Professional wrestling thread

If HBK is ready, it's the most logical move they could make. He has an obvious beef with Orton and he's highly popular. Rushing Jeff Hardy or, worse, turning Mr. Kennedy to fit the spot doesn't make much sense. And Lashley isn't ready.

I'd say it's their own fault for not developing their mid-carders better, and to a degree that's still true, but they've lost a bunch of top-card guys in the last few months (Edge, Lashley, Cena, Kennedy for a spell, HBK, HHH) that they'd still be shorthanded unless they managed to make Shelton Benjamin and Cody Rhodes into believable threats quickly.

 

Oh, I know HBK was the logical choice because he has a reason to chase Orton.

But a good part of me believes if HBK wasn't ready to go now, HHH would've scrapped his program with Umaga and gone after Orton. He's only willing to step aside for now because HBK benefits.

 

A fair point, and realistically, if HBK wasn't ready, the bookers would have pushed HHH-Orton a lot harder than Hardy-Orton or Kennedy-Orton.

 

I have a feeling Hardy is going to win the vote.

Figure on past polls and how guys such as Val Venis garner so many votes leads me to believe that Hardy is, indeed, the cult favorite.

On another note, please don't push Cody Runnels. Geez. Shelton Benjamin really should be the one to move up.

 

You're 100% correct there M.Meat. I think the biggest reason is because there are no stables anymore. Obviously the Rock and Triple H were big major stars but a lot of the wrestlers benefited greatly; wrestlers like Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, D'Lo Brown, X-Pac, Godfather and even Chyna all became big superstars because of the Nation/Dx/Corporate feuds. And let's not forget that Taker's Ministry stable introduced us to Stephanie as well.
I know it's kind of hard to establish a stable nowadays with all the brand division. Boy, I'd love to see that kind of feuds again.

 

Are there any stables in WWE? I think the last one, such as it was, was the New Breed in ECW, and that was so bollocked and messy that nothing came of it. DX's most recent incarnation, for all its many flaws, could have been redeemed with a young tag team or two young wrestlers to fill it out (in the Road Dogg/Billy Gunn/X-Pac vein).

Maybe they're worried a dominant stable would overwhelm everything else (nWo)? But then it's not like the usual suspects aren't doing that anyway.

 

The last two, the New Breed and the Originals, died out when RVD and Sabu were both let go a few months ago.

 

A dominant stable would undermine HHH as "Kinig of Kings" unless he were the leader of it.

He and HBK have been trying to get Sean Waltman back forever, but Waltman keeps getting into trouble.

 

Good. I have no need to see him back on TV or in a ring.

 

Waltman's in Puerto Rico or Mexico nowadays.

 

It just took me five minutes to fast-forward through ECW. Same shit, different week.

Can someone remind me why I even bother recording it anymore? What a waste of 1:05 of TV time.

 

I can't stomach ECW and rarely watch Smackdown (only because my son and I like Rey Rey).

I wouldn't watch Raw if my son wasn't so into Cena, Lashley and DX.