2020 Pro Wrestling Thread

I know it's only Jan. 23 but Britt Baker wins Worst Promo of the Year for that mess last night on AEW.

 

Since she's the wrestling dentist, maybe they should have her go full Isabelle Yankem.

 

This is classic. Great send-up of all the classic betrayals, and love the touches of "It was me, Austin!" and the trash being thrown in the ring like the late '90s Nitros.

 

What do we make of the nxt championship controversy? (Supposedly dropping the word womens because it implies its less than. Becky Lynch seems against this ... or maybe shes for It? )

anyway I think its dumb bc its confusing. If Mauro says “we have an nxt title match coming after the break!” I want to know if Cole or Ripleys up next.

we call the tag titles “tag team champions” and its not an insult. I feel gender name is the same.

 

Just use men’s and women’s. Problem solved.

 

This. Start referring to the men's title as the men's title. Men's division as men's division. Men's tag team champions as men's tag team champions.

Which raises a question that I maybe should post on the journalism board. Girls wrestling is now a thing in Oklahoma. But most coverage of wrestling (which is sparse as it is) refers to wrestling with no gender for boys (the Class 5A wrestling championships, for example) but uses girls wrestling for girls. That's the only sport where it happens -- everything else is boys tennis and girls tennis, for example. I'm thinking I might advocate for adding boys to the boys wrestling coverage when we actually get to heavy coverage next month with the state tournaments. Thoughts?

 

It’ll happen naturally over time. Here, its always boys soccer, boys basketball, etc because there’s been boys and girls versions for 40 years. Not hockey, there’s still a tendency to call the boys team the “hockey team” because people still have muscle memory from the 90s.

Are the teams co-ed with a girls division for states? That’s how swimming is here so we don’t do boys or girls for that.

 

did they botch the ending of the match? What was questionable about it to start the whole promo? Seemed like Baker forgot her lines.

confession Im thinking about cutting out aew. Its just not great and not worth my time.

 

The 2019 Gooker winner has been announced!
It's the Rollins-Wyatt Hell in a Cell match, which narrowly edged the Lashley-Rusev-Lana love triangle and a very loaded field of worthy candidates. There are at least five of the 10 candidates that could have won in a lot of other years.

INDUCTION: Seth vs. Fiend Hell in a Cell - 2019 Gooker Award Winner - WrestleCrap - The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling!

 

Two separate tournaments this year. First time. Every sport other than football (which has no equivalent) and baseball (which has softball for girls) are boys whatever and girls whatever.

 

I think, creatively, expectations were just a little high. It’s not bad, there’s some rough spots they need to iron out, and they just need time to put it all together. They’re like an expansion team. They don’t really have a history to fall back on, so they’re doing this all from scratch.

 

its not that its bad. Its just not great and there’s not enough time in the day. I find it sitting in my dvr and once I get more than a week behind its like, eh I can just catch what I need in twitter gifs. The whole thing feels like a big shrug.