Professional wrestling thread

I'm surprised you didn't mention her next Playboy cover/spread will be on the stands March 12.

 

She's already posed nude ... would've rather seen Mickie James (yeah I know she's been nekkid before in more "extreme" settings) or definitely Maria.

 

Huh? Mickie James was nekkid elsewhere? What'd I miss? [/middleagedpervert]

 

try a google image search sometime.

 

So we go from Hulk Hogan vs. Shane in the Trump/VKM match to Lashley vs. Umaga with Austin as the special referee. Big fucking yawn with this match. I know VKM had to come up with some kind of scenerio with Hogan out of the picture, but this? Two wrestlers that the average fan doesn't care about. VKM has made Lashley being a top star a priority and I guess this is one way to do it, but I'm not intrigued. Hogan vs. Shane with Khali in the VKM corner had some drama with it. Especially with the planned spot to have Hogan slam Khali like he did Andre 20 years ago. Lashley is another Batista right now, IMO. Lashley really needs to improve his mic skills, instead of letting viginettes do the talking for him.

 

Nice call, Gutter. Some, uh, interesting viewing there.

 

^Search under Alexis Laree for that?

Anyway, I'm slowly phasing out ECW in my rotation of wrestling shows. It's almost similar to me not even watching SD!. If the product was a lot better, I would watch, but now, I probably won't watch. I'm glad CM Punk will be in the "MITB" match at Mania 23, though.

 

Watched part of "ECW" last night, and thought it was funny that they reunited La Resistance on ECW, which hardly has any regular tag teams and no tag titles. Why not put move Rene Dupree from ECW (nobody remembered he was on there anyway) to SD and let them have decent matches with London-Kendrick?

One thing these last few months have done is hurt the potential dream matches of WM because cross-promotion matches have become so commonplace that nothing's special. Hey, here's Raw's top four stars on Smackdown! Hey, here's Mr. Kennedy on ECW! Hey, here's MNM and the Hardyz wherever the hell they feel like! Even if they had another draft, it wouldn't really help because the internal rules for switching brands have been violated so often, it's no longer news if another brand's star is on a show.

 

I can't see ECW existing beyond another 12-18 months. It's obvious VKM will never allow it to be the ECW of old....rather, it's a glorified waste of an hour filled with the same Lashley vs. Test/Hardcore Holly main event. Any organization that feels the need to push Matt Stryker is not one interested in keeping a fan base. The fans are turning away from it and will continue to do so.

TNA is no longer on my watching list. Heard last week's show was decent, but Russo has what was once a show with potential on a faster track to hell than he did with WCW. TNA is nothing more than plotlines Russo came up with in the mid-1990s at WWF.

There are not three better words than Mickie James naked.....

 

"ECW" only exists now to make Lashley a star. Once the contract with Sci-Fi expires at the end of the year, probably no more ECW. It has been a little but more bearable to watch lately and that's because VKM sees WSX as some kind of competition.

 

And it wasn't even supposed to be Lashley. It was supposed to be ... Bob Sapp. But he didn't sign.

 

Bob Sapp? Who?