2014 Pro Wrestling Thread

Put me down for Wyatt-Shield II tonight as MOTY.

 

I don't think hijacking will be around forever. Like everything else, it'll eventually die out. If The E really wanted to end it, they'd find a way to co-opt it and make it uncool, like Fandango-ing. In a way, it's The E's fault for acknowledging the post-Mania Raw crowd so much last year. Take the announcer chants during the Orton/Sheamus match. Had JBL, Lawler, and Cole ignored it, my guess is no one would be doing it now. The E should treat hijacking crowds like children and ignore them, not pay them the attention they want.

Am I 100 percent happy with what I watch every week? No. Do I complain? Sure, I'm a consumer. Is it bad enough that I stop watching? Of course not. Do I find hijacking entertaining? Mostly. Will I get tired of it? Sure. Do I expect it to die out? Eventually.

I was able to stream a bit before my streams crapped out, but I thought the way creative handled the Punk madness by having Heyman come out, cut a promo on Punk, then gracefully transition to the actual story in play ... brilliant.

 

They're co-opting it right now.

 

This Raw is flying by tonight.

 

It's already the top of the hour. Somehow, I doubt Bryan is carrying Batista for 30 minutes. Which says it all right there.

 

No Punk. Oh well.

 

Just finished watching online since the live streams kept going down. Anyway, I really think the hijacking is eventually going to die down once people realize that The E is not going to change plans just because of crowd reaction. A month from now, we're still getting Orton/Batista, Bryan/Triple H, etc. The only action that caused any real change to the card was a guy walking out on his job.

 

Watching Bash at the Beach '98. I almost forgot that Fandango wasn't the first awful dance gimmick to gain traction simply because of how awful it would be if we didn't laugh at the awfulness: Disco Inferno. And recall, even like Fandango has Summer Rae, Disco had a dance partner in ... uh, Alex Wright. Well, Fandango certainly takes the lead in that category.

I'm watching the hilarious abomination of a midcard segment on the Bash, and Kevin Nash actually comes along and makes it shitty by trying to be as hip as he can be for a middle-aged white guy. That's when he wasn't releasing guys from the powerbomb too early and nearly breaking their necks with his half-assed attitude. And did anyone ever understand what the hell Konnan was saying? It was the same shit in every promo, but I never understood it.

Then Kevin Greene comes along, and I have to turn it off for the night. Getting a headache.

 

RAW has to be in the running for the best booked show in WWE history. Vince played that one perfectly. By the time Sheamus and the Divas came out, the crowd was completely out of gas. Hell, they even paired the celebrity guest with the perfect guy.

 

Fantasy booking: Bryan gets into the title match as Wrestlemania, gets screwed out of title on run-in by CM Punk, kicking off an epic heel run.

 

Eddie/Chavo must be pretty good?

Looking at the Wiki page and wondering how on the green Earth Jericho/Mysterio only gets six minutes. Ugh.

 

The Internet reports out there said they started the show with the Heyman segment in order to acknowledge the crowd and try to get them to move on.

Which is what I suggested on here a few weeks ago, only I had Vince do it and be diplomatic about it. Which is why I'm not a WWE writer.