2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

I think one of the Bellas dated Ziggler at one point, too.

And a Bryan/Cena feud does not need the Bellas getting involved. I don't care if there's a reality show to hype up. Bryan/Cena should be able to sell itself.

 

It doesn't, but they could make it a little more interesting with them ... I guess.

 

RIP. He was a tremendous wrestler and he died way too young, like many other wrestlers that I have wrestled in this industry.

 

He was the man who played Doink the longest time in WWF/E.

Rest in Peace.

 

Reading the Doink entry at Wikipedia, apparently Bourne tweaked the gimmick in 2010 to have it resemble Heath Ledger's Joker. That would have been an interesting take with the right guy in the makeup (Dean Ambrose already being too well-known to do so)

 

Talk about trying too hard.

 

Also was prominent in Portland (where his dad was a star) and in World Class before he became Doink. RIP

 

Speaking of wrestlers dead and gone, I've been playing Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 for the PS2 lately (heard it was a great game, bought it used a couple of years ago, then it sat on the shelf), and it's amazing how many of the people in that game are either dead, retired, or in semi-retirement. There's probably 50 wrestlers in the game, and the only ones that are still full-time are Cena, Kane, Orton and Big Show. Seeing the characters Cena and Orton are playing in the game, before they truly became main eventers, is also sort of odd. Cena is still in his Thuganomics phase.
A few others, like Jericho, Triple H and Undertaker, are still around but not full-timers. Batista, Edge and Flair are retired. Two (Eddy Guerrero and Chris Benoit) are dead.
I know it's an eight-year-old game, but ... damn. It's only been eight years. It's amazing how much the wrestling landscape has changed over the past decade in terms of who's here and who isn't.

 

I'll have to avoid this thread on Monday nights, damn it. The wife and I pulled the plug on Dish. Got ourselves an AppleTV, an indoor antennae, and a Hulu Plus subscription. As I understand Raw shows a day later with half cut out. But, an hour of Raw is damn commercials. I've also seen some dirt sheets report what Hulu cuts out, and I don't think I'll miss much. SmackDown is shown in full, so no worries there.

 

Wrestlinginc.com always has a post about what was cut, so you'll know if you missed anything big. Usually, it's the crappiest segments that get cut.

 

Not sure where I saw it, but apparently Brooke Hogan is going to marry/engaged to Dallas Cowboys lineman Phil Costa.

Don't think it was a faux story either.