2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

Chamber match was great. Shocked there were no shenanigans. Bray pinned the top 2 guys in the company clean with one finisher, he's minted now. Excellent.

 

The chamber was redesigned to include LEDs. They're spreading like kudzu. In five years, we'll see them rasslin on an LED ring, with LED ring ropes. Soooo much LED.

I love the Alpha. I first saw them at NXT Takeover Dallas and have enjoyed them ever since. I love how Long Hair Alpha gets beat down and tries and tries and tries, then FINALLY gets that hot tag to Gassed to the Gills Alpha. Alpha vs. The Usos could be a great long-running feud, even when they're not working in a program. But I think the tag team division needs to shake up a little more. I think we need to take some of the guys languishing as singles and put them together to have a few more teams.

Naomi winning the title shows me that they want the women's division to be versatile and not rest on any one or two performers, just the opposite of what Raw gives us. Shit, there were three women's matches on a PPV. I can't even tell you who's in Raw's division other than the Queen, Sasha, Bayley and Nia. I would have to look it up online, and I'm too lazy. With SmackDown, I can rattle off my mistress Becky, Alexa, Naomi, Natalya, Nikki, Carmella, Mickie.

Luke Harper is awesome. Too bad he'll never be anything more than a midcard jobber. Send Bray off on his own with the title feud with Orton. Let Harper change a little. Maybe trim the beard, get slightly different gear.

Cena with a two-week title reign? Such a throwback to the Flair reigns.

Speaking of, my project is to slowly go through all of WCW from the first Nitro, the PPVs, the Clashes, until the bitter end. (Saturday Night and Thunder are not uploaded.) Right now, I'm in early 1996, and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship is like the town bicycle: everybody's getting a turn. Flair just won the title from Savage at Starrcade, then dropped it a few weeks later on a Nitro. Recall, this was before there was a PPV every month. Starrcade was in late December, and the next PPV was SuperBrawl in February.

 

The two-week title reign for Cena makes me wonder why they even bothered in the first place? Why not leave it on Styles and have him drop it in the Chamber?

 

Holla! He really was around for a while, going back to the formative days of WCW.

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Choose the better gimmick:

-Hulkamania or Hollywood Hogan
-Mankind or Cactus Jack
-Surfer Sting or Crow Sting
-Dustin Rhodes or Goldust
-1-2-3 Kid or X-Pac
-Double J or Jeff Jarrett: The Chosen One
- Papa Shango or Godfather
-JBL or Bradshaw from APA

 

Remember Flair's last world title reigns? What a clusterfuck. To recap:

Flair wins the title by beating Jeff Jarrett.
Then, Flair is stripped of the title and it is awarded back to Jarrett.
Kevin Nash steals the title from Jarrett, but nevertheless defends it the same night, and Jarrett "wins" it back.
Nash then wins the title back in a match with Jarrett and Scott Steiner.
Nash then just gives Flair the title.
Flair then loses it that same night, back to Jarrett.

This all happened over the course of two weeks.

It capped off a two-month period in which there were nine title changes, including David Arquette's reign.

WCW's implosion never gets old.

 

Because they wanted him to tie the record and they don't want him to break it. I could see them leaving him at 16 reigns and never getting the record.

That has to be the shortest reign of his career. Don't have time to look it up, but I can't remember him dropping the title so quickly. And you know what? I don't mind it one bit, because it got the belt to Bray -- and Cena and Styles both made him look like a damn star last night.

 

Cena actually had a reign that lasted mere minutes (Elimination Chamber, 2010, where he won the Chamber, then lost to Batista right after the Chamber match). This was his second 14-day reign as WWE champion, and has 20- and 21-day reigns as well (plus a 21-day WHC reign).

 

Had to watch the Chamber after I got home but holy hell. Finally. YES YES YES. Bray Fng Wyatt.

 

Bray's reaction was epic, too. He broke character for a bit, but who can blame him?

 

One other nutty thing about pro wrestling is that Flair had a lot more title reigns, only they've never been recognized. There's online discussion that he's had 25 or even up into the 40s in title reigns.

Some of them, he's talked about in his book, like his NWA title match with Jack Veneno in the Caribbean where they did a time-limit draw where Flair, in the sleeper, had his hand drop right after the bell, only the crowd thought Veneno won and started a crazy celebration. Had they announced it was a draw, there was major fear of a riot and deaths, so they just didn't announce the draw and let everyone think Veneno won. Then in the rematch, Flair brought Piper with him for help; Piper acts like his obnoxious heel self, and a bunch of Army guys at ringside point rifles at him, leading Flair to pull Veneno on top of him and order the ref to count to three.

There's other title reigns, where Flair and Race switched the belt back and forth in Singapore without anyone knowing, and those changes have alternated between being recognized and not. And there have been other brief reigns where Flair, just being bored or whatever, would drop the belt just so the crowd would go home happy and win it back the next night or two.

 

Crowd is giving a Yes chant for that Creation of Kevin painting.

This segment has been awesome so far.