Wrasslin

Plus from an aesthetic point of view Sting in full Crow gear would look awesome with the Shield.

All the greats wore tassles . . . Ultimate Warrior . . . Texas Tornado . . . Paul London.

Most of the greatest had one name, that instant identifier. Like Rock, Undertaker, Goldberg, Mordecai, Kizarny...

 

Naturally, the reason is that wrestling fans are too stupid to say his full name. Too many syllables. That's why Fandango frequently gives demonstrations, just because his veers towards the danger zone.

In this ilk I remember some people got annoyed about WWE changing Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryan.

Simple reason is Daniel Bryan is a fuck load easier to chant.

Probably half the reason CM Punk got to keep his name.

It was a good move as far as commentary was concerned . . . I mean how many times did JR refer to Chris Benoit as Chris Jericho and vice-versa.

He went from not been booked at Night Of Champions to being the #1 contender the following month at Hell In A Cell. Come to think of it, he hadn't been on PPV since July when he smashed Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks

 

Yes, he was superover, but he wasn't ready to be in the main event and they booked themselves into a corner with it. He had a hot undefeated streak going but wasn't ready for the belt. So he had to lose, as any other result in a Hell In A Cell math would have been completely stupid

Yet infinitely less stupid than the result that happened.

 

He could have been booked to go after the IC title, held that for a few months to then challenge for the world title when he was more ready for it.

So who could have fought Punk in the cell?

 

Orton? Sheamus? I forget what they were doing at the time. I read something a while back about Punk suggesting Kofi.

I seem to remember at the time there was speculation about it being 3-way with team Hell No (who were pretty popular at the time).

Would have been easy to do as well. Team Hell No work together but eventually their bickering cost them and Punk manages to get an opportunistic victory.

This is probably what they should have gone with.

In that case the Bryan Vs Cena rematch Cena alluded to on Raw the other week could take place at Mania for the title.

It's not really the match I'd pick for Mania but it's the sort of thing I can see them doing the more I think about it.

Anyone else of the opinion that from Bryan's reference to the machine that the thought process might be thus:

1) Bryan realises that The Authority will ever let him be Champion.

2) Pretends to join the Wyatt family.

3) The entire Wyatt family enters the rumble in order to help Bray win it.

4) Bryan double crosses Bray in order to win the rumble as he knew he needed the help and to fool the authority in order for them to even let him in the Royal Rumble.

5) Bryan has title shot at mania.

It's convoluted as hell but I wouldn't be surprised.

Triple H mentioned in an Interview with Micheal Cole that he is no longer allowing the Bigshow to use his WWE name, so will now be going by Paul White. Is this story going a little "TNA" now?

Show debuted in the WWE as Paul White IIRC. Plus this storyline is great.

 

Yeah he did, but is there any reason for the WWE to be telling all the casuals and kids out there, that "We own the copyrighted names of our guys"?

I don't care how casual the fan is, I think they assume 'Big Show' has a real name

Physically would taker even be able to wrestle a match with Lesnar? I can only imagine that working if you stripped away everything which makes watching Brock interesting.

Plus I still want to see a Bryan Vs Lesnar match. Watching Brock murder him before a Bryan comeback would be amazing.

Surely they won't have Orton & Bryan for a fourth PPV running and the Heyman/Punk feud won't go beyond HITC?

 

That's why i think they will throw The Big Show into the mix.

 

They are not going to have Survivor Series without the World Titles on the line.

 

Only elimination match i can see is Heyman getting a group together to fight a team Punk puts together.

Surely the Shield / Rhodes boys will be thrown into an elmination match together of some kind? Not sure whether they could link that in with Punk / Heyman?

I am gigging with Paul Sinha from The Chase this weekend. Met him before. Lovely chap.

Any General Knowledge questions you think can stump him?

2.66 rating for raw down from a 2.68 last week. Year low again and a very pow rating after a ppv.

 

Shame cause ive enjoyed the bryan mcmahon storyline but it looks like pepple have been switching off. Over to you john cena!

I'm not overly fussed about the ratings as long as I'm enjoying it. Which I am at the moment.

Just curious though, how much of the impact is due to Monday Night Football (NFL)? Do bigger games steal more of an audience share or are they not really competing for the same audience?

Yeah, probably.

 

The Rocks brand of exclusive, jock boy humour can fuck right off too.

Fair enough. Consistency is all I need

I had no problem with Punk balling out the fan. As has been said by a few, it was completely in context with the character and the situation and also the crowd reacted very well to it.

I think it's a given rule (as with comedy clubs as someone aptly pointed out) if you're giving stick to a performer they are perfectly within their rights to respond and even go further as they need to establish that they're the one's in control of the situation.

I'm amazed anyone thinks 'belittling' anyone to further a fake storyline is okay.

 

Though, With your sig, I'd be surprised if you were outraged.

 

You've basically listed a bunch of examples of him being a prick (hitting someone without checking he was even belting the right guy? Using vagina as an insult? ...though you did miss him calling a fan a 'faggot') and excused it with 'ah, that's just the way he is'.

 

That would literally never work as an excuse anywhere else in life, only with wrestlers who fans are keen to rationalise for.

 

'Sorry love, but you know me... I'm known for my raping...'

 

Monday was the least of his sins, but its still a bit shitty. Riffing on a crowd member, insulting them, because it furthers a pretend storyline is a bit naff. Whether or not the fan enjoyed it is just conjecture, and more rationalising.

 

If you can't convey the emotions of the story from within the confines of the story then you clearly aren't as good as you think you are.

So when the Rock was pointing out individual adult Cena Fans in the audience during his 'Rock Concert' and calling them fat virgins, were you kicking up as big a fuss about that?

I smell a sit-com!

Antonio Banks is a fine name I always thought. Maybe they could call him The MVP Antonio Banks. The MVP (Main Event Player) isn't trademarked surely? Everyone uses it.

 

That's assuming he's signed of course. It could still be Sortcore Robert Holli.

Sorry to be pedantic but it's Most Valuable Player.

They never used to have anything. Liz, who Macho was ultra paranoid about, Sherri who loads went through and Sunny who everyone went through.

I'm sure the guys backstage were lining up to have a shot at Lelaini Kai and Judy Martin.

 

Someone must have got drunk / bored and slipped it to Vickie Guerrero by now surely?

I would.

Me too for some reason .

They never used to have anything. Liz, who Macho was ultra paranoid about, Sherri who loads went through and Sunny who everyone went through.

I'm sure the guys backstage were lining up to have a shot at Lelaini Kai and Judy Martin.

Someone must have got drunk / bored and slipped it to Vickie Guerrero by now surely?

I would love to see Angle back.But given those names listed the most interesting match between any of them would be Daniel Bryan Vs Lesnar surely?It would be like the Ryback matches but significantly better.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1643969...acho-man-savage

 

A really interesting article about Macho Man Randy Savage as told mainly by Lanny and his mother. Good read.

 

I love the old photo of him doing baseball and next to it, it says "Improved his swing by dropping his elbow".

This makes you sound like a Mum trying to talk about sports.

The only time I can remember the WWE 'getting it' in regards to the football shirt was Santino (Last year?)

He kept peeling off club shirts and getting booed until he got to the England shirt and the crowd cheered or something along those lines.

Wow so the brand split actually did matter at one time.

Has there been any talk on here about the special Wrestlemania ring entrances yet? They're one of the highlights of 'mania for me now and they can help give the show a seriously big time feel. HHH will inevitably do something cool but his are usually Conan like, can't imagine what a special entrance for short haired HHH would be. Taker, Cena, Rock and HHH could all do something cool, hope they do.

 

Reckon rock will have something based around coming home by p diddy.

 

Given takers anger at punk would like something that isn't his slow walk

It would be a very CM Punk thing to do to some how cut off Taker's entrance. Start shouting down the microphone for them to cut the music etc. Just to further piss off taker.

I don't really have a problem with what he's said there. I think people seem to be applying a context to his comments that isn't there as they have just got into their heads that CM Punk is a dick (and I'm not saying he can't be).

In regards to the "make the most of the situation" reference. He's not saying that being out there with the Undertaker is bad, he's just acknowledging by saying that "this isn't a work rate match" that the match is more about the angle and not necessarily the quality of the match. That's how it differs to the Shawn Michaels situation.

Plus, with the 365 vs 15 days a year argument he makes it pretty clear there that although he resents it now, he would love to be in the same situation down the road. Seems a pretty honest assessment of the situation really.

Are they still doing the X-Division Champion gets to challenge for the World Title at Destination X or is that being forgotten about?

Because there is no one in the division I can realistically see being pushed for a title match by (June?)