2023 Pro Wrestling Thread

Incredible opener, though they didn't need the interference from the Italians.

Hate to say it, but having his tag partner get canned was probably the best thing that ever happened to Wes Lee.
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And Dijak against Wes Lee looked better than he has at any point since he was still going against Keith Lee.

 

So if he can just keep feuding with guys named Lee he'll be a hall of famer.

 

Been meaning to post this for a week or so since it was announced. The winner of Wrestlecrap's 2022 Gooker Award issss .... Ric Flair's last match.
It got 48 percent of the votes in a field of 10 candidates. Second place was the 2022 Royal Rumble (15 percent) and third was Vince McMahon vs. Pat McAfee at Wrestlemania (11 percent).
As they point out in the induction, Flair's "last match" era has now lasted longer than a lot of wrestlers' entire careers.

https://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/ric-flairs-last-match/

 

Great four-way for the tag belts. New Day rightfully did the deed for one of the true NXT teams, and all of them got their bits in.

Enjoyed the touch of Pretty Deadly putting the curtain and monitors back on the broadcast table after Duke Hudson tore them off.

 

If only he can draw AJ out of retirement.

 

"Only two men have held the NXT championship longer than Bron Breakker."

And only one they can still mention on NXT TV.

 

Nxt got worse as it went on. The top of the card just isnt very interesting and doesnt deliver the kind of matches that make uninteresting wrestlers worth watching anyway

 

Breakker needs a challenger that fans can take seriously. Waller doesn’t seem like he has much, at least in the limited times that I’ve seen him.

Hayes is very talented, but time will tell if he seems like a viable contender.

 

Looks like Carmelo will be the endgame for Bron's title reign during Mania weekend, and then he'll get the call-up.

 

Apparently, they worked Waller's frustration from losing into HBK's Zoom media scrum after the show, and then this...

 

An interesting wrinkle for Elimination Chamber that I didn't think of. At lease one of (if not both) the Usos are prevented from entering Canada because of their past legal issues.

Will Sami just get screwed by Solo? Heyman? Does WWE work out a deal with the Canadian feds to get either of the twins across the border?

 

Circling back here this epp was a really incredible tribute to Pat. Rosenberg said it better than I ever could