Professional wrestling thread

Actually, I'd hope one of the wrestlers would go up there and put him in a submission hold and make him cry, too!

 

Fixed

 

OK, what is the likelihood of a "tribute show" next week on Raw--just like they did when Owen and Eddie, you know, actually died?

 

According to wwe.com, they're supposed to be having one right now on ECW, but I just now flipped over from the Verlander coverage.

 

They are. They did the 10 bell salute and all. Course, the Philly fans booed every bell ring.

Still, considering the similarity to shows after guys really did die, I'm trying to decide if I should be offended or not. I mean, what if someone on the roster drops dead next week? What then?

 

Someone, here or elsewhere, made the point that since this is scripted entertainment, it's more like the death of a character than the death of an actual person. Problem is, the precedent for this treatment has always been a shoot situation, be it the death of Owen or Eddy, or the Smackdown after Sept. 11. If WWE made an on-air effort to seperate, say, Rated R Superstar Edge from normal guy Adam Copeland, this would be more palatable. But they haven't, so it isn't.

 

This "after the explosion" footage is class. There's one Wilkes-Barre fire truck, the first orange one I've ever seen, spraying what appears to be high-velocity jizz on the burning limo, which occasionally emits explosions that somehow sound similar to a random WWE Superstar's pyro. And Joey Styles is wearing a little silver cross on his lapel. And Tazz is without sunglasses. Also, they know how long the firefighters sprayed the limo, but not whether they recovered Mr. McMahon's remains.

Good night, sweet prince. :'(

 

That Benoit/Punk versus Cor Von/Burke match looked decent on paper. Horrendous. Ending was awful, too.

 

Hey, maybe now he can wrestle God and put an end to that angle!

 

Wonder if Orton will be the bad guy in this -- he blew up the ultimate "legend" -- and have HHH come back and defend McMahon's honor, only to have Vince reappear at a future PPV and back Orton.

 

I swear Vince Russo is back booking under the table.

How they went from the, in my opinion, hot angles of six weeks ago to THIS is beyond me.

I know they had injuries but this is catastrophically bad.

 

And yet, we'll all still watch.