Professional wrestling thread

WWWF/WWF/WWE made a tradition out of it. The New England Tent Tour. Now it's TNA's apparently. I think this is the first TNA multiple-date tour. Maybe eventually they'll get around to putting the TV dates on tour too, so we don't have to be assault by a weekly dose of Orlando's retard fans.

 

Just thought I'd let everyone know we've just checked in here at the Courtyard Marriott, mere moments away from the ROH show in Dayton!

And yes, I'm rubbing it in.

 

Agreed, I wish it was an impact taping. but i bet practically nobody shows up on sunday, especially considering the prices are the same as WWE tickets last year and for some odd reason it's 18+.

 

Oh, so classy...

 

Get'em while the angle lasts ...

 

Did Vince McMahon die today?

 

He (or specifically, the character of Mr. McMahon) was "killed" when his limo exploded at the end of Raw almost two weeks ago. Creative thought it could work in the way that a soap opera character would die, but when the only experience wrestling fans have with death acknowledged on-air is with real ones like Eddy Guerrero and Owen Hart, they're going to be a hard sell for a fake death. And sure enough, the fans are booing it loudly and lustily at every opportunity, and the ratings aren't any better.

Unless, of course, McMahon actually DID die today, in defiance of the storyline. Imagine trying to deal with it on the next Raw, especially considering that it's a three-hour "tribute" to him.

 

I was a WWF lover in the deepest possible way as a boy coming of age in the 80s. What pro wrestling turned into is sad, and McMahon was part of the idiotic morphing. But if he did die, it would be sad. I enjoyed the entertainment he provided a lonely boy back in the day. I hope it's all just a badly written hoax.

 

Definitely a hoax. An angle to have the Mr. McMahon character written out of the storylines, presumably for good. The people who came up with it probably had a dramatically different picture of how it would play out before they pulled the trigger.

They're really screwing themselves with this angle, though. There's a PPV on Sunday that's gotten almost no attention because of all the McMahon "death" bullshit. They'll lose some money on that one.

 

I've been out of the wrestling loop since '91 or '92. There's WWE shit on the CW right now, and Ric Flair is in a tag-team match. Not sure why I stopped on this channel. But whatever. So, Ric Flair has been doing this for a long time, gotta be pushing 60. He looks pretty fucking good for his age, muscle-wise.

 

Ric Flair probably uses the clear.

 

Well, I was on vacation during most of this. Just got caught up on the TIVO, and wanted to avoid this thread until I was up to date.

As JR would phrase it: GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY THIS STORYLINE IS UNBELIEVABLE! A SLOBBERKNOCKER OF SHITITUDE!

My favorite part so far: the press conference where the 'federal investigator' (from what agency, again?) walks up to the podium, with the assembled press, and says 'My name is... and I have no comment and I'll be answering no questions,' then turns and walks away.

Second favorite part: No body. How the hell is there an explosion, with 'firefighters' and no body found? Or the fact that no body was found, and that fact hasn't even been mentioned on the show?


Like was said, the only way pro wrestling works is a belief that what is going on is real (or at least some reasonable suspension of disbelief). And there's no way to suspend disbelief enough to swallow this shit. It's unbelievable in every way, and disrespectful the way they're treating this, at least on screen, the same way they treat the real deaths of their people.

My theory: A TNA spy has been unknowingly hired as a writer on WWE, coming up with the crappiest storylines, driving wrestling fans away from WWE and leaving them to turn to the most viable alternative -- TNA.

God this pisses me off. The show just plain sucks right now. All three of them.