Professional wrestling thread

Either that or Triple H fucking Katie Vick.

 

See, by those illustrious standards, to say nothing of the Orton-Rey Rey feud based on Eddy Guerrero's death, Hornswaggle as the Little Bastard (we should have seen it coming) is perfectly fine, because at least it was funny and let the show end on a feel-good note, which Raw rarely does.

 

Heading into a PPV... they spent over 30 minutes, including 20 in the main event spot, on a stupid angle with no match implications on a go-home show.

You need to reveal the bastard child ... fine ... do it at the top of the second hour.

 

Yeah, but the McMahon thing wasn't going to have an impact on the PPV even if the Kennedy plan was still in effect. I don't think he ever had a match set for it prior to the suspension. No matter who was in that spot, it was going to overshadow Unforgiven instead of promote it.

But the last quarter of the go-home, in a perfect world, goes to Orton trying to kick someone and Cena attacking him, segueing into the Cena backstage promo, which was money. But McMahon was only a secondary character in that one, so guess what doesn't get that spot?

 

Meltzer reports that WWE fired Sandman today

 

A little surprising that they fired him in the middle of a minor angle with Santino Morelli (wasn't he suspended?). But then it's a little surprising they kept him as long as they did.

So no Sandman, no RVD, no Sabu. At this rate the ECW guys will be done before ECW.

 

I know he probably just did it to make sure his guys finally, finally got paid, but part of me wishes Paul Heyman had never sold ECW to McMahon. Vince has killed everything good about what used to be my favorite federation.

 

Perhaps Sandman is being punished for that fan lawsuit filed against him in the last few months?

 

Oh yeah, and here's a reason I need to completely distance myself from pro wrestling -- Heyman's birthday is today, Sept. 11.

 

So was my dad's. He would have turned 75. :-\

 

By the way, know that most people here don't like TNA. But I'm surprised nobody has said anything yet about Impact finally going two hours next month.

It's finally time for TNA to stop making excuses for the bad booking. The last excuse they had was that the roster was too big to fill a 1-hour show. Well, now they can run with it. We'll find out if Mantell really does suck, as I'm sure we all believe.

 

The bad booking is Vince Russo. His fingerprints are all over most of the lame storylines on TNA of late.

If it weren't for Kurt Angle, I probably wouldn't watch wrestling at all.

TNA can improve itself easily by:

* Fire Vince Russo
* Fire Kevin Nash
* Hire Rob Van Dam and Sabu, put the tag straps on them, and don't take them off
* Keep Angle, Samoa Joe, Christian Cage and a few others (NOT Tomko) at the top while creating guys to eventually make it up there with them
* Never, EVER put the world title into a joke angle or storyline. Like the good old NWA, make the belt mean something.