2014 Pro Wrestling Thread

Man, I just and looked, and you guys aren't kidding. The Bryan merchandise outside of the Yes! t-shirt is abominable.

 

I dug the old one he had with the ring and his name around it, which they used for the back of the YES! shirt later. The beard ones, not so much.

 

The D-Bryan marks are going to drop their money on the cooler looking CM Punk shirts until they give him some better merch. Or a Wyatt Family "Follow the Buzzards" shirt.

 

Announced on Smackdown tonight:

The Wyatts vs. The Shield in a chamber match at Elimination Chamber.

 

DB's merch is so awful he even mentions getting a new t-shirt made the night after Wrestlemania 28 (where the whole DB thing really started to explode)

Watching this pre-goat beard DB makes me realize WWE has a HUGE payday in eventually turning Bryan heel and losing a match where he has to shave after losing.

 

Also agreed on his awful merchandise. The Yes and No shirts are great. The Yes shirt will probably his classic shirt, like Austin 3:16 or Punk's MitB 2011 shirt. But "The Beard is Here" doesn't work if you don't have a beard or are a lady. None of the beard shirts are that great, and I'm certainly not wearing something with a cartoon goat. Just take the Yes concept and do variations. How many variations does Punk have of taped wrists and a lightning bolt? It works. While I understand that the yellow shirt of 2012 made some sense (it's one of his tattoos), it broke away too much from having a signature logo. I can only guess it was mildly popular because the color alone made it stand out from others (until Cena did a yellow shirt). And, sometimes, smarks just like to buy shirts because of how tacky they are or because it's some old school character that is having a resurgence in popularity. Is anyone really that excited that Warrior is back, or is it just cool because it's so bad it's cool? I don't even know where I'm going with this.

 

Warrior : pro wrestling :: Manos : film

 

Apparently Punk left Raw Monday and went home.

He's been removed from all shows going forward.

 

I'm guessing they had plans for him to face Kane at Mania.

Either that, or he just realized he had sold moves for a midget in a bull costume.

 

Reports are Punk was unhappy because they're now going to have Bryan face Trips at WM. Plus he said he was burned out 3 years ago and he probably has been wanting out for some time.

Also, in other news, the DAs office is bringing the Superfly Snuka girlfriend murder case from 1983 to a grand jury. Maybe nothing happens, but this could be very interesting, especially since there were rumors Vince was trying to cover something up.

 

Any chance its a work with Punk or has he really gone Stone Cold?

 

Seems pretty abrupt that he just wouldn't be a part of Raw on Monday to further the Kane storyline, even if it was just a promo in the back.

TMZ is reporting it's also because Punk felt he deserved to be in the WM title match instead of Batista, because he felt it was unfair that a guy who just came back got thrown into the title match:

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/29/cm-punk-quit-wwe-wrestlemania-batista/