2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

http://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/2013-11-01/john-cena-top-5-world-title-reigns

So, WWE only recognizes the WWE Championship, WCW Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, and NWA Championship (or no one on this list has held the ECW Championship or TNA Championship). Interesting to note, and it keeps Flair on top with 16. But Cena has 14. Wonder if they'll let him break it?

And what is more impressive: multiple world title runs or lengthy world title runs? Who else besides Punk, Cena, and JBL has held a world title for a year in the modern era of hotshot booking?

 

Surprised Hogan has that many, considering how long most of his early runs were. I thought he was in the high single digits.
Others I thought would've had more were Undertaker (7), Rock (8, including no runs with Goldie) and Chris Jericho (4).

And, Bradley, near as I can tell, even accounting for TNA title reigns, there's no one on the list who would add to their totals, or who would have enough combined between WWE, WCW and TNA to get to 11. The closest are Kurt Angle (5 TNA, 4 WWE, 1 WWE Heavyweight) and Sting (6 WCW and 4 TNA) with 10 each.

 

So-so Raw, with Show getting his job back, and his title match, only to get beaten down by Orton/Shield again. Only real significant part of this was Kane coming out ... in a suit. Very weird, after all of these years.

Good ending to the Cena/Rhodeses/Sandow/We the People six-man tag. Crowd was hot for it. The commentary was a mess with both Zeb and Del Rio, who don't like each other, battling each other, running down Cena, poking fun at Cole (which was fine).

 

As someone who is attending Survivor Series god I hope Big Show Orton is not the main event.

 

At least it looks like you'll get Punk-Bryan-??-??-?? vs. The Wyatts and ?? and ?? as a traditional Survivor Series match.

 

If tonight's any indication the crowd will be hottest for that, or for whatever SS match features Goldust and Cody

 

Rock had Goldie ... he beat Booker T for the WCW title during the invasion, then lost it to Y2J for his first world title. He got it back before Y2J unified the world titles.

 

Last week there were signs of Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins getting "angry" at Dean Ambrose for some of the comments he said, but nothing yesterday. Strange.

Do you think it's time to split them up? Or, you keep them together till Wrestelmania?

 

They're doing the slow burn, just dropping hints here and there.

Frankly, I think they have a lot more left in the tank with their run together, and I think they'd be fine going another year or so.

 

I think they're itching to give Roman Reigns the rocket ride to the top. He's got the size, the look and the heritage they like in a main eventer, and he's gotten markedly better in the ring since they called him up. I could easily see him being whatever they're treating as the secondary of the World/WWE titles this time next year.

Maybe they could do a Shield reset with Ambrose dumping Reigns and Rollins and bringing in two NXT guys to take their place. Corey Graves has the right look to be the new Rollins, and maybe Alexander Rusev could be the new Reigns.

 

I'm going to the Royal Rumble in January.

That's hard to screw up.

But I'm not real bullish on the product right now. They were rolling earlier this year, I thought. Not so much now.

 

The Rumble is at least a really fun event though, especially if you try your best to avoid the spoilers on what sort of cameo guys they might have that year.