2024 Pro Wrestling Thread

Because TKO told him to. I’m sure one of the new money guys thought it was a great idea that would make them a lot of money, but … yeah. Trips had to do a lot of scrambling over a couple of weeks around the Royal Rumble with all the shit that came down.

 

Yes, I get that. I’m talking from a storyline perspective.

 

From a storyline perspective he never gave up his spot.

Cody leaned Roman. Seth gave him his speech, he said he’d think about it. Cody said he got advice from the Rock, brought him out to spook Roman. At no point did he say he chose the world heavyweight title (the ‘not as wrestlemania’ line remains problematic but he still never declared).

Cody then chose Roman at the Vegas thing.

In kayfabe its clean as a whistle. Rock and Roman saying otherwise is just the typical Bloodline gaslighting they always do.

 

Pretty cool moment with Cody Rhodes and a blind fan at a house show

https://x.com/shaaeela/status/1759478776839475667?s=20

 

For some reason I started thinking about Bret Hart's career last night and thinking about some of the iconic wrestlers of the last 30 years that he might have never worked with despite their careers overlapping.
He mostly worked house show matches against Triple H, for example, and never had a proper feud with Hogan. Hart and Hogan wrestled about a half-dozen house show matches in WCW and a couple of tag matches in WWE.
Hart also only ever had four singles matches against Randy Savage — a throwaway match on Saturday Night's Main Event in 1987, one PPV match in WCW in 1998, and two WWE house show matches in the 90s.

Who are some other pairings like that, that you would've thought had plenty of feuds and big matches but never did?

 

I was very surprised a few months back that it was the first time Jericho and Sting ever crossed paths.

I think Goldberg and John Cena just missed each other a few times.

 

Jericho and Undertaker was another one. They had some tag matches together, but only had two Smackdown singles matches vs. each other.

 

I don’t ever remember Shawn Michaels and CM Punk wrestling each other or even interacting before their NXT lovefest when Punk first returned.

 

Those two never really overlapped, though. I think Punk was just coming up to the main roster around the time Michaels was winding down. It wasn't like Hart-Hogan or Hart-Savage, where both guys were near the top of the card during the same period yet never fully connected.
Punk and Triple H would be a good pair. They had at least a couple of years where they were near the same level on the card but only had one singles match. I suppose there were plenty of reasons for that, though.

 

Bret and Savage also wrestled in Japan as part of a WWF tour. Bret defended the world title against him, and as he told the story in his book, Blackjack Lanza, who was the agent, told Bret to just get a quick roll up. Bret thought that was an insult to Savage, so they went out, tore the house down, and Savage agreed to submit in the Sharpshooter. They came backstage, and Lanza started praising them and Savage told him off.

Bret also wrote about the SNME match and said it was an important match in his career as it gave him a nationally televised singles match against a top guy. The storyline was that Bret had helped Honky Tonk Man when Honky hit Savage with the guitar, which led to the Mega-Powers’ famous handshake.

Bret wrote that he and Savage came up beforehand with a great fast-paced match, then Vince told him for some reason that he wanted Bret to work on Savage’s leg. Bret objected as he said it would slow the match down and Vince told him to figure it out. Bret ended up breaking a bone in his foot when he landed wrong outside the ring, and then Savage ended up breaking a bone in his foot as well. So they both were legitimately hopping around on one foot each, but had a fine match anyways.

 

I thought Cena and Undertaker never really had a proper feud. They faced each other a few times when Cena was the heel rapper; then once, Taker tombstoned him after they won a tag match at an MSG Raw. They had the one WM squash match, but I thought they should have had Cena be a challenger during The Streak.

 

Bloodline in the house …. Probably cost Jey his match to kickstart Uso mania but what if swerve they reunite on orders of the Great One