rights and keeps up the quality THQ brought to the games.

 

I imagine that the WWE license will be one of their few holdings that gets some real strong bidding, since it's a yearly release that's a proven moneymaker. It would shock me if somebody besides EA gets it, since it seems right up their alley from a gameplay and pressure standpoint (i.e. if you want a developer with yearly releases, EA is one of the few places that has shown they can and will hit all of the deadlines, which is something that's really underrated in the games industry).