2025-star Frog Splash! Pro Wrestling Thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

Awwwwww … poor Bigfoot.

 

[nietsroob17]

Chelsea cosplaying as Mick Foley, with Piper disheveled from her loss -- those two are glorious.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Chelsea cosplaying as Mick Foley, with Piper disheveled from her loss -- those two are glorious.

The Foley tribute is fantastic.

Now, if she pulls a sock out of her tights ….

 

[nietsroob17]

Appreciate Michin for seeing the table droop and say "fork it" and still do the drop on Chelsea.

Putting Alba Fyre with Chelsea is certainly a choice, but Alba was probably going to be spinning her wheels with Isla Dawn gone. I think they had flirted with using Blair Davenport in the same spot before she got cut.

 

[Rockbottom]

All of you who can see the double-turn coming at Mania, with Cody flipping to a heel mid-match a la Bret vs. Austin and Cena holding the strap up amid fireworks as a face champ... raise your hand.

*raises hand*

rb

 

[Baron Scicluna]

All of you who can see the double-turn coming at Mania, with Cody flipping to a heel mid-match a la Bret vs. Austin and Cena holding the strap up amid fireworks as a face champ... raise your hand.

*raises hand*

rb

Not quite. I can see it as a Rock vs. Hogan thing where the fans start cheering heel Cena like crazy.

That's where the next few weeks are crucial. Cena and Rock have to do a lot of heel things (beat up R-Truth, scream at Make-A-Wish kids) to make everyone want to boo them at WM. Doing videos via satellite ain't gonna cut it.

 

[Rockbottom]

Yeah, I get that... problem is that the E loves having that face champ at the end of the Mania main event. You can't get there with Cena winning No. 17 without the turn -- not to mention that a heel Rhodes I think would do really well after this 3-year run of being the uber face.

rb

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Yeah, I get that... problem is that the E loves having that face champ at the end of the Mania main event. You can't get there with Cena winning No. 17 without the turn -- not to mention that a heel Rhodes I think would do really well after this 3-year run of being the uber face.

rb

Cody is way over, the crowd loves him, and he's moving lots of merch. Why mess that up?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Yeah, I get that... problem is that the E loves having that face champ at the end of the Mania main event. You can't get there with Cena winning No. 17 without the turn -- not to mention that a heel Rhodes I think would do really well after this 3-year run of being the uber face.

rb

30 years ago, yeah. They've had heel champs leave on top of WM before, though. Heck, Roman went out on top as a heel in two straight Manias.

Eventually, Cody will turn heel, but there needs to be another top face for him to feud with.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I went and saw the "Queen of the Ring" film. I'd read the book, which was excellent, so, like "The Iron Claw", I went into "Queen" telling myself that it wasn't a documentary and to try not to let the historical inaccuracies bother me.

It turned out to be a good film, that casual non-wresting fans will enjoy and serious fans will be pretty entertained. I thought the actor who played Billy Wolfe did a really good job as the heavy. The in-ring scenes are done well and reflected the era (nobody did moonsaults or shooting stars or Spanish Flies). Emily Bert Rickards was pretty good as Burke.

I thought it actually could have used a little more time in building the business split between Burke and Wolfe.

It was a little off-putting seeing Jim Cornette in there as the commissioner. I kept expecting him to whack someone with a tennis racket.

All in all, I give it 3.5 stars out of 5.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Is anybody actually paying the $50 to buy the AEW PPV?

 

[nietsroob17]

I guess it would be too easy for Ricochet to come out with Samantha as his own personal ring announcer?