2014 Pro Wrestling Thread

I get that WWE's partnership with Komen isn't going away anytime soon, but I believe this is the first time they've had someone come on the show and talk about what they've been through.

I wonder how much actually goes to research. I know we've got a thread for that on S&N, but reading that only a certain percentage of NFL sales goes to research got me to thinking about WWE's set up.

 

JBL is awesome again: "how did he get that hot dog cart down here? By the subway?"

 

Doesn't WWE just cut them a check at the end of the month? Between that and the free weekly promotion Komen gets for a few weeks, I'm thinking WWE probably does OK by Komen.

On a side note, I noticed the breast cancer shirts were kind of a riff on Brock Lesnar's "Eat. Sleep. Conquer." shirt. Be a tremendous heel move if Heyman came out and threatened to sue for copyright infringement.

 

"Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman. And as the advocate for the One, in 21-1, Brrrrrock Lesnar, I will be seeking a cease and desist order to the Komen Foundation as a violation of copyright, for that shirt. Because you see, Brrrock Lesnar is not here to cure cancer. Brrrock Lesnar is here to conquer the WWE, and keep his WWE World Championship. Brrrock Lesnar only cares about getting rid of one cancer. And that cancer's name is John Cena. He is a cancer, on the WWE, because he refuses to turn to the dark side, he keeps caring about these little kiddies and is staler than Hogan in '95. So ladies and gentlemen, take off those T-shirts unless you want to be subpoenaed as witnesses, and let's celebrate the conquerer of the cancer that is John Cena, Brrrock Lesnar!!!!

 

Maybe I'm tainted by listening to a Brooklyn crowd-----but I have no idea what they're doing booking Cena/Ambrose. The smarks who hate Cena will help push Ambrose as a huge face, I guess, but all they're doing is confusing the rest of the crowd. Are we supposed to be rooting for Cena or Ambrose in that match? They don't have the nuts to pull the double turn there.

 

That is an issue, because the E keeps going for complex story lines. They keep building heat between Cena and Ambrose, instead of just Trips telling them they have to have a match in order to decide who gets Rollins and having them be reluctant about facing each other.

Part of it does make sense, because why should Cena trust former members of The Shield, who had wreacked havoc on the company for over a year? At the same time, though, the whole, "Cena can't trust anyone" thing has been overplayed for years. It's tiresome.

It also doesn't make that much sense to have Cena be matching Ambrose's hatred for Rollins. Sure, he was robbed of his title shot. Ambrose, meanwhile, was not only betrayed by a close friend, but he was stomped into concrete blocks. A bit more upsetting, ain't it?

 

Meanwhile, Ambrose saved the show at the end of the night.

Ketchup and Mustard as his six-shooters.

Tongs!

Relish and Sauerkraut.

Felt like an ECW type brawl right there and reminded me a lot of a Stone Cold type deal.


MEANWHILE,

Call me stupid but I just now realized that WWE has all of the Raws from the past uploaded on the Network. I watched the first three last night and the 93 Royal Rumble in between the first two and the third.

Repo Man, Damian Demento, Krush, Doink, Macho Man, Mr. Perfect wow. What a blast from the past.

I'll be busy with that for a long time. I plan on watching every single one in order with the PPVs. I'll be busy through next year. Can't wait til I get caught up to the beginning of the Attitude era and I might even start watching every Smackdown as well between the Raws and PPVs whenever I get to 1999.

Yes, I have no life.

 

Ya big dummy.

 

Yeah, I know. lol

 

That's okay, Tommy. I have no life, allowing me to start Nitro from the beginning. It is what it is and don't nuthin' mean nuthin'. Or whatever Cleveland said last week.

As for Raw, I often watch the Hulu Plus version to save time. It's always a great way to get the best segments and get through the shit. Until this week. The lifeless Komen promo by whoever those women are supposed to be got lumped in to my abridged show. I got no problem with The E stumping for charities and selling whatever color shirts they want and giving some of the money. Fine by me, but don't overtake the show with not one, but two useless, lousy segments like that. The Brooklyn crowd shat all over the first one. The second, I just skipped ahead. It's worse than the guest host segments in which the host is so clueless of the product and didn't even bother to research just for five minutes to realize Hulk Hogan isn't the champ. I know these people don't give two craps about me, my interest in the product, or the product itself, they just want my money. Even schilling for charity can eventually become shameless pandering.

(And to crossthread, I posted a few links I found on the WWE/Komen stuff. The E gives Komen 20 percent of the retail price of merch, assuming they're telling the truth.)

Someone posted this chart a while ago when the ice bucket stuff was all the rage. If there's any truth to this, it's astounding that breast cancer kills so few but raises so much money. As a cynic, I roll my eyes because I can only imagine how much of the money goes toward charity executives and how little goes toward actual research funding.

http://i.imgur.com/M7FfhbC.png

I don't think I'm being insensitive. My wife's step-mom had breast cancer, but she doesn't beat that topic like a dead horse in her daily life. She's not always wearing pink or ribbons or doing charity stuff. So, yeah, in comparison, the WWE/Komen stuff is bordering on overexposure. Sue me, I'm an asshole.

 

Rollins vs Ambrose has been the best thing on the shows since The Shield breakup. Rollins/Ambrose in a cell would tear the house down. Ambrose could easily be this year's Daniel Bryan......but they're not booking him and Cena the same way they did with Bryan. They're different characters, Dean doesn't need as much of that aw shucks underdog respect thing, but I hope they realize there's an opportunity to get the little kids in the crowd into Dean through Cena without compromising his character.

Seems insane that that was another no World Heavyweight Championship show.

 

Calling Ambrose/Rollins in the cell a while back might be one of the only things I've ever been right about.