Professional wrestling thread

Local indy show couple years back, Ricky Morton and a young guy as a tag team. Young guy suffered the beatdown--Morton's obviously up in years and chain smokes... yeah. Later backstage I said, "hey Ricky, Brad just played you!" He laughed.

 

I wonder why they didn't give him a good singles push in the 80's? Sure, the Rock and Roll Express were a hot act, and between the Horsemen, Koloffs and awesome Midnight Express, you hate to throw money away. But he had some damn good matches with Flair, and he could easily have been an HBK-type, albeit without the same amount of personality. But when they finally break him out as a single, it's to join the York Foundation of Eternal Jobbing with Terry Taylor and Tommy Rich.

 

Is it me, or does anybody else get this feeling when they are watching wrestling, epsecially WWE, that it's just not the same any more. With all this stuff that's been getting thrown around with the Benoit thing, it's been getting hard to watch sometimes. I don't know. There have been times when I thought I would stop watching since I got hooked on wrestling again when I was in middle school. I haven't missed watching a RAW in almost 12 years!!! That is just sick. I'm just having a hard time getting excited to watch wrestling right now and I hate that feeling. It's one of the few things on TV that I watch, besides Sportscenter, a baseball game or Smallville (love that show!) It really all started post Wrestlemania. WWE did such a good job leading into it and then it just sucked after that and since then. Guys are getting injured, the storylines suck, watching the Benoit thing unfold through the media, etc. I don't think I'm ready to turn my back just yet, especially with ROH PPVs to look forward to, but it's getting tough.

 

Not to sound rude, but where have you been? Wrestling, especially WWE, has gone through major changes over the years...

 

I've seen them all, KY, but I've ignored everything until now. Until this Benoit thing happened. Through all the horrific, contoversial storylines, deaths, etc, I was never ashamed to say I was a wrestling fan. That has all changed due to Benoit, especially with the way the mainstream media has portrayed everything.

Read the letter/column from a former WWE writer on wrestling observer today talking about in the couple of instances he saw wrestlers have problems, WWE immediately stepped in and did something about it. Got the person help, into rehab, etc. So at least the company is trying, at least from this guy's perspective. You can't this whole thing squarely on WWE's shoulders. Everybody has to take part of the blame: the wrestling industry, fans, sponsors and the mainstream media. If the mainstream media would have made a bigger deal about wrestlers dying young when it was happening, maybe things would be different now. In light of this, things HAVE to be different now.

 

Prince, I hear ya.

I stopped watching wrestling a couple of years ago but, thanks to my little sister and two of the guys I work with, I got back into it. (We watch Raw every Monday at the office). I was always a huge wrestling fan...grew up watching USWA every Saturday morning with my grandpa and some Saturdays with my dad.

I don't really remember why I quit watching in the first place, I guess I just lost interest (actually, now that I think of it, 24 is what pulled me away from wrestling...when it first aired, it came on at the same time as Raw....That and we didn't have a TV in sports, so we really couldn't watch anything).

But I got back into one night when I was flipping through the channels and I stopped on Raw and watched a match with Trips in it. I forget who he was facing, but I kinda fell back in love with the stuff then.

The change has been almost unbearable, but it was necessary over the years...

 

Gotta give credit for the Edge "tribute" video. That was actually some funny shit.

 

I hope that have that is up on WWE.com if that's the case. Obviously, most of us knew what happened, but I walked through the door just at it ended. WHY, WHY, WHY. And then there's Vicky. Hey, Zues. (Jesus in Spanish if you didn't make the immediate connection.)

 

Khali is champ.

*SIGH*

The WWE is officially dead to me.

Hello TNA and ROH.

 

If Triple-H doesn't come back soon, I'm going to swear off wrestling... ... ...for the 13th time.




Typo

 

It was shown to the song "Simply the Best" and was just pretty funny.

WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD. TURN BACK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ...



















Triple H returns to beat Booker T and Orton supposedly beats Cena for the title, setting up a feud between Trips and Orton. Cena is supposed to be right in the thick of it...

 

I'm assuming this is supposed to happen at Summerslam?